Burlington Hawk-Eye (Newspaper) - November 2, 1982, Burlington, Iowa income sourci match FM cant Library wants to book more rural bucks get rid of its sludge By Tom Seery It may not exactly be a major case of urban but unincorporated areas near Bur lington are growing faster than the city City library officials say that means rural residents need to pay more for library serv Library director Dan Zack Monday asked Des Moines County supervisors to consider at least doubling the countys contribution to the larger of the countys two public libraries the other is in The county now assesses property owners 6 cents per property valuation for li brary State Zack permits a levy up to 27 While Burlington residents comprise of registered library we are getting a great deal of increase in our registrations out side of Zack He said of his customers live in unincorporated most of them right outside the City Council budgeted about this year for the library about per city The countys contri bution averaged only about per rural resi Zack Residents of West Danville and Middletown paid about per capita for li brary according to library They are also taxed at the The difference means that Burlington resi dents are subsidizing a growing number of Zack said Monday at a joint meeting of the Library Board of Trustees and county Zack said the levy should at least be Zack said he would ask his board to recom mend a county levy of the full amount 27 cents per valuation with part of the increase to finance extension services outside the Supervisors Dick Joe Beckman and Irma Vance had little reaction to the but chairman Lewis asked Zack for a copy of the library a list of intended tures and an audited financial This is the first time Ive seen a set of complete fig or even a set of incomplete he I think all three of us are amicable to any reasonable Lewis added that the supervisors will seek a feeling from township trustees on the pro The Burlington library now gets 60 of the county with the remaining 40 going to the Mediapolis Zack said that formula may need to be I dont know how the other city and town ship governments feel about Zack but consolidation of library services and funding would be so much more Lewis said the county will begin discussing next years budget in early Zack said that might be too early for the library to come up with a specific John Gnm Fulfilling turnout voters queue at North Hill School polls Tuesday morning Turnouts heavy From local and UPI reports Des Moines County voters were in line Tuesday morning in line at the and in line with state wide forecasts of a record voter Poll workers in Burlington and throughout the county said a steady stream of people were Audi tor Dockendorff said calls from poll workers to her office in a heavy Another indication was that one of my clerks voted before 8 and said she was The polls opened at 7 and will close at 9 in More than of registered voters had cast ballots by 11 There are registered voters The absentee vote is 450 ally Dockendorff and usually indicative of the general election Many absentee votes are from residents of care fa in Burlington and the coun Janice a poll worker at the county care said 170 Flint River Township residents had voted by and more were waiting in At Marys West Bur 315 had voted by 11 Poll workers in Mediapolis and Danville also reported heavy turnouts of 168 and Across the lowans con firmed predictions that a ting 65 of the registered electorate will cast ballots in the hotly con tested gubernatorial and congres A spot check of county auditors revealed voting was heavy every with significant increases over the last election in both absentee ballots and attend ance at the Gubernatorial hopefuls Terry Branstad and Roxanne Conlin were among thousands of voters in the morning Hawk Eye digest THE STOCK sensing Republican losses in Tuesdays elec tions will not be exploded with big advances and heavy Page NEED SOME TIPS for choosing daycare See todays LIVING page THE PLAYOFF GAME between West Burlington and Pekin is pre viewed in todays SPORTS Page Todays index Classified Dr Editorial For the Hawk Eye Local Council halves fulltime staff Candys say Ax falls on planning staff By Tom Seery The Burlington City Council unanimously agreed Monday to cut the planning department staff from eight to four fulltime al though the Council admits it might have to hire temporary help next spring to help relocate Flint Hills Manor The staff reduction was recom mended by planning director Ken Velharticky and City Manager Lawley after the Council had in quired about department Velharticky and Lawley determined that while help might be needed temporarily in the the de is overstaffed in the inter FORECAST Windy and colder with slight chance of showers or snow flurries Northerly winds 1530 Low day snow flurries possible in the cold and High Thursday through below normal temperatures with little or no RIVER STAGES up up THE PLANNING department had about 20 employees during the heyday of federal housing and ur ban renewal programs in the But with the completion of the Maple Hills housing project and downtown depart ment responsibilities have of its salaries were covered in Department of Housing and Urban Development but HUD has put a 10 lid on the ad ministrative costs for the The city still is responsible for re location of a number of residents of the Flint Hills Manor housing Des Moines developer Malone and is buying the Manor and plans exten sive The city relocated about 51 fami lies this fall in conjunction with the first phase of the firms Be ginning next residents will have to be relocated during renova tion of another 97 rental LAWLEY TOLD THE Council that expenses would be minimized if temporary help is needed to nate We dont have any intention of hiring a 160anhour consulting he We will hire the people if they are necessary at that Mayor Jerry Rigdon said at Mon day nights Council We should make all of our departments as effective and efficient as pos Councilman Wayne Hogberg said he had deep regrets about dis missing four employees and also worried about moving Marshal Walz from assistant planning director a post to be to community development planner at less a effective Walz has played a central role in the Hills Manor I am concerned that if he seeks employ ment were going to be in a little bit of Hogberg IN OTHER the Council unanimously agreed to approve specifications and advertise for bids to renovate the city boat ramps north of the Port of Burlington City engineer Mike Rukgaber said plans call for placement of two 24x24 concrete allowing ramping of four boats at Ex isting docks will be and a floating dock will separate the two concrete West Burlington Police Chief Roy Sawyer said Monday afternoon that Burlington Medical Center showed no foreign objects in goods officers had seized in a weekend Remaining stocks of Clark Peanut Snickers and Milky Ways were taken from store shelves to BMC follow ing local several reports that Bur lington and West Burlington trick had found pins in their Halloween The tainted candy had been traced to Osco and Woolco stores in Westland West Bur Sawyer said the penalty for dis tributing dangerous substances is 30 days in or both and County Attorney William Dowell said more serious charges could re depending on the substance used and the resulting He said putting a lethal poison in a candy for could lead to a charge of attempted mur while implanting a razor blade could result in an assault Kids flee vapor DONNELLSON Gasoline va pors spread throughout the base ment and ground floor of the Cen tral Lee elementary school building at Donnellson Tuesday forcing dismissal of some 320 pu Ron Hofbauer of nearby Hofbauer Funeral Home said the lady who lives in the home here noticed a smell about We found raw gasoline in the sump pump in the basement and of course we had to shut off the fur nace and open the place Fortu we dont have a City Marshal Vic Conlee was reached by The Eye at He said the town has a raw gas leak forced into the storm sewers by ground We had the same problem a couple years We dont know the but weve got the problem area pretty well around the school and several The fumes werent bad enough to make the school pupils but they were sent home as a pre he Conlee said he was awaiting the arrival of assistant state fire mar shal Paul Tinder from Fairfield with sniffing equipment to zero in on the source of the By Michael Sweet MADISON The city of Madison has an indelicate dilemma it has nowhere to clump the sludge from its sewage treatment Its a a year problem that the city hopes to solve The problem started when the Iowa Department of Environmental quality refused Monday to renew the citys permit to dump sludge in the landfill north of DEQ officials say the waste has excessive mercury and zinc which might leach into under ground water Wastewater treatment plant Su Ed Merschman and city officials have scheduled an emergency meeting with DEQ We dont agree with their lations because our sludges metal content is fairly typical of other cities Merschman said The City Council discussed the problem during its meeting Mon and decided that it may have to pressure either in court or in the to lower its said DEQ wants the city to contract with area farmers to spread the sludge on but he said thats neither economical nor practical because weather and crops prevent access to fields for most of the The city generates 10 tons of sludge and there is storage for only about a weeks accumula tion at the riverside treatment Water line repair fees may shift MADISON The Madi son City Council split 43 on the first reading of a new ordinance that would require property owners to pay for all repairs to water lines serving their homes or The ordinance was presented dur ing regular session at City Hall Owners now pay for repairs to lines on their but the city picks up the tab from the property lines out to the city The ordinance was proposed to save the city A waterworks study showed it takes an entire manyear to repair and other Under the new ordi owners would have to con tract privately for repairs all the way to the city Council members opposed to the ordinance felt that it places too great a financial burden on property and want more public com Two more readings are re quired before the law is Next Council meeting will be West Point set to talk bonds for water plant WEST POINT The West Point City Council Monday agreed to open a public hearing 6 on a general obligation bond is sue to expand the water treatment Although the project is the re sponsibility of the independent utility Council must hold hearings before it can is sue bonds on the utility boards be The utility board has hired Gar den and Associates of Oskaloosa to prepare cost estimates and design remodeling of the existing plant to treat water from the citys three ex isting City administrator Henry Man ning said the citys well water has unacceptably high levels of iron and hydrogen which smells like rotten The state has not ordered the city to build a new Manning said the utility board feels that the work should be done Vote today Illinois polls are open until 7 until 9
