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B K 00025 PG: 0411 <br />LEE COUNTY <br />Committed Today for a Better Tomorrow <br />BUDGET KICKOFF WORK SESSION <br />OF THE <br />LEE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />DENNIS A. WICKER CIVIC CENTER <br />1801 NASH STREET <br />SANFORD, NORTH CAROLINA 27330 <br />MARCH 15, 2013 <br />A budget kickoff work session of the Lee County Board of Commissioners for the <br />County of Lee, State of North Carolina, convened at 8:30 a.m. in the upstairs Executive <br />Conference Room at the Dennis A. Wicker Civic Center, 1801 Nash Street, Sanford, <br />North Carolina on said date. Commissioners present were Amy M. Dalrymple, Dr. Ricky <br />D. Frazier, Dr. Andre Knecht, Charles T. Parks, Robert T. Reives, Kirk D. Smith, and <br />James K. Womack. Staff in attendance included County Manager John Crumpton, <br />Assistant County Manager /Finance Director Lisa Minter, Law Clerk Kerry Schmid, and <br />Clerk to the Board Gaynell Lee. <br />Chairman Parks called the budget work session to order. <br />Commissioner Frazier delivered the invocation. <br />Assistant County Manager /Finance Director Lisa Minter presented the Monthly <br />Financial Report for month ending February 2013. <br />Ms. Minter presented a budget summary for FY 2012 -13 that showed the <br />projected revenues and expenditures for the year that were recently submitted by <br />departments. Department budgets were submitted March 4 th and the County Manager <br />will begin meeting with department heads within the next couple of weeks to review their <br />requests and projections for the upcoming year. <br />County Manager John Crumpton presented a report that had been completed by <br />Davenport & Company, LLC that outlined the County's current outstanding debt. <br />At this time, the Board took a 10- minute break. Upon returning from break, with <br />all members present, the work session resumed. <br />County Manager John Crumpton discussed the sales tax distribution method. A <br />report was provided reflecting the potential impact of a change in the sales tax <br />distribution method in Lee County. Currently sales taxes are distributed within the <br />County on a per capital basis. The County can select between the ad valorem method <br />