Halifax County Supervisors have only two public hearings scheduled for

tonight's regular monthly meeting which begins at 6:30 p.m. in the

second floor meeting room of the Mary Bethune Complex.

The first of those hearings deals with a rezoning request from Albert

R. and Mary Y. Vaughan for three parcels of land which total 3.6 acres.

The Vaughans are requesting that the land, located in ED#8 on Riverdale

Hill, be rezoned from A-1, agricultural to B-2, general business to

allow for commercial usage. Much of the surrounding property is already

zoned B-2 and County Planners are recommending approval of the

Vaughans' request.

The second public hearing focuses on a request from SBA Towers II, LLC

for a one year extension of one condition of an already approved

conditional use permit to erect a cell tower on the southside of

Bellevue Road about two-tenths mile east of its intersection with U.S.

Route 360. The original permit was approved in June of 2006 and called

for construction of the tower within the next two years. As of this

date construction has not begun and SBA is seeking another year's

extension of the permit, which Planners have recommended for approval.

Also before the Board tonight will be Harold Throckmorton of the

County's reassessment office and Douglas Powell of the Equalization

Board who will review the processes of their offices concerning the

recent countywide reassessment. During the budgetary public hearings,

many citizens questioned the way the reassessments had been set and the

lack of response to their comments before the Board of Equalization.

Therefore, Supervisors at their last meeting asked that the two men be

present to explain the procedures that have to be followed in doing the

reassessments.

In other business Supervisors are expected to accept a bid from

Virginia-Carolina Paving for the hauling of solid waste from the

County's transfer station to the Mecklenburg County Regional Landfill.

The County received four bids for the service, with prices ranging from

$236 per load to the low bid of $167 per load, which was submitted by

Virginia-Carolina.

According to County Administrator Bryan Foster the County will likely

have to make some four to five trips five days a day to the landfill.

Foster said in advertising for the bids that the fuel factor had been

taken out of the basic bid package and the County had allocated a fuel

allowance of 15 gallons of diesel per trip which at the current rate of

some $4 per gallon would add another $60 per trip to the cost of

transporting solid waste. "We separated the fuel factor out because of

the way costs of fuel have jumped around so," Foster said, "in trying

to be fair to the hauler, as well as to the County."

In unfinished business before the Board tonight is the suggestion of

how profits from this year's County Fair may be allocated. Last month

ED#5 Supervisor James Edmunds suggested that any profits from the

countywide fair should be equally divided among the 12 county volunteer

fire departments. However, other Board members said while recognizing

Edmunds' idea as being a good one, they thought they first should see

how much money the County must invest in the upkeep of the fairgrounds

property before deciding how any profits could be spent.

A proposal for the development of agricultural and forestal districts

(AFD) is also on tonight's agenda. For the past several years

Supervisors have discussed the enactment of land use taxation for AFDs,

and County staff has been asked to develop a proposal for the special

districts. Land use taxation has been a favorite request by many in the

farming community who say that with the loss of the tobacco production,

their taxes exceed their ability to produce sufficient revenue to pay

them.

Two vacancies exist in ED#2 which need to be filled, one on the

Recreation Committee and the other on the Economic Development Council.