Town council makes 2019 appointments

MOORESVILLE

Members of the Mooresville Town Council were officially sworn in and made their new appointments for 2019 posts at Wednesday night’s meeting.

Town council president Tom Warthen explained that the council made such appointments at the beginning of every year.

“There are some appointments that this council does annually,” said Warthen. “The appointments to several boards gives us the opportunity to make sure that everyone is still willing and happy to participate in the boards we have put them on.”

The council reappointed councilman Mark Mathis to the Morgan County Economic Development Corp. Executive Committee after a motion to do so was made by councilman Dustin Stanley. The motion passed unanimously.

During discussion of appointments to the Mooresville Planning Commission, Warthen explained that the Mooresville Town Council appoints three members that are employees of the town to the commission to represent the town. He informed the council that Mooresville Clerk-Treasurer Tammy VanHook and Mooresville Public Works Superintendent Dave Moore presently served on the planning commission and said that new councilwoman Jessica Hester had agreed to take over where former councilman Joe Beikman had left off.

Stanley made a motion to appoint Hester, VanHook, and Moore to the Mooresville Planning Commission, which passed the council unanimously.

The council also discussed appointments to the Mooresville Metropolitan Police Commission at the meeting.

Warthen explained that the Mooresville Metropolitan Police Commission was a bipartisan three-person commission with three-year teams.

Warthen informed the council that Democrat Brian Wiser’s three-year term was up and explained that since he had moved out of the taxing district of Mooresville, he was no longer eligible to serve on the police commission.

In the interest of keeping the commission bipartisan, Warthen recommended the appointment of Libertarian Danny Lundy to the police commission.

Warthen noted that his appointment to the police commission might interfere with his appointment to the Board of the Zoning Appeals and stated that legal counsel would look into the matter.

Mathis made a motion to appoint Lundy to the board, which passed unanimously.

The council also made appointments to the Mooresville Redevelopment Commission at the meeting.

Warthen explained that the redevelopment commission was a six-member commission with two members appointed by the council, three members appointed by presidential appointment and a non-voting member appointed by the school board to serve as their representative. The council selected Stanley to replace Joe Beikman and reappointed Mooresville Redevelopment Commission President Harold Gutzwiller to the commission after Rogers made a motion to do so, which passed unanimously.

Using his presidential appointments, Warthen reappointed Tim Corman, Don Stultz and Bill Boyd to the redevelopment commission.

In other business

• Warthen welcomed new councilwoman Hester to the council.

• The council approved the minutes from the previous meeting of the town council on Dec. 18, 2018. Stanley made a motion to approve the minutes, which passed unanimously.

• During the reorganization of the council’s executive board, Rogers made a motion to keep the same executive board, with Warthen maintaining the position of president and Rogers staying as Vice President. The motion passed unanimously.

• The town council unanimously approved claims in the amount of $468,129.26 after a motion from Rogers to do so.

The next meeting of the Mooresville Town Council will be at 6:30 p.m. on Jan. 16 at the Mooresville Town Government Center, 4 E. Harrison St.

~ By Anthony Woodside | Reporter | Published January 5, 2019 in The Mooresville Times