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436 4• Gustaveson and Walker) ; noes, 3 (Cam'iissioners Barnes, Gtutted and Willhoit) . �• Vote to declare a moratoriman: Ayes, 3 (Commissioners Barnes, Mitted, '• and Willhoit); noes, 2(ccammissicners Gustaveson and Walker) . '• Ms. Barker thanked the Board for its reconsideration of her sub- division request. • Agenda Item 5: Sedimentation and Erosion Control Vacan • The Manager recatarends that the Sedimentation and Erosion Control Officer position which will becans vacant on Septemioer4 be mfrozen. • Commissioner IV&itted moved to unfreeze this position, as recammermded by the Manager; Camaiissioner Barnes seconded the motion. Vote: Ayes, 5; noes, 0. • Agenda Item 6: staff Tame on Du lication of State Audits and Pegulaticns Commissioners Barnes and Gustaveson gave a brief overview of the problem of staff being interrupted to retrieve records/materials already • available due to previous requests from other State Audit teams. The staff • feels there is a duplication of requests and that more coordination on the • part of the state audit teams would result in more productive audits with no wasted staff time reproducing files/records previously requested. There was also the question of perhaps one state auditing team doing all audits • rather than only one aspect of an audit. staff noted these requests are • not mandatory but are administrative in nature from different state De- • partments. Staff felt that the audits were duplicative both in the fiscal and programmatic portions. The Director of Social Services, Director of • Health and Mr. Bill Baxter, Chair, Human services Advisory Commission, felt that the State authorities needed to be made aware of this problem of duplication in audits. • Commissioner Walker, seconded by ozmmissioner Gustaveson, moved to • "ask the State Auditors to come to the County Board to request staff time for any assistance other than the one audit that the law requires." Commissioner Walker mended his motion to "that Staff time for duplicative State reporting must be specifically approved by the Commissioners;" Cam- missioner Gustaveson's second stood. Vote: Ayes, 5; noes, 0. • The Board authorized the Chair write a letter to Secretary MArrow with copies to Governor Hunt and the North Carolina Association of County Ca mussioners outlining the Board's position on this issue . •