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. The Summerville News, Thursday, December 17, 1987
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Summerville Panel Renews Fire Fees
Landfill Proposal Shot Down By Vote
Summerville's City Council
has voted to continue its fire
protection service subscription
pro%ram for businesses and
residences outside the city
limits during 1988, It will be
the second year for the fee
based system.
The Council began the fee
program in January, 1987,
after the city and Chattooga
Counhy Commissioner Harry
Powell failed to reach an agree
ment on a county contribution
to the city's fire department.
Prior to that time, the city had
been responding to fire calls
anywhere in the county
without a fee or charges to
residents outside the city
limits.
NO FUNDS
However, Powell said in
late summer, 1986, that the ci
ty fire department would no
longer receive funds from the
county because of an end to
federal Revenue Sharing.
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Efforts to work out an
agreement between the city
and Powell failed late that year
and the Council voted to in
stitute a subscription-fee
system.
The city automatically bills
non-city customers each month
if they are on the city's water
or gas lines. Other county
residents may also subscribe to
the service. City officials said
of 110 calls answered by Sum
merville firemen since June 30,
more than 30 percent were to
non-city fires.
However, Summerville
firemen still respond to
assistance calls from other
volunteer fire departments in
the county and from the
Georgia Forestry Commis
sion’s firefighters.
City officials said the
deadline for resubscribing for
the fire protection service is
Friday, Jan. 22. Current
subscribers won't have to p:g'
the sls signup fee, they said,
although new customers will
have to pay that fee. :
In other related action, the
Council voted to allow Best
Manufacturing Co., Menlo, to
quit paying its fee. Best said it
was already served by the
Menlo Volunteer Fire
Department.
EXPAND GAS
In other action, the Council
voted to extend natural gas
lines into the Raines, Sturdi
vant and Knollwood Subdivi
sions and to install a line to an
existing developed area off
Lyerly %{ighway It also agreed
to pay up to $25 each for
changing the orifices in gas ap
pliances from propane to
natural gas for residents in the
Lyerly Road development who
want to change to the city's
gas system. ’Fhe offer was a
pilot project, the Council said,
and was not offered to Sturdi
vant, Raines or Knollwood
residents.
LANDFILL
The Council also rebuffed a
conciliatory proposal offered
by Mayor Sewell Bash aimed at
working with Commissioner
Powell on locating and
operating a new landffil.
Cash told the panel that
Powell had said the city
wouldn’t cooperate with the
county in buying a new landfill
area to reglace the present
facility on Penn Bridge Road.
The landfill is expected to be
full by the end of SES month or
the first of 1988.
The mayor said he would
like to see the city go on record
again as saying it is willing to
purchase property for a landfill
if the county will enter into an
operating aireement with the
city before the land is purchas
ed. He asked for authority to
tell Powell that the city was
still willing to consider pur
chasing land for a countywide
landfill.
“AS IS”
Councilman Phil Cavin
moved that the city ‘leave the
situation as is.”
“What is the situation?”
asked Councilman Hankins.
Councilman Ira Pollard said
he'd like to see “‘a good faith
commitment’’ by the city to
buy a tract for a new landfill.
Cash then suggested that
other towns in the county pay
the pro-rata share of buying
property for a landfill to be
managed and operated by the
county.
Hankins seconded Cavin’s
motion and it passed with all
councilmen except Pollard sup
porting the measure. Pollard
abstained.
Powell had asked that pro
perty owners interested in sell
ing or leasing a site for a land
fill contact him because
‘...the mayor and the city
manager (of Summerville)
refuse to participate in this pro
ject.”
Cash responded angrily in
late November to the ad’s
allegations, saying that the ci
ty had tried unsuccessfully to
meet with Powell on the issue
“over and over and over’
again. After Grady McCalmon,
city manager, was finally able
to arrange a meeting, Powell
said he didn’t know what the
county might do about the
landfill problem, Cash said.
After that, ‘‘we decided to
sit back and see what he
(Powell) would do,”” McCalmon
said at the time.
After Cavin's successful
motion last week, the city is ap
parently still awaiting action
from the commissioner before
making any commitments on
the project.
MOUNTAIN
Commissioner Powell had
said early this month that he
was considering several landfill
possibilities, including the use
of abandoned coal mining pro
perty on Lookout Mountain, or
a 40-acre tract near the
Chattooga-Walker County line.
The city had discussed buy
ing a 50-acre tract off U.S.
Highway 27 south of the city
and had gotten the state En
vironmental Protection Divi
sion to test the soil for
suitability as a landfill.
The property would have
cost $50,000, Cash said at the
time, and the state would have
required lining the landfill area
with clay or a special lining to
prevent seepage into the Chat
tooga River or into a spring
from which the city obtains
part of its water supply.
DEVELOPMENT
Meanwhile, the Council ap
proved the opening of Lee
Street onto First Avenue by
Milford Morgan and 42 sewer
taps for a new planned develop
ment in the city.
It opened biés for construc
tion work to relocate utilities
on Highway 48, which will be
widened for a passing line.
However, the bids were by unit
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prices and the Council couldn’t
immediately determine which
was the lowest bid. It voted to
allow McCalmon to calculate
the total cost of the project, us
ing the unit prices, and to ac
cept the lowest proposal. The
bids were submitted by BTC
Construction Co., Coosa and
Tenney Construction Co.,
Chatsworth. A total bid was
expected to be figured by
mid-week.
The state will reimburse the
city for the estimated $16,000
cost of pli\fi)e to be used in the
project, McCalmon and Cash
said.
In other action, the Council:
HEATERS
— Authorized free water
heaters for recent gas hookups
on a limited basis up to a total
of 75 heaters. Homeowners
must a;l)vi)ly for the heaters by
Jan 8, McCalmon said.
— Approved a SI,OOO
allocation for the Chattooga
Rescue Squad's new am
bulance. The Squad will ask
Commissioner Powell to match
the funding.
Decided not to make
Favor Street one-way but
rather to install a stop sign at
the south end of the street.
— Agreed to replace a two
inch water lane with a six-inch
line and install a fire hydrant
on Peach Blossom Lane at a
cost of $6,431.
SIDEWALKS
— Asked McCalmon to pre
sent to Commissioner Powell
an estimate of $75,188 for in
stalling sidewalks from the
Summerville Recreation Center
to the new Summerville Middle
We can usually insure your house, furnishings, outbuildings,
mobile home or business at a big savings to you, Why? Because:
We are a Co-op Mutual Co.
We are exempt from all taxes and licenses.
We are a non-profit association and prohibited by state laws from
making a profit
We have no agents — so you pay no agent’'s commission.
You deal directly with an officer of the company. You deal with
homefolk in buying your insurance and paying claims.
We are the largest and oldest Farmer’s Mutual in Georgia,
organized in 1892 and insuring property in our area ever since.
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School. There's “‘no way the ci
ty can pay for this,” Mayor
Cash said.
— Decided to leave city
employees’ group insurance
rates the same until expiration
of the policy on April 30, 1988.
— Authorized payment oi
S7OO to Ben Ballenger, city at
torney, for legal work done for
the city.
- Apfvroved the purchase
50 tons of special sand for the
city's wastewater treatment
plant at a cost of $20.38 per
DUI Report
Four people were arrested
in Chattooga County during
the past week on cha?es of
driving under the influence
(DUI) of intoxicants, accordinfz
to records at the county jail.
They were:
Ed Hunter, 73, 101 Virginia
Dr., Summerville, also charged
with driving on the wrong side
of the roag; Wallace Harold
Johnson, 62, Gaylesville, Ala.,
Rte. 1, also driving without
license; Charles Edward
Hartline, 37, Gaylesville Rte. 1;
and James Gary Lemming, 39,
Summerville Rte. 2, also c%xarg—
ed with driving on a suspend
ed license. S eoo
Arthur Paul Wade, 22, 215
Allred St., Summerville, was
charged only with being an
habitual violator, and also with
attempting to elude officers,
driving without proof of in
surance, running a stop sign,
driving on the wrong side of
the road and speeding.
Sammy Wayne Ward, 31,
Seventh Street, Menlo, was
also charged with being an
habitual violator only.
ton.
LICENSES
— Approved the renewal of
gseven malt beverage licenses
for 1988.
— Decided that business
license fees would be the same
in 1988 as for 1987. McCalmon
said notices will be mailed to
business in January.
— Announced that the city
is obtaining rights-of-way on
Congress and Scoggins Streets
for new bridges t(fi;e built by
the state Department of
Transportation next spring.
DECK
— Tabled a request to
replace the concrete deck at the
Bolling Road swimming pool at
a cost of some $17,800, and to
replace the carpet over the
deck at a cost of $5,600. Action
on a proposal to install new
restrooms at the Fairway Park
was also tabled. The Summer
ville Recreation Board is ex
pected to review the projects at
its Jan. 5 meeting.
— Okayed using surplus
funds from the Community
Development Block Grant to
replace and upgrade water
lines in the WengSummerville
area. Sewer lines are currently
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being installed in the area as
the main project of the CDBG.
The city received a $378,050
grant this spring for the pro
ject. However, BTC Construc
tin Co., Coosa, submitted a low
bid of $271,921, more than
SIOO,OOO under the funds
available. The Council's action
last week means the extra
money will be used to upgrade
water lines in that same area.
TAPE?
— Tabled a proposal by
Councilman Ed l?uslg to tape
the Council's meetings. Tge
panel is expected to take up the
issue on Jan. 11.
— Announced that the
Georgia Department of Com
munitf' Affairs will present a
special program at 6:30 p.m. on
Jan. 11, prior to the January
Council meeting.
— Confirmed Nelson
Wilson as a new employee in
the gas department.
— Heard McCalmon com
mend the police department for
the manner in which it handl
ed the traffic situation during
the Dec. 4 Christmas parade,
which McCalmon said may
have been the largest in the ci
ty's history.