Latest County
Budget Plan:
Tipping Fees Out, Water Hikes In
NY KRIC CARLSON
The Brunswick County Board of
Commissioners has tentatively trashed a
proposal to impose fees for dumping
garbage in the county landfill. Instead it
plans to increase its flow of revenue with a
10-cent hike in wholesale water rates.
Also under consideration are personnel
reductions in two county departments and a
total of S827.000 is spending cuts from the
budget proposed by Interim County
Manager John Harvey earlier this month.
So far, the planned reductions would reduce
the proposed 6.75<cnt tax increase by
about two cents.
No changes in Harvey's budget have
been formally adopted by a vote of the
board.
Al the latest of four workshops on the
proposed 1993-94 budget Tuesday night,
the three board members present expressed
agreement with the idea of increasing the
wholesale cost of county water to S1.35 per
1 ,(XX) gallons.
If the rate hike is included in the adopted
budget, the proposal would increase a typi
cal household's county water bill from the
current rate of S8.50 per month to S10, al
though municipal rates might see different
adjustments as determined by their local
town boards.
The proposed water rate increase is pre
dicted to generate an estimated S4.8 million
in additional revenue.
Another budget
workshop is
scheduled for
Thursday, June 10, at
7 p.m. at the complex.
Commissioners Don Warren, Tom Rabon
and Jerry Jones also tentatively agreed
Tuesday that one position each should be
cut from the county sign shop and the cafe
teria as a reduction in force.
Under the county personnel policy, an
employee's seniority and job performance
will bcr considered along with departmental
needs before a position reduction is desig
nated. The last employees hired in the de
partments were Donald Reavis in the sign
shop and Sandra Dennis in the cafeteria.
One week after Harvey's budget proposal
was announced. Warren called it "unaccept
able" and the board went to work creating
its own spending plan.
Among the changes suggested, but not
voted on, arc the retention of the Brunswick
County Library Board, the Resource
Development Commission and the Parks
and Recreation Department, which were all
slated for elimination under Harvey's bud
get proposal.
The board has also tentatively agreed to
continue funding for nearly all of the agen
cies that were recommended to be cut from
the budget including county fire district al
locations, the Hope Harbor Home domestic
violence shelter, the Southport Maritime
Museum, the Volunteer Information Center
and the Brunswick County Literacy
Council.
County Finance Officer Lilhia Hahn was
asked Tuesday to prepare a summary of the
changes made in Harvey's proposal for con
sideration at the board's next regular meet
ing nest Monday, June 7. Another budget
workshop is scheduled for Thursday, June
10, at 7 p.m.
Hearing On Food Managers'
Certification Proposal Set June 16
BY LYNN CARLSON
The Brunswick County Board of
Health has rescheduled to June 16 a
public hearing on proposed regula
tions to require all food-handling es
tablishments to have a trained and
certified food service manager on
duty during operating hours.
The hearing will be held at 7 p.m.
in the Public Assembly Building of
the county complcx in Bolivia. It
was originally set for June 9, the
same evening as all the county high
schools' graduation exercises.
The proposed regulations, drafted
by a committee of restaurateurs and
health officials, were revised after
about 80 people voiced opposition
to a more stringent plan at a public
hearing in January.
The revised proposal, presented to
the health board by Environmental
Health Supervisor Andrew Robin
son last week, would require the
owners or operators of food scrvicc
establishments to:
?designate a food service manag
er who holds a valid ccrtificatc.
Food scrvicc manager certificates
would have to be posted in estab
lishments, and the managers would
be required to carry identification
cards while on duty;
?make sure that designated food
service managers become certified
within 12 months of the regulations*
cnacimcni, or within three months of
a manager's date of employment,
whichever is longer;
?maintain a list of employees
designated as food scrvice manager
with proof of dates of employment;
The certificates would expire
every three years.
The health department's Envir
onmental Health Section would be
required to develop and administer a
six-hour food scrvice manager
coursc to teach proper food-handling
techniques and hygiene. To be certi
fied, managers would have to pass a
final examination with a grade of at
least 70 percent.
A manager's certificate could be
revoked if the establishment's sani
tation score falls below 80 percent in
two of three consccutivc grading pe
riods. Establishments receiving two
consecutive provisional classifica
tions would have their food service
managers' certificates revoked also.
Rcccrtifications would have lo be
obtained within the next three con
sccutivc courscs. There would be a
S500 fine for managers or owners
who fail to comply.
The plan also sets forth a proccss
of appeal to the board of health.
Robinson told the health board
last week the revised plan is being
"well-received by the restaurant
owners" since the committee revised
them to make them "more palat
able." Public interest in food safety
has heightened since the deaths of
several restaurant patrons who con
sumed tainted meat at Jack-in-thc
Box restaurants out West several
months ago, he added.
Robinson proposes that food ser
vice manager courses be offered
monthly, beginning in September or
Ociobcr, and take placc from 9 a.m.
unlil 3 p.m., or 3 p.m. until 9 p.m.,
with breaks for lunch and dinner.
He said he would like to limit
classes to 30 or 35 people. A food
service managers' manual would be
prepared, and the examination
would include 70 to 75 multiple
choice and true/false questions, he
added.
Personnel Policies On
School Board Agenda
(Continued From Page 1-A)
changes with the understanding that
"what you do to one person you do
to everyone else. You treat every
body alike. You don't sit on one or
two particular people when every
body else is in the same boat."
"It sounds to me like something
personal between the school board
and Joe Butler to me."
Among other things, he had ex
pected reassignment of North
Brunswick High School Principal
Robert Harris, one of four principals
appointed on an interim basis last
year.
Board member Polly Russ said
the board had been looking at sever
al alternatives from the beginning,
but that the plan presented and ap
proved May 10 "was the superinten
dent's with input from the board
members."
"We could have gone full-force
and done fruit basket transfers, but I
don't think it would have done any
good," she said. "If you make
change you have to have a plan for it
and you have to have the people in
place. And you have to realize you
don't just affect one position or one
school when you make a change.
"We looked at a whole lot of op
tions, but I think it was good we did
this," she continued. "I think it is a
good start to getting things squared
away in Brunswick County."
"The changcs that have been
made (at North Brunswick High)
this year arc very positive?we're
hearing that from faculty, students
and parents," said Russ. "But at
Lincoln Primary that wasn't the
case."
Johnston and the board decided to
Shallotte Board Has No Quorum
Shallottc Aldermen postponed Absent were Wilton Harrelson, Paul
their meeting Tuesday night because Wayne Reeves and Morris Hall.
there weren't enough board mem- The board will meet Monday,
bers for a quorum. June 7, at 7:30 p.m. Items on the
agenda will include discussion of the
Mayor Sarah Tripp and board proposed 1993-94 budget and a re
members Roncy Cheers and David port on improvements at the town's
Gause were the only ones present, sewer plant.
allow principals assigned on an in
terim or temporary basis last year an
opportunity to put their schools'
new plans into effect this coming
year, and to make use of new evalu
ation techniques and test results that
will be available next spring for the
first time under the performance
based accountability plans. He said
he had not had an opportunity this
year to observe principals as closely
as needed.
At the board's May 19 meeting,
Lincoln PTA President Lee Harrison
asked the board to support Super
intendent Johnston's reorganization
plan, saying that changes have to be
made in Brunswick County and cit
ing concerns about Lincoln's low
test scores.
"This isn't racial, this isn't any
thing personal against Joe Butler. It
is a question of supporting efforts to
improve the school system," said
Harrison. "Something's got to
change."
Butler, who is tenured, has been
at Lincoln Primary since 1985.
Johnston said Tuesday that he has
received a "great deal of input" re
garding BuUcr's transfer and has
been reflecting on the transfer deci
sion.
"I'm still convinced Joe can pro
vide tremendous assistance to the
system by bringing him into the cen
tral office, but I also understand that
what the board was hearing was to
give him an opportunity to work
with his staff and carry out their
plan."
"I'm going to give them my re
flections, but the final decision de
pends on the board. It's in ihcir con
trol."
Two Charged With Embezzling
From Englishman's Corporation
A Carolina Bcach man and his
son were arrested last week after an
English businessman notified Bruns
wick County authorities that the two
had allegedly embezzled property
from a defunct business he owned in
Lcland, policc said Monday.
Robert Alexander Williams, 62,
and William Alexander Williams,
29, of Wilmington each have been
charged with two counts of embez
zlement, according to Brunswick
County Sheriff's Dctcctivc Charles
Miller.
The Williams' had been officers
in the THK Corporation, a cleaning
supply dealership owned by Peter
Wetzel of Kent, England, Miller
said.
After the venture failed and was
shut down, Wetzel discovered that
the two men had allegedly kept the
company's SI,800 facsimile ma
chine and listed their personal auto
mobiles on the company's insur
ance, according to Miller.
The sheriff's department was
asked to look into the matter after
the district attorney's office received
a call from Wetzel's attorney, Robert
Dundas, also of Kent, who outlined
the alleged misdeeds and indicated
his client's willingness to prosecute
the case.
The two were released from cus
tody on a written promise to appear
in court.
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