Weiss' Budget Includes 11 New Jobs
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Weiss’ budget includes 11 new jobs position would comply with state The Public Works Department’s The budget also allows a 6 percent By MARY KITZMANN plans for the Cheney Historial funds, and $120,000 with state and District and plans for downtown requirements that a conservator be request was pared-from a $418,323 in increase in Northeast Utility rates federal grants. Weiss recommended Herald Reporter assigned by the Judge of Probate to crease to a $110,019 increase. revitalization. for street lighting. This would raise two bond issues for capital im MANCHESTER — The detailed But 75 percent of the employee’s persons who are returning to the However, this still includes new the street lighting budget to $305,136. provements, one for renovations for time would be spent updating the community, such as a former prison equipment purchases such as $10,000 budget Robert Weiss, town manager, Manchester High School, the other released this weekend proposes town’s Comprehensive Eievelopment inmate. for a half-ton utility truck, three However, the budget noted the utility company plans a 15 percent increase. for constructing a new town garage. hiring 11 additional employees. plan. The $50,000 request for the While most budgets were trimmed, mobile radios, an engine analyzer, a ion had Last Friday Weiss released a state plan’s revision by outside several department's full requests floor jack, a hydraulic power test un The budget notes if the company does Another recommendation was St Aug- were granted. Weiss noted in the it, and a remote transmitter and not receive the rate increase “the made to construct a salt storage )nsider- ment outlining expenses and professionals was eliminated from budget recommendation that the adapter. The total new equipment 'om its revenues, while the full details of the the Planning and Zoning’s Depart town is basically committed to a facility capabie of storing up to 2.000 $29.9 million budget were finished ment budget requests. town clerk, treasurer, election, town cost for the Highway Division is $26,- street lighting bill of $288,052 if tons of salt for winter. >nt his during the weekend. Other new positions would be a attorney, and the Probate Court 134. changes are made in the system. t talk The Police Department, showing a junior engineering aide "to provide budgets were left intact. The water portion of the public Other aspects of the' budget are money, 15 percent spending increase, would the manpower previouzly handled by The Police.Department budget is works budget estim ates reguiar These changes would affect 10 $114,709 for leaf collection compared y was add four officers. These are needed, a CETA worker for work primarily in left mostly intact, although it operating expenses will rise 7 per streets including Cottage, Oak, Mid ener. to $86,637 this year, and reducing gar according to Weiss’ statement subdivisions;” a senior citizen requested a 17 percent increase and cent higher than current costs. The dle Turnpike East, Forest, Charter ation in bage collection from twice a week Friday to "restore police service to program director, a gym instructor received a 15 percent increase. The bdget recommends increasing the to pick Oak, Birch, and Pine, in addition to to "continue the CETA-funded posi department had proposed purchasing debt service by approximately $587,- it in the the level of a few years ago, and in removing 28 lights on Tolland Turn service to once per week, and some areas of concern beyond that.” new police cars. Last week the Board 000 since $6 million will be borrowed on goes tion for the West Side Recreation pike and 7 on Sheldon Road. eliminating the town sealer of eri(^ in In the Planning and Zoning Depart Center; a ceramic instructor; and a of Directors voted to include buying to start the improvement program weights and measures. The position ment, an additional employee would clerk II for Public Works Depart 13 new cars in this year’s budget, during the next fiscal year, 'hie town Capital improvements would total on with fill a dual role. The planning ment; and a paraprofessional in the eliminating the request in the 80-81 voted to begin a $20-million water im $419,000. Of this $299,000 would be would be included in the Civil now II associate would assist studies and Social Services Department. This figures. provement program last year. financed through revenue sharing Preparadness budget, saving $5,500. WGN) absent I years. i Mike IS in the r York, Primary Charge boosted holding le three M) have tations, mystery linsthis in fatal erash . David- appar- MANCHESTER - Angel Rivera, streets, according to police. like has 23, the man accused of stealing a After hitting the girls, the van remains struck a fence and flipped over. rkets. wheelchair van in Hartford Friday friends and then hitting two 11-year-old girls Police said Rivera, who was unhurt, I.” says By United Press International as they walked along Adams Street, fled the scene on foot and was ap y have Wisconsin’s venerable presidential killing one and injuring the other prehended a short time later near the a call seriously, will face first-degree Middle Turnpike and Adams Street le other primary may have lost some of its ost the political clout, but its reputation for manslaughter charges. intersection. r setup. stunning upsets remains. ’The latest Capt. Henry Minor of the Rivera, of 208 Farmington Ave., ! Sally testimony to that comes from Presi Manchester Police Department said Hartford, was taken to Manchester dent Carter. Rivera, who was originally charged police headquarters and held on $50,- The polls show Carter with a lead with misconduct with a motor vehi 000 bond. If convicted of of talk as big as 6-to-l over Sen. Edward cle and second-degree larceny by manslaughter,Rivera could face up to s creat- Kennedy and Gov. Edmund G. Brown possession, had the misconduct 20 years in prison or a $10,000 fine or tracting Jr. in Tuesday’s primary. But the charge changed to first-degree both. claims, However, a spokesman for the associa- record of Wisconsin’s wide open manslaughter Monday prior to his 10 primary in the last 75 years, plus last a.m. arraignment at East Hartford prosecutor’s office in East Hartford iy irk- week’s upset Kennedy victories in Superior Court. said this morning he felt a iements New York and Connecticut, has the Rivera’s bond, which had been set manslaughter conviction would be ing oid- Carter camp worried. at $50,000 was upped to $100,000 difficult to obtain in the case, saying nce. He the misconduct charge — for which So the president sent Vice Presi following the new charges which No. 1 in stem from the death of Deborah L. Rivera could get up to five years if market dent Walter Mondale into Wisconsin Bushnell, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. convicted — would probably be the i demo- Saturday for two extra days of cam charge filed. paigning. Then Carter called in Peter M. Bushnell of 31 Jarvis St. Minor said the case was still under nounce- reporters for the state’s largest Look what I found The other 11-year-old, Marina investigation when asked if charges le Miss newspaper, the Milwaukee Journal, Campos, daughter of Norma Cam Students at Bowers Elementary School in Krueyk, Kristin Coveil, Heidi Brown, Jenna against the taxi company would be 'eieased and said Kennedy “has not been com pos of Pine Ridge Viilage, New State veryone Manchester display the silver or gold Easter Haynes, Crystal Stuart, and Mark Boyko, lodged. pletely frank with the people.” Road, was listed in stable condition relating eggs they found in a hunt Saturday that en- (Herald photo by Adamson) this morning at Manchester em. I’m Carter charged in the interview titled them to prizes. From left, Jason Memorial Hospital. Her listing was Correction 1 Parks, Sunday that the Massachusetts improved from the serious condition •e not senator was offering solutions to she was admitted in In a story of a fatal accident national problems that were ted out. Rivera allegedly took the van as it which appeared in Saturday’s politically attractive and simple but got his Saturday mail delivery idled in front of Hartford Hospital Herald, it was incorrectly reported chieved "unworkable” and “misleading.” about 1 p.m. Friday. The van, owned Kennedy, was quick to respond: he the victim was Marina Campos, 11, rating by Metro Wheel Chair Service Inc. of New State Road, Manchester said in Stevens Point Carter would 134 East Center St. and used to find out how seriously voters view The victim in the accident was escapes budget cutting transport wheelchair-bound people, Deborah Bushnell, 11, of 31 Jarvis current economic trends if he would was then spotted by a taxi driver on Road. The Campos girl was injured only “come out of the Rose Garden.” Interstate 86 about 45 minutes later. WASHINGTON (UPI) - President 14 that he would bring down fiscal tion of: and admitted to the Manchester Saying, “I’m not a demagogue, I’m a Another taxi, also owned by Metro, 1981 spending by $13 billion to $14 —Revenue sharing to the states, Memorial Hospital. Democrat,” Kennedy asked, “Why Carter’s trimmer new inflation then pursued the van to the site of the fighting budget whacks $15 billion off billion as part of his anti-inflation saving $1.7 billion. The Herald regrets the error and can’t he come to Wisconsin and talk Adams Street accident where the van an earlier estimate while keeping program, but he did not outline -Anti-recession aid to the cities, any inconvenience it might have to the people?” struck the two girls near the in The Carter-Kennedy exchange Saturday mail deliveries intact and specific cuts at the time.