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THURSDAY, JULY 24, 2003
OCS digs to fill budget hole
Leftover funds provide about SI.2M
BY JENNI NORMAN
STAFF WRITER
Using state and federal funds,
Shirley Carraway, superintendent
of Orange County Schools, and
OCS Finance Director Sandra
Tinsley matched wits to make up
for a $1.2 million deficit in the sys
tem’s requested 2003-04 budget.
The system, which needed about
S2O million to maintain its current
level of service, requested about
$lB million to supplement its hold
ings.
However, the system only was
appropriated about sl7 million,
leaving Carraway with the difficult
task of finding more funds.
Orange County Board of
Commissioners member Barry
Dorosin won’t seek re-election
Alderman to step down after 4 pears
BY KATHRYN GRIM
CITY EDITOR
Carrboro Board of Aldermen
member Mark Dorosin announced
this month that he will not run for
a second term.
Dorosin, who was elected to the
board in 1999, is one of four aider
men whose term runs out this year.
Joal Broun, Alex Zaffron and
Mayor Mike Nelson also are up for
re-election.
Dorosin worked as a civil rights
attorney, has taught classes at
Alamance Community College and
owns Hell, a local nightclub.
He will spend the next year
supervising the Community
Development Law Clinic, launched
during the 2002-03 school year to
give third-year UNC law students
experience in assisting nonprofit
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Jacobs said the difference “was not
a shortfall.”
Jacobs said the system received
about 85 percent of its requested
funds. The board, which deals with
budget requests, funds OCS on a
per-pupil basis.
Funding for the system com
prises about half the county’s allot
ted budget, Jacobs said.
“There are other needs in the
county,” he said.
Jacobs said he isn’t sure how the
school system will acquire all its
requested funds next year.
Anne D’Annunzio, OCS public
information officer, said officials’
worst fear is to lose teaching staff.
“We most wanted to avoid hav
ing to cut positions,” she said.
community development organi
zations.
Dorosin moved to Chapel Hill
from Long Island in 1991- He
moved to Carrboro four years later.
He and his wife have a 4-year
old daughter and a 2 l/2-year-old
son.
Dorosin said he has been disap
pointed by the pace of local gov
ernment. “I came in sort of naive
ly thinking there would be lots of
opportunities to make aggressive
changes,” he said.
“I think it’s intrinsic in the
process, but the over-deliberation
might be taken to an extreme in
Carrboro. And as a results-orient
ed person, that was really frustrat
ing for me.”
Dorosin said that he does not
see himself as personally responsi-
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D’Annunzio added that more
officials are becoming aware of the
necessity to conserve funds in what
she called tight financial times.
D’Annunzio said school officials
already are combing over next
year’s budget.
“She hit the ground running,”
D’Annunzio said of Carraway, who
took office June 23.
“She has an incredible foresight.”
D’Annunzio, who sat in with
Tinsley and Carraway during the
budget process, said the pair
poured over the 2002-03 budget
for “hours and hours.”
The two were able to find fund
ing left over because of penny
pinching by the school system last
year, she said.
In addition to using the surplus
funds, Tinsley and Carraway redi
rected money from state and fed
ble for any of
the board’s
achievements
this year but
that he is proud
of its downtown
vision, its eco
nomic develop
ment plans and
the selection of
anew town
manager.
Dorosin said
a high point of
his time on the
Alderman
Mark Dorosin
said he will
spend time
with his family.
board was appearing on Comedy
Central’s “The Daily Show” after
the aldermen passed a resolution
declaring April “French Trade
Month" in response to the “free
dom fries” phenomenon.
Dorosin said he lamented being
on the losing end of the vote over
the recently-approved Schools
Adequate Public Facilities
eral funds into the local budget.
For example, teachers who
would have been paid using local
funds were paid with state funds,
D’Annunzio explained.
The local funds then were fil
tered into the 2003-04 budget.
The unused funds totaled about
$700,000, D’Annunzio said.
Using similar methods of exam
ining the 2003-04 budget, the two
managed to transfer an additional
$500,000 in funds to the local
budget.
However, D’Annunzio expressed
concern about the 2004-05 budget.
“We’re not going to be able to
redirect this money next year. We
feel like we’ve dodged a bullet on
this one.”
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Ordinance. “It’s going to be a real
major change for the county,” he
said.
He defended the process the
board used to approve the Winmore
development project.
Brian Voyce, a resident of the
Northern transition area, submitted
a petition to the Orange County-
Supreme Court on July 10 alleging
that the board needed approval for
the project from the county. “I’m
confident the board did everything
that it was supposed to do,” Dorosin
said.
Dorosin said that overall, he
believes he has helped the board
stay true to its goals.
“I feel like I could’ve probably
done more,” he said. “I look for
ward to spending time with my
family.”
Contact the City Editor
at citydesk@unc.edu.
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Efforts to recover the remains of
three generations of an American
family and two South African
pilots killed when their chartered
planed crashed into snowcapped
Mount Kenya resumed Tuesday as
skies cleared, officials said.
Thick clouds and snow ham
pered recovery efforts a day earlier,
but authorities were optimistic
that they would be able to remove
the remains of at least 10 of the 14
people killed in the crash, said
Bongo Woodley, senior Kenya
Wildlife Service warden in charge
of Mount Kenya National Park.
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Supreme Court OKs
short-form indictments
BY CHANTELLE HARDY
STAFF WRITER
On July 16, the N.C. Supreme
Court upheld the use of short
form indictments by denting
death row prisoner Henry Hunt’s
appeal. A ruling in Hunt’s favor
would have emptied death row.
Short-form indictments are
used to notify a defendant of the
charges brought against him.
But Hunt’s lawyer argued that
the indictments don’t list aggravat
ing factors. At least one such factor
must be proven to make a defen
dant eligible for the death penalty.
“In North Carolina, the short
form murder indictment has sur
vived over 100 years as a valid
method for charging capital defen
dants with the crime of first-degree
murder,” wrote Justice Edward
Brady in a court statement. “This
Court has consistently concluded
that such an indictment violates
neither the North Carolina nor the
United States Constitution.”
Frances Ferris, a member of the
Campaign to End the Death
Penalty, said she is upset about the
ruling but not surprised.
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crash and no clear indication of the
cause.
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ed that bad weather was the
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Those killed in the crash were:
Dr. George W. Brumley, 68; his
wife, Jean, 67; three of their chil
dren, George 111, 42, daughters
Lois, 39, and Elizabeth, 41;
George’s wife Julia, 42, and two
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Morrell, 43, and their son, Alex,
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didn’t see the Supreme Court
emptying death row.”
But Ferris said she is hopeful
that a moratorium on the death
penalty will come out of the next
legislative session.
N.C. Sen. Ellie Kinnaird, D-
Orange, said of the ruling, “It is a
great disappointment to me
because (the ruling) would’ve
affected many people on death row.”
Gretchen Engel, director of
post-conviction litigation at the
Center for Death Penalty
Litigation, noted that North
Carolina is one of the few states
that has short-form indictments,
which aren’t used in conjunction
with most crimes.
“You have this anomaly where
people (who) are charged of lesser
crimes get more due process than
people tried of more serious
crimes,” she said.
Hunt was sentenced to death in
1984 after being convicted of two
murders. He came within 35 hours
of being executed in January, but
the high court agreed to hear his
appeal.
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