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Sunset Beach residents discovei
there's more than one way to fight cit;
to preparing the town's 1985 land use
At a public hearing, several re
whether their voices will actually be I
use plan is drafted in June. Haskell
tative of the N.C. Office of Coastal Mr
those present that the Coastal Resi
will listen to all persons before it ad(
use plan sometime after August.
Town Manager Wallace Martin
preparing the town's 1985 land use
must be adopted by the town councl
Meare
BY TERRY POPE
A Superior Court judge ruled Monday
that Brunswick County is "certainly
the proper place" to settle a
lawsuit filed agaiast the county and
department of social services by a
former DSS employee.
Alinda G. Meares, a former DSS
administrative secretary, filed a
lawsuit in Brunswick County
Superior Court in December asking
that county commissioners be required
to rehire her with back pay
and benefits. She was fired from her
Job in September 1981 and lias also
filed a federal lawsuit against the
county, the Brunswick County
Flounder
Tourney
Scheduled
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The five fish with the largest total
weight for hotli days' fishing Is worth
$400. A daily prize will be awarded
for the most number of fish weighed
In per day.
Prizes will also be awarded for the
largest fish eaugnt by a wouuin and
the largest fish caught by a child
ages 1 to 12.
A captain's meeting will be held
Thursday, June 0, from 5 p.m. to
10:30 p.m. at the Sludlotte Point
Volunteer Fire Department. One
representative of each bout should
plan to attend to receive the boat's
assigned number
Itegistratlon should be accompanied
by the entry fee, a list of the
Intended crew, the boat's name,
make and registration number and a
.statement of responsibility and
release of liability signed by the enptain
or captain's representative.
More Information and registration
forms are available by calling
7M-6080 or 7M-6984.
Ui.st year 96 fished were weighed In
by the 66 boats entered In the event,
with local fishermen claiming all the
prizes.
Corn toyman and James Hubert
Cluidwit'k of Sludlotte Point shared
the $1,0(1(1 first prize, while Tommy
Johnson, David Hohbs and Darren
Johnson, all of Sludlotte, finished second
for $600 A crew composed of
I long and Ediut Marshburn. Dick
Klce and Katliv Woodard, all of
Sludlotte Point, won the aggregate
weight prize Evelyn Davis of
Sludlotte won a microwave oven for
catching the largest fish of am
woman in tin' tournament, while
Itobert Usher of Sludlotte Point and
Kayettcville won a rod oimI reel combination
for the largest flounder in
ii?e children's category.
I>esplte near-perfect weather,
tournament fishing last year war
slow throughout the weekend, will
the tLsh caught weighing in llghtei
tlurn anticipated Hie prize fist
weighed only 4 29 pounds.
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ed Tuesday night can speak against
Y hall when it comes ings, Rhett said,
plan update. Several resident
isidents questioned questioned if a rep
icard when the land by the town should
Rbctt, a rcpresen- survey randomly |
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juries Commission discriminated ai
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plan update which hearings since the
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;s Lawsuit T
iX'parimcni of Social Services and
Jamie Orrock, the former DSS director
who fired her.
Superior Court Judge B. Craig
Ellis of Uiurinburg ruled Monday the
lawsuit should be heard in Brunswick
County. Ellis also ruled that Wake
County Superior Court should have
jurisdiction over a review of a
declaratory ruling in the case made
by Slate Personnel Director Haiulu
Webb.
Brunswick County attorneys David
Clegg and Alan K. Gitter filed two
motions in December asking Uiat the
lawsuit either be moved to Wake
County Superior Court or that proceedings
be suspended until a review
Lommissio
Brunswick County cortunissioners
pulled together several loose ends
Tuesday night.
.Stinging from criticism leveled
recently regarding an unannounced
meeting with chamber of commerce
officials at Bald Head Island, Chairman
Chris Chappell instructed the
clerk to the board, Heginn White, to
"please notify the press" anytime
three or more commissioners were to
attend a meeting together.
"We got lamblnsted," he said,
referring specifically to one television
station's coverage of the Bald
Head meeting
Commissioners' invitations to the
event had t>cen mailed to them personally,
rather than channeled
through the board's clerk and
scheduled as is the usual practice, lie
acknowledged.
Commissioner James Poole announced
plans to resign from (XXi
advisory committees on planning
and policy and on aging to which he
was appointed after joining tin1 CXXi
I am id as the county's representative.
"I feel it sort of compromises my
position on the hoard if I've advised
myself twice already," he said.
I'oolc said such committees should
lie manned by citizens rather tlum
public officials whenever possible.
The meetings are time-consuming
and provide inforuuitlon he gels at
the regular (XXI meeting anyway.
"It's an unnecessary expense for
the county to send me over there," he
added
In other business, the board appror
i d a legal contract with social
services board attorney Mary Kasley
to work with the IV-1) or child suppoi
t enforcement program The program
works through the courts to get
parents delinquent in support
payments to pay Some of the
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are unhappy with the final plan, they
the document at the CRC public hears
attending Tuesday's public hearing
resentative survey recently conducted
I be included in the land use plan. The
soiled 10 percent of the Sunset Beach
dui many residents believe the poll
gainst mainland and permanent
nan Kathy Hill questioned who was gohe
information discussed at the public
re has been no tape recorder present
the meetings.
o Remain li
of the declaratory ruling is made.
Gitter argued Monday for a transfer
of the case to Wake County to allow
"the judge there to be decisive on all
Issues."
Brunswick County has filed a motion
in Wake County seeking to overturn
Webb's ruling that the DSS
board had the authority to enter into
a binding settlement with Ms.
Meares. The State Personnel commission
members approved the settlement
on Oct. 16, 1984 that was
prepared by former DSS attorney
Avery Bordeaux, calling for $22,000
in back pay and reinstatement for
Ms. Meares.
However, county attorneys believe
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payments obtained can be used to
repay social services aid received by
lh<? flononrlpnlv anrl Ihoir fnmilu
Mrs. Easley will be paid *45 per
hour, the highest figure for which the
state will provide reimbursement to
the social services department,
Hunters
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sunset to 11 p.m.
Dyion Skipper said firclighting apparently
was not dangerous to
anyone, therefore he was not against
it.
While one member of the Concerned
Sportsman's Association said a
ban would affect coonhunters
adversely, tHis Pcllom said he could
support a law that restricted
firclighting from the road across
fields and toward homes since
hunters (lo sometimes shoot at deer
at night.
"It's very dangerous It frightens
my wife and my family," he said.
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"This is a real concern of ours," M
there is no official record of these me
way we can take back and intern ret wl
other board members. It's a poor
things."
Only two council members, Ms.
Katherine Griffith, attended Tuesday
Ms. Hill said two council members havi
of the public hearings on the land use |
If comments are heard at the CRC
then CRC officials may revise sections
document to the town for review.
Warren "Bud" Knapp, vice-presidi
Beach Taxpayers Association, said thi
i Brunswick
the commission's ruiing was incorrect
and that the settlement agreement
should not be binding on the
county, Gitter said. County commissioners
have refused to act on the settlement
agreement.
Ellis said he did not feel Wake
County would delay its decision on
the commission's ruling and denied a
motion from Dennis Worley, Ms.
Meares' attorney, asking tnat tiie
county be required to file an answer
to the suit within 30 days. Wake County
Superior Court's decision could
i have a bearing on how the county
may wish to answer the suit, he added.
At Monday's hearing, Worley
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County Attorney David Clegg said.
Obtaining an attorney for the program
was of immediate necessity, he
said, since IV-D court begins Monday.
"To get the subpoenas out you have
to have an attorney," he said.
Discuss
former hunter himself, expressed
sympathy for the deer and spoke in
favor of the restriction.
"I think they should give the deer a
sporting chance." he said. "They run
thein during the day and sneak up on
them at night."
Frank Coleman, vice president of
in*; iiiiy iiiiiiiifiK i iiiu {ii uouvia. said
he favors the restrictions if tliey
would help enforcement officers protect
against "slob hunters and
poachers "
Kxcept when extra officers are
called in to work a problem area, two
wildlife officers cover the county
with assistance from an officer who
also works Columbus County.
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County Cc
argued that county attorneys have
waited too late to file for an appeal of
the commission's ruling. The ruling
was issued in October, but the county
did not appeal the decision until after
Ms. Meares filed a lawsuit in
December, beyond the normal 30-day
limit, Worley said.
County attorneys say they were not
properly notified of the ruling, but
Betty Varnum, L*SS acting uiieciui,
testified Monday that she handdelivered
a copy of the commission's
decision to County Manager Billy
Carter on Oct. 24, 1984.
"It was common knowledge that
we liad a case going on and that they
(commissioners) were aware of it."
Ms. Varnum stated. "As a board
member, I wouid iike to see the Alinda
Mcarcs case resolved."
DSS attorney Mary Easley asked
the judge to keep the case in
Bruaswick County, "because every
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at this point to move this
case to Wake County," she added.
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iiisleading Of those polled, 34 were
3 new high rise replacement bridge to
3 favored a new bridge.
-ecent meeting of the SBTA, 124 out of
D against a new high rise bridge, Knapp
hnniH havp ranal renresentation in the
added.
t John McCarthy said Tuesday a newBeach
is "more imminent than most
le believes the N.C. Department of
ill make another effort to push the prosummer.
but Town Manager Martin
,-ed no such word from DOT officials.
>urt
Wuiley said Ms. Meares had ueeu
"run from court to court to court"
with the case since it was filed in
December. He asked that the case remain
in Brunswick County.
A Wake County Superior Court
judge will decide on the declaratory
ruling without hearing additional
evidence, so the case should be in
Brunswick County "without too
mum uiiii i cf a delay, Judge
said.
A U.S. District Court judge also
ruled last week not to dismiss a
lawsuit filed by Ms. Meares' in
federal court. Ms. Meares filed the
$200,000 lawsuit on Sept. 10 against
Orrock, DSS, Brunswick County and
its board of commissioners.
Bruaswick County attorneys fiiea a
motion asking that the case be
dismissed because the county is an
agency of the state ahd therefore
should be immune to lawsuits.
Judge Terrence W. Boyle ruled
April 15 in Elizabeth City that the
county and DSS are not immune to
being sued.
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