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City Shaping Up
I am very pleased with the way the new depart-
ment heads are doing their job. I have heard com-
plaints that maybe some of them are stepping on
toes, or are doing their jobs too well.
Let me tell you how I feel about that. If it takes
stepping on toes to get the job done right, then I
am all for it. We all came to the conclusion that
shoddy buildings, run down houses, tall grass, and
things of that nature should have something done
about them. Something is being done about it, and
some people are not liking it. I don’t want any of
our department heads running over anybody, but I
do want them to do their jobs properly, and if they
are doing that, then they have my support.
Our new parks and recreation director is doing
an excellent job. Some of the things that he is
working on are: with the assistance of public
works, correcting drainage problems at city
stadium, grading and improving access roads into
city stadium and cleaning off the hillsides at the
stadiums. He is working on removing the kudzu all
over town in our ball parks. He is setting a goal of
getting all park grounds mowed on a weekly basis.
He is running a youth soccer program in conjunc-
tion with Cherryville for ages 6 through 12.
_ We have approximately 85 boys and girls par-
ticipating. This program will run through
November 12th. Pop Warner football, cosponsored
by Kings Mountain Optimist Club, has approx-
imately 75 boys participating in three different
weight classification. Their regular season
runs through November 5th with playoffs and post
season play ending through November. Church
league volleyball, both men’s and women’s,
begins at the Community Center September 27th
with eight men’s teams and six women’s teams
pore] ting. He will begin planning for the
asketball program in October with youth, church
and industrial leagues. Starting dates range from
Dec. 1 to Jan. 1 depending on the league. Our
recreation director is, for the first time, in charge
of Mountaineer Days this year. He has changed
the location away from the railroad tracks to the
intersection of Mountain and Piedmont Avenues
for safety purposes. This year’s activities will
start with a street dance from 8-11 p.m. on Friday.
Crafts, displays, and fund-raising activities and a
variety of stage performances will begin at 10
a.m. Saturday and conclude with a street dance
from 8:30 p.m. - 12 midnight. There is something
for everyone and a limited number of craft spaces
still available. Call the Community Center for
details or to get an application at 734-0449. So you
can see the parks and recreation department has
been quite busy.
You probably know by now that we have hired a
City Engineer. He should be on board by the mid-
dle of October. When he arrives some of the City
Manager’s responsibilities will rest on his
shoulders. I am very pleased with the way the City
is being run. I just don’t want our citizens to ex-
pect these miracle changes overnight. If we give
our managers our support that they need, we can
all expect great things in the future for our City.
Mayor’s
Message
KYLE SMITH
We have eliminated some jobs. These were
through normal attrition, mostly employees quit-
ting for another job. We just didn’t replace those
people. We are working this through the new pay
and organization plan. This should save us some
dollars down the road. : ia
Some of the things that our new codes/building
inspector has accomplished since he has been
here is: started a comprehensive school inspec-
tion program in accordance with General Statute
115C-525 on the seven schools within the school
district. The law requires schools to be inspected
for electrical hazards four times per year.
He has stopped all unlicensed contractors from
doing business in Kings Mountain as general con-
tractors. :
He has written 39 property owners to cut their
weeds. Most have voluntarily complied, but we
have had to pay private contractors to bushhog
about 10 lots. The City is to be reimbursed by the
property owner for this work. All it took in a lot of
cases was a phone call to the property owners.
He has written to 21 property owners about their
sub-standard or condemned houses. He has gotten
two houses burned down and one duplex demolish-
ed. He has recommendation on four condemned
houses to come before the City Council at the Oc-
tober 11th meeting.
He has started a systematic program whereby
when someone moves from a suspected sub-
standard house, the utilities, electrical, power,
gas and water and sewer will not be turned back
on the house until a minimum housing inspection
has been performed and the house has been
brought into compliance with the housing code. He
has begun to address the issue of abandoned
automobiles in Kings Mountain. : :
Total permit fees through August this year is
$8,979.96. Total tap fees collected through August
this year is $47,953.87.
Charles Webber, our new Personnel Director, is
doing a good job. He is having to become ac-
climated to City type of personnel policies rather
than unemployment procedures, but in the month
that he has been here I can see great things com-
ing out of his department, especially when the per-
sonnel policies are approved and in working with
the new organizational structure and pay plan.
So you see folks, these people are doing their
jobs. They are doing exactly what we hired them
for...to come in here and do a job and do it right,
and treat everybody the same.
White Cane Drive Set
The Kings Mountain Lions
the North Carolina Lions Foun-
provided camping opportunities
CELEBRATION PLANNING COMMITTEE - David Hancock left, city recreation director, Mrs. Ste
Wells, Miss Kellene Wells and Richard Oliver discuss plans for the Oct. 7-8 Mountaineer Days celebratio
in Kings Mountain. The two-day event, featuring crafts, exhibits, street dancing, and fun for all ages
celebrates the 208th anniversary of the Revolutionary War Battle of Kings Mountain.
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Wednesday, September 28, 1988-KINGS MOUNTAIN HERALD-Page 5A
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price of some $15,000 to reflect a percentage of the
final amount of bonds requested.
Council tabled action to approve filing applica-
tion of notice of intent and findings of need to the
N.C. Local Government Commission and approv-
ed motion to send it back to the utilities committee
for further study and review of the resolution.
Council agreed to contract Neff Tree Service,
Inc., of Shelby, for electric line clearance tree
trimming, one of two bidders on the project.
Utilities Director Jimmy R. Maney, who re-
quested the proposals, told council he planned to
use some city equipment and labor to increase the
amount of work that could be accomplished. The
city budget has approved $20,000 annually for tree
trimming, which Maney said the city’s consulting
electrical engineer said could save up to $200,000
on power purchased from Duke Power Co.
Consent agenda items, those which require
limited discussion and are voted on as one motion,
were:
e Call for advertising for a public hearing on
Oct. 25th to rezone property of Lloyd Laws from
N-B to R-6 and for Ms. Elizabeth Lynch from G-B
to R-0. The Laws property is on First St. and Ms.
Lynch’s is at the corner of Falls St. and Cherokee
St. S.
e Set public hearing on closing of Glenn St. for
Oct. 25th. ;
e Accepted and sent to the planning and zoning
board application of Garland Adkins to rezone pro-
perty at King St. E. and Canterbury Rd., three
acres, from LI to R-O for a church and private
school.
e Authorized long distance phone system change
to Phone America to save some $52 monthly
because of a $5 monthly charge for project ac-
counting offered by the new firm. Wood, who
made the recommendation, said this service
would be in place of an expected expenditure of
some $3,500 for a computer and software to do the
same job.
e Waived itinerant merchants license for the
Oct. 7-8 Mountaineer Day activities (only) and
heard a report from David Hancock, director of
parks and recreation on the activities.
Council also adopted a resolution clarifying a
previous action requiring only bills for amount of
natural gas used.
Also postponed, because of the two absent coun-
cilmen, was discussion on goal-setting process.
The meeting adjourned about 9 p.m.
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Club is conducting its Annual
Humanitarian/White Cane Drive
October 13, 14, and 15. Lion Bill
Stone, Humanitarian/White
Cane Chairman, states that
funds raised during this Drive
suport the programs of the North
Carolina Lions Foundation, Inc.
Lion Stone is optimistic that the
community will support the
Humanitarian/White Cane Drive
this year as it has in the past. He
expressed the appreciation on
behalf of all members of the
Kings Mountain Lions Club for
past community support.
The North Carolina Lions
Foundation, Inc. is a non-profit
organization, organized in 1934 to
establish a State Agency for the
Blind that would administer all
Federal and State programs
relating to blind and visually
handicapped citizens. Since this
action was accomplished in 1935,
dation, Inc. has continued to
suport and cooperate with the
State Agency. §
In 1966, a central office was
established in Raleigh to ad-
minister and cooperate all ser-
vices supported by the Founda-
tion for the Blind and visually
handicapped. One of the services
supported is the North Carolina
Eye and Human Tissue Bank,
located in Winston-Salem. This
organization serves as a clearing
house for all Eye Wills and re-
quests for eyes, as well as other
human organs. Over 250,000 Eye
Wills are on file.
Camp Dogwood is a camp and
vacation spot for the blind and
visually handicapped people of
North Carolina, located on the
shores of Lake Norman in
Catawba County. Teh facility,
representing an investment in
excess of one million dollars,
this year for more than 600 blind
and visually handicapped people.
The main support for this project
is provided by the North Carolina
Lions Foundation, Inc.
A Scholarship Program spon-
sored by the Foundation for
children of blind parents is cur-
rently providing assistance to 40
youths in North Carolina Univer-
sities, Colleges and Technical
schools.
Radios and white canes are
provided by the Foundation for
any blind person in need of one.
Glaucoma-Diabetes detection
clinics, research and public
education are services sponsored
jointly with other agencies by
North Carolina Lions Founda-
tion, Inc.
Lion Stone points out that con-
tributions to the
Humanitarian/White Cane Drive
are tax deductible.
King Street at Cansler, are ear-
marked for Kings Mountain
United Fund.
Kings Mountain Jaycees are
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available for the project. ‘There was some con-
flicting data given which has been cleared up,”
said Smith. The Mayor said some state officials
Beam, of Cherryville, son-in-law of Mr. and
Mrs. Wray Plonk of Bing Mountain, completing
two terms on the county board he serves as chair-
man, isn’t about to see the project dropped. “I’m
thinking positive,”’ he says.
EDC Committee Members Going To Raleigh
Five members of the Kings Mountain Economic
Development Commission will go to Raleigh Oct.
10 for a meeting with the State Economic Develop-
ment Commission.
Jim Herndon, presiding Tuesday at the local
EDC meeting in the absence of President John
Moss, said the local group wants to ‘“‘get Kings
\Mountain’s name in the pot concerning location of
any prospective industry in this area.”
Herndon said that Oct. 10 is the earliest time
that field representatives can meet with the local
group who have a 10 a.m. appointment. Herndon
said that the local group have five seats on a Pied-
mont flight from Charlotte to Raleigh that day and
at least one more space was available Tuesday.
He said purpose of the meeting is to give local
members insight on the activities going on in the
state and how they can apply to the Kings Moun-
tain area. “We want them to know about us and we
want to hear first hand how the state keeps and ex-
pands industry,” he said.
In other business of the regular meeting,
members signed up for visitation teams to survey
about 50 local industries in the Greater Kings
Mountain area asking reasons for locating in
Kings Mountain, how far do executives and super-
visory personnel live from Kings Mountain, the
year operations began, and other pertinent infor-
mation such as any problems or concerns the local
Jove mnent or Chamber of Commerce should ad-
ess.
Volunteering to head up teams to go out and
visit this week were Glee E. Bridges, Bob Maber,
Ruby Alexander and Larry Hamrick.
28% COLLECTED
Kings Mountain’s 1988 tax levy of $793,075.05
based on a valuation of $158,615,010 is 28 percent
collected, Marvin S. Chappell, tax collector,
reported to the board. He said $222,061 was
received through Aug. 30th.
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Voter Registration Continues Through October 10
Voter registration for the
November general election con-
tinues through Oct. 10.
Debra Blanton, Elections
Board supervisor, said that local
voters can register with any
precinct official or may come to
the Cleveland County Board of
Elections Office in Shelby or the
Cleveland County Library.
Because of major renovations
underway, Mauney Memorial
Library in Kings Mountain is not
set up to conduct voter registra-
tion, as was originally planned.
Registrars at the various
precincts are:
East Kings Mountain,
Margaret White, 739-4019; West
Kings Mountain, Hilda Dixon,
739-3332; Christine Carroll,
739-4411; Sophronia Campbell,
739-3352; Grover, Cindy Waugh,
937-9115; Jackie Rountree,
937-7196; and Rita Keen, 937-7829.
A registrar is not available in the
Bethware area.
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