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TUESDAY June 21, 2011 TIMES-NEWS 75 CENTS U.S. Agriculture Department Twin Falls,Jerome faces $7 billion cut in 2012 Agribusiness 1 split doubleheader Sports 1 Magicvalley.com T.F. forms downtown parking task force By Nick Coltrain task force, which Hall wants com- that proposal, arguing it wasn’t Times-News writer prised of stakeholders from commu- fleshed out or they didn’t have enough Help out ALSO MAKING NEWS nity members at large to business information. Among the issues were Those interested The Twin Falls City Council, armed owners, has only two parameters: enforcing parking time limits in the in joining the SHOW TO GO ON with results from two opinion-seek- avoiding solutions that burden tax- non-metered areas and avoiding a city’s task force The Magic Valley Citizens’Fourth ing efforts on downtown parking, has payers and bringing its ideas to the business’ employees parking in front to solve down- of July fireworks committee hit formed a task force to find solutions to council by Nov.15. of other shops. town parking $30,000 in donations on Monday — the issues facing the area. Councilwoman Rebecca Mills Sojka “If we are truly going to manage issues can get $5,000 short of the group’s goal,but The council heard results Monday was the only one to vote against the downtown parking, we need to have involved by still enough for a show. of both an online, non-scientific sur- task force, saying it would be a waste the revenue to manage downtown contacting After getting Twin Falls City Coun- vey of downtown parking opinions of city time and money. The council parking,” and this proposal doesn’t Mayor Don cil approval for the event on Monday, and an in-person forum conducted on had all the information it needed to provide that, Mayor Don Hall said to Hall at organizer Ruth Pierce said she was the matter — the first being responses make a decision in the results from the explain his “no”vote. [email protected]. “thrilled”at the result.She said any overwhelmingly from people who survey and the forum,she said. Councilman Lance Clow, the only Business and additional cash raised will roll over to don’t own businesses or property and She even pitched one: suspending council member aside from Mills Soj- property own- next year’s show. the latter being the reverse. parking-meter enforcement for a year ka to support her motion, railed ers, customers, She is also still looking for vendors The council voted 6-1 to have May- and covering them so the honest or against the council continuing to not and citizens at at the College of Southern Idaho for or Don Hall form a task force to evalu- un-informed wouldn’t unwittingly take action on a long-running issue. large are invited the event.Interested parties can con- ate those opinions and come up with pay to park. to join. tact her at 734-8662. solutions to the problems raised. The Most of the council voted against See PARKING, Main 2 A YEAR AFTER THE FLAMES The Auger Falls Fire threatened Times-News file photos The Auger Falls Fire » As Auger Falls Park Twin Falls homes, charring yards ABOVE: The Auger Falls on a march that burned up the Fire burns in the Snake regrows after 2010 blaze, managers now focus Snake River Canyon’s walls and River Canyon on July recovery efforts on staving off cheat grass scorched nearly 450 acres of the 22, 2010, in Twin Falls. 550-acre park — jointly managed LEFT: A helicopter pulls by the city of Twin Falls and U.S. By Kimberlee Kruesi company some closure, as the man Bureau of Land Management. water from the Snake Times-News writer held responsible for the fire faces The city responded to the fire’s River to help douse the justice. destruction by reseeding the park. fire. One year after the Months after it was reseeded Don Garibaldi is scheduled to Last September, more than 400 and after being monitored for re- appear today in Twin Falls County blaze, city officials are volunteers reseeded 80 percent of growth, Auger Falls Park is finally 5th District Court for allegedly watching reseeding the park with native and drought- showing signs of recovery. flicking out the lit cigarette butt efforts take hold in resistant plants. Ground scorched by the July that started the 2010 blaze. Auger Falls Park, which “We would never say the fire was 2010 Auger Falls Fire is now green, Charged with three misdemeanors a good thing, but it did give us a was extensively dam- and formerly trash-strewn areas related to the fire, he faces up to six aged by the blaze. are being cleared. The park’s months in jail and a $1,000 fine on spring resurgence may even ac- each charge if convicted. See FIRE, Main 2 IN HOME & GARDEN: Twin Falls woman resurrects garden after devastating Auger Falls Fire turned her hard work to ash. Twin Falls city lays off building R EFRESHING State senator arraigned employees, freezes other jobs on DUI, theft charge By Jessie L. Bonner By Nick Coltrain “This decision was not made, pro- Associated Press writer Times-News writer posed or taken lightly,” Rothweiler said in a press release.“I recognize the signif- BOISE — The lawyer for a state senator accused The city of Twin Falls will lay off two icant impact this has on our employees, of taking an SUV and trailer from a stranger’s home building department employees on their families and those close to them.” in Boise and driving the vehicle while drunk said Oct. 1, the beginning of the fiscal year, Rothweiler said in an interview that Monday there are “medical explanations’’ for his and freeze seven other full-time posi- the decision to cut the jobs reflected a client’s behavior. tions,officials announced Monday. change in needed service, especially at Idaho Senate Republican Caucus Chairman John The frozen positions include police that department. McGee of Caldwell was arraigned in Idaho’s 4th dispatchers, street maintenance, an en- “That was the biggest challenge,” he District Court on charges of misdemeanor drunken gineering technician and others, includ- said. “We looked and we were honest driving and taking a vehicle without the owner’s ing seasonal help. The move brings the and said we do not foresee (the econom- consent, causing more than $1,000 damage, a total city employees down to 263, the ic downturn) ending in the short term.” felony. same level as in the 2007-08 fiscal year. Councilman Lance Clow said these McGee, 38, was arrested early Sunday after police Early budget talks had city staff facing are the first layoffs he has seen in his say he took a Ford Excursion and cargo trailer from a $2.4 million budget gap. City Manager 18 years on the council. “We struggle DREW NASH/Times-News the southwest Boise home of a “complete stranger’’ Travis Rothweiler estimates the layoffs with the budget and we try to look at the Tilly Monroe, 7, serves up a cold cup of and got it stuck in a yard just down the street. A and the position freezes will save more areas of the city that are most impacted lemonade to Vanesa Serratos, 8, during a breath test showed the four-term lawmaker’s than $500,000.Ten percent of that is re- by service volumes,”the building depart- blood-alcohol content was nearly twice the legal ducing his proposed “assistant city ment being one of them, Clow said. He yard sale held by her parents home on Friday in Twin Falls. Tilly helped her dad make the manager”position to an “assistant to the added later, “If they’re not covered by See SENATOR, Main 2 city manager”instead. fees,they are covered by taxpayers.” stand a few days prior. 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