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BY SUSAN USHER
Brunswick County Social Services
board members took no action after
meeting 1% hours behind closed
doors Tuesday morning in an
"emergency" executive session called
to discuss attorney-client and
legal matters.
When the board's lack of action
was questioned, board attorney Mary
Easley defended the decision to enter
executive session.
Under the state open meetings law,
certain matters can be discussed in
private and not reported to the
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BY TERRY POPE
Brunswick County Board of Education
members have decided to approach
the idea of saving energy at
the schools in a more conservative
manner.
Only three schools will be included
in a two-year trial effort to reduce
energy costs, instead of all 11 schools
as was initially proposed, the board
voted Monday night. A.E. I-eB!anc
Inc. of Raleigh is seeking a contract
with the Brunswick County school
system to install computerized
energy saving devices in the schools.
Under the new proposal, West
Brunswick High. South Rninswick
High and Iceland Middle School
would be the three schools to receive
the devices at a cost close to $85,000,
school Superintendent Gene Yar
uruugn saiu. ine guaranieea energy
savings from the three schools would
be close to $45,000 per year.
A formal proposal will be drafted
and presented to the board at a later
meeting for approval. A proposal to
include all 11 schools in the program
would involve funds that are not committed
from the county commissioners
to the school board to spend,
said board member James Clemmons.
The board can not obligate
itself to fund a project beyond a fiscal
year, he added.
Local Bills M
To Senate Fl
Several bills introduced by Rep.
David Redwine should be adopted lie
to law this week, but one local bill has
been delayed for a second time.
Local bills that redistribute the
proceeds of ABC Stores in Belville
and Ocean Isle Beach will go to the
full Senate this week, Redwine said,
while a farm implement dealers' bill
will be considered by a Senate committee
on Tuesday.
Under the ABC changes, money
now distributed in various ways will
now go to the towns themselves, except
that the bills require contributions
of unspecified sums to schools
within the school district that serves
the town Belville's contributions
would go to North Brunswick High,
Leland Middle and Iincoln Primary
schools , while Ocean Isle Beach
would donate money to Union
Primary, Shallotte Middle and West
Brunswick High Schools.
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H.B. 762, would provide (or franchise
agreements between suppliers and
dealers o( farm equipment and fof
repurchase of that equipment should
the franchise agreement be terminated,
Red wine said. It is intended
as a boost to the state's agricultural
economy.
Red wine said he has held up further
consideration of a bill that would
provide for third-party billing to
recoup the cost of extending water
lines in a fully-developed subdivision
because there is disagreement as to
whether the bill is needed.
An Institute of Government faculty
member, Jake Wicker, advised Red
wine mat me county has the power
under existing laws to assess property
owners their share of installation
costs that may have been paid in advance
by someone else, and them
reimburse that third party County
Attorney David Clegg told Redwine
be didn't think the law directly
authorizes the county to collect funds
due a third party. In either case. 100
percent of the funds would have to be
paid up-front rather than obligating
county funds
At present, a substitute Ull from
the House Local Government Committee
has added a public hearing requirement
Seventy-five percent of
the property owners would have to
petition for the assessment
kxard Calls
public, she said. "In my opinion, ,t
fell under tliat category," she said.
"If action is taken on that subject
later, we will have to tell you. But we
need more information first. I don't
think any decision particularly has
been made.
"I may have told you too much
already."
The legal matter discussed, she
said, was already covered under
client-attorney privilege.
An emergency meeting is one called
because of "generally unexpected
circumstances that require imapproach
Er
'onservative
LeBlanc appeared before the board
Monday and said the contract would
include a "non-appropriating
clause."
Board attorney E.J. Prevatte said
the question surrounding funding had
long since been resolved.
"I'd like to see us get it off the
ground starting with those three
schools," Yarbrough said. "They
have the highest potential for energy
savings. If it works out well, then we
could later include the rest of the
school system."
In other business Monday, Yarbrough
presented the board a detailed
copy of the school system's fouryear
school improvement plan. The
plan lists school needs dealing with
facility construction, capital replacement,
business affairs, curriculum,
school transportation and
maintenance, food service, community
schools and federal Dro
grams.
Yarbrough said the proposal "indicates
areas we'd like to move into
over the next four years." It also includes
a list of requested funds from
the county that were listed in the
board's budget, such as replacement
school and activity buses,
maintenance and service hook-ups,
additional computer hardware and
additional staff members such as
supervisors and school couselors.
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An amendment to S.B. 304 proposed
by Redwine has been adopted. It
requires the Marine Fisheries Commission
to lake into account the
recreational uses of waters before issuing
a shellfish lease.
Another bill introduced by Redwine,
H.B. 1193, would provide funds
for a project to increase minority
participation in science,
mathematics, engineering and
technology. It would appropriate
$50,000 in 1985-86 and 1986-87 to N.C.
State University for this purpose.
Four of five bills dealing with
submerged Lands are now law, while
a fifth is under consideration by the
Joint Appropriations Committee.
H.B. 114 would appropriate funds for
settlements of claims litigated in
local superior courts. The Department
of Natural Resources and Community
Development has asked for
$280,000 over the next two years to
computerize the claims.
As adopted the bills are expected to
resolve about 27 percent of the more
than 10,000 claims to submerged
lands filed with the state, primarily
those that pertain to property above
the high-water mark.
The legislation will:
Validate deeds issued by the
Board of Education in the 1920s and
1930s, including those covered by
about 197 of the 851 claims filed by
Brunswick County property owners;
Reaffirm state policy that title to
land subject to public trust rights
may not be acquired by adverse protection,
or "squatter's rights".
Protect public access to and use of
beach property and navigable waters
for recreation;
Permit issuance of shellfish
leases by the Division cif Marine
Fisheries to resolve claims to
shellfish beds
Moves appeals of decisions concerning
public use or ownership of
certain suomer geo ums irocn the Industrial
Commission to Superior
Court.
At a hearing on the talis conducted
in Wilmington. Sen. H C Soiea Jr
told claimants that the bub, when
enacted, would strengthen their
deeds for the Lands in question His
Senate Judiciary Committee IV sent
the tails to the Senate floor with a
favorable vote.
Emergency
mediate consideration by the public
body."
The board initially met in special
session Tuesday to review a state
audit ot the department's accounts
from 1982-83, with all members expect
Barry Frink present. They
learned, meeting with their attorney,
departmental supervisors and County
Finance Director Wallace Harding,
that some recommended
manges ui procedures are in place
and others in the works to correct a
number of minor administrative problems
identified in the audit.
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In personnel decisions Monday, the
board accepted resignations from
Beth Brittain, special education instructor
from South Brunswick Middle
School; Jacqueline Robbins,
maid, North Brunswick High and
Julia McNeil, maid Leland Middle.
Leaves of absences were also approved
for Moses Hodnett, assistant
principal Leland Middle School
(educational), beginning of the
1985-86 school year; Linden
Mathews-Boone, community schools
coordinator, Aug. 1-Dec. 31 and Marsha
Coleman, cafeteria worker, Waecamaw
Elementary.
Retirements were also accepted
for Mercer Sullivan, mechanic and
Sadie Evans, third grade, Southport
Elementary. Willie Randolph was
hired as a mechanic effective June
10.
A motion was also approved
unanimously Monday commending
the iocai press for its coverage of the
schools. Roorfi momhor liirnnc Plnm.
mons made the motion prior to adjourning
the meeting.
Animal We
A second meeting for persons interested
in forminR u Brunswick
County Animal Welfare l eague has
been scheduled for Thursday, June
12, at 7:30 p.m. in the public
assembly building at the Brunswick
County Government Complex in
Bolivia.
Guest speakers at the June
meeting will be Martha Itaynor and
Mutual Ai<
A resolution adopted by Brunswick
County Commissioners Monday
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squads to cross county and state lines
as well as service area boundaries to
provide mutual aid.
Emergency Management Coordinator
Cecil Iyogan said he hoped
that signing the county-state agreement
for mutual aid would help local
efforts to get mutual sid agreements
between departments in writing.
1/x.al squad provide mutual aid on
request, he added, but most of them
have oral, not written agreements.
Commissioners have discussed briefly
making written agreements a condition
of receiving county funding.
Brunswick County also creases
county lines to provide rescue service
on occasion, he said, "but not as
much as others respond to our county."
To his knowledge, Brunswick was,
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to involve personnel, possibly
retraining of existing employees or
situating someone in the department
with finance management skills.
The emergency executive session
was called after a department
employee asked to meet privately
with the board with a request for immediate
action in an unidentified
situation.
Media not already present for the
audit review, including The
Brunswick Beacon, were contacted
by telephone at approximately 11
a.m. and informed that an
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Crystal O'Qutnn of Burlington had
keeping cool ns temperatures climb
and upper-90s over the weekend. 1.
other uplauders, the sIx-ycaiMild and
fare League
Shirley Leonard of the New Hanover
Humane Society, who will Introduce
ways to help the Brunswick County
Animal Control Shelter make its
animals more comfortable and offer
other fund-raising suggestions. A
representative from the animal
shelter will also speak on the depart
mem s acuviucs and problems.
At the organizational meeting,
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until Monday, the only county in the
state that had not signed the agreement.
Ixigan said emergency management
officials also hope the Intrastate
agreements might also lead
to similar agreements between
states so that emergency personnel
would have equal legal recognition.
Presently, emergency medical
technicians and ambulance aides
certified bv North Carolina are not
recognized in South Carolina and
vice versa.
Under the agreement, mutual aid
would be provided under specific circumstances:
1 When the primary emergency
service provider deems the situation
requires additional resources and
that "serious aggravation" of an existing
injury or possible loss of life
may result without such aid, or
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"emergency meeting" to discuss
personnel would begin in 10 minutes.
Mrs. Easley said that the board
was trying to "do it right," in calling
the closed door session, and would
change its procedures next time if an
error was pointed out.
The state open meetings law per
mits executive sessions for two
general types of personnel-related
matters. It may consider the
"qualifications, competence, performance,
character, fitness conditions
of appointment, or conditions of initial
employment" of a present or
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decided to wait to elect other officers
at the June meeting.
Major concerns expressed at the
previous meeting were: 1) getting
shelter facilities large enough to
allow animals to be kept long enough
to find homes; 2) finding a way to
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where there Is doubt about In whose
area the emergency call originated.
2. When a disaster occurs, u
calamity likely to cause widespread
loss of life that cannot be responded
to successfully by the emergency service
of the county without "severely
hampering" Its ability to carry out
its other duties or a call where there
Is doubt as to whose area the call Is
coming from.
The agreement with the state
doesn't affect any existing mutual
aid agreements In force in the county,
!/>gan said. And while the agreement
allows the responding unit to
charge any fee it normally would collect,
I>ogan said that provision would
be difficult to enforce In a county
where the rescue squads don't
charge for calls.
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prospective employee, and it may
hear or investigate a complaint,
charge or grievance either by or
against an officer or employee. The
section of the law that allows
emergency meetings does r.ot specify
uiai me situation require immediate
action, only immediate "consideration."
In regard to the audit, the county
social services department owes the
state small refunds from several programs,
but may also stand to collect
some expenses that were previously
underreported or Improperly
reported.
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lower the neutering/spaying cost In
the county so more people could afford
Um? operations-, and 3) that Massing
the animals Is both very
traumatic and a painful and slow
death. They understood that there
will always be animals that would
have to be killed, a news release from
the group stated.
Also at the organizational meeting,
a group from the Coastal Coon
Hunters Association In Windy Point
stated they were Interested In animal
welfare because some of their dogs
may get lost and get picked up by the
animal shelter.
The group was primarily concerned
about u "possible leash taw that
would Interfere with hunting," the
news release stated. "They were
assured that was not the Intention of
the group."
At present, the Brunswick County
animal shelter can accommodate
about 52 dogs and from 25 to 30 cats
and kittens. The number of animals
picked up each month range from
about 1110 during the slow months to
over 500 during the busier months.
The group supports an Increased
animal control budget as requested
by the Brunswick County Board of
Health to help expand the shelter
facility and to offer .Saturday hours.
The league Is encouraging concerned
citizen* to contact the county commissioners
to support the shelter expansion
and extended hours, the
leleuse states.
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