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Special meeting Thursday, June 12th,
2025

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administration conference room street
chat

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24531.
Uh roll calls, please. Yes, Mr.

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Chairman. Mr. Bman here. Mr. Dalton
here. Mr. D present. Mr. Ingram here.

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Mr. Height here. Mr. Tucker here. And
Mr. Whittle here.

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106 Dearborn Drive, Emerald, North
Carolina location. Okay. And that's the

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reason why you're unable to be present
in person. Yes, sir. Thank you, sir.

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Thank you, sir. Moving to agenda item
number three.

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Uh, any be to the agenda?
Anything to be added to the agenda?

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Thank you, gentlemen. We'll move to
agenda item number four. I'll call for a

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motion to approve the agenda, please.

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Second. Thank you, Mr.
Second. Approve the agenda. Any

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discussion?
No discussion. Cast your vote, please.

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Miss Will.
Yes.

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70. Motion passes. We move to agenda
item 5A, the selection of county

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administrator,
uh, board of supervisors.

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Yes, sir. I have a motion. I make the
motion to appoint Vincent Short as Pern

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County Administrator of the terms of
contract that's been prepared by county

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staff.
Is there support for Mr. In's motion?

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Second. Thank you, Mr. Height.
All right. Any discussion?

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Any discussion on the motion? Mr.
Chairman. Yes, sir. Mr. Um, I think

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everybody saw the email that come out
today and everybody had looked at that.

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Thank you, Matt, for giving us all the
information. And I had talked to Vincent

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and I told him he's got my There were
some things in the contract

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um that we all stumbled on and had some
some heartburn and um but I do support

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it. Are you going to combine
the vote and the contract together or be

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separated? We're just going to vote on
the contract. That's what the motion is.

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On the contract as I understand that.
Okay. As presented. Yeah. Okay. Um, you

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know, I didn't agree, but I I told him I
support him as county. I'm being honest.

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I told everybody else that
any other discussion. So, Mr. Chairman,

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just for clarification,
the selection of county administrator is

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what we're voting on, not just the
contract.

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Are we breaking this out?

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Read your motion again, please, sir.
Yes, sir. It combines both. It reads, I

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make a motion to appoint Vincent as a
Pin County Administrator under the terms

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of the contract that has been presented
by county staff. Thank you. So, yes,

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they are.

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I think that's where

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apologize for not understanding when you
first did. Yeah, I'm fully supportive of

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the contract. just
all of us did not agree with and and I

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think everybody knows that

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sir
I'm I'm in support of it. Um I think we

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have a unique opportunity right now to
hire a local county administrator. I'm

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very pleased with that. As I've said
before,

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I'd heard 31 plus years, why couldn't we
have somebody in Pennsylvania County to

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help run?
So, I think we have that opportunity

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now. Mr. Short has proven that and
I'm looking forward to working with

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Thank you, Mr. Any other discussion?
Yes, sir. Uh, one more thing, too. Vince

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and I talk on the phone today. Um, and
he knows I I'll support him on the on

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the county administrator all day long.
Is to um

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for each member of the board somehow to
establish

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a good relationship with him. Um, and
I've done that this year and

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I think he's think he's done a fine job.
Yes, sir.

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Thank you, Mr. He's behind me. He might
slap me, but I He knows we talked today.

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I do support this.
The only comment I'll make uh very

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briefly is the fact that you like to
address what you refer is uh I I have a

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very positive relationship with Mr.
Sharter and you know, even if it wasn't

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Mr. Sher that we were anticipating
hiring, I still start out on even realm.

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Absolutely. Uh wanting to set forth a
good relationship and and you know um

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not to be spiritual or spiritualized but
you know uh in order to have friends you

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must first show yourself friendly. So
the onus is on the board because it's

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going to be a tough mandate for Mr.
Shorter or any county administrator to

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answer to seven different indiv
with seven different minds and being

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supervised by those individuals
it is very daunting and very

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challenging. So uh I just want Mr.
shorter on this board and I even sit

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behind closed doors. Uh even if I did
not agree with this election, I would

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wholeheartedly support the individual
that was chosen by the consensus of the

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B and I think it's important that all of
us do that based on the history of you

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know trying to fill this position you
know with several county administrators

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that have come and gone. So, we're
looking for uh Mr. Shorter to give us

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some stability in that position, which
is much needed in the county. That's

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that's my statement.
Any other I guess I'll have just one

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statement here. So, I'm not going to
support this

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vote on this simply because it's wrapped
in the contract piece of I'm not in

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agreement as you all know. We discussed
this and I pointed out issues in that

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contract that came to light and I'm not
just comfortable with that and Mr.

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He's been given over 12 months as
he spent time in this office. He spent

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time in the seat. I think he probably
understands the job a whole lot better

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than he did 12 months ago. My question
is why do you want to do this? Because

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it is a it is a tough tough job. So when
you walk in there with that hat on full

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time and take over,
it's going to be you. It's going to be

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you making those decisions and
and I will help you. I'll do anything I

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can to assist you, provide guidance,
advice right down the line. But the

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contract piece just not there. So as
long as this is wrapped into that

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contract,
thank you Mr. B.

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You know, this is a long time coming
because in 21 it looked as though we

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were going to be able to hire Mr.
and 22 uh one of it just fell apart. Put

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it that simple. But you know, he never
gave up on the possibility of being

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county administrator. He was given the
opportunity as a and he's done a

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fabulous job and did remotely. He's a
three-time elected official by the

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entire county, not just one specific
district. But um he has so many gifts

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and talents that he brings to that
office and he's proved that time and

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time again. And u and I I appreciate
like Tim talking about reaching out to

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Absolutely. and that that's that's good.
That's where it should be. But you know,

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he never turned his back on his love for
this county or his willingness to be a

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servant because that's what he is. And
uh and I'm just

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excited that we we finally have have
this opportunity to hire him full time.

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And
uh Mr. Widow, did you want to have any

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remarks before we get ready to call for
the question? No, I'm good to go. Good

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to go. Mr. Height, anything from you?
I'm looking forward to working with you

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for a few months.

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I had to get that
good morning. But you know, anything I

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can do and you know, even when I go out
office, anything I can do to help you uh

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it's about serving Pennsylvania. I think
Vicky,

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he loves Pennsylvania County and that
he's his family's from here. His roots

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are here. Uh I think we'll do great. I
think you'll do a good job.

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All right, gentlemen. If that's it, we
will proceed to the vote. Please cast

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your votes.

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Yes.
61 motion passes. Mr. Sher,

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congratulations. Thank you. Thank you,
gentlemen, for

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your selection. Um, let's see.
Moving to item six, matters from the

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board. Anyone have anything for the
betterment of the

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All right. Item seven is adjourned.