- Adult Care Home Community
Advisory Committee
Purpose: To maintain the
spirit of the Patients’ Bill of Rights; to improve the
quality of care for residents of adult care homes; to monitor
the care provided by the homes and resolve grievances of
the residents and their families.
Statutory authority: G.S. 131E-128
Note: In accordance with legislation,
individuals are not permitted to serve if:
- they have a financial interest in a home served by the committee.
- they are employed in a home served by the committee.
- they have an immediate family
member in one of the homes. (Immediate family is defined
as mother, father, sister, brother, child, grandmother, or
grandfather, as well as in-laws.)
- Animal Control Grievance Committee
Purpose: To
hear appeals from dog owners who have animals deemed to be
dangerous according to G.S. 67-4.1.
- Board of Adjustment
Purpose: To
hear zoning appeals; to review special use permits; and to
grant variances to the zoning ordinance. Appointments are
made in accordance with G.S. 153A-345.
- Board of Equalization & Review
Purpose: To
hear appeals in reference to the listings or assessments
of real and personal property and motor vehicles.
Statutory authorization: G.S. 105-322.
- Board of Health
Purpose: To
assist in the writing of policies and regulations regarding
public health issues. Also serves as an adjudicatory body.
Statutory authorization: G.S. 130A-35.
- Carolinas Partnership
Purpose: To
aid in the economic development and marketing of the Charlotte
region (contiguous counties to Charlotte).
- Centralina Aging Advisory
Committee (Region F*)
Purpose: To
advise the area aging staff and the council of government’s
board on the development and administration of the Region
F Area Plan on Aging.
- Centralina Development Corporation
(CDC)
Purpose: To
help entrepreneurs, within the nine Centralina counties,
to finance land, construction, renovation, or equipment for
new or existing small businesses.
- Centralina Economic Development Commission
Purpose: To build collaborative partnerships to promote the growth of high technology industry clusters and to expand economic activity.
- Centralina Workforce Development
Board
Purpose: To
work with employers, job seekers, training providers, government
agencies, educational institutions and civic groups to enhance
the quality of employment.
- Community Advisory Program
for Disabled Adults (CAP-DA)
Purpose: To
help guide and direct the CAP-DA program, to provide needed
assistance and to help educate the community about CAP-DA.
- Criminal Justice Partnership
Program Committee (CJPP)
Purpose: To
participate in a planning process to develop a community-based
corrections plan; to review grant proposals and make recommendations
to the board of commissioners.
Statutory authorization: G.S. 143B-273.11
- Crossroads Behavioral Healthcare
Area Board (Surry-Yadkin-Iredell Area Mental Health,
Developmental Disabilities and Substance Abuse Authority)
Purpose: To
adopt a system of by-laws, policies, and rules which shall
govern its own operations and those of the program. The area
board shall assure the provision of appropriate and adequate
required services to consumers; oversee the system of financial
management and accountability; monitor and evaluate the quality
of care and provide for appropriate corrective action
of identified problems; establish and maintain a relationship
with the area director, provide for the safety, rights and
treatment of consumers and staff; and establish all policies
on behalf of the area authority.
- Farmland Preservation
Purpose: To
review and approve applications for qualified farmland and
voluntary agricultural districts and make recommendations
concerning the establishment and modification of agricultural
districts; to hold public hearings; to advise the board of
commissioners on projects, programs, or issues affecting
the agricultural economy.
Note: A listing of possible candidates
for this board will be compiled by the Soil and Water Conservation
District, the Cooperative Extension Service, and the U.S.
Department of Agricultural Farm Service Agency. (Five of
the seven members of this board must be actively engaged
in farming.)
- Fire Tax District Board
Purpose: To
oversee and determine funding appropriations to the volunteer
fire
departments included in the county-wide fire district, i.e.,
Central, Cool Springs, Ebenezer, Harmony, Lake Norman, Monticello,
South Iredell, Trinity, Troutman, Union Grove, Wayside, West
Iredell, County Line, Lone Hickory, Sheffield-Callahan, and
Wilkes- Iredell.
- Hazardous Waste & Low
Level Radioactive Waste Management Board
Purpose: To
assist in making recommendations to the board of commissioners
on all matters concerning the regulation of hazardous and
low-level radioactive waste.
- Historical Properties Commission
Purpose: To assist in
the conservation of historic properties; to promote the use
and conservation of historic properties for the education,
pleasure and enrichment of the residents of Iredell County,
the Town of Troutman, the county, and the state as
a whole.
- Home & Community Care
Block Grant Committee
Purpose: To
make recommendations to the board of commissioners on the
services/programs and funding needed for the county’s
older population and to create long-range planning.
- Industrial Facilities & Pollution
Control Financing Authority (IRB)
Purpose: To
assist in the creation of jobs that will raise the average
wage level in the community and reduce unemployment by assisting
companies in obtaining industrial revenue bonds.
Statutory authority: G.S. 159C-4.
- Information & Referral
Service Advisory Council (I & R)
Purpose: To
aid in monitoring and evaluating the effectiveness of the
Information and Referral Program.
- Jury Commission
Purpose: To
eliminate persons on the "raw jury list" who are
known to be disqualified and unable to serve by grounds stated
in the statutes (these grounds being non-citizenship, non-residence, juror
has already served during the past two years, under 18 years
of age, unable to speak or understand English, felons unless
citizenship has been restored, physical/mental incompetence,
or insanity).
Statutory authority: G.S. 9-1
- Juvenile Crime Prevention
Council
Purpose: To
review the needs of the juvenile population in the county
who are at risk of delinquency or who have been adjudicated
undisciplined or delinquent; to ensure that appropriate intermediate
dispositional options are available; to make recommendations
to the board of commissioners on the level of state funding
to be awarded to local delinquency prevention programs.
Statutory authority: G.S. 147-33.61
- Lake Norman Marine Commission
Purpose: To
review variance requests and site plans; to assist in the
maintenance of lighted and unlighted navigational aids; to
assist in providing water safety programs.
- Local Emergency Planning Committee (LEPC)
Purpose: The duties and activities of the ICLEPC are those set forth by the Iredell County Board of Commissioners, not limited to, but in accordance with Title III of the Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act of 1986 (SARA).
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Establish procedures for reviewing and processing requests from the public for information under Section 324 of the act.
- Develop a chemical hazard/risk analysis.
- Develop emergency response procedures for off-site emergency response personnel.
- Identify private/public sector resources available to deal with hazardous materials emergencies.
- Review emergency plans submitted by the subcommittees and make recommendations on revisions of the plans that may be necessary to ensure coordination of such plan with emergency response plans of other emergency planning agencies.
- Exercise emergency response plans and update them accordingly.
- Mitchell College Board of
Trustees
Purpose: To assist in
the development and operations of the community college in
accordance with the provisions of the law and the standards
of the State Board of Community Colleges.
Statutory authority: G.S. 115D-12,13.
- Mooresville Planning Board
(ETJ )
Purpose: To
aid in determining objectives to be sought in the development
of Mooresville and to prepare and adopt methods for achieving
these objectives; to develop and recommend policies and ordinances.
(This group also serves as the Board of Adjustment.)
(Must reside within one-mile of Mooresville’s town limits.)
- Nursing Home Advisory Committee
Purpose: To
maintain the spirit of the Nursing Home Patients’ Bill
of Rights; to improve the quality of care for residents of
nursing homes; to monitor nursing home care and resolve grievances
of the residents and their families.
Statutory authority: G.S. 131E-128.
Note: In accordance with legislation,
individuals are not permitted to serve if:
- they have a financial interest in a home served by the
committee.
- they are employed in a home served by the committee.
- they have an immediate family
member in one of the homes. ( Immediate family is defined
as mother, father, sister, brother, child, grandmother
or grandfather, as well as in-laws.)
- Personnel Advisory Committee
Purpose: To
hear county employee grievances; to provide advice on personnel
matters as requested by the county manager or personnel officer.
- Planning Board
Purpose: To
aid in determining objectives to be sought in the development
of the county and to prepare and adopt methods for achieving
these objectives; to develop and recommend policies and ordinances.
Statutory authority: G.S. 153A-321.
- Public Facilities Corporation
Purpose: To promote the
general welfare of the county’s citizens by assisting
in the acquisition, construction and operation, sale or lease
of real estate and improvements, facilities and equipment
for the use and benefit of the general public.
- Recreation Advisory Board
Purpose: To serve as an
advisory body for the department of recreation and the county;
to serve as a liaison between the department, the manager,
the board of commissioners and the citizens of the county;
to serve as an advisory body in matters affecting policies,
programs, personnel, finances, and the acquisition and disposal
of lands and properties related to the total community recreation
program.
Statutory authority: G.S. 8-26, 27.
- Social Services Board
Purpose: To
oversee the general functions of all social services programs;
to approve the agency’s budget; to review/approve new
personnel requests and to hire the director.
Statutory authority: G.S. 108A
- Statesville Airport Authority
Purpose: To
aid in the administration and enforcement of the regulations
set forth in the Statesville Code and to make further rules
and regulations for safe and proper operation of the airport.
- Statesville Planning Board
(ETJ)
Purpose: To
aid in determining objectives to be sought in the development
of the City of Statesville and to prepare and adopt methods
for achieving these objectives; to develop and recommend
policies and ordinances.
(Must reside within one-mile of the city limits.)
- Statesville Board of Adjustment
(ETJ)
Purpose: To
hear zoning appeals; to review special use permits; and to
grant variances to the zoning ordinance.
(Must reside within one-mile of the city limits.)
- Troutman Planning/Zoning Board
(ETJ)
Purpose: To
aid in determining objectives to be sought in the development
of Troutman and to prepare and adopt methods for achieving
these objectives; to develop and recommend policies and ordinances.
(Must reside within one-mile of the town’s corporate limits.)
*Note: Region
F includes the nine member counties of the Centralina
Council of Governments. The counties are Anson, Cabarrus,
Gaston, Iredell, Lincoln, Mecklenburg, Rowan, Stanly,
and Union.
