Remarks by Laura Blackwell Lindsey
44 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 1 of 2
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“This is quite a robust meeting tonight, so welcome everybody to the September 21st, 2026 Board of Commissioners regular meeting. I will call this meeting to order. If you all will please stand with me for the Pledge of Allegiance and remain standing for invocation.”
Board of Commissioners · Sep 21, 2026
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“And I will invite Michael Roberts up for our invocation. Good evening.”
Board of Commissioners · Sep 21, 2026
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“Thank you, Michael. All right, I do need a motion to approve the minutes as presented. All those in favor, please say aye. Any opposed? all right that carries 5-0 and i also want to take this opportunity to introduce we do have a youth commissioner with us this evening we are so excited to have her back up here on the dais with us kavia saxena would you please introduce yourself to everyone good afternoon everyone thank you so much for those sweet words I appreciate it and I think the world of you just so you know all right so I do need a motion to approve the agenda with any of the changes…”
Board of Commissioners · Sep 21, 2026
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Not quoted here: it may name a member of the public. Hear it at the meeting.
Board of Commissioners · Sep 21, 2026
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“Thank you for coming. Y'all did great. See, that was so easy.”
Board of Commissioners · Sep 21, 2026
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“Thank you. Thank you, Tracy. And thank you for bringing all of the youth commissioners. And just so you know, I will be your liaison as well and i did have the intention of coming to your meeting tonight however we had a special called meeting this evening as well so but i'm very proud of all of you i look forward to hearing about your your passion project and what you decide to do for this year so thank you all So we will move on to informal public comments. Before we do, do you mind putting up the directions again for the public comments? Thank you. So I had a few questions about this, and…”
Board of Commissioners · Sep 21, 2026
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“Thank you, ma'am. All right. So we will move on to the consent agenda. Commissioners, I need a motion to approve the consent agenda as presented. So moved. Second. All those in favor, please say aye. Any opposed? All right, that carries 5-0. Okay, so we will move on to new business. Um, our first item is the consolidated human services agency, transportation 53, 11 grant application, public hearing. Um, were we going to have Charles, did you need to come up and speak regarding this? Okay. All right. So we do have a need for a public hearing on this grant and I believe those are the blue ones.…”
Board of Commissioners · Sep 21, 2026
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“In a second, please. All right, any discussion? All those in favor please say aye. Aye. Any opposed? That carries 5-0. Thank you. We will move on to the item number four, public records request policy with Doug Hall.”
Board of Commissioners · Sep 21, 2026
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“All those in favor, please say aye. Any opposed? That carries five zero. We will move on to item number five, which is the resolution of Cabarrus County Board of Commissioners to postpone the Cabarrus County revaluation schedule from January 1st, 2028 to January 1st, 2029, and to implement subsequent appraisals every four years after. Did you have anything you'd like to add, or David, regarding this?”
Board of Commissioners · Sep 21, 2026
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“Okay. Commissioners, do you have any questions regarding this? Okay. I do need a motion to approve this resolution as presented.”
Board of Commissioners · Sep 21, 2026
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“All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. Any opposed? No. Okay. That carries for one. All right. Moving on to item number six. under new business we have boards and committees with VEA partners appointment and basically this is a Partners Health Management Board of Directors and VEA partners will be merging to form a unified entity following the merger VEA Partners will be governed through two complementary bodies, the VEA Partners Governing Board and the VEA Partners County Commissioner Advisory Board. The VEA Partners County Commissioner Advisory Board selected a representative,…”
Board of Commissioners · Sep 21, 2026
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“Absolutely. Yeah. All right, so I do have a motion and a second. Any discussion? All right, all those in favor, please say aye. Aye. Any opposed? None. All right, that carries 4-1. all right so we have moved on to reports they are included in your packet we do have vacancies available for our boards and committees if you are interested i do encourage you all to go fill those out as well and commissioners i will start with commissioner pittman any reports that you have for this month”
Board of Commissioners · Sep 21, 2026
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“That's OK. We'll give you a pass on that. You had to go let Tammy answer.”
Board of Commissioners · Sep 21, 2026
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“Tammy, we love you. Commissioner Wortman.”
Board of Commissioners · Sep 21, 2026
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“Thank you, sir. Alright, Commissioner Patrick.”
Board of Commissioners · Sep 21, 2026
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“Thank you. Commissioner Jones? all right all right commissioner patrick did you have any general comments okay so we will move on to uh first i'm going to have my animal shelter video um i had the honor of having two sweet little uh sapphire um was the uh the dog and autumn was the kitten this this month so hey i'm laura this is sapphire And this is Autumn. And we're here at the Cabarrus County Animal Shelter to help you fall in love.”
Board of Commissioners · Sep 21, 2026
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“This is Sapphire. She is a six-year-old pit bull mix who has been at the shelter for approximately three months. She's a jewel. This is Autumn. She is a three-month-old gray tortie and has been at the shelter for approximately one month. Don't leave her here. Thanks for joining us and don't forget you can always go to www.cabarruscounty.us backslash animals for more information. There you can find adoptable pets, applications to volunteer or for adoption and more shelter information. have to continue to thank Jonathan Weaver for he is he is a mastermind behind a lot of this and he just he…”
Board of Commissioners · Sep 21, 2026
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“All right. Good evening, everyone. Welcome to our September 21st, 2026 special meeting. I will call this meeting to order. If you all will please stand with me for the Pledge of Allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. You may all notice that Larry had to leave for just a little bit, so he will be back for the next meeting. He is usually my invocation person, so I am going to take this task on. If you all will please bow with me. Lord, we just come…”
Board of Commissioners · Sep 21, 2026
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“Commissioners, do you have any questions for Gretchen?”
Board of Commissioners · Sep 21, 2026
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“all right thank you sir i appreciate that that was a great presentation i also want to thank you all uh for coming tonight as well all of the ones of you that are on the the board for the edc thank you um this truly just shows um you know how important this is to to all of you as well so i appreciate you taking the time to come out um commissioners i will turn it over to you all for any questions or comments that you want to make regarding this um I can start with you, Commissioner Wartman.”
Board of Commissioners · Sep 21, 2026
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“And Commissioner Pittman, you have joined us, Sir. I know you missed the presentation. I didn't know if you had anything, any questions you wanted to ask.”
Board of Commissioners · Sep 21, 2026
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“Thank you, Commissioner Pittman. Commissioner Jones, did you have any questions regarding this or comments you'd like to answer?”
Board of Commissioners · Sep 21, 2026
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“Thank you, sir. And Commissioner Patrick.”
Board of Commissioners · Sep 21, 2026
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“We got 2 seconds. Alright, so we have a motion and a second. Are you all in favor or if you are in favor, please say I to move the hold on. Let me get my words right. To make sure that we move the. This resolution to new business. And it will be item. Yes sir you have a question yes.”
Board of Commissioners · Sep 21, 2026
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“No, it'll be on the new business tonight instead of us taking action on it in this meeting. That way, public can be allowed to comment on it in our regular session. All right. So all those in favor of moving this to the new business item F7, please say aye. Aye. Any opposed? All right. That carries 5-0. Thank you. And I do want to take an opportunity to just say We had this discussion in a meeting with Gretchen with the EDC that we have every month. We talk very openly in that meeting. Anyone that's been ever in an EDC meeting with me knows I'm incredibly open about my thoughts and concerns…”
Board of Commissioners · Sep 21, 2026