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Wednesday, April 19, 2000
County Plots Out Decade's Spending
By Tricia Barrios
Staff Writer
With no obstacles presented by the
public, county officials decided to move
Orange County’s Capital Investment
Plan onto the next session for discus
sion.
County manager John Link unveiled
the $224.8-milhon plan that will govern
Orange County’s expenditures for the
next decade at Monday night’s meeting.
The CIP designates the way the
county’s money will be spent in con
struction and renovation of public facil
ities.
Commissioner Barry Jacobs said the
purpose of the hearing was to give the
public a chance to make their voices
heard in local government.
“We want to make sure people have
the opportunity to review the plan and
comment,” he said.
Jacobs said the plan had far-reaching
significance for Orange County resi-
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“It’s the blueprint of the major expen
ditures in the next decade,” he said.
Link said the plan would tackle the
county’s significant needs with long
range initiatives.
“It addresses the most important
needs and new projects,” he said.
“These initiatives
will continue over
the next 12 to 18
months.”
Jacobs said the
plan covered a
wide variety of cap
ital projects.
“It runs the
gamut,” he said. “It
ranges from con
struction to Land’s
Legacy."
“We want to make sure
people have the opportunity
to review the plan
and comment. ”
Barry Jacobs
Orange County Commissioner
Aside from construction and renova
tion, the plan includes the findings from
the “Lands Legacy Program for Orange
County,” a report from the
University & City
Environmental Resource and
Conservation Department.
The report is aimed at preserving the
county’s natural and cultural resources
and farmland.
The environmental initiative comes
as a significant increase from last year’s
allocation.
County
Commissioner
Margaret Brown
attributed the
increase to the
county’s future
plans to buy land.
“We’re going to
start purchasing
property to leave
as open space and
parks,” she said.
Jacobs said the main sources of rev
enue would come from sales and prop
erty taxes that were based on the pro
jected spending. He said the plan did
not forecast a raise in taxes.
Link said the current capital invest
ment plan reserved some money to
help fund the the county’s projects.
“The good news is in the capital
investment plan that we have money set
aside so that you won’t have to borrow
as much,” he told the county commis
sioners at the hearing.
The commissioners will continue to
discuss the CIP at their next meeting on
April 24.
The City Editor can be reached
at citydesk@unc.edu.
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Moeser's Chore: Balancing
UNC Athletics, Academics
The chancellor-elect, though
supportive of athletics, says
coaches' salaries in the U.S.
are "terribly skewed."
By Brian Mirphy
Senior Writer
In North Carolina, Chancellor-elect
James Moeser will be making more
money than the men’s basketball coach.
That’s the way he thinks it should be.
In his final week at the University of
Nebraska-Lincoln, the school lured
Barry Collier away from Butler
University with a lucrative five-year, $1
million package, plus incentives, to res
urrect the Cornhuskers’ program.
Moeser expressed concern that the
school’s new coach was being paid
more than him. In an interview with the
Omaha World-Herald after Collier’s
hiring, Moeser said coaches’ salaries
were an example of “a terribly skewed
and distorted picture in the United
States.”
“I think the chancellor ought to make
more than the basketball coach,”
Moeser said. “I think a lot of full pro
fessors who excel in scholarship and
research ought to make at least as much,
if not more” than
the coach.
Men’s basket
ball coach Bill
Guthridge, the Tar
Heels’ highest
paid coach, makes
$164,440.
Moeser will
earn $255,000
when he takes the
helm Aug. 15.
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which appeared in the paper April 10,
did not mean Moeser was out to destroy
athletics. “He understands the market
and what is required,” Byrne said. “But
in a perfect world, the boss should make
more than the person who works for
him, and that makes a lot of sense to
me.”
UNC Director of Athletics Dick
Baddour, who has not met Moeser, said
the Department of Athletics would have
to adjust to his leadership style. Baddour
reports directly to the chancellor and
has met regularly with previous leaders.
He said he looked forward to dis
cussing aspects of UNC’s 28-sport pro
gram with Moeser.
“I’ll talk with him about everything
from our mission and the focus of the
department to the history and tradition,
to ongoing issues like the budget and
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dition, the Cornhuskers do have a
strong athletic tradition, from football
on down. Nebraska currendy ranks sec
ond in the Sears Cup standings, a com
petition among entire athletic program?.
UNC is seventh.
But during his four years in Lincoln,
Moeser had to answer to critics who sug
gested his tougher admissions standards
would hurt the powerful Huskers foot
ball team. In one response, he called
UNC a place where academics and ath
letics mixed successfully.
“I don’t think we lost the Texas A&M
game because of academic standards,”
Moeser told the Omaha World-Herald
in late 1998. “It certainly hasn’t hurt the
University of Michigan, the University
of North Carolina or Duke. I don’t
believe there will be any negative effect
on a strong athletic program.”
Baddour said Moeser’s background
at schools with prominent athletic pro
grams, such as Michigan, Texas, Penn
State and Nebraska, underscores the
new chancellor’s knowledge of athletics.
Byrne said fans of the Tar Heels
should not be worried.
“He was a big supporter of Nebraska
athletics,” Byrne said. “He never missed
a game. He was a strong representative
in the Big 12 conference. If I was at
North Carolina, I would not have a
moments hesitation about Dr. Moeser’s
commitment to intercollegiate athletics.”
The University Editor can be reached
at udesk@unc.edu.