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Volume 62/ Number 6 Southport, N.C. Sports, page 3B Classifieds, p. 6B .v September 23,1992 / 50 cents CP&L meets NRC Friday's session concerns start-up Top officials of Carolina Power ami Light Co. and Nuclear Regula tory Commission region two will meet at 10 a.m. Friday to review work progress and discuss prospects for getting the Brunswick Nuclear Plant back in operation. The plant, effectively under a shut down order from the NRC. is still projected for reopening "by the end of the year" aCP&L spokesman said last Friday, but further details were un available. The conference Friday is to go over the status of structural issues, work backlog and refurbishments." the spokesman said. In the work-status conference here August 10. NRC regional administra tor Stewart Ebneter complained that too little information w as provided by CP&L about when various work projects would he finished ami how the startup would he effected. At that time an “outage progress summary ” provided by CP& L showed that less than half of the preposed work items were completed in nine of 12 categories identified by the com pany. The plant was shut dow n April 21 by CP& L because of structural prob See CP&L. page 6 Community residents gathered Sunday afternoon on the lawn of Southport City Hall for burial of the Bicentennial time capsule. The event was highlight of a full Heritage Festival weekend. Festival pic tures and a representative listing of capsule contents are on page IB. School boss is given incentive By Marybeth Bianchi Feature Editor The Brunswick County Board of Education is dangling a financial ”car roC in front of the incoming superin tendent in hopes of improving educa tion in the 12-school system. Meeting last week, the board final ized details of Ralph Johnston s four year contract. The contract, which runs from Oc tober 1 through June 30. 1996. sets three performance standards which the superintendent must meet in order to earn bonuses of up to $5,000. The superintendent will receive a base salary of approximately $61.(XX) a year, as established by the state ac cording to his level of education, his years of experience and the size of the school system, board attorney Glen Peterson explained. He will also get a local supplement of about $15,000. the same as current superintendent P. R. Hankins receives, bringing his to tal annual salary to $76,000. What we're looking for •Report card improvement •Continued accreditation •Better SAT scores • # The contract lists three performance standards the incoming superinten dent must meet: •He must improve the achievement of the school system as measured by the overall achievement section in the report card issued annually by the state department of public instruc tion. That means Johnston must raise the "below par" rating the school system has received for the past two years. The rating summarizes test scores in four subject areas — math, science, social studies and reading/language - - over three years and summarizes all test scores over two years into a single score. While there is no specific increase designated in the contract, "overall the trend is going to be for improve ment." Peterson said. Chairman Donna Baxter said Johnston won't be held responsible for the 1992 report card, but she pointed out. ”1993-94 - that will be Dr. Johnston's year. "He himself said he's hem to set high levels for the schools." she said, and that includes not only for students but teachers and administration as well. •He must maintain accreditation of the school system with the state and other major bodies like the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. •He must increase the achievement of students w ho take the Scholastic Achievement Test (SAT). Again, nb specific increase is des ignated in the contract. Peterson pointed out. "He'd meet the test if he increased (the score) by one." The board will give the incoming superintendent some time to get to know the school system before mak ing any demands. They plan to meet on January 15 to set priorities for the school system. The superintendent is to be evaluated by May 15 of each year and on July 15 he w ill meet w ith the board to set goals for the coming school year. At that time, the board w ill also review the superintendent's annual salary and discuss w hether or not there has been improvement for w hich he deserves a bonus. Peterson See Incentive, page 7 Land uses Orton requests flexibility; Southport asks protection By Holly Edwards County Editor After county officials, burned through a detailed review of the pro posed zoning ordinance and sched uled a public hearing on the docu ment.several Brunsw ickCountv prop erty owners, as well as the City of Southport, have requested that major changes be made to the proposal. While these changes will likely come up again at the public hearing next Tuesday, any change in the pro posed ordinance w ould have to be based upon the planning board’s rec ommendation. said county commis sioners chairman Kelly Holden. The following changes have been requested: •Orton Plantation owner Laurence Sprunt has asked that his 1 TOW acres of land be zoned rural industrial rather than rural. Sprunt told the planning board and the board of commission ers that he would like to have the flexibility of being able to sell some ot his land for industrial purposes, and that he wanted his land to be classified as it has historically been classified in the county land use plan - as a combination of conservation, transitional and industrial districts. However, some planning board members have said that it would be inappropriate to zone Sprunt's prop erty as rural industrial because much of the land is either env iron mentally sensitive marshland, or has histone and cultural importance. The rural industrial zone is intended to accom modate land uses such as agricultural industry and mining, and by special exception could accommodate ani mal slaughtering plants and hazard ous waste treatment facilities. "1 think the county needs to have some control over l Sprunt's) land.' said planning board chairman John Barbee. "1 don't think we want a haz ardous waste dump out there.* •The Southport Development Com mittee has requested that hazardous material treatment facilities and ani mal slaughtering and processing op erations be removed from the Ust of special exceptions in the rural indus trial zone -- w hichencompussesmuch of the area around Southport because of the proximity of Carolina Power and Light Co. and Sunny Point. "The city's policy on industrial de velopment is to recognize our obliga tion to protect the fragile coastal envi ronment and not add effluents to its air. soil or streams that would further degrade that environment and con tribute to the destruction of our native fishing industrySouthport alderman James C. Brown said m a letter to Barbee. County planning director John Harvey indicated that these land uses »«U he permuted only after lengthy emvmomroenta! impact studies, and only alter the board of adjustments approves them. Han. e\ said he based the proposed wrung ordinance on the philosophy that if we create a use for land. then some provision must be made to acexmrnodate that use. "If *e produce hazardous materials m our daily Sues, we have to be re See land use, page 3 Zoning hearing Tuesday By Hotly Edwards i County Editor Members of the public can voice their opinion of the pro posed county w ide zoning or dinance next Tuesday . Sep tember 29, at 7 p.m. m the public assembly building at the county government cen ter near Bolivia. The public hearing will be hosted by the Brunsw ick County Board of Commissioners and the plan ning board. County residents who wish to speak w ill be asked to reg ister at the door and w ill be given two to three minutes to make their point, said county manager David Gegg. The hearing is intended to provide a tbrum for commis sioners and planning board members to hear opinions and concerns, and not answer de railed questions about the pro posed ordinance, county offi cials stress. Tm concerned that less than 2lX) people have visited the planning department to look at the detailed zoning maps." said county planning director John Harvey. "The hearing next Tuesday is not the time to answer people s questions, but to take their suggestions." Harvey urged everyone who plans to attend the public hear ing to v isit the planning de partment first. Anyone who would like to talk with commissioners and See Zoning page 3 MAP, PAGE 3 Long Beach to consider plan Emergency procedures are outlined in Durr proposals By Amitabh Pal Municipal Editor A comprehensive civil preparedness program designed to deal with all types of disasters will he considered by the Long Beach Town Council in October. The program prepared by councilman David Durr includes clearly outlined responsibilities for various town officials and detailed steps to warn and evacuate the public in case of impending disasters. Dutt presented die program to council last week. It was tabled for a month because it was not pan of the formal agenda. Durr seems confident that it will be adopted at the next town council meeting. *1 assume there was reluctance on the pan of some because they haven't even read it" Durr said. "I just wanted them to accept it as a document of record so that in the case of an emergency die town officials would know how to react." Durr devised the program when he was appointed civil preparedness coordinator by mayor Joan Altman in July. Durr came up with the plan after seeing plans for other communities, discussing the matter with tow n officials and looking at a previous plan that, in his words, was "outdated." "As usual, you secure your information from a number of sources." Dun said. "and then you supplement that information." The plan deals not only with catastrophic disasters but with general emer gency situations, classifying them as level I, II or III according to their seriousness. For example, a motor vehicle accident is a level I emergency; a hazardous material spill is level II; hurricanes, tornadoes and earthquakes are level III. The plan includes preparation activities to be carried out as part of daily routine as well as instructions on how and when to set up an Emergency Operation Center (EOC) under actual emergency conditions. It establishes evacuation procedures in case of a predicted disaster and also assigns duties to See Beach plan, page 6 at Andrew, page 6 OUTSIDE Forecast The extended forecast calls for variably cloudy skies Thursday through Sunday, with cooler temperatures expected. Highs are forecast in the mid-TOs, with nighttime lows in the 60s. 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