Beaufort County Government's General Meeting Agenda: Monday, July 1, 2013 | Eastern North Carolina Now

The Beaufort County Board of County Commissioners Will Meet to Discuss the County's Business

     The Government of Beaufort County meets every month for at least one general meeting to discuss and act on the county's business. Beaufort County employs the county manager form of government which stipulates that the board of county commissioners allow the county manager to set the agenda, and bring issues before them.

     The Beaufort County Board of County Commissioners will meet to discuss a variety of issues in their general meeting on Monday, July 1, 2013. This is the first general meeting post-budget, when the Beaufort County Commissioners, by a vote of 4 to 3 elected to enact no meaningful cuts to the budget and shall, in time, borrow even deeper from the county's fund balance.

    This general meeting will be a reasonably long meeting considering that the county's fiscal 2013 / 2014 budget is now in place.

 Beaufort County Board of County Commissioners General Meeting Agenda
          Monday, July 1, 2013
   Beaufort County Administrative Building, Commissioners’ Meeting Room
       121 West Third Street, Washington, North Carolina

5:00 pm Call to Order by Chairman Langley
                       •  Invocation & Pledge of Allegiance
                       •   Consideration of Consent Agenda

5:10 pm Public Comments

5:30 pm County Manager Randell Woodruff
                       Request Board Acceptance for “My Plate” Grant Funding

5:40 pm Dr. Barbara Tansey, President, BCCC
                       •   BCCC Roof Evaluation for Building #9
                       •   Roof Evaluations 2010-2014
                       •   Roof Evaluation Building #9 by Commissioner Klemm

6:00 pm Vann V. Lewis, PE, McDavid Associates, Inc.
                       •   Amending Capital Project Budget Ordinance and Authorizing Plan, Specs and Bids
                             for Water District I
                       •   Amending Capital Project Budget Ordinance and Authorizing Plan, Specs and Bids for
                             Water District VI

6:10 pm Bobby Parker, Tax Assessor
                       •   Monthly Tax Collections Report
                       •   Fifty Most Delinquent Real Property Owners by Value
                       •   Fifty Most Delinquent Real Property Owners by Value
                       •   Fifty Most Delinquent Personal Property Owners by Value
                       •   All Foreclosed Now Beaufort County Owned Properties
                       •   Properties Currently in Foreclosure
                       •   Commissioners Direct Tax Collector by NCGS 105-321(b)
                       •   Commissioners Direct Tax Collector by NCGS 105-321(b)
                       •   To Levy and Sell Real or Personal Property of Delinquent Taxpayers(b)
                       •   Properties Currently in Foreclosure

6:20 pm Todd Taylor, Chief Animal Control Officer
                       •   Adoption of County Animal Control Ordinance Edits
                       •   Adoption of SNIP (Spay/Neuter) Program
                       •   Adoption of Animal Shelter Fee Schedule
                       •   Adoption of Animal Control Civil Citation Form

6:35 pm Break

7:00 pm Elrita Downs, Hunter’s Point Sporting Clays
                       Request Letter of Support to NCDOT for HWY 17 Commercial Driveway and Access

7:10 pm Bob Heuts, Economic Development Director
                       •   Chocowinity Industrial Park Certification
                       •   Resolution Braddy & Bath Building Rural Center Project

7:20 pm William P. Mayo, County Attorney
                       Sale of Foreclosed Property

7:30 pm Commissioner Gary Brinn
                       •   Limited Voting Method Study Committee Recommendation
                       •   Set Backs Ordinance Committee Update
                       •   Jail Proposal

7:45 pm Commissioner Stan Deatherage
                       •   Request Board Commit to Early Revaluation
                      •   Support Comprehensive Immigration Reform with Securing the Borders First as its
                            Essential Component (Resolution at bottom of page)

8:00 pm Commissioner Hood Richardson
                       •   Monthly Jail Reports
                       •   List of Persons on Pre-trial and Other Releases
                       •   List of Persons on House Arrest (bracelets)
                       •   Request Vote for Commissioners to Inspect the Jail when Repairs are Complete and
                             Jail is Ready to Re-open and Do This Prior to Request Being Made to Judge Sermons
                             to Return Inmates to Jail
                      •   Support of SB#352 Black Bear Management
                       •   Discussion of Change in Personnel Policy Banning Use of County Communication
                             Systems and Equipment for Advocacy of Positions Relating to Items that May Be
                             Political in Nature Before any Elected Body Unless Specifically Authorized by a
                             Majority Vote of the BC Board of Commissioners
                      •   Require Agencies Funded by or Boards Appointed by the County Commissioners to
                             Adopt Similar Policies as Listed Above
                      •   Number of Showers, Toilets and Urinals Not in Operation Due to Defective Plumbing
                             and Other Defective Plumbing Items

8:20 pm Chairman Jerry Langley
                       •   Smoking Policy
                       •   No Smoking in County Vehicles
                       •   No Smoking within Fifty (50) Feet of All County Buildings Entrance

8:30 pm County Manager Randell Woodruff
                       Present Capital Improvement Program for Approval

8:40 pm Christina Smith, Public Works Director
                       Update on Jail Repair and Elevator

8:50 pm County Manager’s Reports

9:00 pm Adjournment

    Closed Session Economic Development - NCGS 143-318.11(a)(4)
    Closed Session Personnel - NCGS 143-318.11(a)(6)

Commissioner Stan Deatherage Presents Resolution: Support Comprehensive Immigration Reform with Securing the Borders First as its Essential Component

    Whereas, illegal immigrants cost Beaufort County millions of tax dollars every year as county services are exhausted to support those who are here illegally, and,

    Whereas, there is bipartisan motivation afoot in the United States Congress to correct the United States' broken immigration policy by correcting that which is currently unsustainable, that is unwise and that is imprudent fiscally, and, moreover, from a national security perspective, a great hazard, and,

    Whereas, the borders of the United States are porous to a people from countries that are oppressed, impoverished, subjugated by bad policy by chronically corrupt government entities, and, ultimately, are desirous of, often at a terrible cost, the relative personal promise of the United States to better their existence, therefore,

    Be it resolved, that the good People of the Beaufort County, with us as their most local governing body - the Beaufort County Commissioners - do hereby resolve that we support sustainable, wise and prudent comprehensive immigration reform, with the most essential component of that reform being to employ the United States' estimable power to secure our borders first.

    Written by Beaufort County Commissioner Stan Deatherage, and submitted for passage on July 1, 2013. Copies of this ratified resolution to be sent to our congressional delegation, the leadership of the house and senate, and to the president of the United States. Copy to also be e-mailed to all other North Carolina counties.