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2 Tuesday, March 14,1995 Carrboro Board Mulls Town Wish list BY KAREN WILLIAMS STAFF WRITtR Like most civic governments across the state, the Carrboro Board of Aldermen is drawing up its annual list of requests for the state legislature. The wish list of local bills will be presented to state representa tives March 31. But, like other municipalities in the area, the board is having a tough time deciding what it wants to spend its representatives’ political clout on this early in a Republi can-dominated legislative term. Carrboro Mayor Eleanor Kinnaird said she thought the General Assembly’s new policy to cut back on spending would make it hard to get new projects passed by the state legislature. “The legislature is in such a tax-cutting mode, they’ll turn down any thing that sounds like spending money, - even if it’s a worthwhile project, ” she said. One new proposal the Carrboro town government has asked for legislative ap proval for calls for the local vehicle tax to be raised from $lO to sls, Kinnaird said. She said the additional tax would help increase town revenue. - “I don’t think the people will even no tice the increase until they go to pay their taxes,” Kinnaird said. “There is no stam pede to complain against raising taxes, and if the government removes funds for valid purposes, we (the town government) have to raise our taxes.” The board has four other proposals it wants the General Assembly to approve. One of these proposals deals with the af Ham Radio Group Hopes To Beef Up UNC Tower BY SUZANNE WOOD STAFF WRITER The Orange County Radio Amateurs hope to raise $28,000 before June to fi nance an addition to the the new radio tower atop the UNC Center for Public Television, said Harvey Arnold, the asso ciate director of engineering at the center. “They have free use of the tower; they just have to provide their own equipment,” he said. The new tower at the UNC television station, which is being built 95 feet from the present tower, will be completed in early June, Arnold said. The present tower and the OCRA’s cur rent equipment will be tom down when the new tower is completed. The OCRA needs to raise the money by June to finance its new equipment on the new tower. It will be out qf service if the group cannot raise the money before the present, tower is tom down. “* OCRA works with Orange County emergency services to keep lines of com munication open during emergencies, OCRA Chairman John Hughes said. “We’re a ham radio club dedicated to pro viding emergency services to any agency that requests it,” he said. To help pay for the new equipment, OCRA has received SB,OOO from UNC Hospitals, $3,500 from OCRA club mem bers, and has asked the Chapel Hill Town Council for SB,OOO, Hughes said. The club has received support from its members but needs the help of the commu nity to put an emergency radio site on the INTERNships INTERNational— London • Paris • Berlin • Florence * Mexico City Six weeks to six months. Open to 1995 graduates & current graduate students in ALL fields. An opportunity to build your resume & enhance your profile in today’s competitive job market. Internships are non-paying positions. However, it is often possible to secure a part-time paying job. INFORMATION MEETING: Wednesday, March 15 Study Abroad Office • Caldwell Hall • 4:00 %73hg#u* EVERYTHING'S SIOO EVERY THURSDAY AT PLAyERS! No Gove* Before 11pn%! fordable housing problem in Carrboro, Kinnaird said. The board is asking the legislature to approve inclusionary zoning in Carrboro, she said. Inclusionary zoning would mandate that developers include a certain number of low-income housing units whenever they built. Kinnaird said this would help make affordable housing available. “We feel it is important that everybody have the opportunity to buy into this com munity,” she said. She said the housing in Carrboro had become too expensive. “Per manent housing is getting out of reach,” Kinnaird said. Assistant Town Manager Larry Gibson said he also agreed that increasing the affordable housing in the area was neces sary. “The inclusionary zoning is another tool for maintaining diversity ofhousing in the area,” he said. The board is also concerned with spe cial obligations bonds. Town Manager Robert Morgan said the town was inter ested in using a special obligations bond to fund the purchase and construction of a new landfill. Morgan said special obligations bonds currently could not be used for the pur chase of landfills. He said the board was asking the General Assembly to change the restrictions on the special obligations bonds so they could be used to fund land fills. “We want to use bonds to spread out the cost over 20 years,” Morgan said. The board also is asking the legislature to approve deals with performance bonds, new tower, he said. OCRA, which aids the emergency ser vices, acts as more than backup to the other services, said Nick Waters, Orange County Emergency Management Service director. “The OCRA is a civilian group we use for communication for a backup system,” he said. “They act as a supplemental system. If one channel goes down, we can rely on another. They support our system.” OCRA helped in such emergencies as the time in 1992 that three fires broke out on the same day in Chapel Hill. OCRA helped set up Red Cross sites after the Hillsborough tornado 0f1992 and set up emergency communications after a 1993 cut telephone cable left 4,ooowithout telephone services for four days, Hughes said. The new system, which will unify all major emergency networks in Orange County, is vital to the community, Waters said. “It is like an insurance policy, ” he said. “If we’re going to depend on this system, we’d like to see it built to its full capacities. The tower they want will give us 100 per cent coverage.” The Chapel Hill Town Council has not discussed whether OCRA will receive the requested SB,OOO, Town Council member Joe Capowski said. “We received the request two weeks ago,” he said. “We have referred it to the staff, but we have not analyzed the re quest.” The council will vote on the request in a month, Capowski said. “It is too early to know what will happen.” Gibson said. State legislation requires that every lo cal government have contractors purchase the $50,000 bond for insurance on con struction projects. “If a contractor fails to meet the terms of a construction contract, then the performance bond is used to pay for the remainder of the project,” Gibson said. He said the board wanted legislation to waive the performance bond requirement for Carrboro. “The bond is not a big deal for huge contractors, but if you’re a small contrac tor it is more difficult to get that bond,” he said. “The objective is to allow local and smaller contractors to get involved in projects.” Kinnaird said the board also was inter ested in redrawing the town’s boundaries to include the “doughnut holes” that ex isted. Doughnut holes are areas that still belong to the county but that are located in the middle of town. Because these areas are not part of Carrboro, they are not subject to town laws. The Carrboro gov ernment wants to annex these areas. Gibson said he did not think die new proposals Carrboro had presented would meet with much opposition at the state level. “The only revenue measure we are ask ing for is the vehicle tax increase from $lO to $15.” Morgan said he did not expect any op position to the new proposals. He said, “I’m not anticipating there to be any prob lem, but you can never be sure.” Former Police Sergeant Dismisses Lawsuit Against Town Shauna Winston Settled for $5,000, Which Doesn’t Fully Cover Attorney’s Fees BYDAN THOMAS STAFF WRITER Former Chapel Hill police Sgt. Shauna Winston dismissedher lawsuit against sev eral local officials and settled the matter out of court for $5,000 on March 8. Winston brought a lawsuit against the Chapel Hill Police Department, the town of Chapel Hill, Town Manager Cal Horton, police Chief Ralph Pendergraph and Cary Psychology Inc. after she was dismissed from her position with the Police Depart MILLS FROM PAGE 1 race with a powerful kick in the final 200 meters, passing the two leaders in the last straightaway with an incredible burst of speed. “I wanted to quit, I was going to accept third place,” he said. “Quitting is a very normal human reaction. The people who never quit know the secret to empower ment.” Mills said he even considered bumping the two other runners and falling to the track. Then, he pulled it together. “With 30 yards to go, I began to think, ‘I won! I won!’ I was still in third place,” he said. “Then I felt my chest break the tape.” One of the runners he passed in the final 30 yards was Ron Clark, who went on to set several long distance world records in his career. “He (Clark) taught me to accept defeat, not failure,” Mills said. v ****■ ■ ■ WE GUARANTEE GREAT IMPRESSIONS DISSERTATION SALE Get your dissertation copied on 20 lb. cotton bond W Ql/C lmml Y O /2 per single sided page! Extra copies on 20 lb. white bond only 6C. No coupon needed. Good thru April 30.1995. NEW PLAIN PAPER LASER FAX MACHINE! Our prices haven't changed but our quality has! 933-COPY (2679) . FAX 933-2680 100 W. FRANKLIN STREET • ACROSS FROM SPANKY’S M-THURS 8-12 FRIB-10 SAT 10-7 SUN 12-7 CITY DTH/KBISTIN PREUPP Temperatures in the 70s brought students out to enjoy the sunshine while studying in an effort to prolong those Spring Break tans. Temperatures are forecasted to remain balmy for the rest of the week. ment. Winston signed a stipulation of dis missal with prejudice in the Eastern Dis trict Court. The stipulation agreed that Winston's claims against the defendants had been settled and dismissed civil action against them. The agreement states that the dismissal makes it impossible for the Chapel Hill defendants to bring any further civil claims against Winston for repayment of pay re ceived after she was dismissed and pre cludes counterclaims for court costs spent defending against Winston’s legal actions. Winston was placed on administrative leave with pay in August 1993 after several charges of noncriminal allegations, such as operating a town vehicle without a valid license, failure to report an accident, mis using a police computer and allowing an “With 30yards togo, / began to think, 7 won! I won!’l was still in thirdplace. Then I felt my chest break the tape. ” BUY HULLS Native American Olympic' gold medalist j “He taught me to accept defeat with dignity and with character while pursuing excellence.” Native Americans acted with the same sense of dignity in negotiating with the U.S. government, Mills said. “Our ancestors signed treaties, all of which have been broken by this beautiful country we live in.” The United States does not understand the culture of Native Americans, he said “But what I think is important is that Na tive Americans are beginning to under stand Native America.” Lawn Bathing unauthorized person to ride in a police vehicle. She was fired on April 13,1994. Ralph Karpinos, Chapel Hill’s town attorney, and representatives from the town’s risk-management program decided it was in the best interest of the participants to pay the $5,000 settlement and agree to the dismissal of Winston’s lawsuit. The agreementstipulates that Winston’s employment record will continue to show she was fired from her position with the Police Department in April. The defendants also required Winston to have her certification as a law enforce ment officer revoked by the N. C. Criminal Justice Standards Commission, according to a statement from Karpinos’ office. Neither Karpinos nor Winston’s lawyer was willing to answer questions regarding Campus Calendar WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH Barbara Jordan is a Texan lawyeT, politician, orator and educator. She was the first woman elected to the Texas legislature since Reconstruction and later became the first black woman elected to the U.S. House of Representatives from the South. ,'.x .J TUESDAY TO a.m. Old Weß Sing will be performed by the male a cappella group Footnotes (from Princeton) at the Old Weß. Rock on. 3 p.m. Career Clinic: Develop an action plan for selecting a major or choosing a career in the Univer sity Counseling Center in 106 Nash Hall. 3:30 p.m. Lesbian Support Group: An affirma tive environment to discuss and receive support around relevant issues in the University Counseling Center in 210 Nash Hall. Call 962-2175. 4 pun. Keeping Your Career Optfons Open workshop, on developing a career plan especially for you, will be held in 210 Hanes Hall 5 iMpjn. Diabetes Support Group Dinner will be hdd on the second floor of Student Health Ser vices in the Psychological Services conference room. Call 966-6562 to make reservations. 7 pjm “PvWcity and Promotion for Campus E*o(s” workshop will be held in Union 212. Spon aored by Leadership Matters.... GIVE YOUR CAREER THE SAME CAREFUL ATTENTION YOU GIVE YOUR PATIENTS Nursing positions are available now in Navy hospitals and medical facilities around the world. Find out if you qualify for a $5,000 bonus! Call today. U.S. NAVY NURSE CORPS 801 OBERLIN RD., SUITE 120 RALEIGH, NC 27605-1130 1(800) 662-7419 1(919) 831-4161 NAVY NURSE Spring Break Special ■i' ■ Medium Cup... w* Limited Time Only! 1 f (No coupon necessary. “'■| Pi data* IF Not valid with any other promotional offers.) l||jßP’ Downtown Chapel Hill (f JVn) \ 106 W. Franklin St. (next to Pizza Hut) UOOURiU JP J) 942-PUMP ■ AlimA J ukmr South Durham |JUIIip Wr 4711 Hope Valley Rd. (Hwy 751) & Hwy 54 Put a little "culture" North Durham in VOUr life Northgate Mall (Next to Carousel) J ' 286-7868 (Flfp Saily (Far Hcpl the lawsuit. Chief Pendergraph could not be reached for comment. According to the statement from Karpinos, the defendants’ settlement of the case does not constitute an admission of liability but rather implies that they wanted to avoid further litigation. The $5,000 payment only partially cov ers the attorneys’ fees and costs Winston incurred challenging the town’s decision to terminate her employment as a police officer. Representatives of the town’s risk management program concluded that set tling the court case was a business decision in the best interests of the risk-manage ment program and its participants. Under the auspices of the program, the Town Council did not have to approve the settle ment to conclude the matter. Latin American Relation* film will be presented by CHispA in the Union. Check at the desk for the room number. Everyone is welcome. “Takings Legislation: Paying Industry Not to PoUute,” a discussion concerning the Contract With America and state legislatures, will be held in 217 Bingham. Center Coip. will hold a presentation in 210 HanesHaU. "The Defenders of Orthodoxy in Russian and Servian Medieval Literature: The Heroes of Kulikovo and Kosovo,” will be presented by Kim Purinton in the Center Conference Room of Cobb Residence Hall. “Conflict and Compromise in the Drafting of Czedusbvakia’s Language Right 1918-1920: The Legacy ofKatel Kramac, ” will be presented by David Barsness in die Center Conference Room of Cobb. Spun. eNeRGy will meet in the Union basement. Yow arc invited to bw-3 to watch "Limelight with B J. Owens,” featuring former DTH columnist Jeanne Fugate, on STV (Cahlevision 11). Sponsored by Student Television. “Rape, Prostitution and Cultural Theory” will be presented by Lillian Robinson, co-author of“ Fem inist Scholarship: Kindling in the Groves of Aca deme,” in the Toy Lounge ofDey Hall. Sponsored by the curriculum in women’s studies. HjPST - ... ~1,'’ „•] You and the Navy. Full Speed Ahead.
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