Estherville Daily News (Newspaper) - February 6, 1976, Estherville, Iowa 3a-pis Supervisors Table Eye County Levy Estherville S Dispatch Aid ESTHERVILLE - The Emmet County Board of Supervisors refused to make a decision Thursday in regard to the City of Estherville's request for in county funds to help pay operating expenses for police dispatch Also tabled was the city's request that the county pay per month rental for jail facilities as compared to the present charge of ppr THE COUNTY board met Thursday with Estherville Mayor Elmer Armstrong Mayor LeRoy Mayor Arnold and Gruver Mayor Clyde Hall and other city officials from Representatives from Dolliver were invited but not City Planning and Construction Engineer Steve told the county board that it would not be for each city to run its own jail and the county to run a county He said the city is requesting a dispatch service fee from the county for the first time in order to discuss efficiency and to help the city cut down its Woodley said the fee is based on the 125 hours per week that the city currently must operate a dispatch service for the county when the sheriff's office is ROBERT Estherville chief of said a policeman must be on duty to run the dispatch service during evening hours because the dispatch equipment is in the jail He said Students Suffer Cites Deficiencies Of Lincoln School ESTHERVILLE - classrooms themselves are said Carla Ridout about the Lincoln Elementary there lot of extra things that the Lincoln students just do not Mrs. Ridout taught in the Lincoln School for two years and currently serves as a substitute teacher in Demoney and McKinley Elementary there is no students have to eat in rooms on the main If those rooms get too some students sit on the floor to eat their Eating in the rooms causes odor and a mess because the janitor has only a limited time in which to clean up after Can you imagine the smell in a classroom all afternoon where maybe 40 students had a lunch of sauerkraut and Mrs. Ridout ANOTHER DRAWBACK is the room in the basement of the bad the students have physical education on the cement floor of that During the spring and the fall the cement floor but that room and outside are the only two physical education areas the students addition to physical the room is used for music and as far as there are To make things students in the kindergarten right next door to this must go through the multipurpose room to go to the It must be disrupting for a music teacher or physical education teacher to have to put up with the constant interruptions of students walking through a THERE IS ANY kind of the students all crowd onto the cement floor in the There are wall-to-wall leaving almost no room for a are now bused to another school to see programs during the but that is an additional cost to the Mrs. Ridout pointed She added that the kindergarten teacher must compete all day with the noises from physical education classes and from music ANOTHER DRAWBACK IS THAT the restrooms are all in the any child is at all or if someone breaks a leg or sprains an ankle during rhe school they have a lot of stair steps to she Lincoln does not have any kind of room which can be used by teacher's aides or by professional There is one room on the top floor that is used as a central storage art supply teacher's sick and it is used by the psychologist and speech The room is heated only by an electric space remedial reading and learning disability students meet in another small room on the top and that seems to work out pretty MRS. RIDOUT the art teacher has to store her supplies in the storage room on the top there are certain things that students at Lincoln just cannot do for art. The teacher has a limited storage space and there are just certain things you can not do when she has to haul all the supplies for every art With a new art could be held in one room with all supplies in that Another item that Lincoln lacks but McKinley and Demoney do not is a central room has its library but that takes up a whole corner of the room which could be used for perhaps a science HEATING AT THE SCHOOL is not commented Mrs. the kind of furnace that Lincoln heating is just not One room may be very comfortable while another is 60 and that gets kind of chilly for students trying to She added that students rarely get to wash their hands in hot The classrooms themselves have recently been painted and wallpapered to make them more she and added again that the rooms are adequate and do serve their is just that a new school would give us the extras that the other two elementary schools Students would not be forced to eat in the classrooms and forced to put up with the food smell all Music and art classes could be held without constant and restrooms could all be on the same - By CONNIE DAVIS dispatch operator considerably more because he might have to help policeman subdue a Seylar said if the county were to try to run its own dispatch service the additional 125 hours per week the sheriff's office is presently it would cost the county a minimum of This is considering minimum wage of per hour plus social security and retirement This would not include the cost of hospitalization and accident Seylar said county would need a minimum of four fulltime employees and one parttime employee for such an ARMSTRONG MAYOR LeRoy Opsal told the board that it is his personal opinion that towns in the county have been getting by for law enforcement costs from the service has always been said would say Armstrong does get benefit from the county sheriff's department and from the dispatch service operated by He said he personally feels all cities in the county might want to consider helping fund the dispatch Opsal also pointed out that his city frequently makes use of Estherville's jail our prisoners are bought to said problem that we have is most of the prisoners are not from and many are from out of We have always received RINGSTED MAYOR Arnold Jensen commented his community also receives benefits from the dispatch service but said Ringsted rarely brings any prisoners to Estherville for Supervisor Ralph Rouse questioned how much longer the city's jail facilities will continue to pass inspection and noted that the last grand jury report was not have budgeted to remodel the noted repairs we are going to make exceed the grand jury's County Auditor Mildred Danielson reported the money for the dispatch Official Newspaper For All Emmet County service may have to come out of the general county She noted the county is presently levying 81 cents per of valuation for the general county the maximum allowed by She also said an emergency fund may be if but noted the county has avoided this for the last several WOODLEY ALSO told the board the city's budget has already been prepared assuming the county will go along with the dispatch service fee and the increased jail you do not agree to said will have to figure out something The city needs the - By RON BALDWIN AILY NEWS 105th NO. 86 51334 FEBRUARY 6, 1976 COPY 15* Ford Proposes Cut in Program School Lunch Crisis ESTHERVILLE - Increased prices or empty plates face over 2,300 County students who eat hot lunches at school if President Ford's latest budget proposals are Included in the President's proposed cut in federal spending is an million reduction in funds for child nutrition Bern 1jf^#uKij&., Instruction's director of child nutrition ESTHERVILLE COMMUNITY School District serves an average of 1,500 meals daily in its hot lunch program at a cost of 40-cents to the Armstrong Community Schools serve an average of 400 also for 40-cents. Ringsted Community School District serves an average of 180 meals Terril Community Schools an average of 340 meals and Graettinger an average of 460 meals all at a cost of 45-cents per Lincoln Central Community School serves an average of 250 meals daily at a cost of 50-cents. SALE PRICES of children's lunches would need to increase at least 23.5 percent to offset the loss of federal and says volume the sale price would necessarily go up The question is whether parents would pay from 75 cents to per lunch for their The average price of school lunches for the 460,000 students using the program in Iowa is 45-cents. The maximum that can be charged is 50 INFLATION got out of whenever lunch prices were raised five cents the participation would drop five Carpenter don't know what they would do with an increase of 25 cents at one Participation in the school lunch program includes 75 percent of the students at 90 percent at Lincoln Central 80 percent at Armstrong and and 95 percent at - By CHUCK Master On School Board Agenda Plan Benefit Dance For Emmet Pageant RINGSTED - A benefit dance to raise money for the Miss Emmet County scholarship fund will be held May 15 at the Ringsted American Legion with music by 'The from Guests for the dance will be Betty the reigning Miss along with other area reigning queens of local Tax Meeting Monday at LC GRUVER of the Lincoln Central School District will be holding a special meeting to consider holding an election on a special tax levy to help meet the budget of the school The meeting is scheduled for 7:30 Feb. 9 at the Lincoln Central School building in Fitzgibbons Assistant preliminary Miss America Other queens will be Miss Kossuth Miss Forest Miss Miss and Miss Emmet Sheree Miss Emmet County Pageant Committees will meet at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 9, at the Ringsted Telephone to discuss ticket sales for the dance and other aspects of ths ESTHERVILLE - The proposed master contract for the Estherville Community School District will be considered by the Estherville Board of Education when it meets in regular session at 7:30p.m., Feb. 9, in the Board Meeting Room at the Middle The contract calls for increasing the B.A. beginning base salary from the present to for 1976-77, a 6.3 percent Overall salary and fringe benefits will be increased by an average of approximately 8.5 percent for the 124 employes represented by the Estherville Education THE BOARD WILL also consider a proposed change in the district's Driver Education will discuss and approve job descriptions for several positions in the school and will review a letter to the school budget review committee concerning a March 25 appeal for program In the board will review another letter to the school budget review committee regarding special education costs which had previously been funded by the county school will hear a second quarter update on progress made on the job targets the board set for the 1975-76 school and will review a letter from the State Board of Public Instruction indicating that they will meet Oct. 13, 14 and 15 in IN OTHER the board will accept letters of resignation from Diane Perry effective Jan. 22, 1976, parttime high school special education and Don business effective June 30. The board will also consider a recommendation for reducing the number of fifth grade teachers from six to five and adding an additional high school social studies teacher for 1976-77. Board members will also review the tax implications of the proposed new elementary school building before going into executive session to discuss personnel T T j f t o U.S. Attorney Flan Land Use seminar Tuesday in Estherville ESTHERVILLE - The Emmet County Extension Service will sponsor a Land Use Policy seminar from 7 to 9:30 p.m. Feb. 10, at the Gardston Hotel in meeting will examine some of the present tools and resources available for guiding land use policy and for planning land Gene Emmet county Extension director Current tools for guiding land use policy will be discussed by Paul M. Extension specialist for government Iowa State Using soil resource information for planning land use will be discussed by Gerald A. Extension agronomist from Iowa State Louie O. Extension resource development specialist for the Northwest Iowa Extension will talk on Use Your and Eber W. Extension economist from Iowa State will talk on Can Farm Land be Preserved for Food DES MOINES - John Murray 26, son of Mr. and Mrs. Francis was sworn in Friday as an assistant U.S. Attorney for the southern district of He was sworn in before Judge William C. federal district in Des The southern district includes the southern half of Iowa with offices located in Des Fitzgibbons received his JD from the University of Iowa's law school in 1975, and has been employed as an assistant County Attorney in Polk Des He did his undergraduate work at St. Norbert graduating with a BA in Scott son of Mr. and Mrs. Willard sweeps the snow away from a neighbors sidewalk following the inch of snowfall that blanketed Estherville and the surrounding area Many such as Wintertime Chore have not been able to earn much money from sidewalks this winter because of the few - Photo by Connie Davis
