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Iredell County commissioners approve routine consent items, hear public comments on local issues
Summary
The board approved multiple consent items including grant applications and school easements, appointed members to advisory boards, and heard public comments on a nuisance property and school traffic planning during the public-comment period.
Iredell County commissioners approved a package of pre-agenda consent items and appointments on Nov. 18 and heard multiple public commenters on separate topics during the meeting's public-comment period.
County staff said the consent package reviewed at the pre-agenda meeting included budget amendments and grant-related items: a $5,000 budget amendment to accept a Duke Energy Foundation grant for the Health Department; acceptance of a $6,000 grant to EMS from the Statesville ABC Board; a Solid Waste application to the Recycling Infrastructure Grant program for up to $5,000,000 (no match required if awarded); and a small easement payment of $5,000 to Iredell-Statesville Schools for capital outlay. The board also approved capital true-ups from sales-tax collections totaling $2,241,173 for Ardo/Statesville Schools and $617,393 for Mooresville Graded School District as part of fall true-ups.
On appointments, the board considered candidates for the Recreation Advisory Board; after an initial motion failed, the board approved the board-recommended nominee by vote.
During the public-comment period, Kent Herman, an Alexander County commissioner and property owner who said he represents neighbors, asked the board to investigate a nuisance property in Love Valley that has standing water, tires and debris and to take environmental or code-enforcement steps. Daniel Savigny, a property owner near a proposed Parkertown Elementary School site, urged the county and school project managers to require a traffic impact assessment and to reconsider an entrance location that could push drop-off traffic into a residential stretch of Parkertown Road; he said moving the entrance farther down the road would better separate school traffic from neighborhood streets.
The board also scheduled a Dec. 16 public hearing on a proposed economic development incentive for "Project Innovation" following closed-session discussion, and adjourned after completing the evening's business.
