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Wednesday, November 21 > 2012
300 Years of Fashion
STAFF PHOTO BY REBECCA BUNCH
Anne Rowe welcomes guests to the “Top Hats to Petticoats: 300 Yeats of Fashion in
Edenton” exhibit on Sunday afternoon.
Audit brings good news
County has $4.4M in
proceeds available
By RITCHIE E. STARNES
Editor
Only four years removed
from the brink of bankruptcy,
Chowan County’s fiscal recov
ery continues to make tremen
dous strides.
The auditing firm of Martin
Starnes & Associates, which
has been handling the county’s
auditing since its potential state
takeover, issued another clean
bill of health during Monday
morning’s Board of Commis
sioners’ meeting. Among the
accounting highlights, Martin
Starnes’ accountant Matt Bras
well revealed that Chowan con
tinued its annual commitment
School board to
weigh term changes
Calls to reduce terms
from 6 to 4 years
By REBECCA BUNCH
Stuff Writer
When Glorious Elliott is
sworn in next month as the
school board’s newest mem
bers one of the first votes she’ll
make will be on a possible
change from six to four year
term limits.
The change would impact
Elliott as well as all of the
board members, including the
two others just re-elected. It’s
not the first time that Elliott,
61, has been affected by term
rules. Prior to this election, El
liott had served 13 years on the
board after she was appointed
to the board in 1987 to fill the
unexpired term of Billy Nixon
and subsequently re-elected to
two consecutive terms on the
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to replenish its fund balance.
As of the fiscal year ending
June 30, Chowan had added
another $1.6 million, or 10 per
cent of its total annual budget,
toward its fund balance. Pro
ceeds available in the county’s
$5.2 million fund balance stand
at $4.4 million.
“In this day and time, that
is a large amount,” Braswell
said.
Chowan presently carries a
fund balance that is 29 percent
of its general fund.
The state recommends
the board have at least three
months of operating income on
hand in case of an emergency
“There was a time when that
figure was in the negative,”
Commission Chairman Eddy
See AUDIT, 2A
board.
“Under state law at the
time, that’s ah the time I could
serve,” Elliott said. “I would
have run for a third term if I
could.”
That law was changed in
2002 to allow school board
members to serve an unlimit
ed number of terms, according
to school officials.
See TERMS, 3A
Wright Guard
Bunch
Dale
Group touts tourism
for Golden LEAF
Pursuit of $2M
underway
By RITCHIE E. STARNES
AND REBECCA BUNCH
Staff Writers
Tourism figures to be
critical toward Edenton
Chowan’s future econom
ic development. Count
on a few local entities to
strongly pitch the idea as
they pursue coveted fund
ing from the Golden LEAF
Community Assistance Ini
tiative.
With $2 million hanging
in the balance, stakehold
ers are jockeying to put
together a series of ap
plications to secure their
fare share of Golden LEAF
funding. Education and
workforce development are
also considered paramount
to building a sustainable
foundation here that can
pay dividends for a promis
ing economic future. But,
the value of future tourism
keeps rearing its head as a
means to cultivate revenue
and jobs.
“Tourism contributes
over $17.4
million in
revenue
to county
merchants
and $1 mil
lion in tax
revenues
employing
140 peo
ple,” said.
Cy Rich,
chair
man of the
Edent.on
Chowan
Partner
ship.
“Those tax
revenues
are signifi
cant and
of course
offset what
residents
would need
to pay to
obtain the
same level
of services.
We have
Vaughan
Quinn
the opportunity to increase
tourism revenues by 50 per
cent if we only increased
our tourism by the annual
increase experienced state
wide in recent years.”
At its Nov. 13 meeting,
the Edenton Town Coun
cil officially entered the
sweepstakes by voting
unanimously to submit
proposals seeking a portion
of Golden LEAF’S $2 mil
lion proceeds earmarked
for Chowan County Those
projects would benefit
tourism. The projects are
part of an overall $885,000
waterfront revitalization
program developed by the
Partnership, according to
Councilman Bob Quinn,
also a member of the Part
nership board.
Projects identified by
Quinn include creation of a
Colonial wharf at the Bark
er House site, expansion
of the building that houses
the Town Council cham
bers to allow for a meeting
room, restoration of the forj
mer county jail and jailor’s
house, improvements to
Pembroke Creek Park and
identification as a partici-'
pant in the state’s Certified
Retirement Community
program.
See LEAF, 2A
Chowan County Official Results By Precinct
precincts
E.
Eden.
W.
Eden.
R. Hock
C. Hill
W’ville
V’pim
A’tee
Early
Vote
Total
PRESIDENT
Barack Obama (D)
Mitt Romney (R)
Gary Johnson (L)
273
105
254
232
120
373
10
115
174
102
226
146
208
110
190
2391
2372
1 'x.
16
3556
3891
45
NC GOVERNOR
Walter Dalton (D)
Pat McCrory (R)
Barbara Howe (L)
260
108
.248
218
11
121
330
30
125
147
112
210
142
202
109
176
12
2379
2253
56
3538
3658
134
US HOUSE DISTRICT 1
GK Butterfield (D)
Pete DiLauro (R) .
Darryl Holloman (L)
270
86
13
280
177
12
162
107
83
62
2039
1057
43
2864
1496
81
US HOUSE DISTRICT 3
Walter Jones (R)
Erik Anderson (D)
352
117
227
98
213
131
108
38
984
489
1888
887
NC HOUSE DISTRICT 1
Bob Steinburg (R)
Bill Luton (D)
100
269
214
262
334
147
152
128
206
116
194
154
180
116
2156
2475
3548
3711
NC SENATE DISTRICT 3
Clark Jenkins (D)
297
310
221
169
180
199
159
2942
4522
NC SECRETARY OF STATE
Elaine Marshall (D)
258
245
143 122 118 156
119
2468
3673
Eddy Goodwin (R)
111
228
341
160 205
194
176
2215
3641
BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS, AT-LARGE
Keith Nixon (R)
151
265
375
172
225
237
206 2583 4228
BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS, DISTRICT 1 SEAT 1
Emmett Winborne (D)
261
196
185
40
673
1365
Ron Cummings (R)
238
90
143
67
418
962
BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS, DISTRICT 2 SEAT 1
Alex Kehayes (R)
65
193
223
90 1371 1947
BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS, DISTRICT 3 SEAT 1
Greg Bonner (D)
192
108
30
906
1252
Earl Willis Jr. (R)
47
55
23
340
467
BOARD OF EDUCATION, AT-LARGE
Glorious Elliott
226
254
141
151
108
155
107
2613
3785
Bill Moore
103
180
243.
114
142
141
122
1645
2703
BOARD OF EDUCATION, DISTRICT 1 SEAT 2
Jean Harrell Bunch
310
192 109
58 l 759 | 1440
BOARD OF EDUCATION, DISTRICT 2 SEAT 2
Ricky Browder
81
I
198
193
80 1355 1917
REGISTER OF DEEDS
Susan S. Rountree (D)
294
300
257
178
194
211
157
3263
4902
Jackie laverty (R)
76
178
237
105 134
140
140
1436
2454
SOIL AND WATER CONSERVATION DISTRICT SUPERVISOR
Richard Saunders
189 282
271
162 181
203
151 26S2 4093
SOURCE: CHOWAN BOARD OF ELECTIONS
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