PENDER COUNTY, NC (WECT) – The county manager in Pender County says the area has seen an increase in sales tax revenue this year.

The manager believes the increase is a result of more and more people visiting the beach towns and spending money there.

He said construction is also up on the eastern side of the county.

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PENDER COUNTY, NC (WECT) – Pender County is moving forward with a plan for a consolidated Human Services board.

Commissioners voted this week to hold a public hearing in 30 days about the topic.

If the plan is approved, the Board of Commissioners will become the consolidated Health and Human Services Board.

Commissioners will have the option of keeping current boards, or variations of those boards, as a consolidated board.

They can vote on the decision after the public hearing.

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PENDER COUNTY, NC - (WECT) - The Pender County Animal Shelter will soon be under the control of the Pender County Health Department.  County Manger, Mickey Duvall, took over the shelter from the Pender County Sheriff's Office earlier this year.

He says he was never supposed to have permanent control of the shelter, he was just supposed to impose some policy.

Duvall says with his own duties in creating the budget it's hard to give the shelter the time it needs.  He says he created policies and procedures for the shelter, an inventory system, and created the Animal Advisory Board, now he says it's time to hand it over.

"I think it would have been hard for me in a county managers role, and I think the board saw that, to have been out there on a daily basis, and to respond to all of the e-mails we get," said Duvall.