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Commissioners review budget, '"'""It r'^25^ ' ' ? j- "'*'4 ? ?' #? ? but make no tax reductions By Ed Miller In a special budget work session Monday night, members of the Hoke County Commission took no action to cut a budget which will raise ad valorem tax rates by 7 cents. Hoke County Manager William Cowan spent most of the meeting explaining why some budgetary line items were raised or lowered. In. a letter in the preface of the budget, Cowan told commis sioners that there was a $4.6 million tax base reduction last year. ? The loss comes from a "signifi cant reduction in industrial inven tories, state-recommended changes in the depreciation schedules of textile manufacturing equipment, anticipated reduction in corporate excess assessments and a very slight growth in real property assessment," Cowan said in the letter. The budget came to commis sioners already trimmed as Cowan and County Finance Officer Charles Davis had already taken the requests of the various county departments and cut them to within limits. According to Cowan, if the county had funded all requests as they came in, over $1.26 million would have had to be taken out of the county's $1.3 million fund balance. Cowan's cuts will reduce the amount to be taken out of the fund balance to $400,000, he said. Over $378,000 has been cut from the requested budget, said Cowan. Members of the commission discussed a request from Raeford City Manger Tom Phillips that would release the Raeford City Council from paying 2S4W of the costs of the county, dog pound. According to Phillips, the 4,000 residents of Raeford pay a disproportionate share of the cost of maintaining the pound. There are 22,000 residents in the county, but 4,000 of them pay 334t of the costs to run the dog pound, said Phillips. "The dog pound itself is a coun ty function," he said. Phillips also said dty taxpayers pay 304b of the county dog warden's salary and also pay 1007* of the dty warden's salary. "We have no qualms with the ci ty residents' county taxes going to pay for building the pound," Phillips said. According to Balfour, the dty should help pay a share of func tions like the pound because Raeford gets 15% of the county's revenue sharing money and part of the one-half cent sales tax. "That's where I have always justified the dty putting money in to the landfill or anything like that," Balfour said. In another clarification of the budget, Cowan told commis sioners that $79,300 to be used for maintenenc* for schools is listed under the line item "current school expense." According to Cowan, new money bdng budgeted for the First time includes that for economic development. There is $23,300 budgeted for that line item, said the manager. Cowan has recommended a rise in the Hoke County Sheriffs Department budget of over $49,000. That will pay the salaries for three new deputies, thdr vehicles and uniforms, said Cowan. The manager said $4,000 has : been budgeted for hiring a person to work part-time as an inspector < for the garbage sites in the county. For next year, the county will be contracting with a collection ser vice for a driver and a truck to pick-up sites in the county. Which collection service has not been decided yet, said Cowan. The driver will empty all the sites in the county according to a j schedule made up by the county which will have the more frequent- ; ly used sites emptied more often. The county will be charged a flat amount for each cubic yard of gar- > bage emptied. That rate has not been deter mined yet, he said. The county will police the sites behind the driver. With the help of the part-time person, persons sentenced by the courts to perform community ser vice and an inspector that will travel the county looking for trou ble spots, members of the commis sion hope to have the sites cleaned totally in six months. "If we can ever get them (the sites) dean, we can keep them that way," Balfour said. According to Cowan, the most economical way for the county to gather trash is to do it themselves and not contract a full service. Recently, Cowan's staff con tacted 50 North Carolina counties about sanitation. About 95 of the counties con tacted do their own pick-up, he said. Seven out of seven counties he talked to with comparable sizes and populations with Hoke Coun ty do their own pick-ups, he said. . . .Nursing home faces delays (Continued from page 1A) dinal Health Board of Directors overturned that decision. Officials and representatives from Raeford and Hoke County attended that meeting and endorsed Britthaven. Both Raeford City Manager Tom Phillips and Hoke County Manager William Cowan have said that Britthaven promoted themselves well while Autumn Care did not. "I, along with everyone else, had never heard of Autumn Care until the day before the public hearing," Cowan said. "We didn't do a good job with public relations. 1 recognize that," said Doug Suddreth of Autumn Care. Hoke County Commissioners were taken on a tour of a Britt haven facility last year. When the certificate of need was sent to the state level, the award was again made to Autumn Care. CHICKEN DINNERS HOTDOGS 4/109 2 LITER 6 PACK 12 OZ CANS COKE and PEPSI PRODUCTS WASHERETTE ??EX *15 Washers 9sea^s\ * 7 *1** , NOW OPEN 24 HOURS CHICKEN Helping literacy Over 500 plates offish were sold last Friday to help the Hoke Reading and Literacy Council. About SI, 200 was cleared by the group from the annual Fish Fry sales, Coordinator Brbara Buie said Tues day. Here volunteers serve plates to ticket holders during the day-long event. < . . .Around T own continued (Continued from page 1A) forecast is for thundershowers on Wednesday. * ? ? The Turkey Pickin scheduled for the new National Guard Armory on Thursday night is the first ever for Hoke County. The event will begin at 3:30 p.m. and will con tinue until 8:30 p.m. Besides the picking, a meal will be served and the price for a ticket is only S4.00. These can be purchased at many local business places or at the door Thursday night. The meal, of course, will consist of barbecued turkey, sweet potatoes, marinated salad, Clara Pope rolls, apple crisp for dessert and a beverage. There will also be boxes to go if you want to pur chase a meal to take home. The proceeds of this event will go to support the first Hoke Coun ty Turkey Festival, scheduled for Raeford Sept. 18-21. I believe this is an event that you will not want to miss. Besides where can you get a turkey dinner for $4? During the evening the tickets purchased on the John Deere lawn mower will be placed in a box and a winning ticket will be drawn. Besides the mower more than 20 prizes will be given away during the evening. If you should win a prize your stub will be returned to the box and you will still have a chance on the mower. Tickets will be sold during the evening up until the time for the drawing. The price of these tickets is $10 and all proceeds from this drawing will go to the Depot Restoration Fund. So buy your ticket or tickets today and help beautify Raeford. ? * ? When subscription envelopes are opened at the office to get out a check for the paper, every once in awhile there will be a note in the envelope. Usually it is from some native of Hoke County wanting to say hello to old friends. Another person who writes a note each time is Bill Williamson, a Parkton native. Bill went to summer camp with the National Guard unit from Raeford, Bty "F" before World War II. He was a buglar and I hate to admit, a good one. He served with the Parkton company during World War II and lived in Hamlet after the war. The following was in his subscription renewal; Greetings: Please start my Journal again, however, this time please send it to Bill Williamson, Route 1, Box 376 "A" Supply, N.C. 28462. Please start it June Sth. If you should see "Sam Morris," then please tell him I said hello; the same thing goes for Col onel Dickson. Sincerely, Bill Hello to you Bill, but what are you doing in the town of Supply? ? ? * I didn't realize how many places were closed for Memorial Day, Monday until I went to play golf early Monday morning. After 13 holes our foursome decided it was better to return to the cooler place, home. Holiday crowds are not for me on the golf course. ? ? ? Only two weeks until the Classes of 1934 and 1933 celebrate their class reunions. RAEFORD LIONS CLUB 1 985 ANNUAL GOLF TOURNAMENT June 1, 1985 - Arabia Golf Course PRIZES: 1 st, 2nd, 3rd & 4th Places Low Gross Closest To The Hole On Four Holes RAFFLE: Golf Bag SPONSORS Leach's Auto Jiffy Stop 1 & 2 Enviro-Chemical Exterminating Co. Heilig-Meyers Furniture Co. Inc. Fast Stop T 8t L Parts Strother Land Surveying 401 Gulf J's Pizza Buck Stop Heritage Federal Savings & Loan Farm Chemicals Inc. Raeford Hardware Co. Inc. Aberdeen Coca-Cola United Carolina Bank J.H. Wright Realty Co. House of Raeford Pittard & Perry, CPA Auto Parts & Equipment Home Food Super Market Howell Drug Co. Inc. Raeford Animal Clinic Tucker's Grocery The Medicine Shoppe McLauchlin Hardware Raeford Cleaners Convenient Food Mart Open Arms Rest Home W.E. Carter Realty Southern National Bank Beasley's Body Shop Edinborough Family Restaurant Tarheel Hatchery Avery Connell Agency Hollingsworth Florist Radio Shack - Aberdeen McDonald's Tire Recapping Serv. Conoly's Exxon Service Ctr. Poole Insurance Agency Dr. Donald Johnson Williams Lumber Co. Cecil's Carpet Care Gentry's Tire Service The Johnson Company Hoke Drug Co. Jackson's FMA Western Auto Dr. Larry Bullard Raeford Farm Supply Teal Oil Company A & G' Construction Raeford Oil Company Manning 8t Associates . McNalr Cleaners Wagon Wheel Restaurant ' 'Calico Corner Hoke Cotton Warehouse Dan's Hair Design ?A Bratcher Barber Shop C.P. Kinlaw Jewelry Store Hoke Realty Co. Raeford Lumber Company Crumpler Funeral Home Course All proceeds used to ?tot the vtauafly Impaired Barbee Pharmacy Inc. Gingham Edition Vardell Hedgpeth Insurance Agency Raeford Salvage Co. Inc. Arabia Golf Course member or Arabia Golf
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