February 16, 2001

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New DOT Secretary Lyndo Tippett (left), in his swearing-in speech, says maintenance is his top priority. In one of its last actions before their terms end, the outgoing Board of Transportation awards resurfacing contracts totaling $39.6 million to give a face-lift to more than 780 miles of primary and secondary highways.

"I am confident that these citizens will help me fulfill my vision of one North Carolina by building an integrated transportation system that allows all areas of the state to prosper," said Easley. "This board has the combined expertise necessary to meet North Carolina's greatest transportation challenges-which include highway maintenance, mass transit to help relieve congestion in our urban areas, and building the infrastructure that will allow our rural areas to attract new industry."

Under legislation passed by the General Assembly last year, the size of the board was reduced from 26 to 19 voting members, all appointed by the governor. The board now will consist of 14 members representing each of the state's highway divisions and five at-large members with expertise in specific areas. The secretary of Transportation serves as an ex-officio member of the board.

Members representing divisions 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, and 13 and the three at-large members with expertise in the environment, state ports and aviation, and finance will serve four-year terms. Members representing highway divisions 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, and 14 and the two at-large members with expertise in rural transportation and mass transit will first serve two-year terms and four-year terms thereafter.

As required by the new law, the governor has sent the names of the proposed appointees to the Joint Legislative Transportation Oversight Committee for review. The appointees are:

Division 1 -- Paul Waff of Edenton will represent Bertie, Camden, Chowan, Currituck, Dare, Gates, Hertford, Hyde, Martin, Northampton, Pasquotank, Perquimans, Tyrrell and Washington counties. Waff is owner of Waff Contracting Inc., a contracting firm specializing in heavy commercial and industrial construction.

Division 2 -- Collice Moore of Greenville will represent Beaufort, Carteret, Craven, Greene, Jones, Lenoir, Pamlico and Pitt counties. He has served on the Board since 1997. Moore is a 1961 graduate of N.C. State University and owns a real estate business. He served on the Meredith College Board of Trustees and as president of the Pitt County Board of Realtors.

Division 3-- Lanny Wilson of Wilmington will represent Brunswick, Duplin, New Hanover, Onslow, Pender and Sampson counties. Wilson, an attorney, currently serves as president of Intracoastal Properties, Inc. a real estate development company. He also is a managing partner of Wilson Brothers Partnership, a real estate holding company, and managing partner of Esquire Properties, Inc. an investment company.

Division 4- Clark Jenkins of Tarboro will represent Edgecombe, Halifax, Johnston, Nash, Wayne and Wilson counties. He has served on the Board since 1993. Since 1997, Jenkins has worked with W.S. Clark Farms in Tarboro, a farm management company. He is former president of Royster Clark, Inc., a fertilizer manufacturer and distributor of agricultural chemicals and seeds. He is a past member and president of the Edgecombe County Development Corporation.

Division 5-- Ty Cox of Durham will represent Durham, Franklin, Granville, Person, Vance, Wake and Warren counties. Cox is a managing partner of Ty Cox & Co. CPAs and a former assistant state auditor.

Division 6 -- Mac Campbell Jr. of Elizabethtown will represent Bladen, Columbus, Cumberland, Harnett and Robeson counties. Campbell has worked at his family's business, Campbell Oil Co., Inc., since 1968 and serves as president of the company. He is a 1968 graduate of the University of North Carolina at Pembroke. Currently, he serves as a trustee at UNC Pembroke and on the N.C. State University Aid Association Board.

Division 7 - Doug Galyon of Greensboro will represent Alamance, Caswell, Guilford, Orange and Rockingham counties. He has served on the Board since 1993. Galyon is the director of Public Affairs at Guilford Mills Inc. He is a member of the Council on Governmental Liaison for the Greensboro Area Chamber of Commerce, Advisory Board for Leadership Greensboro, Spartan Excellence Fund for the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and on the Governmental Liaison Committee for NCCBI. Galyon served on the Greensboro City Council from 1981 to 1984 and has served on the Guilford County Board of Commissioners.

Division 8 -- G.R. Kindley of Rockingham will represent Chatham, Hoke, Lee, Montgomery, Moore, Randolph, Richmond and Scotland counties. He has served on the Board since 1993. Kindley served as vice chairman of the Board from 1997 to 2000. Kindley served as mayor of Rockingham from 1977-1997 and is president of Southern Builders Inc. in Rockingham.

Division 9 -- Nancy Dunn of Winston-Salem will represent Davidson, Davie, Forsyth, Rowan and Stokes counties. Dunn is president and founder of Aladdin Travel and Marketing Planners. She currently serves on the Old Salem Board of Trustees, the NCCBI Board of Directors and the Winston-Salem Alliance Board of Directors.

Division 10 -- Ed Dolby of Charlotte will represent Anson, Cabarrus, Mecklenburg, Stanly and Union counties. Dolby is president of Bank of America for North and South Carolina. He is chair of the company's multi-cultural leadership team and a member of the company's commercial and consumer executive team. Dolby earned a degree from Shaw University in 1966 and served in the Peace Corps from 1966 to 1968. He serves on the boards of the N.C. Community Colleges Foundation, Carolinas Partnerships and the Washington, D.C. Martin Luther King, Jr. National Memorial Project Foundation.

Division 11 -- Sam Erby Jr. of Granite Falls will represent Alleghany, Ashe, Avery, Caldwell, Surry, Watauga, Wilkes and Yadkin counties. He has served on the Board since 1997. Erby is president of Erby & Associates Inc., a government relations firm. He has served as deputy commissioner of western regional affairs for the N.C. Department of Insurance and was a revenue officer for the N.C. Department of Revenue. He is a licensed contractor and a graduate of Western Piedmont Community College and the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He is past president of the Granite Falls Optimist Club, Granite Falls Lions Club and serves on the Granite Falls Zoning and Planning Board.

Division 12 - Frank Johnson of Statesville will represent Alexander, Catawba, Cleveland, Gaston, Iredell and Lincoln counties. Johnson is president, founder and general manager of JMS Southeast Inc. and president of Statesville Process Instruments in Statesville. He is a 1971 graduate of Belmont Abbey College and currently serves on their Board of Trustees. Johnson is Director of the Greater Statesville Chamber of Commerce and has held leadership positions in ISA, the world's society for measurement and control, headquartered in Research Triangle Park.

Division 13 -- Allen Thornburg of Asheville will represent Buncombe, Burke, Madison, McDowell, Mitchell, Rutherford and Yancey counties. Thornburg is an attorney with the firm of Patla, Straus, Robinson & Moore P.A. in Asheville. His practice areas include estate planning and administration and business organizations. His public service includes the following offices: associate chair of the University of North Carolina at Asheville Foundation Board of Directors; Council of Advisors, Warren Wilson College Environmental Leadership Center; Steering Committee, Emerald Land Trust of the Southern Appalachians Highlands Conservancy; and Board of Directors, Opportunity Corporation of Madison-Buncombe Counties.

Division 14-- Conrad Burrell of Sylva will represent Cherokee, Clay, Graham, Haywood, Henderson, Jackson, Macon, Polk, Swain and Transylvania counties. Burrell retired in 1998 as Register of Deeds for Jackson County and as a member of the Jackson County Board of Commissioners. Prior to his retirement, he served as legislative chairman, secretary and president of the North Carolina Association of Register of Deeds. A former member of the Board of Trustees at Harris Regional Hospital in Sylva, Burrell currently serves as chair of the Board of Trustees for Southwestern Community College.

In addition, Gov. Easley proposed five at-large appointments with expertise in specific transportation-related areas.

Nina Szlosberg of Raleigh will represent environmental issues. Szlosberg is president of the Conservation Council of North Carolina and chair of the Hillsborough Street Partnership, which is working to improve the historic Hillsborough Street area in Raleigh and promote smart growth along this corridor. Szlosberg also owns NAPRO Communications Inc., an independent television/video production and media consulting company.

Cam McRae of Kinston will represent state ports and aviation issues. McRae is the owner/operator and president of Tands Inc., a franchise operating 23 Bojangles' Famous Chicken-N-Biscuits restaurants in Eastern North Carolina. He also is owner and president of C-Store Inc. which operates two convenience stores called RightWay. A graduate of the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, McRae is active in many community organizations including the Caswell District of Boy Scouts of America, Kinston/Lenior County Chamber of Commerce and the Kinston Rotary Club.

Louis Sewell of Jacksonville will represent rural transportation issues. Sewell retired from Employee of Investors Management Corporation (Golden Corral Corp.) in 2000. He is a 1961 graduate of East Carolina University in Greenville, and served on the ECU Board of Trustees from 1993 to 1995. Sewell also served on the N.C. Board of Transportation from 1982 to 1985 and on several local boards including ABC, Tourism and the Hospital Authority for Onslow County. From 1961 to 1974, Sewell was a public school teacher and administrator in Onslow County.

Margaret Kluttz of Salisbury will represent mass transit issues. She has served on the Board since 1993. A former mayor of Salisbury, Kluttz served as chair of the N.C. Rail Council and as co-chair of the Transit 2001 Commission where she helped develop recommendations on how to improve public transportation across the State. Currently, she serves as a board member for Food Lion Corporation and is past president of the Historic Salisbury Foundation. Kluttz serves as a member of the Regional Transit Authority Task Force and is past president of the Board of Directors for the N.C. Heart Association.

Larry Helms of Indian Trail will represent government-related finance and accounting issues. Helms is the owner of Larry S. Helms & Associates Insurance Agency. He is also a retired manager with BellSouth Telecommunications and a retired Lt. Colonel with the North Carolina National Guard. As a member of the Union County Board of Commissioners since 1998, Helms is also a former mayor and town council member of Union Trail. He has served as past president of the North Carolina Telephone Pioneers and the Indian Trail Lions Club and as a past member of the Mecklenburg Union Metropolitan Planning Organization.

The former members of the DOT board were Lisa Crutchfield of Cornelius, Thomas P. Dillon of Monroe, Frank Emory Jr. of Charlotte, Sam Erby Jr. of Granite Falls, Douglas Galyon of Greensboro, Major David Green of Parkton, C. David Hughes Jr. of Charlotte, Clark Jenkins of Tarboro, G.R. Kindley of Rockingham, who serves as vice-chairman of the board, Margaret Kluttz of Salisbury, Ron Leatherwood of Waynesville, Bob Mattocks of New Bern, Louise McColl of Wilmington, Eric C. Michaux of Durham, Collice Moore of Greenville, Gordon Myers of Fairview, Jack Palmer Jr. of Shelby, Dennis Rash of Charlotte, Dalton D. Ruffin of Winston-Salem, Juanita D. Shearer-Swink of Raleigh, Rebecca R. Smothers of High Point, Joseph K. Stanley of Shallotte, Durwood Stephenson of Smithfield and Charles Ward of Hertford.

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