Commissioners face busy schedule

Published 1:42 am Friday, April 26, 2013

Beaufort County commissioners and staff members will be busy in the coming days with at least three meetings in addition to the Board of Commissioners’ regularly scheduled May 6 meeting.

At 8:30 a.m. Monday, the Beaufort County Water Committee, comprised of three commissioners, meets at the county administrative offices, 121 W. Third St., Washington. The committee will discuss an on-going project. The notice about the meeting provided no other details.

The commissioners meet with the Beaufort County Board of Education at 4 p.m. Thursday to discuss the Beaufort County Schools’ proposed budget for the 2013-2014 fiscal year. The meeting is set for Beaufort County Schools’ central office, 321 Smaw Road, Washington.

At 8 a.m. May 6, the commissioners meet with the Beaufort County Juvenile Crime Prevention Council to discuss the council’s proposed budget for the 2013-2014 fiscal year. The meeting is set for the meeting room at King Chicken, 601 Carolina Ave., Washington.

The Board of Commissioners is entering its budget-preparation season. State law requires the county to have its 2013-2014 fiscal-year budget in place by July 1. First, County Manager Randell Woodruff will present his proposed budget to the commissioners. Then, the commissioners will hold budget work sessions to review the budget and consider making changes to it. Later, the commissioners will conduct a public hearing on the proposed budget. That hearing will be followed by a meeting at which the commissioners adopt a budget and set the property-tax rate.

About Mike Voss

Mike Voss is the contributing editor at the Washington Daily News. He has a daughter and four grandchildren. Except for nearly six years he worked at the Free Lance-Star in Fredericksburg, Va., in the early to mid-1990s, he has been at the Daily News since April 1986.
Journalism awards:
• Pulitzer Prize for Meritorious Public Service, 1990.
• Society of Professional Journalists: Sigma Delta Chi Award, Bronze Medallion.
• Associated Press Managing Editors’ Public Service Award.
• Investigative Reporters & Editors’ Award.
• North Carolina Press Association, First Place, Public Service Award, 1989.
• North Carolina Press Association, Second Place, Investigative Reporting, 1990.
All those were for the articles he and Betty Gray wrote about the city’s contaminated water system in 1989-1990.
• North Carolina Press Association, First Place, Investigative Reporting, 1991.
• North Carolina Press Association, Third Place, General News Reporting, 2005.
• North Carolina Press Association, Second Place, Lighter Columns, 2006.
Recently learned he will receive another award.
• North Carolina Press Association, First Place, Lighter Columns, 2010.
4. Lectured at or served on seminar panels at journalism schools at UNC-Chapel Hill, University of Maryland, Columbia University, Mary Washington University and Francis Marion University.