The coastland times with which is combined the pilot and herald of Belhaven and Swan Quarter. [volume] (Manteo, N.C.) 1959-1973, 1959-07-17
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rary budget estimate presented to
this Board as best it might under
the harassing circumstances, which
has accompanied it from its incep-
ton, l wish to urge the Board to
give serious consideration to sever
al items omitted, and it is impor-
tant they should be added today:
l. We must put in $4,000 more
to repay the mosquito control
money that has been misappropri-
ated, in addition to the $4,000 now
contemplated in our new budget.
2. We must put in $4,000 for
cumulative backlog for proposed
revaluation, although this is not
enough.
8. We should have approximately
$4,000 added for the deficit for the
recent fiscal year, which we failed
to take steps to correct when we
came into office.
a. l hope the items for street
signs in subdivisions will be elimi-
mated. 1t is not wise to make so
large an appropriation at this time,
most of which is for the benefit Of
real estate promoters.
5. The County Boards deficit
needs $1,000 added, and that will
not make up the past years deficit,
nor to speak of that we will run
ourselves. We need further a larger
allowance for clerical help.
6. don't want this Board to be
ridiculed, so 1 recommend the ST.
O7O set up for Clerk to Recorders
Court be reduced to about $1,000
and the remainder added to Clerk
Superior Court. 1t is ridiculous to
paw the clerk of this court more
than the Judge or Prosecutor. We
should strike out the 1920 for Re-
corder's Court office help. Tradi-
tionally, because of the financial
responsibility in handling large
sums, and by being constitutional
office, the Clerk of the Superior
Court is one of two highest paid
offices in any county.
7. The $4,000 allowed per year
for police travel is wrong. 1t makes
no difference between the man on
Hatteras Island who has a 50-mile
area, and the man on Mays Head
with ten miles. 1t is an inducement
to waste money and gives to the
useless officer just as much as to
the valuable one. Some $1,000 is
too much for deputies and travel
in our county at this time, whose
men do not average one case a
week brought up to court.
8. The $12,930 set up for the Tax
Supervisors office is unreasonable
and an outrage against the people.
In a year of no appraisals, there is
no need for so much money to be
set up for this office. l consider it
our duty to not waste the peoples
money. We have plenty of help in
the courthouse with experience who
already know the work, and we do
not need to employ additional help.
8. There are numerous other it.
ems, which out of my experience
and knowledge l opposed, and could
be left out to advantage. They
could not have been put in by any
one who has experience and an in
telligent conception of Government
tai responsibility. l know it is a
difficult situation for new men to
grasp fully the first time, and par
ticularly if anyone is unwilling to
give his full time to this situation
will add, that if some of these
changes are not made, and the peo-
pies money saved with more care
this budget will stack up in my be-
lief as the most disappointing and
poorly prepared one in the 80 years
have had an opportunity to know
the facts about Dare County Gov.
eminent. l mention these things
because / hate to see this BOARD
hurt through mistakes, even if hon,
est, some of our members might
est ones, which some of our mem.
bers might make.
I consider it my duty to REMIND
you of these mistakes, and then il
is in your hands. would make
this observation, that since we
have been in office, we have allow
ed our time to be wasted more thar
so per cent, and in my belief we
owe this amount back to the tax
payers to be deducted from future
meetings.
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