August 2004 The Shoreline Page 3
Life at Town Hall
By Joan Lamson, Mayor
Near the end of February, your elected officials met
with all of the Town’s Department Heads to prepare a
plan of work for the year. This planning retreat has
traditionally focused on a five-year horizon. With a new
mayor and three new commissioners hardly familiar
with the “business of government” we were far from
prepared to complete a full, formal five-year plan.
With our “listening and learning” hats on, we took
the information provided by the staff and then did some
brainstorming of things we thought should be
accomplished. Some of these projects were very simple
and would be done quickly and others were much more
complex and might require multi-year efforts. When we
were finished the items on the list totaled 66, much to our
surprise.
We then sorted the list by the applicable departments
of Administration and Finance, Public Works, and Public
Safety. There were a few projects that did not seem to fit
within these departments so we added a column for
Board of Commissioners and two lonely items fell only
under the Mayor’s responsibility.
The Commissioners were recently asked to rank
these 66 items by priority. We found that nine of the
items were already finished and more were “in the
works.” Seven additional items were ranked as high
priority by a majority of the Commissioners.
Here’s what has been accomplished:
Bring back The Shoreline
Continuation of the occupancy tax program
High-speed Intemet access for the Police Department
Artist’s Project
Improvement of lighting at Town Hall
Look into cable TV charges
New printer for administration office
Computer for Mayor
Computer for Commissioners
Items on the list that are high priority and in the
works now include:
Purchase of the water company
Storm water solutions
Accredited Fire and EMS Department
933/50 year project
Building code change to reduce flood insurance
premiums
Review visibility at rights-of-way
Location markers on the beach for emergency
purposes
Obviously there are many other projects that have
been accomplished that we didn’t even know about
when we made the brainstorm list and we will be
reporting the status of those in future articles.
County Commissioners Approve County
Paramedic Service at PKS EMS Building
Mayor Lamson announced at the beginning of the
July Board of Commissioners meeting that the County
Commissioners had approved County Paramedic
service for the middle of the island to be stationed at
the Public Safety Building. There will be no cost to
the Town.
The Planning Board is working on updating the
Waterways Ordinance that has been in place since
1984.
Gerry Walters was appointed to fill the vacancy on
the Planning Board. THREE MEMBERS’ TERMS
WILL EXPIRE IN SEPTEMBER AND NOW IS
THE TIME TO SUBMIT RESUMES FOR CON
SIDERATION.
The Community Appearance Commission ap
pointed Alternate Clinton Anderson to fill a vacancy.
It was noted that Chairman Bob Curry is back at work
after his recent medical problems.
Two bids were received for street resurfacing, and
APAC Atlantic, Inc. had the significantly lower bid.
The work will be done in August and should take
about two weeks. Work will be done on Pine Knoll
Blvd., Ramsey Dr., Arborvitae Dr., Mimosa Blvd.,
Oakleaf Dr., and Hawthorne Dr., and will include
13,200 feet of double yellow pavement marking
lines. This will be paid for from the Powell Bill fund.
Removal of yard waste from McGinnis Point &
Beacon’s Reach private roads will be done by Robert
Youngblood.
Police Chief Culpepper reported that the “flasher”
was seen again. Take your cell phone with you to the
beach so that you can call the police dispatch at 504-
4800 if you see him.
The Fire & EMS departments are getting prepared
for hurricane season with a new policy that provides
more guidance. The Emergency Management &
Post-Recovery plan is being updated (it is five years
old) and, when finished, it will be submitted to the
County.
The new ISO rating went into effect on July
1. UNHNISHED BUSINESS: Municipal Water
System - Mayor Lamson reports that, “It isn’t over,
so we are working on it.” 933 Project - “Very close
to having it approved”, but Federal budgets have to
be approved first.
NEW BUSINESS: A proclamation was read hon
oring Dick Cumberland who has been inducted into
the Senior Musicians Hall of Fame in Columbus,
Ohio. A second proclamation was read honoring
Vivian Macdonald’s 30 years of volunteer service in
the PKS Garden Club.
By Yvette Bannen, Contributor
Seawall Maintenance
By Bob Ruggiero
It is the responsibility of all property owners whose
lot abuts the canal to maintain the seawall and their dock
in accordance with Town of Pine Knoll Shores Ordinance
16.2-3. The ordinance states that:
“The owner of each property adjacent to a navigable
canal within the Town shall maintain a bulkhead, or
seawall, along the canal at his sole cost and expense. All
bulkheads shall be maintained in a good state of repair
and in such a fashion as to prevent erosion of sand, soil,
other debris and sediment into the canal. Canal front
properties that are not currently bulkheaded shall be
bulkheaded at the sole cost and expense of the owner of
such property within three years of the date of the
adoption of this ordinance. June 13, 2000.”
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Thanks are due to the Town’s Police and Fire Departments for their participation in the Fourth of July
Celebration at Bogue Banks Country Club. The Police Department set up a table to display our
Community Policing information, including the new “I am OK” program. This program allows the Police
Department to call the subscriber (no-charge) every morning between certain hours to ascertain if
everything is, indeed, “OK.” The Community Policing bike was also on display as well as information
on appropriate lock systems for your home. The Police also talked
about the availability of a Home Safety Survey wherein a Police
man will come to your home at your request and go through a
checklist with you of the safety and security of your home. Most
of the questions that were asked at this event had to do with
security such as how to best secure doors and windows. The
“Friendly” Policemen also passed out coloring books and crayons
to the children attending this event. Call the Police Department at
247-2474 for more information on any of these projects.
Our Fire/EMS Department was also present at the celebration.
As they have done for many years, there was a fire truck parked
near the fireworks display area. The EMS ambulance was parked
at Gamer Park, standing ready if needed, and out of the way of a
very fully parked parking lot. Rumor has it that the firemen did not
get hot dogs due to rain-soaked buns... or was it rain-soaked dogs?
By Joan Lamson, Mayor
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