DATE: Wednesday, July 2, 1997               TAG: 9707020584

SECTION: LOCAL                   PAGE: B2   EDITION: NORTH CAROLINA 

                                            LENGTH:   29 lines

ALBEMARLE

ELIZABETH CITY

TAX INCREASE REJECTED: The Pasquotank County Board of Commissioners has decided against a tax increase to finance more school needs and approved a $17.8 million budget for 1997-98.

The budget does include a new $95 annual trash disposal fee. The fee applies to every habitable residence, occupied or vacant.

The new trash disposal fee will raise $1.1 million, which frees money from the general fund to help pay between $800,000 and $900,000 in annual school debt service. The county owes about $22 million in school construction debts. The county charges 77 cents per $100 of property value.

Commissioner Levin Culpepper was the lone dissenter in the 5-1 vote. Commissioner W.C. Witherspoon was not present. Most of the Pasquotank County School Board attended but did not speak to the board.

KILL DEVIL HILLS

ENVIRONMENTALIST HONORED: George H. Wood, owner of Environmental Professionals Inc., Kill Devil Hills, has been elected chairman of the International Committee for the National Association of Environmental Professionals.

The organization, founded in 1975, has more than 4,000 members internationally.

Send Suggestions or Comments to webmaster@scholar.lib.vt.edu