Minutes - Dec. 16, 2013 Reg. Meeting

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B K 00026 PG County Manager's Report — December 16, 2013 Onnoina Projects Clyde Rhyne Road - Industrial Park Project — No update at this time. East/West Lee Middle School Heating Projects — The Board of Education was to meet on Tuesday, December 10th to discuss the Performance Contractor option for this project. After initial discussions with ABM, the contractor we have used in the past to review these types of projects, they are concerned that the Schools have undertaken several of the energy cost savings possibilities and by doing so eliminated options for savings that could have funded these two projects. Without those other energy saving options the replacement of the 2 electric heating units probably won't save enough money to justify the projects. However, ABM wants the opportunity to review both buildings and begin discussions to see if there is any way to gain the savings to justify a contract. If the Board is in agreement we will work with them over the next 30 days to see if this is something worthwhile. Other Items Workshop /Planning Retreat Meetings — Chairman Parks and I have discussed the traditional new year Workshop /Planning Retreat meetings. Typically the County Commissioners have held one Budget Workshop Kickoff meeting in January or February of each year. This coming year, the Chairman and I have discussed many issues that the Board needs to address such as the Strategic Plan, Capital Improvement Plan, Joint Community Development Facility, and Budget Goals for the FY 2014 -15 budget process. In addition, we may need to have joint meetings with the Board of Education, Community College, City of Sanford, Town of Broadway and internal Boards /Commissions to discuss important issues we are all facing. I have suggested to Chairman Parks that we may need more than one meeting to go over these and any other issues the Board would like to address. At our meeting I would like to discuss setting up meetings in January, February, and March to address all of this issues. NCACC/ICMA Intern /Fellows Program — After a 6 month delay in moving this program forward, the NCACC and ICMA agreed to allow the County to move forward with hiring of an Intern /Fellow here in Lee County. We are the pilot local government for this program in North Carolina. After a review process that included the NCACC and a local interview process, we have hired Michael James as our Intern /Fellow. Michael will start work with the County either on January 6th or 13tH