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Weekly Payroll Over $39,000
While city employees and some commissioners maintain
there are inequities in pay, the payroll records show that the
City of Kings Mountain is a leader in pay levels for most jobs.
Voting themselves the personnel duties just after the recent
city election, the six city commissioners have been
evaluating job classifications and pay scales during budget
workshop sessions over the past several weeks.
Last Monday and Tuesday during personnel executive ses-
sions, the board gave salary hikes to 27 city employees, effec-
tive July 1, a three percent increase to three employees of the
gas department, authorized from $4 to $4.50 the entry level
pay for a city employee, and earmarked in the 1986-87 budget,
Among 29 cities of similar
size Kings Mountain offers
either the highest or second
highest pay. for 17 job
categories, according to the mayor in this state, his earn-
latest available Jalary com- ings alone as a city manager
rison fi . would amount to $37,500 to
: $42,500 similarly sized
0
manager for the past 22
years, earns $2,629.36 mon-
thly and although he may be
the highest paid full-time
form of government. gen
City commissioners, also
among the highest paid coun-
above ry in
half of those classifications.
Mayor John H. Moss, who
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City Pay Ranks 1 Or 2
In 17 Job Categories
has served as the city’s full
time mayor and doubles in
the capacity of chief ad-
cilmen in the state, also serve ,
on standing committees that
deal with matters as diverse
ministrator and city as annexation, community
Bennett Masters Released
From Jail On $50,000 Bond
Bennett Masters, 53, ar- and the funeral home they
rested June 24 on 28 counts of operated as Masters Funeral
securities fraud, was releas- Home have been under in-
ed from Cleveland County vestigation by the SBI for
Jail Friday night on a $50,000 several months for alleged
bond, reduced from $75,000 fradulent stock sales and
after a bond hearing. Superior Court Judge Frank
His estranged wife, Betty Snepp of Charlotte ordered
Patterson Masters, of 209 S. the funeral home closed May
Roxford Road, was also in- 8 after state officials filed a
dicted by a Cleveland County complaint.
Grand Jury on six counts of Masters, of 2644 Pembroke
selling unregistered stock, Road, Apt. 2, Gastonia, is
and was free Friday on $4,000 also under investigation by
secured bond.
The Kings Mountain couple Turn To Page 10-A
Jaycees
Support
St. Jude
The Kings Mountain
Jaycees today pledged their
support for St. Jude
Children’s Hospital. This ac-
tion follows The United States
Jaycees’ acceptance of St.
Jude Children’s Research
Hospital as one of the
organization’s major chair-
table beneficiaries.
For more than 65 years,
Jaycees across America
have supported many wor-
thwhile causes through
grassroots fundraising ef-
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We Were Wrong
The headline in last week’s
Herald stating: “KM Men
Face Coke Charges’ was in-
appropriate and should have
read: “KM Men Face Co-
caine Charges.”’ The Herald
.apologizes for this mistake. washes.
“monthly wages as follows:
Mayor = John Moss, GENE WHITE
$2,629.36.
Commissioner Irvin Allen,
{Jr., $397.57.
Commissioner Humes
Houston, $397.57. :
Commissioner Norman
King, $397.57.
Commissioner Fred
Finger, $397.57.
Commissioner Harold
Phillips, $397.57.
Commissioner Corbet
which tops $14 million, a three percent raise for all city
employees, including the Mayor and department heads, ef-
fective Sept. 1, and another three percent merit raise, effec-
tive Oct. 1 to qualified employees on recommendations of
supervisors.
In addition, the board approved fringe benefits, including
an insurance program which includes a minimal $2 cost for
each prescription drug for employee and dependents, vaca-
tion pay and sick leave and holiday pay which amounts to
more than $5,000 each year for each of the permanent
employees. City insurance is retained for an employee on
retirement after 20 years service.
KM’s Highest
Paid Employees
development, and utility
district, etc. and now serve
also as personnel directors.
While giving salary in-
creases last Monday during
an executive session, the
board, with Commissioner
Norman King absent, voted
0 Ci three :
Jo
Nicholson, $325.00.
Mayor Moss has served 22
years with the city, Commis-
sioner King has been with the
city over 21 years, Commis-
sioner Houston has served 10
years, Commissioner
Nicholson has served 12
years, Commissioner Allen is
serving his first four year
term and Commissioners
Phillips and Finger are
newcomers to the board,
although Phillips served dur-
ing the Glee A. Bridges ad-
ministration in the 1950’s.
JOE McDANIEL
Photo By Gary Stewart
JAYCEES PRESENT CHECK - Claude Suber, right, president of the Kings Mountain
Jaycees, presents a check to Larry Hamrick Jr., vice-president of the North Carolina
Jaycees, for the St. Jude Children’s Hospital. The money was raised through car
KM A State Leader In Pay
During the executive sessions, the board would not accept a
budgeted three percent raise for themselves upon motion of
Commissioner Harold Phillips. New Commissioner from
District 6, Phillips had made the motion at the first meeting
after his election that the commissioners cut their own
salaries by 25 percent. Moss refused to break the 3-3 tie vote
then, saying that “if a commissioner wanted to cut his salary
it was not the mayor’s decision and that commissioners could
so inform the payroll clerk.” Judy Harmon, assistant city
clerk, said that no commissioner has requested a cut in pay
but that their recent requests will be honored.
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Board Okays
Indoor Pool
The Kings Mountain Board operation of the facility, and
of Education Tuesday voted that the Pool Foundation
3-2 to fund up to $100,000 of a would provide at least $10,000
proposed $750,000 indoor pool annually. Mayse said the
acility at Kings Mountain Shelby pool raises ‘$30,000 to
High School. $40,000’ annually through
Board members Kyle use fees and predicted that
Smith and Paul Hord Jr. cast the Kings Mountain pool
the two no votes after a could raise at least half that
lengthy discussion between amount. After Supt. Bill
board members and Dr. Davis said it would cost
Scott Mayse and Grady about $8,000 to $10,000 a year
Howard, : es of to. ‘hiv a ; i» anito
ol Foundation. :
‘Construction of the facility
is’ scheduled to begin in
January of 1988.
Dr. Mayse, on behalf of the
Indoor Pool Foundation,
pledged a minimum of
$650,000 toward construction
Budgets
Approved
_ KINGS MOUNTAIN, NORTH CAROLINA |
costs and also said the Pool
Foundation would ‘lease’
and “operate’’ the facility if
the school system finds itself
in such a financial strain that
it cannot do so.
The three board members
approving use of capital
outlay funds toward the
project--chairman Bill
McDaniel, June Lee and
Doyle Campbell-said they
did not oppose using capital
outlay funds toward the pro-
ject if they thought the board
could afford to operate it.
Mayse pointed out that the
city of Kings Mountain had
recently voted to provide an
annual fee of $15,000 toward
The Kings Mountain Board
of Education, meeting in
special session Tuesday
afternoon, approved a
$2,666,270.17 local current ex-
pense and a $255,375 capital
expense budget for the
1986-87 school year.
Appropriations from the
Cleveland County Board of
Commissioners amount to
$1,289,517, about: $3,000 less
than the current year’s.
Other anticipated revenue
includes $520,000 from sup-
plemental taxes (school
district residents pay a 14
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Holland Named
West Principal
Hugh P. Holland, assistant
principal at Hunter Huss
High School in Gastonia, was
appointed Tuesday as the
new principal at West
Elementary School in Kings
Mountain.
The Kings Mountain Board
of Education unanimously
approved Supt. William
Davis’s recommendation
following a lengthy personnel
session at the close of the
board’s called meeting at the
School Administration
Building.
“We had a multitude of
good applications, and I in-
terviewed 14,” Davis told the
board. ‘‘I believe Mr.
Holland will be a credit to our
school system.”
Holland, 46, is a graduate
of old Ashley High in
Gastonia. He holds degrees
from Gaston College, Sacred
Heart, UNC-Charlotte and
Appalachian.
olland has served the
st two school terms af
unter Huss and last year
HUGH P. HOLLAND
was selected Assistant Prin-
cipal of the Year in the
Gaston County School
System. Prior to moving to
Huss he served 10 years as
assistant principal at Chapel
Grove Elementary. He was a
sixth grade teacher at Carr
Elementary in 1972-73 and a
sixth grade teacher at Dallas
Elementary in 1973-74.
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