Connecticut “ I ’M Saying...(On) Non-Essential Areas, Just Freezes Based on That List, Dirosa Said
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DiRosa favors a freeze on spending By Nancy Concelman "It appears...that the contributions the state is His proposal came on the heels of a Wednesday Manchester Herald Weiss and DiRosa said the town, which making (to towns) may be substantially less, morning announcement by Weiss that he would currently has a surplus of more than $1.6 million, especially in the area of education,” DiRosa saio. restrict hiring and purchasing to maintain the Democratic town directors, nervous over the is in good shape now. Huestis said Wednesday the He declined to name programs that could be town’s budget surplus and protect against a large town has spent less than half of its operating effects of a huge state budget deficit, are affected by the freeze, but said some programs tax increase in the future. proposing temporary spending freezes in some budget. currently in the planning stages will likely be Weiss will require department heads to provide planned and future programs. targeted. ” I don’t think we’re in a crisis position at all written justification for purchases and new right now,” DiRosa said. But, he added, the state’s Mayor Peter P. DiRosa Jr. said he’ll meet with "A lot of programs have gone beyond any personnel even if a new position or purchase is current economic position "makes me a little bit Town Manager Robert B. Weiss and Budget possibility of canceling,” he said. approved in the town’s $63.5 million budget for nervous.” Officer Robert Huestis to come up with a list of Spending within existing programs will be more fiscal year 1989-90. Republican Director Theunis Werkhoven, mi "essential” and "non-essential” programs that he closely monitored, DiRosa added. There are currently 30 to 36 vacant positions in nority leader on the board, said Thursday the hopes to submit to the Board of Directors at the DiRosa announced the proposal after a the town, DiRosa said. Those that have been proposal has Republican support. directors’ Jan. 10 meeting. The spending freeze on negotiating session between the town and Eighth advertised will be approved. “ I think we should be very concerned about our programs deemed non-essential would last for Utilities District Wednesday evening. He said DiRosa said the freeze proposal takes Weiss’s spending,” Werkhoven said. ” I don’t want to see four to five months. today the freeze proposal is the result of comments restrictions one step further. taxes increase at ail. We’ve got to hold the line.” The directors will make recommendations for from local legislators and the Connecticut “ I ’m saying...(on) non-essential areas, just freezes based on that list, DiRosa said. Conference of Municipalities. freeze spending,” DiRosa said. See FREEZE, page 10 iianrhpBtpr Im lb Thursday, Dec. 29, 1988 Manchester. Conn. — A City of Village Charm 30 Cents Negotiators reach town-8th accord Key approvals remain on historic agreement By Nancy Concelm an on which government would Manchester Herald control a splitter valve and collect about $1 million in connec Negotiators for the town and tion fees. Eighth Utilities District reached If the agreement is approved, a settlement on fire and sewer the suit will be dropped, DiRosa jurisdiction Wednesday, leaving said. the fate of a historic agreement Under the current draft of the between the two governments up agreement, the town will build to the Board of Directors and "• F.. ‘ a the line according to the district’s district voters. construction plans and will con Stephen T. Penny, one of two trol sewer service to the mall attorneys representing the town area. — . r in the yearlong negotiations, said In exchange, the town will turn Wednesday a revised draft of the a town-owned firehouse off Tol agreement will be drawn up for land Tq|:Q|^ji)|^^cr-tO-t)ie^‘^t<'>'^^ preliminary approval by tne no later than March I. Board of Directors. Attorney But the town m it^tallife' Kevin O’Brien also represented current firehouse earlier thaii the town. that, DiRosa said. Mayor Peter P. DiRosa Jr. said after the negotiating session he See ACCORD, page 10 would likely schedule a meeting of the directors next Tuesday. District directors gave their One dead, tentative approval of the com promise Tuesday. A final draft of the agreement and revised maps should be 7 missing Reginald Plnto/Manchester Herald complete by mid-January, Penny said. The town and district AGREEMENT — Negotiators tor the town and Eighth Clockwise from upper left are: Eighth District President directors and district electorate in sinking must then approve the final draft Utilities District discuss boundaries of sewer and fire Thomas Landers, Mayor Peter P. DiRosa Jr., attorneys of the agreement. jurisdiction Wednesday in the Lincoln Center gold room Stephen T. Penny. Kevin O’Brien and John D. LaBelle Jr. BOSTON <AP>. Negotiators for both sides rose before reaching a tentative agreement that now goes to and district Director Samuel Longest. and shook hands after the nearly plucked four seaineirTrom the district voters and the town Board of Directors. stormy Atlantic after ^ i r 250- two-hour session, during which they concentrated on the lan foot cargo ship sank,J)u^e died guage of the agreement. and seven others wine''missing ” I think (district Director) today, including a crewman who Sam (Longest) and Peter did a slipped through his |ife jacket, hell of a good job over the course authorities said. -jlk; Report targets 145 military bases An aircraft flying ojrer the area of a year,” district President Thomas Landers said after the spotted one of the min on a life WASHINGTON (AP) - A used “ improvement in military Edwards. raft about 7; 30 a.m., bKrescuers derive substantial economic be session. government commission today value of our domestic base Among the major bases af nefits — in good times and bad — DiRosa said today his only found the raft em pty&ien they proposed closing or partially structure as the preeminent fected are Fort Dix, N.J., going to from the military presence in disappointment with the settle reached it. “ closing 145 military bases or consideration.” semiactive status, and Fort their communities. ment is that it took so long. He had ” We just got wflrd that the installations forannual savingsof "Our report presents an oppor Meade, Md., to be partially ” I expect we’re going to be worked for nearly a year with motor vessel M e d a ls recovered $693 million and a total savings of tunity to reduce training costs in closed, and George Air Force the life raft and there was no one pretty unpopular in some areas Longest to iron out details of the $5.6 billion over 20 years. terms of manpower, overhead Base in California, the Yuma after this comes out,” said Jack accord. on board and we are continuing to "The recommended changes costs and fuel, to improve com Proving Ground, in Arizona, to be Edwards, the former Republican ” ft’s been a longtime, ' DiRosa look for seven people,” said Chief reflect an opportunity to improve mand and control, consolidate closed, and Presidio army base, Petty Officer Bill Ball. congressman from Alabama who said. “ All in all it’s been a the nation's defense position,” training and improve economies in downtown San Francisco. is co-chairman of a 12-member worthwhile effort.” The rescue effort was ham said Abraham Ribicoff, a former of scale and to remove uneces- A Naval Station at Hunters panel that recommeded the cost The tentative agreement will pered by heavy rains and 40- to Democratic senator from Con sary administrative burdens to Point, San Francisco, will not be saving measures. resolve a longtime dispute over 45-mph winds and 20- to 25-foot necticut, who headed a commis our defense managers,” said built. Several facilities will gain Edwards and Ribicoff pres construction of sewer lines to' seas, the Coast Guard said. sion which presented the list of Edwards. personnel from the changes, ented the tightly held report serve the $70 million Pavilions Shortly before 5 a.m., CoE^st ■t recommended changes at a Pen "Despite these improvements, including Fort Devens, Mass., today to Deputy Defense Secre Buckland Hills and surrounding ^uard frogmen jumped from a tagon news conference this we do not anticipate any substan and the Naval Station at Pearl tary William H. Taft IV. Copies 380 acres of development. .helicopter and saved two men morning. tial socio-economic disruption to Harbor, Hawaii. were delivered simultaneously to The town in March filed a suit ' who were drifting without rafts in Co-chairman Jack Edwards, a the communities that are closely The commission’s proposals the chairmen of the House and against the district seeking a the water. They were then pulled former Republican congressman linked to the bases that are loom as devastating news for declaratory judgment on the aboard the copter, said Qoast from Alabama, said the panel recommended for closure,” said many areas of the country that See BASES, page 10 district’s construction plans and Guard Lt. Paul Wolf. ' The two were transported by helicopter to Falmouth Hospital, where nursing supervisor Kithy Presidential election voted top 1988 story Correia said one was dea$(:,4sn arrival about 6:45 a.m., appar ently of hypothermia, she said. By Jules Loh system, amid nationalist unrest grabbed major attention, espe Indiana, and the Democratic The other crewman was iivijable The Associated Press in some Soviet republics, also cially with the United States' governor of Massachusetts, Mi condition, she said. made big news. policy reversal in opening talks chael Dukakis, and his running The topk 10-- The crew abandoned ft# Aoyd The U.S.