4 - Morrisville and Praston Progress, Thursday, Nov. 28,1996
Morrisville voters back Republicans in general election
By Debbie Burdick
Residents casting ballots at die
Morrisville Community Center pre
sented a predominately Republican
profile against a backdrop of
county, state, and nationwide Dem-
OCTatic victories during the Nov. 5
election.
In the Cedar Forks Precinct, Bob
Dole carried 56 percent of the votes
cast for president, while Bill
Clinton received only 35 percent of
the ballots cast.
In straight party voting, the Re
publican Party prevailed as weU in
Cedar Forks. Nearly two hundred
more ballots were cast for a straight
Rqiublican ticket than for a straight
Democratic ticket, 534 to 335.
The vote for U.S. Senate was one
of the few in which the vrill of the
voters at the Mcrrisville Com
munity Center reflected the overall
vote. Jesse Helms defeated Harvey
Gantt, with the Cedar Forks
Precinct vote at 55 and 40 percent
respectively.
^ile the voters’ choice in Cedar
Forks was mainly at odds with
overall results, at least one promi
nent citizen was satisfied with the
election.
Mayor Margaret Broadwell said,
"personally, I’m very pleased that a
lot of the Democrats got in, and I’m
happy that Governor Hunt was re
elected by both Republican and
DenMxratic voters."
Fred Heineman, the Republican
incumbent who lost his bid for re-
election to the U.S. House of Rep
resentatives, received half again as
many votes in Cedar Forks as did
the victorious challenger, David
Price. Ballots cast for Heineman
numbered 1,235, while Price
received 852.
The only major race in which a
Dratiocrat clearly prevailed over a
Rqiublican in Ced^ Forks was the
gubernatorial race. Jim Hunt
received 170 more votes than
losing challenger Robin Hayes. In
the race for Attorney General, Mike
Easley won, but only by nine votes.
Republican Richard Petty also
received more of the local vote in
his much-publicized unsuccessful
bid for Secretary of State, 47 more
ihan Flaine Marshall.
Morrisville gave majority ap-
I^oval to all three losing Repub
lican hopefuls in the races for
County Commissioner. Repub
licans Herb Council, BiU Johnson
and Ray Paquette each received
about 400 more votes in the Cedar
Forks Precinct than their winning
Deniocratic opponents Yevonne
Brannon, VemcHi Malone and Betty
Lou Ward.
In the race for N.C. State Senate,
District 13, Morrisville showed the
«!amft favor for unsuccessful Rqjub-
lican contenders. Bill R. Dunn and
Brian Womack received 1,151
votes and 1,093 votes respectively.
Winning Democrats Wib Gulley
and Jeanne Lucas gathered only
718 and 645 votes each.
Likewise, in the race for N.C.
House District 63, losing Repub
lican Arlene Pulley had half again
as many votes in Morrisville as the
overall winner, Jane Moseley.
State bond referendums for high
ways and schools passed by wide
margins both in Cedar Forits and in
the stale overall.
Board approves new engineering position
The Town of Morrisville is look
ing for someone to fill a newly cre
ated position at town hall.
Earlier this month, the Board of
Commissioners aRMOved a plan to
hire a director of engineering
whose annual salary would range
between $39,600 and $58,507.
In recommending the plan, Town
Manager David Hodgkins said the
r^id rate of development and
growth and the complexity of de
velopment issues had Iwought on a
need for in-house technical suppcat.
Among other duties, the staff
engineer would review construction
pl^s for utilities like water and
sewer lines, streets and storm
drains, and for new site and sub
division development.
Hodgkins said the engineer would
assume Jobs that had been done by
a finn, thereby saving money spent
on contracted services.
Hodgkins said he recommended
the salary range to attract a quality
person who had relevant experi
ence. He added that the pay range
was in line with compai^Ie posi
tions offered in other towns like
Apex, Gamer, Holly Springs and
Wake Forest.
But Commissioner Mark SilvCT-
Smith said that while he agreed
with the concept, he felt an
engineer may be more than the
town needed.
Silver-Smith said the position ap
peared to be the beginnings of a
new department that would cost
money to equip.
He suggested delaying a decision
until next sfaing when the position
could be planned for and budgeted,
rather than paid for out of the
town’s contingency.
"I don’t see a dire need to do this
by January," he said.
But Hodgkins said the cost
savings to the town would pay for
the salary and that any difference
would be paid for out of the Gener
al Fund balance, unappropriated
money available fcr spending.
Commissioner Billy Sauls said he
wholeheartedly supported the plan.
"The way the town is growing, this
is another step toward where we
need to be," he said.
Commissioner C.T. Moore
agreed the position was needed but
wanted Hodgkins to hire "new
blood," someone unrelated or un
known to town employees or mem
bers of the town board.
At first, Moore made his wish
into a condition and attached it to
his motion to ^prove the job, but
he later withdrew it at Hodgkins’
request.
"I have a problem with officials
restricting how I hire, if (the ap
plicants) meet the qualifications,"
Hodgkins said.
The board gave the position its
unanimous approval.
Hodgkins said he expected to in
terview candidates and have the
position filled by late January.
Cornerstone Village
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Site plan approved for new 120-room hotel
The welcome mat has been put
out for another motel to be erected
in Morrisville, this one at the inter
section of Slater Road and Airport
Boulevard.
The prc^iosed 120-room hotel is
one of the several new site plans
approved by the Board of Com
missioners. Extended Stay America
will be constructed on a 2.4-acre
plot along what officials have pub
licly referred to as the main
entryway into Morrisville. The
owDCT is Copley Capital I Farmers
of Cary.
Despite a plea fiom Michael A.
Fiocco of Civil Consultants that a
required 50-degree turning radius
for the driveway would be a
hardship, the town held that the
radius was one they required at all
other similar buildings.
Fiocco asked that it be cut down
to 30 feet, explaining the larger
turn area would restrict parking and
eliminate several planned parking
spaces. It was later said that two of
the proposed 124 parking spaces
would be lost with the larger turn
ing requirement.
The applicant said the entryway
was to be widened to accommodate
the fire department, but that the
largest truck entering the jxemises
would be a garbage truck.
When Commissioners Billy Sauls
and C.T. Moore raised questions
about other deliveries, they were
told that the hotel will not have a
restaurant which might have
needed truck deliveries, and that all
of the linens to be used at the hotel
will be delivered during construc
tion.
"There will be no 18 wheelers,"
Fiocco assured them. Com
missioners held to the regulations,
however.
Other site plan approvals in
cluded one from Prestonwood
Country Club for several refuge
collector facilities adjacent to the
already approved small restrooms
being constructed on the club’s golf
courses. Plans were approved on a
motion by Commissioner Sauls,
seconded by Commissioner Leavy
Barbee.
An Averitt Express site plan was
proved for a 50- by 175-foot ad
dition to the existing facility on
Chapel Hill Road. The Planning
and Zoning Board requirement of
the planting of evergreen shrubbery
similar to the existing landscape
was apiroved, as was a require
ment that a 5-foot concrete
sidewalk be constructed along Tri
angle Parkway.
Approved as well was a 4,000-
square-foot warehouse addition at
Applied Control Technology’s ex
isting building on Morrisville Park
way. It will not require any addi
tional sewer or water capacity.
Another approved site plan was
cme that bad been tabled at an ear
lier meeting. AAA Coc^r Trans
portation was given approval to
build a transfer trucking facility
and office on 15.9 acres in the
Cedar Fcffk Business Paik off Avia
tion Parkway. The firm is based in
Dothan, Ala., and Talton Engineer
ing of Raleigh made the site ap
plication.
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A site plan for a new $550,000
police static® won the town board’s
approval last month, but there’ll be
no bricks and mortor until an actual
cost is in the town’s hands.
The board put the project out for
bids and will submit the project to
the Local GovOTunent Commission
for financing approval as required
by law.
"We don’t know what it will cost
until the bids come in," Town Man
ager David Hodgkins said. The Wd
deadline is Dec. 3.
Hcxlgkins said the board had not
set a specific limit on what it would
be willing to spend but had used
the figure of $750,000 as a
guideline.
In the meantime, the town is
soliciting proposals from five area
lending instimtions for financing
cations.
The site plan, designed by Smith
Sinnett Associates in Ralei^ - the
oamft company that designed the
town hall - calls for a 4,100-
square-foot building which would
be located on the town hall campus
to the right of the town hall. It will
have a 900-square-foot canopy to a
side entry.
The building will have a similar
style and theme as the town hall.
The current police station on
Page Street has less than 1,0(X)
square feel and is cramped.
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