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Volume 62/ Number 9
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All's quiet
Term-change proponents silent
on move that's 'step backwards’
By Amttabh Pal
Municipal Editor
Lone Beach voters will decide No
vember 3 whether to change terms of
their town council to two years, in
stead of the present four years.
The i s-ue. along with another which
would limit reconsideration of de
feated bond issues, was placed on the
ballot by petitions circulated by Con
cerned Citizens of Long Beach in the
spring.
Signatures of at least ten percent of
registered voters arc necessary' to put
such an issue on the ballot. A simple
majority vote will make the term
change effective in the 1993 council
elections.
Prances Allen, who presented the
petition to the town council in Au
gust, said this week that she is work
ing on behalf of Concerned Citizens
of Long Beach, an organization
formed by Long Beach voters who
say they are dissatisfied with the func
tioning of the present town council.
Though she is the designated
spokesperson for the group. Allen
declined to comment on the reason
fnr the referendum issue, or on the
campaign to have n approved.
I really can’t speak for the group."
she said. "I have discussed this with
other members and we feel that as we
are a-very democratic organization,
no statements can be issued unless the
whole group gets together and de
cides on something."
Mayor Joan Altman said this week
the initiative is a very negative way (if
attempting to control government.
She said that the present system
allows for much more moderate and
manageable change, providing lor
election of the mayor every two years
and council members for a period of
four years, with three members being
up for re-election every two years.
"Ido feel decreasing the tern size is
Southport seeks grant funding
Rehabilitation loans would be repaid
By An.itabh Pal
Municipal Editor
Southport aldermen Thursday au
thorized consultant Dale Holland to
seek a S400,000-plus grant from the
state to be used for housing rehabili
tation loans.
Though the N. C. Department of
Environment and Natural Resources
is offering up to SI million of chan
neled federal money to cities for reha
bilitating low- and moderate-income
housing, Holland said in his presenta
tion that no more than $425,000 could
be expected here.
That would provide rehabilitation
for 17 units at a cost of $22,000 each.
Holland said.
The city would have 24 months to
obligate the funds. In the first year of
the program the city will only have to
pay administrative costs of $43,550.
Funds would be loaned for reha
bilitation of residences, either owner
occupied or rental, and would be re
paid to the city for recycling as more
rehabilitation loans.
Holland estimated Southport had at
least 40 or 50 houses which need
rehabilitation.
The application deadline is in early
November, and the state will announce
the grants in January. Holland said
that the application process does not
require a public hearing because no
residences are heme designated up
front.
"The way this is dillercnt front the
block grant (Comnuimiv Develop
ment Block Grant program) is that
you don't have to sjvcity target ar
eas." Hoi land said. 'You don't have to
identify houses. The primary criteria
for accepting applications is need."
Holland, who has aided the city in
obtaining and administering block
grants, added that the disadvantage
was that, unlike in CDBG, the pro
gram requires that money be commit
See Grant, page 3
‘The way this is
different from the
block grant... is
that you don't have
to specify target
areas... The primary
criteria for accept
ing applications is
need.'
Dale Holland
BUTTERWORTH
Butterworth interim manager
By Amitabh Pal
Municipal Editor
Sylvia Butterworth was named Thursday to become
interim Southport city manager October 24.
Butterworth, who has been city finance director since
October, 1985, has served in the interim post once
before, from December, 1989, to April, 1990.
The board on Thursday accepted, "with regret", out
going city manager Rob Hites' resignation. Hites is
leaving October 24 to assume the post of city manager
in Lumberton.
As interim manager, Butterworth has been offered
the annual salary of $42,750 that Hites had been paid.
Butterworth said last week she didn’t think she would
be involved in any new ventures.
The role of the interim manager is to keep things
together until the new hired manager comes in," she
said. "I’ll just be involved with the ongoing projects. I
doubt very much if they will want me to start with any
projects, which will be the role of the new manager."
"There's no sort of an emergency measure that I
perceive right now that I would have to initiate," she
added. ”1 will continue to take care of the problems and
projects that we're involved with now."
Butterworth, a Southport native, attended Miller
Motte Business College in Wilmington. Prior to work
ing in Southport, she was the finance director and town
clerk in Long Beach for six years, and served as acting
See Manager, page 3
a great mistake." Aimian said. "There's
a greal merit in people with experi
ence continuing tosorv e their govern
ment as opposed to a completely new
set ol iiKliMiiuals.
‘It would not he
good for the town. It
would not be good
for the staff. It
would not he good
for the citizens as a
whole.'
Tim Johnson
Town manager
M' amcern 'a i!1! !'■ i; i .i;
hnvn council in-'i: ' ■ . i .
>Car - is rhal the a nin■'<' ill !< ■ ■ n
abiii!> to function ,i • ’■ rnurn
manors.'
Allman said that l;• i ■; the oivsein
system the moreevp: rieikcd a tuned
members can share rtien know te.h
with newer council inemhas. a, i-a i
lion that would chitm a1 ’he ir-a i ll
were approved.
She said that she he . ;. a
sonal experience that m mwo „e.r
term it is dilTknil. to f.arc . er. ti"■ i
one needs to kn>>w and ;h e a. hi.
new issues and pn• n..i ■ • -att
taction ol the pub!...
"Council memtvi u ■ i i.- > • .
to do the most efle. <..
people they -repie-ae -it. ms
The mayor said ih e ti. », :
lion and recer.i! It ■■:<> ■ ■ ■ ■
.See rerm-chanee. pae* d
CP&L units each
will have manager
Carolina Power ami Light Co. last week announced a manage
ment shakeup at the Brunswick nuclear plant, establishing man
agement staffs lor each generating unit tend continuing a pent a
ncl evolution that has reached the top leadership level.
At the Brunswick plant, shut down for repairs April 21 and
expected to be idle through the rest of the year. Richard E. Morgan
and J. Morris Brown have become managers for units 1 and 2.
Both participated September 25 in a briefing of the N'uelcar
Regulatory Commission on repairs and alterations being made
during the shutdown.
Jack Spencer, who participated in that conference as Brunva u k
plant manager, has effectively been replaced by Morgan and
Brown and has left the company "to pursue other interests, a
CP&L news release said.
Brunswick plant vice-president R. B. Richey.- who replaced -
Russ Starkey in Apni. said. "We are fortunate to have these two
experienced and capable managers to serve in these roles at this
time.".
Richey works for William Cavanaugh, III, w ho became CP&L
president in August when CP&L’s president, chairman-ami CEO
Sherwood H. Smith, Jr., stepped aside from that post.
The new management hierarchy under Richey now is:
•Morgan; former manager of CP&L nuclear services depart
ment in Raleigh; with the company almost 30 years; experience at
Brunswick, Robinson and Harris nuclear plants.
•John Titrington. operations manager for unit 1 under Morgan;
was recently transferred from Brunswick to the corporate nuclear
enginee ring department in Raleigh.
•Dan Moore, unit 1 maintenance manager, has been mainte
nance manager for both units.
•Brown; fonnerl v a manager inthe nuclear engineering depart
ment in Raleigh; worked at Brunswick from 1973 until 1989.
•Keith Ahem, unit 2 operations manager, has been operations
manager for both Brunswick units,
•Mike Jacobson, unit 2 maintenance manager; has managed
maintenance programs at Brunswick.
OUTSIDE
Forecast
x The extended forecast
calls for Thursday highs
between 80 and 85 before
* a gradual decline through
the weekend. Friday ex*
peet highs near 80 with
lows in the 50s; Saturday,
highs in the 70s ami lows
in the 60s; Sunday, a high
near 60 with lows in the
40s. Skies will be partly
Cloudy throughout the pe
riod.
Mi ' :
Tide table
HIGH LOW
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 15
10:48 am. 4:36 am.
11:01p.m. 5:15 p.m.
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 16
11:36 a.m. 5:20 a.m.
11:54 p.m. 6:05 p.m.
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 17
—-a.nl. 6:11am.
12:32 pm. 7:00 p.m.
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 18
12:56 am. 7:10 am.
1:33 pm. 8:01 p.m.
MONDAY, OCTOBER 19
2:05 am. 8:18 a.m.
2:39 pm. 9:06 pm.
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 20
3:15 a.m. 9:26 a.m
3:44 pm. - 10:09 pm.
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 21
4:24 a.m. , 10:34 a.m.
1108pm.
The following adjustment! rhoold be made:
Bald Head Island, high -10. low -7; Caswell
Beach, high -5, low -1; Southport, high +7,
low +15, Yaupcn Beach, high -32, low -45;
Lodcwood Folly, high -22, low -8.