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The Daily Herald
Biloxi-Gub^rt, Miss., Tuesday, June 21, 1977
Dumping at pier area
, by Mike Ramsey
MARIA WATSON Bay Bureau Chief
The Bay St. Louis city council sang its swan song Monday before a group of angry residents protesting two Hancock County supervisors? dumping of rip rap at the American Legion pier off Washington Avenue.
The council, which usually attracts few spectators, met before a packed chamber Monday, the last meeting for Mayor Warren Carver and Utilities Commissioner Lucien Kidd before a new administration and a new form of government take over July 5.
Finance Commissioner Larry Bennett, now the mayor-elect, was not present.
Carver and Kidd listened to the citizens? complaints which also included opposition to a marina the council has discussed building in the Legion pier
area, and agreed to ask Supervisors Sam Pemiciaro and James Travirca to stop immediately the hauling of scrap concrete to the < pier area.
The marina, however, they said, is no longer their problem.
It has been an unrealized dream of city officials for several years, but has received little support from such federal agencies as the Bureau of Outdoor Recreation which fund that type project.
Most recently, it was included in an application for Economic Development Administration funds which officials agreed late last month to submit. -V;
About 30 persons jammed into the council chamber to be heard Mon-' day. They claimed the pier jetty is being extended farther than originally iri-tended, and that it is being' built south of the existing pier.
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Hancock County officials debate application of EDA funds granted
MABIA WATSON Bay Bureau Chief
The Hancock County Port and Harbor Commission. and the Hancock County School Board appeared headed for a tug of war ? with the board of supervisors as umpire ? Monday over $290,000 in Economic Development Administration funds recently granted the county.
Port Director Wilson Webre asked for the money first, noting the commission?s application for $545,000 for improvements to the Stennis International Airport industrial park had failed.
The $290,000 could be used with matching funds which Webre hopes the county can obtain from the governor?s discretionary allotment, for the airpark
improvements, he said.
?I guarantee,? said Webre, ?that these projects (proposed for the park) will bring in at least two industries that would employ upwards of 100 people.?
Then it was Education Supt. Terry Randolph's turn.
The schools, he said, should be the county?s number one concern, and outlined a $600,000 construction program which would give Hancock North Central a cafeteria and additional classrooms, and Gulfview Elementary at Lakeshore, restroom facilities for its gymnasium.
The school system,, said Randolph, can parlay the $290,000 into $550,000 by using Education Finance Commission moneys as matching funds.
The schools have been in
dire straits the past year and the school board lost a round this spring when it was forced to return to the supervisors $180,000 in Governor's Emergency Council funds, Randolph paid.
Some $34,000 was made in 16th section land timber sales this year, but Randolph said the district "is gonna have the same problem as last year with our budget cut back and no funds available.?
Eight temporary classroom structures are in use at North Central now, he said, and the cafeteria, designed to feed 250, is accommodating 1,300. In the fall, Randolph said, the school will begin serving lunch before 10 a.m. in order to feed the entire student body.
Supervisors? President
A. A. ?Dolph? Kellar questioned Randolph about his request.	j
"Did I understand cor- i rectly that you asked for t all the $290,000?? asked Kellar.
Randolph: "Yes."
Kellar: "Ha!"
Randolph said only the supervisors and the school board have authority to set priorities on the moneys, but Kellar rejected that argument.
The grant "came in a lump to this board," said Kellar, maintaining the board has the sole right to decide how it will be used.
Supervisors agreed, however, to meet unofficially with the school board later this week, to. discuss school needs and see if some of the money can be used to meet them.
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Tuesday, June 21,1977
Jetty Protested in Bay St. Louis
(Special to The Times-Plcayune)
BAY ST. LOUIS, Miss. - The city council, meeting here Monday for the last time before a new administration
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and a new form of government take oyer July 5, took its curtain call before a large group of angry residents protesting an extension of the American Legion pier jetty off Washington Avenue.
And, said the citizens, they also object to the possible construction of a marina in the area.
The marina has been talked about by the council for several years, but has not received much help from federal agencies with funds for such projects. Its most recent airing before the council was late last month when Utilities Commissioner Lucien Kidd proposed that an application be submitted for Economic Development Administration moneys to be used partially for the
marina.
Approximately 30 persons filled t'-council chamber Monday as Ma Warren Carver and Commissio. Kidd sat at their last session. Finarn Commissioner Larry Bennett, the mayor-elect, was not present.
The citizens asked the officials to halt immediately the dumping of rip rap at the pier by Hancock County Su-pervsiors Sam Pemiciaro and James v Travirca.
They contended the jetty is being extended farther than called for in the original plan.
Carver and Kidd agreed to stop the supervisors from dumping the scrap concrete, but said any action on ai marina would be up to the hsitbcUUlHSC?-
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