STAFF PHOTO BY ERIC CARLSON
NANCY PRICE, adult sen-ices coordinator for the Brunswick County Library Department, demon
strates the computer that allows hooks and other materials to be borrow ed from libraries across the
country through the inter-library loan program. The department recently received new computers for
public use, which have been set up in the Shallotte and Southport branches.
TEMPORARY SITE NEEDED
Keeping Shallotte Libra,
Open Is Goal Of Meeti
ry
ng
BY ERIC CARLSON
The West Brunswick Library in
Shallotte is going to close for four to
six months next spring. But at least
some of the collection could be
moved to a temporary library if
enough people volunteer to staff it
and someone agrees to donate a
building.
The Friends of the West Bruns
wick Library will hold a public
meeting Friday, Nov. 19, at the
National Guard Armory in Shallotte
to discuss ways of keeping the li
brary open to the public.
Construction is expected to begin
March 3, 1994, on a major addition
and renovation to the Shallotte and
Southport library branches. Current
plans call for the libraries to be
closed and for all books and equip
ment to be put in storage until mid
July. Staff from the two closed li
braries will be temporarily assigned
to the new branches in Leland and
Yaupon Beach.
The Brunswick County Library
Board of Trustees has indicated it
would consider allowing the
Shallotte library to remain open at a
temporary location. But it does not
have the funds to lease a building or
to pay for the additional staff needed
to keep it open.
At the board's last meeting.
Friends of the Library representa
tives were told that a supervisor
could be assigned to oversee volun
teers at a temporary branch if the
group can arrange to set it up.
Next Friday's meeting is aimed at
drumming up support for the effort
to keep the library open, said
Friends member Sue McCann.
"We want folks to come with
ideas about how to keep the library
running during that time," said
McCann. "We need people who are
willing to donate their time to staff a
temporary library. And we are look
ing for available space where we can
relocate temporarily.
"So I would urge anyone interest
ed in donating a building for six
months or so to come to the meeting
or contact us," she said. "We need
help if we want to have a library."
Similar community efforts helped
build a library in Leland and raised
nearly $50,(KM( toward the construc
tion of a new branch on Oak Island.
For more information about the
meeting and the effort to keep the
Shallotte library open, call Blanche
Bechtle at 579-7826.
Three Hearings Set At Sunset;
Members To Be Sworn Dec. 6
BY LYNN CARLSON
Sunset Beach Town Council has
three public hearings on its agenda
for the Dec. 6 regular meeting at 7
p.m.
Also at that time, the mayor and
council members beginning new
terms of office will be sworn in by
Town Administrator Linda Fluegel.
In the Nov. 2 municipal election
Mayor Mason Barber was re-elect
ed, as were council members Julia
Thomas and Ed Gore. New member
Herb Klinker will take his place on
the board after having defeated in
cumbent Bud Scrantom by two
votes.
Topics of the scheduled public
hearings are:
?A proposal to amend the town's
building inspection procedure to in
clude concrete slabs used for drive
ways, garage floors, carports, patios,
walkways, etc., to protect property
owners against inferior workman
ship.
Planning Board Chairman Rich
ard Good said such inspections are
currently not covered by building
codes, "and there's a lot of shoddy
work going on in non-living areas."
Concrete slabs on the ground
would be required to be at least 3.5
inches thick and after 28 days be
able to withstand 2,500 pounds per
square inch "except where weather
exposure requires greater strength
and air-entrained concrete."
Unreinforced slabs would be re
quired to have control joints at least
a quarter of the depth of the slab,
with joints spaced no more than 10
feet apart.
Also included in the proposed
amendment is a schedule for in
specting public buildings, institu
tions, high-rise and assembly build
ings for "identifying activities and
conditions.. .that pose danger of fire,
explosion or related hazards." The
schedule is required by the N.C. De
partment of Insurance, Good said.
Inspections would be performed
once a year on "hazardous, institu
tional, high-rise, assembly and resi
dential" buildings except for one
and two-family dwellings, and only
on the interior common areas of
multi-family buildings.
Every three years, inspections
would be required for businesses,
mercantile storage facilities and
churches.
?A suggested amendment to the
zoning ordinance to allow walkways
three feet or narrower and six inches
above the ground beyond 125 feet
seaward of property lines abutting
the Main Street right-of-way. Each
walkway would be required to have
a "keep off the dunes" sign posted at
its end.
?Addition of a proposed MR-2A
(mainland residential) zoning dis
trict in which the minimum front
yard setback would be 25 from the
property line. Good explained that
the zone would apply onto to the
subdivision along Hickory Street, an
older development in which home
owners have difficulty building to
conform to the 50-foot setbacks re
quired in the existing MR-2 zone.
"This planning board would not
allow creation of other MR-2A
zones," Good said. "This (proposal)
is designed to correct this one prob
lem alone, and that's the only
change we propose."
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