Department Heads Commended for Budget Discipline in City
City officials report January budget cuts held within plan, with police chief and department heads praised for avoiding layoffs and overtime. Revenue from fines, permits, and back taxes up, though dog-control costs and interim period spending remain challenges.
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Sandpoint City
Main
Second
Bud Benoit
Dave Easton
Easton
Larry Sterling
Benoit
Sterling
Northwest Eagle Enterprises
Eagle Enterprises
Jack
Leckner
Wade
Brown
Bob
Linsday
Larry
District 82 BCEA plans talks as levy defeat tightens purse strings
Bonner County teachers and administrators gear up for contract talks after a failed 210000 levy for the 1975-76 year. BCEA polls members on budget cuts including travel, after hours duties, bus schedules, and elimination of teacher aides while considering a possible daily salary plan and a limited raise.
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Bonner County Education Association
BCEA
Colburn
John Wylie
Wylie
Storm damage in Pacific Northwest tops four million dollars
United Press International reports storms across southeastern Washington and north central Idaho caused near four million dollars in crop and private property losses. Asotin County bore major impact with flooding sweeping homes and debris. fatalities included William Ashley in Clarkston.
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United Press International
Washington
Idaho
Asotin
Siae
New Perce
Whitman
Columbia
Garfield
William Ashley
Clarkston
Washington Highway Department
Gordon Dailey
Satah
Leonard Lahti
Asotin County
Evans Road
Ashley
Sue Dickey
Tahi
Snake River
Garfield County
Herman Herres
Columbia County
Whitman County
Idaho plans 12 Pioneer sized plants by 2020
Idaho officials warned at a legislative hearing that by 2020 the state would need the energy equivalent of 12 Pioneer sized plants to meet demand. They projected a sixfold rise in capacity to 4 600 megawatts annually and noted possible nuclear coal or future solar geothermal options while warning of up to 300 percent rate increases over 20 years.
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Becky Fanning
Boise
UPI
Idaho Department of Water Resources
Bonneville Power Administration
Warren Reynolds
State Water Planning
Legislative Council On Energy
Statehouse
Pioneer
Reynolds
Stephen Allred
Division of Planning
Department of Water Resources
Allred
Don, Hodel
Statehouse could be heated by hot water test in Boise
Test drillers in Boise report groundwater reaching at least 170 degrees Fahrenheit at a pilot site off Reserve Street. A groundwater geologist notes the system needs 165 degrees to heat the Capitol Mall state buildings.
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Boise
UPI
Statehouse
Capitol Mall
Reserve Street
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Sandpoint
Jack Leckner
Public Works
Gary Miier
Teachers' Association
Michael Guilfoil
District
Bonner County
University of Idaho Research Center
Jim Benson
Jeannie Davis
Wicked Witch
Bee
National Weather Service
Spokane
Dailey
Don Springer
Genesee
Hodell
Hodel
Legislative Council Committee On Energy
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