Randolph County Board of Commissioners - Randolph Record

15 Sep

Fire Marshal’s Office to start charging for specific services

Ryan HenkelGovernmentFire Marshal, Randolph County Board of Commissioners

ASHEBORO — The Randolph County Board of Commissioners met Tuesday, September 6, with the Fire Marshal’s Office’s request for a new fee schedule, the fire district reformatting, and the purchase of property for the I-74 Industrial Site; the key items on the agenda for consideration. The Fire Marshal’s Office brought forth a request before the board to add a fee schedule to some of the services that the office provides. “Since the inception of the North Carolina Fire Code in the early 1990s, Randolph County Fire Marshal’s Office has provided permit consultation, plan review, and specialty inspections services free of…

03 Aug

Local state of emergency officially terminated in Randolph County

Ryan Henkel, North State JournalGovernmentRandolph County Board of Commissioners, state of emergency

ASHEBORO — The Randolph County Board of Commissioners met Monday where the local State of Emergency was officially terminated, and the board approved multiple financial items. One of the first items of action that the board took was for Chairman Darrell Frye to officially terminate the local State of Emergency in Randolph County that had been enacted in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic following the end of the statewide State of Emergency in North Carolina. “Looking back, they always say hindsight is 20/20, but I think we did about as good as we could do through that process,” Frye…

13 Jul

Next set of Fire District restructuring begins after Board of Commissioners approval

Ryan Henkel, North State JournalNewsfire districts, Randolph County Board of Commissioners

ASHEBORO — The Randolph County Board of Commissioners met Monday with the restructuring of a new set of Fire Districts as well as a presentation of an improvement plan for the Health Department. These were the top items on the agenda. The process of restructuring the Fire Districts in Randolph County to remove the 15-cent tax rate cap that these districts had continued with four new districts was brought forth before the board for approval to start the process. The process – which has already been completed for Guil-Rand, Climax, West Side, and Franklinville Fire Districts – began with the…

08 Jun

Four Fire Districts officially restructured to remove fire tax cap

Ryan HenkelGovernment, NewsRandolph County Board of Commissioners

ASHEBORO — The Randolph County Board of Commissioners met Monday, June 6 where they officially approved the abolishment and subsequent restructuring of four of the county’s fire districts. The County closed the final public hearings for the fire tax district restructuring for Climax, Franklinville, Guil-Rand and Westside fire departments and passed the resolution to officially change all four of them. The four fire departments will still cover the same areas, the only change is that they will no longer be held to a 15 cent fire tax cap, albeit the departments still would have to get approval by the Board…

05 May

County board chairman says the restructuring of fire districts is not a tax increase

Ryan HenkelGovernmentAsheboro, fire districts, Randolph County Board of Commissioners

ASHEBORO – The Randolph County Board of Commissioners met Monday with multiple budget items on the agenda as well as to provide some clarification in regards to the new fire districts. First up, the board of commissioners approved the final design by HH Architecture for the development of the Farm, Food and Family Education Center as well as a budget amendment to reallocate the funds that the county had already set aside for the project. The plan, which will cost $29,564,000, will have around 44 acres of development with around 60 acres of undeveloped land as a buffer. “There’s a…

09 Mar

Commissioners vote leaves courthouse monument in place

Ryan HenkelNewsAsheboro, Randolph County Board of Commissioners

ASHEBORO — The Randolph County Board of Commissioners met on Monday to vote on and discuss multiple items on the agenda, in particular ones pertaining to emergency services and the allocation of funding for special projects. As promised at the previous meeting, the board also voted on the status of the Confederate monument standing in front of the historic courthouse. After nearly an hour of public comments related to the Confederate monument, Board Chairman Darrell Frye said he believed it was time to take a vote related to the statue to make the board’s position clear. Commissioner Hope Haywood asked…