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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
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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.
Mainland annexation has been a
controversial issue at Holden Beach
for years and was the deciding fac
tor in the 1989 town election, when
four candidates opposed to annexa
tion were elected.
Those four commissioners made
good on their campaign promises
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early last year when they voted to
overturn an annexation ordinance
that had been adopted by the previ
ous town board in June 1989.
The ordinance would have
brought into the town about 67 acres
of property bordering the mainland
causeway, effective June 1990.
Buck said a state law requiring a
vote on annexation would prevent a
repeat of the one-issue election two
years ago. "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."
HBPOA Vice President Dave
Gibson, who chaired the meeting in
the absence of President Bob Linc
bcrger Saturday, said he "heard
talk" that an ambulance was driving
up and down a street Friday night
looking for a house.
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