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vrjOTgr yjjd lions, Patriot) Win Stories On Page 6 SERVING T HE PEOPLE OF MADISON COUNTY SINCE 1 90 1 ? >? ?? a-. ?*$ V- ?'? ??' * ' ijp ;? Thursday, September 11, 1986 25c vtmrnfm wmmmmrnm Calendar County League Of Women Voters To Hold Candidates Forum The Madison County unit of the League of Women Voters and the Greater Ivy Community Development Club will spon sor a candidate's night on Sept. 29 at 7 p.m. at the Greater Ivy Community Center (old Beech Glen School.) All candidates for Madison County Board of Commissioners, county tax collector, sheriff, clerk of court and District I can didates for the county school board have been invited to at tend. Candidates will answer written questions submitted by the audience. Bruce Phillips will moderate the meeting. The public is urged to attend. 4-H'ers To Hold Organizational Meeting Sept. 15 The Marshall Insiders 4-H Club will hold an organizational meeting on Sept. 15 at 7 p.m. in the Agricultural Extension Of fice in Marshall. All area youngsters ages nine through 13 are invited to attend and take part. Mars Hill School PTA To Meet The Mars Hill Elementary School PTA will hold a meeting on Sept. 23 at 7:30 p.m. in the school gymnasium. All parents and teachers are urged to attend. The school will host an open house following the meeting. Weaverville Town Council To Meet The Weaverville Town Council will meet on Sept. 15 at 7 p.m. in the Town Hall. The public is invited to attend. Support Group Meets Sept. 1 6th The Alzheimer's Disease Support Group will meet on Sept. 16 at 7 p.m. in the Marshall Senior Citizen's Center on Long . Branch Rd. Anyone interested in learning of Alzheimer's or other dementing diseases is invited to attend. For more infor mation, call 649-2855 after 5 p.m. Lunsford Family Reunion Sunday The Lunsford family reunion will be held on Sept. 14 at 1 p.m. in the Woodfin Community Center. Everyone is invited to attend and bring along a, coVered dish. < Green Family Reunion Planned The descendants of Will and Dora Fisher Green will hold a family reunion on Sept. 21 at 12:30 p.m. in the Bull Creek Bap tist Church. All relatives and friends are invited to attend. Board Of Education Approves Contracts By WII.I.IAM LKE The Madison County Board of Education busied themselves with contract negotiations and approval during their September meeting last Wednesday. The board voted to hire an on-call occupational therapist and a physical therapist through Madison Manor. An occupational therapist was hired for a maximum of 325 hours through the school year at $30 per hour, for a maximum salary of (0,750. The physical therapist was contracted for a maximum salary of $2,682. or 97.5 hours at $27.50 an hour. Both con tracts are subject to completion of a liability insurance policy by the in dividual therapists. The board also approved contracts for Lisa Haney and Mary Ann Thomason to serve as private tutors for four exceptional students. The tutors would be paid at the rate of $7 per hour. The board also approved a contract with the accounting firm of Gregg and Lasher to compile a fixed asset inventory of all Madison County schools School board secretary Jan Franklin told board members that all lory would exceed $6,500 if the cap were not agreed to by the accoun tants. The board approved completion of the roofing work at Marshall Elemen tary. The original contract with W.H. Arthurs Construction had not includ ed gutters and wood replacement of any rotted supports. The new con tract with the construction company came to $3,996 for the replacement of wood, and the gutters. The board also approved its annual contract with Environmental Testing, Inc. for the testing of drink ing water in the schools. The $1,150 contract was for all schools except Mars Hill, where a bacteria count must also be taken. The annual testing is mandated by the state. The school board tabled further ac tion on a proposed contract with Land-Of-Sky for the JTPA contract for the upcoming year. JTPA is a job training program for high school-age students of underprivelsdged Block Grant Projects ' 4 Finished Below Budget By KOKKKT KOENIG Marshall officials faced an unusual problem Monday night during their monthly meeting. The aldermen must decide what to do with some $115,000 remaining from state-funded projects to replace water and sewer lines and rehabilitate housing. Madison County Housing Authority director Sam Parker presented the surprising news to the aldermen. Parker's agency has been responsi ble for projects on Cody Rd., Candler Dr. and Island Rd. that used Com munity Development Block Grants furnished by the state. The project to install water and sewer on Island Rd. is nearly com plete and should have a surplus of some $9,000, Parker said. The Cody Rd. -Candler Drive project is also nearing completion with a budget surplus totalling about $90,000. The project was originally funded for $158,113, which included $19,613 in local option funds for use at the town's discretion. While presenting the good news concerning the surplus funds, Parker also told the aldermen that a block grant request to fund housing rehabilitation and water and sewer improvements on Cotton Mill Hill has been rejected for the second time in as many years. Marshall had sought $139,000 to fund the Cotton Mill Hill project. Parker explained the large surplus by telling the aldermen that the Cody Rd. -Candler Rd. project, orginally budgetted for $138,500, was awarded to Hobson Construction Co. on a low bid of $48,200. He estimated that final cost of the project would approach $50,000. The grant request for the Cody Rd. project was written by represen tatives of the Land of the Sky Regional Council, using cost estimates provided by the town's engineer, Gary McGill of Asheville. Parker said that the original cost estimate anticipated large expen ditures for blasting through rock. These funds were not required, as was later discovered when work on the project began. Marshal) officials may now submit a proposal for using the state funds on another project. Before they can Commissioners Approve Agreement With A-B Tech By ROBKKT koenh; Madison County's Board of 'Com missioners gave approval to a plan for constructing a satellite campus of Asheville-Buncombe Technical Col lege in Marshall during Monday's monthly meeting. Earlier this year, the General Assembly approved $800,000 for con struction of the new school to serve Madison County. The new school will be built on county-owned property at the county landfill. Trustees of A-B Tech will name an architect to design the new school. No date for the start of construction has been set. The commissioners ap Superintendent Edwards said any policy changes that JTPA should call for, will not necessarily bring the county more state funds to imple ment them. "Still I hate for us to turn this wor thwhile program away, when it is so beneficial in finding employment for our youths," said Edwards In other business, the school board approved the transfer of Aaron Lieb to Asheville City School, for health reasons. The transfer had been disallowed last month, pending a full medical report on Lieb's condition. The transfer of Michael Johnson from Laurel School to Marshall School was denied. Hie school board approved the resignations of teacher aides Sue Vilcenskas at Marshall Primary, and Sandra Ford at Marshall School. Catherine Stills also resigned as a teacher aide to accept a substitute teaching position at Hot Springs School. The school board approved the following substitute teachers as sub pointed outgoing commissioners James Ledford and Virginia Ander son to serve as Madison County representatives on the A-B Tech board of trustees. Both Ledford and Anderson will serve four-year terms. Monday's meeting was delayed 20 minutes while Ledford and Ervin Adams awaited the arrival of Ander son. When the session formally open ed, the commissioners went im mediately into executive session with Anita Davie, director of the Depart ment of Social Services. The commis sioners remained in closed session for 30 minutes. When they emerged from the secret session, chairman James Ledford announced that no action would be taken. The commissioners met briefly with Mars Hill architect Taylor Bar nhill regarding a proposal to create a Historice Properties Commission. Barnhill, a member of the county Planning Board, told the commis sioners that the planning board has recommended creation of a commis sion to safeguard historic sites. County attorney Larry Leake ad vised the commissioners that the planning board's proposal would re quire an amendment to the county zoning ordinances. Any changes in the zoning regulations would require a public hearing. The commissioners agreed to conduct a public hearing on the matter prior to the start of their October meeting. Faye Boone, president of the Greater Ivy Community Develop ment Club, met with the dommis sioners to discuss plans to reopen the Senior Citizens meal site in the com munity. The commissioners ordered the Greater Ivy meal site closed earlier this year in a move to trim the county budget. Since the center was closed. Greater Ivy residents have worked to reopen the center with a volunteer staff. Boone told the commisssioners that operating the center through June would require $117 for utilities and 9446 for transportation. Board chairman James Ledford told Boone, "We're in agreement that this would be a real program if staffed by The i 801 spend the funds, however, approval must be received from the N.C. Dept of Natural Resources and Communi ty Development, the state agency which oversees the block grant pro gram. At the board's request. Parker will prepare a proposal for using the funds on Cotton Mill Hill im provements. He said he will have a draft proposal prepared for the aldermen's consideration at their Oc tober meeting. MARS HILL QB JOE PIZZO threw for two touchdowns and scored a third on a run to pace Lions to 3t-3 win over Guilford College in season opener Saturday.- Story, pictures on Page <? Mars Hill Board Meets By WILLIAM LEE Discussions continue between the town of Mars Hill and the Madison Board of Education over responsibili ty for sewer lines at the Mars Hill School. Last month, the school board was informed by its engineers that sewer taps and grease traps for the school's cafeteria were inadequate due to im proper flow along the lines. Mars Hill officials agreed that an oversight in engineering plans on the town's sewer project that didn't allow the lines to feed properly. An additional manhole opening will be built over the lines, but still at issue is the cost of additional 300 feet of sewer lines needed to correct the problem. Mars Hill and the school board have yet to work out who is responsible for the additional pipeline. The town of Mars Hill is still withholding $8,500 in liquidity damages from Cooper Construction Mayor Owen Tilson told the board that he plans to withhold final pay ment until all current problems are worked out. Private contractors placing sewer taps at residences are to be reimburs ed by the town for the extra time needed to locate the taps during the weeks of July 21 through August 2. The board of aldermen passed a resolution agreeing to reimburse the contractors on July 22. The board then planned to withhold more li quidity damages from Cooper Con struction, but were informed by their attorney that the problem rests with the engineers and not Cooper. The legal opinion meant an im mediate rescinding of the resolution, but the town had already received time reports from various contrac tors. Mars HiH will now reimburse the contractors from its own funds. Mayor Tilson read a letter from the Madison County Board of Commis sioners announcing the allotment of an additional $90,342 of the county's clean water grant for the Mars Hill spillway reconstruction project. Mars Hill had previously received $75,000 from the county for the pro ject. As requested by the commis sioners, the board of aldermen will draw up a resolution of intent stating their plans to use the funds for the spillway. In other business, the board heard from directors at the Mars HiU Hous ing Authority on the financial status of its housing project. The housing authority presented the town with a check for $1,089 as payment in lieu of tax Alderman Grady Worley com plemented the housing authority in its operation "being in the Mack, and perhaps the only one In the state which ir" 4 ? i ? Unemployment Shows Increase ed -tHfthUv during August according st week b Cofimiw ESC) Bp U*Mt m ?f i-mploysr nt statewide snpteyantnt at ^.1 par J of the wort (WW. - *2"?
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