Residents Ready to Pay for Road Improvements
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A district also could be formed by They're tired of fighting dust and petition of 66 percent or 2f3 of the want their roads surfaced, they said, property owners requesting the ac asking for direction from the commis tion. ~ VAMONO$ sion on how to take the next step. • Homeowners could provide ma After a discussion of various terial for the work and the county methods of levying assessments or could provide manpower and equip forming special road districts for t u b ment. divisions in unincorporated portions • Homeowners could ask county of the county, commissioners said approval to contract with a company property owners should form commit for the pavmg work at their own ex tees in each subdivisions and confer pense as long as it meet, county speci with County Manager Thm Stewart to fications. work out the scope of projects and an Under a front foot assessment ap implementation approach. proach, it could take years before the Dave Barry's Several years ago, the commission county collected enough to pay for a abolished front foot assessments in project, Nunley pointed out column is the latest county subdivisions after a legal opin A referendum to form a district ion that under state law, the money would leave the decision for a five to feature in Vamonos had to be used for extraordinary 10 year assessment up to a small per maintenancp on the roads where it centage of property owners in most PAGE 9D was collected. subdivisions because many owners More than $100,000 was refundpd IiviJ'2 out of statp. he said. to asspssed property owners. The county doing the work with Commissioner L. Ray Nunley material bought by property owners scheduled the self-assessment discus sounds good, except that the county sion and askt'd County Attorney Alan doesn't own paving or chip sealing Morel to research different approach equipm'fnt and would have to contract Jubilee keeps es of improving subdivision roads. for the job to be done, driving up the Morel said four basic methods price, Nunley said. the registers ringing pxist: Property owners doing their own •A front foot assessmpnt, which roads also could be very expensive be for local vendors cause they would have to generate the Terrance Vestal/RUIdoso News rpquires pnough population to justify extraordinary maintenance. money up front and couldn't spread PAGE 6C John Quemada. Ruidoso postmaster. stands inside the new Ruidoso Post Office that IS scheduled to be open for business on Monday. • Formation of an improvement payment over a period of years, as district similar to one in Alto Village New post office opens subdivision created in 1987. That See ROADS. page ZA Postmaster urges box users to get their keys now These deer Suspect sentenced for BY TERRANCE VESTAL opened this weekend but only to don't duck RlItCX>.\O NfW.\ STAFf f.D110R issue new post office box keys. Quemada said area residents PAGE lC The new Ruidoso Post Office who need to send out packages or evidence tampering will be open for business on Mon buy stamps on Saturday can go to day after about six months of the Hollywood Post Office, which BY DIANNE- 51 AIIIN(;<., helping Charles Martinez strangle delay, Ruidoso Postmaster John is located on Highway 70 in Rui RI"1f)()\( J \" It'l q 1/ I \tRill R ----~._~~-_. --~------------ Lankhorst-Ballard, a former lover. doso Downs, will be open from 8:30 Quemada said Thursday. Assistant District Attorney a.m. to noon. The building's completion was For helping to bury the body of Canon Stevens said after hearing The new office will be open on delayed because a wet summer murderpd Elizabeth Lankhorst tbe verdict that the state will retry Saturday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. so put a damper on paving the park Ballard in March 1998, Christo him on the murder charge. - Mostly sunny ing lot, Quemada said. that residents can buy keys. phpr Favipll was sentenced to two "I suggest that people pick up Parsons said the prosecutor skies for the The new post office, located and a half ypars in prison Thurs has indicated a motion for a next to the Ruidoso Convention their mail first and then come to day. weekend the new office to pick up their change of venue will be submitted Center, boasts 18,000 square feet .Judge Karen Parsons of thp based on the state's contention it compared to the soon-to-be old keys," Quemada said. 12th .Judicial District in Carrizozo The postmaster said he hopes would be difficult to seat another post office and its 5,100 square delivered the maximum sentence JUry locally. feet. residents take advantage of the of 18 months for the fourth-degree new office being open Saturday to Martinez, who lived with The number of post office felony. The sentence was enhanced Faviell, was convicted last May of boxes also has increased with the get their new keys. hy an additional year as a habitu first-degree murder, conspiracy new facility, Quemada said. The "Hopefully, when we open al offender because Faviell previ new building has about 5,100 Monday we won't have a lot of peo and tampering with evidence by ously was con'l.·icted of another an Otero County jury. He is serv boxes, which is almost 2,000 more ple lining up for new keys." felony. GOing Out .. ) D Old West 8D Any old mail that is left In ing a life sentence. boxes than the current office. Faviell was acquitted by a Lin Business..... hC ()pmlon. _ 4A boxes after next week will be C1assifieds. 3B Real estate 3B Quemada said the old post of At his trial, Martinez painted moved to the new post office, he coin' County jury earlier this Cros.c;word HB SpOrTS 1B fice will close on Saturday, al Faviell as a liar and equal aggres said. month of conspiracy to commit Deaths ~A TV h... nngs >C though patrons will still be able to sor in the murder of the woman Quemada said the building murder, hut jurors could not reach Letters 4A Wcarhcr 2A pick up their mail at their boxes agreement on the murder charge Movie 7A for the next week. against him. Faviell is accuspd of Sec SUSPECT. page 2A The new post office will be See OFFICE. page 2/\ .J..- ~---.--------~-.---.. An early bird County commission snubs Ruidoso RY DIANNI' STAUIN<;<., before we pass this motion," Martinez cial meetings called in relation to is Rl'/[)()\O N/U'.\\TA/f \t'RtTl R said. ''I'd rathpr SE't it up now then not sues of interpst in different part.s of --- --- ----_.. - - later." the county," he said. No regular Lincoln County Com Commissionpr William In N~vember 1998, the late com mission meetings will be conducted in Schwettmann, who offered the motion missioner Wilton Howell, who repre Ruidoso in the year 2000. according to for approval, said the meetings are sented part of Ruidoso, tried to set six a ~c~edule adopted Thursday by com better in Carrizozo because depart of the commission's 12 regular meet mISSIOners. ment heads are npur th('ir offices and ings for 1999 in the village. His mo But Commissioner L. Ray Nunley, can come up quickly with needed an tion failed with Commissioners Rex who represents a portion of Ruidoso, swers to commission questions. Wilson, William Schwettmann and said after the meeting he is confident Duan(' Williams, fonner chairman Nunley voting against it. the board will honor requests to set of the county Republican Party, rec Nunley then offered a motion for sessions in the village when issues are ommended the meetings stay in Car six meetings in Ruidoso, either regu on the agenda dealing with this area rizozo. Besides departments being lo lar or special. That motion passed of the county. cated there, the acoustics are better with Howell and fonner commissioner Monroy Montes voting with Nunley. AB the commission prepared to and the seats are more comfortable, vote on a motion establishing meeting he said. The six meetings represented an increase over 1998, when four ses dates for the coming year. Commis "Special mN'tings could be in Rui sioner Leo Martinez asked how many doso, if they df.'al with something of sions were in Ruidoso. But Martinez found no support for will be in Ruidoso. most interest to this area." Williams said. scheduling a definite number of meet He was told by County Manager ings in the village this year. With no Laura Clymer/Ruidoso News Thm Stewart that the resolution stat Thny Spno, former chairman of !TI0re comment from commissioners, Teresa Herring and her son.