Current Members and Board Descriptions

• has power and authority to adopt rules and regulations governing the operation of stores;
• locate, furnish and equip stores and provide management of the same;
• direct the duties and services of all employees;
• perform other activities authorized or required by the ABC law (G.S. 18B-701/702).

The ABC Board Chairman, ABC General Manager and ABC Chief Finance Officer are allowed to sign checks for the ABC system. 

ABC Board Office Conference Room
424 Person Street

Fayetteville, NC

• Visits to assigned Adult Care homes each quarter to include completion of a quarterly report by each sub-committee;
• Promotes community involvement in facilities;
• Promotes community education and awareness of the needs of the aging in facilities;
• Serves as a resource of volunteers;
• Helps to maintain the intent of the Residents’ Bill of Rights;
• Becomes aware of conditions in facilities and assists grievance processes.

• Hear appeals from determinations of the Animal Services Director (or his designee) concerning potentially dangerous, dangerous or vicious dogs;
• Hear any other appeals provided for by ordinance concerning determinations of the Animal Services Department;
• Provide advice and information to the Animal Services Department;
• Upon coordination with the Animal Services Director, make recommendations to the Board of Commissioners for the betterment of the county’s animal services program;
• In conjunction with the Animal Services Department and the county’s Communications Manager, provide for a program of public education, information and outreach concerning responsible pet ownership, animal cruelty, and the county’s animal control program;
• Select officers of the board, including a chairperson, and adopt rules of procedure.

• Conduct administrative reviews and decide appeals where it is alleged by the appellant that there is an error in any order, requirement, permit, decision, determination , refusal made by the Planning and Inspections Director or other administrative officials in the carrying out or enforcement of any provisions of the zoning ordinance;
• Hear, deny or approve applications for variances and special use permits from the terms of the zoning ordinance;
• Interpret the official zoning maps;
• Rule on matters concerning nonconforming uses;
• Hear and approve or deny applications for High Density Development and variances from the provisions of the County Water Supply Watershed Management and Protection Ordinance;
• Hear and rule on appeals and variance requests from the County’s Flood Damage Prevention Ordinance.

• Protect and promote the public health;
• Adopt rules necessary to promote and protect public health (includes environmental health issues);
• Impose fees for services, except where prohibited by statute or where an employee of the Health Department is performing the services as an agent of the state;
• After consultation with the Board of County Commissioners; may appoint a local health director.

• Must be an advocate for the Health System and its services;
• Must participate in the review and approval of the Capital and Operating Budget of the Health System;
• Must participate in the employment and evaluation of a Director who shall serve as the Chief Executive Officer;
• Must adopt policies/rules governing the operation of the health system.

• Carry out any duty or assignment expressly delegated by resolution of the board of County Commissioners;
• To make such reasonable rules and regulations for its own proper organization and management of the Civic Center facilities, provided such rules and regulations do not conflict with and are not inconsistent with the laws of the State of North Carolina or ordinances of Cumberland County.

• Reviews medical examiners’ reports, death certificates and other records of deceased county residents under the age of 18;
• Members discuss outcomes of services and circumstances surrounding the child’s death;
• Promote understanding of the causes of child deaths and identify deficiencies in the delivery of services to children and families by public agencies;
• Make and carry out recommendations for changes that will prevent future child deaths.

• Functions as a resource to the Mid-Carolina Area Agency on Aging by obtaining input from service providers, older consumers and their families in the development of an annual Aging Funding Plan;
• Serves in an advisory capacity for the Care Management service provided by Mid-Carolina Area Agency on Aging.

• Aids in the financing or industrial and manufacturing facilities for the purpose of alleviating unemployment or raising below average manufacturing wages by financing industrial and manufacturing facilities which provide job opportunities or pay better wages;
• Aids in financing pollution control facilities for industry in connection with manufacturing and industrial facilities and for public utilities;
• Conducts any and all other activities as shall from time to time be found to be appropriate in connection with the foregoing and as are lawful under the Act.

• Annual review of the needs of juveniles in the county who are at-risk or who have been adjudicated. Council shall develop a request for proposal process and submit to the County Commissioners a written plan of expenditures. Upon the County’s authorization, the plan must be approved by the Office;
• Ensure appropriate community based intermediate dispositions for adjudicated juveniles are available, pursuant to minimum standards set by the Office; and 
• Perform the following on an ongoing basis:
  1. Assess needs of juveniles in the community, evaluate resources, plan for unmet needs;
  2. Evaluate performance of juvenile services/programs as a condition of continued funding of programs;
  3. Increase public awareness causes of delinquency and prevention efforts;
  4. Develop intervention strategies and risk assessments for at-risk youth;
  5. Provide funds for services: treatment/counseling/parenting/rehabilitation;
  6. Plan permanent funding streams for delinquency prevention programs.

• Provide a basis for the community to develop and tailor a chemical emergency planning and response program to suit its needs;
• Provide the public with identity, quantity, location, and properties of hazardous substances in the community;
• Review the county and facility plans annually and conduct emergency drills to test the plan. The annual review of the plan should include a hazards analysis and an evaluation of available resources that could be used during a response for a chemical incident.

FTCC General Classroom Building

Room 114

2817 Ft. Bragg Rd

• Examines and reviews tax records to insure all taxable property has been listed and appraised in accordance with the standards required by law.
• Approves the correction of tax listings, errors and omissions.
• Increases or reduces the value of property which has been appealed.
• Approves tax refunds or releases of value, abating tax penalties, and approving supplemental bills.

• Examines and reviews tax records to insure all taxable property has been listed and appraised in accordance with the standards required by law.
• Corrects listings, errors and omissions.
• Approves tax refunds or releases of value.
• Hears motor vehicle valuation appeals, abates tax penalties and approves supplemental bill.

1. Promote the health, safety, rural agricultural values, and general welfare of the County;
2. Increase identity and pride in the agricultural community and its way of life;
3. Encourage the economic and financial health of agriculture;
4. Make recommendations to the Cumberland County Joint Planning Board and Board of Commissioners regarding issues involving farmland in Cumberland County.

Historic Cumberland County Courthouse,
Room 107C

130 Gillespie Street
Fayetteville, NC

• Responsible for reviewing, approving and monitoring the financial integrity of the Fayetteville Area Convention and Visitors Bureau;
• Helps establish and monitor the implementation and administration of policies and programs;
• Approves and supports the Fayetteville Area Convention and Visitors Bureau’s programs within the community;
• Hire, support and evaluate the performance of the President and CEO of the Fayetteville Area Convention and Visitors Bureau.

Fayetteville Area Convention and Visitors Bureau
Board Room

245 Person Street
Fayetteville, NC

201 Hay Street

R. B. Williams Building Ste 401A

Fayetteville, NC

• Power to elect and employ the president of the College;
• Power to acquire, hold and transfer real and personal property;
• Power to enter into contracts;
• Power to institute and defend legal actions and to exercise such other rights and privileges as may be necessary for the management and administration of the College in accordance with the provisions and purposes of state law;
• Ensure the adequacy of the college’s budget, educational programs and facilities;
• Advocate for the College;
• The Board of Trustees has the responsibility for the development and operation of the College in accordance with the provisions of the law and the standards of the State Board of Community Colleges.

• Promotes studies and plans of the recreational needs of the County;
• Informs and advises the Board of County Commissioners and public of the needs for facilities and programs;
• Advises the Recreation Director in planning recreational programs, acquiring land and water areas and in accepting any grant, gift, bequest or donation of any personal or real properties offered or made available for recreational purposes.

City of Fayetteville Parks & Recreation

121 Lamon Street
Fayetteville, NC

Festival Park Plaza Training Room 1st Floor

225 Ray Ave

Fayetteville, NC 28301

Fayetteville City Hall

E.E. Smith Conference Room

• Final approval of plat variance waiver requests in the County;
• Reviews, holds hearings and approves or makes recommendations on area studies, future land use plans, transportation improvement projects, zoning matters, and most land use issues throughout the County.

• Responsible for compiling the Master Jury List that is to be used in Cumberland County for each year. It must be prepared by, and in compliance with, the North Carolina General Statutes as well as local Orders of the Court;
• The Commission first meets to make decisions as to how it will direct the Master List to be prepared. This meeting will be attended by Court Officials to offer any assistance the Commission may request, and to provide clerical support.;
• The last meeting is to review the Master Jury List and the Statement of Sources and Procedures, which sets forth in writing how the Commission prepared the list. If the list meets the Commission’s criteria, the Commission then presents a printed Master Jury List to the Register of Deeds for filing and the Statement of Sources and procedures to the Clerk of Superior Court for filing.

Judge E. Maurice Braswell Courthouse

3rd Floor

117 Dick Street, Fayetteville

• Formulate and adopt programs, policies and regulations for government of the library, subject to the fiscal control and other policies and regulations of the Board of County Commissioners;
• The Board makes recommendations to the governing body concerning the construction and improvement of buildings and other structures for the Library system;
• Supervises and cares for the facilities of the Library system;
• Appoints a Director of Library Services;
• Establishes a schedule of fines for late return of, failure of return, damage to, and loss of Library materials, and to take other measures to protect and regulate the use of such materials;
• Participate in preparing the annual budget for the Library system for approval by the Board of County Commissioners;
• Extends the privileges and use of the Library system to non-residents of Cumberland County, on any terms or conditions the Library Board may prescribe. 
  Advises the Board of County Commissioners on Library matters;
• Accepts, on behalf of and in the name of Cumberland County, any gift, grant, bequest, exchange, loan, etc., without the prior approval of the Board of County Commissioners.

• Assist with public hearings held relative to aging issues;
• Represents the interests of older persons;
• Reviews and comments on policy, programs, and actions which affect older adults;
• Reviews and comments on the area plan and/or plan amendments as submitted by the Area Agency on Aging to the North Carolina Division of Aging for approval.

• Visits to assigned nursing homes each quarter to include completion of a quarterly report by each subcommittee;
• Promotes community involvement in facilities;
• Promotes community education and awareness of the needs of the aging in facilities;
• Serves as a resource of volunteers;
• Become aware of conditions in facilities and assists grievance processes.

• Serves as an advisory organization for senior citizens governmental units, providing those units with assistance in securing funding and in meeting responsibilities to senior citizens in the area;
• Assists city and county agencies (related to activities of senior citizens) in securing funds, grants, or appropriations necessary to function as directed by city, county, state and federal governments;
• Commission members may visit health care or recreation facilities.

FCPR Senior Center, Large Program Room

739 Blue Street

Fayetteville, NC

• Responsible for consultation with the Director of the Department of Social Services regarding the department’s mandates and planning and submission of the agency budget to the Board of County Commissioners;
• Responsible for hiring the Social Services Department Director;
• Advise the County and various municipal authorities in developing policies and plans to improve the social conditions of the community.

• Expend the net proceeds of the occupancy tax authorized by and levied under Session Laws 2001 Chapter 484, as amended from time to time, for the purposes provided in that act;
• Promote travel, tourism and conventions in the County, sponsor tourist-related capital projects in the County;
• Contract for and be contracted with, apply for and accept grants and gifts for the accomplishment of the purposes provided in the act.

Judge E. Maurice Braswell Courthouse

5th Floor, Room 564

117 Dick Street, Fayetteville

• Provides a safe, dependable, accessible and affordable transportation program for elderly and disabled Cumberland County residents in order to enhance their quality of life;
• Allocates funds received through the ROAP Grant to local agencies providing transportation to the elderly, disabled and rural residents of Cumberland County;
• Oversees the official actions of the Community Transportation Program and ensures that Federal and State requirements are met.