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Vol. 88 No. 14 Thursday, April 7, 1988 25c ? v; M' " ft Vf ? -- Tf?r , j m ?? ? r i'* ' V*'. i&Sl*. :i-> it> '? ' - t ? : Jf, <$' 7 Heard "AndSeeH Newt Record Columnist Pop Story Returns S?e Page 4 County Election Board Gets Extra $10,000 By BILL STUDENC Editor The Madison County Sheriff's Department isn't the only county agency facing budgetary problems. The Madison County Board of Elec tions received an additional $10,000 appropriation Monday to enable elec tion officials to conduct the May primary. Funds for the extra allocation will come from an unexpected increase in revenues from two sources - the in tangibles tax and senior citizen tax refunds, said Ralph Rice, county finance officer. But if a runoff primary is required following May's balloting, county of ficials may have to make cuts in other county departments. Rice said. "The problem is that they'll run out of money before we finish the May primary," Rice told the Madison County Board of Commissioners at Monday's meeting. "They have re quested additional money. Should we run into a second primary, they will probably need even more money than that." V Commissioners gave the election board the additional allocation two weeks after four county dispatchers were laid off and Madison County Jail closed because of budget problems in the sheriff's department. Those cuts were necessary despite an extra $46,000 allocation given the sheriff's department for the .remainder of the fiscal year. Rice told commissioners last month that, with the extra funding to the sheriff's department, the county will have only about $2,000 left in its contingency fund for use in case of emergency. Commissioners were concerned Monday that they may not have enough money to pay for elec tion expenses in the May primary. "Have we even got the money to do this?" asked Robert Capps, board chairman. "That's another question. We cer tainly don't have it in contingency," Rice said. "But there are a couple areas where we underestimated our revenues. I think we can probably handle the first one, but I'm not sure we could if we came up with a second primary, which is a very real possibility." Rice estimated that the county will receive some $5,000 more in intangi ble tax revenue than budgeted, and $5,000 more in senior citizen tax refunds. But Rice also had a word of caution for commissioners. "There are some areas (of an ticipated revenues) that are under what we budgeted. That's what wor ries me," he said. Spring Creek Pledges $20,000 A Year For School By BILL STUDENC Editor A group of Spring Creek residents has pledged to donate up to (20,000 a year to Madison County school of ficials to keep the community's school open for kindergarten through fifth-grade students That offer was made Monday night during an emotion-filled rriteting of the Madison County Board of Educa tion. About 50 people - most of them from Spring Creek - attended the meeting. The school board in February an nounced plans to close Spring Creek School and bus students to a M facility at Hot Springs. Students in grades S-8 will have the option of at tending a countywide consolidated middle school to be built in Marshall Bill Barutio, who represents the majority of parents of children who now attend Spring Creek Elementary School, told the school board that parents and residents would be will ing to donate money - up to $100,000 over a five-year period - out of their own pockets to keep the school open. About 200 residents of the Spring Creek are willing to give up to $2 a week, or $100 a year, to pay the salary of one additional teacher at the school, Barutio said. "They feel that's a reasonable cost out of their pocket to pay to keep a school at Spring Creek," he said. With 61 K-S students at Spring Creek, the school would be eligible for three state-paid teachers, Barutio said, and one teacher there now is paid by state and federal funds. Barutio said. Those teachers could teach grades WfcA flfth teacher, for a combination kindergarten-first grade class, could possibly be paid by grants from foundations and corpora tions, he said. But until those grants can be ob tained, Spring Creek residents will pay that teacher's salary - up to $30,000 a year - themselves, he said. Barutio and his wife, Beverly, gave the board a letter of irjtent guarimtee iog that amount of money The propOtulTW# eliminate coat% bination classes at Spring Creek (?* cept for K-l). Combination classrooms are one of th? main arguments for busing students to Hot Springs. "Our proposal is for a K-5 school at Spring Creek," Barutio said. "Leave the door open for us to find funds to bring the M students back to Spring Creek." School board members made no comment on the Spring Creek pro posal, but agreed to take it into con sideration. "I am not going to comment on the proposal you have made because I want to go over this carefully," said Jim Baker, school board chairman. John Artley of Spring Creek asked for a commitment from the board to keep the school open for five years. A joint private-public effort would be "a pilot program that could pro vide a model to other similar com munities to meet their unique needs," Artley said. ?Cm H? * 4m back page P*rt B y ( Ills ,??< ' * ? Bill Barutio, left, speaks to the Madison County Board of Education about his com munity's desire to keep the doors open at BILL STUDENC PHOTOS Spring Creek Elementary School (above). Residents have offered to pay up to $20,000 a year to keep the school open. Commissioners To Study ' Sludge filV By BILL STUDENC Editor The Madison County Board of Com missioners, responding to concerns that a companay intends to dump "sludge" in the county, has formed a committee to develop regulations to control the disposal of sludge from wastewater treatment systems. But James Griffin, one of three ? partners in Consolidated Landfill Co., says his company has no plans to use its property along Sweetwater Road for a sludge landfill. "Our intention for that property when we bought it was to give Madison County a place for develop ment as a landfill for the county's use/' Griffin said Tuesday. "Beyond that, we don't have anything else in mind right now." But several residents who attended Monday's meeting of the board of commissioners said they have heard that Consolidated Landfill Co. had plans for a sludge landfill. "There seems to be some activity along the Redmon Road property H Si&ft m M&- fcf \f< listed in the books as belonging to Consolidated Landfill," said Betty Wild. "The purpose of this proposed or dinance is to address that," said Larry Leake, county attorney. Wild was referring to documents in the Madison County Register of Deeds Office showing that Griffin and his partners, Brownlow Hyder and David Hyder, doing business as Con solidated Landfill Co., in September purchased three tracts of property in the Redmon area from Marshall Kan ner. According to deeds in the Madison County Register of Deeds Office, Con solidated Landfill owns a 69.48 per cent interest in that property. The company also has an option to buy the remaining interest on the pro perty, held by Zeno Ponder ( 13.82 per cent) and his wife, Marie (16.7 per cent). That option to purchase will ex pire June 4. Consolidated Landfill Co. originally purchased that property to develop as -Continued on back page Mars Hill Annexation Request Withdrawn By HASSIE PONDER SUff Writer The Mara Hill Board of Aldermen ""rejected one developer's annexation request Monday night, while developers of another tract of proper ty withdrew their request for annexa tion ? ..J During last month's meeting. Cliff and Diane Schommer had requested annexation of property off East View Drive for a proposed 24 house development But because of pro blems in obtaining a right of way the property, the Schommers withdrew their request for annexa tion Monday. Instead, they would now like for the town to simply provide a main water line to the property boundary. The aldermen agreed to provide the water line to the property. The developers will provide the materials 401 town crews will lay the line. Also at last month's meeting, Arpto Construction had asked for annexa tion of property on Old N.C. 213 near Shank's Grocery and far a municipal , water line to be brought to the proper ty, the site of a proposed nine-house development. However, because of a tack of funds to provide water service to the area, the aldermen denied the annexation request made by Arpin. The aldermen did say they would try to reach some kind of agreement that will help Arpin obtain town water service at the site on Old N.C. 213. One possibility la that the town and Arpin may split the cost of installa tion and materials 50-50 The board took no action on a third annexation request received last week - from J F. Robinson for a pro posed bousing development at Woodhaven. Another problem brought to the at tention of the town board Monday night was vicious dogs on South Main Street. According to Bobby Zlnk, a pit bull and a doberman are causing pro blems in this area. Although the dogs are kept in a yard with a chainlink Continued baek page Marshall Killed By train hit and killed an Mdadyl eaident at a Marital! tome I ed sttay ni^tf when he w a ft railroad tndo n I el Kimu ty ?% ? din wM .. Ill}' *J ffctk if Av y f Ml t)M Barnardsviile Gets " pip Fr< Suf : porti, Par residents of : ir ttlepha rt - s of lhe c< ttita- to eii lut wtc ?gati c*i 0>UM tvilk HllillWH r??? I tunc i without wW a m nil toll-ir | Actually, the on rvio tajR
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