4 - Morrisville and Preston Progress, Thursday, Jan. 29,1998
Board unsupportive of Federal Express
By Mary Beth Phillips
Morrisville officials will formally
oppose the possibility of Federal
Express locating at Raleigh-
Durham International.
At a work session Monday, the
board of commissioners asked
Town Manager David Hodgkins to
draw up a resolution opposing the
location of the new business there.
They also asked Hodgkins to or
der copies of the Land Use Plan for
each commissioner and Planning
Board member for study, to look
into a bill that would eliminate
clear cutting of trees by developers,
and to draw up an ordinance that
would outlaw commercial burning.
Federal Express has said it is con
sidering Raleigh-Durham among
five or six locations in the Caroli-
nas for a new hub to service its
main hub in Memphis, Tenn.
“I don’t see how we can benefit,”
said Commissioner C.T. Moore
about Federal Express. “You're
talking loud airplanes in the middle
of the night.”
Mayor Pro Tern Mark Silver-
Smith, who was conducting the
meeting, said he was concerned
about road crowding and pollution
from the smaller planes.
“Morrisville will have more im
pact than anyone else,” Silver-
Smith said.
He was also concerned about the
Suspects in
local murders
face death
The four men accused of killing
two migrant workers in the Car
penter community in November
might get the death penalty, after a
judge designated the cases as capi
tal murder cases at hearings on the
week of Jan. 5.
Jeff Cruden, assistant district at
torney who will be prosecuting the
cases, said Judge Robert Farmer
agreed to try the cases as capital
cases because of the circumstances
surrounding the deaths.
Fernando Neri Perez, 20, and
Valentin Suniga, 44, were found
shot to death by Sheriffs deputies
about 9:30 p.m. on Nov. 20 in the
mobile home that they lived in on
fanner Lee Phillips' property at
6750 Good Hope Church Road.
They were migrant farm workers.
The four men charged will have
separate trials which may begin as
early as September, Cruden said.
The men charged are Montrese
Tameal Miles, 20, of 3524 Misty
River Dr., Raleigh; Jamie Antwon
Mitchell, 19, of 4606 Craig Rd.,
Apex; Gregory Robinson Jr., 23, of
6112 Heath Hawkins Ct., Willow
Spring; and Jonathan Russell
Robinson, 24, of 1326 Wicklow
Ct, Apt E, Cary.
Cruden said he was consulting
with attorneys and investigators to
decide which young man would be
tried first.
He said there were two aggravat
ing factors in the case that made
him seek the death penalty. One is
that more than one person was
killed, and the other is that the
murders were committed during a
robbery.
He said the jury would first delib
erate on the guilt or innocence of
the accused, and if he were found
guilty of first degree murder, they
would go back and deliberate about
life or death.
Judge Farmer also appointed an
extra attorney for each of the men
after designating the trials capital
cases.
Arraignment hearings were set for
Feb. 2.
possibility of accidents with
smaller cargo planes that do not
have to follow the same safety
standards as jets. He said there
would be 175 more flights, which
would increase the possibility of
accidents.
“It’s not a matter of if [they have
an accident], it’s when,” Moore
agreed.
Federal Express officials are
promising high paying jobs but
commissioners said other areas
need jobs more than this area.
“I’d rather have 1,500 not work
ing than 15,000 people getting
woke,” Moore said. “We’ve been
too good a neighbor to the airport
for them to do this.”
Moore suggested attending an
Airport Authority meeting in per
son to express their concerns, along
with sending in the resolution.
Commissioners also decided to
take a 30-day look at the Land Use
Plan and then come back together
on a meeting focused on Land Use.
Copies will also be sent to all the
Planning Board members to seek
their input.
Commissioner Leavy Barbee
suggested hiring Mike Sorensen of
Sorensen & Associates who had
developed the current Land Use
Plan in the 1980s.
“He has knowledge of every foot
in town. Not that our planner isn’t
all right,” he added.
Town Manager David Hodgkins
had said he favored hiring an out
side consultant because of the
workload of the new planning di
rector with current plans in a
booming town.
The plans have to be ordered from
Wake County because Morrisville
does not have a GIS system. Hodg
kins said he would get the plans as
soon as the county could produce
them and the meeting would be set
for 30 days after they were distrib
uted.
Commissioner C.T. Moore, who
is getting a reputation about his
insistence on planting crepe myrtles
instead of pines, brought up the
concern about developers clear
cutting their land before bringing
their plans to the town.
“Don’t other towns need a permit
before they defoliate?” he asked.
Hodgkins said some area towns
had submitted a bill into the last
session of the N.C. General As
sembly asking for special legisla
tion outlawing clear-cutting, but the
bill was not considered in the long
session and probably will not be
considered in the short session.
He said he thought Garner and
Wake Forest were included in the
bill and he would check into adding
Morrisville.
Cary and Raleigh already have
special legislation outlawing clear-
cutting in their towns, he said.
“If we don’t save them, we’ll
never see them again,” Moore said.
“Not in our lifetime.”
Hodgkins said another alternative
was requiring developers to replace
large trees with other large trees,
which are more expensive, and
rewarding the ones who save large
trees by requiring less landscaping.
Hodgkins will also write up an
ordinance outlawing commercial
burning in the town limits. The
town currently does not allow resi
dent to burn debris. Developers will
still be allowed to have warming
barrels at construction sites, but
they must get a permit from the
town to do so.
Barbee agreed. “We can't do to
morrow’s work with yesterday’s
tools,” he said.
Rotary Club established
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They also do Spring Daze and Lazy
Daze as a fund-raiser for the club.
New members will be required to
attend at least 60 percent of the
meetings in their own clubs, and
will be dismissed if they miss four
meetings in a row. They have the
option of attending other Rotary
Clubs as “make-ups.” Awards are
given for perfect attendance.
Dues are usually $100 per quarter,
including meals. Rotarians meet
once a week, usually at a breakfast,
lunch or dinner meeting. There is a
$50 initiation fee and dues of about
$35 every six months for the state
and national organization.
The prospective members who
attended were: Ray Lech, executive
director of the Morrisville Chamber
of Commerce, who has had perfect
attendance as a Rotarian in Michi
gan for 11 years; David Hodgkins,
Morrisville town manager, also a
former Rotarian; Mitch Adams,
developer of Southport Business
Park; Margaret Broadwell, former
mayor of Morrisville; Mark Silver-
Smith, Morrisville Mayor Pro Tern;
Paul Tymosko of BB&T; Brian
Crissey of Voice-Tel; Dave Wash
ington of AFP Technology; Jimmie
Robertson of Ed Moore & Associ-?.
ates^- Bob Ferguson, of Fergusoit
Enterprises; Wendy Watson of
Manpower RTP; John Abram of
Nationwide Insurance; and Alexis
Weaver of NFE Technology.
Not all of these members will be
eligible to be charter members.
Charter members must either live
or work in the city limits of Mor
risville.
Those who had expressed an in
terest but were unable to attend
Tuesday ware Binnie Goel of NFE
Technology, Eric Bostrom of Mod
ern Office Mechanics, Bob Cutlip
of Weeks/Lichten, and Gerry Boyle
of Triangle Factory Shops Mall.
Silver-Smith was appointed pro
visional treasurer and Crissey, Mrs.
Broadwell, and Robertson were
asked to find a meeting place for
the next meeting.
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19. Both live in Preston.
Silver-Smith also mentioned his
support for the fire department,
which will be audited in 1999 for a
new fire insurance rating. He said
the fire department will be a prior
ity in the next budget process.
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