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Newspaper
Dixon Telegraph
Location
Dixon, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Mar 23, 1989
Page
3
Assistant to the Superintendent Robert Aubry presented a very tentative budget to the Dixon School Board on Wednesday night. He explained state aid decisions, local assessed valuations, and potential effects of teacher contracts and pay raises on the district’s looming deficit, noting the plan is filed to meet legal requirements and will be refined by fall.
The Dixon School Board issued honorable dismissal notices to 23 staff Wednesday night, including 11 teachers and 11 custodians, with potential rehiring contingent on funding. Also announced were tenure grants for four teachers, rehires for 150 tenured staff, retirements, and resignations, plus administrative contracts extended through June 1992.
Rochelle Municipal Utility Department presented a proposed 14 million dollar budget to the Rochelle City Council on Wednesday night. Superintendent Mick Finn said the Electric Department budget totals 11,869,504 with 547,200 for non bond capital. Water and Wastewater operating budget is 1,842,721 with a non bond capital projection. Finn noted franchise fees to the city general fund would not exceed 4 percent of anticipated revenues, about 408,000. Last year’s anticipated purchases and expenditures were 6.6 million, including a 2 million bond issue for improvements. The coming year’s projected figure drops to 4.1 million. council to consider approval by end of April.
About 240 children aged 3 to 7 gathered for the first annual Easter Egg Hunt at Jefferson grade school on a Wednesday afternoon. Participants sought two colored hard-boiled eggs and one of 24 plastic eggs containing jelly beans and a number. Teachers later drew a number to award a large chocolate bunny.
Melissa Cheever, 20, was convicted in Ogle County Circuit Court of aggravated battery of a child for injuring her 19 month old son in 1987. The case centered on videotaped interviews and DCFS notes, and sentencing is set for May 8 with possible jail time and probation options.
Rochelle youths win approval to use the entire lower level of the Gentry Building as a youth group room at the Hickory Grove Civic Center. The move ends a plan to share space with RADACC and detaches the group from RADACC, with insurance to be funded by a service group. The chamber will rent an office in the lobby starting June 1 and uses a conference room. The space is expected to open during the center's June grand opening.
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