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An old P2P bus was converted to a Department of Public Safety mobile
command center, including a conference room, for use in emergencies.
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good food, good service and a good
atmosphere."
And Maness said the small
size cultivates a strong sense of
belonging.
“We’re all a family here," she said.
“We have a really good working
relationship. We try to treat people
like they are coming into our home
and they are our guests."
Jock Lauterer. a lecturer in the
School of Journalism, eats a bacon,
egg and cheese biscuit at the shop
five days a week.
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town,” Lauterer said. “It’s not just
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“We re all a family here.... We try to
treat people like they are coming into our
home and they are our guests”
DAISY MANESS, ye oide general manager
be in proximity to the people who
work there."
He said each day he goes to the
restaurant, he has a unique learn
ing experience. He said he par
ticularly enjoys conversations with
head cook Carlos Hernandez to
brush up on his Spanish.
Hernandez started out at Ye
Olde as a dishwasher in 1998 but
moved up to cook position two
years later.
Maness said it seems to be a
Retrofitted P2P ready for action
Functions as mobile command center
BY ANTHONY MCPEEK
STAFF WRITER
After final renovations and util
ity work wrapped on an old P2P
bus this week, it’s ready for action
as the UNC Department of Public
Safety’s new emergency mobile
command center.
The new command cen
ter returned to campus in
December, after being outfitted in
Greensboro.
The transformation cost
SIBO,OOO, not including the origi
nal cost of the P2P bus that UNC
already owned, plus $15,000 in
extra upgrades, said Randy Young,
spokesman for DPS.
The money came from central
University funds. Young said.
The addition of the command
center is another aspect of the
University's increased approach
to campus safety, which includes
a cell phone alert system and a
greater amount of sirens around
campus.
Lt. Matt Ferguson, who is over
seeing the command center, said
he considers the new center a stan
dard unit because of the wide array
of options offered by the outfitting
company, Matthews Specialty
Vehicles.
A mobile command center can
be any modified vehicle that police
use to conduct operations on loca
tion at the site of their emergency
investigation, whether that is a tor
nado, public shooting or anything
in between.
“It enables us to provide a com
prehensive presence in the case of
emergencies," Young said.
trend for staff members to find a
niche in Ye Olde and stick with
it.
“Over the years we’ve had a tre
mendous staff" Maness said. “They
must enjoy it, or they wouldn't stick
around."
Both Maness and the Chrises
said that they hope to be running
the shop for about five more years
but that they won't be handing over
the helm to just anyone.
‘1 hope that whoever takes
over keeps the tradition because
35 years is a long time," Maness
said.
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Ferguson said UNC also has
plans to use its center at home bas
ketball and football games, start
ing with the Feb. 6 game against
Duke.
UNC’s new center is loaded
with its own customized features
LCD monitors, fax lines, four
wireless telephone lines, DirecTV
satellite, a generator, mobile com
puter terminals with Internet
and a police radio, among other
tools.
“We're kind of on the cutting
edge here," Young said. “We have
a lot of aggressive tools at our dis
posal."
Having a state-of-the-art
resource on campus greatly
aids University law enforce
ment officers in the face of a
crisis situation. Young said. For
instance, DPS used the trunk of
a car as a command center when
Mohammed Taheri-Azar drove
a Jeep through the Pit in 2006,
injuring nine people.
Officials at Purdue University
discovered the value of having a
command center firsthand when
an airplane crashed on the bor
der of its campus. Indiana-based
RV manufacturer Coachmen
Industries Inc. had just donated
an RV command center to Purdue
several months before.
“We do deploy it quite often,"
said Carol Shelby, senior director
of environmental health and public
safety at Purdue.
The retail value of the RV
model that was donated to
Purdue was roughly $25,000,
and the University added its own
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A cook prepares breakfast inside Ye Olde Waffle Shoppe. The Franklin Street restaurant celebrates its 35th
anniversary today. Owners Jimmy and Linda Chris are bringing back the shop's 1972 menu.
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The emergency mobile command center is the latest addition to the
campus safety program, which includes a phone alert system and sirens.
“Were kind of on the cutting edge here.
We have a lot of aggressive tools at our
disposal.”
RANDY YOUNG, spokesman for the department of public safety
upgrades in the form of comput
ers and radios, which increased
its cost.
Duke University also acquired
a command center in August, said
Maj. Phyllis Cooper of the Duke
University Police Department.
Because it is significantly
smaller, Duke's center which is
in the back of a decommissioned
ambulance cost much less than
UNC’s, although it has some of the
same capabilities.
Duke also was able to cut costs
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on its vehicle by getting its ambu
lance out of a salvage and sur
plus operation. Duke also did not
send its center off to an outfitting
company, choosing to self-outfit
instead.
Officials requested that the cen
ter's cost not be disclosed.
“It suited our needs for what we
could afford at the time," Cooper
said.
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EPA
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“We will respond at an appropri
ate time, in an appropriate manner.
This isn’t that time,' Jacobs said.
The town of Chapel Hill also
received notification, the only one
town attorney Ralph Karpinos said
he had seen in 20 years in the town.
“We don't really have much to say
about it right now because we’re just
starting to look at it," he said.
The EPA’s Office of Civil Rights
evaluates all complaints based on
four criteria, said Yasmin Yorker,
assistant director of the external
compliance program.
For an investigation to take place,
the complaint must be mailed, con
cern an organization that receives
EPA money, occur within 180 days
of the alleged discriminatory act
and describe an event that violates
discrimination regulations.
“When they take the money ...
they agree not to discriminate,"
Yorker said.
The county decided to put its
landfill next to the historically black
Rogers Road community in 1972.
Howard Lee, Chapel Hill’s first
black mayor, said at the time it would
be open only 10 years, Campbell
alleged in the complaint
Lee, now commissioner of the
N.C. Utilities Commission, could not
be reached for comment
Campbell filed the complaint
last summer after months of com
munity meetings to plan opposi
tion to a waste-transfer station that
would have replaced the landfill
when it closes next year.
In November the board decided to
reopen the search for a site but keep
the Eubanks site as an option.
But the complaint still is relevant,
Campbell said, because the county
and town officials have not done
enough to protect Rogers Road resi
dents from health dangers.
“It opens the eyes of the resi
dents of Orange County," Campbell
said. “Now they know where their
trash goes, and they understand
that there’s a neighborhood out
here that needs help."
“We’re not asking them to build us
a mansion; the only thing we’re ask
ing them is that we get a little help."
Contact the City Editor
at citydetk@unc.edu.