Winslow Mail (Newspaper) - July 8, 1998, Winslow, Arizona has unusual A7 i Fl. i Al USPS 686-960 Postage Paid at Ariz. 86047 on 1894 105 40 Winslow, July 8th, 1998 Copy 35 by Tom explosive 4th of and area residents were treated once again the the 4th of July Fireworks at Emil Nasser Sponsored by the Winslow Soroptimist Club with assistance from many other organizations and this marked the final year for George McGuire to lead the shooting supervisors establish fair cost policy for Paula Rhoden Holbrook - The abandonment of a road right-of-way in the Heber area last February prompted the Navajo County Board of Supervisors to establish a fair cost policy for adjoining property owners June 22. Navajo County public works said the board had directed staff members to prepare a quitclaim deed and negotiate a fair market value with the assessor's office for the portion of Third Avenue in said the does not but indicated that the assessed of each lot would increase approximately with the addition of the abandoned road said there are several assessment methods One would set a base rate of for each road second method would compare the frontage road each applicant would receive in terms of fair market Recent sales in the Heber subdivision indicate a value of per front or for each 25' wide road segment be added to each said the actual cost of the property could be somewhere between the two He said that while staff members need to know how to value this particular road he was looking for direction on any future right-of-way parcel Williams said he was looking for a or the board would have to go through this procedure every County Attorney Mel Bowers said setting the base rate at could create a potential Page 14 school officials Tom results on the Stanford 9 test have been viewed as showing but local officials are withholding Winslow Unified School District said he hadn't had an opportunity to review Winslow said he and district principals will meet in August to review the Graham State Superintendent of Public said the most marked improvement appeared in mathematics where students scored at or above the national average and improved from last year at every grade said Arizona who were instrumental in writing the academic were to be congratulated for their can't dismiss this as anything but a sign that Arizona student achievement is on its way Keegan is cause for Stanford 9 taken by 536,254 students in grades three through 12 during March and is mandated by the Arizona This was the second year for the statewide testing Special education students and those with limited proficiency in English with individual education plans that do not require the test were to the Arizona Department of the Stanford 9 is a standardized with the same tests administered under the same As a each student's achievement is compared to that of a representative national sampling of public school students of the same age and grade tested in the previous Stanford 9 tests students in mathematics and following ratings are listed as At the school and district percentile ranks reflect the student's performance at Uie school or district compared to norming group for that grade and subject an if the school score is 39, it means that the student at this school scored better than 39 percent of the students in the norming Schools with ranks reported near the 50th percentile that the typical student performance tests is about average when compared with other students of the same It should be noted that the scores shown are not for any single but are an average of that child's grade in the respective invokes water conservation measures; supply not the Tom to mechanical the city of Winslow is residents to conserve water used for landscaping Roche director of the city's development services said the city is requesting residents to voluntarily adopt a practice of residents at even-numbered addresses watering lawns and plants on even-numbered calendar Those with odd-numbered residences should water lawns and plants on odd-numbered He said this situation should continue for about three or until a defective pump motor is situation is believed to have been caused by a defective motor in the city's main producing water Roche said workers were going to pull the motor this past and attempt to identify the specific known as No. 2, pumps approximately 1 million gallons per The city's five other wells pump approximately 3 per Roche said the city is presently using about 2.7 million gallons per the main producing pump he the city cannot maintain levels in the water tanks that affect water pressure and volume throughout the said there is no problem with the city's water distribution residents adopt the above schedule for landscape we can probably get through Roche school board board OKs million Tom its budget year coming to a the Winslow School District Governing Board approved a million budget for the coming 1998-99 fiscal The action was taken during the June 24 maintenance and the district is looking at and capital outlay totaling for a total of For maintenance 1.8 district finance manager Anne In the capital the district's five individual schools will receive the entire capital reserve total of said preliminary calculations show that the primary tax rate for district patrons will be 3.6017, down from 4.1675 for the current year even though the district experienced a reduction in its primary assessed the secondary tax rate will increase to 4.4040, up from the present 3.5016 due to a reduction in the secondary assessed Although preliminary their disclosure at this time is required by the Truth in Taxation discussion regarding the 1997-98 Rickstrew said two items exceeded budgeted She said higher than expected natural gas bills and unexpected pupil transportation needs caused the These increases must be reported to Navajo County School final public hearing and proposed budget is scheduled for 9 July 13. other the the second reading of Governing Board Policy increasing the number of credits required for graduation beginning with the incoming freshman the donation of a freezer and supplies from an anonymous donor to the Future Business Leaders of American chapter at Winslow High a report from Dr. Bruce Arizona Psychology regarding implementation of an for The board voted to start the program with the 1998-99 school John WHS said the program is necessary for the Arizona Psychology Services provides the district's counseling activity calendars for WHS and Winslow Junior High and all out-of-state travel required with those That travel includes coaching new textbooks as recommended by the textbook adoption committee for the coming school David district said there had been no written or comments submitted while the textbooks were available for review in the district administration a motion that Steve Montano Enterprises of Winslow be awarded the ventilation and air conditioning services for the 1998-99 year at per a bid totaling to Bud Painting of Holbrook for the painting of specific areas of smoking restrictions take effect in six national and smoking restrictions were implemented in the six national forests in Arizona starting 8 a.m. July 1. concern by land managers and fire management officers about the dry low increased windy conditions and lack of expected monsoon which lead to an increased chance of have prompted these restrictions to reduce the wildfire risk to 9 test scores GL Grade level R Reading score M Math score L Language Other significant fire activity in the nation has reduced fire fighting resources normally available in the Apache Prescott and Tonto National Forests are placing restrictions on open charcoal and smoking except in most developed campgrounds in the the Kaibab National the restrictions are in the southern portion of the south of the Grand Fire restrictions on the Tonto National Forest apply to the northeastern section of the forest between the Mogollon Rim and all areas north of Four Peaks and the road road 50) above Roosevelt Restrictions are also in effect in the Pinal Mountains south of In Prescott Page 14 Unified School Junior High Unified School District Winslow High Unified School Brennan Elementary Unified School Elementary 4 Unified School Elementary Unified School district u a q 8 09 8
