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Intergovernmental Relations Steering Committee
Updated Feb. 3, 2012
Chair
- Ellen Reckhow, Durham County Vice Chair
NCACC Staff
- Kevin Leonard, Director of Government Relations
Members and Intergovernmental Partners
- Charles Abernathy, McDowell County Manager
- Jonathan Barfield, New Hanover County Vice Chair
- Daniel Baum, Troutman Sanders LLP Manager
- Barbara Beatty, Catawba County Commissioner
- Fred Belfield, Nash County Vice Chair
- Brian Berger, New Hanover County Commissioner
- Gary D. Blevins, Wilkes County Chairman of the Board
- Joe Carpenter, Gaston County Commissioner
- Katie S. "Kay" Cashion, Guilford County Commissioner
- Toby Chappell, Gates County Manager
- Jane Cole, Forsyth County Director, External Communications
- Debra Conrad, Forsyth County Vice Chair
- J. Martin Cooke, Brunswick County Commissioner
- Deborah Craig-Ray, Durham County Assistant Manager
- Raymond Cummings, Robeson County Commissioner
- Don Davenport, Greene County Manager
- Mickey Duvall, Graham County Manager
- Brian Francis, Mecklenburg County Assistant to the Manager
- John Goudreau, Alleghany County Commissioner
- Vann Harrell, Union County Asst. Collector of Revenue
- Craig Honeycutt, Alamance County Manager
- Brenda Howerton, Durham County Commissioner
- Tracy Jackson, Iredell County Deputy Manager
- Tom Johnson, Pitt County Commissioner
- Timothy Karan, Granville County Commissioner
- James Klein, Lincoln County Commissioner
- Lynn Lail, Catawba County Vice Chair
- Gene McIntyre, Stanly County Vice Chair
- Ellen McNeill, Hoke County Commissioner
- Chris Measmer, Cabarrus County Commissioner
- Lance Metzler, Rockingham County Manager
- Kyle Puryear, Person County Vice Chair
- Ronnie Smith, Martin County Commissioner
- Judy Snyder, Wilkes County Clerk to the Board
- Sharon Spencer, Hyde County Chairman of the Board
- Anthony Starr, Henderson County Planning Director
- Virginia Tillett, Dare County Commissioner
- Andrew Webb, McDowell County Commissioner
- Glen Webb, Pitt County Commissioner
- Gloria Whisenhunt, Forsyth County Commissioner
- Steven Wyatt, Henderson County Manager
Recent Reports
PPT for Jan. 31,
2012, meeting (joint meeting with Intergovernmental Relations Steering
Committee)
Transportation
funding through local option sales tax presentation (PDF) (Jan. 31, 2012)
Cabarrus hosts six steering committee meetings (September 2011)
Six of the NCACC's seven steering committees held meetings on Aug. 18 during the Annual Conference in Cabarrus County.
Perdue's proposed Mobility Fund draws committee support (June 2010)
The NCACC Intergovernmental Relations Steering Committee during its May 18 meeting endorsed the creation of the NC Mobility Fund, which has been proposed by Governor Beverly Perdue to provide funding for very specific mobility projects across the state.
Sign of the times: counties will work for jobs (March 2010)
As the state's unemployment rate jumped to 11.2 percent by the end of 2009, the NCACC Intergovernmental Relations Steering Committee tackled the difficult subject of job creation during its Feb. 23 meeting in Raleigh. From broadband to business incentives to economic development boards, committee members discussed a number of different strategies that counties can consider to spur job creation and economic development.
NCACC participating on DOT advisory group (January 2010)
Members of the NCACC Intergovernmental Relations Steering Committee expressed an over-arching sentiment that the current transportation funding structure was not satisfactory, could not be maintained and must change during their Nov. 30 meeting in Raleigh.
Steering committees meet, set focus on ’08 issues (October 2007)
The Association’s Intergovernmental Relations and Environment steering committees met via teleconference Sept. 21 to set work plans and goals for the 2008 legislative short session, welcome new members and review legislative activities from the 2007 long session.
Sheriffs’ concerns, annexation draw NCACC committee attention (January 2007)
The committee met Jan. 23 with one thing in mind: annexation. Various committee members voiced their concerns about current annexation law and its unfairness to counties.
Mobile home bill gains NCACC committee’s support (Feb. 22, 2006)
Take a drive through any of North Carolina’s rural counties and chances are it won’t be long until you spot a derelict mobile home sitting in an overgrown lot. Most of these homes are uninhabitable and considered blight on the countryside. Rep. Phil Haire (Jackson County), who has sponsored legislation that would provide funds to help pay for the cleanup of abandoned mobile homes, addressed members of the NCACC Intergovernmental Relations Steering Committee on Feb. 22 to garner support for H1288.
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