Thursday. February 18. 1982 Letter To Editor: Harrell Stand Unfair 'I. (Editor’s note: The following letter was sub mitted prior to Monday’s I called meeting of 'Edenton " Town Council.) . !On Tuesday night February 9th, 1982, the Edenton Town Council and ifayor voted 4:3 to split the VEPCO Utilities Refund three ways: (a) Keep one third to improve the sewage system, (b) Use one third to purchase the I SCAD A system to reduce ' peak-load demands, and (c) Refund one-third to residential customers only, f ; Thus the mayor voted for misrepresentation and for discrimination because his voted carried the issue. Mr. . Harrell had the opportunity to clarify and unite. Instead he confused the public on . some critical distinctions t apparently thinking no one was paying attention. The mayor’s brand of leadership cannot be con doned or allowed to stand unchallenged because it violates our basic sense of fair play. Read on and you will see why. I The Mayor’s decision is " discriminatory because money from the VEPCO refund is to be given to residential customers only. This means that no money goes to the businesses, hospitals or industries; none t Skatpenlng Straight Trimmers Poultry Shears ~ AO Purppw Shears SpQQcLt] Athletic Scissor* Standard Scissors Medical Scissors . .. See Your Local Locksmith For Pinking Shears Tin Snips This Added Convenience Bent Trimmers Blueprmt Shears ) T? 'lors Points 109 Badham Road Aviation Snips i Thread & Wire Clips Edenton, NC 27932 Editors Shears Electronics Snips Phone: 482-3383 Florist Shears - / Kfjr Sa tinea TyCer downtown k*/edenton THE HUGE » _ BUYING POWER | OF BELK TYLER STORES BRINGS TO T eastern Carolina yIPIMPI « THE LARGEST * COLLECTION OF DESIGNER JEANS lamm \ at unbelievable Jmmt, m \ savings; l. J « lall Ife X If Perfect $42 , refund was for residences and that SCADA was for , industry. He implies that this treats both fairly, i Actually he irisults homeowners and misrepresents business and : industry to the public. Simply put residences not industries often create peak loan situations or make them much worse. In dustrial demand is steady throughout the day. Residential demand is very unsteady-up and down. Consider what people do when they return home in the late afternoon. They turn on the lights, turn on' the heat in January or the air-conditioning in July plus start cooking, turn on the T.V. or blow dryef, load the washing machine, bath the kids, etc. Somehow the mayor conveniently forgot that these residential con tributions to peak load demand are at least as important as any others. To set the record straight, SCADA benefits all. It is' illogical to understand SCADA as a payoff to in dustry. And it is an insult to everyone’s intelligence to use SCADA to excuse or justify the proposed SSO payoff to residences. Apparently the Mayor does not know better. He keeps on trying to divide us ' to the neglect of great needs THE CHOWAN HERALD and opportunities. Next consider the nature of the refund money. What does the money in the VEPCO refund actually represent? The increased rate received from VEPCO was in the WHOLESALE rate to the Town, not the retail rate to consumers. During the time of the Overcharge, the money to pay those higher wholesale bills came out of existing funds possessed by the Town. The money did not come from new tariffs on consumers. To say the same thing another way, during the time of the VEPCO overcharge, the Town made less than its usual profit because it was paying a higher wholesale rate. Whatever extra money may have come from consumers amounted to less than 10 percent of the total refund. Since more than 90 per cent of the Refund represents wholesale money, not retail money, there is logically little reason to talk about con sumer refunds because practically nothing came from the consumer in the first- place. In effect the VEPCO refund simply restored the Town Treasury to its normal profit picture on utilities for the time period involved. The profit from our utilities helps a lot to hold down property taxes. Thus for the Mayor to give away monies to residences is to reduce town profits un necessarily and it is to in crease pressures that may result in a rise in the property tax! All of this could have been avoided if Council and Mayor had seen clearly this distinction between wholesale and retail rates - and- if they had deliberately tried to help the public understand this. But they did not. So by saying that there would be a refund (no matter what) is to imply that the overcharge involved retail monies and so is to mislead the public. Mr. Harrell has been around long enough that he . . . . ■mii6C cannot plead ignorance on this point. Therefore we may reasonably assume that he deliberately let the distinction between wholesale and retail get confused and stay confused. For he had promised the little man money which was not actually due him. Roy, lead us and stop patronizing us. We little people may be poor but we are honest. We don’t want anything that is not ours no matter how tough times are. And we can sacrifice a dollar today in order that the common good will in crease by ten dollars tomorrow. We want jobs, not handouts. Save the residential money and fix the sewers. Finally as to the third part of the Council Decision, that is to keep some money to improve the sewer system, we offer the following thoughts. We appreciate that the municipal sewage system needs major improvements. We know federal monies coming down to local governments are decreasing. We know that we must help ourselves if we are to provide jobs, secure more tax monies for schools and encourage others to migrate to our por tion of the Sunbelt. We know untreated sewage in the Chowan River is irresponsible. Continued On Page 9-A Windbreaks Beneficial Continued From Page 2-A heating bills. Establishing windbreaks | on cropland can be cost shared through the Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service (ASCS). For more in formation on windbreaks and other conservation practices, contact the Soil Conservation Service at 482- 4127. Q ress shoes & Sandals | l H ■ ens Wool Sport Coats j |i ens *^* nter ® r f ss ** ants ) Reduced y Mens Heavy Coats & Vests! Casuals j I^^^OOTrigan^! £v‘r- v* ~ ‘ •" v . ' ■ i - * ' "'- •' Letter To The Editor: Eavesdropping Criticized Mike Goodman, Editor The Daily Advance Elizabeth City, NC 27909 Dear Mr. Goodman: I was very disturbed to learn of the “eavesdrop ping” by a reporter of The Daily Advance on an executive session of the AUCTION SALE OF VALUABLE FARM EQUIPMENT FRIDAY. February 19, 1982 - 10:00 A.M. SALE LOCATED: ELTON BOSWELL FARM: 12 Miles North of Edenton, N.C. off HWY. 32, Turn at Small X Roads on State Route 1222. 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I find such action to be totally unprofessional, unethical and a discredit to The Daily Advance. The North Carolina Open Meetings Law clearly acknowledges both the right and need for public bodies to discuss Page 7-A certain issues in the privacy of executive session. For a public body to enter into executive session and for a reporter to then eavesdrop on the meeting from an adjoining room; and then later report his “findings” Continued On Page 10-A