REGULAR BOARD MEETING

MINUTES

November 1, 2000

The North Carolina Board of Mortuary Science met for a duly scheduled Board Meeting on November 1, 2000, at 9:15 a.m. in the Board’s office located at 2321 Crabtree Boulevard, Raleigh, North Carolina.

Present: Michael McGhee, President; Nancy Rorie, Vice President; Paul Harris, Secretary; Jimmy Swaringen; Elliott Futrell; Stuart Cozort; Harvey Leavitt and Darryl Hart and Julia Jordan.

Also Present: Andrew Ritter, Executive Director; and Michael Weisel, Board attorney.

Others Present: Patricia Hayes, Terry Hayworth, Aaron Neumeyer, Dan Shackleford, and Jody Tyson.

Mr. Cozort gave the invocation.

President McGhee called the meeting to order and read the conflict of interest statement as requested by the Board of Ethics.  No one recused themselves at this time.

Mr. Harris asked that the minutes, having been previously distributed, be accepted.  Mr. Futrell made the motion and Ms. Jordan seconded.  Motion carried.

Mr. McGhee then called for Committee Reports.

Finance:  Mr. Cozort reported no substantial change to the finance report and made the motion for acceptance.  Ms. Jordan seconded and motion carried.

Mr. Cozort then reported on the Crematory Authority request to retain Harvey Lapin, Harvey I Lapin & Associates, to rewrite the statute which would among other things dissolve the Crematory Authority and have two crematory members to serve on the Board.  Mr. Lapin’s fee for this service, to be all inclusive of expenses, will not exceed $18,000.  The Crematory Authority would forego their CANA trip for 2001 which is budgeted at approximately $12,000 and the $6,000 difference would be the actual real cost.  The reason for this is cremation popularity has continually increased since the inception of the Authority approximately ten years ago and the Crematory Authority served its purpose.  Mr. Cozort made the motion to hire Mr. Lapin.  Mr. Swaringen seconded the motion.  Discussion followed.  Mr. McGhee called for the vote and the motion carried.

Preneed:  Mr. Harris had no report for the month.  Mr. Ritter called attention to the letter was included in the packet regarding staff.  Mr. Harris will set the Preneed workday time with the Preneed Committee.

Disciplinary:  Ms. Rorie handed out the Disciplinary Committee Report.  Item M00-031 was given to Disciplinary only because it was the first time an application like this has been seen.  It is an informational item and would not be voted on.  Discussion ensued.  The Board found nothing to prevent the approval of this matter.  Mr. Cozort made the motion to approve items V0-005, V00-011, V00-014, V00-031, V00-040, M00-025, M00-028, M00-029, and M00-030. Mr. Hart seconded and the motion carried.  Mr. Cozort made the motion to approve item V99-071 and Mr. Hart seconded.  Motion carried.  The Consent Order for Case M99-045 which had been previously approved had been returned signed.  Mr. Futrell made the motion to accept the Consent Order and Ms. Rorie seconded.  Motion carried.

Executive Director’s Report:  The July letter from the Board to the Crematory Authority had one sentence that needed to be corrected on the last sentence, Page 2.  Mr. Ritter asked Mr. Hart to give an explanation regarding a CE request.  Mr. Hart made a motion to waive continuing education for a funeral service licensee on active duty at sea who was unable to obtain his credits for the year.  Mr. Swaringen seconded and motion carried.  Mr. Cozort has been reappointed by Governor Hunt to serve another term.  The State of North Carolina has raised the Bad Check Fee to $25.  January 9 and 10, 2001 have been set for the next Board meetings.  Elections statistics were included in the packet.  Updated statute book has been ordered and will be mailed with the winter newsletter.

Laws and Rules:  Mr. Swaringen presented comments the Board had received regarding the law changes and several changes that should be made.  Discussion ensued.  Mr. Cozort made the motion to remove the continuing education provider application fee from the proposed statutes.  Mr. Leavitt seconded.  Discussion ensued.  Mr. McGhee called for the vote.  Mr. Hart, Ms. Rorie, Mr. Harris and Ms. Jordan voted not to remove the fee.  Mr. Cozort, Mr. Swaringen, Mr. Futrell and Mr. Leavitt voted to remove the fee.  Mr. McGhee then voted for removal and the motion carried.

Crematory:  No report.

Mr. McGhee recognized the Crematory Authority.  Chairman Louis Bennett made comments regarding their meeting in October with Harvey Lapin and other crematory business. 

Old Business:  Mr. Futrell had questions regarding Affordable Cremation Society.  Mr. Nichols responded to his questions.

New Business:  A date for the Public Hearing for the law changes will be set before year-end.  Mr. Harris had comments regarding an informal complaint he had received regarding a mausoleum.

There being no further business Mr. Futrell made the motion to adjourn, seconded by Mr. Cozort and the meeting was adjourned.

                                                                                                                Michael M. McGhee, President

                                                                                                                Paul Harris, Secretary