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The Summerville News, Thursday, January 22, 1987
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RIPPLE EFFECT
Lyerly Buys Fire Truck
from front page
on the City of Summerville
water system.
WATER GRANT
Mayor Wyatt reported that
a pre-application had been sub
mitted for funding of the city's
new well and water storage
tank. The city is asking a
branch of the Georgia En
vironmental Protection Divi
sion for the $358,000 loan, ac
cording to Wyatt.
The mayor said project
engineer Herbert Barnum of
Rome expected the city to
receive a $58,000 grant for
construction.
“Mr. Barnum was shocked
when he saw that we paid the
City of Summerville $16,000
for water this past year,”
Wyatt said. ‘“‘He said the
payments on the loan might
run as high as $20,000 a year,
but we might not need all of the
$358,000 for the project. He
said it was easier to reduce the
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The current plan for in
creasing the city's water supp
ly calls for a drilled well and a
new 150,000 gallon water
storage tank. The existinfi
100,000 gallon storage tan
will continue to be used.
City Clerk Gwen Bentley
said the town currently uses
two million gallons of water per
month.
TAX RATE
The Council voted
unanimously to keep the tax
millage rate at the current 7.5
mills for 1987. Business
licenses will remain the same as
in 1986, ranging from $25 to
SSO.
Mrs. Bentley noted that the
majority of the business license
fees came from delivery trucks.
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revenues, besides the insurance
premium tax, comes from the
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the milk, packaged products
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and bread trucks,’” she said.
The Council instructed the
city clerk to have Police Chief
Joe Gentry deliver property
tax fifas the last week in
January. Those who do not pay
city property taxes by Satur
day will receive the notice by
Jan. 31. The city is charging a
late penalty of five gercent tfiis
year, Flus a monthly interest
rate of 1.5 percent. No second
notices are being sent.
According to Mrs. Bentley,
taxes for residential properties
in the city range from $4 to
$l5O.
“The average bill is around
$60,"" Mrs. Bentley said. ‘Very
few pay over $130."
CITY HALL COST
In other business, Mayor
Wyatt announced that the
total cost of the town's new ci
ty hall, including all fur
nishings, would amount to
nearly $70,000. The actual
building cost $35,000, and was
constructed debt-free.
The Council unanimously
approved the city audit
prepared by councilman Billy
Sta?lings. According to the
12-page audit for the year en
ding Dec. 31, 1985, Lyerly's
total assets were $323,373.29.
Since that time, construction of
the new city hall and the in
creased value of the property
would have added well over
$70,000 to that figure, accor
ding to Mrs. Bentflly.
Lyerly councilmen also
debated the city's responsibili
ty to repair and build
driveways.
The driveway issue was ad
dressed by Mrs. Richard
Baker, a resident who said the
Council voted two years ago to
fix her driveway.
The resident said her
driveway had deteriorated to a
point where her yard was
almost inaccessible because of
drainage problems. She asked
that a new drive be cut in
another area of her property.
“If wecan't get a drivewa‘;l,
what are we paying taxes for?"
she asked the Council.
CLIPPING
Mrs. Baker then displayed
a clipping from the Aug. 23,
1984 edition of The Summer
ville News which reported the
Council had voted to ‘‘take
necessary action to cut a
driveway to the home of Mrs.
Richard Baker from a side
street.”
Council members said they
paid for building and upkeep of
their own driveways and tfiey
didn’t think the city was
responsible for private drives.
Councilman Joe Pullen noted
that the city had to pay for
having its own city hall
driveway put in by contractors.
Mayor Wyatt said, to his
understanding, the vote two
years ago was to seek the help
of Chattooga County Commis
sioner Harry Powell in grading
a new driveway or repairing
the existing one. Wyatt said he
and Councilman William
Anderson had contacted the
commissioner and county road
supervisor Billy Willingham
several times about the matter
and were told county workers
would ‘“‘go look at" the pro
blem. The county reportedly
has been providing clgert and
repairing private drives.
“The last time we talked to
them, they said they knew
where it was and were familiar
with it,”” Wyatt said, adding,
“the town can't afford to fix
everyone's driveways.”
ONE MORE TIME
“Since you all said you
would fix me a driveway two
years ago, 1 wanted to come
back one more time,’ Mrs.
Baker said. ‘‘l'm sorry I
bothered you."
“Since the city does not
have the equilpment to do the
work it would cost S6OO to
| S7OO to make a new drive," |
b Wyatt said. ,
The Council instructed Mrs. |
| Bentley to check the 1984 |
| minute books and determine |
| what the actual board decision |
| was concerning the driveway. |
‘ “If we voted on or approv- |
' ed fixing it, we will,” eVyatt ;
' said. *'l understood that we |
| would ask the commissioner to |
' doit. I didn't understand it to |
| say we would put it in.” |
‘ On the motion of Billy Stall- |
| ings and a second by %l’ullen. ‘
| the Council adopted an or- |
. dinance that it is no longer
responsible for any driveways |
in the city. }
? NO RECORD ‘
After checking the record |
| books for 1984, Mrs. Bentley
said there was no record of an |
official vote in the minutes of
the Aug. 21, 1984 meeting, |
. referred to by Mrs. Baker. |
‘ Mrs. Bentley read the |
minutes in a phone interview
. Monday night. ‘
“In attendance at the |
meeting was Juanita Baker,
-~ who requested a drive to her |
- house on the south side of her |
. street,” Mrs. Bentley read. |
~ “‘She wanted a drive to her |
' house with a tile. Mayor Wyatt |
reported he would see the coun- |
.ty commissioner as to what he |
~ would do about it. No formal |
' action was taken on the mat- |
; terf'
The 1984 article was writ- |
ten from Mrs. Bentley's ac- |
- count of the meeting since a |
. reporter was unable to be pre- }
sent at that meeting. ;
| VISITED POWELL |
| Mrs. Bentley noted Mon
- day that several Council
' members, including the mayor |
- and Anderson, had visited |
- Commissioner FPowell's office
and Willingham to discuss the
. driveway several times during
. the past few months. |
| COMMITTEES 3
The Council also appointed |
. various committees and city of- |
ficials for 1987. Appointed |
were Gentry, police chief; Terry |
Green, fire chief; Scott Jackson |
- and Dale Bates, night wat- |
' chmen on alternate nights; |
' W.H. Smith, assistant fire |
| chief; and Mayor Wyatt as |
| water maintenance worker and |
' meter reader. Anderson was
~ elected mayor pro-tem. i
| The Council voted |
unanimously to keep the same |
~ committees for the year. The |
Street Committee consists of |
Pullen, Ann Jackson and |
- White. Serving on the Water i
| |
Employees
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Didn’t Go |
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"To Work? |
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| Doris Shelton, one of five |
i Chattooga Hostpital employees l
- who walked off their jobs two |
~weeks ago, said none of the |
‘ employees returned to work, |
' contrary to reports by Vern |
- Bartel, owner of the private |
company now handling |
~ housekeeping chores. |
| Ms. Shelton said Bartel was |
incorrect when he said some of l
the employees ‘‘didn’t even get |
all the way down the hall and l
they turned around and came |
back.”” Bartel also said at least |
one other employee returned |
later. i
The labor dispute at the }
' hospital and Oak \Piew Nursing |
’ Home arose after the Hospital |
Authority decided last |
! December tc contract with |
' Bartel's firm, Environmental |
- Support Services, Inc., Rome, |
for housekeeping services. ‘;
Bartel had changed the |
work schedule, placing some |
- formerly fulltime employees on |
| a parttime basis or “on call.” |
At the request of the Authori- |
ty, he later put some of the ’
employees with the most |
seniority on fulltime and others |
were reduced to parttime. |
Ms. Shelton said she would |
~ “love” to go back to work but t
couldn’t accept working only
on a parttime basis. ‘‘They t
didn’t do us right. It was just |
' dirty,” she said. |
Bartel's office at Floyd
Medical Center was contacted
but he did not return calls to
The News early this week.
Scuba Course
Begins Today
The Public Service Office at
Floyd Junior College will again
offer one of its most popular
courses —4 scuba diving.
The scuba diving class will
meet today t.hrougi Feb. 19,
from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. The fee
for the course is $95, and the
agi)roximate cost for the West
Palm Beach trip is $195. The
instructor for the course is Edd
Pelsmaeker of Scuba Venture.
Committee are Stallings,
Anderson and White. The
Police Committee is composed
of Mrs. Jackson, Pullen and
Anderson. Mrs. Jackson serves
on the Park Committee.
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Drug Cases Go Before Grand Jury
Three suspects charged last
December with drug violations
following a six-month under
cover investigation were bound
over to the February term
Chattooga County Grand Jury
Wednesfiuy.
Chief Magistrate Jon
Payne bound over Riley Miller,
30, Martin and Alexander
Streets, Summerville; Jake
Anderson, 71, Chattoogaville;
and David Brenwald, 24,
Sydney Street, Summerville.
All had been charged with
violating the Georgia Controll
ed Substances Act (GCSA).
' They are three of 15 people
arrested in the raids. One
susrect is still being sou{s;ht.
n other matters Wednes
day, Payne continued the cases
of Agnes Kathleen Smith,
charged with aggravated
assault; Bill Adams, 23, 410-B
Third Ave., Summerville,
another of those charged in the
drug raids last December;
Tony Wooten, charged with ag
| gravated assault; Gary Lee
. Young and Timothy Young,
' both charged with two counts
each of making terroristic
‘ threats and acts. ‘idams also is
charged with theft by taking of
an automobile. That case was
also continued by Payne,
The case of Marty Reed,
charged with burglary. was
bound over to the Grand Jury.
Payne took under advise
ment the case of William
Robert Jones, charged with
violating the GCSA.
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