4 - The MorrisvHle and Preston Progress, Wednesday, March 27,1996
Town Crier
Huntington seeking services
Town board awards road paving bids
Morrisville commissioners have
given the green light for seven
streets to be repaved within the
town limits. The work will be
done by Blalock Paving Inc. of
Raleigh, which submitted a low
bid of $69,156.60 to do the work.
Town Manager David
Hodgkins told commissioners
that bids for the work were
received by only two firms for
asphalt paving and related road
work on £X)minion Drive, Nova
Court, International Drive, Creek
Park, Pleasant Wood Court, Quail
Field Court and Page Street. The
other bid was for $75,212.80.
Hodgkins explained that costs
are broken down as to the amount
of work that is required at each
site. Certain marked areas wiU be
repaired by removing loose or
shifted asphalt and then reaped at
Dominion Drive for a cost of
$5,280.50, on Nova Court for
$1,416, on International Drive for
$1,373.50, and on Creek Park for
$2,882.50.
At Pleasant Wood Court, which
includes a cul de sac, loose and
shifted asphalt will be removed
and replaced with new asphalt
and then the roadbed will be
repaved at a cost of $4,544.
At Quail Field Court, with an
other cul de sac, the cost is sub
stantially above the other jobs be
cause of the considerable work
that is needed, including the
removal of asphalt, subgrading
and reconstructing the sub-base
of the road, as well as
reconstructing the right radius of
the road, reconstructing two catch
basins to drop inlets and moving
a fire hydrant The cost is
$44,346. The road, located off
Morrisville Parkway near the
Huntington development was
constructed about 1984 and was
one of the first outside of the core
of Morrisville. Faults in the
original construction were
blamed, Hodgkins explained.
The final asphalt covering on
Quail Field Court is to be in
stalled at a later date due to other
construction in the area. Cost for
the repaving is $3,500 and that
amount will be withheld and paid
when the cover surface is in
stalled.
At Page Street, the work in
cludes spraying the grass with a
herbicide, placing a structural
fabric underlayment, retacking
and then repaving for $9,264.
Page Street does not have curbs
and the fabric underlayment and
tacking process will be done at
the edges of the roadbed in order
to assure that portion of the road
way does not break up.
The contract calls for the town
staff to assure proper inspection.
Initial repaving is expected to
start in about 30 days.
An M-dinance vote that wasn’t
on the agenda prompted newly
elected Morrisville Commissioner
Mark Silver-Smith to criticize the
town board at its March 11 meet
ing.
Commissioners voted to ban
guns on town property even
though the public hachi’t been
given notice.
Silver-Smith wasn’t notified ei
ther, and criticized the board for
its action.
"This has nothing to do with the
good of the town and I am taking
this personally," Silver-Smith
told those attending the meeting.
"Folks, this is the way your board
works. This is the board we will
have for another two years. They
sneak and do things behind
people’s back. They knew my
stand on guns, but they did not
want me involved."
There are indications that the
practice of putting unannounced
matters under "other business"
may change, however. Frank
Gray, the town attorney, has pre
sented the board with alternatives
that include putting ordinances in
writing and spelling them out on
the agenda.
Morrisville Conunissioner
Leavy Barbee has paid nearly
$1,700 in back taxes to Wake
County after receiving a March
12 letter threatening seizure of his
personal property if he failed to
pay in 10 days.
Barbee paid the taxes March 21.
According to tax records, he
owed about $881 on his house
and two-acre lot at 101 Barbee
Road, about $427 in late taxes for
1994 and 1995 on a lot at 10916
Chapel Hill Road, and back taxes
and interest totaling $373 for a
portable building which serves as
the office on his used-car lot.
Two other commissioners said
they would pay back taxes: Billy
Sauls, who owed $34, and C.T.
Moore, who owed $2 in interest.
If you speed past Morrisville
Elementary School during school
hours, you stand an even greater
chance of getting caught in April.
Officer E.J. Hanks has issued a
reminder that Morrisville police
wiU intensify their efforts to stop
speeding on Morrisville Parkway
tooughout April, and will con
centrate on the school area. The
speed limit in the school area was
recently lowered from 35 miles
per hour to 25 miles per hour dur
ing school hours.
The posted hours for observing
the reduced speed limit are Mon
day through Friday from 8:30
a.m. to 9:30 a.m. and from 2:45
p.m. to 3:45 p.m.
A community dance on April
20 is the first of four dances
scheduled at the Morrisville
Community Center.
The three-hour dance, featuring
the Kenny Godwin Show, starts
at 7 p.m. under the sponsorship of
the Morrisville Parks, Recreation
and Cultural Resources Depart
ment. Tickets are $ 1.50 for Mor
risville residents and $3 for non
residents.
Community dances also are
scheduled May 18 and June 15,
and a teen dance is set for June 8.
In other department news, a
class in "Preserving Your Family
Photos" will take place on four
consecutive Thursday nights
starting May 2. Youth baseball
registration continues through
March 31 for boys and girls ages
5-12. Call 469-9760 for more in
formation on both the class and
youth baseball.
The town’s fii«t Christmas pa
rade vrill take place this year, and
at least two high school bands
will participate.
Commissioner Phyllis
Newnam, who is heading up the
project, told the town board this
month that the parade has been
set for Dec. 7 at 1 p.m. Both the
Apex and Cary high school bands
will participate.
"We set the time for early
afternoon because Apex has a pa
rade scheduled for the same day
but at night," she explained.
Commissioners order study
for new fire station site
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An environmental study has been
authorized at a cost of $1,000 for
the 4.1-acre site at McCrimmon
Parkway and N.C. 54 as the first
step toward constructing a new
firehouse that will provide fire
coverage for the northern part of
Morrisville.
Town commissioners authraized
town manager David Hodgkins to
have the survey done by GEO
Technologies of Raleigh. The prop
erty is being purchased for
$230,000, and when completed, the
new fire station will house two
engines and a ladder truck, in addi
tion to special training facilities for
department members. It is expected
the new station will be operative
sometime between 1998 and the
year 2000.
Fire Chief Tony Chiotakis said
the new building, in addition to
being needed because of growth, is
part of the town’s move to improve
insurance service requirements
which establish insurance ratings
for the fire departmenL A number
of points based on nationwide pa
rameters are studied in establishing
such ratings, from water supply to
the type and location of fire equip
ment, number and types of engines
and ladder trucks, and the location
of fire stations.
The,western portion of town is
presently served by Station 2 in
Carpenter. No changes are planned
there, although there has been dis
cussion about Cary eventually de
veloping a new firehouse in con
junction with its extra-territorial
jurisdiction. Chiotakis emphasized
the goal or tbcus of Morrisville is
to ensure all residents are provided
with adequate service.
As part of the process to improve
ratings, the department has been
upgrading its equipment, has just
implemented an 800-megahertz
communication system, and has
purchased a new support vehicle.
The actual design of the new
McCrimmon station has not begun,
he said, but when it is operative, it
will answer the needs in the north
ern part of the town. The new sta
tion will bring to three the number
serving Morrisville.
The new fire department is one of
two fronts on which Morrisville
commissioners are moving. The
other is a study on future needs of
the police department and a pos
sible new hea^uaners building.
Commissioners have contracted
with Smith Sinnett Associates, an
architectural firm in Raleigh which
designed Town Hall, to study the
police department’s future. Com
missioners were told the firm has
been meeting with members of the
police department, and that a report
is expect^ sometime in April.
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The Huntington Town Homes
Association asked Morrisville com
missioners Monday night to open
discussions ^parently aimed at ex
tending town services to the pri
vately owned 48-unit development
on Morrisville Parkway.
Association member Pat Horton
told commissioners that town house
owners are concerned about road
ways not being up to grade, gar
bage pickups and the operation of
interior street hghts. She also said
the group held concern for the
water pipes leading from Morris
ville Parkway into the project’s
meters, and the possible costs
should anything happen to them to
undermine the roadway.
"What we hope for,” said Ms.
Horton, "is to open a dialogue with
the town about these areas."
Since the development is clas
sified as having private roadways,
the town house owners . are
responsible for street maintenance,
street lighting and garbage pickup.
Gail GranL vice president of
Kildaire Management Company of
Cary, which manages the
townhouses, explained the residents
own the property upon which their
individual ranch-style houses rest
and pay taxes to Morrisville based
on the appraised value of their unit.
In addition, as members of the as
sociation, they also pay a monthly
$65 assessment to the association
to cover costs of common
properties.
Mayor Margaret Broadwell
thanked the group for appearing
and asked the members to provide
documentation of the concerns.
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