Board of Supervisors - Special Meeting

Good afternoon. Call the meeting to order. Kayla, would you call the roll, please?

Yes, sir. Mr. Brown.

I'm here.

Mr. Brown, since you are participating remotely, can you give me the address and the reason that you're calling in?

I'm on Lenoxville Road in Beaufort, North Carolina. I'm on vacation.

Thank you. Cool. Mr. Bowman?

Here.

Mr. Dalton?

Here.

Mr. Dudley?

Present.

Mr. Whittle?

Here.

Mr. Ingram? Here. Mr. Tucker?

Here.

And can you also give me the address and the reason that you are calling in?

I'm at 3900 Atlantic Avenue, Virginia Beach. I'm on vacation.

Thank you. Cool.

All right, thank you. What about a motion to approve the agenda?

I'll make a motion to approve it, Mr. Chairman.

Thank you, Mr. Dalton. Second. Thank you, Mr. Boland. Kayla?

All right, it is open. Mr. Brown?

Yes.

Mr. Tucker?

Yes.

Thank you.

Okay. Item 4 was approved 7-0. New business item 4A, consideration of extension of tax due date. And I'll take a motion on that.

Mr. Ingram.

Yes, sir.

Thank you so much for being there to chair the meeting and to just give a quick statement. You know, being chairman, I am supposed to attempt to provide leadership, not only for the board, but also for the entire residents of Pennsylvania County. And I want to state succinctly and expressly that there's no hidden agendas or any political motives in what we are about to do. Unfortunately, the tax bills were mailed out only two weeks prior to. The general public has been conditioned over a period of time of receiving their tax bills approximately 30 days prior to that due date. That being said, with USPS, we commonly call snail mail, it takes a little longer than normal to receive those bills. And again, it takes a bit of planning on the part of some residents to be able to budget to prepare for their, to pay their taxes rather. Okay. So that being said, I certainly don't want to set a precedence here, but at the same time, You know, and it's not about rewarding people that pay late or anything like that. And I appreciate all the people that have paid their taxes already. But what it does is it prevents in the long run people from actually paying penalties in the event that they are late getting their tax bills and they are late getting them postmarked. and they are late getting them paid. So I want to at least alleviate any additional costs on our residents. So that is the major reason that I called this, and this is not on all of the supervisors, but I did have a conversation with all of the supervisors one-on-one, but I think, and I appreciate that it's incumbent upon this board to take action. And the statute allows us to do that. And, you know, going forward, if the treasurer decides to, you know, petition the board, she is at liberty to do so to ask for an extension. So that being said, I'm going to make that motion to extend our due date, 10 calendar days. That's my motion.

Okay. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. We'll have about a second. Mr. Whittle, thank you, sir. Any comments or questions about that from the board?

Mr. Chairman, thank you. And, Mr. Chairman, I hope you're enjoying yourself. I'll be down there in a couple of more weeks. So that's a very good statement that you made there. Also, I would like to say that the 10th is actually in between a lot of folks' pay period. So the 1st and the 15th is usually when people get paid throughout the year. And this also gives folks time. For instance, if they go out and bought a nice big truck in November of last year, at fifty thousand dollars and all of a sudden they get their tax bill now whatever they owe on that fifteen hundred dollars by moving this this would give them an opportunity to budget that next paycheck which would be on the fifteenth to help pay for that particular tax bill so taking that into consideration i think it's probably a good move so thank you mister thank you sir any other comments

Mr. Chairman. Yes, sir.

Thank you, sir, Mr. Chairman. Yeah, I'm going to echo some of the same comments as Mr. Tucker and Mr. Bowman just said. I had several constituents to reach out to me and, you know, a lot of these people's on fixed incomes and they don't really know what money they have until they actually get that bill in their hand. And some of them was really late getting it for whatever reason. I know with the mail and all of that may be part of the problem. But they wait to get that bill to see how much their budget is going to allow them to pay. So this will give them opportunity to hopefully be able to get their bill paid and not be penalized on paying their taxes because the ones that reached out, they want to pay them at the time. They just didn't have any money. So I think this is going to be good for everybody.

Thank you, Mr. Dalton. I agree. Anyone else? All right. Thank you. We're not taking any comments from the audience. So anyone else? Counselor?

You are correct. It's not a public hearing.

Yeah, there's nothing on the agenda as far as comments from the general public. So we're going to go ahead and continue with the vote and close this out.

Mr. Brown?

Yes.

Mr. Tucker?

Yes.

Thank you.

Okay, the motion passed 7-0. Item number five, members, matters from any of the board members. Any of you guys have anything? All right, thank you. Having said that, we are...