The Stanly County Board of Commissioners approved county board appointments for three boards on June 2. Photo courtesy StanlyTV

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ALBEMARLE — The Stanly County Board of Commissioners recently made membership adjustments to three boards delegated to county approval.

At the commissioners’ meeting on Monday night, they were presented with pending appointments for the Juvenile Crime Prevention Council (JCPC), an extraterritorial jurisdiction (ETJ) representative for the Norwood Planning and Zoning Board, and the Stanly Community College (SCC) Board of Trustees.

Dolly Clayton, the county’s health and human services director, told the commissioners that Stanly County had membership applications for the Juvenile Crime Prevention Council for Kathy Johansen, Michael Hatley and Victoria Ramos.

“The Juvenile Crime Prevention Council is a voluntary council that is made up of about 20 members of different professions that are required by general statute, and there are a couple of public members as well,” Clayton said prior to the commissioners’ vote on the agenda item.

The board unanimously voted to appoint Hatley and Ramos to the JCPC.

Next up, County Manager Andy Lucas presented the commissioners with the Town of Norwood’s request for Douglas Smith to be the county’s ETJ representative for the Norwood Planning and Zoning Board as a replacement for Walter Davis, who opted not to seek reappointment at the end of his three-year term.

Commissioner Bill Lawhon made a motion to nominate Smith for the position: “He’s an upstanding citizen. I know the majority of the other people that serve on that board are mainly citizens of Norwood, which they should be.”

The commissioners then voted 7-0 in favor of Smith’s nomination.

In the final board appointment agenda item of the night, Lucas told the commissioners that the SCC Board of Trustees had one available appointment that needed to be filled; the decision was far from unanimous as Melvin Poole and Blake Underwood were both presented as nominees for the community college’s leadership role.

Poole came out on top in the narrow voting lines.

Chairman Mike Barbee and Vice Chairman Brandon King joined Commissioners Billy Mills and Patty Crump in voting for Melvin Poole, while Commissioners Lawhon, Scott Efird and Trent Hatley voted for Blake Underwood.

“I would also like to say that we’ve lost four appointees to this board,” Barbee said after the vote. “The legislature took four governor appointments away from us, so to those who didn’t get on, please contact your representative or your senator and see if you can get added back there.”

The Stanly County Board of Commissioners is set to hold its next regular meeting on July 7 at 6 p.m. inside the Gene McIntyre Meeting Room at Stanly County Commons.