Winslow Mail (Newspaper) - July 11, 1984, Winslow, Arizona Corp 3322 last 8. Lake UT Class Postage Paid at Arizona 86047 USPS 247-160 1894 Volume 91 Number 22 July 11, 1984 Copy 25 Supervisors Approve Tentative Million young fellow in tils traditional dress is part of the Winslow who performed on July 4 in The group is dedicated to preserving the Indian culture through teaching young men and women the dances that are performed for giving the young people a purpose while providing an alternative to idle by JoLynn Given This Paul Editor and you remember the famous song from which proclaims that Kansas City had progressed about as far as a city many times we all think the world has come up with all the good ideas and we can rest assured we're not we should stop and recall that a commissioner of ths U.S. Patent Office once believed that all the great inventions had been And so he proposed to Congress that the Patent Office be closed suggestion was made back in 1895. ^ can only wonder what he might think about the various advances in just about every field in the 89 years since And just think of all the changes that arc yet to take some pessimist comes along to say that America is in the sunset of its just remember that Patent Office commissioner and his rather limited vision of what our country is and can Time To of our troubles today is that we have a surplus of simple answers and a shortage of simple miscellaneous items were on the July 3 agenda for the Navajo County Board of Supervisors including the approval of the final plat for the Five Mountain three miles west of Winslow on North Park The development is to have 23 lots with private water wells and septic discussion and approval of a notice of intent to award a contract for construction on the Deep Forest Drive Two County Road Improvement was postponed until the July 17 supervisors was granted for the signing of a Bureau of Land Management agreement for the easements of county low bid from Western Machinery for approximately to purchase a screening plant for the engineering was accepted by the Only one other bid had been received for the equipment with a difference in cost of about supervisors approved the engineering department to over expend its landfill budget by during the current Jim county said the cost difference could be attributed to the additional in the area that had been They were used to handle the extra waste due to increase in population during the summer flood control work reports on the agenda were postponed ' until a future board session with the supervisors meeting in an executive session with the county attorney's regarding advice on work performed Dan JoLynn total primary budget for 1984-85 of million was tentatively adopted during last week's regular session of the Navajo County Board of with major taxpayers in the county sitting in on the review major county taxpayers includes representatives from the Arizona Public Terry Ven Root and Steven Santa Fe Jim Arizona Tax Research Loren Buddy and El Paso Natural Cas Jack Morgan and Tom the total proposed primary is allocated for the county's general for the total motor vehicle the total road the total revenue sharing general fund road fund and other the county's secondary including for the Navajo County Flood Control and for the Little Colorado Flood Control the total is The grand total of the budget tentatively adopted is in the general fund is a 5.5 percent cost of living raise in employee There will be 11.5 new positions allowed in the new budget with a total of 319.5 positions planned for the coming fiscal new budget is set up for a five member board of reported Ed county capital items planned for in the budget includes a mail vehicle for and word processor equipment for the department of In the assessor's a new vehicle is budgeted for along with three three terminals and a map Office furniture and equipment is scheduled for the county attorney's and for the board of supervisors two two equipment and office largest number of capital items is planned for in the engineering department with dump air survey equipment and heavy road equipment being the Pinetop Justice a computer system is being as an and though budgeted and not used in 1983-84, a microfilm department is again being budgeted for during the coming year at the parks two vehicles are being budgeted for the coming year as well as a variety of landscaping and irrigation materials plus road and parking lot sheriff's department has several vehicles budgeted for and computer terminals and programs are planned for the school superintendent's office and in the public welfare departments have office equipment listed as capital items idong with sets of books on Arizona Revised Statues and revenues listed for the fiscal year of 1984-85 include in sales the largest source of county This figure includes the in the special legislated 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 Continued with cloudy afternoons and chance of thunder The weather service recorded a trace of precipitation on July 6 and on July 7. for with Navajo County receiving million last The special one percent tax had been earmarked for the counties but for the the majority of the tax collected will be used by the state government's not figured in for the new the fees in the justice of peace offices and other fees charged the have been revised by and could mean a substantial increase in income for the The law and allowable amount of fees will be confirmed before the supervisors adopt the final budget which could be revised to reflect the increase in fees property tax rate for the previous fiscal year for primary property taxes was and the secondary property taxes was No information is yet available from the state on the assessed valuation for 1984, but using a one percent the estimated property tax rate for primary property taxes is and for the secondary property taxes at county says that the information is expected from the state in about a Once the county receives the assessed valuation the property tax rates will be figured and the final revenue figures for the next fiscal year will be figured before the budget's final said that the county expects some utility values to be lower due to the two percent reduction being ed by the Some though arc wanting the same red as the railroads received which would then transfer a large amount of tax payments to other classes of If the reduction remains at the two percent as outlined by the there would be a small difference in the taxing of properties other than the utilities over several years until the total reduction of 19 percent is of the major taxpayers complimented Koury on the well-prepared budget and its noting that in years it has taken seven to eight hours of reviewing to understand the expenditures being proposed and the estimated They said that it is difficult to estimate revenues until the state provides the necessary but even with the the budget was professionally prepared and chairman of the board of said the board is equally as proud of the skill used to prepare the new and thanked the different department heads and Koury for their presented budget was tentatively adopted as presented with a minor change in payroll for the clerk of the superior court budget to be made before final date for the final budget hearing was set for July 31, at 10 at which time the supervisors can adopt the 1984-85 fiscal year group of representatives from Baptist Hospitals and Health Systems was scheduled to meet with the members of the Winslow Memorial Hospital on Tuesday evening to discuss alternative management possibilities for the Winslow a related Hospital Administrator Ken Bengson said on Tuesday that a 6.4 percent rate increase will become effective on July 22. The increase is the first for the hospital since an 8.7 percent increase was instituted m November of 1982. rate increase will raise the average cost of a hospital stay to per up from the present average of The room rate will increase from a day to the Navajo County Board of Supervisors seeking to establish the formation of the Winslow Agricultural Improvement The proposed improvement district would encompass most of Ames and Bushman council reversed a i made two weeks which would have required the i engineer to draw up three of specifications for a possible ' station in the Desert View Continued On Page 6 Names New Mike Winslow City Council voted unanimously Tuesday night to appoint Frank Freeman of as the new city administrator effective July 23 or sooner if he is able to move to Winslow at an earlier Freeman's salary will be and the council will review his performance for a possible salary increase at budget time next The city will also pay up to in moving expenses for is presently a teacher in but he has served as the Meeker's town as well as the town manager of Ore. He has degrees in engineering and mathematics and has served as a as a planning and as a civil engineer for several primarily in selection of Freeman came after a relatively short executive session in which the merits of the four candidates were All four of the finalists for the city administrator position had previous municipal administrative other council James L. Currier was hired as a part-time jailer at a rate of per He will not be entitled to any benefits as a part-time working 19 hours per Currier has been very active in the Police Explorer council adopted a proclamation making July 13, Wettaw in Winslow and naming Wettaw a citizen of The Winslow Chamber of Commerce will be hosting a luncheon on July 13 and the proclamation will be presented to Rep. council approved the raising of the speed limit on a portion of Road from 25 to 35 miles per The request had been made several weeks ago by a resident of the area who presented a signed by most of the area's seeking the increased speed was granted by the council for the mayor to sign a petition which will be Back Madrid In Madrid Jr. successfully withstood the challenge of Terry DuBoise and retained his seat on the Winslow City Council in Monday's recall garnered 618 or approximately 53 percent of the 1171 ballots and DuBoise totaled 545 or 47 There were a total of six spoiled voter turnout of 1171 represented only 34.65 percent of Winslow's 3379 registered will now serve out the remainder of his four year term to which he was elected in 1982. Madrid Atten Music Vigil and Judy Campl of the Winslo Music termed the second annual event an if i financial crowd estimated at 6,000 ai tended the two days of music ia i Saturday and Sunday at Ho an increase of 2.'Xh: over last the musical t rock category was won by l a Fall of with Iron C tain of Flagstaff finishing and Winslow's Coda Good Ole Boys Winslow finished first in tiur country category and they were followed by Native Kustom Crown and The 1 tie Colorado River Band of judges decided to give a special award to the Faith Temple a gospel group from Win slow under the direction of da since it was felt they did not fit cither of tl aforementioned Bardsley of was judged best in the sul category and Vita el was breakdance was won by the Supreme Team they bested three ft her one from Winslow 8n;i two from to the fair's pro the crowd was generally very well behaved and seemed to enjoy Chief Frank Foley was in agreement concerning crowd There were three ar rests during the music but Chief Foley said they were all for minor were no serious the chief were just elated with the conduct of the he add Foley praised the efforts of the Arizona Rangers and the Police in assisting with crowd a sour note struck during the course of the music Apparently some time Sunday some individuals vandalized some of the exhibits at the Visitors Campbell said that funds will have to come from the pro of the Music to repair the She added that the vandalism may have also jeopardized the future of the at least at Hospitality
