Council doesn't support library move to University Mall
Town e-mails state that it’s unlikely the Chapel Hill Public Library will move to University Mall.
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Town e-mails state that it’s unlikely the Chapel Hill Public Library will move to University Mall.
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In the weeks after a gun went off on a bus at Chapel Hill High, administrators have worked to figure out what went wrong. But even as different theories have been put forward on why it happened, students and parents said they don’t feel less safe in general.At the beginning of the semester, 87 percent of 2,516 Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools parents surveyed reported feeling their children were safe at school. Parents are still standing by this sentiment.“The shooting was really more of an isolated incident,” said Marie Donahue, mother of a junior at Chapel Hill High and a current UNC graduate student.According to Chapel Hill police reports, 11 weapons have found their way onto the campus in the past five years, compared with seven at East Chapel Hill High School.Chapel Hill High principal Jesse Dingle, who took over in the fall, said he believed the April 15 bus incident was the first time a gun was involved.The next week, in a separate incident, a student at the school was found with a knife in his bookbag, according to Chapel Hill police reports.While the incidents caused fear initially, Chapel Hill High senior Anna Norwood said the mood changed after the shooting.“It was kind of scary because no one really expected it when it happened, but it’s almost become a joke now,” she said.Still, the school system is looking at the incidents as an inspiration to improve safety at Chapel Hill High.One way could be to look at the root causes.School resource officer Gary Beneville said students could be bringing weapons to campus as a result of bullying that takes place online on sites such as Facebook and Twitter, which he says is increasing in frequency and severity. Those arguments could carry over to campus, he said.“There’s such an ease with which people can say things behind the veil of their computer,” Dingle said.Another way to do that could be throuhg installing more security cameras.Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools officials met with Chapel Hill High administrators on Monday to discuss what worked well and what didn’t about how the school handled the situation, said Stephanie Knott, spokeswoman for the school district.One concern shared by administrators was the number of security cameras on campus and their placement, Knott said.Chapel Hill High has 42 security cameras, Beneville said, while East Chapel Hill High has 63 and Carrboro High School has 68.Beneville said he would like to see more cameras placed outside because the school has four main buildings with separate sports facilities.“Kids know weapons on school grounds are not going to be tolerated,” he said. “But then again, kids do things at this age that don’t make sense to the rest of us.”Staff writer Jake Filip contributed reporting.Contact the City Editor at citydesk@unc.edu.
The Town of Chapel Hill didn’t get any closer to deciding whether to allow archers to shoot local deer — even after 27 people spoke at a 3-hour discussion Monday.More than 100 people attended to speak or hear concerns, which ranged from safety to Lyme disease.Despite the concerns of council members, 14 of the 22 residents who spoke at the meeting were in favor of urban archery.Bill Camp said that his neighborhood near Bolin Creek has at least 12 “resident deer.”“If you go down that path, put in spearing with a pitchfork, and I’ll bring in one or two,” he said.The council approved a movement after the discussion to survey the deer population and the loss of native vegetation in addition to looking into a wider range of culling options.Mayor Mark Kleinschmidt questioned the merits of the Governors Club archery hunt, a program to control the deer population in a gated community adjacent to Chapel Hill, which culled only seven of the 65 deer it was permitted to kill.Judson Edeburn, resource manager of Duke Forest where deer culling already takes place, said urban archery has been a success there, but it is an ongoing process that cannot be completed in just a year.Edeburn said after surveying 7,000 acres of Duke Forest and finding some areas to have as many as 60 deer per square mile — far exceeding their goal of 20 to 30 — officials instated the program.Despite the forest’s relatively close proximity to Chapel Hill, council member Penny Rich wasn’t sure that Duke Forest would be a good model for the town to follow because the area surveyed contains only four houses.Speaking for the opposition, Molly De Marco has created an online petition with more than 80 signatures and a Facebook group against urban archery in Chapel Hill.Contact the City Editor at citydesk@unc.edu.
As the hype surrounding President Barack Obama’s health care plan fades, local free clinics are finding the plan isn’t providing them with the help they need — in fact, it’s not providing them with any help at all.Julie Hamra, co-chairwoman of the coordinating council for the Student Health Action Coalition clinic, said most of the benefits included in the health care legislation are for Federally Qualified Health Centers, which do not include free clinics.Last week, Hamra attended the N.C. Association of Free Clinics annual conference and said all the speakers at the three-day event emphasized that the insurance legislation, which doesn’t take effect until 2014, won’t completely fill the service gap free clinics currently do.“Just because legislation is happening doesn’t mean we’re not going to need free clinics anymore,” Hamra said. “The population free clinics serve is still going to be uninsured after health care goes into effect.”The association’s spokeswoman, Pamela Stephens, said the clinics’ biggest need now is community support, because it’s still too early to tell whether they can find a way to receive federal money.The local free clinic is a volunteer organization run by students from various UNC professional schools. It provides health services to Orange County residents every Wednesday night, and Hamra said the community’s need almost always surpasses the clinic’s capacity.“We have 20 to 25 visitors each week, and we easily turn away at least that many that we can’t fit in,” she said.With drug costs accounting for about a third of the clinic’s budget and a continually increasing rent, Hamra said workers are looking into applying for grants, but funding availability is low right now.“Because we provide care for free, we don’t get reimbursement from Medicare or Medicaid,” she said.So the clinic relies on donations.Hamra said she hopes to start a fundraising campaign next year, which the clinic hasn’t done before. She also wants the clinic to be more active in helping people sign up for insurance they’re eligible to receive.And while funding is the main concern of most of the more than 70 free clinics in the state, the Robert Nixon Free Clinic for the Homeless — the only other free clinic in Orange County — also has a staffing issue.Chris Moran, executive director of the Inter-Faith Council for Social Service which manages the clinic, said it has 75 regular volunteers, but that doesn’t seem to be enough.“We’re planning a new facility with incredible clinic space, and I would love to have paid personnel to help with that,” he said.Last year, the clinic served 648 patrons, and Moran said attendance records already show a 35 percent increase from that figure.It provided 180 prescriptions in January and February, up 24 percent from the same months last year.Moran, who also attended the free clinics conference, said the meeting was a chance to catch up on what other clinics are doing, particularly in facing the new health care plan.“I’m not sure the people behind this legislation thought seriously about how free clinics could be supported,” he said.Contact the City Editor at citydesk@unc.edu.
More than 50 people gathered to discuss the possible homeless shelter relocation Monday night, some growing rowdy because of a format they found insufficient for providing information about the controversial move.The meeting was the second of three conversations hosted by the Inter-Faith Council for Social Service about the suggested move of the Community House homeless shelter to a Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard site.Some neighbors of the proposed site location worry about the effect a nearby homeless shelter would have on their families’ safety.