Weaverville Town changes fee structures
By Matt Tate Te Town of Weaverville in-
creased some privilege license and permit fees during the council’s monthly meeting Monday (June 21).
Te increase in privilege license
fees will include businesses that net more than $1 million annually in gross receipts of sales. Te town will charge these businesses 60 cents per $1,000 in gross receipts of sales. Te $50 charge for small businesses will remain. Te decision is backed by the in-
creased amount of work the town usually devotes to its bigger retail stores. “One might expect a larger store
takes up more of the town’s time, so this is a way to recoup some of
that,” Mayor Al Root said. Te new ordinance also includes
the increased fees for the video sweepstakes machines the town adopted earlier this year. Te council also passed an or-
dinance increasing fees, such as zoning requests and sign permits, to be more in line with similar municipalities, Weaverville Town Manager Mike Morgan said. Tese fees have remained stagnant since 1994. Te town adopted changes to
the subdivision codes and sent pro- posed changes to the grading ordi- nance to the Weaverville Planning and Zoning Board for review. In other news, the town ad-
Town hires firm to begin search ON TRACK.
opted the 2010-2011 budget of $5,859,674. Te town will keep tax rates at 35.5 cents, raise water rates by 5 percent and borrow $584,490
a recycling fee through the Wood- fin Sanitary Water and Sewer Dis- trict, which services much of the area. Woodfin will bill the fee ev- ery two months and charge Weav- erville 50 cents per bill.
NO TIME LIKE THE PRESENT TO KEEP YOUR FUTURE
By Matt Tate Te search is officially on for the
next town manager of Weaverville. Te town hired Durham-based
Developmental Associates to help with picking the right candidate. Dr. Stephen Straus with the firm
explained the steps to the Weav- erville Town Council on Monday (June 21) that his team will put into motion with hopes of identify- ing the top two or three applicants by early September. Straus submitted a price tag of
$15,000 for his company’s entire package of services, although coun- cil members hinted they may not
use every step Straus presented to them, thus lessening the cost to the town. Straus said his team can design
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the recruitment process, from stra- tegically posting the job description to targeting and reaching out to po- tential candidates statewide. Once roughly eight candidates
have been identified, Developmen- tal Associates designs four hands- on activities, which could be po- tential dummy exercises in budget management to a mock television interview, and the performance in those activities will be assessed and used to narrow the field to the top candidates. Straus said his team is also capa-
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ble of developing tailored questions for the two or three candidates in- terviewed as well as deliver thor- ough background checks. “Te goal is for you to make the
most informed decision possible,” Straus told council members. “We take the guess work out and provide you with all the necessary details.” Te town hopes to have the new
candidate in place by fall so they can work with current manager Mike Morgan before he retires by year’s end. Council members put forth a
number of issues as important as- pects of the next manager’s job including managing the town’s growth.
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from the fund balance. Councilman Doug Dearth sup-
ported the budget, but hoped the town will lessen its reliance on the fund balance in upcoming bud- gets. “I hope in eight or nine months
when we begin this process again, we aren’t in for any rude surprises,” he stated. Part of the increased expendi-
tures in this year’s budget is asso- ciated with the addition of several Woodland Hills neighborhoods to the town’s limits that will take ef- fect July 1. Te town will bill new residents
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