Holden Will Repay Loan Early
Holden Beach's water system has faithfully provided residents and vis
itors water for drinking, bathing and landscaping for the last 14 years.
Bui the town still doesn't own the system. That will change next
month when Holden Beach pays off the rest of the debt it owes on (he
water system installed in 1979.
Commissioners voted last week to pay $295,300 to United Carolina
Bank?the remainder of a $477,000 loan the town received in 1988.
Holden Beach has been paying $78,000 per year to UCB, and the town
was scheduled to continue making annual payments through 1998.
The town will save a substantial amount of money by paying off the
bank loan five years early. It will save $96,000 in interest payments, but
lose the interest it would have earned by keeping $295,000 in the bank.
Sylvia Bissell. the town's finance officer, said $198,300 will be taken
from the water fund reserve to help pay off the loan. The other $97,000
will come from next year's budget.
Holden Beach originally borrowed $1.1 million from Farmer's Home
Administration to build the water system and water tank, but re-financed
the loan with UCB five years ago.
TO BE HIRED BY SHERIFF
Babson Offered $90,000
Settlement, $23,000 Job
BY ERIC CARLSON
Two years after she was fired as
animal control supervisor, Zclma
Babson has been offered nearly
$60,(XX) in cash and a new position
as one of the highest paid employees
of the Brunswick County Sheriff's
Department as a settlement of her
lawsuit against the county.
The board of commissioners vot
ed unanimously Monday to approve
the 590,533 settlement offer, which
also provides $30,000 for Babson's
lawyer Sheila McLamb.
Brunswick County had little
choice but to settle with Babson af
ter the State Personnel Commission
recently upheld an administrative
law judge's decision that she was
wrongfully terminated. County At
torney Michael Ramos said last
week.
The judge recommended that
Babson be reinstated to her position
with back pay. attorney's fees, court
costs and all other lost benefits.
Babson was suspended June 25,
1991. by Brunswick County Health
Director Michael Rhodes and later
fired after her employees allegedly
asked him to take action against
Babson, claiming she was verbally
abusive to them. Her salary at that
time was $20,714.
Under the proposed settlement
authorized Monday. Babson "shall
be employed with the Brunswick
County Sheriff's Department in the
position of prisoner transporter and
relief jailer at a beginning salary of
S22.883.13. which would be equal
to her pay had she not been termi
nated and shall be effective July 1,
1993."
If the arrangement is approved.
Babson's starting pay would excccd
current salary of aii but eight of the
sheriff's department's employees,
including all road deputies and most
detectives. The normal starting pay
for a jailer is $14,370 a year. The en
try level salary for a detective is
S20.670. New deputies arc hired at
$17,311.
Under the settlement, the county
agrees to pay Babson $59,229 in
compensation for back wages and
leave time that have accrued since
her firing.
The agreement also states that all
disciplinary actions in Babson's per
sonnel file will be expunged and
says that she "shall serve the proba
tionary period of employment of 12
months for law enforcement officers
as required by the county personnel
policy."
Coast Guard
Fishing Boat,
The U.S Coast Guard Station at
Oak Island embarked on two rescue
operations in the waters off the
South Brunswick Islands last week,
station chief BMCS J.D. Arndt re
ported Tuesday.
At about 10 p.m. June 14. the sta
tion received a call from the fishing
vessel Miss Jean reporting it
aground and taking on water near
Shallotte Inlet.
The station dispatched its 41-foot
rescue boat and notified the Bruns
wick County Emergency Services
(911) center. With the help of local
rescue personnel, a pump was taken
aboard the stricken fishing boat to
remove water from it.
Once the Miss Jean was stabi
lized, a search of her hull was be
gun, but no damage was found.
Called To Aid
Catamaran
However the boat was still unable to
engage her propeller shaft, Arndt re
ported. Her captain contracted with
a commercial towing company to
bring the boat to Hughes Marina.
On Saturday at about 6:30 p.m.,
the station received a.call from a
resident reporting an overturned ca
tamaran in the vicinity of Long
Beach Pier.
The station dispatched its 21-foot
quick-response inflatable boat and
notified Brunswick 911.
A short while later the station re
ceived a call from the Long Beach
Police Department. One of their of
ficers on the scene said he could see
another boat assisting the overturned
catamaran, which was successfully
righted and brought to shore.
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1993 THC BfHJNSWlCK Bf ACON
Holden Chief Stressing Safety
Following Pair Of Close Calls
BY DOUG RLTTER "Wc had lo do CPR on him. He
Holdcn Bcach Police Chief was full of water," Cook said. "Wc
Robert Cook is encouraging parents didn't have a pulse at all when wc
to pay close at- first got him up on the bcach."
tcntion to their Cook and local resident Jenny
children at the Varnum gave Jarvis cardiopulmo
beach this sum- ' nary resuscitation until a Coastline
rner following t\ frv ) Volunteer Rescue Squad ambulance
two "close V* / S arrived.
calls" in the past ' Jarvis was taken to The Brunv
two weeks. ""r j wick Hospital in Supply and later
A local teen- transferred to New Hanover Rcgio
agcr nearly nal Medical Center in Wilmington,
drowned near where he was treated and released,
the cast end of COOK Cook said the near drowning was
the beach Sunday, and a boy from Holdcn Bcach's first of the season.
Ohio was hit by a pickup truck "That was as closc as we've comc
while crossing Occan Boulevard last sincc those people drowned here
Monday. two years ago." he said.
"It's a dangerous place to turn Two vacationers drowned in the
kids loose in the summertime, cspe- Holden Bcach surf in the summer of
cially on the weekends." Cook said 1991. and three other men drowned
Tuesday. "Parents really can't let off Shallottc Inlet earlier that year
kids out of their sight for a second." following a boating mishap.
On Sunday, a Supply teen nearly Cook said there were rip currents
drowned in the surf near Holden along the bcach over the weekend.
Street, but he was pulled from the "It the was first bad ones we've had
occan by other swimmers and re- this year. I guess it's started now."
vived. The chief said rip currents seem
Cook said 19-year-old James to be more prevalent during the
Jarvis of Oxpcn Road went out in summer. "Maybe it's because wc
the occan too far and couldn't swim have more people out there and
back. The chief said Jarvis went un- we're more aware of them," he said,
der water before several people on The near drowning was the sec
floats pulled him back to the beach. ond serious bcach-rclatcd incident
OIB Commissioners OK $3.05
Million Budget With No Tax Hike
BY LYNN CARLSON
After a 10-minutc public hearing
attended by one citizen and one re
porter, Ocean Isle Beach's Board of
Commissioners unanimnously ap
proved a $3.05 million budget with
no tax increase for the fiscal year
beginning July 1.
Property owners will pay 20 cents
per $100. or $200 in tax for every
$100,000 of properly value.
Mayor Betty Williamson held the
floor open for public comment, but
none was offered.
"I think it's the most professional
budget we've ever had," said Mayor
Betty Williamson, commending Fin
ance Officer Daisy Ivey for her
work on the document.
Ad valorem tax revenues are pro
jected at $623,660 on a total proper
ty valuation of nearly $315 mil
lion?up from $307 million in the
current fiscal year.
Other revenue sources anticipated
are accommodations tax, $366,000;
local option sales tax, $50,000; fran
chise tax, $40,000; general fund in
terest earnings, $45,(XX); and liquor
store revenues, $54,(XX).
The town's water fund budget is
proposed at $413,215, including a
$45,000 capital project reserve fund;
$22,236 going toward debt service;
and $160,000 to be paid to the
Brunswick County water system.
The budget projects $325,(XX) in wa
ter bill collections.
Sewer fund expenditures are pro
jected at $378,325. The commis
sioners expect to collect $549,500 in
sewer charges and $93,900 in as
sessment fees for the current sewer
expansion project; and $108,700 in
n
I think it's the
most professional
budget we \e
ever had."
? Betty Williamson,
Mayor OIB
tap-on fees.
Accommodations tax fund rev
enues arc projected at $366,000. Of
that, $90,000 will go toward the
town's beach renourishmcnt fund,
along with a $93,547 contribution
from the general fund.
The general fund contribution for
beach renourishmcnt was based on 3
cents' valuation, a practice begun
with the current fiscal year's budget.
The proposed new monies would in
crease the beach renourishment and
erosion control reserve fund to
$360,447.
Some $81,218 of the airport
fund's total estimated revenue of
$89,468 is expected to come from
state revenues due from previous
years' projects. Projected airport
fund expenses include $75,000 for
land acquisition.
The town's underground utilities
fund includes $1(X),000 to bury
power lines.
The sewer capital project reserve's
contribution of $150,000 from the
general fund will increase it to
$405,(XX). The water reserve fund
will receive $45,(XX), bringing it to
$80,000, the same amount earmarked
for expansion and construction.
ihis month. On June 14, a 12-ycar- ported to New Hanover Regional
old boy visiting from Ohio was sen- Medical Center, where he stayed lor
ously injured when he was struck by several days before returning to
a vehicle. Ohio.
Cook said Michael Steven Joo Jr. "He was hit pretty hard," Cook
of Urbana, Ohio, was crossing said. "We thought he was worse off
Ocean Boulevard West between than lie was. They did a hrain scan
Boyd and Neptune streets when he and a lot of work on him. They said
ran into the path of a pickup truck. he would need some jaw surgery as
"The family was coming off the he grew."
beach and he ran out in the mad in Cook said the hoy's parents were
front of the truck," Ctmk said. The walking behind him when he ran in
chief said there was no way the dri- to the street. "They really need to
ver could have avoided the accident. make sure the kids stop at the road
The boy was taken to The Bruns- when they come off the beach ac
wick Hospital before being trans- eessway."
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