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Meeting Name: Board of Commissioners Agenda status: Final
Meeting date/time: 8/22/2023 6:00 PM Minutes status: Final  
Meeting location: Courthouse
Regular Meeting 6:00 P.M.
Published agenda: Agenda Agenda Published minutes: Minutes Minutes  
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23-394 1A.Public HearingCONTINUED FROM 8/22/2023 - Public Hearing - RE: Commissioner Keigher - EDC - To Approve a Gaston County Level One Incentive Grant Pursuant to N.C. Gen.Stat. 158-7.1 and To Authorize Gaston County to Enter into an Economic Development Agreement (EDA) with Project Box 1. Receive Citizen Comment 2. Close Public Hearing 3. Accept Motion to Approve Resolution   Action details Video Video
23-410 11.MinutesTo Approve the Minutes of: - Rescheduled Meeting of July 27, 2023approved  Action details Not available
23-368 1A.Resolution (Proclamation/Commendation)Commissioner Brown - BOC - Certificate of Commendation - To Commend GEMS Paramedics Captain Leannda Lowrance, Christina Cruse and Andrew Adams for their Heroic Actions on May 23, 2023, Rendered in the Line of Duty, Which Saved the Life of Mrs. Darlene Lowrance, a Court Services Employee at the Gaston County CourthouseapprovedPass Action details Not available
23-400 1B.Resolution (Consent)Commissioner Worley - Budget & Strategy (Building & Development Services - Housing Rehab) - To Accept and Appropriate State Grant Funds from the NC Housing Finance Agency for Home Repairs ($132,000)approvedPass Action details Not available
23-401 1C.Resolution (Consent)Commissioner Worley - Budget & Strategy (Building & Development Services - Housing Rehab) - To Approve and Adopt the Assistance Policy and the Procurement Policy Specific to the 2023 Urgent Repair ProgramapprovedPass Action details Not available
23-402 1D.Resolution (Consent)Commissioner Brown - Budget & Strategy - To Appropriate Fund Balance for FY24 New and Replacement Vehicles ($63,000 General Fund and $252,000 CIF, up to $88,500 to be Reimbursed with Debt) and IT SAN Replacement ($944,093 CIF to be Reimbursed with Debt) and Approve the Reimbursement DeclarationapprovedPass Action details Not available
23-384 1E.Resolution (Consent)Commissioner Worley - Building & Development Services - To Appropriate $86,550 from Building Inspection Reserves for Software Rental: TylerapprovedPass Action details Not available
23-382 1F.Resolution (Consent)Commissioner Keigher - Cooperative Extension - To Accept and Appropriate Additional State Partnership for Children Grant Funds for the Cooperative Extension’s Triple P Parenting Education Program ($95,624)approvedPass Action details Not available
23-392 1H.Resolution (Consent)Commissioners Keigher & Johnson - County Manager - To Support the City of Gastonia Application to U.S. Department of Transportation’s 2023 Reconnecting Communities and Neighborhoods (RCN) Grant ProgramapprovedPass Action details Not available
23-398 1I.Resolution (Consent)Commissioner Hovis - County Manager - To Accept Departmental Budget Change Requests as InformationapprovedPass Action details Not available
23-396 1J.Resolution (Consent)Commissioner Brown - DHHS - Community Support Services (Hope United Survivor Network) - To Accept and Appropriate Threads of Hope Sponsorships Totaling $6,000approvedPass Action details Not available
23-393 1K.Resolution (Consent)Commissioner Brown - DHHS - Community Support Services (Hope United Survivor Network) - Transfer Funds from the General Fund, FVSPA ARP Supplemental Account, to Reimburse the General Government Capital Fund for the Purchase of the Outreach Vehicle for The Cathy Mabry Cloninger Center ($4,803)approvedPass Action details Not available
23-372 1L.Resolution (Consent)Commissioner Brown - DHHS - Health Division - To Accept and Appropriate Federal Grant Funds Received from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for the Public Health Environmental Health Healthy Wells Project and Correct FY24 Budgeted Grant Project Expenditures ($7,000 in Grant Funds, $200 in County Funds)approvedPass Action details Not available
23-380 1M.Resolution (Consent)Commissioner Brown - DHHS - Health Division - To Transfer Epidemiology and Laboratory Capacity for Prevention and Control of Emerging Infectious Diseases (ELC) Enhancing Detection Federal Grant Budget for a Mobile Clinic from the General Fund to the General Government Capital Fund Totaling $203,622approvedPass Action details Not available
23-386 1N.Resolution (Consent)Commissioner Brown - DHHS - Health Division - To Accept and Appropriate State Grant Funds Received from the Women’s and Children’s Health Section/Nutrition Services Branch for the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Public Health Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) (100% Grant Funds - $17,348)approvedPass Action details Not available
23-404 1O.Resolution (Consent)Commissioner Brown - DHHS - Social Services Division - To Amend the Bid Award Amount Authorized for Two Hawk Workforce Services (Res# 2023-242, Adopted 7/27/2023) for Services to be Provided for the Adult and Dislocated Workers Program through the Workforce Innovations and Opportunities Act (WIOA) (Revised Bid Award Amount $533,970)approvedPass Action details Not available
23-391 1P.Resolution (Consent)Commissioner Hovis - Emergency Management/Fire Services - To Approve the Amended By-Laws of the Gaston County Fire Commission and the Membership Structure to Convert the Municipal Position to a Citizen At Large PositionapprovedPass Action details Not available
23-395 1Q.Resolution (Consent)Commissioner Hovis - Finance - To Repeal and Remove Section 17 (Travel Policy: Sec 17.1-17.11) of the Gaston County Personnel Policy Manual and Adopt an Amended Employee Travel Policy as a Standalone Financial PolicyapprovedPass Action details Not available
23-399 1R.Resolution (Consent)Commissioner Worley - Finance - To Accept as Information the Attached Property Tax Refunds Less than $100. These Tax Refunds Should Be Recorded in the Board’s Minutes. (Total NCVTS Refunds - $5,227.40)approvedPass Action details Not available
23-408 1S.Resolution (Consent)Commissioner Worley - Finance - To Appropriate Additional Revenue for the Fines and Forfeitures Fund ($6,000) and the Insurance Service Fund ($500,000) for FY2023approvedPass Action details Not available
23-407 1T.Resolution (Consent)Commissioner Hovis - Finance (County Manager’s Office) - To Approve the Carry Forward Request from County Manager’s Office ($105,547)approvedPass Action details Not available
23-377 1U.Resolution (Consent)Commissioner Hovis - Police Department (Animal Care and Enforcement) - To Accept and Appropriate Donations Received from The Thrasher Group, Bissell Pet Foundation, and a Gaston County Resident in the Amount of $2,210approvedPass Action details Not available
23-376 1V.Resolution (Consent)Commissioner Brown - Police Department - To Approve Surplus and Donation of 38 DamacusGear Prison Riot Suits to Gaston College Basic Law Enforcement Training (BLET) to be used in TrainingapprovedPass Action details Not available
23-387 1W.Resolution (Consent)Commissioner Brown - Police Department - To Accept Donation from Lake Wylie Marine Commission for the Purpose of Purchasing New Sonar Unit for the Marine Enforcement Unit in the Amount of $2,050approvedPass Action details Not available
23-369 1X.Resolution (Consent)Commissioner Cloninger - Public Works - To Approve a Lease Agreement for Property Owned by Gaston County Located at 1305 Fire Ranger Way, Dallas, NC (No Additional County Funds)approvedPass Action details Not available
23-390 1Y.Resolution (Consent)Commissioner Fraley - Tax Collections - Pursuant to G.S. 105-381, the Tax Collector Requests that the Listed Tax Refunds be Made. (Overpayments - $15,530.37; VTS Refunds - $8,298.99; Grand Total - $23,829.36)approvedPass Action details Not available
23-383 1G.Resolution (Consent)Commissioner Keigher - Cooperative Extension - To Accept and Appropriate Additional Juvenile Crime Prevention Council (JCPC) Grant Funds for Cooperative Extension’s Triple P Parenting Education Program ($37,646)   Action details Not available
23-233 1A.AppointmentsAppointment List - Current Expiring Terms/Vacant Positionsapproved  Action details Not available