Marion budget projects 6.6 percent tax hike in new year
Marion City Manager Carl Ramey says the city is in strong financial shape as the proposed budget for the year starting July 1 raises taxes 6.6 percent, about $25 for a $40 000 valued home, while avoiding cuts and boosting salaries. The plan creates a new Building Department with two inspectors, funds building inspections locally, and funds capital projects including a $920000 general obligation bond. Total operations cost is $4.4 million with revenue projected at $4.6 million. A public hearing is set for March 6 at City Hall.
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Marion
Carl Ramey
Ramey
Debt Service
Linn County
Boyson Road
City Hall
Marion Library
Marion area clubs and meetings listed for the week
A long list of local organization meetings in Marion including Homemakers Prairie Chapel PEO and Rebekah Lodge with dates rooms and hosts. Also notes clubs such as Garden Club Craft Club and Evening Literary Club along with two ads for Nordman Jewelry and Ray’s Jewelry and an anniversary death notice dated 1922 about Henri Landru.
College fact finding report calls for 12.8 percent raise
A fact finding report by Sol Elkin recommends a 12.8 percent salary and fringe benefits increase for the College Community Schools Education Association in 1980-81, raising district costs. The school board rejected the proposal and sent the matter to binding arbitration after the union approved the recommendations.
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Education Association of the College Community Schools
Education Association
the Gazette
State Public Employment ‘Relations Board
Administration
Sol Elkin
Ann Arbor
Mich
Glenn Selzer
Elkin
Selzer
College Community Board
Beverly Ver Steegh
College Community Education Association
The
Music therapy bridges psychology and piano in study
Minneapolis psychologist Robert McDonald uses music as a quick path to inner feelings, claiming clients relax and reveal subconscious thoughts when guided by melodies. He conducts Marion and Cedar Rapids workshops, noting therapy can involve few as three sessions and may aid elderly, marital, or drinking issues.
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Tom Fruehling
Robert McDonald
Minneapolis
McDonald
Marion
Cedar Rapids
Institute of Man
University of North Carolina
Inter-library loan services rise in 10-county area
An East Central Regional Library Cedar Rapids Public Library program reports a 12 percent rise in inter-library loan activity and a 9.5 percent gain in the first seven months of the fiscal year. Total reference questions reach 6,268, up from 5,580. loans total 6,435 books, up from 5,879. Donnan notes growth from greater awareness and that the Cedar Rapids center acts as a regional resource with no local tax funding.
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East Central Regional Library
Cedar Rapids
Donnan
Iowa
Linn, Jones, Benton
Cedar
Clinton
Jackson, Johnson, Tama
Poweshiek Counties
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Central Busi
Prairie Chapel
Leona Halstead
Mary Alice Scott
Russell Knapp
China
Chapter CS
G.W. Lamb
Pend Ave
Relief Corps
Robert Mitchell
Women’s Relief Corps No
the Legion Hall
Ladies Progressive Club
Alfred Rinderknecht
Suburban St. NE
King’s Daughters
Fidelis Circle
Howard Barnett
Third Ave
Jerry Peck
Rebekah
Grove City
Rebekah Lodge No. 35
Ioofall
T. Edwin Beadle
10Th St
Alpha Delta Kappa — Chi
REC
Ak, Trojans — Lodge No
Masonic Temple
R.A.M
Theristrial Club
Ora Foster
35Th St
Lot 17
Charles Tritle
Marion Women’s Club
Roland Port
1250
Ave
Bishop Buffet
Lindale Mall
West Marion
Helen Neumann
18Th Ave
Dayton Sippy
Evening Literary Club
John Howe
Douglas Court
Nordman Jewelry
Adv
Ray
Marie Machacek
Henri Landru
Bluebeard
France
Inter-library
Supreme Court
California
Jcpenney
Tcpenney
Westdale Mall
Lisa Hair
Karen K. Hairstylist
Sharon
Helen of Troy
Wonder Wind
Margle.Rolfe
Kelly
Karen M. Hair
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