Fremont board meeting - Wayne-Wilson News Leader, Fremont, NC

Ms. May said that she had heard that there was a rumor going around town that she and her siblings wanted to create a mobile home subdivision on the property, a rumor she said is not true.

She explained that the land, owned by her grandmother Eleanor Davis Scott, was family land and that she and her brother and sister wished to divide the land among the family. She said that her grandmother would live on one of the four 7.5 acre tracts. Ms. May intends to build a home on another of the tracts, and will oversee a third tract for her sister because the sister is a minor. The fourth would belong to her brother, who she said will not live on the land, but does not intend to subdivide and sell.

Ms. May said that the family has no intention whatsoever to turn the land into a mobile home park. She added that her grandmother had been leasing the land with a mobile home on part of the land, and had since asked the man to move when the family took ownership.

“I understand that it be called subdivision, but we just want to divide between family,” she said. “We have every intention to keep it in the family.”

No one from the community spoke in the hearing, and the board moved on to making a final decision.

Town Manager Kerry McDuffie noted that, even if the family decided down the road to put mobile homes on the property, they could put no more than one per lot, which means a maximum of four, and only one home per 7.5 acres.

The planning board had recommended approval with one dissenting vote. The board then voted unanimously to allow the subdivision of the property.

The board also approved an amendment to the town’s personnel policy to allow new employees to transfer sick time accumulated at their previous job.

Dating back to November 15 of last year, the policy allows transfer of accumulated sick leave from other employers that are participants of the North Carolina Local Government or State Employees Retirement system. The employee must have also worked at their previous job within one year of becoming employed with the town.

The sick leave will also only be allowed for use toward early retirement.

Alderman Billy Harvey said he approved of the amendment for perhaps the simplest of reasons.

“I like this because there is no cost at all for the town, and it’s a benefit for drawing employees to the town,” he said.

The board unanimously approved the amendment.

Finally, during the public comment portion of the meeting, the town heard a complaint from a citizen who had been ticketed in town.

Kevin Reid told the board he is a native of Pikeville, and was recently returning to his home in Raleigh after visiting family in the neighboring town. He told the board that he had been stopped because temporary tags on his vehicle were expired, and he said the officer had every right to stop him. However, he said that the officer who had pulled him was excessively rude, denying him the chance to leave the car in a legal parking spot overnight so that he could have his brother-in-law tow the vehicle at no charge, and Mr. Reid then had to pay a towing company to move the car.

He added that the officer was also forceful and rude to his passengers, two men that Mr. Reid offered to take to Fremont after passing their car broken along the highway.
Mr. Reid said he felt he should be reimbursed for the cost, but at the very least wanted the town to know what had happened.

Mayor Jones said he appreciated the conversation, and said that Police Chief Ronald Rawlings would look into the issue.

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