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LEE COUNTY <br /> Committed Today for a Better Tomorrow <br /> MEMORANDUM <br /> TO: COMMISSIONERS <br /> DATE: DECEMBER 3, 2012 <br /> RE: SELECTION OF CHAIRMAN AND VICE-CHAIRMAN <br /> North Carolina General Statute §153A-39 provides in part as follows: <br /> "At the first meeting in December of each year, the Board of Commissioners <br /> shall choose one of its members as Chairman for the ensuring year....The <br /> Board shall also at that time choose a Vice-Chairman to sit in the absence or <br /> disability of the Chairman." <br /> The regular methods of voting according to Robert's Rules of Order are as follows: <br /> (1) By voice <br /> (2) By rising <br /> (3) By show of hands, or <br /> (4) By ballot <br /> The Open Meetings Law prohibits voting by secret ballot by a public body. It does permit use <br /> of a written ballot under the following conditions: <br /> (a) Each member of the Board so voting shall sign his/her ballot. <br /> (b) The minutes of the Board shall show the vote of each member. <br /> (c) The ballot shall be available for public inspection in the Office of the Clerk to the <br /> Board immediately following the meeting at which the vote took place and until the <br /> Minutes of that meeting are approved, at which time the ballots may be destroyed. <br /> The custom in the past has been to use written ballots. <br />