THE WAYNE HERALD * Board to Meet with Teachers
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SOCIETY X,XX I THE WAYNE HERALD * Board to meet with teachers The area of teacher salary negotiations lion accepted the low bid by Bill Lueders, 52,473,000 The contest is similar to one which the was the main item of business at the regular Jr, for retuse removal at the high school, Storage building increase from $63.550 to Wayne marching band attended in Kansas monthly meeting of the Wayne-Carroll middle school and elementa.ry school loca 1>65,400 City last year. and will.feature choir groups Board of Educatlon Tuesday night, Oct. 9. flons. Lueders' monthly bid was $154 for a from across the United States. The board members went into executive total at $1,848 per year, Other bids included TH E BOARD ALSO accepted a session to discuss the salary negotiations, .i,one ot $248 per month or $2,976 yearly by freeholders petition from Terry Janke to br OTHER ITEMS AT the meeting included: but no formal action was taken. They did ! frank Mrsny and $300 a month and $3,600 ing in a quarter section of land into the - Authorization was given to Superinten' agree to a final meeting between represen· ~ per year by Vernon Russell school district. dent Haun which will allow him to continue tatives of both the board and the teachers The current mileage rate 0121,5 cents per purchasing surplus property under the organization to discuss the Issue. They also School superintendent Dr. Francis Haun was lowered to 20 cents per mile in a vote Surplus Property Acqulsi~lon. gave approval to a motion presented by · presented several repor ts . to the board taken by fhe board. Haun had reported that board representative Arnold Emry which members, includmg one on the roof repair it WOUld eliminate the preparation of W·2 - Dr. Haun reported that seventh grade would-allow an impasse to be declared if no work being done al the middle and elemen forms, which would have become a necessi students now undergo a physical exam upon decision is reached. • tary schools, Work wh'lch was begun in late ty had the rate remal ned at the current entering school. The physical exam form • August at both locations has been com level. will be the same as they used in athletic Emry's mofion stated that "the Board of pleted, according to Hahn, and IS awading Cap Peterson was re'elected to a serve as physicals to eliminate the need for an addi· Education's 'negotiation team be authoriz.ed final inspection by the school '<; arch itectural the board's legis/ativ~ representative fa the tional physical. The child need not undergo to declare an impasse in teacher salary firm betore final payment will be made Nebraska Association 01 School Boards. the exam if the parents have any objections. negotiations should the WEA reject the final _ He also reported that figures on the A proposal by representatives from the . "r',L The board was informed that an open salary ,offer ot the boafd... and fhat the · di'strict's building insurance valuations (not Wayne High School Choir was heard and ac house will be held at the Carroll Grade board be further authorized to appoint legal , illcluding contents) have been received and cepted by the board, which will allow the School from 7·9 p.m, on Monday, Oct. 15. counsel to represent their interest in fact · showed an increase of apprOXimately three choir to aflend the WorldS of Fun Festival of sponored by the Carroll Mus,!c Boosters. finding and such other legal action as may percent from the 1983 84 year Choirs in Kansas City, Mo. on May 11·12, - Dr. Haun reported that the new school be necessary in accordance with school Those figures included 1985. bus which was ~urchased last year has ar· law" Middle school· increase from SL6iS,700 to Choir director Rob Stuberg and cho'lr rived and was assigned to the west Carroll $1.677,500. president Tim Book gave the presentation route. A meeting between E mry and teacher Carroll grade school tram which outlined the basic costs of the trip and - The board gave approval for Dr. Haun representative Dale Hochstein was to be ar $365,200 to $379,100 plans for funding. They pointed out that no to go ahead with arrangements for an auc· ranged in the coming week. Wayne grade school from school funds will be used by the students, the tion sale of excess material which Is $946,500 to $974,300 money wi Ii be raised by the choir members presently being stored in the athletic IN OTHER AREAS, the Board of Educa- High school' increase from $2.402,400 to and no door-to·door seiling will be involved storage faeilJlies. A misinterpretation o'f state blo<;k grant Lueders Inc. to receive a low interest loan The state did not approve the $150,000 grant tunds for the low Interest loan was regulations has thrown a cog Into the con amount of $150,000 from the state block block grant request because there was too turned down by the state, Wayne city of struction plans of what is expected to be the grant program for financial assistance in much work completed on the building pro ficials and Wayne Industries represen new True Value business location in Wayne. constructing the building ject, according to David Ley, president of tatives traveled to Lincoln in hopes of get The partially constructed bUilding, which Wayne Industries. ting the block grant application altered so would cover app..oximately 10,000 square Anticipated costs tor completion of the Ley said there was a misinterpretation of that the remaining part of the project could feet, is on the corner of 5th and Dearborn ,in building was estimated at $300,000. how far one can advance on the project prior be partially paid by the block grant loan fun Wayne. However, the maximum which the com to aproval of the block grant. The site, he ding. munity block grant could fund was one·half said, had to be inspected prior to approval of "We requested the the amount be altered For many weeks, there has been no con· of that amount, or $150,000 the block 9 ant. from $150,000 to $80,000," LeY said. structlon at the bUilding site on the The grant money could be repaid wlfhin a It would cost an estlmated$l60,OOOtocom' southwest corner of the block containing 20 year period or sooner, according fa terms "Aceordmg to the guidelines, the con- plete the building proiect. However, the Bill's GW. The project was expected to be of the grant program struction was not supposed to take place, not block grar}!'loan program only allows 50 per- completed by September or October. Plans announced by Lueders Inc. during at the level it is now," Ley said. cent of that amount to be allocated for the However, a recent denial by the state to the April 10 city council meeting, were to That's the reason for denial at this present ~i1dlng construction project. provide a $150,000 Community Development lease the building to Rod Varilek's True time," he added. Currently, Ley said the application is now' Block Grant from the Department of Value Store. No lawsuits have been flied as of Tuesday In Lincoln and Is "not approved as of yet." Economic Development has resulted In in regard to the project by either Lueders "Until It [the ~lter.nate loan] is appro,ved, stopping construction entirely on the CONSTRUCTION on the Lueders Inc Inc., Rod Varilek or Simpson's Structures, no further construction can be made on the building as of this date. building began in June. Weeks after the con Ley said.' buUding," he added. Both the city council and Wayne In struction began, the work by .simpson's There were no more details of the building dustries had endorsed the request by Structures of Norfol k was halted. AFTER THE GRANT for $150,000 in block project as of Tuesday evening; Passage of sever;al ordinances plus an not conducive for the auditors. audit report on the city's finances were He said the computer will provide more highlights of Tuesday evening's Wayne City timely Information. "The computer is Council meeing. gener~IIY a better system to audit with. I John Pprter of Peat. Marrlck and Mit think It was a good move on the part of the Reagan, Exon win college mock election chell, an' -auditing firm from Uncoln, clty to come up with a computer purchase," presented'an audit to the Wayne city cou.nell he said. , Ronald Reagan grabbed an overwhelming Hickey, associate professor of social science Doug Bereuter, a-'Republican, captured members which was later passed Into an or Councilman Larry Johnson asked Porter majority of votes while the U.S, congres at Wayne State College. 79.4 percent (251) of the student votes In the dinance and Is now available for Inspection how the audit could be ,_-complete If the sional race between Republican Nancy The polls were open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. 1st District Congressional race, followed by at the city clerk's office. recreation board's records were also not Hoch and Democrat James Exon was fairly within the upper level of. the student center. Monica Bauer with 65 votes, or 20.6 percent_ In the management phase of the audit, audited. Porter said that he cannot audit the close during Monday's "mock elecfion" at according to WSC Young Republicans Presi There were no write-ins and 23 students did Porter recommended that two people, in books of the recreation department because vo~e Wayne State tollege.