Post-Standard, The (Newspaper) - March 13, 1996, Syracuse, New York Taking aim under fire Police say keeping calm and firing a gun at an armed suspect during a Shootout is more difficult than movies let Foul play Solving murder mysteries on the THE CALL us Regional 470-2200 Auburn 253-7316 1-800-765-3231 253-5061 or 470-2072 1-800-765-4047 253-7316 CLASSIFIED PAGE Section Onondaga March 13. CNY NEWS State grants awarded to localities to help protect water AUBURN Three grants have been awarded to Cayuga County cants by the state Department of Environmental The village of Fair Haven will receive a grant to con- duct inspections of septic systems and construct a re- tention pond in the Little Sodus Bay The county Soil and Water Con- servation District received two One is for to install and vegetation for bank stabilization on the Owasco The other is for for in- of riprap and vegetation for stream bank stabilization at Dutch Hollow The DEC awarded million in grants to 28 local governments under its Source mentation Grants The grants pay for half of a project's Fisher resigns from office to take social services job Frank R. er ihas resigned as Seneca County assistant district tive April 12. will become a part-time attorney for the county ment of Social Services after ing the A Waterloo the Fisher has been an sistant district attorney since 1986. He is also in private tice with his Richard F. is a graduate of Waterloo High Ithaca College and the Vermont Law Poet to read work on Renaissance art at Weils College today Poet Kathleen Wakefield will read from her work p.m. tonight in the Art it Room of Macmillan Hall on the Wells College event is free and open to the reading will feature poems about Renaissance ings by artists such as Piero della Botticelli and naj Bonnie an art history professor at will provide commentary on the First safety class planned by Red Cross in Seneca County Seneca County chapter of the American Red Cross is soring a Community First Aid and Safety course on successive March and 25. class will be taught 6 to 10 p.m. at the Ovid Federated Main The purpose of the class is to train individuals and families to overcome any reluctance to act in emergency situations and to and care for ing first night will cover re- in an emergency and ing for life-threatening conditions in The second night child and infant skills will be and the last night will outline care for shock and den must preregister ami prepay for this course at the Ford Memorial Library in Ovid to 5 and 7 to 8 p.m. days and 2 to 4 p.m. 2 to 5 p.m. anU 9 a.m. to noon Saturdays or at the county Red Cross office in Seneca Enrollment is limited and closes 9. For more information 568-9436. Staff Reports Correction location of the arrest of an man charged with murder was ly Deported Charles cus 19, of 49 E. Main was apprehended for questioning West Main Street near the scene of the He was placed arrest at the County Sheriff's ment in Auburn Officer Faces New Allegations Chief Gary Giannotta says the new claims involve internal personnel matters and occurrences that date back two or more By TERESA STARR FUGIT The AUBURN For the second time in less than three a city police officer is the target of legations of inappropriate The new allegations involve dents several years and the statute of limitations could prevent any disciplinary Capt. Brian A. who was suspended with pay Feb. 23, is now embroiled in claims that he made anti-Semitic and other racist re- Chief Gary Giannotta But Neagle's Simon and Giannotta said the gations are in connection with dating back two or more Section 75 of Civil Service Law requires that an investigation must begin within 18 months of an unless it is a criminal they The new round of allegations in- volves offenses that are internal personnel Giannotta Last Neagle and Officer Christopher J. McLoughlin were suspended in connection with a window-breaking incident that curred more than three years The accusations against the two were the result of claims by The Citizen newspaper that it had an anonymous allegedly a lice to the notta The county district attorney's office is investigating those and no charges have been Giannotta said the new tions of inappropriate conduct initially on the chief allegations grew to in- clude others as Giannotta said he has talked with officers on all three shifts at the de- about the new The information he is getting does not involve any criminal he is about inappropriate ty that was allowed to exist and that was never he He said he is encouraging all cers to come to him with any con- number of officers have come Giannotta are relating to me various things that have gone on here in the The inappropriate he goes back six or seven seems to notta long as we're cleansing our let's do it and get it all officers are legitimately concerned about things that have gone on here on the afraid to bring them up be- cause they were generally Racist comments and behavior are not Giannotta Neagle and Moody met along with the dent of Auburn Police Local 195, Sgt. William Moody Neagle has asked Moody to represent him both in the criminal investigation being conducted by the district attorney's office and in the internal Moody said he has received no formal notice of any allegations in the internal School Security Among Topics The Auburn board discusses a variety of issues in preparation for presenting a budget By CARMEN LIVINGSTON The AUBURN City school board members Tuesday night discussed a number of in- computer technology and school as they pre- pared to put together a new They discussed such issues as the expansion of computer improved security in school buildings and the ity of bringing full-time ans back to elementary want to address but the current strategic plan needs to be more member rah Calarco will the equipment be We also need to look at security in all school Technology should play a role in And we also need a curriculum re- view so that we can say what we need on Districts will also need to cate more money for programs because the state has proposed spending district officials The board also discussed new tests that will be implemented in all state schools by the 1997-98 school The Auburn district will be able to work with the Onondaga which is a of the new but in-house training will be needed for all John board will need to be ad- trained in these new Sroka service training monies should not be because these are Y In-service funds for teachers were not cut in last year's Sroka elementary school librarians were According to some board pupils are pretty much on their own as far as research and library time are Sroka angered some board members by reading an mous letter addressed to which suggested that doing away with elementary librarians was a good The letter said without ians children now have a better sense of how to use the card catalog and have access to more Librarians had put some books out of the ter are no facts in this letter to base this board member Janice Ross the problem with this general type of A librarian recognizes what a student is capable of reading and where a student's interests STEPHEN 0. A RUN IN THE SUN Karl Aepelbacher of Fleming exercises along Skillet Road In the town as part of a five-mile run mild days are expected to continue across the state for several Council to Consider Baseball Pact An agreement with the Auburn management will be discussed By C. ROCKER The AUBURN The City Council Thursday will take a swing at newing its agreement with the management of the Auburn The council will consider ing the agreement with Auburn Community Baseball Association the nonprofit group that ages the team and Falcon Park for the The which would be for three makes ACB re- sponsible for preparing an annual The budget would include an estimate of the expected nues and expenses related to the operation of the the ment of the team and the tion and sale of team The city manager would work with ACB on fine-tuning the Leo A. acting dent of said he is excited about the upcoming think it's going to be a banner season like last year with our new he early tion of that is people are their season and I think it's going to be a good Mark general ager of the said he ex- to sell half of the 600 season The which opened last cost The team set an attendance record of in 1995. Opening day for the is June 18, and the club will receive a roster June 15, Harrington The formerly known as the Auburn competes in Class A New and its parent club is the Houston The council will also Authorizing the municipal director to provide a monthly update on change A resolution to authorize the replacement of a gas chlorinator system at the water treatment The cost is Authorizing an inspection of the Mill Street Dam Project to a requirement by the Federal Energy Regulatory The cost of the inspection would be Authorizing a public hearing for the discontinuance of a portion of Quill Services Director Fired Legislators vote against Frederick J. can't apologize for being zealous in doing my he By DAVID L. SHAW The AUBURN Despite sioned pleas from Cayuga County Legislature Tuesday voted to fire veterans services Director The vote was 10-5 to nate Vivenzio held the position since 1992, and his current salary is Nearly 60 veterans and porters of Vivenzio showed Many said that when they go the polls they will remember lawmakers who voted The Government Committee voted 4-1 last to not reappoint day night's vote by the full lature reaffirmed that urge you to reappoint Mr. Veterans have and he is always there to James D. Brewster of a member of Cato American Legion Donald C. county veterans services said Vivenzio is a not just a can't understand why may not be done a good job serving If there is a it can bei Reeves Vivenzio also saying he l is not a but an cate for can't apologize for being zealous in doing my apologize to the tors who feel this has I don't want the mise of the county County veterans advisory council member Luigi Lombardi urged to their can resolve any goes out of his I working all hours of the day to help August Able Jr. of Veterans of Foreign Wars has become a political I and it shouldn't issue taking care of Georgina deputy rector of the veterans will be acting director until a de- cision is made on the In other the ture voted 14-1 to hire a time attorney to work for the Department of Social Services and primarily to handle the collection of delinquent The resolution also the placement of three cial services attorneys under the direction of the county
