r / <»# llattrhpalpr Mpralb Wednesday, Dec. 7,1988 Manchester, Conn. — A City of Village Charm 30 Cents State, feds say access road study isn’t needed funding is approved. Bv Nancy Concelman force the study if the request is Authority seeks town loan commercial building at the “Normally our determinations Manchester Herald denied. corner of Purnell Place and Oak are upheld,” Hurle said. The town also would have to Maribeth Demma. a transpor­ to buy land for parking Street. It also is expected to eat up pay back money spent for engi­ — story on page 5 Mayor Peter P. DiRosa Jr. said The state Department of Trans­ tation planner with the DOT’S about 30 parking spaces used by today the drive by some business neering and design. DiRosa said. portation and Federal Highway environmental planning office, the Heritage Group, which owns owners to eliminate the access Most of the $15 million needed Administration agree that an said Tuesday the DOT and road will have a significant an office condominium on Main road could mean the end of the $15 for the reconstruction, scheduled environmental impact study is Federal Highway Administration impact on the business environ­ Street. million Main Street project. to begin in spring 1990, is being not needed of a planned access agreed that an impact study was ment. Beck has said a full Edgar T. Hurle, director of funded by the state and federal road to be used during the Main not necessary because no signifi­ environmental impact statement environmental planning with the “If we go back for any changes governments. The town must Street reconstruction project, a cant effects on the environment on the effects of the road is DOT, said environmental impact (to the DOT), the project is contribute $2 million. DOT official says. were foreseen. required by state and federal studies address the economic dead.” he said. ADAPT is circulating petitions The study was requested by a “Basically the (access road) laws. impact of a project, as well as the DiRosa said a change in project opposing the access road. The group called A Downtown Associ­ project is ... a reconstruction of The access road, which would social and ecological impact. plans would result in a loss of group plans to submit the peti­ ation to Prevent the Thorough­ an existing road and striping for run east of Main Street, part of it Suits against the department funding because the project tions to the Board of Directors. fare (ADAPT). Its attorney. four lanes.” Demma said. along the north-south leg of over environmental impact stu­ would have to be redesigned and Fish said Tuesday the group Bruce Beck, said he has left open Dr. Robert Fish, who heads Purnell Place, would require dies are fairly common. Hurle go through state and federal wants the directors to vote the possibility of legal action to ADAPT, argued Tuesday that the moving or demolishing part of a said. review processes again before against the access road. Students Manager suspended over rule rejected By Andrew J. Davis Manchester Herald About a dozen Manchester High in Bolton School students were suspended this morning for failing to comply with a new policy which forbids students to By Andrew J. Davis wear outerwear in school, a day after Manchester Herald about 100 students protested the rule, said PrincipaJ.Jao^ Ludes III. BOLTON ^ By a 3-2 vote, the Board of Selectmen He said no changes were planned in on Tuesday rejected proposals by the Charter the policy. The rule was adopted Revision Commission that would change the town’s Tuesday after a student carried a gun form of government to a town manager style. into the school in his jacket three Selectmen Douglas T. (5ieney, Lawrence A. weeks ago, Ludes said. Converse III and Carl A. Preuss voted to reject the It prompted an immediate protest proposed charter revisions, mainly because of the by about 100 students outside the town manager proposal. school Tuesday. Ludes said a televi­ First Selectman Sandra W. Pierog and Selectman sion camera crew at the school today Michael A. Zizka voted in favor of the proposal. attracted a crowd of 80 to 100 students. Other proposals that are part of the rejected plan The dozen students were suspended \ include eliminating the Board of Finance and this morning before the crew came to eliminating the power of Annual Town Meeting the school, he said. voters to make specific changes in the town budget. Ludes said no students were sus­ Residents would only have been able to approve or pended Tuesday in connection with vote down the budget under the rejected plan. the protest. The student who was Patrick Flynn/Manchaclar Harald The rejection of the charter by the selectmen reported to have carried the gun into means it will take a petition with about 22S the school was suspended for 10 days. STUDENT PROTEST — Manchester High students to wear outerwear inside the school. signatures, or 10 percent of the eligible voters, to School students sign a petition Tuesday About 100 students protested outside the override the veto and bring it up for a townwide See MHS PROTEST, page 12 protesting a new dress code, which forbids school. vote, commission member Ginny Wickersham has said. The selectmen were required to vote on the commission’s proposal Tuesday in order to have the charter ready for a Jan. 9 public vote, if it had been approved, said Helen Kemp, town administrative Board to grade parents’ redistricting plan assistant. To have the charter become effective this year, a vote would have had to be taken before the By Andrew J. Davis Both Kennedy and Dyer stopped PTA plan because he had not seen it. plan that comes in is asking us to place party caucuses in mid-January, she said. Manchester Herald short of endorsing or rejecting the Kennedy said he was surprised with the lines elsewhere. Any plan is Pierog said she may start a petition, while PTA plan. The proposal would keep parents’ “perception of the move to reciprocal. ... I think the issue has to commission member Robert Lessard said he and School officials promised today to School Street and upper Wells Street Martin.” He said students who live be brought to closure.” Wickersham probably also would start one. give “serious consideration” to an pupils at Nathan Hale next year north of 1-384 have been attending The board is scheduled to vote on Commission Chairman Robert Young said after the alternate redistricting proposal by instead of at Martin School, as the Martin for about 20 years. the administration proposal Dec. 12. meeting that he has no plans of starting a petition. the Nathan Hale Parent-Teacher administration redistricting plan School Street area parents have Mary Breen of 32 Pearl St. said With the vote by the selectmen, the commission is Association that would allow many proposes. said sending their children to Martin today the PTA has not received any dissolved and all petitions would be started by pupils at the school to stay there. The school administration's prop­ would break up friendships since response to the plan. private citizens, said Young. School Superintendent James P. osal also calls for shrinking the students would be sent to school in a Students who live on Sycamore By state statute, opponents will have 45 days to try Kennedy and Board of Education enrollment at Nathan Hale School to different neighborhood. Lane, who would attend Highland to override the selectmen’s veto, said Helen Kemp, Chairman Richard W. Dyer both said make it a “magnet” school. A magnet Dyer also refused to discuss details Park School under the administra­ town administrative assistant. the plan will be considered by the school has a specialized curriculum of the plan since he has not studied it. tion's proposal, should continue to Cheney said he voted against the charter changes school board. It was drafted by the and is designed to attract students “I’m sure the board will look at it,” he attend Martin, according to the PTA because he does not like the proposal of a town school’s PTA in response to an from throughout the town. said. plan. manager. The commission has proposed eliminat­ administration plan that would The current enrollment at Nathan While saying area parents had a The proposal also states there ing the administrative assistant and putting the change the boundary lines for Buck- Hale is 460 pupils. legitimate concern. Dyer said the should be “equitable class size town manager in charge of the day-to-day running ley, Martin and Nathan Hale schools “It (the PTA plan) merits serious school board should make a redistrict distribution at all schools” and of the town, like Manchester's style of government. to accommodate the reopening of consideration,” said Kennedy. “I ing decision soon. schools with "less affluent students "There are many good ure>’islons (In) the Highland Park School in September, would n o t... reject it out of hand.” “We can’t redraw lines without charter, but I am against the I -w t managership,” 1989. He refused further comment on the somebodybeingupset.” hesald. "Any See REDISTRICTING, page 12 said Cheney. Preuss said he saw no reason to change the town's current form of government. "I don't see what's Soviets will cut 500,000 troops, wrong with the existing system,“ he said. Roy Orbison Converse said he was not against the Idea of a town manager. But he said he voted against the proposal because it would take away the power of Gorbachev tells United Nations dies at age 52 the people to vote out the person who ran the town.