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The Wake Forest Town Board will open its
meeting Tuesday night with a public
hearing about the proposed $35.5-million
budget for the 2006-07 fiscal year.
The general fund – the part
of the budget that pays for police and
fire protection, recreation and parks,
streets and sanitation – is proposed at
$19.6 million. The other parts of the
budget are the Downtown Municipal
Service District with its 10-cent
additional property tax that brings in
about $40,000 and the electric fund. The
electric fund is operated as an
enterprise fund, like a business, and
receives its funding from the rates paid
by town electric customers. This year
its budget is $15.9 million.
The commissioners will not
annex any property this month. They will
only be asked to accept four petitions
in anticipation of public hearings and
action in June.
The petitions are:
- for contiguous annexation
submitted by Nisa A. Chatha, Zaib-U-Nisa,
Amjadi I. Saleem and Zahra Amjad for 1.7
acres at 604 Jones Dairy Road, the
Country Corner Grocery at the
intersection with Chalk Road. Later in
Tuesday’s meeting the commissioners will
be asked to extend sewer service to this
property because of a failing septic
system.
- for contiguous annexation
submitted by Christopher Dameron, T.
Barker Dameron and Andrew Ammons for
53.06 acres off Heritage Lake Road. The
trio is developing Heritage North and
other enterprises in what was the
Holding dairy farm.
- for contiguous annexation
submitted by Willfair Properties for
18.9 acres off Rogers Road. Willfair –
made up of Fire Chief David Williams
Jr., David Faircloth and Steve Faircloth
(not related) – plans to build about 60
single-family homes with water-saving
features on the land next to Heritage.
- for noncontiguous
annexation submitted by Janko Import
Cars for 2.5 acres at the intersection
of Capital Boulevard and Burlington
Mills Road.
The commissioners are
expected to announce the results of
their performance reviews of Town
Manager Mark Williams and town attorney
Eric Vernon. They held a special called
meeting last Wednesday evening and went
into a long closed session for the
reviews.
The board will also have a
closed session Tuesday night to discuss
purchasing the land for the new town
hall. Vernon was instructed last month
to continue negotiations with the owners
of the two possible sites: the DAB
property at Elm and South White and the
Brooks Street site where the town owns
the parking lot but would need to
purchase the Green & Wooten insurance
agency property, the laundromat property
and the NAPA property.
The planning board approved
three requests and a master plan last
week, and the commissioners will have
the final vote Tuesday on:
- a special use permit to
build a pool, pool house and parking lot
in the Thornrose subdivision.
- a special use permit to
build a pool and pool house in the
Bishop’s Grant subdivision.
- an amendment to the zoning
ordinance for the Flood Damage
Prevention Ordinance.
- review of the master plan
for 48 townhouses in the Bishop’s Grant
subdivision.
The commissioners will also
be asked to approve funds for additional
services performed by Kimley-Horn and
Associates for their work on the South
Main Street widening and roundabouts.
Public Works Director Mike
Barton will ask the board to approve a
contract with Utility Engineering to do
the engineering for the new electric
substation on the N.C. 98 bypass. The
cost will be $96,500 plus any additional
management hours beyond those estimated
in the contract.
The board will appoint a
person to the one vacant seat on the
cemetery board. The applicants are
Theresa Watkins of 530 N. Taylor St., a
Wake Forest native who is a purchasing
agent with the state Department of
Environment and Natural Resources, and
Elizabeth Johnson, a Franklin County
resident who, with her husband, has
extensive business holdings in downtown
and who has been the chairman of the
chamber of commerce board.
The town’s erosion and
sediment control ordinance will again be
on the agenda to make some
non-substantive changes before it is
submitted to the state for approval.
Commissioner Margaret
Stinnett has asked for a discussion
about the town’s unpaved streets.
The meeting begins at 7 p.m.
in town hall. Residents may also sign up
to speak to the commissioners about
topics that are not on the agenda or up
for public hearing. To sign up, speak to
Town Clerk Joyce Wilson before the
meeting. |
