Lawmakers Make Changes In Prison “Cap” Legislation With agreement over big-ticket items such as highway projects and teacher salaries in the way of the ad journment of the General Assembly, legislators have approved 685 measures so far this year. Out of 3,300 bills filed this session, the legislature has passed 655 new laws and 30 resolutions ranging from local matters like annexation or elec tions to nearly 380 million in emergency spending for prison con struction to settle a federal lawsuit. In addition to the prison settlement, major'issues addressed this session include environmental laws, changes in North Carolina’s election regula tions and a $7 billion state operating budget that continues programs already in place. The first bills to clear both houses of the General Assembly raised the ceiling for the inmate population at the State’s prison system under a prison “cap” intended to alleviate overcrowding. The changes to a 1967 measure re quire emergency release of prisoners whan the system has exceeded 98 per cent of its 18,000-inmate capacity for IS straight days. The original bill re quired the emergency releases after IS days at 97 percent capacity. The new law, which was approved Jmt three weeks after the legislature convened Jan. 11, also gives the State Parole Commission 90 days instead of 80 to lower the prison population to 97 percent of capacity. Prisoners eligible for immediate (I r parole include any inmate serving a sentence of longer than six months whom the commission believes is not a danger to the community. The changes would forbid any prisoner serving time for a sex offense or drug trafficking from being released ear ly. Misdemeanor prisoners are automatically eligible, to be con sidered for early parole, unless they were Jailed for driving while im paired or any offense involving im paired driving. In early March, legislators approv ed an emergency funding package of nearly $80 million in construction and alternative sentencing funds to settle a federal lawsuit brought against the prison system for overcrowding. The General Assembly revised its regulations on handling hazardous waste after South Carolina Gov. Var roll Campbell banned shipments to a dump in Pinewood, S.C., from states that did not allow hazardous waste disposal sites inside their own borders. North Carolina had banned a hazar dous waste landfill until at least one comprehensive treatment facility was operating in the state. That restriction was lifted in a revised law on hazardous wastes that encourages a regional compacct to handle hazar dous wastes. Attend Church I J JEFFRIES RIDGE Brand new, spacious 2-bedroom and 3-bed room apartments to be ready for occupancy by September. On Poole Road two blocks East of Mew Bern Avenue. 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City Of Wilson Awarded For Financial Reporting WILSON-The Certificate of Achievement for Excellence in Financial Reporting has been award ed to the City of Wilson by the Government Finance Officers Association of the United States and Canada for its Comprehensive An nual Financial Report. The Cer tificate of Achievement is the highest form of recognition in the area of governmental accounting and finan cial reporting, and its attainment represents a significant achieve ment. This is the second consecutive year that the city has received this award. When a Certificate of Achievement is awarded to a government, an Award of Financial Reporting Achievement is also given to the in dividual designated as primarily responsible for its having earned the certificate. This Award of Financial Reporting Achievement has been presented to Gordon R. Baker, direc tor of finance. The CAFR has been judged by an impartial panel to meet the high stan dards of the program including demonstrating a constructive “spirit ue at neipea By Laws OK’d By Legislature me General Assemniy has passed two laws this session aimed at help ing the state’s 55,000 citizens with hearing and/or speech impairments and avidly sought by their advocates. In addition to establishing a new Council and Division of Services for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing in the state Department of Human Resources, the Legislature has re quired DHR to begin special telephone relay services for the deaf. The dual-party relay system will allow the hearing- and speech impaired touse a telecommunication device for the deaf to communicate through a special operator with per sons who use a regular telephone. The impaired person would use the display terminal to “talk” with an operator who would then orally relay the written conversation to the hear ing person through the telephone. The process works in reverse when the hearing person replies. The telecommunications system opens up a world of access and two way communication between the hearing/speech impaired and their doctors, lawyers, dentists, relatives—and anyone else listed in the phone book. To pay for the special telecom munications service, the Utilities Commission is authorized to set a sur charge of not more than 25 cents per month to all telephone subscribers in the state. In addition, long-distance revenues generated by the use of this system will also go to pay for it. The legislation was the result of a study undertaken at the direction of the Legislature. Fourteen states have already established a similar dual party relay system. The 15-member council recently established by the General Assembly will include members who are deaf, hard-of-hearing, parents of children who are deaf and a deaf education teacher. The new council will study state services for the deaf and advise the secretary of DHR on matters af fecting the hearing-impaired. Move Made To Bar Discrimination Vs. AIDS Victims Legislation won a House commit tee’s approval last week to ban discrimination against people in fected with the AIDS virus. The Mil would prohibit the firing of workers who have tested positive for the AIDS virus, but would allow a worker to be fired if it could be pro ven the person was a health risk to others. Public health officials say assurances that people will not lose their Jobs or be evicted from their homes because of a positive test for the AIDS virus are needed to en courage people to be tested. of full disclosure” effort to clearly communicate its financial story and motivate potential persons and user groups to read the CAFR. The GOFA is a nonprofit profes sional association serving 11,500 government finance professionals. 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Ms. Barnes, testifying last week in a cocaine conspiracy trial, said she ;ave three of the paintings back last year to the people who stole them. “We’ve always been hopeful to get them back,” said museum director Sam Sachs. “I hope someone gets in touch with us.” The painting attributed to Rem brandt, “A Woman Weeping,” is said to be worth $200,000. “Laughing Boy,” attributed to Frans Hals, is valued at $60,000 but museum direc tor Sachs said the painting was one of the most popular in the museum and might be worth more than the one at tributed to Rembrandt. The other missing paintings are Aelbert Cuyp’s “View of the Scheldt,” worth $25,000, and St. Michael/’ by Lucas Franchoys the Younger, worth $20,000. The museum offered a $30,000 reward when the paintings were stolen May 28,1982, and brought in a New York art investigator to track down the thieves. 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