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Surf City manager outlines stormwater, waterline and shoreline priorities and legal appeal
Summary
Town Manager Cal Brewer briefed the council on budget season timelines, an upcoming Rowland Avenue stormwater project (two-month closure expected), a favorable bid for a waterline resilience project, transition to a town mobile app, and a notice of appeal of a board of adjustment decision on the Boney property.
Town Manager Cal Brewer gave the council a packed manager's report covering capital requests, infrastructure projects, communications and a pending legal appeal.
Brewer said capital improvement requests were due Dec. 31 and that department line items will be reviewed through February ahead of the council's annual planning meeting Jan. 28'30. On infrastructure, he said the Rowland Avenue stormwater project contract was awarded to the contractor who completed the Seahorse Avenue project and is slated to begin shortly after the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday weekend. "It's about a two month project," Brewer said, and the work will require closure of the Roland Avenue/North Shore/South Shore Drive intersection while replacing the asphalt with pervious pavers and installing a catch inlet to reduce roadway flooding.
Brewer also said a previously unsuccessful waterline resilience bid now returned a favorable bid below engineering estimates and staff will bring award recommendations to the next work session. The town had requested an add-alternate bid for segment 7 of the multiuse path (Rowland Avenue to Dolphin Street); that too came in under estimates.
On communications, Brewer said the town is promoting a Surf City mobile app to replace some nonemergency Code Red messages and that the app and website will be a primary source of town information going forward. He urged oceanfront property owners to visit the Topsail Island Shoreline Protection Commission website and sign a property-owner acknowledgment form so contractors can treat Vitex on properties this spring where waivers are required.
Brewer said the coastal storm risk management project remains stalled in Washington, D.C., at the Army Corps and the Office of Management and Budget, and that Congressman Rausser's office has been actively assisting the town. Separately, Brewer notified the council that the town received a notice of appeal of a Board of Adjustment decision related to the Boney property along NC 50; staff and legal counsel will supply required records to the Superior Court in Pender County by the court's Jan. 21 deadline.
Town Attorney Brett DeSelmes told the council the appeal process could take several months and the town will report back when the court issues its decision.
