>> town of mooresville
board of commissioners meeting,
october 10, 2024. I
am the vice mayor for the town of
mooresville and as you can see the
mayor is not with us tonight.
first of all I would like to say mayor chris
carney is not here this evening
. He has faced a number of challenges including
a sudden death of a very close family friend,
and his father's illness. At this
time his dad is actually under hospice care
. As we all can imagine, his physical and
mental health has suffered a little
bit from this. The mayor has decided to take
a medical
leave of absence to address his current health issues.
he is committed to his public service role,
but
realized his health and well-being
of his family must come first right now.
chris is getting help from the support
of the healthcare team so
he may return as soon as he is able to.
we, as the board, wish him a speedy
recovery and ask that you respect
his privacy during these challenging times. Thank you.
at this time we will call
the meeting to order .
commissioner karriker, would you lead
us in the pledge of allegiance
and prayer please
?
>> heavenly father thank you for
the day you've given us. We thank
you for this town. We thank you for this
leadership and ask that
your hand be upon mayor kearney and
his family. During this time you know
what he needs more than anyone else
does and we draw on you
and ask you to be that for him and for his family
. Lord, I
thank you for as being obedient, as well,
and respecting to give him some time,
give them some privacy to work through
these things. We ask that our citizens
do that, as well, lord, for the opportunity
we have to come together to make decisions
on behalf of
our town we ask for your wisdom, discernment,
your guidance and what we say what we
do we ask and bring honor to you
and we thank you for our servicemen and women,
those we get to honor tonight. We
thank you for them coming to be a
part of this awesome staff . We continue
to pray for those
in the western part of our state
who are still struggling, still have
a lot of great needs ahead of them.
we thank you for the outpouring of love and support
that is going that way and that we
ask that continues. This will be
a very long process
for that part
of our state. We thank you for your presence
with the center decision-making tonight in
christ precious name amen.
>> I pledge allegiance to the flag
of the united states of america
and to the republic for which it stands
one nation under god
indivisible with liberty and justice for
all.
we are pretty fortunate
tonight. We have had some swearing
in of some new police officers and
at this time I would like to
recognize chief joe cook and commissioner west, please.
>>
good evening, everybody. I served as
a police officer for three years.
my turn to be on the side of the swearing in ceremony.
with that, I would like to bring
up our first officer,
and that is officer jeremy bliss.
jeremy, do you want to bring your family up?
>> officer jeremy bliss is hired by the
police department
on august 5th 2024. He was born in
new york. His family moved to north
carolina when he was young, and raised here.
he started his law enforcement career
in 2010 serving with
matthews police department, argo county sheriff's department,
and a three --after
a three-year break to serve other
interest you joined the
state department. He is a family man.
he enjoys outdoor activities
and cherishes his loved ones, so we welcome you
, officer bliss.
we will proceed to swear you in.
place your left hand on the bible, raise
your right hand and repeat after me. I,
jeremy bliss, do
solemnly swear that I will be alert and vigilant to
enforce the criminal laws of the state.
I will not be influenced in any manner
on account of
personal bias or prejudice.
that I will support
and maintain the constitution and
laws of the united states
and constitution
and laws of
north carolina not inconsistent therewith.
and I will faithfully and impartially
discharge and execute the duties of
my office as a law enforcement officer.
according to the best of my skill,
abilities and judgment, so help me god.
>> sworn in my presence this 21st day
of october,
2024. Congratulations and welcome aboard.
this is fun. If she misses --
outstanding. We're going to take some pictures
with just the family. Let's do that.
next up, we have officer brandon slough.
officer brandon slough was hired with
the mooresville police department
is a basic law enforcement to that on may 13, 2024. He
graduated the program a community college
on september 12, 2024.
he grew up in long island virginia.
in 2019 he joined the
national guard as an infantryman
and completed a 10 month deployment
in 2022 in africa. After returning
to the states he moved to mooresville, north carolina.
officer slough has two brothers that
are both currently in college. He is
joined here tonight by his parents,
melvin and rebecca
and with that, which one of you would
like to hold the bible? All right.
but your left hand on the bible, raise
your right hand and repeat after me. I,
brandon slough, do solemnly swear that
I will be alert and vigilant to
enforcing criminal laws of the state,
that I will not be influenced in any
manner on account of personal bias or prejudice
, that I will support
and maintain the constitution and
the laws of united states
and the constitution and
laws of north carolina not inconsistent therewith.
and I will faithfully and impartially
discharge and execute the duties of my office as
a law enforcement officer.
according to the best of my skills, abilities
and judgment so help me god.
sworn in my presence this 21st day
of october 2024. Congratulations, welcome aboard.
all right.
and next up and finally, we have
officer tate bentley . Do you want
to call up your family?
a little bit about officer tate
bentley. He was hired with the mooresville
police department is a basic law enforcement
cadet. He graduated program for mitchell
community college on september 12,
2024. Officer bentley was born and raised
in statesboro as his
parents and brother . He attended statesville
christian school. Upon graduation
in 2019 he attended college in statesville and
attained his associates degree. Officer
bentley is excited to be part of this
department is looking forward
to continuing and growing in his career.
left hand on the bible. Raise your
right hand, please, and repeat after
me. I, tate bentley, do solemnly swear
that I will be alert and vigilant
to enforce the criminal laws of the state,
that I will not be influenced in any manner on
account of personal bias or prejudice,
that I will support and maintain the constitution
and the laws of the united states
and the constitution and laws of north
carolina not inconsistent therewith.
and that I will faithfully and impartially
discharge and execute the duties of
my office as a law enforcement officer.
according to the best of my skill,
abilities and judgment, so help me god.
in front of my presence this 21st day of october, 2024.
welcome.
and with that, we will step aside .
>> [ inaudible ]
>> return of mooresville
and this board support public safety.
part of the team is supporting
everyone in town .
thank you, mayor pro tem and commissioners, for
allowing us to have them. Do your
job and make them proud.
with that I would like to invite the members
of the board down to take a picture.
you guys want to come up and be in the picture?
all right. One more big hand.
at this time our next item is an employee spotlight
and I
would like to recognize the town manager.
>> thank you very much.
we have any members of our crews that
were invited into night in the audience? I'm going to
ask them to come up and join me up front.
>> it is my pleasure to be recognizing
the
group of individuals who
serve tirelessly every day. I don't know
if you always realize, oftentimes what happens in
the town, the great services that
are provided happen and nobody pays
attention until they are not happening
or until a problem comes up and then you
notice that something is not going right.
this is a representative
group of a larger group of individuals
and I'm going to ask that the names
be shown as I'm talking through this.
an employee spotlight every month would
like to focus on either an individual or
team of people that are just doing
incredible work for the community.
during the recent hurricane and again, it is
through the grace of god that we did
not suffer more damage than we did,
you know, we are
still praying every day and sending
all the help we can to the western part of the
state, but there were challenges that
were being faced right here in mooresville and
it was through the incredible efforts
of these individuals, these gentlemen
and others on their team
that really made sure we all stayed
safe and that the town kept moving forward
and that you
did not have any more interruptions
to your daily lives then you had to when
the storm came in so there were multiple
departments we want to
recognize tonight and again you will see the names
and the names of the departments flushing
up on screens but I would like to
point out
a few of these groups and individuals in
the teams. Throughout public works
we got a lot of people doing a lot
of different things but
people don't always realize for example,
parks and recreation does amazing
work, and some of the work they did
during this
time is remove the fallen trees, the
debris and limbs from across the town
in our parks, our cemeteries that we
had issue with another town facilities
and then we had
our sanitation crews that were out
along
with our streets and the stormwater
crews and these teams are responsible
for addressing all the flood -related street
closures in the cleanup of multiple
trees that
had gone down on the roads and across citizens'
properties. I hope if you were on
social media that you had a look at
some of the images we shared because
we really wanted
to share with you
, almost in real time you could see the
work being done and for those of you
who have these issues in the community
you know they came very quickly. Almost all
the work across the town was completed
within three business days which I
think is a pretty remarkable turnaround time
given all the challenges we were facing
taking care of our community and helping other
parts of the state. Art
traffic and transportation team worked
to take care of all of our intersections.
we lost signals and
had one major traffic accident that had
to be cleared and serviced and again
they made sure they got out there
and made sure all of our traffic is
flowing safely because there is
nothing worse than coming to an intersection
and you have flights that are not
working in lines that are down so
again they worked both during and
after the storm to really ensure that we all stayed
as safe as possible
and that our lives were impacted as
little as possible during the storm.
they are really a shining example, I
believe, of the excellence
that all of our town departments deliver
every day but again, these people are
oftentimes unsung heroes because as
I said, they take care of things we
don't really pay attention to unless
they're not working so I would ask
you now to join me in
a round of applause to thank them
and just so you know,
we have a token of gratitude for all of
you that we are going to be distributing
because our group is large. We have
about 46
individuals total so I will be going
to departments individually but I
really appreciate you being here tonight.
I appreciate all that you do. We thank
you very much. We could not do it
without you and I would ask you not
to join me in a round of
applause to thank them.
thank you all.
>> tracy, thank you so much for that. Our next
presentation is from the mooresville youth council.
I would like to recognize carly nigel and nick lynch.
>> hello.
we would like to thank you for hosting us
tonight and having these
younger students to present to. They
are very excited and we are tremendously
proud of them for all the work they
have done and all the work they aspire to
do. Tonight we are excited to share
with
your up-and-coming volunteer opportunities
and the project we hope to construct,
build and promote the school year.
I will have the students join me. They
are very excited and is or
--eager to present to you their hard work.
>> hello. My name is will
roos. I'm the president of
mooresville youth council. I want
to begin by saying thank you to you
all for letting us speak.
I also want
to thank everybody else in the room
for supporting us and everything that we do.
so,
what is the mooresville youth council? We are
a youth volunteer program that aims to
help the mooresville community in every
endeavor. We
aim to assist youth that want to make
a
difference in the community and want
to
improve our community and
we aim to let youth participate in local
initiatives, to provide an
understanding of the town's functions.
I also would like to introduce the executive
team of the mooresville youth
council, our vice president
hannah, our social media and marketing
coordinator, our secretary, our assistant vice president
--she could not make it today --our
assistant social media marketing coordinator and our
assistant secretary who could also not make it.
I would like to say thank you to carly, nick,
and jane, advisers, for giving us
so much
of their time to make sure we are successful
and a big thank you to commissioner
deweese
for supporting us significantly, as well.
>> hi. I am the secretary of the mooresville
youth council and a little bit about
my job is that
I make the calendars for the meeting so that
we stay on track and
know what we want to discuss. I also
take minutes during the meeting
so we know what we have planned and how we
are going to execute in the future, and
I also put outposts
for meetings so we know when we are
meeting, what we are doing for the
meetings and we
know who is coming to the meetings
and regarding meetings, we have two per month.
one
is that the one mooresville center where
we plan our volunteer opportunities
and also discuss our projects and then another meeting
is at one of the town departments where
we are
able to take tours and allow all
of our members to explore these facilities.
>> hello, everyone. On the screen
here you can see our t-shirt design
for this year. This is actually
the first project we do as a group
every year and so it starts at our
very first meeting where we do
a team building activity and prepare
a list of words to present to the mooresville
youth council. You can see or local
just redesigned last year and our motto
.
>> one of our big things is our legacy project
every
year. This year we plan to create
free little libraries. We've been applying for
the state award mini
grant for the past month in order
to get a $500 grant
in order to do this project. Our goal
is to construct four free
little libraries
around mooresville to boost literacy rates
and bring awareness to
s.t.e.m. Education and its importance.
we had to give every child in person
and mooresville on equal opportunity
and a good education.
I a very big math guy. I love math ever
since I was little and would
love nothing more than to provide
children with knowledge on stem in mathematics.
we also plan to
have a collection event in november and december 2
collect books to be placed into the little
libraries. Once the little libraries are
constructed we will distribute them
widely to many different
parts of mooresville. Some potential locations that we
brainstormed our mega park, liberty park,
bellingham, hope park. We are always
open to more ideas. Working with commissioner
deweese on this
project was definitely a big help.
he helped us
tremendously with the main idea and
we managed to build several new ideas with his help.
we also have many ideas for opening
events of
the little libraries. We plan to have several stem demonstrations
at the openings. We will have a lot
of
social media awareness to
ring this to the community and we also
plan to create educational signs and
things that just explained
the purpose of the little libraries and
what they stand for.
youth council has also attended several
state youth council conferences in the past.
the state council leadership conference
was on september 10th and we learned how
other councils functioned in how our
leadership skills could be
improved. We plan to go to the state youth council
conferences in november, february
and april. The upcoming conference
in
april will be about the mini grant
for a legacy project and we are very
excited about going there.
>> every holiday season we show
our support for the town by being involved
in classic christmas and by posting your own
project. This year we plan
to center our holiday project around
our legacy project and we intend to
host a book collection aspect project
to support our legacy project but
for
classic christmas last year we helped
children build holiday
crafts and
take pictures with the zippy and hosted
the donation drive. For
creek week, we had a booth set up
with snail races and tattoos for young
kids alongside an educational booth
about
the storm water department. At this
event we were able to raise interest
from parents and teens about the youth council.
earth day was another opportunity
for us to connect with the youth of
mooresville and share information
with them about recycling and maintaining
a healthy environment.
we had an awesome time.
>> all right, this is my favorite part,
the dog mayor. Every year we host
our annual dog mayor elections and
they are held via our youth council
instagram. Last year, we hope the
election
nominations which is basically
a form for anyone
wanting to run for dog mayor will
fill out a form with their information.
that was from may 1st to may 15th
and we had elections
from may 19 to 25th which is
basically count of her likes on
each candidate's post. Last year we
had six total participants in the winter was real
--reya,
a
12-year-old pimple and she
won with 219 votes.
>>
we have a meeting tomorrow at public ups
were we will be taking a tour and
allowing our members to
experience these different areas that they
otherwise probably would never be
able to
experience, which is such a great
part about the council and
our second meeting, or our next meeting will
be at the one mooresville center for we
will continue to discuss our future
projects and volunteer
opportunities such as well was talking
about, the legacy project and
more about our volunteer opportunities.
we actually have one coming up this
saturday we will be
helping clean up the eastern heights community. Thank you.
>> I just want to talk about how the mooresville
youth council has influenced me as
a member. It's help me get out there
in the community
and take initiative. I have my own
programs with the library and it's helped me learn
what I want to do in my future and
helping me build
these public speaking skills and helping me
shape my skills as a leader.
>> the youth council helped me make
more friends and be more friendly
and
accepting to other people and going and
talking to other people.
>> youth council really just inspires
me to be my best self in any
way that I can,
and it inspires me to just be a leader
whenever I possibly can.
and I've just been
a big fan of the youth council for as
long as I've been here.
>> the mooresville youth council inspires
me by really showing how
the collaboration of teens from freshman
through senior can come together to
make
a huge impact on our town, especially
in the position that I am. I am able
to see how, with the
improvement of our communication ,
team building skills, how that has
an impact on the success of our projects
and
events and I hope
that I can see this passion in teenagers continue
for years to come.
>> so, the mooresville youth counselor
has inspired me to have
a greater impact on the community
as a whole so being able to see all
of our ideas and new members
come together to create different
opportunities and different offenses just
amazing and seeing them
come to reality. Thank you.
>> hello. The mooresville youth council inspires
me because it allows me to understand
and really immerse myself in the experiences
of our community, which
I think really brings us together
in a way beyond words and I would've
never gotten this close to the mooresville
community if it were not
for the mooresville youth council
and as a senior, I have done youth council
for all four years and I can say that
it has just shaped
me as a person, as everyone has mentioned.
volunteering, giving back to the community
and general leadership skills so as
a cornerstone of my high school experience
I hope to continue to inspire youth
to make mooresville a better place.
we want to thank the town of mooresville
for supporting us on our
journey to make mooresville a better
place for everyone
and to stay updated on our journey
and our projects, you can follow us.
this is our instagram. Scan the qr code
on the screen and you can
follow us as we post about meetings
, fun
outings that we do, projects for the
community and other fundings that
we do. Thank you so much.
>> thanks. Excellent.
>> I just want to say how
fulfilling it is to watch a
group of young people come together and grow
and have impact and
I thank you for the kind words, but I would say
that you guys are what makes the difference
and thank you very much for all that
you do and all that you help us with
and
how much your learning to be a good citizen. Thank you.
>> I'm looking at you I see the next
leaders. You will be sitting up here
one day so good luck and outstanding
presentation. I
love the stem math --s.t.e.m., I love the math stuff.
you guys did good. Thanks.
>> I would just like to reiterate I
am very proud of you all. I think
when we think about the future of our
town we are in good hands.
>> first
off, thank you very much. Just last week
I had someone ask me says what is
this dog mayor stuff about and how
does my dog become mayor.
I said you answered my question so
you guys are future leaders and always
amaze. Thank you very much and
continue to do what you do. You will go far. Thanks.
>> our next presentation
is a breast cancer awareness month
proclamation and I would like to recognize commissioner karriker.
>> whereas breast cancer awareness month
is an international health campaign
in october, whereas there are more
than 4 million breast
cancer survivors in america
, that is a big number, and this year
alone, hundreds of thousands more
will be diagnosed and whereas all
scientists
have made significant breakthroughs
to prevent, detect and treat breast
cancer, the diagnosis is frightening
and overwhelming. Patients and families
are often flooded with complex medical information
.
they're forced to advocate for themselves, often
to receive the basic care, whereas
although breast cancer is more common in women
, it does affect men, as well, now
therefore be it resolved that the mayor,
board of commissioners do hereby proclaim october
2024 as breast cancer awareness month
and encourage participation
and activities to support education,
support programs and the funding of research programs to
find a cure for breast
cancer this 21st day of october, 2024.
>> thank you, commissioner karriker. We
have another proclamation
. It
is world polio day. I'd like to recognize
commissioner qualls please.
>> good evening. I would love to have
any rotarians
in the audience please
come join me.
[ inaudible ] here
in the mooresville we meet on thursday
mornings at 8:15 and williamson chapel.
insurance club, mooresville club
.
everybody has a time
where they meet is what we classify everybody
else so we have the tuesday noon club
and the tuesday lunch club so if you
are not a
rotarian and you have some interest,
please come see any of us or if you
just google mooresville rotary we
will come up with
some places for you.
the cameramen taking the picture is
also one of our rotarians, as well.
I would like to read this proclamation
on behalf
of my friends here
, fellow rotarians. Whereas rotary is
a global network of neighbors, friends,
leaders and problem solvers that unite
and take action
to create lasting change in communities
across the globe, whereas the rotary motto,
service above self, inspires members
to provide humanitarian service
, follow high ethical standards and
promote goodwill and
peace in the world, whereas rotary in
1985 launched polio plus
,
and in 1980 it helped establish the
global polio eradication initiative
which today includes the world health
organization, u.s. Centers for disease
control and prevention, unicef and
the bill and linda gates foundation
along with gabby and the maxine alliance
to immunize the children of the world against
polio, whereas polio
cases have dropped by 99.9% since 1988,
we
are this close, folks, we are this close
--the world stands on the threshold
of eradicating the disease
. Whereas to date, rotary has contributed
more than 2.2 billion
and countless volunteer hours protecting
nearly 3 billion children in
hundred and 22 countries, whereas rotary
is working to raise an additional 50
million per year, which then will be
leveraged for maximum impact by
an initial 100 million
eventually from the bill and melinda
gates foundation, whereas these efforts are
providing much-needed operational
support, medical staff, laboratory
equipment and educational materials
for health workers and parents,
whereas in addition rotary has played
a major role in decisions
by donor governments to contribute
more than 10 billion
in the effort whereas there are over
1.2 million rotary members
and 36,000 clubs throughout the world but sponsor
service projects in addition to critical
issues such as poverty, disease, hunger
, literacy and
the environment in the local communities
and abroad now therefore be it resolved
the mayor and the board
of commissioners do hereby proclaim
october 24, 2024 world polio day in the
town of mooresville, and encourage all citizens to
join us in rotary international in
a fight for a polio-free world
this
21st day of october, 2024. Thank you.
joe, kim, would you like to say anything
on behalf of rotary international?
we had a guest speaker
last week at a
--our meeting, the district
governor and he was recently added
training event and ask one of the
members of the bill
and melinda gates foundation why you
continue to be supportive of rotary
, and your financial
support across the world
, and they said because
we know 1.2 million rotarians are
going to get it done so
that is what rotary does is we get
it done. Thank you.
>> thanks, commissioner qualls, for that.
our next item is the managers report.
>> we always like to recognize our new
hires again across the road
--organization. I am pleased
to have new team members joining us
and we always like to acknowledge
promotions and transfers as
we continue to grow our talent.
we would like to say thank you to
our veterans. We obviously appreciate
our veterans every day but
we are very much looking forward to our
up top upcoming veterans week. We
have a number of events scheduled
next month to honor and appreciate the
men and women who
protected our freedom and also those
who are of course on active duty.
this slide gives you some highlights
of some of the events that are going
to be happening throughout that week.
you can also visit our website on the town website
for more information. You click on
the info
page, there is a link where you can
click and that will be continuously
updated with
additional activities as they come.
again, you have the website
there and you can also visit the facebook
page to
set up the mooresville
veterans celebration facebook page.
last week we had the induction
on the 30th anniversary of the north carolina
music hall of fame and we would like
to congratulate
the newest members of the hall of
fame. That was a night to remember.
we would also like to thank everyone
who joined us for
the mooresville motorsports celebration earlier this week.
we have the racing hall of fame, the
walk of fame, the induction ceremony
and we honor the legends
of shirley muldowney and
elliott forbes robinson .
a
mustang took the best in show. Hopefully
you all really enjoyed
the new crosswalks downtown, celebrating our
identity
as race city
usa. Everyone seems to love them so
if you haven't had a chance to
go down
and get a photo up please do. There
are a lot of fun and it's a great way to celebrate
our nascar affiliation and heritage there. The
was the public library speaker
series --the third speaker in our
series will be new york times best-selling
author megan maranda and she will
be at the main library november
21st at 6:30. Books will be available
for purchase and there will be an
author signing. Some recent programs
we always like to share with you the
great work and great activities
of the library. We have the october teen
kitchen
capers as well as an adult craft event.
there are other upcoming events. Anytime
that
you want to learn more, you may go to the
mpl virtual chat option . You can actually
go on during library hours and actually
chat via phone, via text with our library staff
and a new
offering that is coming in the middle
of next month is the library of things.
this is a collection of items that can
be checked out from
the public library including kitchen
accessories, games, puzzles, recreation
items, some technology. If you haven't
been to the library in a while, please
go and
check out the new library of things.
I'm going to
hand it over to
teresa hills.
I get real excited
about all the activities.
>> thank you
for that. Upcoming parks and recreation
events, you can see here we have a slew
of events coming up. We have
theme nights, rollerskating, so if you
have your rollerskates, bring them
out. We have puzzled loser. -- puzzle
palooza.
if you want to come out there and
make new friends, meet new people
you can join
us then on october 30th we have mask
maker. You get to design your mask.
that will be october 30th
and as tracy mentioned, if you missed these
slides, if you go
on our website you can click on parks
and rec or catch up and get more detail on
each of these as well as on our
facebook or instagram page.
>> thank
you. I think it goes without
saying that this is going to be something that
continues to be part of our managers report
as we move forward. Just want to make
sure
we did not forget the folks in western
north carolina. A big push has been
made by our public safety department
, both mooresville fire rescue and
mooresville police department have spent
multiple days.
we have sent 21 different firemen
up to 14 days over there. We have
also sent three different teams of
mooresville pd to provide some security
for the supplies that have been
given and donated over there in western
north carolina and I know the photos there
give another small glimpse of the
catastrophic damage that occurred
over in western north carolina
and as details continue to float forward
about how these heroic individuals from
mooresville supported those over in
western north carolina we will be sure to share.
public education events .
literally last week
we had an event
literally every day. The one that
you see there, you will see three
different photos of the first baptist church.
both mooresville fire rescue and the
police department were there to speak with
preschool students, form relationships,
and let them know about what each
agency does and how they work together
to keep them safe.
I am always surprised at the number as
it continues to grow for our drug
takeback
event. Our next event
as you can see there on the left side
is this saturday from 10:00 to 2:00
p.m. At cannon pharmacy. If you don't know
what that is that, it's in front of
the food lion on 150. The other thing
I wanted to make sure
I plugged on this
slide is that if you are not able
to make the cannon pharmacy,
the new police department does have
a dropbox and its lobby that can be
used by our community, and since 2012,
this is a number that continues to for
me, over 6 tons of prescription drugs
have been taken
back at these events, so what is service to our community
. Just ask an employee to take back those
unneeded prescription drugs if you
have
the chance this weekend. Next two slides
are going to talk about
some of the details of our trick-or-treat
downtown. As you can see, it's going to be
on
this thursday, october 31st
. Not this
thursday. Next thursday from 3:00
to 5:00. If you go to the next slide it
will show you the exact boundaries on
main street between iredale and center
will be closed in moore avenue
will be closed starting at broad street and
heading down the
hill to church street so just want
to make sure everyone was aware of
that event and where it was going
to be held
at. The final slide , my portion of
the managers report is
to let you know
the one silver lining with all the
dry weather we have had after the
storms is that our
mullen overlay project has been able
to
make significant progress. What you will see
this week and make sure
to ask ms. Walker,
this week we are going to see milling
on institute, clover, underhill, cassie
elaine and jake's ridgeline's and
you'll see those workers from life
construction around town
and we are just thankful the board has supported us
in having such a robust overlay
project for this year. With that,
that it concludes the report.
>> thank you very
much.
>> any comments or questions
for the managers? Okay.
>> thank you. I just wanted
to take this time
as an opportunity to talk
about the scope of municipal authority.
this came up at the last board meeting
and the town gets a lot of questions
about the scope of municipal authority
and north carolina. I just want
to talk about that for a few minutes. Basically
north carolina is different from other
states
and it is important to understand
that north carolina cities and towns
are limited in what they can or can't
do based on regulations that are
adopted at the state level.
you hear terms put out, such as home
rule states in dylan's role states
and north carolina is somewhat of
a hybrid from that. Meaning that north carolina
municipalities are only granted authority
from the state legislature either through statute or
delectable rules. What
that means is that
what the town can or cannot do, that
is outlined by the state, so for instance,
impact fees. We
have no authority to
require developers to pay impact fees
and that comes from the state legislature
so I
just wanted to mention that
for the public. I think that is an
important piece for folks to understand, and
the services that we
provide is a town are granted by the state
, so counties have certain services that they provide
. Cities and towns have certain services
they provided there is overlap between
cities and counties, but I just wanted to
point that out for the public.
>>
any comments or questions?
>>
thank you very much. With that,
board members, we will move on to
adjustments of the agenda. I'm not
going to read through all this. You
should have a copy and it should be
on your screen in front of you. Are
there
any comments or questions?
at this time I'm going to ask for
a motion to approve the adjustments
to the agenda, the consent agenda
and the regular agenda as
presented.
>> so moved. >> commissioner
west made a motion. Is there a second?
second by commissioner aven. All in
favor?
>> aye. >> thank you very much.
that passes unanimously.
we
have item number 7a is a public hearing
, and I guess if you guys remember,
this is a request
for
the
approval of an ordinance for a conditional rezoning
request on the property located off
165
clodfelter road, 154
clodfelter road, and
816 shearers road.
there is actually no public comment. This
was the item that was continued, but
we do have something
from the applicant so at this time
of going to open the public hearing and
mr. Cole, could you start us off with
that,
please?
>> thank you,
mr. Mayor pro tem. The applicant is here
to speak a little bit more to the
topic
that was continued last meeting.
>> if you will all
bear with me I'm sorry, it's been
in and out for a few days. I will
try to speak as clearly and loudly
as possible
for as long as
possible. My name is sarah beeson,
119 barber loop, mooresville north carolina. I hear
representing
magnetic homes
. To give a quick overview of what we
spoke about at the last meeting, the
project that is being proposed as
a conditional rezoning and
annexation is 180 family single-family
residences, that gives a density of
2.87 dwelling units per acre. Which is far below
what could be in a traditional neighborhood of eight
units per acre and we have over
16 acres of open space entry space
. One of the other commitments that
has
been made as part of this project
that would not be included with the
bayreuth project is the 20-foot greenway easement
in the 10-foot paved path being constructed
from
ridge avenue all the way along the
western property line. The request
at the end of the last hearing was
to go back and look at enhanced
buffering for the site with the
existing
residences off of shearers
road, in particular.
[ inaudible ] home reached out to
many of
those residents either bite
email,
phone call or in person. This is the
original site from the eight-foot
perimeter buffer shown. There is also
fencing
at the northern inference
--entrance off of shearers road. What
is being
proposed tonight is that
the fencing is
not only at the northern entrance but follows
the entirety of the eastern property
line across 22 parcels, and that would be within
the eight-foot buffer
and six-foot vinyl fence
, and that is a condition in
the revised plan, just to give a little bit more
quantitative ability to look at that
math and that separation. This provides anywhere from
24 to 70 feet. This is between the building
lots where the homes
are actually going to be constructed
on, versus the existing residence
. That orange area,
and this is just a kind of make it
pop on the plan, that is all common
open space or treed area. None of that
is
proposed to be dwelling unit.
and so the requesting to be not only
visual separation but also physical
separation to address some of those
concerns as
far as ability for the residents of
the proposed community to come across
into the back of those residences
off of shearers and
clodfelter road. The 6 foot
fence seemed to best address
both of those concerns.
as part of that six-foot fencing condition,
we are noting that it would run temporarily
through the stub. There is a stub
proposed to the rear, one of the eastern
property lines
at 707 shearers, I believe, and so for
the duration until that connection if
ever needs to be made to any adjacent
development on that site, the
fencing would go through that stub just
to preserve the continuity of that buffer.
the other condition that was requested is regarding
clodfelter road itself. We initially noted
emergency access only after the udo.
the request was
to make that
no vehicular, no pedestrian connection
at all, and so the concept plan
has been revised to remove that connection to
clodfelter road and
expand the open active space area so no additional
lots were converted using that space.
the number of homes and lots remain
the same and there is an expressed condition
in the proposed packet that there
is
no vehicular pedestrian connection
allowed to
clodfelter. To summarize again, 187
single-family detached homes. 2.87 density
, a 20-foot greenway easement that
would not otherwise be provided
, the significant savings of open space
entry space
around the entire perimeter of the property
provides a buffer to existing homes and residences.
staff
is recommended to approve
and
we have made those updates with the six-foot
vinyl fence along the eastern property
line
on the closing off of clodfelter
as requested so respectfully request
that with these additional
conditions the board approved this
project as presented. Thank you.
>> board members,
any comments or questions for
the applicant?
>>
I know it has only been a couple of
weeks but a lot happens
in two weeks so I tend to forget so I
just want to make sure
I still have all of the information
correct. Right now
is the property stands , and what
the current zoning is, if it was not rezoned,
referencing my notes here,
the allowance would be like 131 houses.
>>
yes, ma'am.
>>
okay, so if we didn't do anything
they could build 131 houses,
they could have water and inactive plan
or whatever, there could be 131
houses there. The builder would deal
with the
[ inaudible ] as they normally were
whether we were doing anything
or not. And they would not be required
to do any of this
additional screening, buffering
, nothing.
>> that is correct. >> thank you.
I just
wanted to make sure I have that correct
in my mind. Thanks.
>> any comments
or questions from anyone else?
>> I know that you guys met with
some of the neighbors out there
. I would like to hear a little bit more
about that because I have a lot
of incoming mail from people who said
they were not contacted and did not feel
that they were listened to, so if
you could go through that process,
that would be helpful.
>> I can
give you the procedural
overview. This is jared whelan's who
did the one-on-one contact with the
phone
calls and in-person meetings and door knocks. So between
ji
s with public information ,
we also because the town sends out the colors for
anyone within half a mile for
hearing notices, we listed townhomes.
they give us phone numbers for anyone
we didn't have that information from
the community meeting report. We had
a number
of phone numbers and email addresses
but by far we did not have everybody,
so between using the public records,
calling erika
and stefan her helping
us get more phone calls, mainly jerry put
in some phone calls to all those residents
in trying to set up either speaking
with them over the phone or meeting
physically on the property with the house,
howard can go into additional details.
>> good evening. I think there were
about 19
or 20 different residents we reached
out to in totality and I think we
got to about 14 or so of those. There
were several that
did not return any of the phone calls
. I think there were three
or four of those so I think we got
to the majority of the ones that corresponded with us.
some ask for phone conversations and sharing
of our plan for the buffer on the
fencing
and what type was it, so it was a
pretty thorough conversation over the phone,
so then I finished it up with what time
would you like to
meet out there and I can walk your property
because one of the things I wanted
to make sure that they knew
is that orange perimeter that was
shown on the map
that they knew there was distance
between their property and that there was
hoa-maintained common open
space that would remain
and that where the fence wood et cetera,
just walk it with them.
probably half of those accepted an
invitation to meet at their house,
so I guess that somewhere
around six or seven of those I met with and
we did the walk it in the tape measure
type program
and walked through
and spoke of what her plans were,
when that would happen, the sequencing. It's
a couple years now
before the fence would even show up
but overwhelmingly, the concern was the visual block
, the not having
kids walk through blocking off
clodfelter and just having
that separation and privacy really
was a concern and felt like the fence was
our best offer.
>> thank you.
commissioner west, please.
>> thank you
. Likewise looking back from the original to this one,
there was
a six-foot privacy fence
and the initial one
to begin with so I'm not sure I understand
when we said go use the additional
money to enhance the buffering I was
thinking maybe shrubs or something
or
trees on the other side of that fence.
or a berm, or something, so not really
--I'm a little confused since the
fence was already in existence, you
added how many feet
is what I'm hearing. How many feet
did you add to that?
>> I think we have
an image
we can show you before and after.
that when that is up there right now
would be the before. That is just the entrance
there at the northern part. That was
the only place there was a fence at
our last
meeting, so we decided
since then, the fence --
if you look at that map there on the left
side of the map, that entry there
have fencing on it
and on both sides of the street we
met with the property owners there
and did the same thing, just walked it
. One of the solutions we had was
to put a fence there, which we decided
to do and that is what we showed at
the last
meeting. Since the last meeting we've
gone back and met with the other property owners
along sure and not a defense the
entire length of the property all
the way down past the southern entrance and
the
furthest property down sure, -- shearer
, you can see
the fence has the arrows pointing.
it is the entire redline that you
see is a fence line.
>> so, what was the previous? >> previous
was just at the entry right where that is highlighted.
>>
[ inaudible ]
we really just focus on every
parcel we would touch
[ inaudible ]
>> okay, thank you. >> and, my understanding
is that it still has
the buffer trees up on the top left portion.
so you get both, actually.
>> the
trees, as well? Okay, thank you.
>>
they will be on the hoa side.
we reviewed what happens if we get another
storm in the storm hits
the fence. That is the hoas responsibility
to fix the storm.
managing the hoa until the
last home is built, so we would be
managing that.
>> thank you.
>> [ inaudible ]
>> I want to
reiterate what miss calls --
commissioner qualls is saying. Something's
going to be built there.
either hundred and 30 your hundred
and 87.
something is going to go there . With
improvements are without improvements.
traffic
is going to be there,
be
it two cars or four cars. It's hard, guys.
I've got the emails. I've
made the phone calls.
it's hard for me to tell you what's the right one.
something is going to go there. Buffers
that can help you or nothing.
I mean, it's not an easy thing to sit here.
I've read your email. I hear
your concern. I hear mr. Beck's concern.
I hear your concerns over there. I've
got your email. I've heard your concern.
I hear it. Something is going
to go in there. Do we want the best something
or do we want it to just be something.
I will be honest, I'm struggling.
I don't know what the right answer is.
anyone else?
so, bored, if you don't mind
for a second, I've been born and raised
here in this is my word and it's interesting that
sharon brings up the home real estate
and billing real estate and is a look
at the project in
warsaw when we are actually saying
you could have up to eight units under
current zoning for this piece of property
would fall under 2.87,
we have all set here
for a long time and that is pretty
low, but also way out the fact
that with the trails,
the greenway going through,
what
they have done, how we've stopped
the connection from clodfelter, there is
a little bit of a win here. Should
there be more road improvements? Absolutely,
across
the state, but I do sit here and look
under the court of law and what and
how we are guided
. This one here is almost like a no-brainer
for the fact that the density is so
low compared to moores mill
and I'm tired of growth, myself but
as you sit there and talk, something
is going to go there and at the end
of the day,
to me, you are kind of shooting at the
middle. I'm not too sure under raleigh's
condition, the denial is that you
can defend that because
at the end of the day were talking
56 units compared to a right of 131
and you
could say you could have as many as
eight and I look at it from that legal perspective
because we all sit in these closed session
meetings and
try to figure out how we win again
but just my comment from where
I live when I look at a project is
if you
cannot defend it legally and where
I can't, this one here, in my book,
would be pretty tough, so thank you
all.
anymore comments or questions for
the applicant or anyone else?
>> thank you. Just for the record,
I want to confirm
the revised conditions
of the ordinance here.
there are nine conditions with the change
to condition seven, which was to not include
a road or pedestrian connection to
clodfelter than condition nine, which
was to provide a six-foot vinyl fence
within the eight-foot buffer. Thank you.
>> okay, board members. At this time I'm
going to entertain a motion so please.
>> I would like to make a motion to approve
the request with conditions the planning
board and staff recommendation again
a motion to approve cz-2024-10 rezoning
of the site to a traditional neighborhood with
added conditions to eliminate the
connection to
clodfelter and enhanced
landscaping the project is consistent
with the one moores mill comprehensive
plan. The proposal is consistent with
desired density, primary
uses and the opportunity described
in the neighborhood character area.
the request is reasonable
and public interest in the project
includes conditions to minimize
the impact on the adjacent properties.
>> commissioner qualls has made a motion.
I have a second from commissioner
west. All in favor.
>> aye.
>>
can we see hands?
>> any opposed?
>> okay, so that has failed. >> so
I guess without the mayor being here
, that fails. The mayor is not here
to make that decision for us, so thank you all.
>> I would suggest
that we do adopt a statement of reasonableness
to deny the request and see where that wetlands.
if one of the members who opposed
could make that motion.
>> one of you guys want to entertain that motion?
commissioner deweese please.
>> motion to
deny cz-2024-10 because it is consistent
with the mooresville
one plan. It does not match
because it is too intense
for the existing area.
>> is there a second? >> second.
just under discussion to help me
can we go back to a 3-3?
>> the request is failed
because the motion to approve did not pass
. This is really logistically to have
a statement of reasonableness to support that decision.
>> okay, so all in favor
with
commissioner deweese's motion?
>> aye. >> okay.
thank you all very much.
so mr. Cole,
item number 7b, this
is the annexation piece
continued. What are we doing
?
>> the applicant
will withdraw that request at this
time.
>> at this time it has been withdrawn.
so,
we will help clarify.
>> just for the audience,
the item lanterna request has been denied.
mr. Cole, could you provide the options for
the developer to bring the project
that?
>> under the unified development ordinance for
the project is denied the
developer can wait a year and bring back
a new request or
they can petition this group
at
a future meeting for a waiver of that
waiting period and can come back sooner.
additionally, they can make substantial modifications
and essentially make any request,
which might include substantial modifications to
the plan itself to come back within
a year.
>> thank you, sir. Appreciate
that. Our
next item is 7c
to consider a request from planning
and community development to approve
an ordinance for conditional rezoning cz-2024-11 for
0.8 a four-acre site located
off 106 bridgewater line. At this time we will
open the public hearing and recognize mr.
cole.
>> this is for a small site located
on williamson road
which is adjacent to exit 33 area.
this is also in
ward 1. The applicant is magnolia
property group llc. The property is
already in town limit so this was
a standalone
conditional rezoning request. Currently,
the property is
zoned corridor mixed-use switches
a mixed-use and commercial district.
it is also located in a critical watershed
which caps the site
and impervious areas so tonight the
applicant is requesting conditional mixed-use
zoning
so just for context conditional zoning
is required because they are proposing
a
drive-through on the site.
this is in front of the food lion
which is part of the watermark shopping
center so
it is adjacent to a bank, a gas station
and an arby's restaurant.
here's the proposal. It is for a 2500
ft.? Drive-through restaurant and
it would, because it constitutes development
of an existing out parcel, it was
sure the existing shopping center
access, which is located here along
bridgewater lane, just for reference
also, this is williamson road, which
runs north to south.
the development would orient the building
to bridgewater lane with a drive-through
stacking area plan. The development
would also
provide the frontage upgrades
as required by the udo including a shared use
paths along williamson road.
so here just to orient you all it
is a starbucks that is proposed here
currently adjacent to the abc store
over across bridgewater lane and some retail uses.
so, the conditions associated with
the site currently there are four. That
would be adherence to the
concept plan you see here, a series
of use restrictions which would narrow
uses to the drive-through restaurant
and potentially compatible uses should
the user change
in the future, medications if required
for the change of use and also a density averaging
certificate which is a little unique and
I'm happy to explain it further.
these are the uses that are currently allowed
on the site
in the bayreuth cm district so this
is a pretty broad retail commercial district.
these
would all be use restrictions so
should this request past tonight there
would only be a few that would be allowed,
drive-through restaurant of course
being one of them.
with density averaging, the site is here
, this gold star
. Currently the
site is proposing 70% impervious area which is above
the cap of 50% in the critical watershed so
the applicant, one of
the four conditions is that before they
can develop the site, they are required
to seek a density-averaging certificate
from the board of
adjustment that would allow
transfer of
that additional 20% impervious area
from one of the sites across williamson
road to the subject property. That is
something that is a process
allowed by the state and should the
request be approved tonight,
they would be required to have that issue.
because this is a conditional request
there was a
neighborhood meeting required held
that was a virtual meeting and advertise to
adjacent
property owners.
we would consider this
consistent with our standards. There
is only one small inconsistency with
one
mooresville. One mooresville considers
this area mixed-use corridor and commercial character.
this
is just looking to add another commercial use
to the next so it is compatible with adjacent
usages and future character map. The
only inconsistency is
one mooresville considers mixed-use corridor
is more of a pedestrian walking style.
however, it is worth noting there
are other drive-through uses adjacent
to the site
already. We do recommend approval of the request.
that concludes my presentation. The applicant is
also here to present some information
and happy to take questions.
>> does anyone have any comments or
questions? Is the applicant prepared?
would you like to come forward, please.
>> my name is martin friday with magnolia property group
. This is jesse hamlin with blue ridge
engineering. Can you hear me okay?
I guess I will go through these
even though that was an excellent
presentation of the facts.
I
think everybody is aware of the
ncdot
project in process as far
as the planning design .
completed the traffic study and
I don't think we have any mitigation requirements.
the property is right in front of the
arby's with the drive-through
. Certainly understand
the one mooresville plan and will
point out this is adjacent to the interstate
, so it certainly seems like an appropriate
place for drive-through uses . I think
there is also a drive-through
[ inaudible ] across the street.
that is the information
on the project and site plan.
we worked
probably for two years on the site plan to
come to an agreement that makes everyone happy
with the
design and the layout between the two ordinances
. The good design, the
building is oriented towards
wilson road. It's got a patio feature
on the front of the building
, covered patio ,
a lot of glass on
the ridgewater lane side. And
I will go back
. A lot of landscaping along
the front, too as well as pedestrian way.
and I guess I
should also point out
the stacking is through the internal portion
of the overall development
which is by
bb belt, as
well. Either jesse or myself will
be happy to answer any questions if you
have any.
>> comments or questions for the applicant?
>> thank you. Just for the record
on page 112 and 113
, there is a draft ordinance with
four proposed conditions. I just wanted
to confirm you are agreeable to those
conditions.
>> yes. >> thank you.
>> any comments or questions?
next
is we don't have anyone from the public
signed up to speak on this matter so
at this time we will
close the public hearing
and entertain a motion.
commissioner qualls, please.
>> make a
motion to approve cz 2024-11 because
the proposal is consistent with the
towns one mooresville plan specifically
the proposal to develop an info site
with commercial use that largely conforms
with the projected character
of
the mixed-use corridor future land use
and the character area on the condition
that requires adherence
to ws
four watershed standards, the density
proposal is
reasonable and it will provide retail
and a logical location amongst
similar uses among a
similar thoroughfare providing active
transportation improvements in alignment
with the towns pedal plan
and one mooresville plan.
>> I will second that.
all in favor.
>> aye. >> oppose? Motion carries.
thank you all. Congratulations.
you got something to stick.
our next item
is agenda item 7d and
it is a request
from the planning and
community development to improve -- a proven ordinance
for 137 lorenzo line. With that I
open it up to public hearing and recognize
mr. Cole. Thank you.
>> thank you,
mr. Mayor pro tem. This is a standalone
annexation request, 137 lorenzo lane
, so the owner and the applicant tonight
are
tim and dana
derylak. This is a voluntary continuous
annexation adjacent
to the towns boundaries. It is currently located
in our etj so it
already carries town zoning.
properties adjacent to it on three sides.
there is no zoning change or development
proposed with this request so the
purpose of
the request is to annex them recombine
with the property adjacent to it along sure
road to brent fee-simple access
to the subject property so currently
it is just there to accommodate a single-family home
that
is the proposed continued use of the site.
there are both water and sewer available on scherz road.
property was within the preferred
four-minute response time. That is
just down the road from station three.
both
police and public works sanitation
can service the site.
therefore staff recommends approval
of the annexation request.
and, the applicant is also present
if you have any questions.
>>
board members, comments, questions?
commissioner qualls please.
>> are the
applicants the current owners of this property?
>> yes, ma'am. >> reflected on the
tax bill?
>> that is
my understanding. They may be able
to speak to that further.
>> would we like
to invite them forward?
>>
good evening.
I tend derylak. I reside at 124 lorenzo line.
I didn't quite hear the question, commissioner
qualls.
>> are you the current
owner of this property?
>> we own
three parcels. We have the house at 970
scherz road in front of this parcel.
it is already in the
city limits. We have the nearly 3
acres in the back of that that is
outside the city limits at 137 lorenzo
lane, then we have
a house and reside at 124 lorenzo lane so
ultimately we are renovating the house
up on scherz road. We are looking
to do a recombination to give ourselves
our own driveway that we own from
scherz road back to
our house at 124 lorenzo lane and
in the process we will maintain that lot
we are asking to be annexed in the house will
either eventually be rented or sold off
but while we own the house up on
shira's reverie took this
opportunity to get the combination
to do
our own driveway. Right now it is
just an easement in the previous owners
did not take care of the property at all.
>> it was this year back in april or may.
>> any comments or questions for anyone?
okay. Thank you all.
>> thank you.
we have
no one signed up for public comment so
at this point we will close the public
hearing
and entertain a motion.
commissioner
deweese is made a motion. Do I have a second?
I didn't
quite hear the question, commissioner qualls.
>> are you the current owner of this
property?
>> we own three parcels.
we have the house at 970 shearers
road in front of this parcel. It is
already in the city limits. We have
the nearly 3 acres in the back of
that that is
outside the city limits at 137 lorenzo
lane,
>> all right, we will give it
to you tonight. We
have a motion by commissioner deweese,
second by commissioner aven. All in favor
.
>> aye. >> any opposed? Motion carries.
our next item
is seven lottery to consider a request from
planning and community development department to
schedule a public hearing for land-use item.
mr. Cole, please.
>> thank you, sir. Previously
this board scheduled the mackenzie bluffs neighborhood
which is cz-2024-09 and
ax-23 4-04 out to december 9th for
discussion. The only other item we
have scheduled for this evening is
1740-1814 mecklenburg highway which
we are also proposing beta scheduled
on november 4th.
>> any questions?
with
all that being said, would anyone like
to make a motion please?
>> so moved.
>> commissioner west made a motion.
second by commissioner deweese.
all in favor?
>> aye. >> motion carries.
our next item is
7f .
>> thank you, mayor pro tem. This is
a request from an outside party, langtry development company.
the request tonight is to have an
agenda item placed on your upcoming agenda
. Town staff received this
request from langtry development
and they are requesting this be scheduled
at a future date
. The ultimate request that would
be heard if you do
choose to schedule this tonight would be
a request for the
board to waive our voluntary annexation
utility extension policy as applies to 179
transco
road and to authorize connection of
that property to town water and sewer
so the only action you're being asked
for tonight is whether to schedule
this item for a future date.
>> I will start it. What you are saying
is [ inaudible ]
gotcha. Comments or questions?
commissioner west.
>> mayor pro tem, I
have thought long and hard about this
one. I took some time and thought
about it on the weekend and I noticed
just a request to rehear this
, but I go back to
over a year ago when this came before
us and I did not like it then.
you know, we did not have the land that
we wanted to use for
the department set up to support that
area. We did not even have the agreement
back from the east-west. We did not
even know how much it was
going to cost us.
at that time I did
ask them, would they be willing to
at least wait until we had the infrastructure in place first
and that is the unicorn, right?
we got this federal grant, not the
state. We got a federal grant to create
great infrastructure down there.
they
said no. They were going to move forward with it.
in the last but not least is that board split
, there are three of us appear that
voted no for it, not and
--
when that second board came up three of
us voted
no on it. It was high-density. I didn't
like that. When they singled us out with
an intent to hold
that ms. Crawford received, singling
out the three of us,
commissioner qualls and you,
mayor pro tem dangler and myself I
said that I'm not going to be bullied
and intimidated by this and I will
say it again. After thinking more
about it on this weekend, if the board
wants to rehear
it, they can. I
in no all day long again.
I don't trust them. It's not in the best
interest of the town of mooresville.
>> thank you. Any other comments?
>> it gets a little bit wonky like is
this a request for annexation
? This is a request to waive our rules
.
>> this is
merely a request to be scheduled at a later date.
it is a request that came in normally
, town staff
is the only person who can add things to
the agenda. Roles and procedure allow
for an outside party to add an item to
the agenda
so this is only a request to be scheduled
at a future date.
the request, if you choose to schedule
it tonight, would be
heard at that time.
>>
at this time, I will call for a motion.
>>
mayor pro tem, I
will make a motion to deny the request to
place this
item on the agenda.
>> commissioner west is made a motion. We have a second?
I believe from this position I can
make a second so I will make that
second. Any
discussion on the motion?
all those in
favor please say aye.
>> I go. >> any opposed? Motion carries.
our next item , number eight, is
new business. Would any
board member have any new business
you would like to discuss at this time?
I will be honest, I really appreciate that tonight.
our next item
is closed session and under closed
session we are going to consult with
the attorney under gs143-318.11 a13
, langtry development company
versus the town of mooresville, the
economic development gs143-318.1 1a4
. Item c is acquisition of property gs143-318.1
1a5 then personnel, gs 143-318.11a6.
>> motion going to close session.
>> commissioner west made a motion.
commissioner karriker a second that motion.
all in favor please say aye.
>> we are in closed session.