Greenville Boards & Commissions

COUNTY GOVERNMENT CONT.

Meeting time: Second Tuesday of each month, excluding July and August, at 6:30 p.m.; location is determined by the committee, rotating throughout the city

Public Transportation and Parking Commission

Established: November 1998 Duties: Investigate, review and study the public transit needs of Greenville, on-street parking policies throughout the city and the parking needs of the downtown area Meeting time: Third Wednesday of each month, excluding July and December, at 9:15 a.m. in the conference room of the Public Works facility, 1500 Beatty St.

Recreation and Parks Commission

Established: January 1951 Duties: Promote recreation and develop parks for Greenville residents Meeting time: Second Wednesday of each month, except August and December, at 5:30 p.m. in City Council chambers, third foor of City Hall

Redevelopment Commission

Established: June 2002 Duties: Promote redevelopment of the blighted areas within the territorial limits of the city of Greenville in the interest of the public health, safety, morals, or welfare of city residents Meeting time: Four times a year in February, May, August, and November at 5:30 p.m. in the City Council chambers, third foor of City Hall

Sheppard Memorial Library Board

Established: Date unknown Duties: Establish policies for the library; provide and maintain adequate library buildings, grounds and equipment Meeting time: Third Wednesday of January, March, July and October at 5:30 p.m. in the conference room of Sheppard Memorial Library, 530 S. Evans St.

Youth Council

Established: August 2005 Duties: Make recommendations to city council regarding issues afecting the city of Greenville, emphasizing those issues of particular interest to youth; to provide leadership and guidance in matters relating to the youth of the city, to individuals, to public and private organizations and agencies; to comment on requests made to the City Council related to the areas of particular interest to youth. Meeting time: Fourth Mondays of each month except June, July and August at 6:30 p.m. in the third-foor conference room of City Hall

The Pitt County Board of Pitt County Government provides services ranging from law enforcement and social services to education, health, recreation and more to more than 175,000 county residents. County leadership operates with a $235.6 million budget with revenues from local, state and federal sources. The 2018-19 property tax rate is 67.97 cents per $100 valuation. The county’s main website is pittcountync. gov. It provides details and links to most county operations. Chairwoman Beth Ward, District C (Districts 4 and 5 combined), retired East Carolina University lecturer and public school principal, 112 Lakewood Drive, Greenville, NC 27834. Phone: 252-355-7724. Email: bwardelizabeth@gmail.com. Term expires 2020.

ADMINISTRATION

Vice Chairman Melvin McLawhorn, District A (Districts 1 and 2 combined), retired probation/parole administrator, 100 Allendale Drive, Greenville, NC 27834. Phone: 252-355-7290. Fax: 252-353-0469. Email: king2006mac@yahoo.com. Term expires 2020. Alex Allbright, District 4, retired professor, 3196 Eason St., Fountain, NC 27829. Phone: 252-749-7974. Email: alex.albright@pittcountync.gov. Term expires 2022. Tom Coulson, District B (Districts 3&6 combined), senior engineer of Urethane Innovators, 506 Eleanor St., Greenville, NC 27858. Phone: 252-321-2942. Fax: 252-637-2077. Email: tcoulson@urethaneusa.com. Term expires 2020. Mike Fitzpatrick, District 5, lawyer, 611 Kings Road, Greenville, NC, 27858, Email: mike. ftzpatrick@pittcountync.gov. Phone: 252-689-6699. Term expires 2022. Ann Floyd Huggins, District 1, retired, 1500 Spruce St., Greenville, NC 27834, Phone: 252-757-1144. Email: ann. foydhuggins@pittcountync.gov. Term expires 2022. Chris Nunnally, District 3, lawyer, educator, 2503 E. Fifth St., Greenville, NC, 27858. Phone: 252-917-7374. Email: chris. nunnally@pittcountync.gov. Term expires 2022. Mary Perkins-Williams, District 2, retired educator, 2197 Old River Road, Greenville, NC 27834. Phone: 252-215-3064. Email: pittcounty.commissionerd2@gmail.com. Term expires 2022. Lauren White, District 6, farmer’s wife, mom, 3875 Black Jack-Simpson Road, Greenville, 27858. Phone: 252-341-5522. Email: lauren.white@pittcountync.gov. Term expires 2022

DEPARTMENTS

If no address is listed, the ofce is housed in the Pitt County Administrative Ofce Building, 1717 W. Fifth St. Most departmental websites are accessible through pittcountync.gov and can be contacted through the “Contact Us” option on each webpage. ► Animal Services: Michele

Whaley, director, 902-1725. 4550 County Home Road.

Website:www.pittcountync. gov/PCAS. Pitt County

Animal Services provides protection of the County’s animals from cruelty and neglect, administers rabies control, and operates the Pitt

County Animal Shelter, which serves to house, care, place, or provide humane resolution for animals in its care. ► Building and Grounds: Mike

Rogers, superintendent, 902-2625. Pitt County Ofce

Park, 121 New Hope Road.

Provides repair and maintenance services to all county properties. ► Clerk of Superior Court:

Sara Beth Fulford Rhodes, 695-7100. P.O. Box 6067.

Fax: 830-3144. Manages records for civil and criminal court and estate proceedings. ► Cooperative Extension

Service: Leigh Guth, director, 902-1700. 403 Government Circle. Website: www. ces.ncsu.edu/pitt. Email:

Leigh_Guth@ncsu.edu. The

N.C. Cooperative Extension

Service is funded and managed by the county, state and federal governments.

It provides information on agriculture, home economics, youth and community and rural development. The

Pitt County Arboretum is an educational program of N.C.

Cooperative Extension in

Pitt County. The Arboretum is open from dawn to dusk seven days a week free of charge. Guided walking tours are given at 10 a.m. on the frst Thursday of each month except from June to August when tours begin at 9 a.m.

For more information call 902-1705, email pittcomgv@ hotmail.com, or visit http:// pitt.ces.ncsu.edu, ► Detention Center: Major Jef

Phillips, chief of detention services, 902-2850. 124 New Hope Road. Fax: 830-4628. A division of the

Sherif’s Ofce, the center houses federal, state and county inmates who are awaiting trial or have been sentenced to brief periods of incarceration. ► Development Commission:

Scott Darnell, director.

Phone: 902-2075. P.O. Box 837 /111 S. Washington

Street, Greenville, NC 27835.

Email: pittedc@pittcountync. gov. Website: www.locateincarolina.com. The development commission recruits new industry to Greenville

and Pitt County while supporting existing industry. It aims to promote job growth, industrial diversity and an expansion of the local tax base. ► Elections Ofce: David Davis, director, Phone: 902-3300.

Fax: 830-1157. Email: pittelections@pittcountync. gov. This ofce is responsible for conducting all national, state, county and municipal elections in Pitt County and special referendums along with maintaining voter registration roles and election boundaries. ► Engineering: Tim Corley, county engineer, 902-3150.

Email: tim.corley@pittcountync.gov. The engineering department manages solid waste and recycling, buildings and grounds, inspections, permitting and the planning & Development department. ► Environmental Health: Mark

Phelps, division director.

General number: 902-3200.

A division of Pitt County

Public Health, the ofce is responsible for protecting public health through education and enforcement.

Environmental health specialists act as agents of the state in conducting regular inspections of restaurants, meat markets, schools and other businesses. The division is also responsible for permitting septic tanks. ► Financial Services: Brian

Barrett, deputy county manager/chief fnancial ofcer. General number: 902- 3000. Financial Services is responsible for managing the fnancial operations of the county, including formulating an annual budget, conducting the annual audit process and coordinating borrowing as necessary for capital construction. ► Emergency Management:

Randy Gentry, director, 902- 3950. Emergency management contains the following divisions: fre marshal, 911 communications, and emergency medical services.

Emergency management coordinates responses to disasters, such as tornadoes, hurricanes, foods, nuclear accidents, winter storms and other threats. The 911 communications division receives emergency-response calls for all municipal and unincorporated parts of Pitt County, 24 hours a day and directs the appropriate agencies to respond. ► Health Department: Dr. John

Silvernail, director, 902-2300 (general information and appointments). Earl Trevathan

Jr., M.D. Public Health Center, 201 Government Circle.

Website: www.pittcountync.gov/PCHD. The health department ofers a wide array of clinical and community health services that focus on the prevention of communicable diseases and the promotion of wellness.

Examples of services include immunizations, communicable disease screening, family planning, prenatal care, case management services for pregnant women and children, WIC, public health preparedness planning, and community health education programs. ► Human Resources: Florida

Hardy, director, 902-3050.

Website: www.pittcountync. gov/HREmail. The human resources department is responsible for recruitment and screening, new employee orientation, maintenance of the county’s classifcation and pay plan, interpretation of personnel policies, development and implementation of employee benefts programs and employee training program. The department also maintains a listing of job vacancies available in county government. Information on current job vacancies and the application process are available by calling the county job line at 902-1001 or

online at www.pittcountync. gov/JOBS. ► Legal: Janis Gallagher, county attorney 902-3100 Email: janis.gallagher@pittcountync.gov. The legal department provides legal advice, consultation, defense and representation to the Board of County Commissioners and all county departments and agencies. ► Management Information

Systems: Mike Taylor, deputy county manager/chief information ofcer, 902-3800.

Website: www.pittcountync. gov/MIS. The department works with county agencies to provide technology support for county computer operations. ► Pitt Area Transit System:

Cam Coburn, director, 902-2010. Website: www. pittcountync.gov/PATS. PATS provides transportation services to the human service agencies and Pitt County residents living outside the

Greenville city limits. Transportation is available Monday through Friday 6 a.m. to 7 p.m. and Saturday 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. within Greenville only. To schedule transportation call 902-2002 Monday through Friday between 9 a.m. and 2 p.m. ► Planning & Development:

James Rhodes, Director, 902-3250. Website: www. pittcountync.gov/PLANNING.

The Planning Department develops and implements land use, transportation, and recreation plans for the unincorporated portions of

Pitt County. Staf members administer various development-related regulations, including zoning, land subdivision, food damage prevention and soil erosion and sedimentation control. The department also provides community development programs, mapping services and census information. ► Inspections: Reginald

Satterfeld, chief building inspector, 902-3150.

Website: www.pittcountync. gov/INSPECTIONS. The inspections division enforces all building code regulations and performs inspections in the unincorporated areas of the county and for all municipalities with the exception of Greenville, 329-4466, and

Farmville, 753-5921 and

Winterville, 215-2419. ► Recreation: Community

Schools and Recreation,

Ron Butler, director; Diane

B. White, assistant director;

Jennifer Lanier-Coward, associate director; Alice Keene, special projects coordinator.

Phone: 902-1975. 4561

County Home Road. Website: www.pittcsr.com. Community

Schools & Recreation provides an array of recreation programs including teen programs, youth and adult sports, summer programs and camps, after-school programs, adult exercise and dance classes, and programs for seniors. Programs are held in the Community

Schools & Recreation Center, and at school facilities across

Pitt County. The department also coordinates the use of school facilities being used by organizations, agencies and individuals. ► Register of Deeds: Lisa

Nichols, 902-1650. Website: www.pittcountync.gov/

ROD. 100 W. Third St. Ofce processes records, property transfers, birth and death certifcates and other vital records. ► Sherif: Paula Dance, 902- 2800, 100 W. Third St. Fax: 830-4166. Website: www. pittcountysherif.com. Ofce provides law enforcement and other protective services for unincorporated areas of Pitt County and several small municipalities. Also serves criminal and civil court summons. ► Social Services: Jan

Elliott, director, 902-1110.

BOARDS & COMMISSIONS CONT.

1717 W. Fifth Street and 203

Government Circle. Website: www.pittcountync.gov/DSS.

Pitt County DSS provides fnancial assistance and social services to all county residents who meet eligibility criteria. Its purpose is to enable individuals to become self-sufcient, to improve their standard of living, to learn to cope adequately with their problems, and to provide preventive services that will avoid family breakup and enable individuals to remain in their own homes.

The two main program areas providing services are Income Maintenance Programs and the Services/Social Work

Programs. ► Solid Waste & Recycling:

John Demary, director, 902- 3350. 3025 Landfll Road.

Pitt County operates 14 collection and recycling centers.

It operates the Solid Waste

Transfer Station located on

Allen Road. The site is open

Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. and from 8 a.m. to noon Saturday. A fee is charged for non-residential waste. ► Tax Administration: Samuel

Croom, tax administrator: 902-3400. 110 S. Evans

St. Fax: 830-0753. Website: www.pittcountync.gov/TAX.

The assessment division appraises, lists, and assesses all taxable real and personal property each year and furnishes tax base fgures to the county, municipalities and fre departments for budget purposes. ► Collection division: 902- 3425. 111 S. Washington

St. Fax: 830-1935. The collection division is in charge of collecting tax payments on real estate and personal property. It also collects on short-term lease or rental of motor vehicles, beer and wine licenses and motel and hotel occupancy taxes. Residents can pay taxes online and check due balances at www.pittcountync.gov/Tax

Collector. ► Veterans Services: Teresa Ball, ofce manager, 902-3090.Website: www. pittcountync.gov/VS. The ofce is open from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. and serves to assist veterans and their dependents with applying for and coordinating benefts they are eligible to receive. These benefts include: burial, compensation, education, home improvements and loans, life and health insurance, medical, pension, rehabilitation, and others.

COUNTY COMMISSIONERS

The Pitt County Board of Commissioners is a nine-person elected body that governs the county, sets priorities and makes spending decisions. Members are elected to staggered four-year terms. The board meets the frst Monday of each month at 9 a.m. and the third Monday of each month at 6 p.m. in the Eugene James Commissioners’ Auditorium in the Pitt County Ofce Building: 1717 W. Fifth St., Greenville, NC 27834. Phone: 902-1000. Website: www.pittcountync.gov

► Chairman Melvin McLawhorn, District A (Districts 1 and 2 combined), retired probation/parole administrator, 100 Allendale Drive,

Greenville, NC 27834.

Phone: 252-355-7290. Fax: 252-353-0469. Email: king2006mac@yahoo.com. Term expires 2020. ► Vice Chairman Tom Coulson,

District B (Districts 3&6 combined), senior engineer of Urethane Innovators, 506

Eleanor St., Greenville, NC 27858. Phone: 252-321- 2942. Fax: 252-637-2077.

Email: tcoulson@urethaneusa.com. Term expires 2020. ► Alex Allbright, District 4, retired professor, 3196 Eason

St., Fountain, NC 27829.

Phone: 252-749-7974.

Email: alex.albright@pittcountync.gov. Term expires 2022. ► Mike Fitzpatrick, District 5, lawyer, 611 Kings Road,

Greenville, NC, 27858, Email: mike.ftzpatrick@pittcountync.gov. Phone: 252-689- 6699. Term expires 2022. ► Ann Floyd Huggins, District 1, retired, 1500 Spruce St.,

Greenville, NC 27834, Phone: 252-757-1144. Email: ann. foydhuggins@pittcountync. gov. Term expires 2022. ► Chris Nunnally, District 3, lawyer, educator, 2503 E.

Fifth St., Greenville, NC, 27858. Phone: 252-917- 7374. Email: chris.nunnally@pittcountync.gov. Term expires 2022. ► Beth Ward, District C (Districts 4 and 5 combined), retired East Carolina University lecturer and public school principal, 112 Lakewood

Drive, Greenville, NC 27834.

Phone: 252-355-7724.

Email: bwardelizabeth@ gmail.com. Term expires 2020. ► Mary Perkins-Williams,

District 2, retired educator, 2197 Old River Road, Greenville, NC 27834. Phone: 252- 215-3064. Email: pittcounty. commissionerd2@gmail.com.

Term expires 2022. ► Lauren White, District 6, stay-home parent, family farm partner, 3875 Black

Jack-Simpson Road, Greenville, 27858. Phone: 252- 341-5522. Email: lauren. white@pittcountync.gov.

Term expires 2022.

COURT SYSTEMS

Pitt County court system

Pitt County Superior and District Courts are part of the North Carolina court system. Operations are largely funded through state appropriations and facilities through county funds. State judges, prosecutors and public defenders along with private attorneys conduct civil and criminal matters daily with assistance from the Pitt County Sherif’s Ofce and local law enforcement. ► Superior Court: Criminal

Superior Court hears felony cases and cases appealed from District

Court. Civil Superior Court handles cases involving disputes in excess of $10,000 and other matters as provided by law. ► District Court: Criminal court meets every day in Greenville; Ayden and

Farmville courts are held every other week on

Thursdays. The court handles trafc cases, misdemeanors, probable-cause hearings on felony cases, criminal domestic violence cases and all frst-appearance hearings. First appearances are usually held in a courtroom at the Pitt

County Detention Center each morning at 8 a.m. ► Juvenile Court: Contact the district court judges ofce for the schedule of juvenile delinquency sessions and juvenile abuse, neglect and dependency sessions.

Cases involve the district attorney and the Department of Social Services. ► Civil Sessions: Contact the district court judges ofce for the schedule of civil district court sessions. ► Superior Court Judges:

Marvin K. Blount III, senior resident; Jefrey B. Foster, resident. 695-7260. ► District Court Judges: Chief

Judge G. Galen Braddy;

Brian DeSoto; Daniel Entzminger; Lee Teague; Wendy

Hazelton. 695-7270. Posts are subject to change in

November election. ► Magistrates: Ofces are located at 124 New Hope

Road, Greenville, 752- 1140, and 4144 West

Ave., Ayden, 746-7049.