Town
Structure
The Town of Carolina Beach has a Council-Manager form of government. Legislative
and policy making authority rests with a Mayor and a four-member Town Council.
The Mayor is reelected every two (2) years and Council is reelected every four
(4) years with overlapping terms. The Council hires a Town Manager to carry out
its policies, as well
as manage and direct daily operations of the Town.
The Town provides police protection, maintains streets,
and operates a water and sanitary sewer system. Residential and commercial sanitation
service is contracted to a private waste disposal system, Waste
Industries. Recycling is also contracted to Waste Industries. These contracts
will end in 2004. The Carolina Beach Volunteer Fire Department is
a municipal department, owns all the equipment, and pays for operations and maintenance
costs, along with workmans compensation insurance and a per call fee to
the volunteer firefighters. EMS is provided by New
Hanover Regional Medical Center, which is a private entity. There is a station
with a full time paid ACLS at the Federal Point Medical Center (within town limits
of Carolina Beach). Electric Distribution service is provided by Progress
Energy. BellSouth Telephone provides
telecommunications service within the town limits. A cable television franchise
is operated by Charter Communications, which
has an office in Carolina Beach and a district office in Holly Ridge, North Carolina.
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