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May 3, 2001 The Kings Mountain Herald ~ Page 3A al 3 ® ® ® MEETING + eae C1100 S £1vVe 1dea From 1A beating property owner. this “There's nothing uglier than dead : A "a wr roposed ci avgroun junk on the side of the street,” » . he said. “We recently spent tons go on. of money tearing down the old v Falls service station building -Carl DeVane because it was unsightly. We oy Pee LEDuETIER spend tons of money cutting “That point’s well taken,” Rip yynter people’s grass because it is un- said Councilman Gene White. Kiros Mountains ild sightly. Some we bill, some we “We have 4,500 households in 28 Monin s children don’t. My contention is, why can we do this and why dis- criminate against a man for a pile of trash? I think it should be picked up whether it’s brush, a refrigerator or whatever.” The way the proposed ordi- nance is written would result persons clearing a large amount of trees or shrubs to take up to seven cubic yards a week to curbside over a period of sever- al weeks until it is gone, or pay the city to remove it. “If I cut down a tree I don’t want to put half of it out this week and half next week, z Spears said. Councilman Jim Guylin also had some concerns, especially in cases of elderly people who are not physically able to move piles of brush. They often have to hire somene to trim trees and have the contractor place them at curbside, ji “I don't think this would be a fair policy for them,” he said. “If aman is able todo it, he , should do it. If not, I don’t see making them | pay for the city to pick it up.” . Councilman Bob Hayes echoed Guyton'’s concern. “If elderly persons have trees and can’t afford to hire a contractor to move them, the city should. They're taxpayers.” Spears pointed out that the instances of huge piles of branches left at curbside are probably only about a dozen a year. the city and it seems to me that we're saying if we don’t have rules nobody has to worry about taking responsibility. We have to have some kind of guidelines that everyone can comply with, and then adjust it if you have a unique situation.” White suggested that all members of City Council attend the May meeting of the Utility Committee and voice their opinions so the committee can work on the proposed ordi- nance some more. Council voted 5-1 to send the matter back to the Utility Committee. DeVane cast the lone no vote. He said much fa- voritism has been shown to cer- tain people from certain city of- ficials and employees in the past, and there needs to be a consistent policy which applies to everyone. “This has been discussed over and over,” DeVane said. “Nobody's in favor of anything unless it affects them. I don’t think it’s fair to citizens to have favoritism - ‘I'll do it this time for you but I won't do it for anyone else.’ “Let’s quit beating this dead horse and go on.” In another matter last week, City Council approved a new set of water and sewer tap fees. The 3/4” water tap used by most residences will increase from $400 to $600 inside the city and $800 to $1,200 outside the city. MERGER From 1A If it is dismissed it will stop the injunction. “The challenge is not whether the merger is good or bad,” Shaw said. “We think the merg- er is bad for education.” Shaw said the legal basis of; , the case is usin hn o Mountain District runs a Gaston County, and if it did, Shaw said Gaston County Commissioners never approved the merger. If all appeals are exhausted for the school system, the Justice Department in Washington will make the final decision in the matter. Shaw said there has been no precedent set of a merger deci- sion being challenged success- fully. “I just certainly hope the cas- es go in our favor,” School Board member Sherra Miller said. ; Miller said she wants to stop dealing with the legalissues of the merger right now. “We've been fighting for over a year and a half, and hopefully we'll come closer to reaching a conclusion that will be favor- able for Kings Mountain, that we will be able to get maintain our school system so we can get back to the business of educat- ing our children.” will have their say in the pro- posed new playground. Thursday, Mayor Rick Murphrey and John Dean from Leathers & Associates, Ithaca, NY, went to Kings Mountain el- ementary schools to solicit ideas from the students on what the design should have. The students at East Elementary School were not short of ideas. The ideas included benches, slides and a tree house. And when architect John Dean asked the group how they wanted it, they said, “extremely high!” “We're interviewing hun- dreds and hundreds of kids in the town,” Dean said. “It’s a process that really needs to do that.” The playground will be built with entirely volunteer labor, and Dean said that more people will make the design better. It is scheduled to be built in the fall, and is scheduled to take five-six days to build. “The more people you have building these things, the more elaborate, the fancier they are. The less people you have the smaller they are. So, we're shooting for the moon,” he said. Dean, whose firm does only parks and playgrounds, said that volunteer labor and kids both have impacts on the pro- jects. “To us, the kids are really the motivators for these things,” Dean said. “And if people don’t want to plug the kids into these and do it in a barn raising fash- ion, we just don’t do them.” BEN LEDBETTER/THE HERALD East Elementary School student Mitchell Hardee raises his hand Wed sday while Jada | Mauney and Robert Barnes listen to the suggestions being made during design day for the new playground. Architect john Dean and representatives from the City of Kings Mountain went to the elementary schools to get ideas for the design. After going around getting suggestions from the children, Dean took the ideas and made a design which was unveiled Thursday at City Hall. Dean's first design of the pro- ject has the playground in the home plate corner of the Jake Early Field at the Kings Mountain YMCA. In the design, the bleachers, and the stage with a gazebo, could serve as an amphitheater, Dean said. Balance beams, and a di- nosaur with a tongue as a slide, was in the design. Cost of the project is project- ed at $70,000-$100,000, and Dean said that was with a high amount of donated materials, without the gazebo, and with- out poured rubber for the sur- face. Murphrey said the city will contribute toward the cost of building the playground. “It takes the whole communi- ty to accomplish the project,” Murphrey said. “We have a committee together, and all skill levels will be needed to work on that project.” The committee will be re- sponsible for all phases from design to building. “I'm very excited about it,” said Committee Chairperson, Gina Collias, a Kings Mountain attorney. “I'think Kings Mountain needs a wonderful playground, and I'm looking forward to working on it.” Collias also knows about the needs of children; she has some of her own. “I have twin four- year old girls who are very excited about helping and wanting a play- ground,” she said. RESCUE From 1A The next step will be continu- ing training, and getting equip- ment; it will need to raise some of the money for the rest of the training. “Even though we're getting certified in open water in Florida, it doesn’t just stop there,” Serita Mull said. “Our continued training goes to deeper depth.” Squad member Jennifer Rucker said the cost of equip- ment for the eight person dive team is $10,481.23, which would not include oxygen tanks. would like to cover our own area.” The rescue squad is also re- sponsible for covering the City Lake and Davison Lake on York Road. Squad member Jennifer Rucker said she would like to get rid of the bridge and barbed * wire off Zeb Cline Road be- cause of a bad undercurrent at the area. Members of the squad said there are other objects in the lake. On the job stress for emergen- cy workers is higher than aver- age, and after incidents like a drowning, dealing with it in- volves a form of counseling. After the Moss Lake drown- BUDGET » Kings Mountain plans to con- tinue to push for a satellite ; health department even though Cleveland County Commissioners recently mailed the mayor a letter stating that the county would not fund any- thing that wasn’t funded last year. The city originally ear- marked $20,000 for the project and the County was to pay ap- proximately $40,000. Murphrey said the city will consider pro- viding more funds for the pro- ject so it can become a reality. It would be housed in the new medical facility on East King Street. “We're going to make that happen, even if we have to put in more money than we antici- pated, because that’s something that is needed in Kings Mountain,” Murphrey said. “People can come here instead of having to go all the way to Shelby. It would offer pretty much the same services that are offered at the Cleveland County Health Department.” Murphrey said the city will continue an aggressive drug en- forcement effort and downtown revitalization, and will work hard on economic development to bring more jobs to the area. The city will complete ap- proximately $1 million in man- dated water improvements into newly-annexed areas of Canterbury Road, Hillway Road and Galilee Road. The city received over $700,000 in grants toward those projects. Murphrey said community quality of life activities and beautification will continue to be a strong focus. The light posts in the downtown area will be painted and more banners will be ordered for use during different seasons of the year. “All in all, this is a good bud- get,” Murphrey said. “If you take out all of the mandated charges, the senior center and fire station and the additional energy costs, there’s not a lot of big capital projects planned for this year.” Kings Mountain Weather Report (Compiled by Kenneth Kitzmiller) Apr. 25-May 1 Year Ago Remember to include your name, siren and er number. IT’S FAST - IT’S EASY! ‘Celebrate Down Home Day with Us” Where There is Always a Sale! 117 East Virginia Ave., AA Bessemer City Come by & Get Your Mother's Day Present While Enjoying the Festival. 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