Oak Park World (Newspaper) - July 31, 1977, Oak Park, Illinois If j 1 t % A ' ' % V M 9 NO. 44 SUNDAY, JULY 31,1977 Copy 25 WITH MURDER of an Oak Park Thomas Vanda was ruled fit to stand trial according to psychiatric reports filed in the case last The same reports contend that Vanda was insane at the time of the See story page 3, section 1. OAK PARK TENANTS Association is armed with objections and suggestions for the Oak Park Village Board of Trustees meeting on For the tenant group's plans to oppose the proposal of the village parking and traffic turn to page 3, section 1 RIVER Community skateboard contest lured area residents to daring See photos of their skillful maneuvers on wheels and in the air today on page 4, section 1. participants were awarded trophies for their All required to don safety DICUS or River Forest takes turn on Galen shares his reactions to his recent real estate tax on the editorial page of this Wednesday's He ponders what it would cost to hold the line on SCHOOL playground is in model Citizen's efforts to build a playground on the school ground will be featured in the WORLD The group has built a model and is ready to construct the full-scale the a Tempo Players of Oak Park pops will be presented at 2 p.m. July 31, at the Brookwood Country Club in Wood The concert features classical and ' popular OAK PARK CIVIC BALLET will perform at 8 p.m. on July 31 at the Oak Park Village Mall as part of the on the Mall models on village airplane buff Robert of Oak Park examines model war and sport planes on the Oak Park Village and John Cailey of Shaumburg are members of the Checkerboard Field Radio Controlled Model Aircraft Club featured on the mall July 23. The club exhibited about 40 scale including the in the which flies at 180 miles per For information about the call 788-4883. by Dan to consider licenses for liquor without special licenses that would allow liquor to be served without rood will be considered by the Oak Park Board of Trustees at Monday's The permit applications were recommended for approval in June by the Liquor Control granted by the the licenses would be the first of this type since Oak Park amended liquor The license formerly forbade the sale of any liquor and was amended in 1973 to allow liquor to be served with several banquet halls and one bowling alley hold liquor of Angle's and two restaurants planned Development Corp. for the former Montgomery Ward Co. building on the Oak Park Village applied in May for special liquor permits for facilities separate from dining application is seeking a license under what would become a new category In addition to applying for a regular liquor license for the liquor recommendation to approve the new type of license is not Intended to encourage taverns or bars In the according to Virginia village clerk and staff liaison to the liquor we're trying to do is accomodate requests from Ireland's towers revived by Stan Uns for highrise developer Stankus have chopped the rejected 37-story Oak Tower in half and revived an original plan presented in 1972. a Thursday session with officials from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Oak Park village representatives and the architects presented a plan for two 19-story buildings on the old Lowell school site at Forest Avenue and Lake copy of the alternative proposal was shipped immediately after the meeting to the President's Advisory Council on Historic which played a key role in killing application for insurance for the 37-story building rejected in The rejection by HUD was based on an environmental study that said the structure would have an adverse im pact on nearby historic shortened twin towers is Stan second attempt to obtain federal mortgage insurance through HUD and his third building proposal for the The first was proposed in 1972 to the Oak Park Village Board of who issued a permit for twin towers of 36 stories that expired due to lack of group is seeking an opinion from the advisory council within the A positive opinion would open the way for a at the next session scheduled for Aug. i. A memo randum agreement with the signa tures of advisory council and HUD officials would authorize a conditional permit for the mortgage finalization pending a second environmental impact study by order for Stankus to be federally another deadline must be met. The source of the Government National Mortgage will close no later than Sept. 30 and will not be able to undertake additional projects unless Congress reauthorizes the developer first must get past the advisory council before money becomes the pivotal is of the 1 think the alternative is much more acceptable to the general But we are waiting for a statement from the advisory said Oak Park Trustee William who attended the Thursday The trustees will not take up the matter until after it returns to Marshall the lawyer Tuesday withdrew an appeal of a March court ruling that disagreed with the developer that HUD was delaying his mortgage Paul lawyer for said his client's reasons for requesting dismissal are confiden 200 votes balanced for casual places without allowing them to become taverns or Cassin conditions would be attached to the she new permits would stipulate that drinking be located on ground that each must be auxiliary to a restaurant and that customers must be served and not stand or sit at a new in Oak 189 N. Marlon will also be considered Monday by the board for a liquor license that would allow only beer and Renner's opened in June and serves a German cuisine and MANN R. Oak Forest High School District 200 budget will be relatively balanced this according to John district business board of education approved a tentative 1977-78 budget at its regular meeting 28, attributes this year's bal books in the aftermath of last year's million deficit to the increase in funds taxpayers approved in the Dec. 1 new shows a 9 per cent total increase over the past The educational and building and maintenance listed at and have in creased a total of 8.7 per John Swanson informed the board last spring that the school would not be able to hold the education budget at the 1.9 per cent in proposed at the time of the without cutting presented the board with a proposal not to replace 22 teachers for the 1977-78 school His met with much The board then agreed to lift the 19 per cent may have had to exceed the limit this Swanson we still have a to the community to hold our He and his staff are still looking into areas for future expense staff salary increases account for 65.22 per cent of Edwards thing you have to remember in looking at a tentative budget is that it is filled with speculative fig Edwards of are are as protec live figures Salary are predictable elements of the budget because they are this the board was forced to amend its educational fund budget to meet it tightened reins to spend 2 1 per cent under the million it for the district will continue to Swanson said other we will be re 100 more students this year bringing our total enrollment to 4,260," he said our enrollment up it will be harder to cut tentative budget will be on display for for 30 days prior to Sept. 15. It will then be returned to the board table for any further adjustments and final offer criticized by Triton salary increases averaging 1.9 per for Triton College police were set by the college board of trustees Wednesday after negotiations with the force broke off in the annual increases ranging from to were a police spokesman criticized the handling of the contract settlement and said some kind of job action would be taken against the action is We will do but we have not decided what action to said the police spokesman and former negotiator for the 10-member board passed the police salary schedule at its regular Wednesday meeting by a 4-0 with one Trustee Sam Reda said he lacked sufficient information to new schedule established a range of to for seven patrolmen and a range of to for the three new salaries are retroactive to June 30, when the former two-year contract according to the new dissatisfaction with the new salary the police contend negotiators would not recognize Teamsters Union No. 714 as a bargaining After the police boycotted the last scheduled bargaining session June 27, they elected the Teamsters to bargain for but this move was not recognized by the board blames the lack of negotiations on the informed us they were not bargaining with us anymore and switched unions in the midst of said police spokesman contended that the police intend to keep tion with the Fraternal Order of Police and voted for an outside bargaining agent only for board took a it or leave it position on their 5 salary increase All we dia was elect a bargaining the He added that the police were not informed of their new salaries by the board before the new ranges were approved offered in the former contract has been said Fred vice president of Board President Robert Collins confirmed Gaskin's what we've done is extend the existing contract with the ex ception of some areas and increase the salaries by generally 1.9' per cent. Everything else is the said areas changed by the said tvere elimination of educational allowances of 3 to 5 per salary for three officers taking college courses and elimination of differ ing rates of pay for different shifts Neither is a common inclusion for police according to object to the new salary ranges because the former contract was based on years of experience in addition to a cost-of-living said the The new ranges have eliminated or experience he new range is an attempt to pacify the force by offering officers with the least experience big said the officers with eight to ten years with the force were given annual raises of either or the spokesman officer receiving a increase also received a title demotion from lieutenant to sergeant because the position of lieutenant was said the That sergeant is now in the process of filing a grievance with the said the contend they have lost all seniority which is denied by Collins spokesman pointed out that the previous contract included a first and a seniority clause is not listed new working salary schedule came three weeks after the board established new working conditions for the police at its previous Those conditions included force if by a merit system and established a pension plan and sick leave President SGT. 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