Moore County commissioners call Feb. 18 hearings, approve equipment and hauling contract amendments, and ask schools to clarify behavioral-health funding

The Moore County Board of Commissioners at its meeting called public hearings for Feb. 18 to consider three separate amendments to the county Road Name and Addressing Ordinance, approved contract and purchase motions for emergency medical and wastewater services, added a grant-funded position to support a veterans treatment court, and approved a letter asking Moore County Schools to clarify how a roughly $284,000 behavioral-health pass-through is being used.

Why it matters: the actions affect emergency medical equipment procurement, county wastewater operations and budgets, local land use and addressing policy, and how schools deliver in-school mental-health supports after a regional provider changed funding arrangements.

The board first set three public hearings for 5:30 p.m. on Feb. 18 to consider separate amendments to the Moore County Road Name and Addressing Ordinance. Rachel Smith, Moore County GIS coordinator and 9-1-1 addressing administrator, told the board the first hearing would consider removing three road names that are no longer needed—Sanctuary Trail, Norton Court and Panorama Vista—because the preliminary subdivision plat approvals have expired. The second hearing will consider adding three road names (shown on plat cabinet 20, slide 5 16). The third hearing will consider general revisions to the county ordinance; Smith reviewed the ordinance’s origin and its role in supporting enhanced 9-1-1 operations, noting the ordinance dates to July 10, 1989.

The board also voted to call a public hearing for a conditional rezoning request related to a mining/quarry operation at 985 N.C. Highway 211. Planning Director Deborah Williams Winger described a conditional rezoning request for approximately 6.618 acres owned by William Arthur Williams and Jan Harmon Williams to change from Rural Agriculture (RA) to Rural Agricultural Conditional Zoning (RACZ) for a mining quarry operation. Williams said the owner currently operates a mining operation under a 2016 conditional-use permit and is preparing for future phases; she told commissioners the Planning Department’s recommendation was for approval and that the Planning Board had voted 6–0 in favor.

On public-safety procurement, the board approved two related motions to maintain the county’s existing ZOLL…