priorities outlined by Mauney
as he took office at the annual
1 ou C banquet are: a full
CHAMBER ELECTS OFFICERS—W. Kemp outgoing president, welcomes guest speaker
Mauney, right, was installed as new presi- Henry Williamson as banquet speaker. Near-
dent of the Kings Mountain Chamber of Com- ly 200 people attended the banquet.
merce Monday night. Claude Suber, left,
New Chamber Of Commerce Head
Mauney Foresees Full-Time Director
W. Kemp Mauney, the new
president of the Kings Moun-
tain Chamber of Commerce,
is setting his sights high for
| the new year.
~The four Chamber
executive directo
m
all to become more Visib]
to the public; creation of a
Economic Development
Commission with former
mayor John Moss as chair-
man; and circulation of
maps, brochures and more
promotional materials.
“We have a big marketing
challenge in this area since
we are only 30 miles from
Charlotte and the Chamber
can and should be attune to
newcomers’’, he said after he
took the gavel from Claude
Suber. : :
Mauney said the Chamber
is actively promoting a
Sports Hall of Fame and
Suber recognized both John
Henry Moss and Carl Cham
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Other new officers for 1988
are Bobby Maner, first vice
president; Grady Howard,
Jr., second vice president;
and Lucille Williams, office
manager. Directors are Carl
Plonk, John H. Moss, Louis
Sabetti, Jr., Ernest Rome,
Will Herndon, Jonas Bridges,
Claude Suber, John McGin-
nis, Glee Bridges, Vickie
Smith, Rick Keever and
Ruby Alexander.
Suber took the occasion to
present certificates of ap-
preciation to Grady Howard,
Sr., who has served in the
capacity of volunteer ex-
ecutive director and advisor
past year;
ovela auney
occasion to present an
engraved plaque to Suber for
his service to the organiza-
tion.
Suber said he was quite
proud of the ac-
complishments of the
Chamber of Commerce dur-
ing the past year and
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i. Carolina
Probably Be Hired
The city board of commis-
sioners probably will hire an
outside management team to
study how the city is run, in-
cluding how much it pays its
170 employees.
Commissioners authorized
Mayor Kyle Smith to bring in
an expert on municipal
government Friday morning
to offer Zep in organizing the
city’s work force and pay
scale, something that Mayor
Smith said employees have
been promised for a long
time.
~ Woody Underwood, a field
representative for the North
League of
Municipalities, talked to
commissioners and the
Mayor on a prosposal that
would take about four or five
months to complete but in
organizing management pro-
cedures and structure for the
city and actually structuring
a new organization which
says how things ought to be
done in a specific way from
the department head on
down, including job alloca-
tions, job classifications as
far as job responsibility is
concerned from department
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Obituaries . ...14-A
Women’s News .1-B
Church News . . .8-B
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Precinct
Lines Are
Re-Drawn
New Precinct lines in No. 4
Township transfer 872 voters
from West Kings Mountain
Precinct to East Kings Moun-
tain Precinct and 104 voters
from Bethware Precinct to
West Kings Mountain
Precinct, although polling
places remain the same.
Precinct officials at their
organizational meelings
Thursday night discussed the
boundaries and David Thorn-
ton, Kings Mountain lawyer,
was named chairman of the
East of Buffalo Democrat
caucus which will meet mon-
thly with its major objectives
to inform voters of the boun-
dary changes and get them to
the proper places to vote in
the May primaries.
The precinct lines for
Bethware Precinct remain
the same except for the
Eastern boundary. The
Eastern boundary, beginning
at the County line, is the
same until it crosses the new
Highway 74 bypass around
Kings Mountain. Where Oak
son, the precinct lines turns
West onto Patterson. The line
continues West until it in-
tersects with Countryside
Road. The line continues
West on Countryside Road to
intersection with Highway 74,
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head on down to produce ef-
fective management city-
wide.
Pay classification is the se-
cond major part of the pro-
posal and would involve on
site field work with the city
and a comparable study of ci-
ty salaries verses salaries in
industry, etc.
“City commissioners were
quite enthusiastic about his
proposal,” said Gene White,
Community Development
Coordinator. White said the
League-contracted project
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City Board Is Screening
City Manager Applications
City com-
missioners
narrowed the
field of ap-
plicants for ci-
ty manager
Tuesday night
during an ex-
ecutive ses-
sion at City
Hall.
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weed out some of the ap-
plicants who don’t meet the
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“and as close as Shelby have
applied for the position of a
first city manager created in
the new city manager-council
form of government.
Some of the requirements
for city manager that the city
board has established include
a degree in public ad-
ministration, at least five
years of experience in the
field, good public relations
skills and a working
Regional Sewa
Will Get More
Good news that a proposed
regional plant may get nearly
double the state grant money
promised means that ‘‘the
regional concept will be a lot
cheaper than pay for our own
plant,” say officials atten-
ding a report session with
Gaston County officials.
Community Development
Coordinator Gene White,
Department Head of Sewer
Walt Hollis Ollis and City
Commissioner Al Moretz said
the lead agency(Gastonia)
gave the report and White
said | that with four
municipalities participating
and the possibility of $14
million grant, Kings Moun-
tain would have to pay only 25
percent of $11 million, least
cost alternative for the
Crowders Creek interceptor
project.
The Crowders Creek
Wastewater Treatment
Plant, estimated to cost near-
ly $26 million would treat
wastewater for Gastonia,
Gaston County, Kings Moun-
tain and Bessemer City. The
project would open 64 acres
of southwest Gaston County
to residential and industrial
development.
The Crowders Creek
Wastewater Treatment
Plant, estimated to cost near-
ly $26 million would treat
wastewater for Gastonia,
Gaston County, Kings Moun-
tain and Bessemer City. The
project would open 64 acres
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would cost between $18,000
and $20,000. Underwood is to
forward to the mayor a list of
firms who conduct organiza-
tional studies.
Underwood, head of
teachnical services for the
League has been associated
with the N.C. League of
municipalities for 15 years.
At the meeting here,
Underwood explained func-
tions of the League of
Municipalities and various
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knowledge of public utilities,
said the Mayor.
An expert on municipal
government with the N.C.
League of Municipalities,
Woody Underwood, of Atlan-
ta, Ga., has presented board
members salary sheets of 10
cities of comparable size with |
Kings Mountain and salary of
a full time city manager
could run from $42,000 to
$48,000. Underwood, here on
Friday for a meeting with the
cit issione
e rig e your
time’, said Underwood, ad-
ding, ‘‘don’t shortcut yourself
in the amount of money in-
volved.”
Underwood presented
Mayor Smith and the board
with suggestions on steps to
take from start to finish, in-
cluding interview selection,
criteria, evaluations, how to
conduct interviews of can-
didates, etc.
ge Plant
Grant Money
of southwest Gaston County
to residential and industrial
development.
Sam Wilkings, Gastonia’ s
utilities and public works
director, said he learned last
week that the state may pay
$14 million of the total con-
struction cost. Before that,
$7.3 million was expected.
Monday at a meeting of
elected officials and
representatives of the
municipalities involved,
Wilkins said the state is ex-
pected to choose the least
costly of three detailed
wastewater treatment plans
by Friday. Alternatives in-
clude building a new plant,
pumping water to Gastonia’s
plant or expanding Kings
Mountain’s McGill plant.
Wilkins said J.N. Pease
Associates, the engineering
firm for the project, chose the
new plant as most
economical.
City commissioners have
already earned $18,000 for
preliminary engineering
study.
“We're in a have to do posi-
tion’, said Commissioner
Moretz, a resident engineer,
“I tend to believe it’s cheaper
to sign in on this plan than it
is to pay for our own plant.”
Most expenditures for the
project will be due before
1990 and the earliest con-
struction could start is
February 1989.