Referendum Issues May Boost Voter Turnout
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-vf- . x„. • I f iimirhrBtrr i^^ral^ ) Manchester A City of Village Charm Monday, Nov. 2 ,1d87 30 Cents Referendum issues may boost voter turnout BV Andrtw Yurkovskv Asked about the GOP’s chances Utilities District, which proponents Associates. six directors on the board. candidate. Herald Reporter in the directors’ race, Taggart said, say would resolve longstanding The town-Eighth Utilties District The Board of Directors is elected . The treasurer oversees the dis "W e’re putting our best foot for differences between the two agreement calls for the district to for a period of two years. bursement and investment of town With Election Day just one day ward. We hope we will take four governments. take over what is now the town In the race for Board of Educa money to make sure administra away, local officials and politicians seats, anyway.’ ’ The bond question Is Question 1 on firehouse on Tolland Turnpike and tion, voters will be able to vote for tors’ actions are proper. The Democratic majority has six the voting machines. The proposal to expand the area in which its two of four candidates for three- are busy making last-minute prep Also to be elected are three is to issue bonds in the face amount volunteer fire department provides year terms beginning in November. arations and predictions. seats on the town Board of Direc selectmen, who have the power to of $13 million to pay for roads and fire protection. In exchange, the The three highest vote-getters will Officials this morning began tors, while the Republicans hold the fill vacancies in elected offices if utilities in a 3B0-acre area in the district would turn over its sewer be elected. inspecting the 43 voting machines minimum three seats guaranteed the Board of Directors fails to do so system to the town. that will be located In the 12 polling to the minority party. northern part of town. They would In addition, voters wiil be able to within 45 days. Three incumbent places throughout the town. The Theodore R. Cummings, the be paid off from the increase In real For town voters, the agreement _votc for two of four candidates Democrats and one Republican are estate taxes resulting from the will be Question 2 on the voting polls will be open Tuesday from 6 Democratic Party chairman, said ‘running for three-year terms begln- running for these posts. a.m. toSp.m. that the referendum questions increased value of the property in a machines. District voters, how ihg in November 1988. Again, the Seven constables will be seeking Marion Taggart, vice chairman could mean an increase in Tues 193-acre section of that land. ever, will have to vote on each of three highest vote-getters will be re-election. On the Democratic side of the town Republican Party, said day’s voter turnout by 3 to 4 percent The smaller parcel includes the four aspects of the agreement, elected. this morning that the two referen over the previous election. site of the mall proposed by numbered 3,4,5 and 6 on the voting are four incumbents, and on the dum questions on Tuesday's ballot The two questions on the ballot 785,000-square-foot mall proposed machines. Also on 'Tuesday, voters will elect Republican side are three incum could prompt a larger voter turnout Concern town-financed Improve by the Homart Development Co. of In the race for Board of Direc a treasurer. This year, only one bents and one newcomer. The than in the 1985 election, when 44.4 ments around the proposed Mall at Chicago. It also includes commer tors, voters will vote for six of the 12 candidate, incumbent Democrat constables have the power to serve percent of eligible voters cast Buckland Hills and an agreement cial and residential development candidates and elect nine of them to Roger M. Negro, is on the ballot. legal papers for courts, lawyers ballots. between the town and Eighth proposed by Manchester 1-84 office. No party can seat more than The Republicans did not nominate a and the town. Lobbyists working Town-8th to infiuence vote debate By Andrew Yurkovskv Meduski said this morning his continues Herald Reporter group will have a luncheon meeting with the Greater Manchester By Alex GIrelll Michael Dworkin, a local phar Chamber of Commerce, at which Associate Editor macist and self-proclaimed envir- members will discuss with business .onmentalist, said he thinks voters leaders the advantages of the mall The argument over whether the on Tuesday wili agree with him that and the improvements to the town. Eighth Utilities District will face the town-financed improvements Like the town administrators and high future, costs if it retains its for the .propoked Mall at Buckland the Democratic directors. Fact IM sewage collection system con Hills are a bad deal. finders has argued that the long tinued today with voters of the But Richard Meduski, who heads term benefits of the mall and district and the rest of town slated a political action committee lobby improvements outweigh any to vote Tuesday on an agreement ing for a "yes” vote on the disadvantages. involving those sewers. mall-bond question, isn’t ready to Under the bonding agreement, District President Walter Joyner make any predictions. Meduski the town would issue $13 million in and former District Directors Gor simply hopes that residents will tax-increment bonds to pay for don Lassow, at a news conference appreciate the fact that members improvements in a 380-acre,area In this morning, challenged figures In of his group, Factfiiiders: Buck-„ the northern area q{ .town' Thpse adY^ fgieihcrttt by IW 8 (IbT land luue, are not attenuen^'’ impToviniehtii MtBci' paid off from Save Our Sewers) in the Herald. getters with a political ax to grind. real estate revenues from a portion The ads say the real cost of Dworkin and Factfinders are of the, 380 acres, would provide maintaining the system in the near among the many groups and access* to the mall and other future is about $1.6 million, not $5.5 individuals working to influence proposed development. million as claimed by YES, or Yes, Tuesday’s vote on the mall " I ’m not going to say that this is End Strife, a group promoting the question. going to reduce taxes. It will town-district agreement under Working for the mall are Citizens certainly give us a bigger tax base which the district would relinquish for the Mall; the Homart Develop to work from," said Meduski, who its sewers and take over a town fire ment Co. of Chicago, the developer is a vice president at the Savings station along with an expanded fire of the proposed mall; and Manches Bank of Manchester. protection area with a larger tax ter 1-84 Associates, which plans to He said Factfinders has gathered base. build commercial and residential the signatures of about 200 resi The ad says that one-third the development in the mail area. dents who support bonding for the estimated cost of a major Buckland The Manchester Property mall improvements. The group has Herald piralo by Pinto trunk sewer, put at $1.75 million, is Owners Association, which suc so far raised $1,700, he said. already paid. cessfully pushed for 'Ihe referen Dworkin has pushed his cam Herbert Stevenson, left, Democratic Town Chairman Donald Kuehl, who Joyner said this morning that the dum through a lawsuit earlier this paign against the bonding agree reglstrac^of^oters, checks the voting writes on a briefcase. Tuesday is money has not been paid yet and the year, is working together with ment through a series of advertise- machines this morning with mechanic Election Day, with the polls open from 6 amount set aside is not nearly Dworkin for a "no" vote on the Richard LaPointe, and Republican $500,000, as SOS claims. mall-bond question. Please turn to page 14 a.m. to 8 p.m. Perry Dodson, chairman of SOS, reached, by telephone, said that money already paid for engineer ing together with other money set Campaigners out in force over the weekend aside amounts to more than $400,000. By Andrew J. Davis assigned a route by Theodore T. quarters to pick up the Dennpcrats’ Cummings estimated that over have people out in the fields.” SOS also says one-third of the cost Herald Reporter Cummings and Josh Howroyd, who "team” flier. The flier sf^ed out the two weekends, volunteers will Kuehl was unsure what sections would be paid for by developers were chairmen of the literature the candidates for th e^oard of have distributed more than 15,(KI0 of town the party would concentrate under a normal developers’ agree Democrats and Republicans drop-off. Aft^r completing most of Directors and Board of Education, fliers. Board of Education candi on. but he said the party was doing ment. Joyner said today that he were out In full force this weekend the town last weekend, this wee and asked voters to vote yes on the dates James E. Morancey and all it could to get out the vote. On top doubts a developer would enter into — the last before Tuesday’s elec kend's volunteers were assigned Mall at Buckland Hills question and Susan L. Perkins joined Board of of that, the Repubicans were a developers’ agreement as long as tion — in an effort to get their routes along Hartford Road, West the Town-Eighth UtiliUes District Directors candidate Peter P. Di- conducting phone drives in an effort that developer has doubts about candidates elected.