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- '-V- ? -mi STAFF PHOTO BY DOUG RUTTER Enjoying Easter Holiday Brothers Adrian (left) and Gabriel Dungan of Asheville play on Holden lieach Monday afternoon. Island Roads Targeted For Repaying BY doug rutter Two of ihc longest and most heavily-traveled streets at Holdcn Beach and Long Beach should be repaved before tourists arrive for the next major holiday weekend. The state has hired a contractor to resurface Ocean Boulevard at Holdcn Beach and Beach Drive at Long Beach before Memorial Day weekend, said Buddy Hoskins, en gineer with the N.C. Department of Transportation in Burgaw. Holdcn Beach's main thorough fare will be patched, leveled and given a fresh coal of asphalt from the cast end to the guard house at the west end ? a stretch of 6.6 miles. Sections of the road where patch ing is needed have been marked with orange paint. Hoskins said the resurfacing should begin at the end of this week or early next week and take only a few days. The work at Long Beach also should be done shortly. Beach Drive covers 7.3 miles, and the contractor also will resurface King's Lynn Drive at the west end of Long Beach. Hoskins said the deadline for fin ishing repaving work <?r both is lands is May 18, one week before the traditional start of the summer tourist season. In preparation for the long-await ed paving of Occan Boulevard, Holdcn Beach Commissioners held a special meeting Tuesday morning to arrange for the installation of drain pipe where the boulevard in tersects Shrimp Street. The town hired J.M. Redmond of Shallottc to install an 18-inch con cretc pipe under Occan Boulevard East. A catch basin will be installed at the end of Shrimp Street to drain water to the south side of the boule vard. The project will cost the town about SI, 940. Redmond submitted the lowest of three informal bids. Hoskins said the work on the is land roads is part of a SI. 5 million rcpaving contract that has been awarded to Papco Construction Company of Salisbury. The contract includes work in three counties. Papco sub-contracted all of the resurfacing work in Brunswick County to Propst Construction of Concord, which also is paving the U.S. 17 Shallottc bypass. Besides the island streets, Hoskins said the Department of Transportation has included 12 oth er local roads in the resurfacing contract. Hickman Road, which stretches about four miles in the southwestern part of the county, will be repaved from U.S. 17 to the South Carolina state line. In the Shallottc area, the contrac tor will rcpavc the section of N.C. 130 West between U.S. 17 Business and the Shallottc bypass. Other roads to be resurfaced include Bridgcrs Road and Mulberry Street. Other Brunswick County roads in the contract include Mill Branch Road from N.C. 130 West to Stout Road, Empire Road from N.C. 130 East to Mt. Pisgah Road, Maple Hill Road in the Brick Landing area and Gurganus Road between Todd Road and Pigott Road in the Shallotte Point area. County Treats Legislators On A Busy Trip To Raleigh Brunswick County officials ear ned a message to Raleigh last week while treating state legislators to lo cally-caught shrimp. The shrimpcroo and legislative lobby, held every other year, has be come a favored event for legislators there, said County Manager David Clegg. Clegg, along with Brunswick County Commissioners Kelly Hold en and Jerry Jones, attended the lob bying session last Tuesday and Wednesday in Raleigh. New Han over, Pender and Columbus coun ties also sent delegates. It was a chance for the county to not only socialize but to bring its concerns to the N.C. General As sembly while members are actively in session, Clegg said. "Particularly with all that has happened this week, it was good timing," Clegg added. The State House Appropriations Committee met iast week to recom mend sweeping budget cuts that may affect funding for all counties for the 1991-92 fiscal year. The committee began grappling with ways to trim an estimated SI 70 mil lion from the N.C. Department of Public Instruction budget Wednes day because of state deficits. Counties arc concerned about having to pick up the tab for state mandated programs that have been targeted for budget cuts. Two years ago, during the last lobbying session attended by county GIFT SHOP officials, approximately S3, 000 in county funds were spent, Clcgg said. Although the bills arc not in for last week's trip, he expects the trip will cost less than S3.000. A Wilmington seafood restaurant catered the event. "I think it's a very positive thing," Clcgg said of the lobbying effort. "The legislators get to sec and hear from their people back home on these issues." County officials arc also busy preparing their local budget requests for the 1991-92 fiscal year. Budget packcts have been given to depart ment heads and are due back to the county manager's office next week. Clcgg and Finance Director Lith ia Hahn will prepare this year's county budget on a new computer ized system installed at the govern ment complex in Bolivia. Budget requests from each department must be entered to see if enough funds are there. "So much of it is like playing pin the tale on the donkey," said Clcgg. Holden Beach POA Backs Annexation Vote BY D()U(; RUTTKR The Holden Beach Property Owners Assoc iaiion voted Saturday to support a proposed law that would let the island's registered vot ers decide if the town should ex pand its boundaries. The association backed a town commission request for state legis lation that would prohibit annexa tion without the approval of the ma jority of the people registered to vote at 1 loldcn Beach. About 40 of the 50 association members who attended the annual Easter weekend meeting Saturday voted to support the town board's request for a local bill. Holden Beach Commissioner Bob Buck, who serves as executive secretary of the association, said the support may "carry some weight" with State Rep. David Redwine, who has been asked to intioduce the legislation. The Holden Beach Property Owners Association (HBPOA) rep resents about 800 of the town's 1,750 proocrty owners. It mainly serves part-time residents who own about 75 jercent of the property and pay most of the town taxes. Buck said the N.C. General As sembly and N.C. League of Munici palities have traditionally opposed bills amending the state's annexa tion statutes. Right now, as few as three town commissioners could vote to annex property if state guidelines arc followed. 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"The purpose of the reso lution is to provide that would not happen again," he said. One property owner suggested the HBPOA try to get a law that would allow non-residents to vote on annexation plans. Commissioner Judy Bryan said the town board wanted to allow non-resident owners to vote. But the county elections supervisor told the board that only people registered to vote at Holdcn Beach could vote. "We did want all of you to vote on it," Mrs. Bryan said. "It's not us. We tried. We tried to get you all to vote and we couldn't do it." Donations Approved The HBPOA approved donations to the local fire department and res cue squad Saturday, spending some of the S17.000 that the group has in the bank. Property owners agreed to con tribute $2,500 to the Tri-Bcach Vol unteer Fire Department and S 1 ,000 to Coastline Volunteer Rescue Squad. The fire department had request ed 51,500 to pay for a piece of equipment that is needed for the new SI 2 1,000 pumper truck that ar rived last week. The rcscuc squad hadn't requested any money. Holdcn Beach Building Inspector Dwight Carroll, who is a member of the HBPOA Board of Directors, said the new fire truck should help improve the fire rating on the island and save homeowners money on fire insurance premiums. Numbers Needed The property owners association will ask the town to purchase rcllcc tivc house numbers and sell them at cost to homeowners. Commissioner Bryan said she wants homeowners to put up num bers near the street that rcflcct head lights at night. The reflective num bers arc needed, she said, so fire and rescue personnel can find homes easily. "It's so hard to find your house numbers right now," Mrs. Bryan said. "You literally have to pull in the driveway and shine your head lights on them. Somebody could die bccausc of that." 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