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BTCAppr BY SUSAN USHER Brunswick Technical College tnistees last week adopted a plan intended to insure accountability and credibility in the schools' continuing education program. They also adopted a series of recommendations related to the college's ongoing construction program. Accountahllity Kollowing the revelation <n October of alleged ongoing fraud in the continuing education program at t'apc Fear Technical Institute in Wilmington, each institution 111 uio conuiiuimy conege sysiem was asxed to develop its own system of checks and balances. In anticipation of such a request by the N.C. Department of Community Colleges, in October BTC reassigned Jesse Clemmons, then dean of instruction, to the new position of dean of continuing education. BTC President Joseph Carter assumed Clemmons" responsibilities, with no inunediate plans of hiring a successor. The change put Clemmons in supervision of all noncurriculum programs, previously coordinated by several persons. Since the t'FTI investigation was made public, claims of fraud liavo been levied against BTC and . : Bar n N Twenty-fifth Year, Number 7 r 3B?aWHMBES A Sub? No, Joe Nolan of Schooner's Pointe subdivision parked his VW "bug" along the street last Wednesday morning while be chatted with a cabinet maker at a nearby house. When he returned, the car had vanished. He found it across the road in a pond, with only its rounded roof still visible. Nolan (third from left above) took the Seat Belt Enforcer BY ETTA SMITH pie with medical It's time to start hiking those letter carriers, burner stickers that read, "Buckle Deacon said tl Up-It's The Law," penalty, and ne seriously?because beginning Jan. 1 assessed agaiast failure to do soe/inl/l nnal IW f??? '" ??1 a|jcwi According to Sgt Douglas Deacon passengers as we of the N.C. Highway Patrol, any be wearing si driver stopi>cd Jan. 1 or thereafter passenger Isn't \ without a seat belt on will be he will l>e charge fined?and no more warnings will be unless he is undci issued. the driver will l? "We have to start issuing tickets violatioas. then," said Deacon. "We're not "It's a good 1 holding checking stations to see if "You have to Ik people are wearing them, but if we do are in to know h stop someone and they are in viola- go into accident; lion of the law they will he charged." who would have The N.C. Cencral Assembly passed seriously had th the law in October 1085, but approved on." the use of warnings until Jan 1 19BG. Deacon suid th f.xemptioris were granted for peo- Ik-Its reduce the PROCEEDS WITH CONS oves New Contini Coastal Coiiiinunity College in Jacksonville. According to SHI Deputy Director Charles Dunn of Itnleigh. that agency's fraud investigation continues to focus on CKTI and will not extend farther this calendar year. The plan adopted by HTC trustees and submitted to the state department creates steps to verify tliat courses are meeting as scheduled, that students are appropriately enrolled and tliat appropriate personnel are being paid for their instruction. Methods include site visits, roster follow-ups and personal contact with students and in Under the plan: Each continuing education coordinator conducts and documents at least one visit to each course under his responsibility while it is in session; The director of continuing education conducts and documents unannounced visits to 25 percent of each coordinator's classes; The dean of continuing education conducts unannounced visits to at least 75 percent of all continuing education courses held each quarter, with the sample selected to include courses which by their nature or loco" "JSW w momswkjcuacon Shallotte, North Carolina, T( i '|' ! r , . ' ' 'rf * K | jj^g. ^gtf<i?l?Mp{3-*ftta^B^^B STAFF PHOIO BY SUSANUSHilt A Wafer Bug! dive In stride, telling helpers like "Bookie" Taylor (right) "What else can you do?" and recommending use of emergency brakes when parked on a hill. Meanwhile, he planned to disconnect the battery, dry out the car and change all Its Holds. nent Begins Jan. 1 conditions and rural some accidents, and increase the cliancc of survival in some, ic $25 fine is a civil Chief Deputy John Marlovv with the court costs will be Brunswick County Sheriff's Departviolutors. ment said he assumes his departfics tlmt front-seat ment will also enforce the seat belt II as the driver must laws. :at belts. If the "If we stop someone for any violavearini; a seat belt, tion and they are in violation of Hint ;d with the violation law also, we'll enforce it," he said, r 16. if he is under 16 Sliallotte Police Department Chief s charged with both Don Stovall said his officers will also enforce the law if they stop anyone, aw," said Deacon. According to the N.C. Highway ; in the position we Safely Hcscnrch Center in Chapel ow good?when you Hill, highway patrol officers have sites and sec people been issuing an average of 23 warn* been hurt a lot less ing tickets per week in Brunswick cy had a seat belt County since the law was passed. More than 9,300 per month statewide ere is no doubt seat were issued within the first nine rnoncluincc of injury in ths after the law's passage. ITRUCTION PROGRAM jing Education Gl tion might be more subject to abuse. Any observance of a situation of questionable nature is to be immediately reported to the president and dean of continuing education. Students mast sign a rosier and list their telephone number. I.aler, at least three students registered to each off-campus course are contacted by telephone or in person by a designated team of college employees. If the course Is adult basic education, general education development or annears to contain a matoritv of senior citizens, at least five student are contacted. Students arc asked if they signed a roster, paid the course registration fee ami attended at least one class session of the course. On at least one payday each year, all full-time and part-time instructors of continuing education classes arc required to appear at the campus business office to pick up their check, with appropriate identification. This year instructors who received paychecks in November had to pick them up in person. Any first-lime instructor must pick up his or her check in person. Instructors must also submit monthly time sheets. As for the college's role, the dean of continuing !CK#BE lursday, December 25, 1986 Bad Weather lj:~u <n i asya s i lutfb VJ Problems Foi BY KIT A SMITH The astronomic. Unusually high tides combined by the earth inovii with certain weather systems could in the winter and t' cause problems for coastal sun between the n Brunswick County this month. said. The gravitational force created by On Jan. 3, he s alignment of the moon and sun this move closer to the week could cause excessively high time of year. With tides if combined with high southerly these factors, the winds, said Bob Jenski with the Na- only predicting ti< tional Weather Service office in a-hnlf feet above i Wilmington. But Jeaski said i He said the tides are the result of a system develops e combination of factors, including the of the area, it cou! alignment of the sun and moon com- "If the wcathei bined with a new moon. will be nothing uni Planning Board I Questions btate, BY SUSAN USHER said Chris Chappe Brunswick County Planning Board missioncrs' ex-offi members spent more time last on the board. Wednesday night discussing news Chairman Gore coverage of their land use plan up- update is a "refir date than they did the plan itself. isting plan, not a Seven members attended the plan. "You don't. meeting, held at the Brunswick Coun- again." ty library in Southport in advance of Member John 1 the board's Christmas party. peared to him the The land use plan update will be on the county "wha the agenda again, at the board's Jan. have been." 21 meeting. At that time members The draft of propose to discuss an IS-item list of originally due to t "substantive" comments drawn up The county receiv by Planning Director Jolui Harvey was finally asked from comments received on the land submit whatever i use plan. They delayed a joint for the CRC coir meeting with county commissioners was later criticize until after they can address the need- sections from the ed revisions. tast Wednesday A draft of the update was criticized planning board mi severely by the staff of the N.C. Of- deadline stipulate ???.? Lunui management and milling a revlslo Coastal Resources Commission penalty for not s members at the CRC's last meeting, timely basis. However, Harvey lias defended the "As a courtesy, update as a "very rough" draft and draft to be rcturi said the basic plan is good. after December,' Hoard members agreed last week local government with his assessment. "It was clear to their plans up to t\ me it was a preliminary plan; I don't liaven't read abou think the press was justified," com- He said the ( monted member Micliael Schaub. Management has i "The planning director and his provide as quid staff have done a tremendous job," timetable for eon Longwood Man Chare BY ETTA SMITH Harlee Daniels t A Longwood man is being held in with a .22-ealiber the Brunswick County Jail on $50,000 Daniels wasshol bond following a Friday night cording to the war shooting. internal injuries. Hex I.cc Bell is charged with The victim wf assault with a deadly weapon with in- Brunswick Hos| tent to kill, and inflicting serious room, then trai bodily injury, after lie allegedly shot Hanover Memorii V jidelines education must approve the establishment of all courses. Without prior approval courses may not earn budget full-time equivalencies. The course must fit in with the mission of the college, must have a qualified instructor, must meet a need and must meet in an appropriate locution. Also, Carter lias set up an internal audit team of employees from the student services and business office to review quarterly for evidence of compliance with the plan and report its findings to hum the dean of continuing education and the board of trustees. Work To Begin Miller Building i o. was to move its office trailer and equipment on to the Supply campus this week and begin grading the site of a new vocational classroom building, architect Jim Pittilian of .Id, Johnson & Associates reported. So as not to slow the pace of construction, trustees also authorized the architectural firm begin preliminary drawings for a facility to house the Brunswick Interagency Program. When trustees recommended local companies Inr en(ScclITC. Page 2-AI ftCON 25C Per Copy 22 Pages Mixed With wJUSUI V-UU5C r County il tides are caused "But if we get a high pressure system ig closer to the sun up in Virginia or even further north, he alignment of the it will pack the water up to the beach loon and Earth, he area. If it persists the water won't luive a chance to drain out into the aid, Ute earth will ocean, and there would be coastal sun than any other flooding." the combination of Similiar tides that ocurred early in weather service is the month and caused millioas of les one to onc-and- dollars in damage at 1 .ong Beach and lormal. parts of New Hanover County were a if the right weather result of Ihe tides combined with gale ither north or south force winds. That created a wave acid cause problems, tion that packed the water to the works with us it shore and caused the erosion isual,'" said Jenski. damage, he said. Defends Update; Media Response 11, the county com- date, including an ending date, a plan icio representative regarding opportunities for citizens to participate further in the planning stressed that an process and how those opportunities icinent" of the ex- will be publicized. total redo of the Comments Criticized start from scratch In turn, Harvey criticized the comments package received from the iarbec said it ap- state as "hastily slapped together" state wanted to tell and "uncoordinated." Of the 258 t the plan should comments, more than half came from the state and numerous others the update was from a single member of the Coastal he state in March. Resources Commission Advisory cd extensions, but Council. i to go aneau and ui an me comments, he saul only t had ready in time die 18 on his list related directly to imitteo review. It the Administrative Code and had to d for lifting entire be addressed by the plan. Another 41 1981 plan. he termed "absolutely irrelevant," night, Harvey told adding, "and I can prove that in embers there is no court." Others, he said, were strictly d by law for sub- editorial in nature, n of the draft or He cited several errors in the ubmitting it on a plan?including a request to include county data from SI-OSH, a hurthey ask for a final ricanc surge prediction model icd in six months designed by the U.S. Army Corps of ' he said. "Some Engineers for areas north and east of s have turned in the Cape Fear. Instead, Brunswick vo years Late, but 1 County's data is included in SLASH tthem." 11, a simpler model run by the NaMfice of Coastal tional Hurricane Center. Accordine iskcd the county to to Allan McDuffic, the Corps' project cly as it can a manager for the Eastern N.C. Huripletion of the up- (See PI-ANN1NG. Page 2-A) jed In Friday Shooting wice in the chest he underwent surgery. He was listed revolver. in fair condition Monday, according t at close range, ac- to Sheriff's Captain Phil Perry, rant, nnd sustained Hell's trial has been set for Jan. 12 in Brunswick County District us treated in the Criminal Court, sital emergency isfcrrcd to New Perry said the motive for the il Hospital, where shooting is under investigation.
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