MONEY APPROVED. IMPROVEMENT PERMIT ISSUED
School System Ready To Go
With Septic Repairs
At Supply
BY SUSAN USHER
Money and permit secured
Brunswick County Schools are
ready to proceed with repair of a
failed septic system at Supply Ele
mentary School.
Monday night Brunswick County
Commissioners voted unanimously
to approve the schools' use of
5363,000 in half-cent sales tax mon
ey provided by the state to meet
school needs. Most of the money,
$230,000, will be used to repair the
septic system.
Tuesday afternoon, the Brunswick
County Health Department issued a
repair improvement permit for the
project.
After receiving a letter from the
state Division of Environmental
Health giving its approval of the re
pair plan, said Bruce Withrow, a
county environmental health pro
gram specialist, "a few loose ends
still needed to be tied up," but are
addressed in the repair permit.
Repairs are expected to take four
to six weeks, said Johnston. The
Brunswick County Health Board
had set a Nov. 12 deadline for mak
ing the repairs or facing possible
closure of the school until the sys
tem is fixed.
In allocating the funds. County
Commissioners' Chairman Don
Warren told the school board he
hopes it will "take some action" re
garding accountability for failure of
the septic system.
"It's not just the money, but the
principal of the thing" he said
School board attorney Glen Peter
son, whose firm has been investigat
ing the matter, said Monday night he
plans to make a recommendation to
the school board at its Nov.meeting.
The school has been paying to
have sewage pumped and hauled
away for disposal since the system
failed in March. Under the current
contract, the tank is pumped at least
four times a da\. more often if need
ed, at a cost of SXO per pump, or
S 1,600 to Si, MX) per week, said
Finance Officer Rudi Fallon
In an effort to speed the repair
process, earlier this month the
school board accepted a bid of
$179,130 from Pipeline Utilities of
Wilmington for the repair, based on
plans that had received only tenta
tive approval from the state.
The repairs will be made under
supervision of the county health de
partment, under specific instructons.
A permit condition requires that rep
resentatives of the school's engi
neering firm and soil consultant will
be on site at all times during site
preparation
In addition to pump tank and con
trol panel repairs, the state is requir
ing installation of two new supply
lines and two new low pressure pipe
drainfields, an under drainage sys
tem around the fields and piping re
pairs. It has also recommended refit
ting the school restrooms with wa
ter-conserving facilities and in
stalling a device to keep kitchen
grease from the wastewater stream.
Johnston said some of the money
would also be used to install a ditch
culvert with the approval of county
and state environmental agencies.
Condensate from the air conditioner
unit will be routed along down
spouts into the culvert and away
from the sewage system. The
schools have until spring to com
plete this part of the project, since
the air conditioning system is not in
use now.
The balance of the half-cent sales
tax allocation will be used for site
improvements as needed, such as re
pair or replacement of heat pumps;
wastewater pumping at Supply Ele
mentary; a bus washing facility at
the school garage that may also be
used by the county; and work on un
derground storage tanks and storm
water run-off at the school mainte
nance facility and garage needed to
meet environmental standards that
go into effect in 1995
County Manager Wyman Yelton
recommended adoption of the pro
posed expenditures. In County At
torney Michael Ramos' opinion, the
commissioners "were not required
to do so under the court order."
The $363,000 is the balance of
>Uic half-cent sales tax revenues ex
pected to remain after this year's re
payment on certificates of participa
tion that will be issued for construc
tion of Leland Elementary School.
Use of the tax revenues was request
ed as a lump sum in the proposed
budget resolution submitted to the
county last spring, but was resubmit
ted with more specifics in the reso
lution adopted at the school board's
Oct 10 meeting
Bccau.se of the ongoing funding
dispute between the schools and the
county, the school system had oper
ated under an interim budget since
July 1. The resolution adopted re
flects a Superior Court judge's rec
ommendation for the county to pro
vide the schools $10.2 million in lo
cal funds pending appeal of a jury
verdict that directed the county to
award the schools an additional $4.8
million over the allocation originally
proposed by the county.
School board attorney Glen Peter
son said he has received formal no
tice from the N.C. Administrative
Office of the Courts that the N.C.
Court of Appeals has agreed to both
the school system's and the county's
requests to hear the appeal "as
quickly as possible," foregoing oral
arguments.
Holden Beach
Interviews 4
For Manager
Holden Beach Commissioners in
terviewed four applicants for town
manager Tuesday and agreed to
make an offer to one of them.
Mayor Gay Atkins said the board
interviewed three men and one
woman during a day-long, closed
door session at town hall.
"We have discussed the applicants
and 1 am going to make an offer to
one of them," Atkins said.
Town Manager Gus Ulrich an
nounced several months ago that he
plans to retire around the end of the
year.
Atkins said the town board was
unanimous in deciding which appli
cant should be offered the job. She
said town officials could know as
early as Wednesday whether they
have a new manager
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