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an acoustic guitar with a metal resonator, on the quad. He will be
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Committee to Assess Drainage Concerns
Area officials have joined
together in an attempt
to find solutions to prevent
future drainage problems.
By Matt Mansfield
Staff Writer
Following recent flooding disasters,
the Chapel Hill Town Council has cre
ated a Stormwater Utility Advisory
Committee that will deal with pressing
drainage problems.
The committee plans to examine the
effects of stormwater drainage and coor
dinate the efforts of the Carrboro Board
of Aldermen, the Town Council and the
Orange County Board of
La Petite Academy Still Open Despite Troubles
By Courtney Mabeus
Assistant City Editor
Officials at the troubled La Petite
Academy child-care center in Chapel
Hill said they are confident their doors
will remain open despite state regulators
who threaten to shut them down.
Center officials filed a petition for a
hearing with a judge after the N.C.
Division of Child Development revoked
the center’s probationary license onjuly
20. The hearing is set for Dec. 18.
The division revoked the license
based on two allegations of child neglect
and repeated violations of child-care
requirements, reports state.
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City
Commissioners to combat future flood
ing.
Recent flooding of Eastgate Shopping
Center and the washing out of Piney
Mountain Road onjuly 23, totaling $6-
8 million in damage, prompted the town
to search for a solution.
“We’ve been having problems with
stormwater and flooding for a number
of years,” said council member Joyce
Brown. “This committee has been
designed to deal with that."
The main challenge facing the com
mittee is coordinating the public works,
planning and several other town depart
ments as well as area watersheds, which
would require permission from the three
boards. “You have to have fairness and
equity and let different jurisdictions
maintain control (of their operations),”
record and about their ability to provide
quality day care,” said Stephanie Fanjul,
the division’s director.
Meanwhile, the center has been
allowed to remain open under due process
of law. At the December hearing, a judge
will decide if the decision to revoke the
license was warranted. If Fanjul decides to
close the center based on the judge’s rul
ing, la Petite officials could ask for a stay,
allowing it to remain open until a final
court ruling can be made.
Kate Akbar, La Petite’s associate direc
tor, said the center’s bad record is a thing
of the past. “There are things that we did
on our own to make sure that things that
occurred under previous management do
not happen again,” she said.
said Fred Royal, Chapel Hill’s stormwa
ter engineer. “The trick is to get some
thing people can agree to without the
jurisdictions losing control.”
The committee will research local
jurisdictions to generate an overarching
drainage improvement plan while let
ting the departments oversee their own
areas. “We’re trying to do the research
so we can understand the problem,” said
council member Bill Strom, who serves
as the committee’s liaison to the council.
Another committee goal is to increase
its presence in town by providing resi
dents with information about drainage.
The committee, Royal said, wants to
answer questions the public might have,
such as what surface water looks and
feels like, what stream health means and
possible Environmental Protection
Since the license revocation, 26 chil
dren have been enrolled at the center,
Akbar said. Also, center employees
have been following morning and
evening compliance checklists and have
formed a parent committee.
Additionally, a binder documenting La
Petite’s past troubles sits in the Center’s
lobby, along with a petition signed by
supportive parents. The last time she
counted, Akbar said, there were more
than 70 names on the list Parents have
given their support, Akbar said, “because
they see there’s nothing wrong here.”
The center has been operating under
a probationary license since April 1997,
when a three-year-old was observed wan
dering alone for 10 minutes in the cen
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Agency regulations the town faces.
Eventually, the committee wants to
have a stormwater utility service for the;
county to handle financial disasters such;
as the Piney Mountain Road washout.
“It’s costing the town $200,000 ter
rebuild Piney Mountain Road,” Royal
said. “If the town had the utility service/
then it could have tapped into it.”
Royal said the committee will offer
interim reports to the Town Council an<f
aldermen and ask for feedback as to.
where the committee needs to provide;
more details about stormwater drainage.;
“We’re hoping to make a final report;
to the Town Council by next year, but
we have a lot to do in a year.”
The City Editor can be reached
at citydesk@unc.edu.
ter’s yard. The center was fined SI,OOO.
This incident was the third report
since 1992 that resulted in allegations of
child neglect based on staff members’
failure to adequately supervise children.
Since the probationary period,
numerous other violations were docu
mented, division reports state.
Fanjul said the decision to revoke the
license was due to one violation too
many. “Typically, when we start this
process, we assume this is one isolated
incident that won’t occur again,” she
said. “It’s now in their court to prove to
the judge that they could (comply).”
The City Editor can be reached
at citydesk@unc.edu.