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1 <br /> ORANGE COUNTY <br /> BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br /> ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br /> Meeting Date: November 7, 2024 <br /> Action Agenda <br /> Item No. 6-a <br /> SUBJECT: Requests from Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC) Board for General Manager <br /> Salary Cap Increase and ABC Board Member Monthly Stipends Increase <br /> DEPARTMENT: County Manager <br /> ATTACHMENT(S): INFORMATION CONTACT: <br /> 1. October 8, 2024 Information from Tony DuBois, ABC Board General <br /> ABC General Manager Manager, 919-732-3432 <br /> 2. Excerpt from Minutes of the April 5, Judson Williamson, ABC Board Chair, <br /> 2022 BOCC Business Meeting 919-732-3432 <br /> Travis Myren, 919-245-2300 <br /> PURPOSE: To consider requests from the Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC) Board to: <br /> 1) increase the salary cap for the ABC General Manager; and <br /> 2) increase the monthly stipends provided to ABC Board Members. <br /> BACKGROUND: Orange County Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC) General Manager Tony <br /> DuBois, at the request of the ABC Board, submitted information to County staff on October <br /> 8, 2024 with two (2) requests for consideration by the Board of Commissioners (Attachment <br /> 1). <br /> ABC General Manager Salary Cap Increase <br /> The first request is to increase the salary cap for the Orange County ABC General Manager. <br /> North Carolina General Statutes stipulate that the salary of the General Manager of a local <br /> ABC board "shall not exceed the salary authorized by the General Assembly for the clerk of <br /> superior court of the county in which the appointing authority was originally incorporated <br /> unless such compensation is otherwise approved by the appointing authority." <br /> At its April 5, 2022 Business meeting, the Board of Commissioners unanimously approved <br /> an increase to the ABC General Manager's salary cap to $132,000 in response to a request <br /> from the ABC Board. Attachment 2 is an excerpt of the minutes from the Board of <br /> Commissioners' April 5, 2022 Business meeting. More recently, the North Carolina General <br /> Assembly raised the Orange County Clerk of Superior Court's salary effective July 1 , 2024 <br /> to $135,248, above the $132,000 ceiling approved by the Board of County Commissioners <br /> in 2022. <br /> As detailed in Attachment 1, the ABC Board approved salary increases for ABC employees in <br /> February 2024, and approved a salary increase for the ABC General Manager to $127,923 in <br /> July 2024. Attachment 1 notes that the staff salary increases, in conjunction with the current cap <br />