Stokes health officials discuss conduct, director's job status

The Stokes County Health Board is a joke... It's time for the majority of the board of commissioners to remove other health board members.

From the Winston-Salem Journal:

DANBURY - The Stokes County Board of Health was in a closed-door meeting last night to discuss its own conduct and the job status of the county's health director.

As of 9:30, board members were meeting to discuss a personnel matter after a failed bid to accept minutes from a controversial meeting Aug. 3, when a vote was taken to fire the county's health director, Don Moore.

That decision was subsequently overturned at a meeting Aug. 11 when board members questioned the legality of the earlier meeting because they said that no minutes had been taken. That would violate state open-meetings law.

At last night's meeting, Dr. Sam Simmons, a dentist from King and the vice chairman of the health board, said that the recent actions were an embarrassment. He produced what he said were minutes from the Aug. 3 meeting, but a bid to have the minutes adopted failed by a 5-3 vote.

As for Moore, he returned to work Monday.

However, Simmons said that the county does not have a health director because of the Aug. 3 meeting and that Moore should remove his personal belongings by 10 a.m. today.