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Surprise Devils Places that pamper your Luxembourg Westfield's boys basketball body and soul 'Gibraltar of the north1 nails state tourney berth See this week's on new Forbes-Lufthansa trip See Sports, page B-2 Seepage A-11 Record Vol. 3. NQ, 9 Thursday. February 6.1992 A Forbes Newspaper 25 cents Jim Gruba Face off Five candidates want is tapped for school board seats Ward 2 seat •y DONALD HZZ1JW. Catherine Merchant of Dorian Road, and By DONALD H2ZI JR. Darlelle Walsh and Eileen Satkin of Grand- THI RECORD view Avenue, announced their candidacies THE RECORD For three of five announced candidates last week. The Town Council vacancy in the Sec- for the Board of Education, providing a good Mrs. Walsh has been involved as a Parent ond Ward will be filled by Wychwood Road educational system within increasing fi- Teacher Organization president. resident Jim Gruba, after the Republican nancial constraints Is the biggest challenge Last year she chaired the "Westfield Committee candidate is voted in by the the board is faced with. Two additional can- Week at the Movies," a fund raiser that council next week. didates announced candidacies, but did so raised $1,855 to help establish the Westfield Mr. Gruba was recomended by the Re- too dose to press time to gamer substantial Education Fund. publican Committee in a letter to the Information on their views. They are Steven Mrs. Walsh, a former teacher, has two council from Republican chairman Allen Benisch and Lawrence Softer. (Please turn to page A-4) Chin. Also named as candidates were Craig Marong and Planning Board Chair Allen Malcolm. The council met with Mr, Gruba to inter- view him Tuesday. Veteran board members The council seat was left vacant follow- ing the ascension of Second Ward Council- man Garland "Bud" Boothe to mayor. Mr. Boothe last week replaced Mayor Richard will not seek new terms Bagger, who resigned to devote his ener- gies to his position in the state assembly in the 22d district. By DONAUD PIZZIJN. mands of my work have increased, and I'll JOHN FEI/THE RECORD Though everyone seemed to be pleased 'Ballnese Frog Prince' creator Alice Eve Cohen gets children to have to do more travelling." with the selection of Mr. Gruba, one coun- THE RECORD For Mrs. Moran, nine years is simply put on their Imaginary faces at the Westfield Memorial Library. Ms. cilman has expressed reservations about Cohen staged solo theatre work based on an Indonesian myth. Come April, the Board of Education will enough. She is the first board member to the process used to fill the vacancy. lose at least 15 years of board member serve three terms of service since William In a letter to State Senator Louis C. Bas- Friends of the Library sponsored Sunday performance. experience. _____________________ Child, who served from sano, Councilman Kenneth MacRitchie re- Dr. Susan Fuhrman ... , .. _. 1949-58, and Frank quested that the rules regarding the selec- and Carolyn Moran It Was a gOOd dlStHCt but Ketcham, who was a tion of a councilman to fill a vacant seat be board member 1946-55. changed. have both announced you had tO dO things SS She also cited the time According to Mr. MacRitchie, Mr. $45.9 million budget SK^S cheaply as you could. she is putting in towards Gruba's candidacy was the only one that For ^ow, things like c/ass s/ze a masters degree as a was voted on by the committee, and that board elections, factor. both, however, mcu J the candidacy of Ed Pinkman of South i Qrt Among the ac- Chestnut Street was moved and seconded, meets state cap limit tenures on the board "T* complishments they are but not voted on. have been rewarding first' By ANNIE ALPERT range is 2 to 3 percent of the operating proudest of, both woman Mr. MacRitchie said the names of the budget." Mrs. Fuhrman said —CWOfyfl MOTM? cited the selection of Dr. other two people were recomended in the THE RECORD The proposed budget provides for con- her chief reason for ————— Mark Smith as schools letter to the council "even though the The school board released a $45.8 mil- tinuing the policy on class size. The de- superintendent, while Mrs. Moran also in- committee had not considered their lion 1992-1993 budget this week, meeting sired range is 18-25 students per class. leaving the board after six years is an in- cluded crease on the demands of her time. names, and even though they have have the 5.63 percent cap limit imposed by the It also continues all current courses (Please turn to page A-4) not expressed the slightest interest in ap- state government. and co-curricular activities, includes the "Time is the issue," she said. "The de- pointment to the council." This means that the school district will costs associated with adopting a new K- The councilman's letter requested that not need to seek a cap waiver. 12 math curriculum, and provides for the rules be changed to require a written The local school property tax called for one-half of a school nurse at McKinley declaration from each candidate that they this budget is $36.6 million — an increase School. (Please turn to page A-4) of 11 cents per hundred dollars of as- Assistant Superintendent William J. sessed property value. Foley said emphatically: "I would like to The budget includes allocation of point out something that is not in the $300,000 from the reserve fund for capital budget. Because this Board of Education projects and the purchase of additional has made no decision about Roosevelt Board will school computers. The capital projects Intermediate School, the budget includes are: retrofitting the fire alarm systems at the operation of all nine schools." "To- Roosevelt and Franklin schools and up- night's tenative budget is a 'maximum' grading the girl's soccer, field hockey and budget-it cannot be increased," Mr. explore Softball field behind the high school. Foley said. "However it can be reduced or Superintendent Mark C. Smith said allocations within it can be changed." "this use of reserve funds will leave the Mr. Smith commented, "Although the district with a fund balance within the board must act tonight to submit a tena- school uses range targeted by board policy. That (Please turn to page A-4) By DONALD PIZZI JR. THE RECORD An interim report on possible uses of Pending legislation means the two Westfield intermediate schools will be presented to the Board of Education on Tuesday by two consultants hired to study the matter. more local budget control Professor Frank Smith and Dr. Jonathan portant bill," Assemblyman Bagger said. JOHN FEI/THE RECORD Hughes, both of Columbia University, By DONALD PIZZI JR. For Mr. Bagger, the problem that towns Washington School parents stage a masquerade that Includes a comic were hired in October 1991 by the board to THE RECORD like Westfield face is ail too familiar. He song called 'Smoking In the Boys Room.' It's a segment of the 44th conduct the study. The two are slated to For the Town Council, which is coping resigned as mayor less than two weeks ago annual musical comedy by teachers and parents that will be staged at bring the final results of their analysis to to focus his energies on his now job in the the board by July 1. with a state law that mandates they must Roosevelt School Auditorium Friday and Saturday. put surplus funds towards the budget to assembly. The study will consider three possible reduce the municipal tax rate, help may While Westfield's mayor, he was critical alternatives for Edison and Roosevelt soon be on the way. of the surplus-spending provision, which schools. Legislation that would repeal the provi- was part of revisions to the Quality Edu- Curtain will go up Feb. 7 The first is to keep both schools open to sion of the Quality Education Act II re- cation Act. Following his election to the grades six, seven and eight. Another pos- quiring municipalities to spend their sur- assembly, he said he would try to help sibility is to keep the schools open, while plus funds was introduced this week by "unshackle local government" from state housing district offices currently kept on Assemblymen Richard Bagger (H- mandates and laws that tie the hands of for 'Be True to Your School' Elm Street. Westfield) and Robert Franks CR-New local government. The Washington School Players will and is on the set construction crew. A six- The final option, and the one that has Providence). "As someone who came up in municipal piece band directed by Dan Boone will raised local hackles, is to close one of the The measure, A-848. would repeal a pro- government, I'm very aware of the prob- present their 44th annual production, "Be schools and put all the intermediate stu- lems faced by local government officials True To Your School," written by Louis provide musical entertainment to ac- vision in Chapter 63 of the Public Laws of company the case, chorus and dancers. dents into one building. 1901, which requires all municipalities and the way the state government makes Carlow. The curtain will rise at 8 p.m. on The buildings are being studied because the job of local government much more Feb. 7 and at 2 and 8 p.m. on Feb. 8 at The tradition of staging a show every that collect school taxes in advance to re- year started at Grant School in 1949, when of the $6 million in pension and social fund the surplus funds over a four-year difficult," he said at the time.

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