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MINUTES
CITY OF DUNN
DUNN, NORTH CAROLINA
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF DUNN HELD A REGULAR MEETING ON
THURSDAY JULY 5, 2001 AT 7:00 P.M. IN THE DUNN MUNICIPAL BUILDING. PRESENT
WAS MAYOR ABRAHAM OUDEH, MAYOR PRO -TEM MIKE WOMBLE,
COUNCILMEMBERS CAROLYN MCDOUGAL, TOBY SUMNER, GEORGE ROBINSON, JOEY
TART AND PAUL BASS. ALSO PRESENT WAS INTERIM CITY MANAGER RONNIE AUTRY,
FINANCE DIRECTOR RENEE' DAUGIITRY, POLICE CHIEF PAT GODWIN, CAPTAIN
MORRY DENNING, FIRE CHIEF AUSTIN TEW, LIBRARIAN DEBORAH MELVIN, CHIEF
\ BUILDING INSPECTOR SHANE HUDSON, PLANNER/CODE ENFORCEMENT OFFICER
KELLY BOLLINGER, UTILITIES DIRECTOR JOE CAMPBELL, CITY ENGIEER ED
POWELL, CITY ATTORNEY BILLY GODWIN, PUBLIC WORKS SUPERINTENDANT
THOMAS JERNIGAN, INTERIM HUMAN RESOURCE OFFICER MOSES GALLION AND
DAILY RECORD REPORTER LISA FARMER.
RECREATION DIRECTOR PERRY IIUDSON AND DEPUTY CLERK TINA SILLS WERE
ABSENT - EXCUSED.
INVOCATION
MAYOR OUDEH OPENED THE MEETING AT 7:00 P.M. AND ASKED COUNCILMEMBER
MCDOUGAL TO GIVE THE INVOCATION. AFTERWARD, THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE WAS
REPEATED.
PUBLIC HEARING
2001 LOCAL BLOCK GRANT MONEY
MAYOR OUDEH OPENED UP A PUBLIC HEARING AT 7:03 P.M. AND YIELDED TO INTERIM
CITY MANAGER AUTRY WHO STATED THAT THE PUBLIC HAS BEEN NOTIFIED THAT THE
CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF DUNN WOULD HOLD A PUBLIC HEARING FOR THE
PURPOSE OF RECEIVING PUBLIC COMMENT CONCERNING ALLOCATION OF THE LOCAL
BLOCK GRANT FUNDS FOR THE PURCHASE OF PATROL VEHICLES.
HE ADDED THAT THE PUBLIC HEARING WAS DULY ADVERTISED ON JUNE 26 TEi , 2001.
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MAYOR OUDEH ASKED IF THERE WERE ANY COMMENTS FROM THE PUBLIC. HEARING
NONE, HE CLOSED THE PUBLIC HEARING AND RECONVENED THE REGULAR COUNCIL
MEETING AT 7:04 P.M.
CONSENT ITEMS
INTERIM CITY MANAGER AUTRY ASKED IF THERE WERE ANY CONSENT ITEMS THAT
COUNCIL WISHED TO DELETE FOR FURTHER DISCUSSION.
MINUTES -JUNE 7,200 1 -COUNCIL CONSIDERED APPROVAL OF THE MINUTES OF THE JUNE 7,
2001 COUNCIL MEETING.
MINUTES - SPECIAL CALL -JUNE 19, 2001 - COUNCIL CONSIDERED APPROVAL OF THE
MINUTES OF THE JUNE 19, 2001 SPECIAL CALL COUNCIL MEETING.
BUDGET AMENDMENTS - COUNCIL CONSIDERED APPROVAL OF BUDGET AMENDMENTS #1-
#6. (ATTACHMENT # 1)
MOTION BY COUNCILMEMBER TART, SECONDED BY COUNCILMEMBER ROBINSON TO
APPROVE TIIE ABOVE CONSENT ITEMS. MOTION UNANIMOUSLY APPROVED.
2001 LOCAL BLOCK GRANT MONEY
INTERIM CITY MANAGER AUTRY STATED THAT INFORMATION IS ATTACHED
CONCERNING THE APPROVED FUNDING UNDER THE BUREAU OF JUSTICE ASSISTANCE
(BJA) FISCAL YEAR 2001 LOCAL BLOCK GRANTS ( LLEBG) PROGRAM IN THE AMOUNT OF
$42,655.00 FOR THE CITY OF DUNN, WITH THE CITY'S MATCH BEING $4,739.44..
HE ADDED THAT THE PURPOSE OF THE LLEBG PROGRAM IS TO REDUCE CRIME AND
IMPROVE PUBLIC SAFETY AND THE POLICE DEPARTMENT PROPOSES TO PURCHASE
PATROL VEHICLES WITH THE 2001 LOCAL BLOCK GRANT MONEY.
MOTION BY MAYOR PRO -TEM WOMBLE, SECONDED BY COUNCILMEMBER SUMNER TO
APPROVE THE GRANT AND BUDGET AMENDMENT #1 IN THE AMOUNT OF $4,739.44 TO
APPROPRIATE FUNDS TO AWARD THE 2001 LAW ENFORCEMENT BLOCK GRANT. MOTION
UNANIMOUSLY APPROVED.
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RURAL TRANSPORTATION PLANNING ORGANIZATION
INTERIM CITY MANAGER AUTRY STATED THAT MR. JAMES CALDWELL, EXECUTIVE
DIRECTOR FOR THE MID - CAROLINA COUNCIL OF GOVERNMENTS WILL DISCUSS THE
PROPOSAL TO ESTABLISH A RURAL TRANSPORTATION PLANNING ORGANIZATION.
MR. JAMES CALDWELL STATED THAT HARNETT COUNTY HAS HAD SEVERAL
DISCUSSIONS CONCERNING RURAL TRANSPORTATION PLANNING ORGANIZATIONS. HE
ADDED THAT THE MEMBERSHIP IS VOLUNTARY BUT IT IS REQUIRED BY STATE AND
FEDERAL LAW TO GIVE EQUAL WEIGHT TO THE RURAL AREAS THAT.ARE NON
METROPOLITAN AREAS IN TRANSPORTATION PLANNING.
HE STATED THAT THE HARNETT COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS HAVE ADOPTED
THE MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING (MOU) WHICH SETS THE RURAL
TRANSPORTATION PLANNING ORGANIZATION (RPO) INTO MOTION AND TOWNS IN
HARNETT COUNTY ARE IN THE PROCESS OF CONSIDERING RESOLUTIONS TO ADOPT THE
SAME MOU. HE ADDED THAT HARNETT, CUMBERLAND AND SAMPSON COUNTIES HAVE
ALL ADOPTED THE RESOLUTIONS, AND ONCE IT IS FULLY EXECUTED, THERE WILL BE AN
ORGANIZATION AND A SMALL STAFF TO DO TRANSPORTATION PLANNING IN THE RURAL
AREAS, AND THE PUBLIC WILL BE VERY MUCH INVOLVED.
HE STATED THAT THERE ARE APPROXIMATELY EIGHTEEN (18) METROPOLITAN
TRANSPORTATION PLANNING ORGANIZATIONS IN NORTH CAROLINA AND THEY ARE NOT
ALLOWED TO BE A PART OF THE RURAL TRANSPORTATION PLANNING ORGANIZATION.
THE MPO IN OUR REGION IS CALLED THE FAYETTEVILLE MPO WHICH INCLUDES SOME
AREAS OF FORT BRAGG AND PORTIONS OF HARNETT COUNTY.
HE ADDED THAT THE NEW SECRETARY OF TRANSPORTATION, MR. LINDELL TIPPETT IS
ENCOURAGING US TO MOVE QUICKLY TO ESTABLISH MPO'S. HE ADDED THAT THEY ARE
BEING ESTABLISHED AROUND REGIONAL COUNCIL OF GOVERNMENTS SUCH AS MID
CAROLINA COUNCIL OF GOVERNMENT. HE FURTHER STATED THAT THE TOWNS IN EACH
COUNTY WOULD BE AN EQUAL PARTNER WITH THE COUNTY AND THE TOWNS WOULD
EVERY TWO YEARS SELECT A MUNICIPAL REPRESENTATIVE TO MAKE UP THE RURAL
TRANSPORTATION ADVISORY COMMITTEE.
INTERIM CITY MANAGER AUTRY ASKED HOW LONG DID COUNCIL HAVE TO ADOPT THE
RESOLUTION AND APPOINT A MEMBER TO THE COMMITTEE.
MR. CALDWELL RESPONDED WITHIN THE NEXT SIX MONTHS. HE ADDED THAT COUNCIL
SHOULD APPOINT ONE OR TWO PERSONS TO SERVE ON THE (TCC) TECHNICAL
COORDINATING COMMITTEE AND THAT COMMITTEE MAKES RECOMMENDATIONS TO
THE POLICY BOARD.
COUNCILMEMBER TART ASKED HOW MANY MEMBERS ARE ON THE RURAL
TRANSPORTATION PLANNING ORGANIZATION (RPO) FROM HARNETT COUNTY.
MR. CALDWELL RESPONDED TWO, ONE COUNTY COMMISSIONER AND ONE MUNICIPAL
ELECTED OFFICIAL REPRESENTING THE MUNICIPAL INTEREST IN THE COUNTY. HE
ADDED THAT THEIR BOARD OF DIRECTORS ONLY HAS SIX MEMBERS, THREE COUNTY
COMMISSIONERS AND THREE MUNICIPAL REPRESENTATIVES WHO ARE ELECTED
OFFICIALS.
MAYOR OUDEH ASKED IF THIS WAS FUNDED BY THE STATE.
MR. CALDWELL RESPONDED 80% OF THIS IS FUNDED BY THE FEDERAL AND STATE
GOVERNMENT AND 20% WILL EITHER HAVE TO BE FUNDED LOCALLY OR FUNDED BY
ANOTHER AGENCY ON BEHALF OF THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT.
MAYOR OUDEH ASKED HOW MUCH IS FUNDED FROM THE STATE.
MR. CALDWELL RESPONDED PROBABLY $100,0004150,000 IN EACH REGION.
MAYOR PRO -TEM WOMBLE ASKED IF THE ONLY ACTION THAT COUNCIL WOULD HAVE �1
TO TAKE WOULD BE TO ADOPT THE RESOLUTION AND THERE ARE A COUPLE OF MONTHS
TO DO THAT.
MR. CALDWELL RESPONDED THAT IS CORRECT.
MOTION BY COUNCILMEMBER SUMNER, SECONDED BY COUNCILMEMBER MCDOUGAL TO
TABLE THE MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING AND THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A RURAL
TRANSPORTATION PLANNING ORGANIZATION TO A LATER DATE. MOTION
UNANIMOUSLY APPROVED.
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INTERIM CITY MANGER AUTRY STATED THAT FOR THE RECORD HE NEEDED TO APPOINT
KELLY BOLLINGER AS DEPUTY CLERK FOR THE NIGHT DUE TO THE ABSENCE OF DEPUTY
CLERK TINA SILLS.
ECON0MIC DEVELOPMENT INCENTIVE GRANT PROGRAM
INTERIM CITY MANAGER AUTRY STATED THAT TEDDY BYRD, CHAIRMAN OF THE
HARNETT COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS AND JOHNSON TILGHMAN WILL ADDRESS
COUNCIL ON THE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT INCENTIVE GRANT PROGRAM.
MR. TEDDY BYRD, CHAIRMAN OF THE HARNETT COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
STATED THAT HE WAS VERY APPRECIATIVE OF BEING ABLE TO ADDRESS COUNCIL AND
INTRODUCED JOHNSON TILGHMAN AS PRESIDENT OF THE HARNETT FORWARD
TOGETHER COMMITTEE AND JERRY HARTGROVE AS THE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
DIRECTOR FOR THE COUNTY. HE ADDED THAT HE WOULD ALSO LIKE TO THANK
COUNCIL FOR APPROVING THE GRANT TO THE HARNETT FORWARD TOGETHER
COMMITTEE IN THE AMOUNT OF $50,000 IN THAT IT SHOWED A GREAT DEAL OF
LEADERSIIP TOWARD THE HARNETT COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT EFFORT AND IT
REAFFIRMED THE LEADERSHIP ROLE IN INDUSTRIAL RECRUITMENT AND DEVELOPMENT.
HE STATED THAT WHEN THE HARNETT COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS WERE
GOING BEFORE THE SECRETARY OF COMMERCE REQUESTING THE INCENTIVE PROGRAM
FOR THE WILLIAM S. LEE ACT FOR THE COUNTY, THEY RAN INTO SOME ROAD BLOCKS
AND THE SECRETARY OF COMMERCE RECOMMENDED THAT THE COUNTY EXTEND THE
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ZONE TO ERWIN AND OTHER SOUTHERN PARTS OF THE
COUNTY. HE ADDED THAT COUNCIL VOTED AND APPROVED EXTENDING THE ECONOMIC
DEVELOPMENT ZONE AND THAT SHOWED NEIGHBORLY HELP TOWARD THE CITY OF
ERWIN AND SHOWS LEADERSHIP FOR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT FOR THE COUNTY.
MR BYRD STATED THAT HIS MISSION TONIGHT IS TO ASK COUNCIL TO ADOPT THE
COUNTY'S ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT INCENTIVE PROGRAM AS THEIR OWN. HE ADDED
THAT THE COUNTY HAS THREE GOALS ABOVE ALL OTHERS AND THEY ARE: ECONOMIC
DEVELOPMENT, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND THIRD ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT. HE
ADDED THAT THIS COUNTY HAS CRUISED ALONG WITH A 2 V2% UNEMPLOYMENT RATE
FOR THE LAST FEW YEARS AND EVERYTHING WAS ALRIGHT UNTIL IT LOST SWIFT
INDUSTRIES AND SOME OTHER INDUSTRIES.
PIE STATED THAT THERE IS NOTHING MORE IMPORTANT THAN GETTING GOOD PAYING
JOBS, INDUSTRY AND TAX BASE FOR THIS COUNTY. HE ADDED THAT THIS COUNTY IS AT
A CROSSROADS AND IT IS EITHER GOING TO REMAIN LIKE IT IS AND CONTINUE TO LET
OVER 50% OF OUR WORK FORCE COMMUTE OUTSIDE THIS COUNTY AND HAVE PROPERTY
TAXES SO HIGH THAT WE CANNOT PAY THEM OR WE ARE GOING TO HAVE TO DIG IN OUR
HEELS WITH A CHANGE OF ATTITUDE AND COMMITMENT AND GO OUT IN THIS TIME OF
COMPETITION AND BRING INDUSTRY TO OUR COUNTY. HE FURTHER STATED THAT
HARNETT COUNTY IS THE 8 FASTEST GROWING COUNTY IN THE STATE OF NORTH
CAROLINA WITH A TAX BASE OF 95 OUT OF 100, AND WE ARE DIRECTLY BORDERED BY
THE 1 ST FASTEST GROWING COUNTY WHICH IS JOHNSTON COUNTY AND THE 3 RD FASTEST
GROWING COUNTY WHICH IS WAKE COUNTY.
MR. BYRD STATED THAT WE WILL EXPERIENCE TREMENDOUS POPULATION GROWTH
OVER THE NEXT TEN YEARS AND WILL HAVE TO EDUCATE AND PROVIDE SERVICES FOR
ALL THOSE PEOPLE. HE ADDED THAT WHEN INDUSTRY COMES LOOKING TO LOCATE IN
THIS COUNTY, THEY DON'T LOOK AT WHAT IS RIGHT, THEY LOOK AT WHAT IS WRONG,
SO THEY WANT TO REDUCE WHAT IS WRONG AND EMPHASIZE WHAT IS RIGHT. HE
FURTHER STATED THAT HE HAD ASKED THE SECRETARY OF COMMERCE WHAT WAS ONE
THING THE COUNTY COULD DO TO SHOW THE DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE THAT THERE
IS A CHANGE OF ATTITUDE AND THAT WE ARE OPEN FOR BUSINESS. THE SECRETARY OF
COMMERCE SAID ADOPT A GOOD INCENTIVE PROGRAM AND HAVE ALL THE TOWNS
ADOPT THE SAME PROGRAM.
HE STATED THAT WITH HARNETT COUNTY'S LOCATION, THE PEOPLE AND THE
IMPROVEMENTS SUCH AS THE AIRPORT EXTENSION WILL MAKE HARNETT COUNTY ONE
OF THE MOST ATTRACTIVE PLACES IN NORTH CAROLINA FOR INDUSTRY TO DO
BUSINESS. HE ADDED THAT HE HAS MADE PRESENTATIONS TO ALL THE TOWNS IN
HARNETT COUNTY AND ALL HAVE ADOPTED ALONG WITH THE COUNTY SO IF BUSINESS
COMES TO A TOWN THEY WOULD NOT ONLY GET INCENTIVES FROM THE TOWN BUT
ALSO FROM THE COUNTY. HE ADDED THAT IF WE CAN DRAW BIG INDUSTRY TO OUR
COUNTY IT WOULD HELP THE SMALL BUSINESS AS WELL.
HE STATED THAT ONE OF THE BIGGEST SOURCES OF REVENUE THAT THE COUNTY HAS IS
SALES TAX WHICH IS DISTRIBUTED AT POINT OF SALE NOT PER CAPITA. HE ADDED THAT
IF PEOPLE WORK IN THIS COUNTY, THEY WILL SPEND MONEY IN THIS COUNTY AND THE
COUNTY BENEFITS.
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MR. JOHNSON TILGHMAN, CHAIRMAN OF HARNETT FORWARD TOGETHER COMMITTEE
STATED THAT HE WOULD LIKE TO THANK COUNCIL FOR THEIR SUPPORT AND ASSURED
THEM THAT THE GRANT MONEY THAT WAS APPROVED AT THE LAST MEETING FOR THE
HARNETT FORWARD TOGETHER COMMITTEE WOULD BE USED WISELY. HE ADDED THAT
AT THE ECONOMIC SUMMIT HELD AT CAMPBELL UNIVERSITY, BOB LEAKE AND BOB
GOFORTH PRESENTED THEIR ECONOMIC ASSESSMENT OF HARNETT COUNTY AND AN
ACTION PLAN WHICH CONSISTS OF HARNETT COMMITTEE OF 100 TAKING A LEADERSHIP
ROLE TO EXECUTE AN ACTION PLAN.
HE STATED THAT THE NAME WAS CHANGED FROM THE HARNETT COMMITTEE OF 100 TO
THE HARNETT FORWARD TOGETHER COMMITTEE TO TRY TO SHOW A TOTAL SPIRIT OF
COOPERATION OF ALL THE CITIZENS OF HARNETT COUNTY. HE ADDED THAT HE KNEW
OF NO OTHER IMPORTANT THING FACING THE CITY OF DUNN AND HARNETT COUNTY
THAN REVITALIZING THE ECONOMIC AND INDUSTRIAL BASE OF HARNETT COUNTY. HE
FURTHER STATED THAT MR. BYRD WAS CORRECT WHEN HE STATED THAT WE WILL NOT
BE ABLE TO PAY THE SOCIAL COSTS OF OUR CITIZENS IF THIS IS NOT DONE BECAUSE
THE GROWTH IN HARNETT COUNTY IS ACCELERATING WITH NEW HOMES AND SMALL
BUSINESSES.
MR. TILGHMAN STATED THAT WE HAVE LOST OUR OLD INDUSTRIAL BASE, BUT WITH
THE HARNETT FORWARD TOGETHER COMMITTEE AND WITH THE HELP OF THE CITY OF
DUNN AND HARNETT COUNTY IT CAN BE REPLACED. HE ADDED THAT A RURAL
DEVELOPMENT GRANT HAS BEEN RECEIVED IN THE AMOUNT OF $90,000 MATCHED BY
HARNETT COUNTY FOR A TOTAL OF $180,000 TO MAKE LOANS. THESE FUNDS ARE
IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE TO SMALL BUSINESSES WITH FIFTY OR FEWER EMPLOYEES
AND SALES OF LESS THAN $1,000,000. HE FURTHER STATED THAT HARNETT COUNTY HAS
MADE A BUDGETARY COMMITMENT TO MR. HARTGROVE'S OFFICE FOR ECONOMIC
DEVELOPMENT IN EXCESS OF $400,000 FOR THIS FISCAL YEAR AND FUTURE YEARS AS
WELL TO MODERNIZE HIS OFFICE, TO PROPERLY STAFF THE OFFICE TO HIRE A FULL TIME
MARKETING DIRECTOR, TO HIRE CONSULTANTS AND ALSO TO USE THOSE FUNDS TO
ADVERTISE HARNETT COUNTY AS THE COUNTY TO LIVE, WORK AND PLAY AND BRING
INDUSTRIAL INVESTMENTS.
HE STATED THAT MARVIN JOYNER, PRESIDENT OF CENTRAL CAROLINA COMMUNITY
COLLEGE, AND NORMAN WIGGINS OF CAMPBELL UNIVERSITY ARE EX- OFFICIO MEMBERS
OF THE HARNETT FORWARD TOGETHER COMMITTEE AND BOTH HAVE BEEN ACTIVE
UNTIL JUST RECENTLY. HE ADDED THAT BOTH CENTRAL CAROLINA COMMUNITY
COLLEGE AND CAMPBELL UNIVERSITY ARE MAKING COMMITMENTS ON SEVERAL,
LEVELS TO HELP AND ASSIST THE HARNETT FORWARD TOGETHER COMMITTEE BY
MAKING THEIR RESOURCES AND BUSINESS DEPARTMENTS AVAILABLE IN HELPING
BUSINESSES ANALYZE WHERE THEY ARE GOING AND WHERE THEY ARE, AND BY
HELPING THEM TO STRUCTURE BUSINESS PLANS AND SEEK AND IDENTIFY SOURCES OF
FINANCING TO HELP THEM CARRY OUT THEIR GOALS.
MR TILGHMAN STATED THAT HE DID NOT WANT COUNCIL OR ANYONE TO THINK THAT
EXTRAORDINARY EFFORTS ARE NOT TAKING PLACE IN HARNETT FORWARD TOGETHER
COMMITTEE BECAUSE WITH THE CITIZENS ENCOURAGEMENT AND BACKING, THEY CAN
DEAL WITH THIS PROBLEM. HE ADDED THAT HARNETT COUNTY CAN SUCCEED IN THIS
BY SEEKING THE RIGHT TYPES OF BUSINESS AND INDUSTRY. HE ADDED THAT WE HAVE
GOOD FINANCIAL RESOURCES AND GREAT GEOGRAPHICAL LOCATIONS AND
EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS AND WE HAVE GOT TO CONVINCE LARGE BUSINESSES
THAT THEY SHOULD BE HERE TOO.
COUNCILMEMBER TART ASKED HOW DOES THIS COMPARE TO WHAT OTHER
MUNICIPALITIES OR COUNTIES HAVE DONE.
MR. TEDDY BYRD RESPONDED THAT THIS PLAN COMPARES VERY FAVORABLE WITH THE
COUNTIES THAT ARE ADJACENT TO HARNETT COUNTY.
COUNCILMEMBER BASS ASKED IF THIS WAS ONLY ASKING FOR A TAX BREAK ONCE THE
BUSINESS IS ESTABLISHED.
MR. BYRD RESPONDED THAT IT IS A LIMITED TIMED TAX GRANT THAT IS SAYING THAT IF
BUSINESS WILL COME HERE FOR A PERIOD OF A FEW YEARS, WE WILL GIVE THEM SOME
MONEY BACK.
COUNCILMEMBER SUMNER ASKED IF THE PORTION TO BE PAID BACK TO THE BUSINESS
OR INDUSTRY WAS A SET AMOUNT.
MR. BYRD RESPONDED THAT COUNCIL CAN GO BY THE GUIDELINE THEY HAVE
PROVIDED OR THEY CAN ASK THEIR ATTORNEY TO NEGOTIATE WITH ANY BUSINESS TO
ENHANCE THAT PLAN. HE ADDED THAT IF THERE IS A BUSINESS THAT COUNCIL THINKS
IS NOT RIGHT FOR THEIR TOWN THE GRANT DOES NOT HAVE TO BE OFFERED TO THAT
BUSINESS.
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CITY ATTORNEY GODWIN STATED THAT IF COUNCIL IS INTERESTED IN REVIEWING THE
AGREEMENT, HE HAS A COPY OF THE PLAN.
MOTION BY COUNCILMEMBER TART, SECONDED BY COUNCILMEMBER ROBINSON TO
ADOPT THE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT INCENTIVE PROGRAM FOR THE CITY OF DUNN.
MOTION UNANIMOUSLY APPROVED.
MIXED BEVERAGE ELECTION REFERENDUM
INTERIM CITY MANAGER AUTRY STATED THAT MR. PATRICK POPE REQUESTED TO MAKE
A BRIEF PRESENTATION REQUESTING A NEW MIXED BEVERAGE ELECTION REFERENDUM
BE HELD TO GIVE THE PEOPLE THE RIGHT TO VOTE.
HE ADDED THAT MR. CHARLIE CARPENTER, DR. H. TALMADGE SPENCE, MR. BILL
MARSHBURN, MR. BOBBY MILLER AND MR. BOBBY CARR HAVE REQUESTED TO SPEAK
ON TIIE MIXED BEVERAGE REFERENDUM.
MAYOR OUDEH STATED TIIAT BEFORE ANYONE SPEAKS, HE WOULD LIKE TO SUGGEST
THAT EACH PARTY BE LIMITED TO THIRTY MINUTES TO SPEAK AND THEY HAVE TO BE
RESIDENTS OF THE CITY OF DUNN.
MR. DAL SNIPES, PRESIDENT OF THE DUNN AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE STATED THAT
COUNCIL HAS A CHANCE TO LET THE CITIZENS OF DUNN DECIDE AN ISSUE THAT
CLEARLY IS AN ISSUE ABOUT ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT WHICH IS A MIXED BEVERAGE
SALE IN DUNK. HE FURTHER STATED THAT THE PASSAGE OF THIS REFERENDUM WOULD
BE A MAJOR STEP AND BOOST TO ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT.
HE STATED THAT CITY AFTER CITY, TOWN AFTER TOWN AND COUNTY AFTER COUNTY
WHO HAVE PASSED THIS ISSUE HAVE SEEN SIGNIFICANT INCREASES IN BUSINESSES
LOCATING IN THEIR COMMUNITY IN ADDITION TO INCREASED SALES AT THE EXISTING
HOTELS, RESTAURANTS AND BUSINESSES. HE ADDED THAT TRAVEL AND TOURISM
CONTRIBUTED 42 '/2 MILLION DOLLARS LAST YEAR TO THIS COMMUNITY AND MORE
THAN THAT CAN BE DONE. FIE FURTHER STATED THAT HE HAS HEARD ON SEVERAL
OCCASIONS OF WOULD BE TRAVELERS AND TOURISTS THAT STOP AT OUR HOTELS WITH
THE INTENTION OF SPENDING THE NIGHT AND SPENDING THEIR DOLLARS, ONLY TO GET
IN THEIR CAR AND DRIVE 20 MILES NORTH OR SOUTH SO THAT THEY CAN BUY MIXED
BEVERAGES IF THEY CHOOSE TO DO SO; THEREFORE, OUR HOTELS LOST THE ROOMS,
OUR RESTAURANTS LOST THE MEALS, GAS STATIONS LOST THE FULL TANK OF GAS AND
OTHER BUSINESSES LOST AS WELL.
HE STATED THAT IT IS A KNOWN FACT THAT UNTIL THIS REFERENDUM PASSES, MANY
WOULD BE NEW BUSINESSES AND INDUSTRIES WILL RESIST COMING TO OUR
COMMUNITY AND WILL GO ELSEWHERE AND INVEST THEIR DOLLARS ACCORDINGLY.
HE ADDED THAT NEW INDUSTRIES VIEW THIS ISSUE AS A QUALITY OF LIFE ISSUE
BECAUSE IT WILL BRING IN NEW BUSINESS, RESTAURANTS, AND ENTERTAINMENT
ESTABLISHMENTS.
MR SNIPES STATED THAT WE HAVE AN ECONOMIC GOLDMINE WHICH IS 1-95,140 AND
HWY 421 ALL GOING THROUGH OR IN CLOSE PROXIMITY TO OUR CITY. HE ADDED THAT
IN A STUDY THAT THE UNITED STATES CHAMBER OF COMMERCE CONDUCTED IT WAS
DETERIAINED THAT AN AVERAGE OF ABOUT 135 NEW JOBS ARE CREATED TO SUPPORT
100 ADDITIONAL TOURISTS STOPPING IN DUNN. HE FURTHER STATED THAT BY
ALLOWING MIXED DRINKS, WE WOULD BE ADDING JOBS, ADDING BUSINESSES, ADDING
TO THE TAX BASE AND AT THE SAME TIME KEEPING OUR TAXES LOWER BUT GIVING US
THE ECONOMIC BOOST THAT THE CITY SO DESPERATELY NEEDS.
HE THANKED COUNCIL FOR ALLOWING HIM TO SPEAK AND URGED THEM TO ALLOW
THIS VERY IMPORTANT ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ISSUE TO BE PUT IN THE HANDS OF
THE VOTERS.
MR. PAT POPE STATED THAT HE IS PRESENT TONIGHT WITH A GROUP OF ACTIVE,
RESPECTED, CONCERNED CITIZENS OF DUNN MOST OF WHOM ARE COMMUNITY LEADERS
IN ONE RESPECT OR ANOTHER AND ALL ARE ACTIVE IN COMMUNITY AFFAIRS AND
LOCAL CHURCHES. HE ADDED THAT HE REALIZES THAT THERE ARE A LOT OF GOOD
DECENT CHURCH PEOPLE THAT ARE OPPOSED TO THIS ISSUE, ALL OF WHOM FIE
CONSIDERS TO BE HIS FRIENDS, BUT HE TRULY BELIEVES THAT THIS IS AN ISSUE THAT
THE TIME HAS COME FOR DUNN. HE FURTHER STATED THAT THE ISSUE IS NOT THE
REFERENDUM ITSELF, IT IS AN ISSUE OF WHETHER TO CALL FOR A REFERENDUM OR NOT.
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HE STATED THAT THE STRATEGIC PLAN FOR THE CITY OF DUNN CONSISTS OF FOUR
THINGS WITH THE FIRST BEING ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, SECOND BEING QUALITY OF
LIFE, THIRD, APPEARANCE -IMAGE PERCEPTION AND THE FOURTH WAS PLANNING. HE
ADDED THAT HE WANTED TO SPEAK BRIEFLY ON EACH OF THESE ISSUES BECAUSE HE
THINKS THE STRATEGIC PLAN FOR TFIE CITY OF DUNN IS IMPORTANT AND IT SHOWS THE
IMPORTANCE OF MIXED DRINK SALES TO THE FUTURE PLANNING EFFORTS OF THE CITY
OF DUNN.
MR. POPE STATED THAT THE ISSUE OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT HAS BEEN FOCUSED ON
AT THE RECENT COUNCIL MEETINGS AND THIS COUNCIL HAS GONE ON RECORD WITH A
MAJOR COMMITMENT, FINANCIAL AND OTHERWISE TO THIS EXTREME AND IMPORTANT
MATTER. HE ADDED THAT THE BUDGET THAT JUST PASSED WAS BALANCED BY DIPPING
INTO THE FUND BALANCE WHICH IS THE CITY'S SAVINGS RESERVE, BUT THAT CANNOT
CONTINUE.
HE STATED THAT TO BE ABLE TO PAY FOR NEW POLICE CARS, BUY NEW TRUCKS AND
GIVE EMPLOYEES PAY RAISES, MORE MONEY HAS GOT TO BE RAISED AND THAT IS
THROUGH TAXES AND THERE ARE TWO WAYS OF DOING THAT EITHER BY RAISING THE
TAX RATE OR THE TAX BASE. HE ADDED THAT NO ONE WANTS TAX RATE INCREASES SO
THAT LEAVES TAX BASE WHICH IS ADDING NEW PROPERTY TO BE TAXED; AND BY
ALLOWING THE SALES OF MIXED DRINKS IT WOULD BRING NEW BUSINESS. HE FURTHER
STATED THAT THIS IS ONE SMALL PIECE OF THE PUZZLE THAT MUST BE PUT INTO PLACE
BEFORE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CAN BE NOURISHED.
HE STATED THAT AN EXAMPLE OF THIS IS A FEW SHORT YEARS AGO DUNN WAS AHEAD
OF SMITHFIELD IN RETAIL SALES AND IN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, BUT THAT IS NOT
THE CASE ANYMORE. HE ADDED THAT AFTER THE DUNN CITY COUNCIL CALLED FOR
THE FIRST REFERENDUM ON THE SALE OF MIXED DRINKS, THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
AND OTHER ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT GROUPS FROM OTHER CITIES AND COUNTIES
BEGAN CALLING MEETINGS AND TRIED TO GET A SIMILAR EFFORT. HE FURTHER STATED
THAT THEY WERE CONCERNED THAT DUNN WOULD PASS THIS ISSUE BEFORE
SMITHFIELD.
MR. POPE STATED THAT JACKSONVILLE WAS ANOTHER EXAMPLE IN THAT LIQUOR BY
THE DRINK WAS VOTED DOWN TWO OR THREE TIMES IN THE BEGINNING AND WHEN IT
FINALLY DID PASS, WITHIN TWO YEARS TIME, THERE WERE 2 NEW HOTELS, SEVERAL
NEW RESTAURANTS AND 2 NEW INDUSTRIES. HE ADDED THAT ALL BUSINESS AND
ECONOMIC DEVELOPERS WILL TELL YOU THAT THIS IS ONE OF THE PIECES OF THE
PUZZLE THAT MUST BE IN PLACE FOR THIS TO OCCUR.
HE STATED THAT STATESVILLE IS ANOTHER EXAMPLE WHERE THE REFERENDUM WAS
DEFEATED TWO OR THREE TIMES BEFORE IT WAS FINALLY PASSED. HE ADDED THAT
THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE AND OTHERS GOT BEHIND IT AND PUSHED THE ISSUE AND
IN THE LAST ISSUE OF BUSINESS OF NORTH CAROLINA, STATESVILLE WAS NAMED THE
NUMBER 1 TOWN OF ITS SIZE WITH ADDITIONS AND NEW PLANT OPENINGS WITHIN THE
LAST TEN YEARS.
MR. POPE STATED THAT DUNN 1S THE ONLY TOWN OR CITY ON INTERSTATE 95 THAT
DOES NOT ALLOW THE SALE OF MIXED DRINKS. HE ADDED THAT IF DUNN WOULD HAVE
APPROVED THE MIXED DRINK REFERENDUM SIX YEARS AGO WHEN THE FIRST
REFERENDUM WAS HELD, THINK ABOUT FLOW FAR ALONG DUNN WOULD BE NOW.
HE STATED THAT QUALITY OF LIFE IS EXTREMELY IMPORTANT FOR ANY COMMUNITY
NOT ONLY FOR THE SAKE OF THE EXISTING CITIZENS BUT ALSO AS AN ECONOMIC
DEVELOPMENT TOOL. HE ADDED TFIAT NOT ONLY DOES IT MEAN HAVING GOOD
SCHOOLS, BUT ALSO HAVING NICE HOTELS, RESTAURANTS AND NICE PLACES TO SHOP.
HE FURTHER STATED THAT THERE WAS PROBABLY NOT ONE INDIVIDUAL IN THE ROOM
TONIGHT THAT HAS NOT EATEN AT A RESTAURANT RECENTLY IN ANOTHER CITY OR
TOWN THAT SERVES MIXED DRINKS AND THE ABC LAWS DO NOT ALLOW THE SALE OF
MIXED DRINKS IN RESTAURANTS THAT DO NOT QUALIFY AS CLASS A RESTAURANTS.
MR. POPE STATED THAT THE THIRD ISSUE IN A STRATEGIC PLAN FOR THE CITY OF DUNN
IS APPEARANCE /IMAGE /PERCEPTION. HE ADDED THAT COUNCIL RECENTLY APPROVED
BUDGET FUNDING TO ASSIST IN THIS PROCESS; HOWEVER, IMAGE PERCEPTION IS MUCH
BROADER THAN PHYSICAL APPEARANCE, IT MEANS HOW THE CITY IS PERCEIVED BY
OUTSIDERS, BY POTENTIAL TOURISTS, POTENTIAL DEVELOPERS, OR POTENTIAL
INDUSTRY.
HE STATED THAT THE FOURTH ISSUE FOR THE STRATEGIC PLAN IS PLANNING. HE ADDED
THAT PLANNING IS ALSO A MAJOR IMPORTANCE TO OUR LONG TERM HEALTH AS A
COMMUNITY BECAUSE IT ENCOMPASSES PLANNING FOR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, TAX
REVENUES TO PAY FOR RECREATIONAL ACTIVITIES AND DETERMINES HOW WE ARE
GOING TO 00 ABOUT PROVIDING ALL THESE SERVICES.
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HE ADDED THAT IN ADDITION TO ALL THE FOREGOING REASONS RELATED TO THE
STRATEGIC PLAN INITIATIVE FOR DUNN, THE PASSAGE OF THIS REFERENDUM IS
IMPORTANT FOR ANOTHER EXTREMELY IMPORTANT REASON AND THAT IS CONTROL.
HE FURTHER STATED THAT SELLING ALCOHOL BY THE DRINK IS FAR PREFERABLE THAN
THE CURRENT BROWN BAGGING METHOD ALLOWED BY STATE LAW BY WHICH PEOPLE
POUR THEIR OWN DRINKS FROM THEIR OWN BOTTLE WITH NO CONTROL OVER HOW
MUCH THEY POUR OR DRINK.
MR. POPE STATED THAT STATISTICS SHOW THAT ALCOHOL RELATED OFFENSES DO NOT
GO UP BUT ACTUALLY DECREASE WHEN THE LAW ALLOWS THE SALE OF MIXED DRINKS.
HE ADDED THAT THE NORTH CAROLINA ABC STATISTICS SHOW THAT BOTTLED SALES IN
ABC STORES GO DOWN WHEN TOWNS OR CITIES ALLOW THE SALE OF MIXED DRINKS. HE
` FURTHER STATED THAT THE STATE LAW REQUIRES THAT ALL ESTABLISHMENTS
SELLING MIXED DRINKS BUY THEIR ALCOHOL FROM LOCAL ABC STORES; THEREFORE,
THOSE PEOPLE THAT OPPOSE THE ALCOHOL SALES SHOULD ACTUALLY SUPPORT THE
SALE, BECAUSE IT RESULTS IN A DECREASE IN AMOUNT OF ALCOHOL SOLD AND
CONSUMED.
HE STATED THAT ALCOHOL WAS AROUND IN BIBLICAL TIMES AND IS A PART OF OUR
CULTURE TODAY AND ALWAYS WILL BE; THEREFORE, WE HAVE GOT TO FOCUS OUR
EFFORTS ON CONTROLLING IT, TAXING IT AND PERMITTING THE SALE OF MIXED DRINKS.
HE FURTHER STATED THAT THERE ARE MANY REASONS WHY COUNCIL SHOULD CALL
FOR A REFERENDUM ON THE SALE OF MIXED DRINKS AND THEY ARE:
I. EACH OF THE TWO PREVIOUS REFERENDUMS FAILED BY FORTY VOTES EACH SO
THERE IS MAJOR SUPPORT IN DUNN FOR THE SALE OF MIXED DRINKS.
2. THE LAST ELECTION WAS TAINTED BY FRAUD BECAUSE THERE WERE NUMEROUS
PEOPLE THAT VOTED AT THAT ELECTION THAT DID NOT LIVE IN DUNN, SOME DID
NOT LIVE IN HARNETT COUNTY, THERE WAS ONE DOCUMENTED INSTANCE WHERE
ONE PERSON VOTED TWICE AND A DEAD PERSON EVEN VOTED.
3. MANY REGISTERED VOTERS HAVE DIED.
4. MANY INDIVIDUALS LIVING IN DUNN HAVE REACHED VOTING AGE.
5. MANY NEW PEOPLE HAVE MOVED TO THIS CITY AND REGISTERED TO VOTE HERE.
6. BENSON, SMITHFIELD, SELMA, FOUR OAKS, CLAYTON AND MANY OTHER
SURROUNDING CITIES HAVE ALL PASSED THE REFERENDUM ON THIS ISSUE, LEAVING
US AT A DISADVANTAGE.
7. ECONOMIC SITUATION IS WORSE NOW THAT IT WAS AT THE TIME OF THE LAST
REFERENDUM.
✓ 8. MANY OTHER TOWNS AND CITIES THAT HAVE PASSED VOTED IT DOWN BEFORE
PASSING.
9. WE HAVE THREE OR FOUR YEARS OF HISTORICAL EXPERIENCE BY OTHERS FOR US TO
LOOK AT IN RESPECT FOR THIS ISSUE.
HE STATED THAT THERE IS ONE MORE OVERRIDING REASON WHY COUNCIL SHOULD
CALL FOR ANOTHER REFERENDUM. HE ADDED THAT WE LIVE IN A DEMOCRACY AND
NORTH CAROLINA STATE LAWS ALLOWS FOR THIS ISSUE TO BE DECIDED BY LOCAL
VOTERS IN TOWNS AND CITIES THAT HAVE AN ABC SYSTEM SUCH AS DUNN, AND HE
STRONGLY SUGGESTS THAT COUNCIL LET THE VOTERS DECIDE.
MAYOR OUDEH ASKED IF ANYONE ELSE WOULD LIKE TO SPEAK FOR THE LIQUOR BY THE
DRINK REFERENDUM.
HEARING NONE, MAYOR OUDEH STATED THAT THE INDIVIDUALS PRESENT TO SPEAK
AGAINST THE LIQUOR BY THE DRINK COULD SPEAK.
DR. H.T. SPENCE STATED THAT HE APPRECIATED THE OPPORTUNITY TO SPEAK ON THIS
ISSUE. HE ADDED THAT HE WAS A CITIZEN OF THIS CITY AND TONIGHT THE CITY
COUNCIL WILL HEAR FOR THE THIRD TIME THE ISSUE OF LIQUOR BY THE DRINK AND
MAKE A DECISION OF WHETHER IT WILL ONCE AGAIN BE PRESENTED TO THE PEOPLE.
HE ADDED THAT THE PAST TWO TIMES, IT WAS DEFEATED BY THE VOICE OF THE PEOPLE
BY FORTY VOTES. HE FURTHER STATED THAT IN THE BIBLE FORTY IS THE NUMBER OF
JUDGEMENT.
I HE STATED THAT HE STANDS BEFORE COUNCIL THIS EVENING AS A MINISTER OF THE
�✓ GOSPEL, PRESIDENT OF A BIBLE COLLEGE AND SEMINARY WHO HAS GIVEN ALL OF HIS
ADULT LIFE TO EDUCATION. HE ADDED THAT HE BELIEVES THAT A PERSON MUST
PURSUE A MATTER IN RESEARCH AND HOMEWORK BEFORE HE PLACES HIS TRUST,
CONFIDENCE AND COMMITMENT OF HIS LIFE TO IT. HE FURTHER STATED THAT LIQUOR
BY THE DRINK IS AN ISSUE THAT NO CITY COUNCIL DARE DEAL WITH, UNLESS THEY
HAVE THOROUGHLY DONE THEIR HOMEWORK AND CAREFUL RESEARCH ON THE
MATTER.
DR. SPENCE STATED THAT OVER THE LAST SEVEN MONTHS, HE HAS INVESTED SEVERAL
HUNDREDS OF HOURS IN CORRESPONDENCE WITH THE TOP 100 OF SOME 300 ALCOHOL
RESEARCH CENTERS IN AMERICA.
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HE STATED THAT IT IS TRUE IN ALL THE STATES THAT TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS ACCOUNT
FOR MORE DEATHS OF INDIVIDUALS BETWEEN THE AGES OF SIX AND THIRTY -THREE
THAN ANY OTHER TYPE OF ACCIDENT AND ALL RESEARCH CENTERS AGREE THAT THE
SINGLE MOST SIGNIFICANT PREDATOR OF AN ACCIDENT IS THE DRIVERS' STATE OF
SOBRIETY. FIE ADDED THAT IT IS ALSO TRUE THAT MORE OUTLETS FOR ALCOHOL IN A
GIVEN CITY INCREASE ASSAULTS, HOMICIDES AND YOUTH VIOLENCE AND HALF OF ALL
FATAL TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS INVOLVE ALCOHOL, 50OZo -60% OF ALL SUICIDES ARE
EFFECTED BY ALCOHOL, 42 % -66% OF ALL HOMICIDES AND SERIOUS ASSAULTS INVOLVE
ALCOHOL, 33% OF MEN AND 51% OF WOMEN WITH ANNUAL INCOMES OF $10,000 OR LESS
ARE ABSTAINERS OF ALCOHOL COMPARED WITH 9% OF MEN AND 19% OF WOMEN WITH
INCOME GREATER THAN $40,000 A YEAR.
HE STATED THAT WHEN HE CORRESPONDED WITH THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH
CAROLINA HIGHWAY SAFETY RESEARCH CENTER ABOUT LIQUOR BY THE DRINK THEY
QUOTED HIM THE FOLLOWING PARAGRAPH: "RESEARCH ON DRINKING AND DRIVING
INDICATES THAT INCREASED OR EASIER AVAILABILITY OF ALCOHOL RESULTS IN A
LARGER NUMBER OF ALCOHOL RELATED CRASHES; THEREFORE, IF ALCOHOL IS
AVAILABLE IN A VARIETY OF OUTLETS FOR MORE HOURS DURING THE DAY OR IN A
LARGER NUMBER OF ESTABLISHMENTS IN THE AREA, DRINKING, DRIVING AND CRASHES
ASSOCIATED WITH IT WILL INCREASE. HE ADDED THAT SELLING LIQUOR BY THE DRINK
IS A FORM OF INCREASED AVAILABILITY AND WILL INCREASE DRINKING AND DRIVING.
HE FURTHER STATED THAT AFTER LEGISLATIVE ACTION IN 1978 THAT MADE SALES
LEGAL IN NORTH CAROLINA, THE NUMBER OF OUTLETS WHERE LIQUOR COULD BE
PURCHASED INCREASED BY 250% AND AS A RESULT, ALCOHOL RELATED CRASHES
INCREASED ABOUT 20% IN THOSE COUNTIES THAT ALLOWED LIQUOR BY THE DRINK
COMPARED WITH NO INCREASE IN THOSE COUNTIES THAT DID NOT ALLOW THE SALE OF
LIQUOR BY THE DRINK.
DR. SPENCE ASKED IF THE CITY COUNCIL WOULD SAY YES TO ADDITIONAL NEEDED
DEATHS IN OUR CITY. HE ADDED THAT SURE IT WILL HELP THE FUNERAL DIRECTORS,
THE BUSINESS MAN WHO SELLS THE SELF INFLICTED DRUG AND DISEASE AND PERHAPS
THE CITY WILL BENEFIT FROM THE TAX REVENUE; BUT WHAT ABOUT THE PARENT
WHOSE CHILD WILL BE KILLED BY LIQUOR BY THE DRINK ORDINANCE WHO WILL
BEREAVE THAT CHILD FOR YEARS AND YEARS. HE ADDED THAT THE LIQUOR THAT WE
ALREADY SALE IN THIS CITY WILL TAKE ITS TOLL THIS YEAR BUT IF THIS LIQUOR BY
THE DRINK IS PASSED, IT WILL INCREASE THE OUTLETS AND THE TOLL OF PERMANENT
PHYSICAL DAMAGE AND DEATH WILL BE HIGHER.
HE STATED THAT DUNN IS ALREADY KNOWN AS FAR AWAY AS CANADA AS A DRUG
DISTRIBUTION CITY ON INTERSTATE 95, YET WE ARE ALSO KNOWN AS THE ONLY ONE ON
THE CORRIDOR THAT WILL NOT SALE LIQUOR BY THE DRINK. HE ASKED MAYOR AND
CITY COUNCIL IF THEY HAD DONE T14EIR RESEARCH AND HOMEWORK ABOUT WHAT
GOD AND HIS WORD SAYS ABOUT MORALITY. HE ADDED THAT THERE ARE SEVEN
HEBREW WORDS USED IN THE ORIGINAL LANGUAGE OF THE OLD TESTAMENT
COMMONLY TRANSLATED IN OUR ENGLISH BIBLE WITH ONE WORD, WINE WHICH
LITERALLY TRANSLATED IS FROM GRAPE JUICE TO THAT WHICH IS FERMENT. ALL
FERMENT CONTENTS GOD FIRMLY CONDEMNS. HE FURTHER STATED THAT IN THE NEW
TESTAMENT GREEK, THERE WAS ONLY WORD FOR THAT WHICH IS TRANSLATED WINE
AND THAT ONE WORD MEANS FROM GRAPE JUICE TO INTOXICATED FLUID.
HE ADDED THAT THE FOUR GOSPELS NEVER STATED THAT JESUS DRANK INTOXICATED
WINE. THE BIBLE CONDEMNS IT AND IT FALLS UNDER MORALITY.
THE LAST TIME THIS BATTLE WAS FOUGHT IN THIS CITY THE COST WAS HIGH, NOT ONLY
IN MONEY BUT IN FRIENDSHIPS, FAMILIES, AND BUSINESS ACQUAINTANCES. HE ADDED
THAT IT WAS A BATTLE TO THE LAST MOMENT UNDERNEATH CITY HALL WHERE
PASSIONS WERE HIGH, WORDS WERE HEATED AND VERBAL WOUNDS WERE CUT DEEP
THAT STILL HAVE NOT BEEN HEALED. IIE FURTHER STATED THAT THE CHAMBER OF
COMMERCE WILL NEVER BE VIEWED WITH THE SAME RESPECT IN THIS CITY BECAUSE OF
WHAT IT DID THREE YEARS AGO IN INITIALLY GIVING $10,000 FOR THE PROMOTION OF
THIS ORDINANCE.
DR. SPENCE ASKED COUNCIL IF THEY WILL CALL FOR ANOTHER BATTLE OF TAX MONEY,
HEATED ANGER, BROKEN HOMES, DIVIDED CHURCHES AND A DIVIDED CITY WHOSE
DIVISION WILL LAST FOR YEARS. HE ADDED THE LOCAL NEWSPAPER STATED THAT THE
PEOPLE NEED TO SPEAK, BUT THE PEOPLE HAVE SPOKEN TWICE, AND ASKED COUNCIL IF
THEY ARE GOING TO KEEP HAMMERING AWAY UNTIL THEY DESTROY EVERY GOOD
RELATIONSHIP IN THE COMMUNITY. I-IE FURTHER STATED THAT IF LIQUOR BY THE
DRINK EVER DOES PASS, WILL THE PEOPLE HAVE THE RIGHT EVERY THREE YEARS TO
REVOTE TO KEEP IT OR GET RID OF IT.
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HE STATED THAT HE PLEADS WITH COUNCIL TO LEAVE IT ALONE, THE PEOPLE HAVE
SPOKEN; SO YIELD TO IT GRACEFULLY AND BY DOING SO ADDITIONAL LIVES WILL BE
SAVED THAT OTHERWISE WOULD HAVE BEEN TAKEN BECAUSE OF LIQUOR BY THE
DRINK. HE ADDED THAT OF ALL THE POLITICAL ITEMS ON THEIR AGENDA THROUGHOUT
THE WHOLE TENURE ON THIS COUNCIL NONE WILL BE AS FAR REACHING AS THIS ONE
ITEM AND IT WILL BE A SAD THING FOR THIS CITY IF COUNCIL DID NOT DO THEIR
HOMEWORK TO MAKE THEIR DECISION BASED OBJECTIVELY ON WHAT HISTORY HAS
SAID AND WHAT THE BIBLE HAS SAID ABOUT THIS MATTER OF LIQUOR. HE FURTHER
STATED THAT SOME MAY SAY THAT THEIR RIGHTS TO DRINK ARE BEING SUPPRESSED
BUT THERE ARE ENOUGH OUTLETS ALREADY IN OUR CITY TO BUY AS MUCH LIQUOR AS
THEY WANT.
/ HE STATED THAT HE LEAVES WITH A PRAYER THAT GOD HAVE MERCY ON THEIR SOULS
AS LEADERS AND HAVE MERCY ON THIS CITY, FOR SIN IS A REPROACH TO MANY PEOPLE
AND THEY WILL EITHER DO WHAT IS RIGHT OR WILL BURY THEMSELVES FURTHER IN
THEIR OWN PRIDE, SELF RATIFICATION AND MONEY WITHOUT ANY REGARD TO LIFE,
AND LOVE AND A WHOLESOME MORAL COMMUNITY.
MR. BOBBY MILLER STATED THAT IT HAS BEEN SAID MANY TIMES TONIGHT THAT OVER
50% OF THE PEOPLE HAVE SAID NO TWICE, AND HE DOES NOT KNOW HOW MANY TIMES
THEY HAVE TO SAY NO BEFORE IT STOPS COMING UP. HE ADDED THAT IF LIQUOR BY
THE DRINK IS VOTED IN, IT CAN NOT BE TAKEN OUT IF THEY WANT IT TO. HE FURTHER
STATED THAT HE DID NOT THINK THERE WAS ANY CITY THAT HAS VOTED IN FAVOR OF
LIQUOR BY TFIE DRINK THAT HAS LESS BARS, LESS NIGHT CLUBS, AND LESS CRIME THAN
IT HAD BEFORE THE PASSAGE OF LIQUOR BY THE DRINK.
HE STATED THAT THE CITIZENS OF DUNN FIAVE BEEN LEAD TO BELIEVE THAT LIQUOR
BY THE DRINK WILL BRING INDUSTRY AND HE DOES NOT BELIEVE THIS IS TRUE. HE
ADDED THAT TWO EXPERTS TONIGHT HAVE STATED THAT IT IS NOT LIQUOR THAT
BRINGS INDUSTRY, IT IS HELPING INDUSTRY WITH TAXES, WATER AND SEWER, GIVING
THEM A YEAR OR TWO BEFORE THEY HAD TO PAY TAXES AND NOT ONE OF THE TWO
EXPERTS MENTIONED THAT WE NEED LIQUOR BY THE DRINK FOR INDUSTRY. HE
FURTHER STATED THAT THREE YEARS AGO, DANA COCHRAN WAS QUOTED AS SAYING
"IF DUNN DID NOT GET LIQUOR BY THE DRINK, INDUSTRY WOULD BE DOWN AND
TOURISM WOULD BE DOWN ", AND TODAY'S PAPER STATED THERE HAS BEEN A 9%
INCREASE IN TOURISM. HE ADDED THAT ALL TYPES OF MOTELS HAVE COME ALL
WITHOUT THE LIQUOR BY THE DRINK REFERENDUM.
MR. MILLER STATED THAT TONIGHT'S PAPER SAID "SUPPORT THE COMMUNITY, THAT
THERE IS A GREAT DEAL OF SUPPORT FOR THIS MOST IMPORTANT ECONOMIC ALCOHOL
CONTROL ISSUE ". HE ADDED THAT IF THE ECONOMY AND A DOLLAR IS ALL THAT IS ON
THEIR MINDS, WE COULD LEGALIZE PROSTITUTION, BECAUSE HE IS SURE IT WOULD
BRING A LOT OF MONEY.
HE FURTHER STATED THAT THERE IS NO CONTROL WITH LIQUOR BY THE DRINK. HE
ADDED THAT HE WAS NOT PROUD OF IT BUT WHEN HE DID DRINK, HE COULD DRINK ALL
HE COULD BUY AND THEN HAVE SOMEONE ELSE BUY HIM MORE. HE ADDED THAT HE
COULD GO TO ANY CLUB IN FAYETTEVILLE, DUNN, OR RALEIGH AND DRINK ALL HE
WANTED BECAUSE AS LONG AS HE COULD STAND UP THEY WOULD SELL IT TO HIM, SO
THERE IS NO CONTROL OVER IT.
FIE STATED THAT PROVERBS 14:34 SAYS GOD EXALTED A RIGHTEOUS NATION, AND HE
THINKS THAT MEANS A CITY TOO. HE ADDED THAT HE DID NOT BELIEVE THAT LIQUOR
BY THE DRINK WAS SOMETHING THAT GOD LOOKS AT AS RIGHTEOUS. HE FURTHER
STATED THAT LIQUOR IS A DRUG AND IS VERY ADDICTIVE AND DRUGS DO NOT BRING
INDUSTRY.
MR. CHARLIE CARPENTER STATED THAT HE HAS BEEN LIVING IN DUNN FOR 31 YEARS
AND HAS BEEN INVOLVED IN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT FOR MANY YEARS. HE ADDED
THAT LIQUOR BY TFIE DRINK HAS NEVER COME UP AS AN ISSUE AT ANY MEETING HE
HAS EVER ATTENDED, AND THOUGH IT WOULD PROBABLY BRING IN RESTAURANTS IT
WOULD NOT HELP AS FAR AS INDUSTRY IS CONCERNED.
HE STATED THAT AS WE PUSH LIQUOR BY THE DRINK WE ARE SETTING AN EXAMPLE FOR
�- OUR YOUNG PEOPLE, AND IT IS NOT A GOOD EXAMPLE. HE ADDED THAT ONE OUT OF
EVERY 12 PEOPLE THAT TAKE THAT FIRST DRINK BECOME AN ALCOHOLIC AND WE
WOULD BE ALLOWING THEM MORE OUTLETS TO GET THAT FIRST DRINK. HE FURTHER
STATED THAT HE PRAYS THAT COUNCIL WILL LOOK AT THIS A LITTLE HARDER, AND
SEARCH THEIR HEARTS BEFORE MAKING TFIIS DECISION.
MR. BILL MARSHBURN STATED THAT HE IS THE FORMER MAYOR OF DUNN AND HE
WOULD LIKE TO LET THE YOUNG PEOPLE KNOW THAT WHEN HE WAS MAYOR THIS CITY
GOT ONE OF THE BEST INDUSTRIES THIS CITY HAS EVER HAD AND LIQUOR BY THE DRINK
DID NOT BRING IT. HE ADDED THAT THE NAME OF THAT COMPANY IS MORGANITE.
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HE STATED THAT WHAT GRIEVES HIM ABOUT THIS WHOLE THING IS THAT HE HAD A
BROTHER -IN -LAW WHO DRANK HIMSELF TO DEATH, LEAVING HIM TO RAISE HIS
CHILDREN. HE ADDED THAT HE HAD A LOT OF FRIENDS HERE THAT WERE ON BOTH
SIDES OF THIS ISSUE BUT HE COULD NOT GO DOWN THE ROAD THAT THIS CITY COUNCIL
IS FACING. HE FURTHER STATED THAT COMPARED TO FIGURES THAT WERE PUT OUT BY
THE STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA, LIQUOR BY THE DRINK HAS RESULTED IN A 23%
INCREASE IN LIQUOR SALES THAT HAVE LEGALIZED LIQUOR BY THE DRINK. HE
FURTHER STATED THAT IT HAS ALSO RESULTED IN A 16 % -24% INCREASE IN ALCOHOL
RELATED ACCIDENTS COMPARED TO THE AREAS IN NORTH CAROLINA THAT DO NOT
HAVE LIQUOR BY THE DRINK AND HAS ALSO RESULTED IN A 250% INCREASE IN THE
NUMBER OF LIQUOR OUTLETS IN NC THAT HAVE LEGALIZED LIQUOR BY THE DRINK.
MR. MARSHBURN STATED THAT FOR EVERY ONE DOLLAR GAINED FROM ALCOHOL
TAXES, WE PAY $25 FOR ALCOHOL PROBLEMS DUE TO THE N.C. REVENUE STATISTICS
AND BEER IS ONE OF THE WORST PROBLEMS.
HE STATED THAT PAT POPE IS HIS GOOD FRIEND AND HE HATES TO BE AGAINST HIM;
HOWEVER, MORE BUILDINGS WERE BUILT IN THE TWO TERMS HE WAS MAYOR BECAUSE
HE HAD A GOOD CITY COUNCIL, AND A GOOD CITY MANAGER. HE ADDED THEY BUILT
CITY HALL, THE LIBRARY, THE HOSPITAL, A NEW WATER PLANT AND TWO NEW SEWAGE
TREATMENT PLANTS AND EXPANDED THE CITY LIMITS; AND THEY DID NOT HAVE
LIQUOR BY THE DRINK, THEY HAD HARD WORK AND A GOOD GROUP OF BUSINESSMEN
ON THE BOARD.
MR. MARSHBURN STATED THAT MR. DAL SNIPES AND MR. JOHNSON TILGHMAN ARE
BOTH GOOD BUSINESSMEN AND CAN SALE ANYTHING THEY WANT TO BUT THEY
CANNOT SALE HIM ON ALCOHOL BEING A GOOD THING FOR THIS COMMUNITY. HE
PASSED OUT TO THE COUNCIL A COPY OF THE 10 COMMANDMENTS AND THEN READ A
PRAYER TO THE AUDIENCE. HE ADDED THAT HE HAD 300 COPIES OF THE 10
COMMANDMENTS AND THE PRAYER FOR ANYONE THAT WANTED A COPY.
MAYOR OUDEH ASKED IF THERE WAS ANY DISCUSSION FROM THE CITY COUNCIL.
COUNCILMEMBER BASS STATED THAT HE WANTED IT TO GO ON RECORD THAT HE IS
AGAINST ALCOHOL, LIQUOR BY THE DRINK, BY THE BOTTLE AND ANYTHING ELSE. HE
ADDED THAT HE HAD FRIENDS ON BOTH SIDES OF THIS ISSUE AND HE HOPES THEY WILL
STILL BE HIS FRIENDS, BUT IF WE ARE DIFFERENT, THEN HE WANTS TO BE DIFFERENT. HE
FURTHER STATED THAT WHAT GAINL^TH THE MAN IF HE GAINS THE WORLD AND LOSES
HIS SOUL.
COUNCILMEMBER SUMNER STATED THAT IT IS A SHAME THAT CITY COUNCIL HAS TO
MAKE A DECISION ON THIS ISSUE; THIS IS NOT A BLACK OR WHITE ISSUE AND HE
PERSONALLY DOES NOT LIKE IT AND HE HATES HAVING TO MAKE THIS DECISION, BUT
HE DOES NOT WANT DUNN TO JUST DIE AWAY EITHER. HE ADDED THAT THERE IS
ALCOHOL IN DUNN AND HE WOULD LIKE TO SEE IT BETTER CONTROLLED; BUT IT WILL
NOT BE DONE AWAY WITH.
COUNCILMEMBER ROBINSON STATED THAT IT IS A SHAME TO BE PUT IN THE POSITION
THAT COUNCIL IS IN RIGHT NOW. HE ADDED THAT THERE ARE GOING TO BE SOME
PEOPLE FOR AND SOME PEOPLE AGAINST AND EVERYONE IS NOT GOING TO BE
SATISFIED; SO WHETHER HE VOTES FOR OR AGAINST THIS ISSUE HE WILL BE CRITICIZED.
HE ADDED THAT HE DID NOT DRINK BUT HE HOPED HE MAKES THE RIGHT DECISION FOR
THE CITIZENS OF DUNN AND HOPES AFTER TONIGHT HE WILL CONTINUE TO HAVE
FRIENDS IN DUNN BECAUSE HE DOES NOT HAVE ANYTHING AGAINST THOSE THAT DO
DRINK.
MOTION BY MAYOR PRO -TEM WOMBLE, SECONDED BY COUNCILMEMBER SUM. NER TO
ACCEPT THE PROPOSAL FROM MR. PAT POPE AND TO APPROVE A RESOLUTION
REQUESTING A MIXED BEVERAGE ELECTION TO ALLOW THE CITIZENS OF DUNN TO VOTE
ON THE LIQUOR BY THE DRINK REFERENDUM AND TO SCHEDULE IT AT THE EARLIEST
OPPORTUNITY. MOTION CARRIED 5 -1. (ATTACHMENT 42)
AYES: WOMBLE
SUMNER I
TART
ROBINSON
MCDOUGAL
NOES: BASS
MAYOR OUDEH CALLED FOR A RECESS AT 8:50 P.M. AND THE MEETING WAS
RECONVENED AT 8:57 P.M.
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SATELLITE ANNEXATION - ALBERT G. LEE PROPERTY
INTERIM CITY MANAGER AUTRY STATED THAT A PETITION WAS RECEIVED REQUESTING
ANNEXATION OF TWO (2) TRACTS OF LAND LOCATED ON LONG BRANCH ROAD. PARCEL
#1 CONSISTS OF 3.53 ACRES AND PARCEL 1/2 CONSISTS OF 6.6 ACRES WITH A TOTAL TAX
VALUE OF APPROXIMATELY $2.5 MILLION.
HE ADDED THAT SHOULD COUNCIL WISH TO PROCEED WITH THE ANNEXATION, A
RESOLUTION DIRECTING THE CLERK TO INVESTIGATE PETITION AND A RESOLUTION
FIXING DATE OF PUBLIC HEARING ARE INCLUDED IN THE AGENDA PACKETS.
MAYOR PRO -TEM WOMBLE ASKED IF ANYONE THAT REQUESTED THIS ANNEXATION WAS
PRESENT TO DISCUSS THIS ISSUE WITH COUNCIL BECAUSE MORE INFORMATION WAS
NEEDED.
INTERIM CITY MANAGER AUTRY RESPONDED NO
MOTION BY COUNCILMEMBER MCDOUGAL, SECONDED BY COUNCILMEMBER BASS TO
TABLE THE SATELLITE ANNEXATION UNTIL A LATER DATE WHEN SOMEONE COULD BE
PRESENT TO PROVIDE ADDITIONAL INFORMATION FOR COUNCIL. MOTION
UNANIMOUSLY APPROVED.
SINGLE FAMILY REHAB PROJECT
INTERIM CITY MANAGER AUTRY STATED THAT ATTACHED IS A RESOLUTION, POLICIES
AND FORMS FOR THE FY2000 NC HOUSING FINANCE AGENCY PROGRAM. HE ADDED MS.
JESSE MIARS, VICE PRESIDENT OF HOLLAND CONSULTING PLANNERS WILL DISCUSS THE
DOCUMENTS THAT ARE PROVIDED.
MS. MIARS STATED THAT DUNN IS A RECIPIENT OF AN AWARD OF $300,000.00 FROM THE
NC HOUSING FINANCE AGENCY TO REHABILITATE APPROXIMATELY TWELVE UNITS
WITHIN THE CITY LIMITS OF DUNN. SHE ADDED THAT FINANCE DIRECTOR, RENEE'
DAUGHTRY WILL BE THE GRANT FINANCE OFFICER FOR THIS PROGRAM AND CENTURA
BANK WILL BE THE DEPOSITORY FOR THE FUNDS RECEIVED FROM THE HOUSING
FINANCE AGENCY. SHE REVIEWED THE POLICIES INCLUDED IN THE RESOLUTION AND
ASKED IF THERE WERE ANY QUESTIONS FROM COUNCIL.
MAYOR OUDEH ASKED IF THERE WERE A COMMITTEE THAT WOULD ACCURATELY
CHECK THE PEOPLE THAT APPLY FOR THIS PROGRAM.
MS. MIARS RESPONDED THAT THEY WILL ADVERTISE IN THE LOCAL NEWSPAPER ASKING
PEOPLE TO CONTACT THE CITY TO GIVE THEIR NAME AND ADDRESSES, THEN THEY WILL
SEND OUT APPLICATIONS TO THOSE INDIVIDUAL HOUSEHOLDS. SHE ADDED THAT THE
FIRM WILL GO OUT AND LOOK AT THE HOUSE AND DO A NEEDS ASSESSMENT OF THE
HOUSES AFTER DETERMINING IF THEY MEET THE PRELIMINARY ELIGIBILITY
REQUIREMENTS WHICH IS INCOME AND SPECIAL NEEDS GOALS. SHE FURTHER STATED
THAT ONCE THAT IS DONE, THEY WILL COME BACK BEFORE COUNCIL AND RECOMMEND
AN AWARD OF THOSE LOANS BASED ON THAT RANKING.
COUNCILMEMBER BASS ASKED IF THE PEOPLE SELECTED HAVE TO OWN THEIR HOME.
MS. MIARS RESPONDED THAT THEY ARE OWNER OCCUPIED AND THEIR INCOME MUST BE
80% OR BELOW THE MEDIAN INCOME FOR HARNETT COUNTY AND THEY MUST ALSO
MEET ONE OF THE FOLLOWING SPECIAL NEEDS POPULATION GOALS: HAVE AN ELDERLY
PERSON LIVING IN THE HOUSEHOLD, A DISABLED PERSON OR A LARGE FAMILY WHICH
CONSISTS OF FIVE OR MORE RESIDENTS WHICH FOUR OR MORE ARE RELATED. SHE
ADDED THAT AT THAT POINT IS WHEN THEY WILL GO OUT AND LOOK AT THE HOUSE TO
DETERMINE IF IT WOULD BE COST EFFECTIVE TO REHABILITATE UNDER THIS PROGRAM.
COUNCILMEMBER MCDOUGAL ASKED IF THERE WERE ACTUAL APPLICATIONS ALREADY
MADE UP.
i MS. MIARS RESPONDED YES.
MAYOR PRO -TEM WOMBLE ASKED IF INCOME WOULD BE VERIFIED INDEPENDENTLY
MS. MIARS RESPONDED THAT GENERALLY THEY ASK THE APPLICANTS TO SUBMIT A TAX
RETURN TO VERIFY INCOME AND ALSO A THIRD PARTY VERIFICATION CAN BE DONE TO
AN EMPLOYER IF THEY DO NOT FILE TAXES OR FOR SOME OTHER REASON DO NOT HAVE
A TAX RETURN.
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MOTION BY COUNCILMEMBER SUMNER, SECONDED BY COUNCILMEMBER MCDOUGAL TO
APPROVE THE RESOLUTION APPROVING ADMINISTRATIVE GUIDELINES AND POLICIES
FOR THE FY2000 N.C. HOUSING FINANCE AGENCY PROGRAM. MOTION UNANIMOUSLY
APPROVED. (ATTACHMENT #3)
INFORMATION
COUNCILMEMBER MCDOUGAL STATED THAT THE DRUG FREE SUMMER JAM WILL BE
HELD AUGUST 25, 2001 ASKED AND COUNCIL IF THEY WOULD CARRY THE LIABILITY THIS
YEAR AS THEY HAVE DONE IN THE PAST.
MAYOR OUDEH ASKED HOW MUCH WAS THE LIABILITY.
CITY ATTORNEY GODWIN STATED THAT THE CITY USUALLY BUYS A RIDER TO THE
EXISTING POLICY. HE ADDED HE 1S NOT SURE OF THE COSTS BUT HE WOULD CHECK ON
IT AND IT HAS BEEN DONE IN THE PAST YEARS.
THE CONSENSUS OF COUNCIL WAS TO ADD THIS ITEM TO THE AUGUST AGENDA UNDER
CONSENT ITEMS.
MAYOR OUDEI-I STATED THAT IT HAS BEEN A DIFFICULT NIGHT FOR EVERYBODY. HE
ADDED THAT HE WAS HAPPY TO SEE SO MANY PEOPLE SHOW UP AT THE MEETING
BECAUSE IT SHOWS THAT THE CITY IS INTERESTED IN THE FUTURE AND THE CITY
COUNCIL HAS DONE VERY WELL AND THANKED THEM FOR THEIR COOPERATION.
MAYOR PRO -TEM WOMBLE THANKED THE MAYOR FOR A JOB WELL DONE.
INTERIM CITY MANAGER AUTRY STATED THAT THE MAJORITY OF THE COUNCIL HAS
ALREADY LOOKED OVER THE CITY MANAGER APPLICATIONS AND A LIST HAS BEEN
COMPILED. HE ADDED THAT KURT JENNE IS WILLING TO COME BACK ON TUESDAY, JULY
17, 2001 TO MEET WITH COUNCIL TO DISCUSS THE INDIVIDUALS AND SET PROCEDURES
TO MOVE ON WITH THE HIRING PROCESS.
MOTION BY MAYOR PRO -TEM WOMBLE, SECONDED BY COUNCILMEMBER BASS TO HOLD
A SPECIAL CALL MEETING ON TUESDAY, JULY 17, 2001 AT 7:00 P.M. TO MEET WITH KURT
JENNE FROM THE INSTITUTE OF GOVERNMENT CONCERNING DISCUSSION OF THE
APPLICATIONS FOR THE CITY MANAGER POSITION AND TO SET SOME PROCEDURES TO
ALLOW COUNCIL TO MOVE ON WITH THE HIRING PROCESS. MOTION UNANIMOUSLY °
APPROVED.
INTERIM CITY MANAGER AUTRY STATED THAT HE WOULD ALSO LIKE TO INTRODUCE
THE NEW CHIEF BUILDING INSPECTOR TO COUNCIL. HIS NAME IS MICHAEL SHANE
HUDSON AND HE BEGAN HIS DUTIES JULY 2, 2001.
COUNCILMEMBER ROBINSON ASKED HOW WERE THE VACANCIES BEING FILLED.
INTERIM CITY MANAGER AUTRY RESPONDED THAT THE VACANCIES WERE ADVERTISED
LOCALLY AND IN THE FAYETTEVILLE OBSERVER. HE ADDED THAT A NUMBER OF
APPLICANTS HAD NONE OR VERY LITTLE BUILDING INSPECTION EXPERIENCE. HE
FURTHER STATED THAT SOME OTHER POSITIONS IN FINANCE HAVE BEEN ADVERTISED
AND WE HAVE RECEIVED SEVERAL APPLICATIONS FOR THOSE POSITIONS AND THEY ARE
CURRENTLY IN THE REVIEW PROCESS.
COUNCILMEMBER BASS STATED THAT THEY HAVE WORKED ON THE RULES AND
GUIDELINES FOR THE OLD HARNETT PRIMARY SCHOOL.
COUNCILMEMBER MCDOUGAL STATED THAT INTERIM CITY MANAGER AUTRY WILL BE
PUTTING TOGETHER A POLICY AND PROCEDURES MANUAL AND HAVE IT AVAILABLE
FOR COUNCIL AT THE AUGUST MEETING.
WITH NO FURTHER DISCUSSION, THE FOLLOWING BURIAL RIGHTS WERE EXECUTED:
I. MR. JIMMY LEAKE & HIS HEIRS, LOT 29, BLOCK 15, SPACE(S) 2, RESTHAVEN
CEMETERY.
2. MS. HATTIE B. SMITH & HER HEIRS, LOT 4, BLOCK 13, SPACE(S) 1 -8, RESTHAVEN
CEMETERY.
3. MS. BOBBI A. ROBERTS & HER HEIRS, LOT 28, BLOCK V, SPACE(S) 5 -8, GREENWOOD
CEMETERY.
4. MS. BETTY L. SMITH & HER HEIRS, LOT 13, BLOCK 13, SPACE(S) 7 -8, RESTHAVEN
CEMETERY.
5. MR. RAYMONT WHITE & HIS HEIRS, LOT 19, BLOCK 13, SPACE(S) 3, RESTHAVEN
CEMTERY.
6. MS. MARY LEACH & HER HEIRS, LOT 49, BLOCK 11, SPACE(S) 5, RESTHAVEN
CEMETERY.
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7. DAFFORD FUNERAL HOME & THEIR HEIRS, LOT 29, BLOCK 15, SPACE(S) 1,
RESTHAVEN CEMETERY.
8. MS. JANEY MCKOY SMITH & HEIR HEIRS, LOT 49, BLOCKF 11, SPACE(S) 2,
RESTHAVEN CEMETERY.
9. MR, KENNETH EUGENE RUNGE & HIS HEIRS, CIRCLE, BLOCK D, SPACE(S) 5,
MEMORIAL CEMETERY.
10. MS. CONNIE SMITH & HER HEIRS, LOT 49, BLOCK 13, SPACE(S) 5, RESTHAVEN
CEMETERY.
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