Weekend Daily News Friday/Saturday/Sunday, September 6-8, 2019 | A1 Weekend SPORTS: Packers shuffl e Bears • B1 COUPON SAVINGS TODAY $202.15 Subscribers of the Beloit Daily News Daily News have enjoyed thousands in coupon www.beloitdailynews.com $2.50 savings over the last 12 months alone! Winnebago starting at $4.8M in red By AUSTIN MONTGOMERY Staff writer ROCKFORD — The full Winnebago County Board saw its first look at budget options for the 2020 budget on Thursday night, with a range of tough choices ahead for county board members. The current fiscal year ends Sept. 30 and a budget deficit looms. So far, the county is facing a $4.8 million deficit in 2020, accord- ing to Finance Committee Chairman Jaime Salgado. The county board was presented options for the upcoming fiscal year’s budget: an increase in the property tax levy combined with an increase in overall net new growth revenue; no change in the property tax levy; an increase in the property tax levy alone. A full rundown of the $4.13 million in pro- posed cuts, according to a memo circulated Austin Montgomery/Beloit Daily News ahead of Thursday’s meeting: Rockford resident Bill Lambert, 99, went scuba diving on his birthday on Thursday at Pearl Lake in South Beloit in a bid • Health insurance employer contribution to set the record of oldest person in the world to scuba dive. reduced by $1 million. • $500,000 shifted to the general fund levy. • Payments of $576,840 from the former City of Rockford 911 intergovernmental At 99, Rockford man still scuba diving agreement removed from the administrative budget. By AUSTIN MONTGOMERY by a 96-year-old, according to the “We’ve really grown fond of Mr. • Student loan assistance reduction of Staff writer Guinness Book of World Records. Bill,” Castillo said. “He comes here $400,000 for county employees. “Mexico was beautiful,” Lambert every week.” • A $50,000 reduction for parking and tow- SOUTH BELOIT — One Rockford said. The effort started after Loves ing expenditures based on 2019 figures. resident wants to keep setting Lambert said the freedom of div- Park Scuba started a dive program • Revenue stamp expenditures could be records at 99-years-old, and he could ing was liberating. for children with autism and what raise the bar yet again to become “It’s comforting and it makes you followed included a class for the See Budget, A2 the world’s oldest scuba diver fol- weightless,” Lambert said. “It gives elderly. lowing a dive Thursday at Pearl you more freedom and you can go “He tried it out and he really anywhere.” Lake in South Beloit. enjoyed it and wanted to continue,” Lambert, a World War II vet- Bill Lambert celebrated his birth- Castillo said. eran, retired from National Lock Lambert started scuba diving in day on Thursday with a dip below Company in 1985 and currently 2018 through the Loves Park Scuba School Board the chilly waters of Pearl Lake with works part-time as a metallurgical friends, divers and media on-hand consultant. He was married to wife program and has been a regular at for the special occasion. Barbara Lambert for 70 years and the business ever since. Lambert is in the process of has a daughter living in Boston. “It took a while, and I am not appoints Klett submitting his application to the Lambert dives with Loves Park as limber as I should be,” Lambert Guinness Book of World Records for Scuba under the watchful eye of said. official recognition as the world’s Cpt. Dan Johnson and staff who So far in 2019 Lambert has gone oldest scuba diver. In February have taught scuba diving lessons for diving at Pearl Lake three teams to fill vacancy 2019 he traveled to Cozumel, div- 35 years. and doesn’t plan to stop. ing at the age of 98 — which Loves Park Scuba Office Manager “I go to Loves Park Scuba twice a By HILLARY GAVAN allegedly would have set the world Marcela Castillo said Lambert week,” Lamber said, referencing the Senior staff writer record that was previously held comes in regularly to the dive shop. dive pool at the shop. BELOIT — The School District of Beloit Board of Education appointed former mem- ber Jeff Klett to fill a vacancy for the second time in just Hurricane Dorian hits coastal Carolinas over a year, this one created by the resignation of former CHARLESTON, Vice President David Wilson. S.C. (AP) — Hurricane Klett will serve out the Dorian raked the coastal remainder of Wilson’s term Carolinas with howling, until April of 2020. window-rattling winds and At the Tuesday meeting, the sideways rain Thursday, board voted to have member spinning off tornadoes and John Wong serve as vice pres- knocking out power to ident. Wong also will chair the more than 200,000 homes Klett new planning and budget com- and businesses as it mittee, and Kyle Larsen will pushed northward toward chair the new oversight/finance the dangerously exposed committee, according to information from Outer Banks. Board of Education President Pam Charles Leaving at least 20 peo- after the meeting. ple dead in its wake in Those who had interviews for the board the devastated Bahamas, vacancy were Klett, Torie Champeny, Jeff Dorian made its way up Hoyt, former Converse Principal Stephanie the Eastern Seaboard, Jacobs and Jaimie Ciarameta, according to sweeping past Florida on information from the district. Wednesday at a relatively “We had five truly excellent and well safe distance. From there, qualified candidates interview this evening. the storm apparently Any of them would have been an asset to grazed Georgia overnight, the board. In the end, the board agreed that then hugged the South Associated Press Jeff Klett’s past and very recent board expe- Carolina coast with more Gordon and Dina Reynolds, sit with their 11-year-old granddaughter, Abby, on cots in rience would be most beneficial for the dis- serious effects. the hallway of the North Myrtle Beach High School that is currently being used as a Red trict,” Charles said. “We truly appreciate all It strengthened briefly Cross evacuation shelter in North Myrtle Beach, S.C. of the candidates for their interest in serv- to a Category 3 hurricane, ing and for going through the application then dropped back to a Gov. Roy Cooper said. in North Carolina.” ships were ordered to ride and interview process and we welcome back Category 2, with winds of “This won’t be a brush-by. An estimated 3 million it out at sea, and mili- Mr. Klett as part of the team as we move 110 mph, still a threat to Whether it comes ashore people in Florida, Georgia tary aircraft were moved forward.” hundreds of miles of coast. or not, the eye of the and the Carolinas were inland. Klett was previously appointed to the “Get to safety and stay storm will be close enough warned to evacuate as there,” North Carolina to cause extensive damage the storm closed in. Navy See Dorian, A2 See Klett, A2 INSIDE: Advice & Comics • A4-5 | Classifi eds • A8-10 | Records • A6 | Sports • B1-4 | Stateline • A3 | Weather • B4 | Weekend • B5 STAY UP TO DATE SUBSCRIBE TODAY: 75˚, P. 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