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Crimewatch EDENTON POLICE DEPARTMENT ARRESTS ■ July •' - Sylvester Sharp*'. 72. of Tartxiro. was charged with one misde meanor count of unauthor ized use (>f a motor vehicle. ■ July 4 - An lira Yasmien Wilkiris-t 'ojieland. 17. of West Peterson Street, was Issued a citation for driving without a license and failure to stop at the scene of an ac cident. ■ July 1 - Demonte .An drews, 29, of Williamston, was arrested on one misde meanor count of failure to comply. ■ June 30 Jayquan Darell Perry, 24, of Wildcat Road, was arrested on one misdemeanor count of driv ing while license revoked and one misdemeanor count of failure to appear. INCIDENTS ■ July 7 - Obtaining mon ey by false pretense on Kim berly Drive. ■ July 5 - Larceny on North Broad Street. ■ July 4 - Larceny from a motor vehicle on East Eden Street. ■ July 3 - Obtaining prop erty by false pretense at the Garden Buffet on Virginia Road. ■ July 2 - Hit and run on West Church Street. ■ July 2 - Vandalism on North Oakum Street. CHOWAN COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE ARRESTS ■ Jeffrey Thomas Bass, age unknown, of Chambers Ferry Road, was arrested on one misdemeanor count of assault with a deadly weapon, one misdemeanor count of sexual battery, one misdemeanor count of false imprisonment, one misdemeanor count of com municating threats and one misdemeanor count of inter fering with emergency com munications. He was placed under an automatic 48-hour domestic violence hold in the Chowan County Jail. INCIDENTS ■ None reported. PERMIT Continued from 1A done a lot iif legwork in try ing to find an expert to as sist III the review i if the 1 l 1’ application She sad that Elizabeth Bryant. the coun ty's planning director, had contacted five companies in the search. Wind energy ls a v ery spe cialized an-a and the search has fen used on finding a linn with expertise in that area she said. County Manager Kevin Howard pointed out tJiat the county vvas not required to advertise tins contract since it ls a service. Howard also acknowl edged the challenge of find mg a neutral consultant given that most firms involved in wind energy are either build ing wind projects or oppos ing them. The county has received proposals from a firm that historically has built windmills and another firm that historically has provided expert testmic my against wind energy Howard said. Responding to a question about whether a solicitation for proposals had been post ed on the county website. Arriaga-Womble sard that on a project such as this firms merit looking at the county website, hi tlus kind of case it's necessary for county staff to reach out to firms, she said. 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Kehayes said he believes it Ls important to have indepen dent experts on different as pects of the permit to provide guidance in evaluating the ap plication. Noting that the section of the application dealing with sound Ls very technical. Ke hayes said he would love to have an acoustical expert look at that section and give independent information on it. Arizaga-Womble said there is a limit to what the expert review of the application can get into. In terms of sound, for instance, if an expert were retained by the county to re view the application that ex pert could determine whether the sound study included in the application actually says what it purports to say. She emphasized that the burden of proof in a CUP pro cess is on the applicant. It is not the county's role to prove or disprove anything regard ing any item in the ordinance, she said. The county doesn't go out and get its own evidence, she said. “The burden of convincing the board that these require ments in the ordinance have been met is on the applicant" she said. The question before the board will be whether the application meets the require ments of the ordinance, she said. Winbome asked if sound and shadow flicker - two of the issues that arise in regard to wind energy projects - wouldn’t be looked at by vari ous state or federal agencies. But Howard said he was not sure sound, flicker or property values would be in cluded in the environmental agencies' review. Mitchener said one ques tion he and many others have concerns the effect the proj ect would have on property values. Howard said he was not ready to recommend a firm because both the companies the staff has received propos als from have a history on one side of the issue or the other. Arizaga-Womble said that based on her latest conversa tion with Bryant it was her understanding that HDR was Bryant's recofhmendation. “We have looked at this extensively,” Howard said, adding staff has tried to stay in the middle of the road. Howard told the board it could interview the firms if it washed to. He reiterated that neither firm should assess “right or wrong" when looking at the application, because that’s not part of the staff review. Staff review is focused on the completeness of the ap plication, Howard said. Winbome questioned the usefulness of interviewing the firms. “I can’t set1 w hat interview ing them would do," Win bome said. VOTE Continued from 1A from the vote arid discus sion because fas family farm is included in the proposed project area On the advice of County Attorney Lauren Arizaga-Womble, Smith has been recused from all discus sion and voting related to the Timbermill Wind Project. The second complication was tliat the Ixnud's vice chairman, Keith Nixon - who rarely misses a mt'etmg - was absent Tliat meant the gavel w as passed to (ierk Susanne Stallings when Smith left his seat as the discussion start ed. The third factor was that Commissioner EIIls Law rence arrived late to the meeting and sat in the audience dur ing the discussion until Com missioner Emmett Winbome asked him to come forward and participate in the vote. Lawrence effectively be came the tie-breaking vote, since Commissioner Alex Kehayes and Commissioner John Mitchener both favored interviewing the two firms that had submitted pr< >posals to the county - HDR and Ener gy Ventures Analysts - before selecting one to review A[>ex's permit application. Winlvome and ( ommtssioner < ireg Bon ner. meanwhile, favored mov ing forward with HDR. .As Lawrence took his seat he explained that he had intended to sit out the vote since he liad arrived mid-dis i ussn m. Anziiga-Vii >mble asked Lawrence aliout how much of the discussion he had heard. Lawrence said he had been there long enough to hear Winliome s proposal and also the alternate proposal by Ke hayes. After confirming that Lawrence understood what the board was voting on, Arizaga-Womble indicated to Lawrence that it would be ap propriate for him to vote on the motion. Following the vote the board went into a recess, dur ing which some members of the public sharply criticized the board's decision not to interview the two firms and questioner 1 whether it had been appropriate for Law rence to vote since he had not participated m the entire dis cussion of the matter. Lawrence approached county staff and informed them he believed that he should withdraw las vote When the recess ended, Lawrence announced his in tention to withdraw las vote. Arizaga-Womble told him that in order for Iris vote to U> withdrawn the Ixrard would have to vote unanimously to do that Lawrence ntade a motion to withdraw his vote but later withdrew that motion. After discussing with Arizaga-Womble the possibil ity of making a motion to re scind the previous action of the board - a possibility she explained was open to him since he had voted in favor of the motion on the original vote - Lawrence marie a mo tion to rescind the board’s vote to contract with HIlR for the jxrmit review. After significant discus sion with die attorney that focused on die respoasibility commissioners have to vote on matters iiefore the board, Lawrence withdrew his sec ond motion as well. S< > die original vote stood. Attempts by the Chowan 1 lerald to reach Lawrence for comment w ere unsuccessful. BOARD Continued from 1A Aic< inlmy to Ills rompan>'s web site, 1 Luu ia lias expen ence in areas of insurant e. sliareholder disputes, business contracts. employment and [x-rsonal injury. He graduated from Wake Forest I 'mversity's Sch< x >1 of Law m 1991. When tire issue comes to the county commission level, Modern Dentistry in a relaxed environment for the entire family. ALBEMARLE Denial associates (jerurtul and Cosmetic dt entutly DR. CHRIS KOPPELMAN, DDS DR. ETHAN NELSON, bDS 482-5131 103 Mark Dr. Edenton, NC (behind Chowan Hospital) it will lx* m the form of a Qua si-.Juclic'iiil pnx'tedmg. That means it will tx- handled more like a court case in which evi dence is presented. Supporters of the wind project point to the economic tx'nefits. It would generate revenue to property owners leasing land for the project. It would also generate tax revenue to the county. Apex officials liave estimated Hm bemull would produce alxiut $250,000 a year in taxes to Perquimans County and a like amount to Chowan County. In a Letter to Lite Editor in today's Issue of The Perqui mans Weekly, Tommy Stokely argues money shouldn’t be tlu* issue. “If this continues, the promise of money for the county will now supersede any will of the people who live in the affected communities," he wrote. “Democracy is being Iran tpled under die feet of’pro eedure’, and the freedom that was in our voice is muffled by die progress’ crammed down our tliroats.” CHOWAN^HERALD (USPS 106-380) Vol. 81, No. 28 Published Every Wednesday Cooke Communications North Carolina, LLC Entered as a second-class matter August 30, 1934 at the Post Office of Edenton, North Carolina, under Act of March 3,1870. 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