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2% itrilg (Ear MM Fare-Free Busing Delayed Until 2002 Anew U bus route begins Jan. 1,2002 and will give students more options for public transportation. By Ben Gullett Assistant City Editor Students will be paying to ride the bus for one more semester, even after approving a fee increase that will elim inate fares for Chapel Hill Transit bus service. A shortage of resources has kept the project offline untiljan. 1,2002. “We deferred instituting it until January because we didn’t have enough buses,” said Chapel Hill Mayor Rosemary Waldorf. Carolyn Elfland, vice chancellor for auxiliary services, said the transit sys tem is getting six new buses to han dle the strain that is expected to “There are several more steps in the process ... We’ll know more when it goes to the chancellor over the next couple of weeks. ” Roger Patterson Associate Vice Chancellor for Finance accompany free services. “It should cut down on (traffic),” she said. UNC will get two additional transit routes and anew U bus route. Elfland said the extra U bus, called the EU for East U, will aim to relieve the burden on the U buses and will extend service to the eastern portion of campus, the UNC Law School, Ridge Road and South Road. Fare-free service will be financed by transit funds from Chapel Hill and Carrboro in addition to the increase in student fees. The increase that students approved in February will charge undergraduate students an additional $8.49 per semes ter in fees, and summer school students will be charged an extra $1.49 per cred it hour. But Roger Patterson, associate vice chancellor for finance, said the actual amount for the fees has yet to be final ized. “There are several more steps in the process,” he said. “We’ll know more when it goes to the chancellor over the next couple of : $5 OFF I Good on any tanning package of 10 I or more visits with this coupon. $ Good until September 30, 2001 S ! | I TANNERY 1 169 E. 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Waldorf said Chapel Hill will fund fare-free busing through an exist ing transit fund and that a tax raise will not be required. “We had to increase the level of funding for bus ing because of fare-free,” she said. Waldorf added that the state’s current budget crisis will not have adverse effects on the town’s transit allotment. “The funding for transit at the state level is amazingly looking pretty good,” she said. “Right now it looks like we’ll get even more this year.” Waldorf supported fare-free busing because of the positive effects of creat ing a more widely used transit system and the fact that UNC students had endorsed the measure. “If (the students) hadn’t gone for it I know (the town) wouldn’t have," she said. Waldorf also said fare-free busing has many benefits for the community. Free busing means ridership could increase, possibly decreasing pollution from per sonal cars. “Fare-free was very consistent with our community value.” The City Editor can be reached at citydesk@unc.edu. P Attention CINAs! Sii t N'ON Bonus iN StlcoFcl Arias ■ North Carolina Hospitals has full time and part time openings fts. Must have current Listing as a Nursing Assistant i or 11. X No experience required. nd a copy of High School Diploma or GED and 1 work reference to: at UNC Hospitals, 101 Manning Dr., Chapel Hill. NC 27514. months experience may qualify' for SIOOO sign on bonus. Call for an application: ■52-NURSE • (919) 966-2012 Fax (919) 966-6475 I Visit our web site at www.med.unc.edu/hosphi/ UN© HOSPITALS mho: Regulations Fuel Construction Delays By Jennifer Samuels Assistant State & National Editor UNC-system schools are experienc ing a number of construction delays resulting from state regulations aimed at ensuring a fair construction process. According to the State Construction Office, all construction activity on public property is governed by statutes designed to protect public interest and tax money. The passage of a $3.1 billion bond package last November allotted money to each of the 16 UNC-system schools for building repairs and renovations. Many schools, including UNC- Chapel Hill, are also undergoing major renovations that are not part of the bond package but are aimed at helping the sys tem absorb a projected influx of students. Construction performed on such a large scale can be problematic because it is often difficult to coordinate the dif ferent phases of construction. The State Construction Office is also involved in the oversight of all projects of more than $500,000, which includes NATO Leader Ponders Macedonia Deployment The Associated Press NIKUSTAK, Macedonia - NATO’s supreme commander in Europe launched a fact-finding mission Monday as the Western affiance weighed whether the time is right to deploy 3,500 troops into Macedonia to collect rebel arms. Gen. Joseph Ralston met with NATO officials already in the Balkan country as well as with President Boris Trajkovski and the nation’s defense and interior ministers. He said he was gath ering facts for a report to NATO’s ruling body, which still must authorize the full deployment. “Then it will be up to the nations of NATO as to what to decide,” Ralston said. Ralston’s visit came as an advance team moved into the countryside to make contact with ethnic Albanian News most campus construction projects. N.C. law states that any state building project must have separate bids from individual contractors, helping to assure fair bidding practices among small and large construction companies. Although bond projects have been exempted from this law, delays in non bond construction have been seen across the system. Notably, the UNC-Chapel Hill Student Union has been under construction since June 2000, and the first phase has passed several anticipated finish dates. Speros Fleggas, State Construction Office Director, said it is hard to pin point an exact reason for construction delays. “Over the years we’ve looked at this very question,” he said. “We’ve looked at a lot of data and when you get into it, it’s difficult to put your finger on any one regulation, any facet of the work, that delays work.” Asa possible explanation, Kevin MacNaughton, UNC-system finance and property officer, said construction com panies are entided to extra time if there is rebels, who must disarm under a peace deal. The British liaison team from the 16 Air Assault Brigade traveled to Nikustak, a rebel-held village along the front line about 10 miles northeast of the capital, Skopje. The team was meet ing with local rebel commanders to dis cuss how the British-led weapons-col lection mission, dubbed Operation Essential Harvest, would work. 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You have to be organized in your approach and focused to try and stay on track and keep the project moving.” The State Building Commission exempted the UNC-system bond projects from the state regulation that requires organizations accept multiple bids for each facet of a projects, allowing more efficient coordination for construction projects. Fleggas said approximately 40 of the bond projects are being conducted using a construction manager at-risk process, 7:20, 9:30, SAT-SUN 2:20, 4:30 Americas Sweethearts 7:00, 9:20, SAT-SUN 2:00, 4:20 |- Hurry! ends Tues!Au^^^^ | 7:10, 9:40, SAT-SUN 2:10, 440 THE CLOSET 7:00, 9:30, SAT-SUN 2:00. 4:30 SONGCATCHFR 7:10, 9:20, SAT-SUN 2:10, 4:20 SEXY BEAST 7:15, 9:25, SAT-SUN 2:20, 4:40 15A Tuesday, August 21, 2001 allowing the system to hire one general manager to oversee all other facets of construction, rather than have separate contracts with many firms. 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