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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 29, 2000
Page
7
City officials discuss nonrenewal of Bernita Boots and the struggle to fill planning and other commissions. Mayor Clancey and staff emphasize fairness, opportunity, and the difficulty of finding qualified volunteers for technical bodies amid gender balance goals.
At Davos Switzerland top business and government leaders discuss easing fears from globalization and regional tensions. Madeleine Albright arrives as first US secretary of state with Clinton set to follow. security tight with Swiss army deployed amid protests. Blair urges WTO openness and duty free access for least developed nations.
Superintendent Lew Finch notes Character Counts and Boys Town elements are in Cedar Rapids schools. Waco Elementary in Crawfordsville reports four years of embedding a similar program funded by the Iowa Department of Education, with bus discipline improving from 10–20 incidents monthly to none this month. Contact Dave Goschat.
City finance chief McMahan says property tax revenue would fall by 900000 without two TIF districts released easing the impact to 100000. Slower growth stems from utility valuation changes and TIF district effects. Fiscal 2000 budget totals 264 million with growth insufficient to counter rollback.
Mauritanian security officials report the arrest of Mohambedou Ould Slahi in Nouakchott after he left Senegal. Slahi, who had lived in Canada, is suspected of involvement in a bomb plot linked to Osama bin Laden and is being held as U.S. authorities seek to question him.
Samuel Feldman, 37, of Lower Makefield, charged with disorderly conduct and criminal mischief after surveillance video shows him squeezing loaves and damaging baked goods at Giant in Yardley. Police say losses exceeded 8000 dollars over three years. Feldman denies the acts.
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