NCACC Associate Membership Program Directory

NCACC
215 N. Dawson St.
Raleigh, NC 27603

Albert Coates Local Government Center
Phone: (919) 715-2893
Fax: (919) 733-1065

Quorum Center
Phone: (919) 719-1100
Fax: (919) 719-1101

E-mail: ncacc@ncacc.org

Engineering/Architectural Services

Brennan Group
P.O. Box 50007
Columbia, SC 29250
Phone: (803) 788-7717
Fax: (803) 788-7671
Contact: Todd Davis
Description: Brennan Architects was founded in South Carolina in 1992 by Jim Brennan, who brought his lengthy experience as Managing Partner of a large architecture practice and his specialty in justice and correctional projects. The firm specializes in criminal justice facilities of all kinds. Brennan Architects creates buildings that allow people to work in a better, more productive environment. We take the time to learn how people need to move in and through a particular space. Brennan Architects employs more than 30 professionals in its Columbia, S.C., headquarters, and in offices in Charlotte; Montgomery, Ala., and Seattle, Wash.
E-mail: tdavis@brennansc.com
Web site: www.brennansc.com

Capital Management and Engineering, P.C.
111 W. Central Ave., Suite 207
Mount Holly, NC 28120
Phone: (704) 827-2766
Fax: (704) 827-2746
Contact: Myron George
Description: Capital Management & Engineering specializes in helping our clients successfully plan, manage and implement their capital improvement projects and programs. Our services include: project and program planning and promotion; consultation for capital projects financing; scheduling and financial tracking; public involvement and education; environmental planning and permitting; design and design reviews; property and right-of-way acquisition; construction administration and oversight; and utility coordination. We represent our clients with integrity and knowledge of the many political, social and technical issues inherent in such extensive and complex endeavors.
E-mail: mggeorge@cmepc.net
Web site: www.cmepc.net

Hobbs, Upchurch and Associates
300 SW Broad St.
Southern Pines, NC 28387
Phone: (910) 692-5616
Fax: (910) 692-7342
Contact: Fred Hobbs
Description: Hobbs, Upchurch & Associates is a full-service engineering, planning, land surveying GIS consulting firm. North Carolina offices are located in Southern Pines, Charlotte, Nags Head and Wilmington. The South Carolina office is located in Beaufort. The three principles that have guided the growth of Hobbs, Upchurch & Associates since 1983 are: serving the client's needs; building a technical stronghold; going beyond the expected. Our experienced staff and five offices within the Carolinas give us the ability to complete any task required in order to meet the needs of clients.
E-mail: fhobbs@hobbsupchurch.com
Web site: www.hobbsupchurch.com

Linc Services, LLC
5805-G Departure Drive
Raleigh, NC 27616
Phone: (919) 239-8936
Fax: (919) 501-7492
Contact: Rick Overholt
Description: The Linc Group is an award-winning provider of integrated facilities management, HVAC and building systems services, lighting and electrical solutions, and other support services to thousands of commercial, government and residential clients worldwide. We are also a premier provider of comprehensive green solutions designed to help commercial clients attain LEED and ENERGY STAR certification. Through our innovative processes and methodologies that blend technology, quality standards, communication and collaboration, we have revolutionized the traditional service delivery industry. Our proven expertise and comprehensive solutions reduce cost of ownership; maximize value; increase energy efficiency; and create comfortable, healthy, safe and productive environments for clients.
E-mail: rick.overholt@lincservice.com
Web site: www.lincservice.com

McGill Associates
38 Orange St.
Asheville, NC 28801
Phone: (828) 232-6109
Fax: (828) 253-5612
Contact: Jessica Martin-Lane
Description: Throughout its 25-year history, McGill Associates has prided itself on its reputation as a responsible and respected engineering consulting organization by demonstrating professionalism, integrity, responsiveness, reliability and technical excellence. McGill Associates has offices in Asheville, Pinehurst and Hickory, N.C., Greenville, S.C., and Knoxville and Sevierville, Tenn. The firm provides civil and environmental engineering, planning, landscape architecture and finance services to clients in North Carolina, Tennessee, South Carolina, Georgia and Virginia.
E-mail: jessica@martin-mcgill.com
Web site: www.mcgillengineers.com

Moseley Architects
11430 N. Community House Road
Gibson Building – Suite 225
Charlotte, NC 28277
Phone: (704) 540-3755
Fax: (704) 540-3754
Contact: Dan Mace
Description: As a respected and well-established full service design firm, Moseley Architects’ 240+ professionals are located among six locations in the Southeast, including Charlotte and Raleigh. Our practice is devoted exclusively to assisting local governments in the design and construction administration of cost effective, efficient public buildings, specializing in justice facilities, K-12 schools and higher education. Our planning services include stakeholder and user group facilitation, sustainable design planning, security consulting, staffing and transition services. Moseley Architects has emerged as a leader in sustainable and high performance design. We designed the first LEED Gold school in the world (Third Creek Elementary in Iredell County) and the first LEED Certified correctional institution in the world in Butner.
E-mail: dmace@moseleyarchitects.com
Web site: www.moseleyarchitects.com

SFL+A Architects
333 Fayetteville St., Suite 225
Raleigh, NC 27601
Phone: (919) 573-6350
Fax: (919) 573-6355
Contact: Mike Wawrzyniak
Description: SFL+A Architects was founded as a “service-oriented firm” in 1982. For more than 20 years that founding principle has not changed. SFL+A Architects creates aesthetically pleasing, sustainable and appropriate spaces for people to live, learn, work, play, pray and actually enjoy being. Our determination to provide architectural excellence through unsurpassed quality is driven by a commitment to communities and the people in them. Today, SFL+A Architects is a growing firm with offices in Fayetteville, Charlotte and Raleigh. It is our desire that each space we have the privilege to design reflects the goals, style and strength of the comprehensive whole, the "big picture."
E-mail: mwawrzyniak@sfla.biz
Web site: www.sfla.biz

Ware Bonsall Architects
10710 Sikes Place #125
Charlotte, NC 28277
Phone: (704) 846-1977
Fax: (704) 846-2108
Contact: Glenn Ware
Description: Ware Bonsall Architects provides professional architectural, planning and security consulting services to North Carolina counties. We specialize in planning and designing detention centers, courthouses, law enforcement centers and county office facilities. Our experts will assist you from the inception of the planning process through design, construction and final occupancy to develop a facility that responds to your functional, philosophical, schedule and budget needs. Ware Bonsall Architects was started by Glenn Ware and Paul Bonsall – architects who each have over 25 years of experience planning and designing public facilities.
E-mail: gware@warebonsall.com
Web site: www.warebonsall.com

Public Finance/Accounting

Martin Starnes & Associates, CPAs, P.A.
730 13th Ave. Drive SE
Hickory, NC 28602
Phone: (828) 327-2727
Fax: (828) 328-2324
Contact: Bryan Starnes
Description: Martin Starnes & Associates was established in January 1987. We have offices in Hickory and Taylorsville, N.C. Our firm provides auditing services to municipalities and counties from the mountains to the coast of North Carolina. Two members of our firm have received a Certificate of Educational Achievement in Governmental Accounting and Auditing awarded by the AICPA. The services that we provide include: annual audits, cost reporting, preparation of various financial reports required by the Office of Management and Budget (federal) or the Local Government Commission (state), assistance with preparation of annual budgets and utility rate studies.
E-mail: bstarnes@martinstarnes.com
Web site: www.martinstarnes.com

MBA Actuaries, Inc.
1400 Old Mill Circle, Suite A
Winston-Salem, NC 27103
Phone: (336) 768-8217
Fax: (336) 768-2185
Contact: Doug Ryan
Description: MBA Actuaries is a full-service, independent consulting firm. We offer a wide range of actuarial, management and strategic consulting services to organizations and individuals that need to evaluate, quantify and manage risk. Our diverse international clientele includes insurers, re-insurers, captives, self-insurers, rating bureaus, regulators and government agencies, as well as investment bankers, accountants, lawyers, brokers and risk managers. Our people excel in projects involving complex, new and unusual situations. Call us to discuss how MBA Actuaries can help you make sense of uncertainty. We look forward to hearing from you.
E-mail: doug.ryan@mbaactuaries.com
Web site: www.mbaactuaries.com

Nationwide Retirement Solutions
5900 Parkwood Place
Dublin, OH 43016
Phone: (804) 647-0247 or (877) 677-3678
Fax: (800) 648-0184
Contact: Debbie Turner
Description: As an NCACC partner, Nationwide is committed to the success of counties through its Deferred Compensation Program. Nationwide offers flexible solutions to build unique programs; service when, where and how county leaders want it; education that motivates employees; and a promise to deliver.
E-mail: turned11@nationwide.com
Web site: www.nrsforu.com

NC 401(k) Plan - Prudential Retirement
150 Fayetteville St., Suite 980
Raleigh, NC 27601
Phone: (919) 664-7101
Fax: (919) 743-5310
Contact: Tim Bryan
Description: The NC 401(k) Plan, a state-sponsored supplemental retirement savings plan for public employees and educators, is the largest state 401(k) plan in the United States, with more than 218,000 participants and more than $4.2 billion in assets. Currently, there are more than 450 local employers within the plan who are contributing to the plan. Employers are better able to attract and retain high-quality employees by having this competitive 401(k) plan available to employees. The newest addition, the N.C. Deferred Compensation Plan (457), is a complementary component for supplemental retirement savings and is now also available to N.C. employers. We also have 18 local retirement education managers located throughout the state who are available to conduct group and individual meetings with both employers and employees.
E-mail: tim.bryan@prudential.com
Web site: ncplans.prudential.com

Imaging Codification

Municipal Code
P.O. Box 2235
Tallahassee, FL 32316
Phone: (800) 262-2633
Fax: (850) 575-8852
Contact: Dale Barstow, Vice President of Sales
Description: Municipal Code has served North Carolina local governments for more than 50 years. Our well-known services include: codification, recodification, supplementation, republication, legal review, code on the Internet, posting raw ordinances to the Web, electronic-only supplements. MCC Innovations (www.mccinnovations.com), a division of Municipal Code, helps create transparency in government with electronic solutions for records management, document management and legislative management.
E-mail: info@municode.com
Web site: www.municode.com

Consulting

MGT of America, Inc.
8601 Six Forks Road, Suite 400
Raleigh, NC 27614
Phone: (919) 522-3940
Fax: (919) 882-1608
Contact: Dianne Mazo-Jones
Description: MGT of America, Inc. is the premier cost accounting consulting firm for state and local government. North Carolina cities, counties and state agencies receive from MGT client-focused consulting services focused on the development of OMB A-87 and Full Cost allocation plans, indirect cost rates, jail rates, user fee studies and management studies. As an employee-owned mid-sized firm, MGT is small enough to provide exceptional service with reasonable fees yet large enough to meet, and exceed, our client’s cost allocation and cost accounting needs.
E-mail: DJones@mgtamer.com or DianneMazo@aol.com
Web site: www.mgtamer.com

Springsted
1564 E. Parham Road
Richmond, VA 23228
Phone: (804) 726-9748
Fax: (804) 726-9752
Contact: John Anzivino
Description: Expertise. Insight. Accomplishment. These three words summarize what Springsted will offer as your public sector advisor. Springsted provides a wide range of financial advisory, human resources and organizational management, economic development and housing, budget and financial analysis and investment services for clients based in real world experience. With a staff of dedicated professionals, many of whom came from government management positions, we will partner with you in building strong communities through effective planning and creating innovative yet practical strategies, funding successful projects, implementing sensible changes, and managing investments, organizations and staff. We improve performance for our clients, assisting them in building a legacy for their community.
E-mail: janzivino@springsted.com
Web site: www.springsted.com

WK Dickson
616 Colonnade Drive
Charlotte, NC 28205
Phone: (704) 334-5348
Fax: (704) 334-0078
Contact: Kraig C. Kern
Description: WK Dickson is a multi-disciplined consulting firm specializing in total community infrastructure solutions including: environmental and water resources engineering; transportation planning and design; community planning and development; and geospatial technology. Our goal is to help communities improve the lives of their citizens through sound, ecologically responsible design principles. The firm has been headquartered in Charlotte since 1929. It has grown to operate nine regional offices strategically located throughout the Southeastern United States. The company maintains offices in Charlotte, Hickory, Raleigh and Wilmington, N.C.; Columbia, S.C.; Augusta, Atlanta and Savannah, Ga.; and Louisville, Ky.
E-mail: kckern@wkdickson.com
Web site: www.wkdickson.com

Utility Services

Duke Energy
700 E. Ritchie Road
Salisbury, NC 28146
Phone: (704) 638-4050
Fax: (704) 638-4067
Contact: Randy Welch
Description: Duke Energy is a leading energy company headquartered in Charlotte. Our purpose is to create superior and sustainable value for our customers, employees, communities and investors through the production, conversion, delivery and sale of energy and energy services. We are committed to health, safety, the environment and our communities. We believe in ethically and honestly doing what we say we will do. We respect every individual, and we embrace diversity and inclusion. We work to achieve superior business results, stretch our capabilities and foster win-win relationships. We have the courage, creativity and discipline to lead change and shape the future.
E-mail: rdwelch@duke-energy.com
Web site: www.duke-energy.com

Energy Systems Group
421 Fayetteville St., Suite 900
Raleigh, NC 27601
Phone: (919) 235-4346
Fax: (919) 235-4352
Contact: Dan Dowell
Description: Energy Systems Group is the premier provider of energy solutions and performance contracting services in North America. We are committed to delighting education, healthcare, government, commercial and industrial facility owners through innovation, dedication and expertise in delivering energy improvements that enhance facilities and finances. ESG designs, develops, implements, finances and operates innovative, customer-focused energy and operation solutions that enhance our client partners' facilities, productivity, comfort and finances so they can focus on meeting their core mission. In 2003, ESG was one of the first energy service companies to earn the prestigious Energy Service Provider (ESP) accreditation.
E-mail: ddowell@energysystemsgroup.com
Web site: www.energysystemsgroup.com

PSNC Energy
15 Overland Industrial Blvd.
Asheville, NC 28806
Phone: (828) 670-3535
Fax: (828) 670-3513
Contact: Don Hallingse
Description: PSNC Energy, a wholly owned subsidiary of SCANA, is franchised to serve a 28-county service area in North Carolina and distributes natural gas to approximately 470,000 customers in 95 cities and communities ranging from the Raleigh, Durham and Chapel Hill areas in the north central part of the state; the Concord, Statesville and Gastonia areas in the Piedmont; and the Asheville, Hendersonville and Sylva areas in the western part of the state.
E-mail: dhallingse@scana.com
Web site: www.psncenergy.com

Information Technology

Northwoods Consulting Partners
5815 Wall Street
Dublin, OH 43017
Phone: (614) 781-7800
Fax: (614) 781-7801
Contact: Michael Drabek
Description: Northwoods is a software development and professional services company dedicated to serving human services agencies. With over 300 combined years of agency experience, Northwoods team members have the knowledge and technical skills to help agencies improve business practices. Our Compass Software® solutions manage documents and business processes, as well as staff and client scheduling, to meet government mandates, improve customer service, and lower operating costs. Headquartered in Dublin, Ohio, Northwoods serves more than 70 state and county agencies in seven states, including 14 in North Carolina.
E-mail: mdrabek@teamnorthwoods.com
Web site: www.teamnorthwoods.com

VC3
1509 Lady St.
Columbia, SC 29201
Phone: (803) 733-7333
Fax: (803) 733-5888
Contact: Dale Graver
Description: For over 16 years, VC3 has been on the leading edge of Information Technology providing a full range of IT services to the private and public sectors across South Carolina, North Carolina and Georgia. With customers of all backgrounds and sizes, VC3 has the depth and experience to provide a broad range of technology services to optimize your IT budget.
E-mail: info@vc3.com
Web site: www.vc3.com

Solid Waste

Republic Services of North Carolina
P.O. Box 2943
Hickory, NC 28403
Phone: (828) 464-2414
Fax: (828) 464-6922
Contact: Bill Schrum
Description: Republic Services of North Carolina, LLC is a wholly subsidiary of Republic Services, Inc. Republic Services, Inc. is the second largest provider of services in the domestic non-hazardous solid waste industry. We provide non-hazardous solid waste collection services for commercial, industrial, municipal and residential customers through 400 collection companies in 40 states and Puerto Rico. We also own or operate 242 transfer stations, 213 active solid waste landfills and 78 recycling facilities. Our NC operating units include: GDS, Republic Waste Services, A-1 Sanitation, Allied Waste, BFI, Foothills Environmental Landfill, Upper Piedmont Environmental Landfill, Uwharrie Environmental Landfill, East Carolina Environmental Landfill, and CMS Landfill.
E-mail: schrumb@repsrvnc.com
Web site: www.republicservices.com

Waste Industries
3301 Benson Drive,
Suite 601
Raleigh, NC 27609
Phone: (919) 325-3000
Fax: (919) 872-1471
Contact: David A. Duke
Description: Throughout its 34-year history, Waste Industries has provided its customers with responsive, cost-effective and environmentally sound solutions to their solid waste disposal and recycling needs. Waste Industries, Inc. currently operates more than 40 collection operations in the Carolinas, Virginia, Tennessee, Mississippi, Georgia and Florida. Waste Industries, Inc. is a recognized leader in the industry and continues to be one of the fastest-growing waste and recycling service companies in the Southeast.
E-mail: david.duke@wasteindustries.com
Web site: www.wasteindustries.com

Ambulance Services/Billing

EMS Management & Consultants, Inc.
P.O. Box 863
Lewisville, NC 27023
Phone: (336) 409-1849
Fax: (336) 766-1279
Contact: Barry Britt
Description: Based in Clemmons, N.C., EMS-MC is the largest, most established third-party EMS billing company in the Southeast. Our performance-driven results have helped make our clients some of the most successful EMS providers on the East Coast. As exclusive EMS specialists, we understand the intricacies and demands of our industry. We deliver a simplified billing alternative with proven cost-effectiveness, streamlined efficiency and unparalleled customer service. Most importantly, we offer billing and support services that are customized to each client. From subscription plans to fiscal reporting, everything we provide is exclusively designed with the customer in mind. We're serious about solutions so you get paid, not just promised.
E-mail: Barry.Britt@emsbilling.com
Web site: www.emsbilling.us

Johnston Ambulance Service, Inc.
2803 U.S. Highway 70 W
Goldsboro, NC 27530
Phone: (919) 736-3825
Fax: (919) 739-5989
Contact: Stephanie Jarman
Description: Johnston Ambulance Service has been in operation for more than 35 years, serving North Carolina and surrounding states. North Carolina's largest privately owned ambulance service, JAS provides ambulance and wheelchair transportation for all types of public and private healthcare facilities. With more than 300 employees and a fleet of nearly 70 ambulances and support vehicles, JAS provides services from strategically located offices in Duplin, Durham, Johnston, Orange, Pitt, Sampson, Wake, Wayne and Wilson counties. Currently, JAS has an overall call volume of more than 60,000 trips each year and provides services for the most prestigious healthcare facilities in the state.
E-mail: stephanie.jarman@jas-online.org
Web site: www.jas-online.org

Voluntary Insurance Benefits

Community Eye Care
2359 Perimeter Pointe Parkway, Suite 150
Charlotte, NC 28208
Phone: (888) 254-4290
Fax: (704) 426-6044
Contact: Dr. Marvin Schrum
Description: Community Eye Care, an endorsed benefits provider of the Association, is a vision benefits company based in North Carolina. The company currently administers voluntary vision benefits for many of North Carolina’s county governments. The Community Eye Care vision plan entails no cost for the county, and it enables county employees to substantially reduce their expenditures for routine eye care. With over a thousand eye care providers across the state, access to care is excellent in both rural and metropolitan areas. Community Eye Care has truly become North Carolina’s Vision Plan.
E-mail: mschrum@communityeyecare.net
Web site: www.communityeyecare.net

Association Services
1053 Bullard Court
Raleigh, NC 27615
Phone: (919) 871-6001
Fax: (919) 871-1041
Contact: Ricky Tharrington
Description: Association Services, an independent insurance organization that specializes in voluntary benefits programs made available by county governments to their employees through payroll deduction, has been endorsed by the NCACC. Voluntary benefits are increasingly becoming an important part of county government benefits programs. It has been reported that as much as 80 percent of an employee's insurance needs will be purchased at the work site. This is particularly true with middle income employees for whom traditional ways of buying insurance has been reduced or eliminated.
E-mail: rickyt@asrnc.com
Web site: www.asrnc.com

Inmate Health Care

Southern Health Partners
811 Broad St., Fifth Floor
Chattanooga, TN 37402
Phone: (423) 553-5635
Fax: (423) 553-5645
Contact: Stephanie Bennett
Description: Southern Health Partners provides full-service medical programs for small to medium-size county jails. We focus on providing on-site care and reducing transports while improving quality of care.
E-mail: stephanie.bennett@southernhealthpartners.com
Web site: www.southernhealthpartners.com

Collection Agency

Interstate Credit Collections
P.O. Box 3136
Winston-Salem, NC 27102-3136
Phone: (336) 831-1073
Fax: (336) 777-3520
Contact: Angie Hutchins
Description: Interstate Credit Collections (ICC) has been a highly effective debt collection service since 1906 when we began as the collection division of the Retail Merchants Association in Winston-Salem. Today ICC works closely with hundreds of businesses of all types and sizes including city and county governments to collect everything from parking fees and property taxes to fees for noise ordinance and fire inspection violations. Our approach is firm but fair. Our process can include reporting accounts to the credit reporting agencies. We provide tailored collection solutions that deliver superior debt recovery. The result is a powerful partnership that generates millions of dollars each year for our clients.
E-mail: angie.hutchins@datamax.com
Web site: www.datamax.com

Attorneys

Rose Rand Wallace Attorneys, P.A.
P.O. Drawer 2367
2500-C W. Nash St.
Wilson, NC 27894-2367
Phone: (252) 291-3848
Fax: (252) 291-9555
Contact: Jim Cauley
Description: Rose Rand Wallace Attorneys, P.A. is a full service law firm with a statewide presence capable of handling your most sophisticated or everyday legal needs. Our Eastern North Carolina clients can enjoy the benefits of the expertise of an urban law firm while receiving the personalized attention their legal matters deserve. Attorneys at Rose Rand Wallace Attorneys, P.A. serve as counsel to numerous local governments in North Carolina due to our attorneys' expertise with regard to legal issues that affect local government. Our attorneys are closely involved in the governmental, judicial, political and civic activities of Eastern North Carolina and the Research Triangle. The firm’s clients are located not only in and around the state, but also include regional and national firms that do business across the United States.
E-mail: jcauley@rrwattorneys.com
Web site: www.rrwattorneys.com

Construction

Balfour Beatty Construction
5420 Wade Park Blvd., Suite 200
Raleigh, NC 27607
Phone: (919) 233-5007
Fax: (919) 233-5002
Contact: Hal Routh
E-mail: hrouth@balfourbeattyus.com
Description: At Balfour Beatty Construction, our vision is to differentiate ourselves so significantly that we change the industry. How? By making service delivery our top priority, one relationship at a time. Whether you’re building a hospital or a hotel, a school or a skyscraper, an airport or an office park, you can depend on Balfour Beatty Construction to provide more. More talent. More leadership. More teamwork. More personal attention. More of what you expect (and deserve) from your construction partner.
Web site: www.balfourbeattyus.com

Energy

R.W. Greenfields
136 Dars Lane
Tuckasegee, NC 28783
Phone: (828) 293-5453
Fax: (828) 293-1585
Contact: Richard Worth
E-mail: rwgreenfields@verizon.net

Disaster Recovery Services

UNIFIED
263 Third St., Fifth Floor
Baton Rouge, LA 70801
Phone: (910) 572-1658 or (704) 467-7774
Fax: (910) 572-1636
Contact: Diane Davis
E-mail: dianedavis@unifiedrecoverygroup.com
Web site: www.unifiedrecoverygroup.com
Description: Unified Recovery Group is a full service disaster recovery specialist. UNIFIED provides its clients with a comprehensive plan for recovery that includes debris hauling, reduction, hazardous waste mitigation, asbestos abatement, demolition, and specialized support in the FEMA eligibility and reimbursement process. Whether preparing for a possible disaster or faced with its aftermath it is critical to obtain a disaster recovery company with extensive knowledge and resources to address the task at hand. UNIFIED’s founders and personnel bring forth years of experience in providing full disaster recovery services. Our vast fleet of company owned and employee operated equipment is unrivaled in the disaster recovery industry. We have the knowledge, resources, equipment and manpower to get any size job done right and in a timely manner.