4The Daily Tar HeelThursday, February 8, 1990
City
Caorboro Aldermen revise format of town bodgei
By KIM JASKI
Staff Writer
The Carrboro Board of Aldermen
approved a revised budget format
Tuesday evening, which would allow
the board to assess programs the tow n
manager brings before them.
Larry Gibson, assistant town man
ager, said board members had expressed
interest in developing a new budget
format. Aldermen said the present for
mat did not give them enough input in
the budget process.
"This (the new format) would give
the board a better opportunity to evalu
ate changes recommended by the
manager," Gibson said.
The board approved the new format
but wants the staff to add appendices
summarizing costs by each program
and department, Gibson added.
During the retreat, members of the
board requested that the continuation
budget, which is necessary to keep
programs operating at their present
level, be kept separate from the recom
mended changes and proposals for the
new budget.
Town Manager Robert Morgan will
take the continuation budget and add
the changes and improvements consid
ered to be in the community's best
interest. He will then present it to the
aldermen as his budget proposal in the
spring. Morgan was out of town at a
conference and could not be reached
for comment.
"It is obvious that our community is
growing," said Alderman Milliard
Caldwell. "We want to maintain the
same level of services for Carrboro that
we have now."
During the retreat, aldermen ex
pressed interest in building a Carrboro
community center, improving side
walks and street maintenance, expand
ing bus service, improving traffic sig
nals and adding personnel in fire and
police protection.
"We really did not discuss the pro
posals and changes Tuesday night,"
Caldwell said. "We tried to stay away
from that since that had been done at
the retreat."
Alderman Jay Bryan said that during
the retreat, the board had expressed
ideas and issues they wanted to be
considered for the budget. He added
that individuals had said what they felt
needed to be examined in the town.
"Mr. Morgan now will price the ideas
out as separate options," said Bryan.
Caldwell said he hoped the commu
nity center would get consideration.
"Some people feel that there is a need
for a community center in Carrboro,,
and I am one of those people."
The task for Morgan and his staff;?;
now is to present a budget that fits the;":
priorities of Carrboro. Gibson said;:
preliminary projections showed "taxes;
may need to be increased five cents for."
every $ 100 on valuation, but this is just; .
a projection now."
"One has to keep in mind that it is;,
always good for the town not to have a'
tax increase," Caldwell said, "and that
is being kept under close scrutiny."
Council continues search to fill vacant town manager position
By JENNIFER FOSTER
Staff Writer
The Chapel Hill Town Council needs
to continue its efforts in the search to
find a new town manager, said council
member Julie Andresen.
The position became vacant in Janu
ary after former town manager, David
Taylor, resigned. Taylor had served as
the town manager for more than seven
years. He announced his resignation
last November, effective Dec. 31, to
become chief executive of the Chapel
Hill-Can boro Chamber of Commerce.
"The work is ahead, what we need to
do at this point is to decide w hat to do
next," Andresen said. She said the
council needs to formulate a plan of
action to take once the application
deadline has been reached.
The deadline for applications to be
filed is Feb. 28, and current plans call
for the new manager to be working by
September.
The town council met in January to
discuss plans for the selection process.
but it had not taken any action on selec
tion since then, Andresen said.
"I think that at this point, the council
is as involved as we could be," said Joe
Herzenberg, a member of the town
council who participated in the last
search for a town manager in 1981. He
said there was not much more the coun
cil could do until the applications were
in.
Mayor Jonathan Howes and Town
Personnel Director Pat Crotts wrote an
advertisement to encourage interest in
the job. After Howes met with town
council members to review the adver
tisement, it was inserted in government-related
professional journals.
Crotts said the council decided to
run the advertisement in five different
sources beginning in mid-January.
These journals include the International
City Management Association publi
cation and the N.C. League of Munici
palities Newsletter.
Crotts added neither she nor the
council had begun to review any appli
cations. She said approximately 40
people have expressed interest in the
position since the advertisement began
running.
The advertisement calls for appli
cants who have demonstrated effective
leadership, management, communica
tion and organizational skills. It also
requests a strong background in budg
eting and financial management, and
experience in growth management.
Other job requirements include a
master's degree in public administra
tion and a minimum of seven years
experience as a local government
manager or assistant manager.
Sonna Loewenthal, interim town
manager, said she was not interested in
the job at this time. Loewenthal had
been the assistant town manager when
Taylor resigned.
Crotts said the council is responsible
for deciding the exact screening and
interviewing process which will take
place between Feb. 28 and the actual
selection of the new town manager.
Proposal passes with flying colors
By JENNIFER FOSTER
Staff Writer
The Chapel Hill Town Council
passed a resolution last week to create
a representation of the residents' pride
in their city a Chapel Hill town flag.
Council Member Nancy Preston
introduced the resolution. The proposal
to design a flag to crown the new addi
tion to the Town Hall was a compro
mise from a previous idea.
A suggestion was originally made to
construct a clock tower in the same
location, but the council decided the
proposal would be too expensive. The
council voted last week instead to allot
$500 for the design and manufacture of
a town flag.
"We needed something to be a
symbol for us, to stand for the town,"
said Preston.
Preston said she hoped the flag would
be ready when the renovations to the
town hall building on North Columbia
Street are completed and opened to the
public this spring.
Julie Andresen, a council member
who voted for the resolution, said she
did not feel the flag was a necessary
addition, but it would help to make the
new landmark more visible.
The resolution also called for Mayor
Jonathan Howes to appoint a flag de
sign committee. Howes said this ap
pointment process was just beginning,
and no members had been named yet.
Following the appointment, a graphic
design artist would be hired and asked
to submit a number of designs to the
committee, which would choose one of
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Howes said the selection process for
the design artist would be up to the
committee. He said it would likely
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Preston said the council had no spe
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Howes said one idea which had been
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Land division standards amended
By ELIZABETH MURRAY
Staff Writer
The collar has been temporarily
loosened for rural landowners who
want to subdivide their tracts of land
in the University Lake watershed area,
but they are not being let off their
leash.
The Orange County Board of
Commissioners voted Monday to
adopt amendments to an interim
measure that will expire on April 2,
when county commissioners hope to
have decided on permanent meas
ures. The amendments give people who
have owned land in the watershed as
of Oct. 1 the opportunity to subdivide
up to five two-acre lots. The rest of
the land must remain at the five-acre
minimum, according to former
Chapel Hill Town Council member
David Godschallc
The amendments came at a time
when Orange and Chatham county
residents were concerned about pro
tecting water quality in the watershed.
Godschalk, who was part of a joint
work group that recommended a five
acre lot minimum, said this was a fair
way of balancing concerns of landown
ers with the concerns of the people in
Orange County.
The board also discussed what would
go to the Feb. 28 public hearing for the
permanent watershed standards: The
board decided to go with the recom
mendations of an engineering firm that
did a study of the watershed, said
Commissioner Donald Wilhoit, who
also served on the work group.
He said the firm gave two recom
mendations for the watershed land, both
of which the board would consider.
The first called for five-acre lot sizes
with an allowance for 6 percent of the
tract to be developed. The second called
for a two-acre lot minimum requiring
detention ponds to catch pollutants
that accumulate on roads and rooftops
and are carried into the lake.
The intergovernmental work group,
which consists of representatives from
Chapel Hill, Carrboro and Orange
County, did not recommend the use of
the two-acre proposal but wanted to
give the public a chance to speak on
the issue, Wilhoit said. "We haven't
changed our minds. There is no back
ing off by the Board of Commission
ers to protect water quality at Univer
sity Lake."
But he said if the two-acre lot
minimum proposal should eventually
be implemented, it would not pose a
serious problem to the watershed. It
would, however, be expensive to
maintain detention ponds to keep
pollutants out of the watershed. Wil
hoit said the ponds would be a "viable
alternative that would require long
term commitment."
Policy takes bite out of campus cookie sales
By LISA ANTONUCCI
Staff Writer
The Girl Scouts' annual cookie
campaign is once again in full swing,
but UNC students will have to leave
campus this year to buy the cookies.
According to Wayne Kuncl, director
of housing and residential education,
campus policy does not allow any
commercial solicitation on University
property by organizations not recog
nized by UNC.
"It is a long-established policy, and
I am following the direction of the
chancellor," Kuncl said. "To solicit on
campus, they would have to be a recog
nized student organization and would
have to have authorization from my
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Susan Thomas, Orange County
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"I find it puzzling that T-shirt and
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"I don't know where else you can
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