STAFF PHOTO BY LYNN CARLSON
Beefing Up The Poultry Fund
Three organizations came to the aid of the Brunswick County Volunteer and Information Center this
holiday season when VIC needed more funds for its turkey and baking hen gift certificates program
for poor families. Representing the contributors (from left) were Glenn Johnson, Johnson Golf Carts
Inc.; Mary Locklear and Bill Robinson, Brunswick Island Board of Realtors ; and Bill Bright,
Brunswick Island Home Builders Association. Each contributing organization gave $450 to help VIC
with the poultry fund in the last week before Christmas, and pledged to participate in future years.
Accepting (right) is Pete Barnette, executive director of VIC.
OIB Completes Sewer Expansion,
Saves Taxpayers Money On Bonds
BY LYNN CARLSON
Highlighting the municipal year at Ocean Isle Beach
were completion of a sewer extension on the island's
east end and the refunding of $3 million in water and
sewer bonds.
The bond refunding ? or refinancing to take advan
tage of current low interest rates ? was expected to save
Ocean Isle Beach taxpayers about $370,000 over the life
of the bonds.
The town's fiscal year 1994 budget, effective July 1,
totaled $3.05 million, holding the tax rate at 20
cents per $100 property valuation.
Ocean Isle Beach commissioners were the
first Brunswick County board to endorse a res
olution to route the proposed new Interstate 73
highway through Brunswick County. The sug
gestion was brought to the commissioners by
Odell Williamson, the town's streets and utili
ties commissioner and former mayor who was
appointed this year by Gov. Jim Hunt to the powerful
N.C. Board of Transportation.
The plan, later endorsed by Holden Beach and
Sunset Beach governments, was approved at the state
level in December and characterized by Williamson as
"a done deal."
Throughout the year, the town commissioners and
planning board worked with consultant Roger Briggs to
ward an update of the Ocean Isle Beach subdivision or
dinance. At year end, the document still was undergoing
last-minute revisions and had not been adopted by the
boards.
Among changes the board worked on in 1993 was a
relaxation of the town's 36-foot residential building
height limit. Though the change had not been formalized
by the year's end, the commissioners and planning
board were working toward regulations which would
permit every new home built to have two finished living
floors with eight-foot ceilings, with a 40-foot maximum
height and adequate roof pitch.
A change is needed to allow all property owners to
maximize their investment at Ocean Isle while still
meeting federal home elevation standards and municipal
height limits. Planning Board Chairman DeCarol Will
iamson argued.
From the first meeting of January to the last meeting
in December, the commissioners dealt with pro
posals and proposed changes to three new sub
divisions under development by Ocean Isle
Partners.
The ocean-to-sound Crouse, Ross and
Summerplace developments brought about a
town-mandated public parking lot ? an ocean
front lot later moved to two 25-foot-wide street
side strips between Shelby Street and Duneside
Drive. In December, the partners received a special use
permit from the board of adjustments to construct a pri
vate swimming pool for subdivision residents adjacent
to the parking lot.
Relations between the partners and the town board
were frequently strained, with the partners charging that
they were being singled out for arbitrary requirements,
and town officials countering that the partners continual
ly made changes to their original plans.
T\vo Stay, One Goes
Mayor Betty Williamson ran unopposed for a second
term in the November election.
Mayor pro tem Bill Benton kept his seat on the
board, but Commmissioner Terry Barbee was defeated
by newcomer Ken Proctor, a planning board member
who amassed the largest number of votes in the election.
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Expand On Leased Timberland
BY DOUG RUTTER
Shallotte would get the land it needs to expand its
sewer system and a paper company would get the water
it needs to grow big trees under a deal that could be
worked out early next year.
Finley Boney of Raleigh, consulting engineer for the
town's sewer system, said Federal Paper Board Co. is
interested in leasing property near the sewer plant that
would allow the town to more than double its treatment
capacity.
For a nominal lease fee, the town would be able to
expand its spray irrigation system on the timberland and
increase its treatment capacity to handle future develop
ment.
By allowing the town to
use the property for spray irri
gation, Federal Paper would
have steady irrigation for its
pine trees, which it would con
tinue to harvest to make paper.
"It's a win-win situation
truly," Boney said in a tele
phone interview Tuesday.
"They (Federal Paper) see the
benefit of having these high,
sandy hills irrigated. They can
grow better pine trees."
Shallotte also would bene
fit financially. Boney said the
deal could save the town about $200,000 ? the going
rate for 200 acres of sandy timberland. "It could be a
significant savings for the town," he said.
Boney said he has identified a 200-acre tract of
Federal Paper timberland northeast of town that would
be ideal for the lease arrangement. Approximately 110
of the acres would be suitable for wastewater applica
tion.
The engineer said Shallotte needs about 75 acres of
spray irrigation fields to increase its treatment capacity
from 206,000 gallons per day to 500,000 gallons per
day.
"We believe at this time we can work it out with the
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? Finley Boney, engineer
paper company to lease adequate land," Boney said.
Boney said he could present his recommendations to
the Shallotte Board of Aldermen as soon as next month.
"Hopefully in January we'll be putting this more to
gether in a formal manner for their consideration," he
said. "Everything looks very positive that they have
enough good, sandy property out there to allow the town
to expand their treatment facility as they want to."
The town currently receives an average of 130,000
to 150,000 gallons of wastewater per day.
Within the next few weeks, Boney said he will have
estimates on how much it would cost the town to expand
the wastewater treatment capacity to a half-million gal
lons per day.
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to decide how to finance the expan
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not be a holdup," Boney said.
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growth," Boney said. "There are
things going on out there that we
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to purchase some additional prop
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may be suitable.
Carnegie Steel is not interested in a lease arrange
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buy it."
Boney said he doesn't know of any other municipal
ities or counties that have worked out lease arrange
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systems.
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