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Next week Southport-Oak Island visitors guide Classifieds, p. 1C s most complete ife properties INSIDE Volume 61/ Number 35 Southport, N.C. April 15,1992/50 cents Sunset washes the old Southport yacht basin and part of the snapper fleet moored there. Hub of local commercial fishing operations, the Photo by Jim Harper basin is to become part of a waterfront walking route that will also fea ture the tidal lagoons along Bay Street as well as the western marsh. No padding in school budget, members told By Marybeth Bianchi Feature Editor There's no "padding" in the S8.2-million budget re quest the Brunswick County Board of Education ap proved Monday night, according to the school system's finance director. "There's no padding at all in the budget," Rudi Fallon told the board. "In fact, we tried to eliminate where that's happening." She explained that she tried to contain expenses because of the start-up costs associated with the new Supply Elementary School. "I think it’s a fair and reasonable budget." chairman Donna Baxter said after the meeting. "I know we'll have tocompromise. I think there will be some places (county commissioners) are going to cut." However, she did say the budget will require that both the school system and county commissioners take a stand in order to prepare students to meet technological challenges ahead. The budget is divided into two parts: Current expense and capital outlay. The current expense fund was in creased by 8.88 percent to S7.5 million, while the capital outlay budget rose nearly 17 percent. Overall, the 1992-93 budget is $712,541 higher than the 1991-92 document. However, that figure does not include a five-year, $250,000 special appropriation for the lease/purchase of classroom computers. As she reviewed the budget with the board, Fallon discussed the increases and pointed out several areas where reductions were made. A six-percent salary increase was budgeted for all employees, and teachers will get the last step of a scheduled supplement increase that was frozen the previous year. Non-certified personnel will get a supplement that is two percent of their salary, and coaches will get an increase in salary for longevity. In addition, salaries for several new positions were figured into the budget, including some for Supply Elementary. Among these were 5.5 custodial posi tions, two clerical positions and a computer lab tech nician. Half the salary for a guidance counselor at Supply Elementary was included in the budget. The budget also includes three clerical workers for the high school guidance offices and two Reading Recov ery teachers. The board amended the budget presented to them Monday night to include a $23,000 increase for full time contracted security personnel at each high school. Fallon had budgeted $32,000. but board member Polly Russ suggested an increase. "We've talked about this," she said. "If this is a positive move, why go for a little bit now?” The vocational education budget was decreased by See School Budget, page 8 flpSaiools budget presented to commissioners? BAXTER Baxter's DWI charge dropped School board chairman Donna Baxter, charged withdriving while impaired In Boiling Spring Lakes on March 16, was absolved of that offense by the district attorney Tuesday. "After a full investigation and analysis of the blood sample taken from Donna Baxter, it is the deci sion of the district attorney's of fice that the driving while impaired charge against Donna Baxter will See Baxter, page 8 Yaupon sewer plan bogs down By Jim Harper Staff Writer Completion of the Yaupon Beach wastewater system, once foreseen for early this summer, appears perhaps a year away after repots from the su pervising engineer Monday night. Robert Graham of Boney and As sociates told town commissioners the project is still mired in a permitting hassle ~ a "turf battle" - between state agencies, and said advertising for bids for the $2.8-million project may be over a month away. Given earlier estimates of up to a year for construction time, that could put completion of the project into summer 1993. The sewerage project involves some 50,000feet of sewermain,eight lift stations, 600 connector lines, and piping across the Elizabeth River marsh and under the Intracoastal Waterway to a treatment site on Fish Factory Road. It is at the Fish Factory Road site that the holdup occurs, Graham told commissioners Monday. A question of whether treated waste water may infiltrate adjacent property has led to a plan to trap that water and deposit it in a marsh along the nearby CP&L canal, Graham explained. That plan has led to disagreement between the state divisions of envi ronmental management and environ mental health, which in turn holds up CAMA permitting by the division of coastal management. "It's almost a turf battle between environmental health and environ mental management," Graham told the group, "and hopefully reasonable men can work it out” He said the directors of the two divisions will try to do that sometime this week to open way for final CAMA ‘It's almost a turf battle between en vironmental health and environmental management, and hopefully rea sonable men can work it out’ Robert Graham consideration, bid-letting and even tual start of construction. Graham also told the commission ers that borrowed funds will not be available to place mains in "undevel oped" areas, and he pointed out some proposed segments ot tne system tnat pass vacant lots as examples. Discussion in the meeting indicated that the board might consider making the links using other financial arrange ments. Mayor May Moore said the inten tion of the board, which voted to go ahead with the sewerage system in January, 1991, was "to build it out so we could be fair and assess all lots.” The board heard a report from Carroll Wooge, chairman of the town ABC board, on the status of a munici pal-county standoff on construction of county liquor stores near existing facilities. Wooge said a county store near Holden Beach "took 40 percent of the business out of the Shallotte store." He said a proposed county ABC outlet in River Run Shopping Center would "kill the Boiling Spring Lakes See Yaupon sewer, page 8 Towns oppose county's ABC store proposal By Jim Harper Staff Writer Representatives of communities in terested in retaining control over funds gained through ABC sales will meet with Rep. David Redwine today (Wednesday) to ask that a safeguard of these interests be made permanent. Last year. Redwine was instrumen tal in obtaining a one-year ban on a county ABC store within seven miles of an existing facility, but a "sunset clause" makes that legislation expire in June. Redwine said the issue provides the county a chance to "break new ground," but it also offers the chance of breaking financial hearts and po litical heads, because at stake are siz able sums of money. Southport gained S45.271 from lo cal package-store sales in 1990-91; Long Beach received S45.648 and Yaupon Beach gained S28.313. Establishment of county liquor stores in competition with in-town stores was made possible in aNovem ber. 1989. referendum when the county went "wet". Before then some municipalities had permitted sale of beer, wine and ardent spirits in vari ous formats, but no sale was permit ted in county jurisdiction. With majorities ranging from 52 to 58 percent, about 9,000 county voters approved each of four referendum questions, and early in December. ‘I find that when people are diametri cally opposed on an issue, a lot of the time it’s because of misinformation Rep. David Redwine 1989, beer and wine sales began in stores outside municipal limits. Subsequently, the county opened a liquor store near Holden Beach, de signed primarily as a supply center with some walk-in sales, but in Feb ruary. 1991. the county board an nounced plans to open a retail store in River Run Shopping Center, at the intersection of N. C. 211 and Beach Road, and an outciy arose immedi See ABC proposal, page 5 Arrests made in crackdown By Jim Harper Staff Writer A months-long investigation into drug traffic in Southport led to a po lice swoop-down and arrests of 13 men at sunup last Thursday. Police held warrants charging nine others and continued the roundup throughout the day for what Southport chief of police Robert Gray charac terized as "street-level" offenses. But chief Gray indicated that sights of his investigators might be set even higher. "We don't stop just because we made some arrests," he said after a morning of supervising the initial pickups. "We’ve gotten a wealth of good, vi able information to work on." Twelve of the original 13 arrests were on cocaine charges. Gray said. The other was for sale of marijuana. Southport police were assisted by sheriffs deputies and officers of the state alcohol law enforcement (ALE) division. Gray said the charges stemmed from evidence collected by state undercover officers. The arrests began at 6 a.m. Thurs day. mainly in Southport locations. Assisting in supervision of the opera tion were sheriff John Carr Davis and ‘We don t stop just because we made some arrests. We’ve gotten a wealth of good, viable in formation to work on.’ Bob Gray Police chief Joe Briley, assistant supervisor of the Wilmington ALE district. "This was asked for last Halloween See Crackdown, page 8 | OUTSIDF Forecast The extended forecast for southeastern North Caro lina during the Easter weekend calls for warm temperatures, with highs in the 75-80 range. Lows each night will be in the 50s, with variable cloudiness throughout the period. Tide table HIGH LOW THURSDAY, APRIL I« 7:01 a.m. 12:55 ajn. 7:34 p.m. 1:06p.m. FRIDAY, APRIL 17 7:49 «jn. 1:437 ajn. 8:22 p.m. , 1:51p.m. SATURDAY, APRIL IS 8:34 ajn. 2:31 un. 9:06p.m. 2:34 p.m. SUNDAY, APRIL 19 9:20a.m. 3:15 ami. 9:50 p.m. 3:19p.m. MONDAY, APRIL 20 10:05 a.m. 4:01 ajn. 10:34 pm. 4.91 am. TUESDAY, APRS. 21 ^ 10:47 a.m. 4:44 ajn. ll:19pjn. 4:45 pja. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 22 11:34 ajn. 5:3 Im*| — pjn. •># .■/ / JsSHfc®dftbi The following adjustment* itaald be made:.’ Bald Head bland, high -10, low -7; Caswell5 Beach, high -5, low -1; Southport, high +7, low +15, Yaupoo Beach, high -32, low -43: Lockwood Fatty, high -22, low -8. . "
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