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114 The Board of Cormmissioners met in recessed session at the County Courthouse in Concord, North Carolina, on Wednesday, May 20, 1987, at 4:00 P.M. Present - Chairman: J~mes W. Lentz Commissioners: Kenneth F. Payne William G. Hamby, 3r. Martha H. Melvin R. Giles Moss Chairman Lentz stated that this was the day and hour scheduled for a public hearing regarding the proposed 1987-88 Cabarrus County Budget and asked if anyone were present who wished to speak regarding the proposed budget. Mr. Ron Bostian, Executive Vice-President of Rowan Technical College, presented a request for an appropriation to Rowan Technical College in the amount of $66,535.00 for 1987-88. Ms. Najala Nave, Director of the United Way, requested that the County fund 50 percent of the budget for the Information and Referral service provided by the United Way. Other persons speaking in support of the Information and Referral service were as follows: Mr. Fred Baylor of the Employee Assistance Program at Philip Morris U.S.A.; Ms. Miriam Benton who serves as a volunteer with the United Way; and Ms. Vivian Hamilton, Vice-President of Con~nunity Resources with the United Way. Mr. Brady Black, President of the Piedmont Farmers Market, Inc., requested a grant in the amount of $100,000.00 from the County to complete the purchase of land on Winecoff School Road for the Farmers Market. He stated that the purchase of the additional 31.58 acres is needed to complete the long range plans of developing a truck crop industry in Cabarrus County. Other persons speaking in support of the Piedmont Farmers Market were Mr. William E. McCrary and Mr. Alvin M. Stanford, County Extension Chairman. Mr. Kenneth K. Kiser, Chairman of the Cabarrus County Board of Elections, requested funding for a printer to be located at the Elections Office to provide voter registration lists to those persons requesting such a list. He complained that the price currently charged by the County for the voter registration list is the highest in the State of North Carolina. Mr. Kiser also asked that the annual salary for the Supervisor of Elections be increased from $18,740.00 to $23,917.00. He further requested an increase in salary for the members of the Board of Elections from $25.00 to $35.00 per meeting and for the Chairman of that Board from $35.00 to $45.00 per meeting. Mr. James E. Scarbrough, member of the Board of Elections, requested that the salary of the Supervisor of Elections be increased. Mr. William B. Fesperman, Executive Director of the Cannon Memorial YMCA and Community Center, and Mr. Troy Day, President of the Kannapolis YMCA and Community Center, Inc., requested that the County appropriate $22,595.00 to the Kannapolis Senior Center for 1987-88. This amount would provide 34 percent of the Center's operating budget. Chairman Lentz reported that he had asked Mr. William F. Pilkington, Health Director, to come at a later date to discuss budgetary concerns with the Board. There being no one else present to speak regarding the proposed 1987-88 Cabarrus County budget, Chairman Lentz closed the public hearing. UPON MOTION of Chairman Lentz, seconded by Commissioner Payne and unani- mously carried, the Board accepted the following recommendations from Mr. B. H. Mabrey, Sr., Emergency Services Director, for the increase in Ambulance Service fees effective July 1, 1987, and for confirmation of a policy currently in place regarding the transport of two patients at the same time as follows. Increase in basic call from $60.00 to $80.00. Increase in advanced life support call from $85.00 to $100.00. Increase in "waiting time" at doctor's offices from $20.00 to $28.00 per hour. Increase in charge per patient mile outside of Cabarrus County from $1.50 to $2.00 per mile. If the ambulance service transports two patients at the same time and if the patients are not from the same family, each patient is charged the full fee for the service rendered. If the patients are from the same family, one is charged a full fee and the others are charged $20.00 each.