Wellsboro Gazette (Newspaper) - June 15, 1994, Wellsboro, Pennsylvania Inside The MARKETPLACE High Low The Wellsboro 65' per copy Upcoming festival events Academics outside classroom Snake hunt highlites Glimpses of graduation 1 2 Pg. 4 pg. 8-9 June 8 78 9 70 10 78 11 67 12 76 13 76 14 78 60 38 49 M 59 59 69 tr. tr. 1.04 1.13 Total for June 3.08 119TH YEAR NO. 32 JUNE 15, 1994 674-120) Honda may bring training center to Charleston Twp. by Natalie Kennedy Wellsboro may be the site of the Eastern Seaboard training center for the National Youth Program Using Minibikes Edith solicitor for Tioga County and the county Human Services briefed members of the Wellsboro ough Council on the matter at a meeting Monday Before the training center can be Wellsboro must agree to a sewer line hook-up for the proposed Charleston ship The township is rently banned from making any more to sewer lines as a The training center would re- quire one EDU ing or 265 gallons per said is a behavior cation program run by a non- private corporation that rewards youngsters with riding Honda America is the corporate and sole sponsor of providing and funding for the said Tioga County has had one of the strongest programs in the Two training centers are scheduled to be one in Los and another on the Eastern Despite unforeseen funding shortfall Wellsboro is Dowling The facility would include a central office area and two One wing would house two rooms and the other would be storage space for the Training for would be held during the mer In the county's own program would operate out of the same building for eight weeks in the There would be one year-round staff she right has good feelings for Wellsboro mainly because of a friendship turn to page 4) Southern Tioga ratifies budget by Jeff Fetzer The Southern Tioga School Board gave final approval to a million spending plan for the 1994-95 school year on day night that will hold the line on real estate taxes for the fifth consecutive But a shortfall in federal ing that was not known when the board approved the tentative budget at their May forced the district to choose be- tween laying off four full-time teacher aides or dipping into get reserves for an additional After a 45-minute executive session and subsequent lobbying by teachers and aides who would have been affected by the the board opted to retain the positions for the 1994-95 school District Superintendent Dr. Ronald T. Boyanowski gave a de- tailed presentation on Chapter 1 federal funding for the district over the past four school years and projections for that same funding for the next two Boyanowski explained that Chapter 1 which is in to pay the salaries and benefits of four teacher aides at Warren L. Miller School in will be cut by about in the coming For the 1993-94 school the district received about in Chapter 1 funding and had a carry over of in funding from the previous Funding for the 1994-95 MIT Council of Trustees chair calls for special meeting by John C. Heverly Mansfield Council of Trustees Chairman Thomas Ford has requested that a special meeting be called in addition to the ees previously scheduled meeting of June 21. In accordance with council of trustees Ford has re- quested that the special meeting be held from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. in addition to the other which had been scheduled to commence at p.m. The June 21 meeting of the trustees was scheduled when the council's quarterly meeting of May 26 could not be convened in accordance with the Sunshine Act. The trustee's meeting could not be convened because it lacked a or simple of Last week it was revealed that who was absent during the May 26 was in field on that whose attendance at that meeting would have given the council the simple majority it needed to conduct business refused to explain his ab- sence even in light of his ity to the site of the Ford said in a telephone inter- view last week that he could not attend the rescheduled meeting set for June 21 because he had to attend a Pennsylvania tion of Boroughs ence in Pittsburgh from June 19 through 22. Ford is an employee with the Pennsylvania Bureau of Supplies and Surplus within the ment of General Services and in- he would be in dance La a professional According to Myra an administrative assistant with the the deadline for ing confirmation by attendees of that conference was May 25. According to PAB re- no confirmation from Ford that he would be attending that meeting and has no other mentation which would indicate he will be attending that When asked about this ent Ford indicated that his confirmation was made by his secretary and the mation was probably made in her Another telephone interview with Ford was conducted on June 13, and he went on to indicate that while he still may attend the first two days of the PAB he will definitely be in attendance for council of trustees When asked for the reason his change of Ford reconsidered and I feel it is important for me to attend the Ford was then asked if the four-hour session prior to the pre- scheduled meeting was going to held as an executive closed to the public and the don't know that I would call it an executive session per just as with any if matters come up that require private one would probably be According to Scott press secretary for State System of Higher Education turn to 4) school year is set at and there will be a carry over of funds from the present school That amounts to a net loss of about of in funding for the district in the upcoming Boyanowski the picture becomes even more gloomier for the following In the 1995-96 school eral funding is set at for the and no carryover is That means the district will need to provide local funding to the tune of an additional in the 1995-96 school year to maintain the current level of A motion was made to please turn to page 4) photo by T. CLEVELAND WELLSBORO HIGH SCHOOL senior Thomas V. Johnson accepts his diploma from Dolores president of the Wellsboro Area School during ceremonies on Friday June 10, on the high school football Related stories and photos from area commencement exercises appear inside The Municipal officials eye joint purchasing plan by John C. Heverly Representatives of of the county's municipalities gathered in Wellsboro on Monday to begin a discussion on ways they can help one another and save money on road In remarks prefacing the group's Bruce president of the Tioga County sociation of Boroughs and a Mansfield borough think we can save some not to get fat bank but to help our Dart explained that the ing and concept of collective chasing had its genesis at the monthly meeting of the boroughs association in Elkland in During Monday's Mansfield Borough Manager Ed Grala explained that Mansfield and Richmond in view of the fact they are contiguous have been ing cooperatively in an effort to pave and maintain roads which they share jointly for several Grala was asked by Martin Wellsboro's superintendent of public you seen the price come Grala explained that mond Township had more road paving and maintenance ment than did Mansfield ough and that and the borough had saved money by permitting Richmond Township to in a contractor for the ough on some Dart then gave one example of a road repaving job performed by the township for the borough and They just sent us a and it was lot cheaper than what we could have done it Dart also indicated that even though a municipality may join with the other local governments participating in the cooperative purchasing they may simultaneously solicit and accept bids on their possibilities are endless if you work it out ahead of time and avoid crunch said Tioga County Commissioners Walter G. Barnes and William D. Hall were both in attendance at the and Hall aged those present to take their turn to page 4) Wellsboro parking woes resurface by Natalie Kennedy Parking woes continue to be the topic of discussion among elected officials in Wellsboro and those using the parking At the June 13, ing of the Wellsboro Borough a downtown business employee who admits to using metered parking all day re- quested help from Lori Ranck quizzed council about the lack of parking for ness She asked officials about handicapped accessible curbs for individuals and noted that meters don't track time For Ranck said she puts two climes in a meter for two hours of Sometimes she only receives 90 minutes before the meter shows Council President Michael Wood advised Ranck to inform police about malfunctioning reason is that a lot of parking spaces in downtown Wellsboro are taken up by em- he wouldn't be so bad except a lot don't put money in the Handicapped mainly the need for curb will be addressed within the next few Pennsylvania ment of Transportation will ad- dress problems along East enue sidewalks when tion of a highway project starts there in 1995. Ranck asked if it were possible to sell tags or bags for parking during the day or by the would be glad to pay for one month at a she That's not an option the ough can said areas are all public parking and we can't rent them he Monies collected from parking meters and through parking fines are used to maintain parking lots and continued The equitable way to do that is to levy a small fee on those individuals using the parking lots and meters in the downtown rather than increasing taxes for Wellsboro he Borough Secretary Patricia Russell later provided this paper with a list of revenues derived from parking meters and In 1993, Wellsboro generated from meters in the on Pearl from meters in the on Water Street and from street Fines collected last year totaled turn to page 4) Wellsboro School Board approves renovations to elementary schools br THE 1994 LAUREL Princess was crowned on June 11, and Ashton Whitnay won the Members of her court include Jessica Jennifer Ashley Baity and Brittany Np p A PF V V IS 5 5 i Soot maun by Natalie Kennedy but not renovations to make Wellsboro's two tary schools handicapped sible were approved at a school board meeting Tuesday night Contractors initially bid on renovations for and fire alarms at the Don Gill and Charlotte Lappla schools and for elevator installation at the Don Gill The Wellsboro Area School Board accepted bids total ing for restroom tions and elevator nt last night's The board approved the ject by a 8-1 Voting for reno which will start to bring the schools into compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Art were Dolores John Ted Linda Lenore Jerome Craig Morton and Clifford Harold Frantz cast the sole dissenting Bids were awarded Lobar Contracting of fur restroom renovations and pre- paring the shaft for the Schoonover Plumbing of for Port tor of for elevator The board deferred action on fire alarms in the schools hid for that project was questioned the saying he believed the budget and finance committee had re- moved it from the 1994-1995 cal He said that as long as the dis- is showing with fin intent to conform to ADA the district probably won't be Business Manager Robert Ulmer noted that taxes will not be increased in order to complete renovations at the two The capital improvement project will be paid for with monies from the unreserved fund locating this money will have no impact on any budget he Architect Steve Bottiger of State College originally mated costs for the entire project at Bids totalled a savings of over can be but as soon as the first person walks through the door and T need those intent becomes said board member Craig Horton Whether the board takes tion or continued the turn to page 4)
