Kokomo Tribune (Newspaper) - August 15, 1993, Kokomo, Indiana Humphrey leads Womens Golf Tourney Vol 142 No 336 Kokomo Ind KOKOMO Sunday Aug City wants county to pay share 3 departments involved Tribune staff writer Howard County isnt fulfilling its obligation to jointly fund three county operations and Kokomo want some changes The County Plan Commission Civil Defense and Weights and Mea sures offices operate on a budget made up from both county and city funds The county and the city have an agreement to pay 50 percent each of the plan commissions budget However the city allowed the county to reduce its contribution to percent this year that later reviews may call for reduc tions in the office according to a let ter from City Controller Rick Phil lips The city cant continue to cover the percent the county has been for given throughout this year according to Phillips letter Its already added up to more than so far The city now wants to reduce the problem by terminating one em ployee Plan Commission planner Jimmy Carter Phillips sent a letter to county com missioners describing the problem and telling them that Carters last day would be Sept 3 and that the county will be expected to pay its 50 percent from then on But County Commissioner Dave Griffey said hell do whatever it takes to keep Carter on the payroll Phillips states in his letter the layoff could be avoided by the county pay ing its share and fulfilling its obligations in the other joint of fices Griffey points out that the county provides office space and pays ties for the joint operation While the two governments try to find a solution Plan Commission Di rector James Daily looks for ways of his own to keep his office intact We cant do the job with just two Daily said This should The plan commission office has a director assistant director planner and two secretaries Carter takes care of meetings site plans takes calls and changes zoning rulings on maps He also knows the computers better than anyone else Daily said Daily hopes to submit a request to the county council Aug 31 to rein state salaries to original 1993 bud levels the rate before a budget cut Other county offices that used sal ary reductions to meet the cent reductions have had salaries re instated by the council upon request Daily also will ask the council for the rest of the money to cover this years expenses although he doesnt know what that amount is yet There is no itemized budget in the auditors office showing what was cut he said Daily said its not just the loss of a person but that this situation has hap at all upsets him Daily prepares the annual budgets and submits copies to both the city and county The city has its budget session before the county and re views the proposal giving its ap pro valor changes The county then can make changes before sending it back to the city for review But Mayor Robert Sargent said that Whatever the city recommends the county has the authority to make Sargent said Since Daily said he only hears back from the city he follows the budget it approves That has led to the problems of to day Sargent isnt too concerned that the two governments cant find a way to solve the problem Well get it worked out one way or the he said They must come up with their No employment terminations have been suggested for the Civil Defense and Weights and Measures offices which also have been by the county The two offices operate on cent funding from the city and 45 per cent by the county In his letter Phillips warned the county that it must begin paying its 45 percent Sept 1 Altman acquitted in scandal NEW YORK AP A jury ac quitted Washington lawyer Robert Altman on Saturday of a fraud that prosecutors said allowed the outlaw Bank of Credit and Commerce International to take over a bank Jurors found Altman 46 innocent of four counts of engaging in a scheme to defraud bank regulators and of submitting false records for filing with regulators Prosecutors had charged the deceit allowed whose customers in cluded dictators and drug barons to secretly gain ownership of a major bank First American Bank shares Inc of Washington The de fense said never controlled the bank Five other counts accusing Altman of engaging in a conspiracy with taking bribes and falsifying business records had been dismissed earlier Both the jury and members of Alt mans family erupted in tears as the first of the verdicts was read in court early Saturday evening after a tense wait wife actress Lynda Carter leaped into her husbands arms moments after the jurors were excused My husband has been innocent all along and 12 people just proved said Carter who played Wonder Woman on television The only fraud that was committed was by the DAs office in New A beaming Altman thanked every one in the courtroom This is a prosecution that never should have been he said The government put on a five month trial and we put on a ute After the acquittal Altman his family and lawyers met the jurors in a courtroom hallway and a noisy jubi lant scene ensued Most jurors ap the Altman family or law yers and hugged them The family profusely thanked the racially di verse and fourman jury This man was innocent from the start from the very first said one of the jurors Internal Reve nue Service employee Ricardo Pala cio Mud in the SHARPSVILLE Ind Kokomo and Jennifer Grider of the Chippendale mud vol team go through extra efforts to keep the ball in play of six players water and mud A seventh player rotated in and out giving flayers time to wipe their faces A mud volleyball tourna ment was part of the sixth annual Bee BOP Build Our Park Festival at the Sharpsville Park at Main and Walnut streets Tribune photo by Anne Farrar Consolidation plan stalls Bishops approval is necessary before moving forward ten proposal released in May by line Sell said the reason is likely not believe the delay in Tribune staff writer leader Piccolo work linked to the of Tribune staff writer Planning for the eventual consoli dation of Kokomos Catholic schools has been stalled until the bishop of the churchs local diocese grants his approval And the Rev David Hellmann of St Joan of Arc Church said the tenta tive plan has been to wait until Hell mann returns from an upcoming sab in November to proceed with plans that were originally to be gin in the spring A committee including ners and school officials from St Joan of Arc and St Patrick churches in April completed an study considering whether to consol idate their two schools That groups findings were that St Joan of Arc and St Patrick schools should consolidate beginning the 199899 school year According to the committees writ ten proposal released in May by group leader Eugene Piccolo work toward that consolidation was to be gin last spring with the formation of an implementation committee This summer a consultant was to be hired to help in working toward the planned consolidation But Hellmann said no such work has been done on the plan because lo cal church leaders are awaiting the approval of the Most Rev William Higi bishop of the Catholic Diocese of who last year requested the local study We really are like his Hellmann said of the local Catholic church leaders role in relationship to the bishop Higi was out of town last week said his assistant the Rev Robert Sell vicar general of the diocese And although Sell said he had not spoken to Higi about why the bishop had not yet responded to the Kokomo Catholic school consolidation out line Sell said the reason is likely linked to the reorganization of two of the dioceses offices in Lafayette Aug 4 the dioceses Pastoral Of fice for Youth Formation which Kokomo Catholic leader Piccolo had directed merged with the dioceses Office of Worship and Adult Formation And Piccolo left his position for one with an out diocese leaving no one di in charge of school affairs for the Lafayette diocese Sell said he believes Higi is waiting for someone to take over ity for local diocesan school affairs under the new office arrangement so the bishop may give that person his response to the Kokomo Catholic schools plan Piccolos replacement will be found at the earliest possible Sell said noting only the bishop could give an exact date by which someone will be hired Meanwhile Hellmann said he does not believe the delay in planning the local Catholic schools consolidation will cause the merging of the schools to begin later than the estimated 199899 year A committee of parishioners has been assembled at St Joan of Arc Church to oversee a building addition to that churchs existing school That project part of the St Joan of ArcSt Patrick consolidation proposal is at the stage of assessing facility Hellmann said And Anthony Barrett principal of St Patrick School agreed that delay ing a fiveyear plan only several months should not affect its outcome Although Barrett said the two schools may look for ways to more closely work together during the 199394 school year in anticipation of the coming consolidation Its basically a now Were on Inside today Local Sen Richard Lugar proposes a medical sav ings account Page 6 Sports Greg Norman holds lead head ing into final day of PGA in To ledo Page 21 Also Inside Business Classified Local News of Serbs leave mountain MOUNT IGMAN govina AP With NATO attack planes overhead Serb forces ended the occupation of strategic Mount Ig man on Saturday in a move that could help restart peace talks and ease threats of Western intervention Only a handful of soldiers re mained on the mountain past the deadline to withdraw officials said they no longer repre sented a threat to Sarajevo to the northeast All is going according to said Cmdr Barry Frewer spokesman for peacekeepers NATO had drawn up plans for air strikes against Serb positions if they failed to ease the siege of Sarajevo including withdrawing from Mount Igman and the more distant Mount Bosnian President Alija Izetbegovic has boycotted the talks in Geneva for almost two weeks be cause of the impasse Only about ISO Serb soldiers with one tank and two armored vehicles remained on the eastern edge of the withdrawal zone still awaiting orders and transport to leave The company was not a danger for or Bosnian government troops said Gen Francis Briquemont com mander of forces in Bosnia Both sides have promised to realize this he said In an apparent warning the Western alliance is serious Tomcat air craft and two A6 Intruder naval bombers buzzed low over the moun tain as the deadline approached Four bombs were clearly visible under the wings of the Intruder About 250 French troops will pa trol the mountains and control check points and roads officials said The Bosnian Serbs destroyed the Igman area before departing Plumes of grey smoke billowed where hotels ski lodges and other structures used during the 1984 Winter Olympics were burning Others had been blown up We dont want the Turks to use them ever a Serb soldier Zo ran said using Turks as a derogatory reference to Muslims But as attention focused on Igman fighting broke out elsewhere illus the complexity of achieving full agreement on a parti tion of Bosnia Serb and government forces clashed around Doboj in north central Bosnia In Mostar in the southeast infantry clashes were re ported between rival government and Croat forces fighting was also reported around the central Bosnian town of Gornji Vakuf A Bosnian aid driver was killed by a snipers bullet in the cen tral town of Vitez officials said Up to are dead or missing in the war which broke out after Muslims and Croats voted to secede from Yugoslavia Serbs have been ing the city from Igman and but various other heights as well
