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The town will no longer pay the water,
sewer and electric bills for the gym at
the DuBois Center owned by the National
Alumni Association of DuBois High School
and the Calvin Jones House owned by the
Wake Forest College Birthplace Society.
The commissioners agreed
Tuesday night to pay $14,599 to the
DuBois Center and $2,129 to the Wake
Forest College Birthplace to cover the
utility payments through the rest of the
fiscal year, November through the end of
June. Those payments are based on the
cost of utilities for each during the
same period last year.
After that, Town Manager
Mark Williams said, if the organizations
want help with their operating costs,
they would have to apply to the town for
help just as other outside agencies do
each year.
Making the two organizations
responsible for their utilities will
give them more of an incentive to turn
off unneeded lights and repair water
leaks, Williams said.
“I certainly agree with
giving these agencies some sort of lump
sum figure,” Commissioner David Camacho
said. “In the future, obviously this
dollar amount is not going to be
sufficient.”
The town began paying the
utilities for the DuBois Center gym
after the alumni group bought the
dilapidated 17-acre campus in 1998 and
began renovating the gym with the town’s
help. At that time, the town operated
its own water, sewer and electric
systems. Since then, Raleigh has taken
over operation of the water and sewer
systems.
Part of the renovation
agreement was that the town would have
the use of the gym for basketball games
and other recreation programs, and that
will continue.
The town will still continue
to pay for the utilities at the
renovated ag/shop building where a third
of the building is an office for
lieutenants in the Wake Forest Police
Department. That building was renovated
in a separate program with the help of
Wake County.
Last week Williams said he
did not know how long the town had paid
the utilities at the Birthplace. The
town was doing that when he joined the
staff in 1983. |
