The position pays $50 a meeting and the board usually meets once a month.
Applicants may file at the County Manager’s Office, Administration Building, South Hancock Street, Rockingham.
Monday night the Richmond County Board of Commissioners appointed the present members to new terms.
They are Harvey Melton, Jim Lambeth, Greg Norton, Richard Williams, Fred Morris and Dr. Diane Honeycutt.
One more member remains to be appointed.
The newly-appointed board members will be asked to draw numbers to decide what staggered term each will receive.
Commissioners approved staggered terms so the members would not all come up for reappointment at the same time.
All terms to follow will be for three years.
In addition to the one regular member to be appointed to the board, commissioners were asked to select one or two alternate members to be recommended should a member resign during a term in office.
Alternates will not be paid unless a member was absent and they take a seat on the board.
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Paul Wilson Jr. was not present at the Monday meeting of county commissioners. Chairman Kenneth Robinette said Wilson had been ill, but was doing better.
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County Manager Jim Haynes said the Richmond County Sheriff’s Office was working on a grant application to the Community Oriented Policing Service (COPS) Hiring Recovery Program under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.
He said they may seek up to eight deputies through COPS. The sheriff’s office has given an estimate up to $700,000 which might be needed to provide deputies for the new judicial center being constructed.
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Haynes mentioned that efforts are under way in Raleigh by state government to make some road construction and maintenance projects a county responsibility.
He said the cost of that effort would equal what the county would have had to pay for Medicaid which was recently assumed by the state — $5 million a year.
He said while the costs for Medicaid are continually increasing, road construction and maintenance will increase also.
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Richmond County has now assumed responsibility for one employee in the Richmond County Soil and Water Conservation Office.
Commissioners Monday night approved an operational agreement with the U.S. Department of Agriculture Natural Resources Conservation Service and Department of Environmental and Natural Resources, Division of Soil and Water Conservation.
Since the county had paid for this position in the past through a contribution to the conservation office, the net cost to the county is the same by carrying it as a county position.
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Terry Myers, coordinator of Environmental Impact Resource Conservation and Development, introduced himself to commissioners and pledged his support for local conservation efforts.
The office has participated in several projects since 2001. The latest is participation with Resource Institute and National Oceanic and Atmosphere Administration to provide $153,275 toward the partial removal of the Steele’s Mill Dam scheduled this year.
Last year the office participated with Hamlet in its Small Town Main Street Program.
Contact reporter Tom MacCallum at 997-3111, ext. 15; e-mail tmaccallum@yourdailyjournal.com.
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