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Pane 2-A?THE BRUNSWICK BEAG1 tjr? 4 S |LW This extra-long hovercraft, phatogri Marina, drew Kturex along the Intr: Animal C BY SUSAN USHER In .-in apparent deviation from normal practice, Brunswick County commissioners neurit Monday night in open session from an employee who lias fileil a grievance with the county. The hoard could eventually hear the complaint i( it is not resolved at a lower level, "I wanted you to la* aware of this (grievance) because there's absolutely no telling what will happen between now and then." Animal Control Officer Sherry Ituss of Supply told commissioners 1 don't know how long it will he before this gets Ian k to you i for a hearing I." Ms. Ituss, who luis la-en employed with animal control for nearly two years, was accompanied by two former animal control employees who agreed with her allegations of mi|>i <>|H'r irenmiim m employees by their supervisor, rntle trentinent of tilt' polillt' mill Innilispinlr inilllilKI'itient of thr facility itself. "I'm uware somfthint!'s vvroiiK there's n |irohleni there," sniil Commissioner llerinmi Uive at one point Ms Unas' sii|M'rvisor Zelma Italyson oKnlnst whom most rompliitnLs were ihret'leii, was not liearil tiy the tmm it Mnnitay, nor were other health aiiein \ employees. Candidate (Ciinllniii'il Krtim Pane l-A I In Snilthvllle Township, a Ihlril man luinieil "Charles" luis flleif (or the Dosher Hospital Itnaril of Trustees. Charles II Holers (lurries II Johnson ami ( lurries C Until have alreatly flletl. James C i.llml llrnwn of Sniith|Nirt lias (lletl (or the Waril II seat now held b) William A Thorsen, who Is seeking re-t'let'tion Kilwaril 1. Oliver, Ini'tiinlreht, anil Harry J Typical Early Fc Comfortable fall teni|)eratrires lire jMirt of the weather outlook over the next few ilnys. Shnllotte l'omt meteorologist Jamison funnily said tom|>oriitures should Ik1 near normal. from tho intd-tilts (it nljiht Into tlx* mid ads (Hiring thr ilny He experts nlxxit ii half-Hull of riilnfiill IKirmj! tlx- period Sept HV16, the Builders To Air About Septic T< Heprrsrntnlives of the Hnuuwtok founty Health Department will tv * ?"?> iiitvmhi! ? me SoUtn iMtiiuiNiiV Uitiiiin tittiue Hullders Association. sunt lYrsidrnt ('.coitfe Stanford 11(0 meetliii; ?>11 t* lieM Tucsda\, S?r|>t t\. at 6 ? p m at tlarbortown liestaurant In Calabash Health llmlrt Tom Hluiti and otlier statf members will participate in * question and iivswet session MOW TO SUI THE BRUNSWI ro*i OKI BO* < VMAuOni f Ntwipop#* ANNUAL SUftSCtlPTYOft BATH BY Mi In |-vA?*ttk C Os.?nt> In Ns.v*fi vX-??.?* N<M?h Cd-.^fXI | m4 htm 2 NKV'?# I Ki&Ar+t? | C'h $ )N, Thursday, September 19, 1985 Hovercraft D aphid during refueling at Inlet View i u iKistal Waterway Saturday. A ercw I '.ontrol Work "This should go to the health bourd first," Chairman Chris Chap- t IM 11 :ifll/i?U?rl "Ullt tx-lw.M nll>/>t/?l t*r?? ti said we were going to be an open door ti board. F "We'll listen, but we won't act until the proper channels have been d followed." ii Chapped later said he thought Ms. tl Ituss had a "legitimate grievance h that needs to be addressed." Animal control employees are not p required to take state competitive a service examinations, so their appeal h route varies from tlml of other health agency employees. Carter said. fi Ms. Ituss has given oral notice of a s grievance to her department head a and on Monday, wrote a letter to the p next official In line. Health Director a Thomas Blum, who has five (lays In s| which to respond. The next step v would take her appeal to Carter, with si the commissioners the final authori- ti t> P At each step, the party hearing the ol grievance has five days to respond. If h< the response is not satisfactory to Ms Ituss or it there is none, she can ar take the ap;>eul another step. at Ms. Ituss told the board she's been m "a nervous wreck" recently. Ih "I know the laws and try to follow it. hut it doesn't sectn to work out," st she said. "It you don't know what will 111 Ik- nuide ot It when you go out on .? ti call, you can't do your job " r, s In No Hun Collar! have filed for the two Ward I p seats and Mayor Norman llolden's c bid for re-election Is presently unop o posed I Isdward Williams, Incumbent, and r Thermon Muslev Sr have filed for Hit' two commissioner's scats In S Navnssa. where Mayor Ixiuls "Bob- a by" Brown is seeking re-election ntiopiHvsetl li A lull slate ol cantbtlates is yet to n ilrvrlop at IX-ean Isle Beach, where Ili II ill Days Ahead r maximum high was 93 degrees, r recortletl on the 11th. The iniiumuni nightly low was 46 degrees, recorded )i On the Kill (, A dally average 1 uy;ti o| 83 degrees N tMinhlnetl with an average nightly low ol 61 degrees lor an average dally r temperature ol 72 degrees [ Canndy recortled 2 7 inches in his c ratn gauge at Sluillotle I'olnt a Questions 3nk Permits rrUtu\? to prwtMurrs for obUmiii*; Link nrrmiLs oUvr r.?W .J tlx- health department a% they relate 11' If* CviiStruv tuxt uniuMl > Stanford said the meeting is an attempt to rsUbltsh a bettor worting relationship or "a ihxxt .tiakyue Ixtxren builders and the depal ment At their last meeting ' ** builders n>et with employees of the county s iK-? buikting inspections office HSCRIRk to CK&BEACON | IV lCA?vXl\A | ' Itkyrytfi t'l V cmimm 5 :y 3 '4 I * *: * ;3 . 10 00 ? wV i H U?M tM>?u I I a iaww.s_M_a.aa__! * >rew Stares ncmber said the "S.E.V. Hummingbird England and designed to ferry 140 passei :er Airs Cor Other health employees channel ti heir grievances through their super'isor, the health director, the health si ward, and ultimately to (he State Si 'ersonnel Commission. tr Carter was excused by the board uring Ms. Kuss' presentation, say- st ig he didn't want to hear anything F hat might prejudice his hearing of st er grievance. A Ms. Russ presented a thick sheaf of ui apers which she said documented ctivity at the animal shelter she elieves inappropriate. These range from a claim that dog sl nod was bought in bulk from a peronal contact at a higher rate than n< callable through an informal bid rocess; boarding of stray livestock ''l I one facility only at the owner's pecifjcd board rate, though others oluntecred snare: beirie told hv the rc jpervisor So "shut up" several mes in front of clients; and being m ut in an awkward position with her nninoil shelter employees from '? r first day of employment. Pa "She told me I couldn't trust lything the other employee told me w( id tluit lie was after her job...It put W1 e in an awkward pasition from the s" ginning." She also asserted that her iperiors within the health depart- en lent showed little interest in hearing iniplulnls iilHiut the program, hut 1,1 itlier had suggested she be more push iy To File = honing board member and fire wl liief Terry llarbee lias filed for one m I two comntissloner's seats. Mayor th allane Hullmgton Ls unopposed for ee selection. di At Calnbasli, a council appointee, ai uzy Moore, has filed for re-election, s has Jotui 11 Johnson. th I ester YV Ileal and Elinor K. te lundler have filed for mayor ut lioil- U| ig Spring Uikes, where Klennor 11 gi Insminger, Stephen I. Moore. Eric (Kick) Eckstein and Herbert C U; luntcn have (lied for commissioner. Ih At Yuupon Bench, incumbents oj lobert Brown, K W Kees, J M Waren and Homer Brewer have filed for m e-elcclion gi In Relville, Thomas (Tommy) j* iutler and Hotter Keiitle have filed al ir commissioner anil Kenneth I) lesser Sr for mayor. in In I eland, leo Nowak lias filed for di e-clcctlon to the 1 eland Sanitary St ilstrict. of which ho is currently In liairnuin el No additional candidates had filed h\ I Sunset Bench or Caswell Beach as el f Tuesday. si B A I J[ It 1 'Mm. y."i I j^a i m I I ? j iihid OTi^M hi r .? * i ( . i npsM I K- JTTVJJ I \ ?* ^jpfKfCSr '-ry^**" ,.M *! '_ - ?; _ ? s^?> STAT r PHOTO Br SUSAN UbMtft 1 " out of Wilmington was made in ( lgers. i i r ; ent with her supervisor. < "She's only scratched the i lrface," said Wynston Hewett of i iipply, who worked with animal con- ( ol about seven years. Keith Stanley, animal control s ipcrvLsor from October 1980 to s ebruary 1982, added. "She's not t orying at all. She's telling the truth. 1 nything you brought up got swept r idertherug." t High Turnover l-atc last year, county commis- ^ oners requested information from s ic health department on why tur>vcr in the animal control unit had ^ rcn high for so many years, a rcicst that was passed along in turn to e animal control supervisor. The report indicated high turnover suited In part because of a rpelually heavy workload, too uch overtime without compensa- ^ >n and difficulty in putting animals Q sleep though forewarned it was rt of the job. "If I was asked that (why) I nildn't implicate myself, that it is the way I had treated them," s guested Ms. Kuss. Inge Arnold of Bolivia, whose iveway is across N.C. 211 from the p trance road to the shelter, said she ^ is for years collected animals left g ere. c This luis been a favor to the county, ic said, but In recent years shelter nployees have not picked up ^ linials quickly or shown her the s me special considerations as in the ist. ? One former employee recommendI that the entrance road fence be ^ oved back or removed entirely and e money be used to place animal illection boxes by the road to soouruge casual "dropping off" of limn Is. County Manager Carter confirmed a at it is unusual for a personnel mat- (( r such as Ms. Huss' to be heard in Kin session, especially before a ievance has been worked through. But Chappell said the board heard ? ie matter in open session because. ! said, "1 felt like she wanted it to be *>n." | Ms. Huss said she had wanted coinilssioners to be aware of the "ievance, but didn't know the pro r channels to use "I Just went f ong with what they said " As with other exceptions to the _ inndatc tliat public business be con- I ii'ftkii in niiKll/> t Ha .-tota ' - - ? V .4 eeUngs law says 11 board "may" ar or investigate a complaint, large or grievance cither by or ;amst an oJfioor or employee in used session rather than open sesnn 2220? Commissic Drainage F V/ The future of the Caw Caw Drainage District is now up tne U.S. Soil Conservation Service. County commissioners Monday rejected a proposal thai the countyassume maintenance of the district's 17 miles of ditches at an estimated :ost of $10,000 per year. However, estimates by County Engineer Dan shields indicated an initial clean-up would run about $96,000 for tree snagging, removal of beaver dams and >and bars. A more complete renewal would cost as much as $211,000. The ditches wc-re to provide flood :ontrol and drainage to about 19,000 acres in the western end of the coun.y. Maintenance was performed only Mice before the district was pur jortedly dissolved and its maintenance assumed by the county. Commissioners agree with County \ttornev David Clegg's opinion that he district was never legally dissolv;d and can be reactivated. They also igree that the responsibility for its naintenance shouldn't be the ounty's. "The district is getting in bad ihape and someone needs to do iomething about it?but not the couny," said Chairman Chris Chappell ater. "If we do that, I envision four nore drainage districts in the couny." Tlie county will write the Soil Conlervation Service, suggesting it petiion the Bruaswick County Clerk of iuperior Court to reconstitute the tax issessment district and appoint a loverning board. Referendum Set Following a public hearing at Lhi?V, IIILH IIU VUIIUIICIIU), |JIUUI LUil, HC1 C riade, commissioners adopted a esolution setting Nov. 19 as the (late or a countywide referendum on the >suance of $8 million in general bligation bonds for the Brunswick 'echnieal College building program Shots Cost More Commissioners agreed on a 3-2 ote to increase the charge for flu hots from $3 to $5, with Commisioners Chris Chappell, James Poole nd Frankie Itabon approving the inrease. Commissioners Grace ieasley and Herman love favored a ystem to allow lower-income senior itirens to obtain the shots at a lower usi. Health Director Thomas Blum said he program's purpose, targeted at enior citizens and citizens with hronic health problems, is to pronote preventive care Persons of all icomes have equal access. He said e proposed the increase to bring the harge more in line w ith those chargd by private practitioners The ounty pays $2.25 per dose (or the accine. The county health board must also ipprove the fee when it meets Monlav, Sept. 23. Bond Counsel Changed Commissioners also met behind losed doors for more than an hour to liscuss an industrial location and a lersonnel matter They then authorized the New York Kind counsel firm of U'Boeuf, lamb, xuby and MeRae to handle the proxised issuance of $16 million in lrv lustrial revenue bonds (or a pollution ibatement project underway since j^doi Sale Enc ^es ^1588 $ ? 7^ 46 If Simplicity Ml Potterns Or Bur ' S* Get ?nii B?i Va Price sai *B3DB2K (owniown Shollotte m? >n Rejects Voposa! 1983 at Carolina Power & I jght Co.'s Brunswick .Nuclear Plant. While the firm of Brown. Wood. Ivey, Mitchell & Petty has handled all such bond issuances for the Brunswick County Industrial Facilities and Pollution Control Financing Authority since the authority's establishment in 1979. the authority had requested the change in bond counsel for this project only, since Brown, Wood, et al had issued an opinion that the authority's financing of the CP&L project would be unconstitutional at the state and federal levels. Since then. CP&I, has obtained two opinions, one from the firm hired Monday, that the bond issuance would be acceptable. Other Business In other business, conunissioners: Approved encroachment agreements and agreements with the N.C. Department of Transportation for water line installations across U.S. 17, N.C. 133, N.C. 87. U.S. 74-76 c u hoc i * ? - aiiu o.i\. iiw, uiiu <ii>'j agreements 10 restore the casement areas once installation is completed. Approved tax releases and refunds for August. Released $96,506 in 1975 property taxes as uncollectable back taxes since the statute of limitations expired Sept. 1. Tax Collector said the figure was high partly because the cutoff date for foreclosure actions on back taxes had been 1981. Approved bids for an animal control service truck and a landfill department car, with the exception oi cniise control tor the car. Commissioner James Poole questioned the need for the option, saying he didn't think it would save money on mileage locally. The board also voted to readvertise bids for sheriff's department vehicles since only one bid was received. Heard from Finance Director Wallace Harding that the county saved $-115,000 in interest on water bonds as a result of a Sept 10 advance refunding transaction. "That's 58 percent of the outstanding ($8.2 million) bonds." he added, praising the board's foresight. The county will pay a net interest cost of 8 07 percent, compared to an original cost of 11.7 percent. The county's 8 78 net interest cost on $10 million in Series D water bonds also sold on Sept. 10 ls the best received on any portion of the $37 million issue, he said THE BRUNSWICK^BEACON I Established Nov. 1. 1962 Telephone 754 6890 Published Every Thursday At Mom Street Shallotte N C. 28459 SUBSCRIPTION RATES IN BRUNSWICK COUNTY One Year S5 23 Six Months S3 I 4 ELSEWHERE IN NORTH CAROLINA One Yeor $7.32 Six Months $4 18 ELSEWHERE IN U.S.A One Year $10 00 Six Months $6.00 S Second class postage paid at > the Post Office in Shallotte j | N. t. 7B459 USPS 777 780 liar ^ blast> -w-*? is Saturday Boys Student ,Lfl.8Lee $1788 SilM 77 X wO*?f B # f' i embers ^ lly Jacket S V/ I) n? Suei J[ ! 46 - I , ) S55 00 ,( , , t s4400 m 4* -? wrjwwc* ?*:>? 754 -4846 4
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