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Sports South Brunswick joined host North Brunswick and other schools at camp — 1C Bid is 50 percent over budget Community Building gets a. second look By Richard Nubel Municipal E ditor ■s. With lowest construction bids exceeding $1.1 million. Southport's Com munity Building Reconstruction Committee has sent its architect back to his draw mg board to design a more modest structure. I or months, members of the reconstruction committee have been about the community soliciting contributions from individuals and corporations in an attempt to raise a targeted $720,000, the believed cost of a one-and-a-half stor\ hmldingon the waterfront at F-'ort Johnston to replace the old USO Build ing burned in early 1995. When a second round of construction bids was opened June 3. that anticipated cost had been exceeded by $780,000. Aldermen have scheduled discussion of the Community Building cost over run tonight (Wednesday) after completion of a public hearing on the city's budget proposal for 1997-98. Aldermen Meezie Childs. Paul Fisher and Jim Brown are members of the Community Building Reconstruction Committee. Its chairman and only other non-salaried member is Ken Mabe. While the committee has been accepting private donations and pledges for the recon struction project, aldermen have said they were willing to borrow needed County budget Board says $1 million cut needed By Terry Pope County Editor County commissioners voted Mon d;t\ to allocate $20,000 in start-up funds for the Familv Emergency Teen Shelter near Southport in the pro posed 1097-08 county budget. They also instructed county man ager Jim Varner to trim another $1 million from the budget before next Monday, June 23, when the board meets at 5 p.m. for another work ses sion. The budget must be approved bv July 1. Varner's original $84.3-million proposal was trimmed by $3.2 mil lion last week when commissioners voted to delete two water line projects near L.eland and Sandy Creek and to look into options of connecting to exis^ng county lines or lines owned by the Leland Sanitary District. Also cut front the proposal were five new positions and tour vehicles that the water department requested to handle new customers as a result of the Bounty's recently approved mandatory hook-up policy. The Brunsw ick County Utility Op erations Board has discussed con tracting that service out to a construc tion company instead. Commission ers sav they are not sure what to ex pect m the w ater department for next year until positions are reevaluated, matching staff with workloads. The board voted Monday not to exceed $3.5 million in money taken from the county's general fund bal ance. or savings account, to help pay for reoccurring items in the 1997-98 budget. Varner's recommended bud get sought $5.1 million from the fund balance for reoccurring needs and See Budget, page 8 INSIDE Opinion Police report Obituaries Notices Business Calendar Church Schools TV schedule District Court 4 8 10 13 14 2B 3B 6B 11B 7C The committee wants ‘to avoid any misunderstanding by the community - lest anyone think their pledge is not needed now.’ Architect John Thompson construction monev up front as the committee awaited delivery of pledges made, in some instances, over five years. The committee's architect, John Thompson. I uesday said the committee ■ felt that an explanation was needed to avoid any misunderstanding by the community -- lest anyone think their pledge i> not needed now.' I’liolo by Holly Kdwards Every two years, Don Frink of Southport spends a day at the Old Smithville Bury inn Urounds cleaning and painting the monument to river pilots and crew members killed it shipwrecks or lost at sea. The mar ble obelisk was dedicated in 1872. Just like other ones County wants to add EMS substation here By Terry Pope County Editor New emergency medical services substations are running above origi nal cost estimates, and it may force county commissioners to allocate more in the llW7-W budget so three identical centers can be built at Leland, Southport-Oak Island and Ocean Isle Beach. “If three were executed at once, you'd get a better cost per unit." said J. Clark Hipp, architect for the project. "There is economy in the steel, block and labor -- over just building one unit a! a lime." In the 1996-97 budget, commi - sioners set aside funds for tvs■' 'til - stations at a cost ot $210.Otto each - one on the northern end and one l> r the southern part of the counts But recently. commissionets have indicated they want to build a thud station in the Southport area, all thue of the same design. Officials are negotiating t Pu: chase land along Old tieorgciossn Road for a station near Ocean Me Beach, inside the Leland 1ikIusIii.iI Park to service the northern a min t nities and along N. C 211 to is-ist the Southport-Oak Island community The Southport-Oak Island building has not been budgeted and uould be part of the lW7-lhs capital outlay spending plan The stations would house paramed ics and counts rescue \ eludes as part of director Tr.ics Jackson s county emergence medical sets ices and dl 1 response program. Htpp gas e coinmissmners an artist's rendering at the model satel lite building that ssould be built of concrete block ssitli accent striping and standing seam metal root. The See Substation, page 7 As a result of the high bids for construction, the committee Wednesdav night intends to recommend rejection ot current bids to the hoard of aider men. Thompson said. Further, the committee will "instruct the architect to delete the planned upper story (of the building) including dormers, root terrace, stairs (and other improvements) related to the future use ot the second tloor' The architect and the committee sav the", w ill also attempt to reduce over all costs to a range that will encourage greater involvement by smaller con tractors. The need for a structural steel tiame will be eliminated and all hut absolutely necessary steel framing will he eliminated in tavor oi other mate rials. The group will seek to design work which can he done iocallv ami will eliminate from the hid specifications lands*.aping md site improvements not essential to the building. “The committee has directed us to g* * hack to the draw mg h* >aul and make the above adjustments without altering the building lav-out and general ap pearance, except of course for the deletion of the dormers." Fhomps* m w rote. Prior to this month, the city had sought const!uciam bids tor the commu nity building reconstruction project, hut received only one response When See Building, page '> Long Beach okays budget By Richard Nubci Munu ipa! Ldi't i When il came lime U-r die puhlu to speak, there was siLiki i;, , : Beach Tuesday night. Not one among the 50 or m gam ered at the Long-Reach Kccieatier Center offered the first comment o the town's then-proposed SO Li.s million budget lot the local \ e.c begin July I ' 1 I!l-n i - in:i■ ■:! snn hi- ' h-n 11 nan!ni I l."l 'in. HI. I; , ,| a MilK ll Ilia i'. V - Ml..'., i. M1 '.1! m i " t'liikv! ■•ill I- Hi r i ss" Mini, till- ' H ' 11n .'I ,iHi.! a ; m ‘Uli I 1 II IL'I: .1VI ' ! 1 .MHi - HIM I !. 'I ill 1.11 < '.I'll'" ell Vis Min ,1 M hMh ] U.mi!,I\ K , illlsLV '| iiiv- :ki .iii'hi\ n nM ,H I .' n i! Ill' ' i ills I Ml' l.'s i ; ‘ 'i'll" ,il Stv I mi" Hi m h. |>a"i ft Southport Electric Rate structure has shaky start By Richard Nubel Municipal bditor With 2.5(»4 luad management switches installed at homes and places nt business served by the Nouthpoit electric svstem. the new electric tate structure designed to reward partici pants in the city's load management effort has to be considered a ncpulai success But. mild weather and stall up costs the city chose to absorb, rathet than pass on to customers, teamed to deal the city's electric fund a shaky tinar cial year in 1 Yet Southport should stav the course with its load management et Sec Rate, page X 'The worst thing we could do is panic and pop those rates up without seeing if the program will work under normal conditions.’ Hd Honeycutt Public services director Caswell considers water alternatives By Richard Nubel Municipal Editor Arboretum and OceanGreens homeowners associations pay 23.5 cents more than the town pays for each gallon of water Caswell Beach buys from Brunswick County, but those homeowners don't receive the same sen ices other residents of the town are provided. That isn't fair, Caswell Sewer Service Inc. director Jim Hinkhouse See Caswell, page 6 TOP STORIES ON THE
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