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MARCH 22,2017 BERTIE LEDGER-ADVANCE Continued Ten The fabric of Bertie County since 1832 first appearance in Bertie County District Court on May 12; ■ Julius Derrick Swain of Morning Road in Windsor was arrested and charged with possession with intent to sell and deliver cocaine, possession of cocaine and driving while license re voked. He will make his first appearance in Bertie County District Court today (Wednesday); ■ Cecil D. White of 1109 Wakelon Road in Windsor was arrested and charged with possession of drug par aphernalia and a probation violation; ■ Phillip Daniel Vick, 34, of Millennium Road in Aulander was arrested after a search warrant was executed at his residence. He was charged with possession with intent to sell and deliver heroin, maintaining a dwelling to keep/store a controlled substance and possession of drug paraphernalia. His first court appearance was March 10; ■ William Harden Jr., 33, of Bethany Church Rd. in Colerain was arrested and charged with two counts of trafficking opiates, main taining a dwelling to sell a controlled substance, pos session with intent to sell and deliver a schedule 2 controlled substance, con spiracy to traffic opiates and possession with drug para phernalia. His first appear ance was March 17; and ■ Mary Ellen White, 39, of Bethany Church Rd. in Colerain was arrested and charged with conspiracy to traffic opiates. Her first court date was March 17. Arrested in Hertford Coun ty were: ■ Dudley Vann, 55, of Hol loman Avenue in Ahoskie was arrested and charged with possession of cocaine and possession of drug para phernalia. His first appear ance in Hertford County Dis trict Court was March 14; ■ Clyde Lee, 46, of Pugh Street in Cofield was arrest ed and charged with posses sion with intent to sell and deliver cocaine, possession with intent so sell and deliv er hydrocodone and main taining a dwelling to keep/ store a controlled substance after a search warrant was executed at his residence. His first appearance in Hert ford County District Court is April 25; ■ Shanda Gatling, 34, of Pugh Street in Cofield was charged with possession of cocaine and possession of drug paraphernalia. Her first appearance in Hertford County District Court is April 25; and ■ Curtis Wendell Slaugh ter, 54, of First Street in Ahoskie was arrested and charged with possession with intent to sell and de liver marijuana, possession of cocaine and possession of drug paraphernalia. He made his first appearance in Hertford County District Court on March 14. Chase the suspects fled into Bertie County.” Sheriff Holley said his of ficers joined Edenton Police along with officers from the N.C. Highway Patrol and Chowan County Sheriff’s Of fice when the chase entered Bertie County. Schools Sheriff Holley executed the decision to stop the vehicle on U.S. 17 before it reached Windsor. “I wanted it stopped be fore we reached Windsor and it became an even more dangerous situation,” he said. “With all the vehicles in Windsor, and the higher population, it was just too dangerous.” With other vehicles sur rounding the car. Sheriff Hol ley and Bertie County Deputy Richard Oliver pulled ahead of the suspect car and began to slow their speed until they stopped the suspects. The three men in the vehi cle were taken into custody without further incident. Two of the three men were charged in the incident. Those arrested were: • Tykavis Requan Melton, 19, of Sandy Terrace Road, Edenton, charged with felo ny speeding to elude arrest and multiple traffic viola tions. Melton was released under a $5,500 bond. • Dremale Vanterpool, 18, of 2125 John Hill Lane, charged with littering. “A third party was in the vehicle but was not charged with any violations,” Forten- bery said. (Chowan Herald Editor Reg gie Ponder contributed to this story.) In the first item, the auditor. Dale Smith, notes “failure to ad dress these matters in a timely matter could result in prompt cor rective action being taken by the district’s oversight agencies.’ According to Trent, the board of commis sioners has sought advice and assistance from the State Board of Education, and as of this date, there has been no formal re sponse from this over sight agency. In an email received by the Bertie County Manager Scott Sauer over the weekend, the county has received a brief note from the State Superintendent of Schools, Mr. Mark John son, who conveyed his willingness to review this matter. “This is a serious fi nancial crisis for the Bertie County school system and the taxpay ers who ultimately pay the bills, and support the school system with $2,497,750 in annual debt service payments and $3,009,500 in cur rent expense payments for operations as re ported in the county audit for the fiscal year that ended June 30,” said Trent. “Today’s meeting is solely about the chil dren of Bertie County and protecting their fu ture,” he added. “This situation we are facing is stunning and troubling. 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For more information, call 252-794-6637. 1403 South King Street, Windsor VidantHealth.com/Bertie % VIDANT Bertie Hospital make good decisions, said Bertie County At torney Lloyd Smith. “ I think the school board has been supplied bad information or has not been supplied enough information to do the good job for our school system.” Smith recommended the following steps: * have the requested line item expenditures made available to the board of commission ers, manager and fi nance officer; * the School Super intendent and Chief Finance Officer (CFO) meet with the coun ty manager and the county’s finance officer weekly; and * the school board through their attorney makes such claims as are appropriate on surety bonds and upon the former CPAs if there is negligence. Another issues ad dressed were the trans fer or otherwise utilize school food service fund to pay general fund obligations. “ We need to know definitely, is it a vio lation of state law to transfer these funds,” added Smith. Smith advised the commissioners that NC General Statue 115c- 429 (c) provides that “the board of commis sioners shall have full authority to call for, and the board of edu cation shall have the duty to make available to the board of county commissioners, upon request, all books re cords, audit reports, and other information bearing on the financial operation of the local school administrative unit. “We are here to dem onstrate to our citizens that we can and will be faithful stewards of the taxpayers’ dollars, and find a solution to this fiscal crisis, and begin the process of repair so that this never happens again,” said Trent. “The school board is admittedly ‘robbing Peter to pay Paul’ us ing restricted school food service propri etary funds to meet the current year accounts payable obligations, and the suggested solu tion of ‘repaying Paul’ is to have the county commissioners write a check for $925,904 before June 30,” said Sauer. According to Sauer, he is concerned be cause there are three deficits to address - the $704,955 deficit from fiscal year 2016, a cur rent general fund defi cit of $800,000 to $1 million for fiscal year 2017, and a growing li ability for the misuse and misappropriation of food service propri etary funds that will need to be restored for which no estimate has been given. “School administra tion suggested a ‘local government loan’ fig ure of $925,904 is pre dicted on the $828,379 deficit spending for the 2015-2016 fiscal year. I am concerned that the school administration has not calculated, or at least shared publicly, an accurate estimate of the year to date expen ditures over revenues, and has not projected this figure through June 30 with the confi dence and accuracy we need,” he added. No action was taken nor money given to Bertie County Schools. BANKRUPTCY STOP Foreclosure STOP Lawsuits STOP Car Repossession STOP Tax Levies and Garnishments Call Allen C. 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