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December 3, 2012 (Recessed Meeting) The Board of Commissioners for the County of Cabarrus recessed meeting in the Multipurpose Room at the Cabarrus County Center in Concord, North Carolina on Monday, December 3, 2012, The meeting was recessed from November 29, 2012. Present - Chairman: Elizabeth F. Poole Vice Chairman: Larry M. Burrage Commissioners: Robert W. Carruth H. Jay White, Sr. Christopher A. Measmer Page 1320 met for a Governmental at 3:00 p.m. Also present were Mike Downs, County Manager; Richard M. Koch, County Attorney; Jonathan Marshall, Deputy County Manager; Pam Dubois, Deputy County Manager and Megan Smit, Clerk to the Board. Call to Order Chairman Poole called the meeting to order at 3:02 p.m. Closed Session UPON MOTION of Commissioner White, seconded by Commissioner Carruth and unanimously carried, the board moved to go into closed session to discuss personnel matter(s) and to consult with the county attorney as authorized by NCGS 143- 318.11(a) (3) and (6) . Ben Small, Pam Dubois, and Tony Harris were invited into the closed session. UPON MOTION of Commissioner White, seconded by Commissioner Measmer and unanimously carried, the board moved to come out of closed session. Return to Open Session Discuss and Consider Approval of the Bond of the Cabarrus County Register of Deeds Poole: We are back in open session. Ben, could you do me a favor and - I didn't know where you went to. Can you pass your bond over, hand your bond to Tony. Just as kind of a refresher for everybody, I know you know this but just to make sure it's in the record I guess ... We met on Thursday and we had four requests: One, was to make sure that Cabarrus County was specifically on the bond; wanted to make sure the expiration date was the 5 th of December 2016; we wanted to make sure that we were notified here, the risk manager at Cabarrus County was notified at our specific address; and we asked for copies of both applications and we asked for Mr. Small to contact Penn Mutual for the reason why his bond, by our bonding company had been denied. In closed session, this part I can share, Mr. Small - do we actually need to state it again? Or can I just recap? Koch: Recap. Poole: Okay, making sure I get right. Okay, Ben? Small: Yes Ma'am. Poole: That today Mr. Small did call our bonding company, the 800 number, which asked for a extension or who you wanted to speak to and am I correct, that you didn't know which extension to put in or who to speak to- Small: Well, that is correct. I prefaced that comment by referring to Mr. Harris' Friday email which says, I quote: "I was just advised by the insurance agent that Penn's underwriter couldn't speak directly with individual recipients." unquote. I'm sorry "applicants ", unquote. He did provide a telephone number here, I did try that telephone number again just as a precaution. There's no live person that you can speak to when you call that number. Poole: I just wanted to make sure we had that because that was one of the things we had asked for. Then I asked when we came back in, Mr. Harris and our attorney would like to look at the bond itself one more time. We had one copy in closed session, you all know that we passed around, I think we are all trying to get (inaudible) so they would like to look at it one more time. At this time, I would ask for a - for any questions that you have of Mr. Small or of our attorney, Commissioners? Any questions that you have that you would like answered or expanded upon. I don't know who wants to go first. White: I'll go first. Mr. Small, did - was Liberty Mutual notified concerning your suspension by the Bar Association? Small: I did not speak directly with Liberty Mutual; again, as I have stated Mr. Cash who prepared this bond is here with us today. White: Mr. Cash, do you mind bringing up your chair so we can - I can ask you some questions, if you don't mind? And if your - if the microphone green light's not on, if you'll just - Small: It's on. White: Mr. Cash, Mr. Small said that you helped him in securing the bond with Liberty Mutual.