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1 Page 2-A—THK UUUNSWICK BKACON. Thursday. October 22, m: Audit Discloses Problems (Continued From Page U\\ a written statement from the grand jury requesting an in dictment and/or investigation from the district attorney’s office. Concerning financial sUitements of the college, the audit report stated that the improper manner with which the college maintained and reported continuing cIuci»- tion enrollment • resulted in the college receiving an undetermined amount of state appropriated funds from the Department of ('ommunity Colleges in excess of the amount actually earned.” As of the fiscal year ending June 30, lOSO. the ctillege had assets toUding more than $2.5 million, of which near ly S2.4 million was tied up in plant investments (buildings, land, equipment. etc.>. Hevenues for that time were about $2.3 million, wiiii more than 90 {K'rcent coming from the sUite Department of Community ('ollcges. Other major revenues came from county iS2(W.000> and restricted .sUde grants and contracts ($115.0U0>. .Major expenditures included approximately $1.5 million, or 35 percent of total expenditures, for cir- riculum and non-curriculum instruction and $233,486 for general administration. The report found that except for ‘the adjustment necessary to accurately reflect the state funds earned by the college, the aforementioned financial statements pre sent fairly the position of Brunswick Technical College ... in conformity with generally accepted ac counting principles applied on a basis consistent with that of the proceeding year.” A state audit of the entire community college system released in July recommended decreased funding of some continuing education classes and stricter regula tion of adult ba.^ic education classes. This audit was followed by the appointment of Jesse Clemmons as dean of continuing education at Brunswick 'I'ech and the subsequent establishment of a plan to en sure the accountiibility and credibility of the continuing education program. Clemmons .siiid Tue.sday the recommendations in the state audit report should be covered in all cases by the ac countability plan. .Among other iiiings. the plan requires an iinannoime- od visit from the dean of continuing education to at least 75 percent of each quarter’s classes, an unannounced visit from the director of continuing education to at least 25 jK'rcent of each coordinator’s courses for which the director does not have direct coordinating responsibility and at lea.st one* visit trom eacli coordinator to each course for whicli he or she is reponsible during the time class is in session. Clemmons saitl the plan also requires a •more str ingent record-keeping s>slem" through which low- attendance cla.'j.ves can lx* identified and terminated if nece.ssar>'. Clenunons .said as far as the recommendation to discontinue all classes held in out-of-state ktcations. the one instance in which that condition existed was •debatable.’’ He said the painting cla.ss was originally held at the Calabash \ oluntoer Fire Department but moveti to a larger facility at Windjammer Village just over theSouth Carolina state line. ••.At the time, it did not (KTur to us that this was in violation of community college laws.” explained Clem mons. •When we found out it was wrong we immediately canceled the class.” Small Ovster Season Expected (Continued From Page 1-A) to be slow. Harry Varnam .said. ‘It’s just Ix’en getting a little worse each year.” According to N.C. Division of Marine Fisheries statistics, however, the value of the oyster industry In Brunswick ('oiinty has gradually increased over the past decade, while the yearly oyster landings have fluc tuated. In 1976. for instance, the 61..359 pounds of oysters landed in the county sold for an average of 85 cents a pound. The estimated 88.075 pounds of oysters landed last year sold for approximately $2..30 a pound. This In crease in value was not a .sudden phenomenon, but rather a gradual trend which can be charted over the last ten years. Thursday, har\'esters were getting $12 a bushel at the market; in turn the markets were asking $15 a bushel. And while the number of oysters has varied greatly over the years, peaking most recently in 1982 when 147.551 pounds were landed, the role of the county in tenwi of statewide seafood produeliim liasiVl cbangeil in the least. Brunswick County ranked ninth out of 22 coastal counties in the slate in terms of .seafood landings in 1964. and was in the same spot as of last year. Although the county dropped to 12lh in one instance and rose as high as number seven, it has consistentlv retained its role within the stale as a major seafood pro vider. Hut all the numbers in the world can't change tlie mind of most fishermen. Harry Varnam recalled the 1930s and 40s when he said the oyster harvest was at its best in the Lockwood Folly River. ‘ Back then.” he said, ■ you didn’t have ail these prolilems with pollution and clammers that you do now.” V'arnam explained that clammers. which operate all year round, kill the oyster beds when they rake over them and bury the oysters in the mud. •They’re ju.sl like you and me.” he said. • They have to breathe to live.” Harry Varnam also said the law prohibiting oyster harvesting on Sundays is not enforced and that this leads to fewer and fewer oysters each year. He suggested the only solution for getting the oyster population back up is to close the river to oyslennen and clammers for one or two years and then enforce strict regulations prohibiting clammers from ruining Ibe oysler beds .T.id oyslennen frcmi har\’estmg on Sun days. "There just ain't any oyster .season around here like there used to be. ' he said. •Fm glad I got out when I did becau.se this ain’t no way to make a living." .Mrs. Varnuin added. •It’s not going to be abundant like it u.sed to be. A lot of things Ls agaiiust us.” Court Requires $25,(XX) Bond (Cuiitinucd From Page 1-A) with claims submitted to both the Medicaid program and the Interna tional Longshoreman’s Association. Also, the defendant was charged with mail fraud in connection with procurement of an employee group insurance policy from the Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Company. In September 1983 she allegedly applied for and obtained a group policy for which the requirement was a minimum of ten full-time employees when at no lime, tlie indictment notes, did she employ sufficient per sons for her office to qualify for the policy. The counts contained in the indict ment refer to “services” allegedly rendered during the period of December 1982 through Jan. 17.1986, the dale Paine’s license to practice medicine in North Carolina was sur rendered to the N.C. Board of Medical Kxaminers. Conviction of Medicare or Medicaid fraud carries a potential penalty of five years incarceration. $25,0CK) fine or both per count; while mail fraud carries a penalty of five years. $1,000 fine or both. On a ma jority of the alleged counts, alter native fine provisions and/or special assessments apply in Paine’s case. Paine’s office on Forest Drive in .Shailolic, from which she had con tinued to send sUilcmonts on overdue accounts, burned Sept. 14. That fire and another the same morning that destroyed the office of a local chiropractor, are both under in vestigation as arson. On .Ian. 17, when Paine’s license • '.Mjc-ij S. TAX OFFK'K KMPLOYEE Luenetter Smith works to finish putting property tax statements in envelopes last '"'HPtRTY OF U.S. f'Osl ''ffOf’FRT’f OF ii.S. POS St Air PMOIO RV RAHt4 At)AV% Thursday while waiting for the U.S. Postal Seiwice to pick up Brunswick County’s 85,000 property tax bills. Tax Statements Mailed BY KAHN ADAMS Some 85.000 Brunswick County pro perly owners were greeted at their mailboxes late last week with bills for tlie properly taxes they filed in January. A special mail truck from the U.S. Postal Scrx'ice in Fayetteville picked up the tax statements last Thursday at the county tax office in Bolivia, then carried them directly back to Fayetteville for distribution. County property taxes are due upon receipt and are payable through Jan. 5, 1988. According to Brunswick County Tax Administrator Boyd Williamson, preliminary figures indicate the bill ing will exceed the county’s pro jected tax base of $3.84 billion. "We think we’re going to have that much tax base and more,” William son .said last week, adding that the in crease could be as much as $50 million. rile county’s tax base last year amounted to $3.82 billion, he said. WiliianLson said tax bills were mailed late this year, mainly due to the county's continuing rapid development, Brunswick being the second fastest growing county in the state, behind Dare. Public utilities for the first time ever accounted for more than one- quarter of Brunswick County’s tax base, Williamson said. At least 18 public serx’ice com panies combine for more than billion in property taxes, he said, the largest of those companies being Carolina Power and Light Co.. N.C. Eastern Municipal Power Agency and Southern Bell. "We actually have the tax base of a county that should probably repre sent twice the population,” William son said, noting that another major portion of Brunswick's tax base is composed of resort properties. Brunswick County’s estimated population in 1986 was almost 52,000. Williamson said the county tax department does not have a problem with getting most property owners to list taxes. However, he said the coun ty does have some difficulty in get ting residents to list motor vehicles each year. ”U's difficult to go and chase down an automobile.” ho said, in reference to dealing with delinquent motor vehicle taxes. He said the N.C. Association of Assessing Officers has suggested three solutions to the problem, which piagues luX departments across the stale: to let local Department of Motor Vehicles offices collect proper ty taxes on vehicles: to let county tax offices issue license lags and collect the properly tax: or to eliminate motor vehicles from the tax base. Williamson said eliminating motor vehicles from the tax base would not greatly affect the county’s tax cof fers, because motor vehicles make up only a small percentage of Brunswick County’s total Uix base. As an example, he said when the N.C. General Assembly eliminated personal household property from the tax base two sessions ago. "wc almost didn’t notice it.” Oyster Shuckers Place At Nationals was surrended to the N.C. Board of .Medical Examiners, the board was to have conducted a hearing on allega tions Paine liad prescribed 17.272 dosage units of Percocel; 820 dosage units of Meperidine: and 200 units of Percodan, all controlled substances, to a patient, identified by the board as .Subject A. "without proper medical need or reason” and had allegedly failed to maintain adequate records perUiining to the patient, in cluding documentation of the prescriptions issued. The allegations were grounds, if proven, for suspension or revocation of Paine’s licen.se. Paine wa.‘ the first staff physician hired by the Brunswick County Hospital in Supply, now The Runs wick Ho.spital; however, in March 1978 she was suspended from the staff and her privileges revoked. (Cimtinued From Page 1-A) '.93 ponaUy .seconds. Mrs. Carlisle also finished eighth at the Sept. 26 World Oyster Opening Championships in Galway, Ireland, with a time of 3:34 in opening 30 oysters. ”I am grateful for all the local sup port,” Mrs. Carlisle said, especially that of the South Brunswick Islands Chamber of Commerce, The Brunswick Beacon, and individuals such as Herman Myers. While such performances may be expected as part of an honest day’s work for Mrs. Carlisle, Ms. Futch didn’t even think about entering until she arrived in Maryland. She .siiid, *1 was ju.st going up there with Cathy, and she somehow talked me into entering the amateur divi sion.” Ms. Futch defeated four other com petitors in the amateur competition by shucking her 12 oysters in 1:20. She had never competed in a shucking contest before, although she had shucked for two years with Mrs. Carlisle at Milliken's Oyster House at Shallolte Point. "I had never really shucked raw oysters before." she explained. "I had worked with Cathy a little when she was practicing, but I never thought I would enter the contest.” After she won the amateur division (and a fc.stival T-shirt for her efforts I, agents of a real estate firm asked to sponsor her in the profes sional competition. Although she came in fifth and last place in the women’s competition, she won $70 and said she learned a lot. •Tm hooked now,” she said. "The contest was a lot of fun.” Ms. Futch said she plans to return to the nationals next year when Mrs. Carlisle will compete as the 1987 North Carolina champion. She said a I^onardtown diner has promised to sponsor her in next year’s competi tion, paying the entr>’ fee of $50. She also suUl she hopes lu enler Uic state shucking contest during next year’s N.C. Oy.ster Festival. Ms. Futch said she and Cathy have been friends for about eight years; both are looking fonvard to next Oc tober’s shucking showdown at Seaside. "Fve been coaching her all this time," joked Mrs. Carlisle. "I hope she doesn’t get any better.” Festival Offers Something Extra (Continued From Page 1-A \ Show. •9 a.m.—Sand Sculpture contest on the strand near the Holden Beach. Pier, with the most original entries taking the prizo.s. No entry fee. •12 noon- 6 p.m.—Barbecue dinner, across from Holden Beach Grocery. Fee charged. •Immediately following parade—Horseshoe pitching, on the strand at Ocean View Pavilion, doubles and singles. No entry fee. •1 p.m.—Rubber bridge at the Holden Beach Toun Hall, 1 p.m. un til. Make your own foursome. Call Helen While, 842-^758. $2 fee. •2:30 p.m.-4:30 p.m.—Frisbee hoop toss, at Sea Trace subdivision, Sab bath Home Church Road. Cash prizes totaling $200 will be shared by top three finishers m two divisions, age 11 and under and age 12 and older. $2 entry fee includes a free Frisbee. Judging by the Brunswick County Parks and Recreation Department based on accuracy, distance. •3 p.m.—lx)ng-Driving Contest at the Holden Beach Driving Range, Holden Beach Hoad, $5 entry fee. •7 p.m.—Gospel Music concert, at park adjoining Jane’s Seafood Restaurant, Holden Beach Hoad, with participants to be announced. No adimission. •7:30 p.m.-11:30 p.m.-Street Dance, at the foot of the old bridge, featuring light show and music by Diskitco of Wilmington, with D.J. Kit Stallings playing “probably beach music,” according to coordinator Gay Atkins. No admission. 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