Marion Times (Newspaper) - January 25, 1996, Marion, Iowa Marion boys beat West Delaware in bask 600 LOCUS Bowling News Marion Times The weekly newspaper serving and INDEX Police Marions 4 750 January Marion City Council continues to struggle with exotic dance bar issue The good and bad of an Iowa By Duane Marion Times The Marion City Council entered its Thursday night regular meeting hoping City Attorney Don would give them some suggestions on how to prevent the Foxes Den exotic dance bar from opening They left the meeting without Hoskins told the council that after reviewing an ordinance from that there was no real way that Marion could pre vent such an establishment from opening The which was sub mitted to Hoskins by ember pornographic businesses that did not have a liquor license could be regulated by a com but could not be prohibited by the You could regulate how close they are to a church or school and what zoning classification they can go but they just prohib Hoskins The the Supreme Court says you must have a reasonable amount of territory set aside for such busi he You by the prohibit them by not having some appropriately zoned Hoskins also referred to a Coralville ordinance which allowed adult entertainment in just industrial Hoskins said it would be up to the council to decide if they wanted to limit such businesses to strictly C 3 or move them to industrial zoned This model ordinance would al low adult entertainment in any com zone and right now were only allowing it in Hoskins dont know if we want to expand that much of the area where these types of businesses can be lo Kay Lammers said she had heard the owner wanted to open his business by the January The owner has eight days to put the water line in and have it ap proved by the water said City Manager Jeff Were certainly not going to release any liquor license until that is he had heard that the state legislature was possibly working on a that could help out communities on such Hoskins later said even if there was such a the Foxes Den would probably be exempt from such It would only help in those situa tions where there is a beer and liquor he There is really nothing the state can do because the Constitution regulates Lammers said at the close of the discussion that maybe the best ap proach to the Foxes Den issue is to keep them off the frontpage and out of the Also at the meeting Julie Speral was appointed Mayor by Mayor Vic School Board discusses action to be taken towards students bearing firearms by Jana Wonderlin Marion Times The work session proceeding the January IS school board meeting focused on expulsion pro for students who bring a firearm onto school Matt an area out lined three procedures of what would happen when a student brings a fire arm to The classification of the student determines which sion are The classifications of students are de fined as a regular a special education and a regular stu dent who is identified as someone in need of special In the case of a regular education student who brings a firearm to the student is automatically suspended for up to 10 according to due there is parental notification that there will be a board Three things may be decided at the hearing The student is expelled for up to one an alternative placement is con or the student is not due to lack of When a special education student brings a firearm to is suspended for up to 10 During this an alternative placement can be found for the student for up to 45 school While the student is the student and his or her family may hire a lawyer to prove that the gun was brought to school as a manifes tation of the students If this is the student cannot be If it cannot be proved that the student brought the firearm to school as a result of a the student may be In this Boyson Road extension and new bike trail lead Marion Capital Improvements list By Duane Marion Times The Marion Engineering De will be looking to com plete some unfinished projects along with starting some new ones for the upcoming city construction According to Marion City En Mussman there ber of major projects on the board this One of the major projects was to finish last Mussman We have one more layer to put on 5th Avenue between 11th and 22nd streets and a layer to put on 12th Street between 10th and 14th Mussman said another major project is reconstruction on 10th Avenue from 14th Street to 31st Workers will also be repaying 6th beginning the 31st Street and 7th Avenue intersection and the Boyson Road extension from Albumen Road to 10th The latter two are scheduled for comple tion in July of Mussman said at some time in the next few years 10th Street will have to be improved because of how much the road According to the 10th Street bridge repair project is to have its final Marlon Times photo by Duane Willhite Marion area residents got a blast of winter January 18 as a major winter storm passed through dumping up to four inches of snow after it was Roads above were hazardous and many businesses closed early due to the dangerous Marion youth Colin LeBeau and his brother Ian right took ad vantage of the heavy snow fall to build this snow fort with the help of their father Marion Times photo by Duane Willhile the school must provide special edu cation to that student in an alterna tive If a regular education student brings a firearm to school and it is determined that the student has spe cial respon of the school to compensate for his lost special At the school board meeting fol Dale associate su discussed Advanced Placement Since 1992 to 85 of students who took the exams scored a a score at least equivalent to a B in a college Some kids have walked out of here as second semester college sophomores due to AP roe It was also decided to fund the program for the second se Wowing and Holit Cedar Rapids should follow Marions lead on selection of city government report done by July and then the city will have to wait and see what fund ing will be available from the federal As far as drainage projects we have a bunch of money targeted for the Squaw Creek basin Mussman We have to get a consultant in and figure out what projects we have and what order to do them The City of Marion will also try to have a bike trail completed this year which will extend from Hanna Park through Thomas and Legion parks to Boyson Our goal is to try and keep the projects on he By Duane Willhite Marion Times Over the past several months Ce dar Rapids residents and officials have engaged in somewhat of a de bate about which of govern ment would be best for the Should the city maintain its cur rent commissioner form of govern ment or should the city adopt a strong mayor form of government or a coun style of leadership While there are strong arguments supporting all gov itself since the early 1960s using a form of the Marion was growing quite a little bit with the development of Rockwell said Marion Mayor Vic who was just begin ning his involvement in Marion city government as a council It just becomes quite a bit to handle for a parttime mayor and parttime It just seems to make sense to have a city manager who can handle the daytoday operations of the city A true situation gives the city manager complete au of hiring and firing power with the mayor in a figurehead Council is elected in posi tions and the mayor is elected by the In City Manager Jeff Schott does not have complete power to hire and fire employees and the mayor is elected by the community and has more who has been Marions city manager since is respon sible for overseeing the day to day operations of the city and implement the policies set forth by the city It is also his responsibility to develop and prepare a budget to be reviewed by council and make sure council knows all of its options when making Schott is allowed to hire individu als for such positions as community development city engineer and public services He can only hire and fire police or fire chiefs with approval of the city Parks director he or fire with consultation with the Park Board and Library Director he has no au The Library Board has those Schott said he is aware that some people perceive the city manager as running the but adds that that is due to people not fully understanding the ins and outs of Particularly with the size of he A city with a population between and its very common to have a city with a city To have a city with a strong mayor what you need is a person willing to work full time and know the ins and outs of city They would have to know how to work with a million dollar know how to meet federal and state know whats going on with OSHA and personnel Its very Schott said in Cedar which is currently under a commission form of the proposal is to have a mayor and an administrative assistant to the mayor who is sup posed to be a professional city ad The disadvantage of that is the person will be hired and fired by the mayor and its going to be real hard to keep that position from being a pa tronage he Perhaps that wont happen but you can never
