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Take the Lake Beats Weather Tax Increase Proposed for New Schools VOTING SCC COURT STRIKES BRITT TO COACH DOWN NC VOTER ID RAMS BASEBALL REQUIREMENT uuSEE VOTER ID 2A uuSEE BRITT 1B The News Reporter Published since 1890 every Monday and Thursday for the County of Columbus and her people. WWW.NRCOLUMBUS.COM Thursday, September 8, 2016 75 CENTS Tax increase proposed for new schools By Allen Turner [email protected] and Nicole Cartrette [email protected] A $70 million school construction project for the Columbus County Schools calls for either a 2.5-cent property tax increase or a quarter-cent sales tax increase, Columbus County Manager Bill Clark told commissioners Tuesday. Lorelai, Piper, and Amelia Hopkins ride in the family bike event at Take The Lake on Sunday at Lake Waccamaw. Without committing to a fi- nal course of action, commis- sioners voted unanimously to “We have two choices. allow the county school system to advertise for bids for archi- We can spin our tectural services for the esti- wheels and in two or Take The Lake beats weather mated $70 million package. Commissioners could vote five years be where By Jefferson Weaver Organizer Julie Stocks said this was to increase the property tax we are right now [email protected] the first year for the family portion of rate but increasing the sales the event, which required staggered tax would require approval of or we can go ahead Despite big puddles and debris left start times for some contests. voters via a referendum. and authorize some from Hurricane Hermine – and a few “This was the first year for the Family Columbus County voters grumpy alligators – Take The Lake drew Walk,” Stocks said, “and all agreed that have rejected sales tax in- bidding now.” a big crowd to Lake Waccamaw over the it was most successful. The participants, creases three times in the last weekend. people of all ages, really enjoyed it.” 10 years. This was the eighth year for Take Athletes in TTL train at their own Commissioner Charles Commissioner Trent The Lake. The event grew out of Lee pace, and participate the same way. McDowell suggested that vot- Burroughs Greer’s Labor Day swim for Boy Scouts While some work all year toward the ers might approve a sales tax working on their swimming merit badge. Labor Day event, others only begin walk- increase if the idea is proac- Although the Extreme event held Aug. 27 ing, running, biking or swimming a few tively and aggressively marketed, as has been done in neigh- is a competition, the conventional Take weeks before the start. boring Brunswick County. “There are ways to approach things The Lake is billed as a challenge, not a In the traditional Walk/Run event, and ways to sell things,” he said. competition. Will Dorn completed the course in Participants can take part in any or one hour, 41 minutes and 10 seconds, Tax rate all of the events, including a walk/run, followed closely by long-time partici- The county’s current property tax rate is 80.5 cents per $100 bike/hike, swimming and paddling. of evaluation. The rate was dropped from 81.5 cents per $100 uuSEE TAKE THE LAKE 12A Andy Anderson of Myrtle Beach. value in 2013. The option presented by Clark to finance school construction by raising the property tax rate by 2.5 cents would increase the rate to 83 cents per $100 value. Clark’s projection came two weeks before commissioners are Mail absentee voting gets under way Friday scheduled to receive a proposal from Whiteville City Schools for new construction and did not include Whiteville’s needs in the equation. By Allen Turner The Columbus County Board of the State Board of Elections website at [email protected] Elections has submitted a schedule and ncsbe.gov. Whiteville High locations for local satellite early vot- In primaries earlier this year, voters had The Whiteville City Schools board meets Monday at 6:30 p.m. Although the November general elec- ing to the State Board of Elections but to present photo ID for the first time ever and will hear a proposal on Whiteville High School. Several tion is a little more than two months away, as of yesterday (Wednesday), the state as a result of new election laws passed by public sessions have been held about renovating or building a absentee voting by mail begins tomorrow board had not approved that schedule, so the legislature; however that will not be new high school. Whiteville City Schools Superintendent Kenny (Friday) for positions ranging from presi- Elections Director Carla Strickland was the case for the November general elec- Garland said no decisions had been made on several options to dent of the United States to a member of unable to release the proposed schedule tion. (See story on page 2A.) be presented to the school board nor did he disclose the projected the Riegelwood Sanitary District Board. and locations. Per state law, early one-stop absentee cost of those options. Forms for requesting ballots to vote ab- voting can begin Oct. 20 and will end on The county school plans calls for new K-8 schools in the sentee by mail will be available beginning Nov. 5; specific local county schedules for eastern end of the county, in Tabor City, and an expansion Friday. Mail-in absentee ballots must be early voting must be approved by the State at Cerro Gordo Elementary. Under the proposal, Acme-Delco postmarked by 5 p.m. on Nov. 7, the day be- Board of Elections. Middle, Hallsboro Middle, Chadbourn Middle and Evergreen fore the election. Forms to request absen- The results of one local judicial elec- Elementary would be closed. Tabor City Elementary and Middle tee ballots are available at the Columbus tion to be decided Nov. 8 could be moot if would become one K–8 school. County Board of Election or online from the voters do not re-elect the incumbent, uuSEE ABSENTEE VOTING 11A uuSEE SCHOOL CONSTRUCTION 6A County hires consultant for Social Services ‘issues’ By Allen Turner errors after a record audit. State offi- ed another consultant that would cost department attorney, but state DHHS [email protected] cials found that, among other things, $53,000 for three months’ work. officials have partially responded to a child fatality that should have been The state will reimburse 40-50 per- a separate public request from the Columbus County commissioners reported to state authorities in five cent of what the county has to pay, newspaper for the same documents. Tuesday night authorized Social days was reported after seven months. McKenzie said. Still to be provided by either the Services Director Algernon McKenzie But an inadequate conflict of inter- McKenzie told commissioners at county or the state is a copy of the to hire a consultant at $21,500 to help est log and lack of proof of national their Aug. 15 meeting that the state is directive, in which the county was bring the department’s child welfare criminal history record checks on requiring social services to hire a con- mandated to hire an outside con- program into compliance with state providers were also among a list of sultant to help bring the department sultant. Kate Murphy, the DHHS regulations. concerns noted in the North Carolina into compliance with child welfare public information chief, last week Commissioners quizzed McKenzie Department of Health and Human regulations. acknowledged receipt of the request on the need for the consultant and Services report. The next week, The News Reporter for that document and said it would stipulated that the consultant meet North Carolina Department of asked McKenzie for copies of docu- be forthcoming, but it had not been with the board at the beginning Health and Human Services (DHHS) ments from the state specifying where received as of press time. and end of his evaluation of local told McKenzie the county would be the county is not in compliance and The Columbus County Board of programs. required to hire someone from outside outlining a proposed county plan of Commissioners serves as the county Exec Link Management Solutions the department to help bring the agen- action, which has been partially com- social services board after dissolving submitted the $21,500 bid after cy into compliance. Wayne Black, the pleted. McKenzie still has not com- McKenzie solicited proposals fol- state DHHS director, had recommend- plied with the public record request. lowing state officials noting various He said it needs to be reviewed by the uuSEE DSS 9A Algernon McKenzie Students at Williams Township rallying behind classmates Trinaity Barnes and Jordan Smith who were severely injured in a fire incident and Volume 126, Number 20 being treated at UNC’s burn center at Chapel Hill? Classmates made cards and wrote letters while friends and teachers asked for prayers via Whiteville, North Carolina social media websites following the Friday night incident • Justin Smith meeting former U.S. Ambassador Jerry Lanier, who led embassies in Sudan and Uganda? Lanier is a Chadbourn Native and UNC Pembroke Alumni. • Amanda Prince announcing a new addition to the Prince Law Firm? A kitten she brought to work. 8 95297 00000 6 2A • The News Reporter • Thursday, September 8, 2016 Commissioners okay new air conditioner at shelter By Allen Turner not going to fine you if you fix The bid by Pridgen Brothers [email protected] it” but that if the problem isn’t for a new system was lower corrected she told Clark po- than proposals submitted by Faced with a choice of either tential monthly fines of $5,000 Fairfax Heating and Cooling purchasing a new cooling sys- could be assessed.
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