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	Jan. 27, 2005 Edition Sylva, NC Volume 79, No. 44

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	Commissioners to keep EDC records until audit is complete - County leaders agreed Tuesday (Jan. 25) to return seized Economic Development Commission documents, but not until after auditors present them with a final report. Then, they said, they will sit down with EDC board members for the joint session that group requested last week. A meeting of the two groups had been tentatively scheduled for....

	Wind damages scoreboard - A storm system passing over Western North Carolina brought high winds and a dusting of snow to most of Jackson County Saturday night (Jan. 22). Winds blowing through Carr Hooper Stadium at Smoky Mountain High School....

	Officials' Jan. 12 closed session may have violated Open Meetings Law, attorney says - By failing to discuss publicly the reasoning leading up to their Jan. 12 decisions that included removing Tom McClure from appointed county posts and suspending participation in the Economic Development Commission of Jackson County, local officials may have violated North Carolina's Open Meetings Law. Minutes of the Jan. 12 open session, which was a continuation of Jackson County Commissioners' Jan. 11 regular meeting, do not include any discussion of Chairman....

	EDC seeks return of records, meeting with commissioners - Members of the body charged with promoting economic expansion in Jackson County want their financial records back. Those documents were seized Jan. 12 by county government officials after county commissioners' same-day decision to conduct an audit of the Economic Development Commission of Jackson County. Meeting in emergency session a week after deputies obtained the EDC's checkbook and minutes, EDC members voted to ask for the return of their financial records.



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	Preliminary EDC audit shows 'no evidence of wrongdoing' - "No evidence of wrongdoing by any county employee" is the preliminary conclusion of an audit into the county's economic development office and the Economic Development Commission, said auditor Mitch Crisp of Dixon Hughes PLLC. After about an hour of meeting in closed session Jan. 19, Commissioners' Chairman Stacy Buchanan announced that he was "happy to report that no action was taken concerning any county employee in closed session." The meeting was called so commissioners....

	Grand effort nets a grand - If you've dropped a dollar or two in American Red Cross canisters that appeared on area store counters in past weeks, be glad to know your effort helped raise $1,000 to go toward Southeast Asia tsunami relief efforts. The fund-raiser was the brainstorm and project of about 45 Indonesian students who are currently working in Cashiers and Cherokee and studying the hospitality industry at Southwestern Community College. While none of the students had....

	Wilkie to replace Luker as county TWSA board appointee - Tuckaseigee Water and Sewer Authority board members reelected Mickey Luker their chairman last Tuesday (Jan. 18) at nearly the same hour county commissioners appointed another to take his place. While Luker has served on the TWSA board for five years and as its chairman for three and a half, county leaders instead chose Frank Wilkie to join Randall Turpin as their two TWSA appointments. Until the county suspended its participation in the Economic Development Commission Jan. 12, Wilkie had served as a county representative to the EDC.


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