Woodfin
Woodfin adopts budget, eyes new public works facility
By Matt Tate Te Town of Woodfin adopted the
2010-2011 budget Tuesday (June 29), and the Board of Aldermen took no- tice of a potential upcoming expen- diture the town had been seeking for several years. Woodfin Town Administrator
Jason Young said the town is in in- formal, preliminary talks to purchase 2.3 acres at 5 Taylor Street for a new
public works facility. Te site is home to Cooper Enter-
prises, a contracting company looking to downsize. If purchased, the town would retrofit the existing structure, paving the way for the public works department to move from its current home in the basement of the town’s community center. An asking price of $325,000
has been put forth, in line with the $300,000 the town had roughly bud- geted for a new facility, Young said.
In other budget news, the final
2010-2011 figure is $2,544,385. Te aldermen voted to keep the tax rate at 26.5 cents for the fourth consecutive year. Expenditures include $1,179,217 for the police department, $543,634 for environmental services, $456,304 for administration and $190,495 for streets. Ad valorem taxes will make up a
bulk of the revenues at $1,527,498, based on a predicted collection rate of 90.5 percent.
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Woodfin’s town limits if they are annexed as such or were established before the town’s zoning codes were in place. Te town annexed Ponder Mo-
bile Home Park in 2003. Attempts to reach to the Ponders
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discussions with the owners, but has made little headway to clean up the 10-acre site that hosts approxi- mately 11 homes. Code officer James Eller said the communication lines between the
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town and the Ponders have deterio- rated recently. “Tey refuse to communicate
with me in any way,” he said. Te home sites at Ponder Mobile
Home Park are rented from the Ponders by the owners of each in- dividual home. If the park is shut down, displacement could be an is- sue, but Young believes the current status of the park presents an over- riding safety issue to both the park’s residents and its neighbors. Discussions with the town’s legal
department indicated the town was within its rights to revoke the sta- tus of one particular park without rescinding the same standing for other Woodfin mobile home parks. “You can take one bad apple out
of the bunch,” Young said. “And this is a very bad apple.”
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