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December 19, 2012 (Recessed Meeting) Page 1361 The Board of Commissioners for the County of Cabarrus met for a recessed meeting in the Multipurpose Room at the Cabarrus County Governmental Center in Concord, North Carolina on Wednesday, December 19, 2012, at 4:00 p.m. The meeting was recessed from Monday, December 17, 2012. Present - Chairman: Vice Chairman Commissioners Elizabeth F. Poole H. Jay White, Sr. Larry M. Burrage Christopher A. Measmer Stephen M. Morris 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 4:05 p.m. Old Business 2.1 Finance - To Accept the Fiscal Year 2012 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report as Presented on December 17, 2012 Chairman Poole advised the board that they overlooked a motion to accept the Fiscal Year 2012 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report after it was presented at the December 17, 2012 regular meeting. UPON MOTION of Commissioner Burrage, seconded by Commissioner Measmer, and unanimously carried, the board accepted the Fiscal Year 2012 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report as presented on December 17, 2012. New Business 3.1 Sheriff - Approval of Piggyback Bid for Purchase of Police Interceptor Vehicles Ms. Dubois addressed the board, advising them of the annual replacement of vehicles used by the Sheriff's Office. This bid would allow the county to piggyback on pricing obtained by the City of Kannapolis. Retired vehicles are stripped of their technical equipment which is reused in the newly purchased vehicles. The oldest vehicles are placed up for auction. Discussion followed with Mr. Downs responding to questions from the board. UPON MOTION of Vice Chairman White, seconded by Commissioner Measmer, and unanimously carried, the board approved the piggyback of a bid awarded by the City of Kannapolis in September 2012 to Hilbish Motor Company, Inc., for the purchase of ten (10) Ford police interceptor vehicles. 3.2 Register of Deeds - To Discuss and To Consider Appointment of Benjamin S. Small, the Nominee of the Republican Party Executive Committee, to the Office of Register of Deeds and to Consider Mr. Small's Proposed Bond for Approval Poole: The next item we have, I would like to call on Mr. John Lewis, who is the chair of the Republican Party's Executive Committee. Lewis: Madam Chairman the - Poole: I need you to go to a microphone so that we can, we do have to record it. Lewis: Madam Chairman, we the Cabarrus County Republican Party Executive Committee met on Monday evening and we have nominated Mr. Benjamin Small for the vacancy for the Register of Deeds office. Poole: Commissioners, does anyone have any questions of Mr. Lewis? Thank you. Lewis: Thank you. Poole: I would like to start by, as just a reminder of kind of where we to date. And of course, Mr. Koch can weigh in on any legal questions. We welcome Commissioner Morris to the table - I don't know that - he heard some of the discussion, but I know that our last meeting, I don't think you were here for the whole meeting. So if it's okay, I'd like to review, just to make sure that he has enough information or he has at least the information at one time that the rest of us have. And we welcome Mr. Small again to the microphone. Again I want to, if you don't mind, I'll ask you a few questions as I kind of go through just to make sure that I get it right. Small: Sure. Poole: Okay. Just to review the timeline that Cabarrus County's bonding company is Penn National and Cabarrus County submitted a bond application, I guess I'd say on your behalf to Penn National, that's correct?