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Health Board Wants To Add New Septic Tank Permit Fee BY TERRY POPE Brunswick County may join the list of counties that charge homeowners for septic tank permits. Presently, the Brunswick County Health Department charges S35 for a site evaluation, but the actual permits arc free. The health board voted Monday to ask county com missioners to increase the evaluation fee from $35 to $50 for residential lots and to begin charging residents $30 when they obtain a permit. The increases would add 5103,000 to the depart ment's 1991-92 proposed environmental health budget, said Health Director Michael Rhodes. It would also cut $45,000 in tax revenues from the budget, allow the department to purchase three vehicles that had been cut and make the department more self sufficient, Rhodes said. According to a departmental study, it costs an esti mated $77 to do a residential site evaluation. The health board's environmental health subcom mittce met June 4 10 study fee increases, board mem bers voted unanimously Monday to ask commissioners to revise the department's budget to reflect the changes. "The person who is using the services should pay for it," said Chairman Bill Rabon. "It's basically for the homeowner or land buyer, rather than for the developer. It keeps the site evaluation fee from getting out of hand." Rhodes noted that other counties charge for both a soil evaluation and a fee for when the homeowner or property owner obtains the actual permit. Such permit fees include: Beaufort, $25; Carteret, $20; Craven and Currituck, $30; New Hanover and Pender, $40. The subcommittee's two options have been for warded to County Manager David Clegg and county commissioners. Option I, a plan the health board favors, includes an increase in the site evaluation fee from $35 to $50 and the $30 charge for permits. Option II, which would increase the environmental health budget by $47,890, includes the site evaluation fee increase bul would not charge for permits. Both options would increase the cost for site evalua tions for multi-family units from $35 to $50 and com mercial fees as follows: less than 480 gallons per day, from S50 to S70; 480 to 3,000 gallons per day, from S100 to $150; and more than 3,000 gallons per day, from $150 to $215. Mobile home sewer system relocation or reconnec tion fees would increase from $10 to $15 under both plans. Other departmental fees will also increase. Both op tions include a sliding fee scale for the adult health clin ic, which is expected to generate $8,000 in revenue. The clinic would start charging patients on a sliding scale based on income and family size. Other fee increases include: flu shots, from $3 to $4; tuberculosis x-rays, from $23.72 to $25.62; water samples, from $10 to $15; impoundment of dogs and cats, up $5 and $7 respectively; and adoption of dogs and cats, up $5 each. In the proposed county budget, commissioners had recommended an increase in the site evaluation fee from S35 to $40. In other business Monday, Rabon reported that the personnel committee had met to discuss Rhodes' evalu ation conducted by board members. "Overall, it was a very good evaluation and very easily done," said Rabon. Rhodes had scored either fully satisfactory or above average on all areas of the evaluation form, Rabon said. It was the board's first evaluation of the director in four years. Rabon said Rhodes had set some goals for himself that he would like to accomplish this year. The person nel committee will meet in six months to review his progress, said Rabon. The board also met for about 30 minutes in execu tive session to discuss personnel but took no action up on returning to open session. Calabash Eyeing Healthy Tax Cut (Continued From Page 1-A) Related Story Page 12-A right," said Commissioner Jon Sanborn, who serves on the finance committee and conducted most of the meeting last week. With a tax rate of eight cents, property valuation of S88.25 million and 97 percent collection rate, the town expects to collect S68.484 in taxes. Tom Medeiros, who lives in Carolina Shores and owns a furni ture store in Calabash's extraterrito rial area, was the only person to question the proposed tax cut. He suggested the town keep the tax rate at 15 cents to raise the mon ey needed to buy land for a recy cling center, start up a police depart ment and fund other projects. "I can't even believe you're con sidering a tax cut with all of the needs we have," Medeiros said. Besides tax dollars, town officials expect to receive 5220,050 from the state next fiscal year, including S135.000 in local option sales tax, S46.000 in Powell Bill money and S32.000 in utility franchise tax. However, Sanborn said the mon ey from Raleigh may be reduced due to the state budget crisis. "We're looking at the possibility of some strange things happening up there in terms of the money that the state gives us," he said. The proposed budget includes S 149, 157 for sanitation. More than half of the money ? S78.407 ? has been set aside for the purchase of land. Anderson said officials have looked at several pieces of property in and around town and most cost about 520,000 per acre. He said board members think five acres of land would be enough for a trash dump and recycling center and a larger town hall and police station in the future. On Tuesday, commissioners ap proved a new lease with the Carolina Shores Property Owners Association for the Persimmon Road dump site. The new lease runs through June 30, 1995. For the coming fiscal year, the method of trash pickup will not be changed. Curbsidc pickup will con tinue in District I, and Carolina Shores residents will take their trash to the dump site. Commissioners have proposed S20.000 for mowing and maintain ing ditches along side the streets. Town officials plan to mow the ditches six times next fiscal year, from the edge of the pavement to the bottom of the ditch. Carolina Shores resident Paul Martin has been circulating a peti tion seeking the signatures of peo ple who want the town to mow both sides of the ditches. Commissioner Ray Card said drain pipes, water meters and elec trical boxes have been built into the ditch banks in some areas and could be damaged by large lawn mowers. "When those guys drop those blades, they really aren't looking what's ahead of them," he said. Town officials discussed ditch mowing again at Tuesday night's meeting, but reached no consensus. Card is expected to check on the cost of mowing both sides of the ditches before a final decision is made. The proposed budget also in cludes $13,500 for planning and zoning. Commissioner Stu Thorn said money has been included in the fund for a quarterly newsletter to keep residents informed. "Hie N.C. League of Munici palities has recommended towns wait until the end of June to adopt their budgets because state officiaJs haven't yet decided how much money will be distributed to local governments. Commissioners indicated Tues day night that they would adopt the budget at their June 25 meeting. Annexation Support Is Heard (Continued From Page 1-A) had in the past." The two areas were first consid ered for annexation by the town in 1989. Both meet statutory requirements for annexation. The town already provices water service to both areas. Annexation would mean extension of other town services ? garbage collection, police protection, street lighting and street maintenance, and mosquito control. Fire and rescue services, which are not offered by the town, would continue to be pro vided by Sunset Beach Volunteer Fire Department and Wabash Volunteer EMS. Both unity receive annual contributions from the town. The town does not provide sewer but is studying the feasibility of building a system in the future. It would eventually serve the entire town, even if built in stages. According to an annexation study, the town anticipates that net revenues the first year of $12,826 from Sugar Sands, a patio home de velopment in Sea Trail, and $44,177 from Oyster Bay Colony. Of that, $10345 and $15,432 respectively is expected to come from property tax Food Workers Targeted For Testing (Continued From Page 1-A) tests are done by the state for free. If tested by a private physician, HIV tests are $28.75 and tests for syphilis are S14, said Davis. Food workers would be charged a reasonable fee to obtain a health card, "in the neighborhood of $10," said Davis. Prior to 1972, when health cards were required, only establishments that were permitted and inspected by the health department had to ob tain tests for their employees, said Rhodes. Rhodes said there are questions regarding the "legal aspects of get ting an HIV positive person and what to do with them." Health board members also ques tioned if roadside vendors, fisher men who catch and sell their prod ucts or employees of private clubs would have to obtain cards. Davis said he wanted the testing done "across the board." "It would show people that we re trying to do something to curtail this horrible epidemic floating around that we don't know much about," said Davis. Health Board Chairman Bill Ra bon called the plan a "good idea." HOW TO SUBSCRIBE TO THE BRUNSWICIC&IEACON i POST OFFICE BOX 2558 w * | SHALLOTTE. NORTH CAROUNA 28459 I NOTICE: Reliable or consistent delivery cannot be guaranteed since this newspaper must rely on the U.S.i Postal Service for delivery. We can only guarantee that your newspaper will be submitted to the post office in Shallotte on Wednesday of the week of publication, in \time for dispatch to out-of-town addresses that day. ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTION RATES BY MAIL: Sr. Cltlz?n In Brunswick County Q6.30 05.30 N.C. Sales Tax .32 .27 Postage Charge 3.68 3.68 TOTAL 10.30 9.25 Elsewhere In North Carolina Q6.30 05.30 N.C. Sales Tax .32 .27 Postage Charge 8.18 8.18 TOTAL 14.80 13.75 Outside North Carolina Q6.30 05.30 Postage Charge 9.65 9.65 TOTAL 15.95 14.95 Complete And Return To Above Address Name Address City, State Zip collections at 16.7 cents per $100 valuation. Oyster Bay Colony has vacation units expected to generate at least 525,000 in accommodations tax revenue. Expenses of approximately $9,000 would include solid waste collection, at nearly $7,000; mosquito control, $930; street lighting, $550; streets, $320, with no additional costs ex pected for police protection or town administration. The annexations would the latest in a series. The town recently an nexed a strip of land connecting the town to a shopping area at Seaside, and is considering annexation of Oyster Point I and another section of Sea Trail. Scattered Rains In Local Forecast A little rain may be in the outlook for the South Brunswick Islands area over the next few days, along with near-normal temperatures. Shallotte Point meteorologist Jackson Canady said he expects temperatures to average in the mid 60s at night ranging into the mid 80s during the daytime, with about a half-inch of rainfall. "I don't see any major changes in the weather in terms of widespread rainfall," he cautioned. "It looks like it is going to be hit and miss, fairly scattered." For the period June 4 through 10, he recorded a maximum high of 95 degrees on June 4 and a minimum low of 56 degrees on June 7, 8 and 9. A daily average high of 84 de grees combined with a nightly aver age low of 60 degrees for a daily average temperature of 72 degrees, which Canady said was about 2 de grees below average. c GIFT SHOP SEC GIFTS 10% OFF 1/ CAUSEWAY PLAZA ? HOlDfN BEACH 842-5878 ? OPEN 9-8 7 DAYS It's Habit-Forming Fishing can be habit-forming; just ask Mark Smith (foreground) and David Danford of Village Road. The two boys find time to fish in the pond at Brierwood Estates "just about every day," Danford said. On this particular afternoon, their luck was not too good. They caught one tiny brim and lost a cork. Town Creek Awaits Crematory News BY TERRY POPE Town Creek residents are still awaiting word on whether the state will allow a pet crematory' to be built in their neighborhood. It's been nearly two months since the N.C. Division of Environmental Management held a public hearing in Bolivia on an air quality permit application filed by Southeastern Pet Cremation and its owner, Ron Cunie. Currie, animal control supervisor for New Hanover County, wants to operate a propane gas incinerator to cremate animals at the Town Creek site. About 100 angry and emotional residents told DEM officials in April that they do not want the fa cility built near their homes. However, no decision has yet been made on the permit, said DEM Spokesman Jim Sheppard on Mon day. "The bottom line is, we're hold ing that decision in abeyance until we get some additional maps from the applicant," said Sheppard. DEM officials have ruled as inac curate maps showing the proposed construction site for the 16-foot by 20-foot building that will house the incinerator. 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