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Volume 62/ Number 42
Southport, N.C.
June 9,1993/ 50 cents
INSIDE
Schools get
million for
computers
By Terry Pope
County Editor
Brunswick County schools will get
an extra $1 million to help buy com
puter equipment for its expanding
technology program.
A vote to award that money was
narrowly passed by the Brunswick
County Board of Commissioners
Monday, 3-2.
Commissioners Wayland Vereen
and Jerry Jones voted against chair
man Don Warren's motion.
"I'm totally in support of the schools,
and I understand they need the funds.”
explained Jones. "They haven't con
vinced me they need computers in
every classroom in every school."
Warren quickly left the chambers
following the meeting and did not talk
to reporters.
At a budget session last week. War
ren asked that the money set aside to
build a warehouse for the government
center near Bolivia be given instead
to the schools.
The money will be transferred to
the schools’ "category II" capital im
provements budget where commis
sioners can earmark it to be spent for
a specific purpose.
Of the amount, $750,000 will be
used to purchase computers and
$250,000 for related items.
Jones said the money was first allo
cated for the county warehouse facil
ity because the space is needed.
"If questioned, everybody is still
going to say it’s needed.” he added.
The warehouse, funded for 1992
93 but never approved for construc
tion, would have created more stor
age space for all offices and agencies
at the government center plus house
the public utilities and parks adminis
tration offices.
An architect, John Thompson of
Southport, was hired for its design by
the previous board of commissioners.
Gene Zuck, the schools' technol
ogy director, outlined a three-year
See Million, page 6
T’m totally in sup
port of the schools,
and I understand
they need the funds.
They haven't con
vinced me they need
computers in every
classroom in every
school’
Jerry Jones
County commissioner
Senior chief J. D. Arndt, Oak Island Coast Guard
commander, helps Long Beach major Joan AlUnaa
adjust a life vest in symbolic recognition of National
Safe Boating Week, which began Monday. Caswell
FM* by Jhn Harper
Beach police chief Paul Osborne, Southport chief
Bob Gra/, and Yaupon Beach officer Sandra Byrd
represented their communities in the observance at
the Oak Island station.
Long Beach
Budget review
adds cost, but
goal is 41 cents
By Holly Kdwards
Municipal Editor
Long Beach councilmen Tuesday night moved one step closer to
presentation of a 1993-94 fiscal year budget proposal.
The public was invited but not allowed to speak during the work session
Tuesday while council members reviewed the proposal line item by litre
item. Another workshop is scheduled Monday at 7 p.m.
Formal presentation of the budget proposal will be made in public hear
ing prior to the council’s regular monthly meeting next Tuesday night, and
citizens will then be invited to comment. The council could adopt the $4
million budget package at that time.
Discussion Tuesday night centered around expenditure increases totaling
more than $16,000 in several areas, including \he Oak Island Library
Boosters Inc., surface water quality testing, a basketball court and pay
See Long Beach, page 10
Northwest area
rescue services
to be evaluated
By Terry Pope
County Editor
When residents of the Northwest
community call for emergency help,
often it's a neighboring county's unit
that responds.
As of June 30, commissioners will
no longer provide mutual aid funds to
Columbus County's Acme-Delco
Riegelwood volunteer fire and rescue
units.
Instead, the county will rely on paid
Workers: Landfill is doing okay
By Terry Pope
County Editor
Employees who oversee daily op
erations of the county landfill at Sup
ply told commissioners Monday
things there are running smoothly
again.
They were asked to appear before
the board by chairman Don Warren,
whose recent decision toadvertrse for
a new landfill director has spurted
some controversy.
“As we are operating today. I feel
we have enough employees to do the
job." said Darry Somerset!, director
of operation services.
County attorney responds, page 5
Soroersen. the superv isor in charge
of landfill operations. provides equip
ment and manpower to bury and
spread garbage over the landfill sile.
”1 hope dot the commissioners un
derhand that.” commissioner Jerry
Jones said following the meeting.
Jones had objected to the decision
toadvenise for a new director, saying
the landfill was operating better than
it had before.
Warren said he reached a consen
sus of the Kurd re advertise the job by
polling commissioners.
Bui Jones said he was never called.
Brunswick County landfill director
Leo He well was fired from his job in
March and his duties assigned to
Somerset!. Hewett's position was then
cut from the budget by former county
manager David Clegg.
County engineer Robert Tucker,
who works closely with the landfill
staff and oversees the county's recy
cling program, was quoted in an ar
ticle last week as saying the landfill
was operating efficiently without a
new director.
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Fourth of July stage being set
Four-day celebration planned this year
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da^r«the iveanfhmt cabana on 4bth Street. A beach concert and
Tucker said a state inspector visited
his office Monday morning and indi
cated the landfill was "very much
improved."
It has been cited for major viola
tions twice in the past three years and
was hit with a strict compliance order
issued by the state in February.
"I would be willing to work with
anyone that's put in that position,"
Tucker told commissioners Monday.
If the county chooses to keep rather
than close its landfill under tougher
environmental rules that begin in
October, the department may need
additional personnel, added
See Worker, page 6
emergency responders to cover the
area under its 911 program.
Residents of the northernmost cor
ner of BrunswickCounty have formed
their own emergency medical team,
hoping to avoid long waits for other
county units to respond.
But a first-year budget request of
$101,300 has county officials won
dering if the area needs a 24-hour
rescue squad.
Northwest Volunteer Emergency
Medical Services would operate out
of a fire and rescue building on Blue
See Rescue, page 6
We need better
EMS coverage in
that area. The ques
tion is how do we
provide that
coverage at the
most economical
cost to people in
that area *
Doug Ledgett
EMS director
Forecast
The extended forecast
Thursday through Sunday
calls for partly cloudy
skies and hot tempera
tures. Highs are expected
in the 90s; 80-degree
temps could return by
Sunday, however..
Tide table
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