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Brunswick lakes Lead Roie Upposinq State uSS Koiicies (Continued From Page 1-4) people, sometimes three or lour, who will complete a separate appli cation for each form of aid. "Why not have a generic applica tion form?" Orrock said Tuesday morning. "Each of those workers keys the same information in the state computer network; there is so much duplicate work. The suite has tried to set up so many checks and balances that it has basically made the system ineffective." Ornvk likened the changes in the processing system to the difference in a 1965 Mustang "that you and I could change the spark plugs in and make other repairs to" to "a turbo charged super-complicated" car of today. "We feel ovoiwlicliiied." he said. "It v reached the point of absurdity and there is nothing positive in the process anymore. Our workers feel like they don't have any control anymore." Orrock says the system also places unreasonable verification re quirements on the agencies and fos ters dependence on the system. He said the agencies often have to pay. w ith taxpayers' money, to get infor mation from banks that the appli cants could get for free but don't have the iniative to do so. Agencies also have to secure information from oihcr counties, such as birth certificates, because of that lack of initiative from applicants, he said. "I don't know of any incentives built into the system," he saiii. "It's my belief that the more 1 do for you. the less you will do for yourself. In many cases it's to people's benefit to remain on assistance rather than secure minimum-wage employ ment." He says the state has built in fi nancial penalties tor failing to meet compliance guidelines on process ing applications. The penalty is $50 for each week that a case exceeds compliance requirements of 45 days for AF1X" and Nt days for Medi caid. However, he says, the state is currently monitoring a few counties in a pilot program that is supposed to encompass all counties next year. Through that proccss. Orrock says, the state will monitor selected cases (45 in Brunswick County) and grade the county's performance in handling those cases. If counties don't grade out to at least 455 of a possible 500 points, the state would assess a 2-1/2 percent penalty of that county's appropriations from the state, he said. "And that's mon ey." Orrock said a county could lose 30 points for anything as simple as failing to obtain a complete address <.m an applicant, such as failing to include the B on an address of 355B Something Road. "They monitored five counties and nobody passed," he said. The resolution states that the Brunswick County Department of Social Services subscribes to the theory thai the Alexander vs. Flah erty settlement agreement "has placed unobtainable demands on the professional staff of Social Ser vices; thereby placing undue pres sure on us as service providers which in lum creates a hardship on ihr clients needing assistance." t It includes seven parts: 1. that on ly counties with an average proccss iii'i'iv UvC'C thw 1 C 60-day time frames be sanctioned. 2. that upon signing an 8124 form at the front desk and being given an appointment, the client must keep that appointment or contact the agency within 10 working days. The county must make two attempts to contact the client during that pe riod and. if there is no response wuhin 10 working days, the appli cation should be denied. 3. clients should be responsible for obtaining and providing verifi cations to complete their applica tions. which would encourage clients' self-sufficiency "rather than becoming dependent on ihe case worker." 4. that ongoing cases transferred to other programs or terminated lor Suvti reasons as not reluming 2 monthly report or not coming in lor a redetermination should be sus pended, not terminated. And if the information is provided within 30 days, the benefits should be re stored; if not, terminated. 5. that counties receive additional state-supplied computer equipment so income maintenance caseworkers have immediate access to such equipment. 6. that a single generic lorm be used for all programs and that cases be approved within 30 calendar days "based on clients' sclf-detcr fiuiialion.' And if the c'icnts fail to provide additional verified informa tion within 60 calendar days, the case would bo denied. 7. that the state pay at least 50 percent of the non-federal share for all financial-assistance administra tive costs. Orrock says that cost is now split 50-50 between the federal government and the counties. Orrock says he doesn't have all the answers but that the resolution "is a beginning." In another matter Monday night, the county Board of Commissioners adopted a resolution disagreeing with a proposal by the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission to repeal rules of no-wake zones in the At lantic Intracoastal Waterway. i lie vviiumt v vhiiiiii.vmimi says that because the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers indicates that it helices no-wake /ones in the Intracoastal Waterway "may constitute unrea sonable interference to navigation," it cannot enforce such no-wake zones. There arc five no-wake zones in Brunswick County that arc certified by the state Wildlife Commission. However, the Corps of Engineers says none of them arc federally per mitted. They arc the portion of the 1. that intersects the entrance to the "Old Yacht Basin" at Southpon. 2. that intcrsccts the entrance to the Southport Marina. 3. from a point opposite Roths child Street at Holden Beach to a point KX) yards each of Conch Street. 4. within 5(X) feet of Inlet View Marina, between Ocean Isle Beach and Seaside. , 5. within 1(X) yards of the Tangle wood area boat ramp opposite Hol den Beach. In other action, the commission ers: ?formed a Committee for Dis abled Persons to be headed by Helen Laugisch. ?scheduled a public hearing on bonds foi 6 p.m. on Aug. 6; ?adopted a resolution by state Rep. David Rcdwinc requesting that the mouth of Town Creek be dredged; ?adopted ? Shoreline Access Plan, which is a method to make county shoreline more accessible to the general public; ?agreed to apply for up to $750,000 in state Land Records granLs; ?agreed to advertise a bid date of July 31 at 10 a.m. for water Special Assessment Districts 7. 9. 16 and INK; ?approved a resolution calling for $235,000 in two-thirds bond is suance be applied to improvements and additions to the county water system; ?approved an expenditure up to 530,339 to relocate water lines to conform to changes in U.S. 17; ?appointed Bobbie Larrison of I >ong Beach to the Brunswick County Hospital Board, replacing Bobbie Larrison, who resigned. ?tabled an appointment to the Brunswick County Resources De velopment Commission for Dennis Crocker, who resigned. Late Rainfaii is The Key To Local Tobacco Harvest (Continued From Page 1-A) Lack of rain causcd only minor problems for other crops, mostly re versible. Barrow indicated. The county's soybean crop ehnniH show vcrv of dry weather, with some loss of germination in late-planted beans. "However, most soybean vari eties don't flower until early August and then they have a wide window for setting flowers," he said. "We've got a lot of potential for our soybean crop this year." While sweet potatoes were "suf fering" from the dryness and heat, he said the damage was noi irre versible. Last week Barrow had estimated damage or loss of yield to the local tobacco harvest at 10 percent to 15 percent overall, with damage vary ing from area to area. But with more rain between now and the end of harvest in late August, the crop could show some measure of recov ery, he said. 'Tobacco is a plant that has a sur prising ability to rebound," Barrow said. "It's still not too late. The first tobacco harvested was a little light ur?d the wss not ss g'.xxl 2s we had hoped. But there's still time for it to put on weight." Most farmers have cropped once and will go over their fields twice more before ihc end of ihc season, he said. As many as 80 percent to 90 per cent of Brunswick County tobacco farmers sell their crops at warchous Ac in WhilnvilJe CllV !H Columbus County, which is part of the Border Belt, said Thomas McLamb, executive director of the Agricultural Stabili/tion and Con servation Service (ASCS). That belt opens Tuesday. Some farmers in the Lcland area sell at Wallace, which is part of the Eastern Belt, which w ill open Wednesday. Markets in all five Hue-cured producing slates arc opening early this year, the result of early plant ing. The Border Belt market opened Aug. 7 iaSi ycai. Brunswick County producers have planted 1,801.57 acres in to bacco this year on 153 farms, up slightly from 1,755.86 acres a year ago, McLamb said. This reflects an increased allotment, 4,215,324 pounds compared to 4,li4,965 pounds last year. The Flue-Cured Tobacco Cooper ative Stabilization Corp., a grower owned cooperative, has set price support at S 1.488 per pound for to bacco. The cooperative buys and holds for later sale tobacco that re ceives bids below price support lev el. Sunset Wells Enable County To Get Past Holiday Crunch The Sunset Beach wells enabled the Brunswick County Water De partment to get past the July Fourth holiday period without a major wa ter shortage in the South Brunswick Island area, according to the county Public Works Department. The water usage for the area south of the No. 4 pumping station, which is just south of Brick Landing Plantation, peaked on Friday, July 6, when 2.06 million gallons of water were used, which is .(to more than the 2.0-million-gallon-per-day capacity of that station. The Sunset Beach wells were placed on line that day and were stiii in operation Monday, although the water demand fell below the station's capacity. Water demand in the area reached 1.89 million gallons on Tuesday, July 3, according to the Public Works Department, growing to 1.99 mil lion gallons on July 4, 2.02 million gallons on July 5 and to 2.06 million gallons on July 6. The demand fell to 1.85 million gallons on Saturday, July 7 and to 1.71 million gallons on July 8. The peak hour of water usage cach of those days was 5-6 p.m., ac cording io the Public Works Department. From 5 p.m. to 6 p.m. on July 6, according to the Public Works Department, 130,997 gallons of water were used, which is at a rate equivalent to 3.14 million gallons a day. The second peak hour came from 5 to 6 p.m. on July 4, according to ? Kn DnKlir Pnmmioc'inn iiiKort 10*7 "TO*7 million r?r uiv I ui'iiv Ituilwi A Uwii i f i 4m i iiuuiuii \)l nuiwi were used. The third peak hour was the same time on July 5, when 120,567 million gallons were used. The Sunset Beach wells provide .194 million gallons of water a day, according to the Public Works Department. Warm Days, Rain In Forecast Temperatures and rainfall across lite South Brunswick Islands arc ex pected to hover near normal over the next few days, meteorologist Jackson Caiiady said Tuesday. Temperatures should range from the low 70s at night to a high of about 90 degrees. The area could gel between three-quarters uf an inch to an inch of rainfall, he said. For the period July 10-16, Canady said the maximum high of 94 degrees occurred on the lOlh, while the minimum low of 74 oc curred on the 1 Hh A daily average high of W) de grees combined wiih an average nighlly low of 77 degrees for a daily average temperature of 83, which he said was about two degrees aU)ve average. At his Shallotte Point home, Canady measured .76 inch of rain fall. Seminole Patchwork Workshop Planned The Brunswick County Agri cultural Extension Scrvicc will con duct a workshop on Seminole patchwork. 7"hc workshop is sched uled for July 30,31 and Aug. X, from 9:30 a m. until 2 p.m. each day. The class will be limited to 10 people arid a list of supplies will be sent to registrants. For more info ?nation, call the Extension office at 253-4425. STAFF PHOTO BY DOUG HUTTEH Th/s Gotor Won't Bite 4 group of vacationers from Hrevnni crpatp an alligator on the strand near Holden Beach Fishing Pier Monday. Pictured, from left, are Tamara Byrd, Dana Loveday, Erica Loveday and Monica Iiyrd. Leland Annsxotion \^oto RopGQ!t?d (Continued From Page 1-A) bound by any promises made dur ing a Monday morning meeting, thai if it chooses it can immediately begin again the process of annexing the Chapei Loop Road area. Monday's meeting with Redwine and Loop Road spokesman Barbara Jenkins was initially called, he said, to make sure that Redwine under stood the terms of a preliminary agreement reached between the town and area at a special nr meting Saturday night. Redwine had earlier offered three "cooling-off" alternatives to the parties: to proceed with the bill and repeal the annexation; to have coun cil rescind the action; or to extend the effective date of the annexation. He said the "cooling-ofl period" was needed to allow time for dis cussions among northern Brunswick County towns and com munity leaders regarding the area's future direction. He said he would like to see the first such meeting held in August. But Monday, Redwine chose not to support the agreement reached by the iwo sides. The town had agreed, with Ms. Jenkins' initial concur rence, that it would poll Chape! Loop Road residents and abide by their wishes in any future annexa tion attempt made before 1993. "I got to thinking about it," Redwine said Tuesday. "If the board had allowed Chapel Loop Road the same consideration as Olde Towne, we wouldn't be hav ing this problem." Residents of Olde Towne, an af fluent subdivision near Leland and Belville, had also been targeted for annexation. But, after residents there rejected the proposal in the straw vote, Leland Town Council chose not to annex the area. Though few Chapel Loop Road residents didn't participate in the straw poll, he said they did express their opin ion of it at various meetings. "There is more than one way to gauge pub lic opinion," he said. Baldwin said Redwine "confused the situation" so much at the Monday morning meeting that Chapel Loop Road also withdrew its approval of the tentative agree ment. But Redwine said it had come to his attention that the proposed agreement would "stifle any growth Belville might want to attempt in the future." "That didn't seem fair to me ei ther." In dispute: the status of a narrow corridor along NC 1 n that sepa rates Olde Towne from both Belville and Leland The area was included in the Chapel Loop Road annexation. Redwine said it should be taken out and considered as a separate area. The corridor would be essential, he said, if Olde Towne were to be annexed in the future either volun tarily or involuntarily by the town of Belville. Without it, annexation of Olde Towne by either town would be a "satellite" annexation with the area separated from the rest of the municipality. Redwine said Belville has agreed not to proceed with any voluntary or involuntary annexation of the Chapel Loop Road area before Jan. 1, 1991, "and then not unless the people in an area petition the town of Belville and vote to join." He said Mayor Kenneth Mcsscr is sending a letter to that effect. "That gives us time to initiate the other," Redwine said, referring to the community-wide meeting he in tends to propose. Contrary to the wording of the motion by Leland Council to re scind the annexation, Redwine said the action taken by the legislature Tuesday won't weaken state annex ation laws. "This only affects Leland," he said. "It doesn't affect anybody else." Drawing The Lines At the time the annexation was proposed. Chapel Loop Road resi dents had been discussing the idea of incorporating as a town for some months. Leaders put off formal ac tion partly at Redwine's urging to first talk with other communities in northern Brunswick County about the area's future. When Leland Town Council first voted on the Chapel Loop Road an nexation, the measure did not gain the necessary four-fifths vote need ed for adoption on first reading. However, a 3-2 division was suffi cient to approve the measure on second reading at the July 5 meet ing. Voting for annexation were Council members Lynette Carlisle and William Benton and Mayor Russell Baldwin. Opposing it were Council member George Yates and Jane Gilbert. The annexation occurrcd over protests of Chapel Loop Road resi dents, who for the most part had boycotted a "straw vote" conducted by the town to determine how the area's estimated 200 residents viewed the proposed annexation. All six ballots that were returned opposed annexation by Leland, a viewpoint reflected by residents of the area who have attended public hearings and other council meetings on the subject. A group of 271 Leland residents also presented a petition to the town objecting to the annexation effort. Redwine said he was initially told by the council thai the town would abide by the results of the straw poll. The only debate he recaiied was over the definition of "overwhelming majority." He said he felt all that was necessary to di rect the council one direction oi an other was a clear majority?50 per cent plus one vote. Glenda Warren Is County's First Female Fire Chief vJiciiud Warren Monday n i g ? ? i 1/C came Brunswick County's first fe male fire chief. Mrs. Warren was unanimously elected chief of Waccamaw Fire & Rescue. She previously served as assistant chief under her husband, Gregg Warren, who was fire chief for seven years. The new chief said she will an nounce new officers of the volun teer fire and rescue department at the July 26 Board of Directors meeting. 3 Arrested On Drua Charaes Shallottc Policc arrested a Supply area man Monday morning after finding cocaine in a vehicle stopped on Hoidtn Roach Road. Dolphus Lee Bryant, 40, of Route 3, Supply, was arrested Monday at 2:30 a.m. and charged with posses sion of cocaine with intent to sell and deliver, maintaining a vehicle for the purpose of selling and deliv ering cocaine and driving with a re voked operator 's license. Shallottc Policc Chief Rodney Cause said a 1974 Chevrolet was stopped on Holden Beach Road Monday after officers learned the driver did not have a valid opera tor's license. Police later searched the vehicle and found six "rocks" of crack co caine with a street value of $300, Cause said. Shallotte Police also charged two other Brunswick County residents with one count each of possession of marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia in separate incidents last Friday. Ervin Hawkins, 51, of Supply, and Samuel Eugene Mitchell Jr., 21, of Route 5, Lcland, were arrested last Friday night following vehicle searches. Cause said. THE BRUNSWICKftBEACON Established Nov. 1, 1962 Telephone /b4-6890 Published Every Thursday At 4709 Main Street Shallotte, N.C. 28459 SUBSCRIPTION RATES IN BRUNSWICK COUNTY One Year $10.30 Six Months S5.50 ELSEWHERE IN NORTH CAROLINA One Year S14.80 Six Months S7.85 ELSEWHERE IN U S A. One Year $1b.9b Six Months S8.35 Second class postage paid at the Post Office in Shallotte. N.C 28459 USPS 777-780
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