'4The Daily Tar HeelMonday, February 12, 1990
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By KRIS DONAHUE
Staff VVn.or
The Chapel Hill Town Council will
consider resolutions for building addi
tions and renovations to the Lambda
Chi Alpha Fraternity House Tuesday
night.
At a Jan. 16 public hearing, the
council considered a proposal to reno
vate and add a two-story addition to the
main house, move and restore the his
toric cottage and remove the existing
guest cottage.
The property, which is located at 229
i. Franklin St., is currently under the
provisions of a special use permit that
hinders the improvements. Gamma Nu
Foundation, Inc. is requesting approval
of a special use permit modification on
behalf of Lambda Chi Alpha.
The fraternity wants to remove the
guest house at the rear of the property
and join the main house with the his
toric cottage, which would involve
moving the historic cottage toward the
front of the property.
In an earlier council memorandum,
the town council listed key compo
nents for the application as parking,
sidewalks and Pickard Lane improve
ments.
The Historic District Commission
recommended on Jan. 1 1 that the coun
cil adopt a resolution requiring the fra
ternity to provide a brick sidewalk along
Franklin Street. The Gamma Nu Foun
dation has objected to providing a side
walk contending that it is unfair be
cause the town recently installed side
walks at Little and Big Fraternity Courts.
The town built the sidewalks as part
of the approved Capital Improvements
Project based on the sidewalk plan. The
approved sidewalk plans include a walk
in front of the Lambda Chi Alpha house.
but it has yet to be constructed.
Other items on the agenda will in
clude a presentation by the chairman of
the Human Services Advisory Board
(HSAB) of the 1990-91 Human Serv
ices Needs report.
The report summarizes the board's
sense of what procedures should be
followed in allocating town human
services funds, according to an HSAB
memo. It has four sections which in
clude the town government's responsi
bilities in meeting human service needs,
the HSAB's responsibilities, the cate
gories of recurrent need in Chapel Hill
and solutions to the stated needs.
One section of the report states that
it is the town's responsibility to meet
the needs of residents in the areas of
access, affordability and quality of
dependent care assistance whether it be
child, adult, handicapped or respite care.
This section of the report will be
covered more thoroughly when the
council discusses appropriations in the
area of child care. One appropriation
would be $5,000 for the Day Care
Services Association. This money
would help pay the day care costs for 28
children in Orange County who would
probably otherwise become latch-key
children because of the lack of funds
from the Orange County Department
of Social Services.
The second appropriation would
increase the original human services
budget ordinance for the current year
by $5,000.
Town Council member Alan Rimer
believes the appropriations for child
care are a good idea.
"Day care, like transportation, seems
like a necessity to help people out," he
said. "I'm in favor of it."
Power company to return money to overcharged customers
By ANDRE HAUSER
Staff Writer
Thousands of people in western
North Carolina will get refunds from
their power company soon because of a
ruling Wednesday from the state's
highest court.
The unanimous N.C. Supreme Court
ruling against Nantahala Power and
Light Co. means that the company must
return more than $2.5 million that it has
overcharged customers since 1 987. This
will probably result in a $40 rebate for
the average residential customer and
decreases of about $ 1 a month on future
power bills, according to figures pro
vided by the Public Staff, a state-supported
consumer's group.
Nantahala is a power company serv
ing portions of five counties at the
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has approximately 48,000 customers.
It was the only state power company
that refused to comply with a Utilities
Commission rate change announced in
1986, although other power compa
nies, such as Carolina Power and Light,
argued with the commission at the time.
Public Staff began proceedings
against Nantahala in Oct. 1986, and in
Oct. 1987 the company w as ordered to
comply w ith the rate change. Nantahala
appealed the decision and was granted
a stay.
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Jan. 17, 1989. Public Staff took the case
to the state Supreme Court, and on Feb.
7 the appeals court decision was re
versed, according to A. W. Turner Jr.,
an attorney for Public Staff.
Fred Alexander, a Nantahala repre
sentative, said they did not comply with
the rate change because "we felt there
were some things that were unfair in
our specific case," but he would not
give specific examples. Alexander had
not yet seen a copy of the decision, but
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The change in rates is due to the Tax
Reform Law of 1986, which went into
effect on July 1, 1987. It dropped cor
porate tax rates from 46 percent to 34
percent. Utility rates depend on the
normal operating expenses a company
faces, such as fuel costs, salaries and
taxes, according to Robert Bennink,
general counsel for the Utilities Com
mission. When tax rates dropped, the com
mission decided to decrease the utility
rates to reflect the change. Nantahala's
rate decrease would have meant a $1
million drop in yearly revenue.
Bennink also said it is not uncom
mon for utility companies to appeal
otders from the commission.
Nantahala asked for a private hear
ing when the rates were changed, but
was not given one. Turner said it was
because of the great number of utilities
in North Carolina. There are 34 major
companies and hundreds of minor ones
that were affected by the change, and if
one weie given a private hearing, many
more might have asked for one. This
would have been "administratively
impossible," he said.
If Nantahala's appeal had been suc
cessful, other utilities would have been
able to demand separate hearings for
future rate changes and it would have
been harder to pass savings on to the
customers. Turner said. Nantahala also
would not have had to return the $2.5
million it overcharged in the last thiee
years.
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