The Mail-Journal, Volume 28, Number 23, Milford, Kosciusko County, 19 July 1989 — Page 2

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jpiy ’’W ’■— A OiilgjwL JW . JRr 6l PRESIDENT’S AWARD — Sally Cotton, outgoing president of the Syracuse-Wawasee Chamber of Commerce, presented the President's Award to Jeanne Gardiner. Cotton said this award traditionally is awarded to someone who has "gone that extra step on behalf of the chamber." Gardiner has been a past chamber president and has served the chamber as a member of the Kosciusko County Convention and Visitors Bureau. Kosciusko County Council of Chambers, and helped with Chamber Christmas decorations for the town of Syracuse, public relations, newsletter, winter carnival and "anything else the chamber has asked of her." according to Cotton. Shown are Sally Cotton and Jeanne Gardiner. (Photo by Ron Baumgartner)

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Water rate increase postponed at Syracuse

(Continued from page 1) block of East Benton Conleystated that money was available to surface the area and the council agreed to do so at a cost of approximately $5,300 After discussion, the council tabled a decision to purchase a base radio for the department. The radio, which would cost $1,270, would replace an outdated model Reporting for the sewer depart ment. Superintendent Ron Helman noted that businesses on Chicago Street had expressed an interest in hooking onto the town's sewer. The council instructed him to get cost estimates for the project He also noted that a new pump would be purchased for a lift station in the town's industrial park at a cost of $3,300 Hughes and Helman had met with those contracted to repair the town's sewage equipment about delays the town had experienced in recent months and Hughes reported. “I think now maybe we ll get a little action out of those people. " Vote Postponed Reporting for the park department. council member Carol Koble noted that the town's gazebo would be dedicated in the near

future. Signs will also be placed in the park concerning recent problems with vandalism. In a related matter. Koble asked whether a vote could be taken on the park board’s proposed budget, submitted last week While any decision made wouldn't be final until the budget

Town council correction It was incorrectly reported in last week's The Mail-Journal that "some board members expressed concern over an escalating park department budget” during the July 11 meeting of the Syracuse Town Council. Only one council member had contested the increase during the budget meeting. The MailJournal apologizes for any inconveniences this may have caused

Economic development presented (Continued from page 1) Those receiving awards were: Noble Roman's, for beautification: Added Touch, for beautification: Kentucky Fried Chicken, for beautification: McDonalds, for beautification: Judy Wallace, appreciation for answering the chamber phone; and Carol Wallace, appreciation for her former secretarial duties and help Cotton announced the election results for the chamber board Those elected were Jeanne Gar diner, Ernie Rogers and Bob Troutman The President's Award, an award given to a chamber member for having “gone that extra step on behalf of the chamber.” was presented to Gardiner by Cotton Following his introduction as the new president of the chamber. Jim Caskey presented Cotton w ith a plaque thanking her for her dedication and service to the chamber Tests should be in writing Jon Cupp, chief administrator and head sanitarian for the county health department, says he's “not quite sure what's going on out there." but the department has received a number of requests to test, private wells for ■health threatening contaminates." The health department has issued some advice to protect both the companies that lest water and residents Residents should have the results from water tests put in writing The location of the well, and the name and address of the water testing firm are also needed. "I think that protects the water treatment people as well as the home owners." says Cupp He adds he cannot do elaborate water testing on the basis of "verbals "

z * Flirt* tl REAL MEALS DIRECTOR — On Monday. July 24. the REAL Meal Services will begin in Milford. To be held at the Community Building five days each week, meals and entertainment will be provided for senior citizens on a donation basis. Providing entertainment for the first REAL meal will be the Kosciusko County Mellow Aires. Darla Koutson. left, of Milford is the new site director for the meals. Mrs. Koutson .will be in charge of the program and serving the catered meals. Also pictured is Norma Roose, county coordinator for REAL Services. Persons wishing to make reservations for next week s meals should contact Mrs. Koutson, Thursday and Friday at 658-9702 between 10 a.m. and 2p m. (Photo by Stacey Lesch >

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was placed in ordinance form, a formal hearing was held and it was advertised, Myrick expressed concern over approving one department's budget separate from the others'. “If we get to the final budget meeting and have to do some cutting it won’t be fair to the other departments," he suggested. The council agreed to wait until a final special meeting, tentatively set for 6 p m. August 1, to act on each of the town's seven department budget proposals. A budget meeting next Tuesday will precede that meeting. In other business, the council adopted Ordinance 89-9, calling for an internal shift of funds in the police department, and Ordinance 89-10, targeting $47,000 from the federal revenue sharing fund for street paving that had been completed. The board's next regular meeting is scheduled for 7:30 p m. Tuesday. Aug. 15.

Sewer district — Readies application for additional grant funding

I By MARY JANE LORTON Staff Writer The Turkey Creek Regional District together with RayKocher. engineer with Howard Needles Tammen and Bergendoff. Indianapolis, readied materials for a grant amendment application in the regular meeting on Monday. July 17. The district is seeking additional funding as a response to the higher bids received from the contractors on the sewer project. The district's previous application to IDEM was based on engineer's estimates which were well below the actual bids from the contractors. In order to amend what they have already applied for. the district is preparing this grant amendment application In a previous meeting. Kocher reported to the board that additional monies were available from state and federal grant funds Robert Jones, president of the board, and Dr. V. Logan Love, secretary, both signed the application for the grant amendment. The application, which includes an updated statement of project costs along with additional information requested by IDEM and information compiled by the engineers, will be hand delivered to the state office. Kocher noted that he thought the contractors' profits and overhead were reasonable with state standards and therefore the state should accept the bids. -• Revised Costs John Julien, representative from H.J Umbaugh and Associates who are rate consultants for the projecj, presented the board with revisions on project costs and funding

I ■> ■ ITEMS TAKEN IN GAME ROOM BREAK-IN — The break-in and theft of items from the game room at Jeilystone Park, Pierceton, is still under investigation by the Kosciusko County Sheriff's Department and Indiana State Police. Sometime between 10 p.m„ July 12 and 10 a.m„ July 13. unknown persons pried open the door to the game room on the campground property. Once inside 14 video games, one pool table and one juke box, owned by Diitz and Sons. South Bend, were broken into. Approximately SI,OOO in quarters were taken from the games. Also taken were two dozen miniature golf balls, one set of billiard balls, and 100 45 rpm records. Damage to the video games was estimated up to $5,000. The photo shows what campground officials found last Thursday morning. ( Photo by Deb Patterson)

estimates and a few schedules for discussion Julien told the board that it will cost approximately $700,000 to pay the interest on the bonds and to compensate for operating and overhead during construction. Since the district is without a source of revenue, it has two options for payment. The district can either borrow the money prior to construction or raise it in some other fashion. With that. Julien presented two options to the board. If the board decides to borrow the money, then the debt service charges would be tacked onto user charges making the monthly charge after construction approximately $47.35 per unit per month according to Julien's figures. Kocher noted the engineer's estimate amounted to $39.65 per unit per month. (An ar-

Juvenile justice seeks support

I By KATE WOLFORD Staff Writer Representatives from the Kosciusko County Juvenile Task Force. Inc. and the county juvenile shelter met with the county commissioners on July 18 and requested $26,096 in county support for their-project. The funds were granted pending county" council approval. The council provides the final word on all county funding. In 1988. the shelter provided care for 122 youths and to date, in 1989. 97. The facility shelters youth, ages 10 to 18. from several counties and Kosciusko County has a usage rate of 22.5 percent out of 100 Like other counties that support. including Noble and Whitley. Kosciusko County is being charged a per diem rate of $39 as of this month That’s an increase of $9 from this year's rate. Supporting counties do so by donating funds outright through budget allocations. Those counties who do not allocate funds for the project will be charged $65 per diem, up from SSO. The big increase in that per diem rate is a result of a desire to force non-supporting counties to Police budget reviewed at Milford The Milford Town Council held their first informal budget meeting on Thursday. July 13 at 7 p.m and the town's clerktreasurer. Monica Bice, commented. “we accomplished a lot.” Council members met with Town Marshal Dave Hobbs and reviewed the budget for the police department. In addition, they checked over the budget for the park department and took a preliminary look at what the fire department had prepared. Bice noted they will review the fire department’s budget more carefully at a meeting on Wednesday, at 7 p.m., when representatives from the department will be present Following these reviews, the council decided to meet again on July 18. 19 and 20 On Tuesday they will be meeting with Dallas Winchester II to discuss utilities’ budgets, as well as taking a look at the budget for the town hall On Thursday. Bice said they hope to use the evening to "wrap-up” their preliminary budget findings

ticle in the November 23 issue of The Mail Journal reported that engineer's estimates for monthly user charges were between $35 and S4O per unit, per month.) The second option is to raise the money in some other manner and according to Julien this would mean a partial rate. According to Julien's figures, this would mean paying $22.75 per unit per month during construction (they have estimated an 18-month construction period) and $41.70 per unit per month after construction. Julien's figures, although based on the most recent figures available, are still estimates and may vary During the discussion of these two options, a third was suggested. Instead of a partial rate, the possibility of a capital assessment, or an up front one time payment was suggested

begin support. Elkhart is one county with a high usage rate at the facility. It does not however, provide outright funding. Enhanced 911 The commissioners also discussed the enhanced 911 rate

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A partial rate was suggested as a possibility in earlier meetings of the Turkey Creek Regional Sewer District according to Richard Green, attorney. At that time, the board of trustees resisted the idea as they were working with the engineer's figures which were considerably lower than the actual cost of the project. The bids came in at $2.3 million over the projected estimates thereby raising the local portion over one million dollars. No action was taken on the proposals made by Julien. Green pointed out that a decision will have to be made at the time the district begins working toward the bond sale which is "a couple of months off." In addition. Green noted the board will be considering all options in order to ultimately keep the rates down

at the July 18 meeting but no deci sions were made concerning when the rate will be advertised. A $1 surcharge rate was tentatively set at a July 13 county council meeting. The rate, however, is not definite and could be lower. Commissioner Charles Lynch had given 86 cents as the break even rate for a surcharge