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August 5, 2024 Rockingham County Board Of Commissioners Meeting


AGENDA

1. MEETING CALLED TO ORDER BY CHAIRMAN HALL

2. INVOCATION

3. PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE

4. PRESENTATION - Lance Metzler, County Manager
Resolution honoring the life and service of William Leonard "W.L." Pryor, Jr. Former County Commissioner and distinguished community leader who passed away on July 7, 2024.

5. RECOGNITION - Lance Metzler, County Manager
Resolution commending the First Responders for their heroic actions on May 21, 2024.

6. APPROVAL OF AUGUST 5, 2024 AGENDA

7. CONSENT AGENDA (Consent items as follows will be adopted with a single motion, second and vote, unless a request for removal from the Consent Agenda is heard from a Commissioner)

A) Justin Thacker, Deputy Finance Director
1. Public Health received a grant from Community Care of NC in the amount of $13,365 to be used for the implementation of the new clinical software system Athena Health. Grant funds were received in fiscal year 2024 on June 25, 2024. Appropriate $13,365 for the grant dollars received in FY 24 for Public Health to use in the implementation of the Athena Health software system.

2. Increase Youth Services budget $120 for program fee revenue earned and unspent in FY 24. This revenue will be used to support the Youth Services program(s) in FY25.

3. Amend the FY 24-25 budget $11,137 for the new software subscription Frontline Public Safety Solutions that meets the criteria of a recently implemented governmental accounting standard requiring certain software subscriptions to be capitalized as a Right to Use intangible asset and the corresponding liability to be reported.

4. Appropriate $330,000 of fund balance to Rockingham County Schools for onetime funding for 2 Assistant Principals and 2 Guidance Counselors for 2024-2025 school year approved on the July 15,2024 meeting.

B) Captain Jennifer Brown and Captain Windell Brown
Request to use Jail Canteen Funds to purchase (I) CardioCare ECG/EKG unit for the Detention Facility to be used by medical staff as needed for inmates/subjects experiencing medical issues. This purchase includes power cable. patient cable, electrodes, chart paper, operation manual and ECG/EKG cart (shipping charge also). This use of the Jail Canteen Funds would be for the health and welfare of the current inmate population as well as future inmates. Unit cost = $1463; cart cost = $460: shipping =$100.

C) Todd Hurst, Tax Administrator
1. Consider Order directing the Tax Collector to collect taxes charged in the Tax Records and Receipts 2023-2024.

2. Annual settlement of Tax Collector pursuant to NCGS 105-373 for Fiscal Year 2023-2024.

3. Request the approval of all refunds for July 3, 2024 to July 16.2024.

D) Rodney Stewart, RCEMS Operations Supervisor
Accounting reports of billing and collections activity for June 2024 and approval of accounts uncollected that are to be written off. Lists of accounts are maintained and available for inspection in the EMS office.

E) Susan O. Washburn, Clerk to the Board
Approval - Regular meeting minutes

F) Hiram Marziano, Community Development Director
Appointment of Mr. Dwayne Rakestraw of Madison as an alternate member of the Rockingham County Planning Board & Board of Adjustments. His term expiration would be August 4,2027.

G) Lance Metzler, County Manager
1. Consideration of the Policy for Local Option Sales Tax Restricted for School Capital Outlay or dedicated to Community College Workforce Initiatives.

2. Consider adoption of a Resolution to concur with a request by the North Carolina Department of Transportation. Division of Highways for addition of Allegra Trace (0.22 miles) and Tyburn Trace (0.43 miles). in the Wellington AKS Bevill Lakes Farm II Subdivision in Simpsonville Township.

H) Dr. John Stover, III, Superintendent
Rockingham County Schools Board of Education is requesting $185.000 from the previously approved funding for the Holmes Middle School vestibule project be reallocated to the Dalton McMichael High School (DMHS) track project. The School System is not requesting additional funding. but a transfer of the existing remaining funds that were previously approved for Holmes Middle School's vestibule. This project was completed under budget by saving on architect fees and working with a local vendor for the design and installation. The original amount approved for the vestibule was $300,000 and $500.000 was originally approved for the track. The surveyors have discovered that the original track at DMHS was not symmetrical nor did it meet regulation requirements so an additional three feet must be added to the width. The track expenses will be distributed as follows:

$40,000 for initial soil samples. survey, design and core samples.

$586,000 base bid

$58,695 urethane track upgrade (5-year warranty)

I) Will Strader, County Extension Director
Request to accept Golden Leaf Grant for the Construction of the Rockingham County Livestock Marketing & Education Complex in the amount of $700,000 awarded on February 1,2024 and revised on June 6, 2024. No County funds required.

J) Lisa S. Ellington, Rockingham Recovers
Request approval of the attachments regarding Starting Point Rural Harm Reduction Collective: Request for Budget Revision, Subrecipient Agreement for the Implementation of Opioid Abatement Strategies (entered into Power OMS) and the Amended Resolution to Direct the Expenditures of Opioid Settlement Funds. Starting Point Rural Harm Reduction Collective was approved for $27,000 in opioid settlement funding at the May 22, 2024 gathering of the Board of County Commissioners. Their work focuses on the implementation of various harm reduction strategies.

8. PUBLIC COMMENT

9. PRESENTATION: Dr. John Stover, III, Superintendent
Request to apply for the Public School Repair and Renovation Fund. The application requires the approval and signatures of the school district as well as the County Commissioners. Eligible expenditures include: planning/design fees, expansion of classroom facilities and repair and renovation of existing building components and classroom facilities. These funds are not eligible for new school construction.

The funds will be used for the existing Western Rockingham Middle School - Building #4 planning/design and renovation of classrooms. The renovation will also include the addition of necessary student bathrooms. ESSER funds were used to replace the HVAC, lighting and water fountains. However, the request to apply for these lottery funds will help with the remaining upgrades needed to make the building suitable for students. Currently, sixth grade classrooms are located in a separate location away from the main building. This renovation will allow the youngest students to be located within the natural secured campus perimeter creating a safer environment.

The amount of funds available to Rockingham County Schools as of June 2024 In $1,278,253.83.

10. NEW BUSINESS

11. COMMISSIONER COMMENTS

12. ADJOURN


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