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King: It's a data center world after all City seeks grants to water Disney data center gz EMILY WEAVER i Editor Project Roosevelt, re- vealed as a plan to land Dis- ney in one of the new data centers in the TS@Kings Mountain park, is in the run- ning for two more grants to- taling $60,000. If the grants come through, then the city and county will have re- ceived more than half-a-mil- lion in state funds to channel water to the new data center and its neighbors. And water will be needed - lots of water - to keep these virtual “Fort Knox’s” of the digital information age cool while they store and protect their clients’ virtual proper- ties. The extra water will benefit both of the brand- name data centers that are set to be the first two tenants of the T5 park: Disney and In- focrossing, a division of Wipro (coined “the Mi- crosoft of India”). City and county officials look forward to their new water customers and the prospects that will sprout from this new irrigation, but they remain hushed over the Disney project. A deed filed with the county shows that Disney has purchased the property in T5’s park off of Riverside Court. ~ A signed incentives agreement, filed through the state, revealed Disney’s in- tent to “create approximately 45 new, permanent, full-time jobs (including = contract labor) during the first five GRADUATION KMHS’ Class of 2011 will turn its tassels Thursday night years” with it’s new Kings Mountain data center.” The agreement also stip- ulates that Disney World- wide Services will create “at least $100 million in taxable investment” through build- ing improvements, research and development, machinery and equipment over 10 years. In 2010, the state legisla- ture passed Senate Bill 1171, which offers a tax break on the electricity that data cen- ters consume and expands a low rate on the privilege tax (one percent) for data centers on equipment and machinery purchases. . At their last meeting on May 31st, city council adopted resolutions to allow Mayor Rick Murphrey to submit an Industrial Devel- opment Fund Utility Ac- count grant application for $30,000 to the North Car- olina Department of Com- merce. Another Economic Infrastructure Program Grant application for $30,000 to the North Carolina Rural Center is also set to be filed by the city. Both grants, if | awarded, will be used to ex- tend a waterline to the-prop- erty for Project Roosevelt. Earlier this year, the county was awarded a $500,000 grant from the state to extend a secondary waterline to the site. In an in- centives agreement with Dis- ney. Worldwide Services the City of Kings. Mountain agreed to extend a 12-inch waterline to the facility, of- GRANTS, 7A - Ee SE TEEGSEEEE A Volume 123 Issue 23 « Wednesday, June 8, 2011 il F = AMRICK 50° INSURANCE 704.739.3611 106 East Mountain Street Kings Mountain, NC www. KMinsure.com | proposer See re ¥ 9 MO EE Fe poe oo ard TAG ? 21 New lines are being drawn in the city for the next decade of elections. How many will be living in your ward? Ward 1: 2,178 (up from 2,092) Ward 2: 2,079 (up from 2,044) Ward 3: 2,044 (up from 1,969) Ward 4: 2,442 (up from 2,110) Ward 5: 2,431 (up from 2,084) EMILY WEAVER/HERALD Drawing lines for ot elections a ELIZABETH STEWART i lib.kmherald@gmail.com Kings Mountain’s population growth is resulting in ward redistricting. Where you go to vote in this year’s city election may change. City Council will conduct a public hear- ing June 23 and vote on amending the city charter June 28. Both meetings are at 6 p.m. in council chambers at city hall. “We have to redraw the five wards based on 2010 census figures of 11,174,” said City Attorney Mickey Corry who heads the city’s redistricting committee. The 2000 cen- sus showed a city population of 10,658. Citing big growth, Corry exclaimed at last Tuesday’s city council meeting that . Ward 4 just exploded (in growth) with 605 new residents, the new number based on city annexation of Crocker Ridge and Halls Crossing. Another surge in population re- sulted from the last portion of Crocker Ridge being annexed and the most recent areas annexed on the western side of the city. CITY, 7A KM’s King takes reign as state vice chair of GOP EMILY WEAVER i Editor Kings Mountain’s Wayne King, considered one of the “young guns” of the Republican party, unseated the state GOP’s incumbent vice chair Sat- urday at the state convention in Wilm- ington to help lead the party to a new tomorrow. At 30 years old, hel is perhaps the youngest man in the country to take the second most-high position in a | state Republican party. At 27, he was well on his way. Shortly after 4:30 p.m., Saturday, more than 1,300 state delegates cast "Wayne worked hard and | will do a good job for the to working with him to- | ward ddvancing the agenda of the GOPand expanding our legislative (R-Cleveland) state party. | look forward majority in the 2012 elec- tions." - Rep. Tim Moore their votes with the majority ruling in King’s favor for the two-year term. At 7:30 a.m., Sunday (15 hours later), King was down to business meeting with the state GOP chairman Robin Hayes. “We’ve got a big task ahead - the governor's race, the presidential‘race, we’ ve got to keep control of the House and Senate,” King said. “Now, we’re just planning what to do and how we're going to handle things...Hayes and I are both committed. to doing what it takes to win in 2012,” After nearly six months. of actively campaigning across the'state in person and through social media sites such as "Wayne has:grown up in tha trenches with the. peo- ple of grassroots politics. He was a mainstay in my first campaigns and was a child of 15 who had to - be driven around to put Facebook (137 ES PRE likes) and Twit- ter (91 follow- ers), he clinched his biggest polit- ical accomplish- ment yet. King ' said that he sees this chance to help lead the state party as both a “real honor” and “humbling”. In 2007, at the age of 27, King ran against two others for chairman of the Cleveland County Republican Party KING, 7A “| think it's great that we have a person in leader- ship from our : area and | think Wayne will do a great job.” - Rep. Wayne King Up signs.” - Sen. Debbie Kelly Hastings Clary (R-Cleveland, (R-Cleveland, Rutherford) Gaston) 1C SCHOOLS Student’s art show raises | $176 to help endangered animals II 89852500200 WLBT Te Banks Trust 6B Planning and economic devel- opment took center stage in unan- imous actions by city council May 31. After a public hearing, a text amendment to the city’s zoning _tricts reflected some changes that city planner Steve Killian said would “better get us in line with Main Street principles for preservation and appropriate rehabilitation and design for the downtown area.” ordinance regarding overlay dis- Killian said the changes repre- small includes the following: Splashin’ into Summer sent a long effort and recommen- dations of the Main Street staff, Mountaineer Partnership, admin- istration, codes and planning and + Awnings - must be con- structed of durable, protective and fire (not water) repellant materi- als. » Signs should be architec- City amends overlay ordinance for redevelopment <1 ELIZABETH STEWART lib.kmherald@gmail.com turally compatible with the style, composition, materials, color and details of the building (not with other signs on nearby buildings) and should be constructed of ma- terials such as metal or wood. No plastic signs are allowed such as plastic molded internally lit signs. CHANGE, 7A Left to right, Autumn Sheridan, 12, Sylvia Hyde, 12, and Mariah Josey, 10, take a plunge into the deep end at the KM YMCA pool Sat- urday at Open House. AW) Building Trust, Building Smiles, 209 S. Battleground Ave., Kings Mountain ¢ 704.739.5411 www.alliancebanknc.com « memser ric
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