mmm**CAR-RT-S0RT**CR3 1476 XO/1/89 ** 24 McKune Memorial Library 221 S* Main St» Chelsea, Ml 48118 GWTO .35* "Love and Lordship hate Iter vopx companions." - -Ben Franklin Plui 24 Pages This Weekl* swppi»wtn«i ONE HUNDRED.NINETEENTH YEAR~No. S CHELSEA. MICHIGAN. WEDNESDAY: JUNE 28. 1989 ** i ' -1 ,* v " it * * *r t>J" y Concert in the Parte To Feature 'Gemini/ '1^ Jtt.ClS-C-.flL Kitchen Band Sandor and Laszlo Slomovits, the twin-brother'musical act known as "Gemini," will be the featured per* formers at Thursday night's (June 29) Concert in the Park in Pierce Park. Their performance, called "Grow­ ing Up Together—A Musical Celebra­ tion for the Whole Family," will start at 7:30 p.m. and run until 8:30. Chelsea's own Kitchen Band, made up of local senior citizens, will per­ form from 6:30 to 7:15 p.m. Gemini will feature rousing sing- alongs, hand-motion songs, dance tunes, and songs from around the world. A special dimension of Gemini's show is songs about the everyday experiences of childhood and growing up. The twins combine their1 voices with more than a dozen instruments, and, in the process, try. to involve the au­ dience, especially children. The result is,a show of out-loud laughter and boisterous singing fun. Gemini have released four -critiGally«acclaimed-albums-of_theiE • own songs and traditional and con­ temporary folk music. Their third album, "Pulling Together," received a 1987 Honors Award from Parents' Choice magazine. "Growing Up Together," their latest aflfum, was released in-November. They,have received songwriting grants from the Michigan Council for the Arts, have GEMINI, twin brothers from Ann Arbor via Hungary, will perform written music for educational televi­ their brand of family music and children's songs Thursday evening at the sion and films, and have recorded 11 first Concert in the-Park at Pierce Park. Music begins at 6:30 p.m. with a (Continued on page four) performance by Chelsea's Kitchen Band/ Salary Schedule Is Highlight of Contract >VORKCtfNTl!faEbonte onYbOth sides of the depot last week despite all thereto.Here, workers lay forms for building. pouring concrete curbs. When finishebedd th e lot will nave a ^-.v^W;t^^^^rf ' '' '' "•' With the. exception of the major • For the first tune, psychologists and •" The total number of staff profes­ modification of the salary schedule, social workers are covered by the con­ sional development days has been in­ the Chelsea School pistrict's new con­ tract. creased seven days to 64, an average tract with the. Chelsea.JSducation- -of about-½ day per staff member. • All coaching experience will be con­ Associatipn, the teachers union, has • A new instrument has been incor­ few significant changes. --. sidered when determining what level, of pay a coach receives. For instance, porated into the teacher evaluation As reported last week, salaries on process. the low end of the teaching schedule if a volleyball coach with 10 years of Scheduled for Aug. 14 experience switches to football for the • Dental benefits have been increased were increased as much as 15 percent, while teachers at the upper end of the first time, the 10 years of volleyball and health benefits have been A special Chelsea School District experience will count the same as 10 decreased slightly in what Mills said or the purchase of 30-35 computers. It "It will be difficult for Wayne to scale received about seven percent. l election will be held Aug. 14~f0r the also will purchase two fewer school operate," Mills said." Chelsea teachers were reportedly years of football experience. was essentially a trade-off. For the l first time, the district will be able to purpose of asking voters to approve buses " .,i. In calculating the additional underpaid compared, to other districts • The district added 15 minutes of in- an additional 2.1 mills for three years. "We need those computers millage figure, a certain amount of of a similar size. ^ struction to each day at the high solicit bids for the dental insurance On June 12, district voters denied an desperately," said assistant guesswork was involved, Mills said, "We said let's take salaries at school in order to meet the re­ package.-< override of the Headlee Amendment superintendent Fred Mills. because he doesn't know what will Ypsilanti-Lincoln, Saline, and Dexter quirements of the accrediting associa- • Each staff member will have a provisions, which cost the district happen to the Consumer Price Index , "We're operatinglvith Commodore and average them out," said assistant tion. Five minutes has hppn chopped sift.ooo tgrm lifp <«"•"•««* p^y for $490,000, or the equivalent of 2.1 mills. over Hits next three years, CPI is what superintendent j-'rea MUIS ot ine pro- from each lunch hour and 10 minutes the third year of the contract at a cost The so-called Headlee Amendment computers" in out, high school lab. drives the Headlee provisions. In ad­ We're dealing with dinosaurs." cess for arriving at the scale. has been lopped from the "zero" hour. to the district of about $12-|4 per person. applies a formula for school funding dition, he doesn't know what will hap­ "We're a shade lower than Saline The day will begin and end at the when property assessments increase New athletic director Wayne Welton pen to assessments. and Dexter, and a shade higher than same time as last year. '• Driver education teacher rates have more than the rate of inflation. will also find himself without a $17,000 Mills said his estimates were 4.4 Lincoln. We didn't ask for Manchester been increased. The former rate was -" On .Tnnp IS the hnafrd of education athletic subsidy, which will make his percent in 1990-91 and 5 percent the' • A department chair has been added $11.50 per hour. Each year of the con­ or Stockbridge to be included in the at each North and South Elementary approved cuts totaling $493,500 to off- first year on the job difficult. That following yea£— In 1990-91 he average, and the union didn't ask for tract the rate will rise $1. Mills said school, giving each school two. One the rate was still substantially below set the loss. No new teachers will be money is used to purchase equipment calculated the Headlee rollback would Ann Arbor." hired and existing vacancies will be and supplies. (Continued on page four) Mills said that about 85 percent of other-districts. He said Dexter pays filled from within. Certain popular Each new chair will also become a $18 per hour. '•'."• the staff that falls under the contract member of the Central Curriculum programs, such as the Enrichment is at the top of the teaching scale. In Triad Program at North and South Committee, and be paid a three per­ • Teachers are working 184 days, an, other words they have 10 or more cent stipend. _. • ,*fJ increase of one day. school, as well as all interscholastic years of experience. That makes the sports from ninth grade on down, will "Certainly there were other items cost of the new. contract about seven • The teacher lay-off and recall pro­ be cut. The district also essentially percent over-all; or 8452,000. that we both decided were not worth cedure has not been changed, pursuing," Mills said. gutted the first year of a three-year Other changes in the contract in­ $190,000 computer-purchase program, although the list of classes has. been "The contract is good and fair to clude the following. updated. both of us." Local School Administrators Largest Fireworks Show Ever Get Reuses Being Planned for July 4 Chelsea School District ad­ If you're thinking about going to "It really becomes a safety hazard ministrative salaries were increased businesses and individuals, but his Ann Arbor this Fourth of July to see a with such arlarge crowd." -• primary fundraising effort is the sale a minimum of seven percent for the large fireworks display, you might be . Allen said the show, including in* of a commemorative fireworksjt-shirt 1989-90 school year, according to better, off staying a little closer to surance, will cost at least $15,000. The designed locally by John Houle! Plen­ superintendent Joe Piasecki. home. insurance alone will cost at least ty of shirts in all sizes will be Piasecki said that some ad­ Chelsea Community Fireworks is $2,500, which is more than the entire available the night of. the show. ministrators w_ere given larger raises planning to stage by far ite largest fireworks show cost a few years ago. However, they can be purchased in to bring them morelfiTu%~witlf act sfibw ever; according f6^pfesid$flt " "* AfleriTs again soliciting money from "advancebycalling 4753238. "'~ ministrators in comparable school Harold-Allen. The show-w4U-be~more- districts. The same philosophy was than twice' as large as last year's taken in recent contract talks with show, in terms of numbers of teachers ' fireworks, and will last no more than Village To Upg "We still rank eighth out of 10 in the 30 minutes. The show is so large, Allen county," Piasecki said... ^ says, that some of it will have to be^ "Our administrators on a whole are shot off electronically, something that making thousands of dollars less than hasn't been done in the past. More Electrical' System they would in comparable positions." than 1,330 shells will be fired, in­ The administrative salary schedule cluding many specialty shells. Duetto increased load on its elec­ to the village's unit, technically called follows.