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Shuiluite Aldermen \A/itU ti R AAI!!ir.n I II IIVCI II IM ? ? III I s? ' / YUIIIV/I ? Budget Propose! ni? n/\i m ? ???>???? di uwu nvillA Oodles of ideas have been kicked around during four hours worth of budget workshops in the past week, but Shallotte officials haven't made any decisions yet on die spending plan they must approve before July 1. Aldermen met for two hours Tuesday and two hours last Ww<Bwil?y In Hnnnf tfo $1 S mil iios budget jMUfMWki for Hacoi yen 1994-95. A decrease in the current town tax rare of 47 cents per Si GO of property seems likely, although board mem bers have not agreed on an exact fig ure. Town Clerk Mary Etta Hewett balanced the proposed budget using a tax rate of 40 cents. The tax rate cut is possible be cause Shallotte 's tax base jumped from $73 million ?q nearly $!07 mil lion as a result of the recent property revaluation in Brunswick County. White the town tax rate may be heading down, water and sewer rates for Shallotte s 600 customers mav be on the rise. Town officials have proposed an increase of IS cents per 1,000 gal lons of water to offset an anticipated increase uuui Bniuwidi CsssTy. Sewer fees will go up 25 cents per 1,000 gallons to help meet opera tional costs. If the rate hikes are approved, the basic moothiy rate tor water wiii jump from S10.02 to S10.47 and the current flat rate for sewer will in crease from $9 to $9.75. The police department's proposed budget of $311,707 aanjnis fur 37 l<uwui ot me *0^,030 genera: fund. Police Chief Rodney Gause has in|wawu 5-p?Cciri muh; iuueara for officers as well as a new position for a full-time secretary to answer phones, dispatch calls and help with paperwork during the day. The proposed police budget also includes 528,100 for two new patrol cars. In the past, the town has pur chased used Highway Patrol cars. Other major genera! faed expens es include $177,620 for streets, $137,798 for administration and ap proximately $50,000 each for the in spections and fire departments. TWo new positions have been requested IU public miiM. The proposed budget includes $18,000 in ABC store revenue ? a source of income that has declined Brunswick County opened an ABC store on Hokfcn Beach Road. That is nowhere near when it was years ago," Alderman Roney Chens uid of the ABC fund*. "Holden Beach knocked us in the head completely," added board member David Cause. Shallotte expects to receive S! .300 nest fees! yesr fcr providing J55 jnraj mnyafftfa* itltitf The board voted last week to send letters to Brunswick County Clerk -* /?? rv* *? * a Ut UIU1I UMMM imN^UI auu V.4UCI District Court Judoe Jerry Jolly re questing that magistrate Cheryl Hughes be assigned full-time to the Shallotte office. "If we're going to reserve a space for her the county should leave her down here," Mayor Sarah Tripp said. "I think we ought to put a little nessure on the county to keep her here. There ain't no sense in having an office here if the county is going to put her in Timbuktu." Some board members said last week they would like to increase a proposed $2,000 donation to the South Brunswick islands Qumber of Commerce. Chamber President Joe Stanley tcccatfy tsiksd to tfcs t=^r= bcssd ?boot helping with devel I ? ? ? ? ?> ? jy I. - a .1 - ? -S ak ? ^ opmcm enons ma tnc possiouity of onngiig toe n.t. uyster festival 10 Shallonr Cheers uid Ihe r^,wi^*r focused too much attention aa real estate and the beaches in the past "I want tetowB of* Stallone.- he^cram8 think you're *?* io see . Tripp sssL *1 would like to tee our monies increased to them because Joe is really fighting a *_?. m #*? ?? ?? uau wmftiug iu joniuuc. Tbwn officials also said they want to include several thousand dollars in the budget for the relocation of Sunnyside School to a permanent site behind the chamber building A copy of the proposed budget can be reviewed at town hall. A pub lic hearing has been scheduled for Tbesday. June 21. at 7:20 p.m. At Tuesday afternoon's work shop, things heated up momentarily when board members asked Fire Chief Tim Carter to explain a pro poaed $2^00 expense for depart mental repairs. Carter took exception to the ques m? beta do mi like the towlldB^ "I out mv volunteer time into it Y'all cut tt> $3,000 laat year for a computer If our time is not impor tant you need to find somebody ebe to run the fire department," Carter said. ~tf you're going iouiiiw bad get, cut it somewhere else." "nfe'jE But tjiiciuuuiuM VOU pCT sonally," Mayor Tripp said. "We have to account to the taxpayers." "ii'a like this,"" Caiici muu. "There's some people involved in this fire department who do not like you all." "No person other than you in the fire department knows who I am," Alderman Bill Allen said. Tripp said the town board gives the fire depai Uncut money if special equipment is requested and if the town can afford it "It's not that we aa a board are cutting you off from anything. If the money's not there we can't fund it," she said. Carter said the $2^00 was needed for a drop ceiling in the office "I bet you all volunteer fire de ssstssssSs is C?X2S5y wesid likg to have this financial' help right here," Aidssss Csress Dsrisss said of the 530,50* proposed bws r* Allen offered to meet with the fire diwnw any problems. "I don't want an unhappy fire department m our town," be said. "This is the first I've heard of people in the fire department being unhappy with the town board," Alderman Morris Hall said. That's because it has never come out," Carter replied. /ii/l j. iff n f j. /" ,|_| o. .?L C. i D L vvnuT-iT Duayer \~vui u rudii ju/ oci dcuui Property Taxes Up Substantially Next Year BY SUSAN USHER A series of "what-if* scenarios could help push the 1994-95 opera tions budget for the town of Sunset Beach over SI. IS million and have property owners paying 40 percent more in ad valorem taxes than this year. The proposed budget is based on keeping the tax rate at 16.7 cents per $100 valuation of real property, even though property values in the town increased by 51J5 percent ?!ter the Brunswick County revaluation. Last year the valuation was almost $217.3 million and it's now almost S329.2 million ? a difference of uciiiy $111.9 iuluiuu. Projected property tax revenues of $531,574 represent 46 percent of the revenue, with an estimated $350,000 in accommodations tax reytayf! accounting for another 30-3 percent The preliminary budget includes $1.15 million for operations; $615,556, water, and $40,000, sew er. "we've got a wag way iuguuu this budget," said Mayor Mason Barber during a budget workshop Tuesday. "Wt will Isave a budge! in crease this year. I personally think we should have an increase if that's what it's going to take to do what needs to be done." Barber said tbe budget includes more than $200,000 in line items the town isn't certain it will need, plus $76,000 for existing engineering contracts related to the sewer sys tem. It sets aside $50,000 in case the town has to begin work on a stormwater management study; $75,000 in Case an cuviroainentai impact statement (EIS) is needed for the sewer project; and $40,000 in a new sewer budget for legal "techni cal assistance" if needed in prepar ing a stormwater study. ilK iitnus auurcss tiic puwuiiiijl of two lawsuits against the town by either the Sunset Beach Taxpayers Association and/or the owner of Bird Island. The SBTA board has been autho rized to investigate the possibility only of filing suit if the town partici pates in a sewer project that does not include a stormwater management system. The budget includes $50,000 for legal fees in the event Bird Island owner Janie P. Price sues the town over its zoning of her property. rncc ? agents t!uiu iuc ?*"***c should allow denser development of the island's uplands. Looking at the budget Tuesday, Couacilass Met Xlmfcrr ques tioned the figures before him "This ? tailing ac every Sunset Beach resident will get a .40 percent tax increase next year," he said. "We need to try to bold as dose as possi ble to the iua they hsve been pay ing to Sunset beach. Mayor pro tcra Ed Gore suggest ed the town assess its needs and rev enue sources, then set the tax rate at wuaicvci Jcvci u ncuessary (O meet those '"wt* Finance Officer Julia Thomas said extra expenses are needed if the town is to "upgrade itself." "I think we deserve that," she Other new or major items in the proposed budget include $150,000 for the new town hall and another $70,000 for furnishing it; $50,000 to build two new walkways at die east end of the island; $6^000 each for mt-dMer dean up and repair and public beach dean up; and' $6,000 for placing port-a-johns near the gazebo beach access area should the Brunswick County Health Department issue a permit The water department budget of $615,556 includes $40,000 each to paint the water tank and water line repairs and_ maintenance. Even if wholesale price for water, Ibwn Administrator Linda Fluegel said she doesn't anticipate Sunset Beach needing to increase its water rate for the next several years. The overall budget reflects some salary adjustments as well as the equivalent of 5 percent of all em ployees' salaries to use in granting pay increases. Bond sentiment 'niesday was to set the sum aside for bonuses and merit pay rather than give an across-the-board increase. They agreed with Fluegel that the iausf "doaat gsre ssy hkhh??" for workers to be productive. At its next meeting the board will also consider using some of the rev enue left at the end of this fiscal year to re-establish several capital reserve funds the town once maintained to save for new facilities, public access and other long-term projects that re quire money be set aside over a peri od of years. By ucpanmsni, r.^pc.r~in:~ pro posed in the preliminary 1994-95 budget are as follows: police, $236,045, including one new vehi cle; governing body, 56,250; admin istration, $124,168; finance, $22,175; tax, $650; legal, $56,700; public buildings. $12400: $26404. Sunset Beach Volunteer Fire Depart meat; $8,000, Calabash Emergency Medical Services; $90^900, sanita tion, including the poit-a-johns; $7,380, planning and zoning; $12,000, economic development (contribution to South Brunswick Islands Chamber of Commerce; $2,000, conservation (beach renour ishment and the shared-cost Twin l Ax management Droiect^t $15,204, mosquito control; Also, $55,200, recreation for the east end beach walkways and two 'tww ? ? he8t '** ** i? nifwt sal i rir TWin Lakes; $170,000 toward oon stroctioo and furnishing of the new town hall; $84,925, drainage/envi ronmental protection; $58,475 fcr street and bulkhead repairs using POwell Bill state gas tax revenues; $50,100 noo-Fowell Bill, including street lights, lot clearance and the underground utility project. If the town rtncidrs to take over TOsntrssnrr of street lights in the ? rtrti areas of Sea Trail, ths : ".vil! cost an additional $10,000. 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