State OK Due on Town's Bid to Scrap Reval

M - m - EAST LVVl 13 y6ung women THE Eeet HbCY'. .A Oklahoma, Kansas ^eek town crown /3 v^ifr LEADER vie for NCAA title / I I &i.;-'''it-‘7.-. ■ __ ____________________________ _____ Ifflaiirkatpr HrralJi Monday, April 4, 1988 Manchester, Conn. — A City of Village Charm 30 Cents A Crisis unit considered State OK due at hospitai on town’s bid P By Andrew J. Davis Manchester Herald Manchester Memorial Hospital may be one of a series of area hospitals and mental health cen to scrap reval ters to become part of a mental health crises intervention center R network, said a hospital official. Bv Andrew Yurkovskv the revaluation, some members The hospital could be one of the Manchester Herald of the Board of Directors have facilities that offers mental sharply criticized Vincent. health services under a network An official from,the slate Office Zimbowski said today that an that also may include other area of Policy and Management said investigation into whether the treatment facilities. It has not today that his agency would town erred in using 1986 fair been determined if monies for one probably allow the town to set market values In arriving at the of three proposed networks aside its problem-ridden 1987 1987 Grand List is not expected to across the state will be awarded Grand List and use the 1986 Grand be finished fop several weeks. He by the Department of Mental List in its place. said attorneys for 0PM are Health in this area, said Dr. Donald Zimbowski. the chief of looking into that question. Stephen Holtzman. chief- OPM’s municipal division, said But he added that all questions chairman of the hospital’s De the agency would “probably on the future of the revaluation partment of Psychiatry grant” the town’s request to set » cannot be answered until it is Holtzman has been part of a aside the revaluation. The town determined what base year committee which has been meet administration asked the 0PM should have been used for the 1987 Srd ing for the last five months to last Thursday to set aside the revaluation. svin bring the network to this area. revaluation after a number of Zimbowski added that under It as The network would provide emer problems, including the possibil the state statute permitting the no, gency. outreach and “transi ity that 1986 market values were setting aside of the Grand List, tive tional living facilities.” among ' improperly used in the 1987 the same Grand List would ston other things, for people with revaluation. Zimbowski has said become effective next year. But mental health problems. Holtz use of the 1986 values was because of the question over what cs a man said. improper. values were used for the 1987 ittle The “transitional living facili In a related matter. Town Grand List, It remains to be seen the ties” will provide patients who do Manager Robert B. Weiss denied whether the property values in hich not need to be admitted to a published reports that he had that Grand List will have to ^ ourt hospital’s psychiatric ward with • instructed employees «f -the-«s- updated to 19BB. ince a place to be counseled, but for a sessor’s office to keep quiet about Weiss said last week that his shorter time than the average problems with the revaluation in assumption was that the values hospital stay, which is about two a meeting last November. He said would be updated to 1988. months, he said. he held the meeting in November Weiss said that the main It has not been decided where of last year with members of the purpose of the November meet ers. each portion of the network will town’s revaluation staff to dis ing of the revaluation staff was to four be placed, Holtzman said. cuss the willingness of employees discuss objections of some staff e at The committee is comprised of to work overtime. members to working overtime, 4 At the same time. Weiss said, hird representatives from mental Divid Kool/Mincheiter Herald "but never or ever did I say, don’t five health facilities around the Man staff members were asked to let any information out.” !ver chester, South Windsor, East "I FOUND SOME" - Tiffany Jean, 20 hunt held Saturday at Center Springs make sure that any information He said he expected staff 3-85 Hartford. Glastonbury and months old, of Manchester, tells her Park. The hunt was sponsored by the they gave out to the public was members to talk about the id. Rocky Hill areas including the father, Wayne Jean, about her discovery Jaycees and Burger King. More pictures accurate. revaluation with neighbors or ight Genesis Center of Manchester of a nest of eggs during the Easter egg on page 3. Assessor J. Richard Vincent friends, but he wanted to “make led. and the Inter-Community mental said today that he was “meeting sure that any information that got vith health group of Glastonbury, he with staff and going over how out was accurate information.” said. we’re going to handle this reva Mayor Peter P. DiRosa Jr. and The committee hopes to have a luation situation.” Director Barbara Weinberg, a proposal ready by this summer, Jackson tackles race issue Becau.se of the number of member of a subcommittee of he said. If approved by the state appeals made to the town Board directors investigating the reva department, and the boards of all of Tax Review on assessments in luation. said that witholding the participating facilities, the the 1987 Grand List. Weiss information on the revaluation network could be implemented with farmers in Wisconsin requested on Thursday that 0PM from elected officials would be sometime next year. Holtzman Bv Evans Witt share” has changed only in the allow the list to be set aside and inappropriate. said. The Associated Press final phrase for 1988: “We want that the 1986 list be used in its Zimbowski said that officials No new facilities would be News Analysis our fair share.” place for the tax bills that will from his office would be in town needed for the network, but more AMERY, Wis. — Jesse Jackson Jackson worked hard after 1984 come due this year. later this week to look into the staff would be needed in each faced a big crowd of farmers in to broaden his circle of advisers There were more than L50 sales of property and whether the participating facility, he said. this northern Wisconsin town, after poll has shown a substantial and to build support among appeals, on which the board had a prices match fair market values. Ray Gorman, assistant re almost all of them white, and the number of Americans uneasy groups he had failed to court midnight deadline on Thursday to Weiss said he would have the gional director for program de black presidential candidate about a black president. successfully. He labored to make act. The board failed to meet a answers to a list of questions on velopment for the Department of tackled their racial difference But this year, Jackson has been his Rainbow Coalition a reality. March 21 deadline to file with the the revaluation from a Board of Mental Health, said it has not head-on. expanding his support well “I’ve watched us grow in this 0PM for an extension. Directors’ subcommittee this af been decided how the monies will “There were three farmers out beyond the solid backing of black campaign from racial battle As a result of questions about ternoon. be appropriated until a final in Iowa debating this issue of voters, taking up to 22 percent of ground to economic common decision is made on Gov. William race,” the Democratic hopeful the white vote in the Connecticut ground and move on to moral O’Neill’s 1988-89 budget. began. “They said, ‘You know, primary. And polls in Wisconsin higher ground,” he said at About 1.200 people a year are we found out something — Jesse show him doing even better here Amery. Judge suppresses served by a similar crises inter Jackson is black.’’’ among white voters — farmers, The civil rights leader, one of vention center in Hartford, Gor Jackson smiled. “Well, you all students and blue-collar workers. the most eloquent men to seek the man said. found out late. I’ve been with the Part of the change has come as presidency, also has worked out Besides Hartford, there are program for a long time.” he has shifted his message. many ways to deal with race as an Crafts’ car clues five other intervention centers in But that’s just the beginning of In 1988, Jackson has emphas issue — with metaphors, humor the state, said Nancy Wright, the story. ized his economic message over and careful argument. NEW LONDON (AP) — A 1986. 9 chief of communications for the Race is an issue in the 1988 the social justice theme that was One favorite is the image of a judge ruled today that evidence, Prosecutors revealed last mental health department. Dan Democratic presidential race, the centerpiece of his 1984 cam quilt — “made of many pieces, including wood chips and a clump month that wood chips were bury. Bridgeport. New Haven, seen by many as one of the major paign. The 1984 rhetoric of “We many colors, but all held together of tissue-like material with hu recovered from the trunk of roadblocks between Jackson and don’t want welfare; we don’t man blood, seized from the Crafts’ car and that they con Please turn to page 10 a spot on the national ticket.

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