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1 <br /> ORANGE COUNTY <br /> BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br /> ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br /> Meeting Date: September 3, 2019 <br /> Action Agenda <br /> Item No. 4-b <br /> SUBJECT: Appointment of Tax Administrator <br /> DEPARTMENT: County Manager <br /> County Attorney <br /> ATTACHMENT(S): INFORMATION CONTACT: <br /> 1. Resolution Appointing Nancy Taylor Bonnie Hammersley, County Manager, <br /> Freeman as Orange County Tax (919) 245-2306 <br /> Administrator John Roberts, County Attorney, (919) <br /> 2. Resolution 2019-044 Appointing Nancy 245-2318 <br /> Taylor Freeman as Interim Orange <br /> County Tax Collector - June 18, 2019 <br /> PURPOSE: To approve a resolution appointing Nancy Taylor Freeman as Orange County Tax <br /> Administrator effective September 3, 2019. <br /> BACKGROUND: Timothy Dwane Brinson resigned from the position of Orange County Tax <br /> Administrator effective June 28, 2019. Mr. Brinson was appointed to serve as the Orange <br /> County Tax Assessor and Orange County Tax Collector for a term on four years as per <br /> Resolution 2019-023, adopted by the Board of Commissioners on April 2, 2019. The Orange <br /> County Tax Administrator serves in the statutory roles of both the Orange County Tax Assessor <br /> and the Orange County Tax Collector. <br /> Sections 105-294 and 105-349 of the North Carolina General Statutes provide that the Board of <br /> County Commissioners appoint a County Assessor and Tax Collector. The statutes do not <br /> specify a length of term of tax collector but require the county assessor be appointed to a term <br /> of not less than two and no more than four years. The statutes also provide that the offices of <br /> County Assessor and Tax Collector are offices that may be held concurrently with another <br /> appointive or elective office. The Board of County Commissioners shall appoint a qualified <br /> person to serve as County Assessor or Tax Collector for the period of the unexpired term upon <br /> a vacancy as per North Carolina Law. <br /> As per the Orange County Code of Ordinances Section 28-5, all appointments and promotions <br /> of employees of the County are made solely on the basis of merit and fitness designed to <br /> provide an objective method of recruiting persons best qualified. Orange County held a <br /> competitive recruitment for the position of Tax Administrator. Three candidates were invited to <br /> interview before two panels. One panel consisted of community partners with representation <br /> from the Town of Chapel Hill, Orange Water and Sewer Authority and department directors. <br />