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PRICE 30 CENTS January!"?? 1985 Board Discusses The Board, of Education Mon- Asbestos Removal Work day night approved a Facilities Cte Committee capital expenditures plan that would, see more than $4 Defended By Contractor million spent the rest of this i decade and beyond 1990 on such William, Moskaluk, Park, Road, Trucking Co. hauls them away. major projects as Fire and hand- SOCIAL SECUMIf Y AND MEDICARE will be the discussion topics said " 'everything has been clear- Siemon is renovating a major icap code compliances to en- at a special meeting for senior citizens and retirees Saturday, Jan. 26, ed up" with the federal Environ- portion of the old mill. closing Polk: School's campus- from 2:30 to 4 p.m. at Watertown High School, 324 French St. mental Protection, Agency re- Mr. Moskaluk: said he has-style buildings with walkways. Formulating plans for the session are seated left to right: August garding the EPA, notice claiming been doing this type of removal The Board is expected to Kiesel vice chairman of the town's Commission on Aging; Edward he and. John Moskaluk engaged, work since 1946, and. is familiar broach, the expenditures plan, McGee, town municipal agenf and Nancy Stack, commission chair- • in, removing asbestos' material with handling asbestos, an, in- again, with the Town, Council at woman. Standing are Joseph Gallagher left, a volunteer senior without notifying proper authori- combustible fiber determined to a joint meeting Monday, Feb. 4. citizen minibus driver and Fire Chief and Marshall Avery W. ties. be a carcinogen. 1 Meanwhile, it will attempt' to Lamphier, both of whom aie mustering support for promoting the .Michael R. Deland, EPA re- Mr. Moskaluk, said, "you run hone the figures and prioritize meeting and getting people there. Mr. McGee said a meeting with gional administrator, said in a into this kind of pipe every time the items. veterans representatives will be scheduled in the Dear future. (Valuckas Region, 1 agency memo out of you, renovate an old building." School Superintendent Dr. Photo) Boston the Moskaluks "per- Mr. Deland said the Clean Air Philip Fall on said, the scope: of form: ed asbestos: removal work" (Continued on page 2) the work, is such that much of it in the former Princeton Building, likely will be bonded over 2,0- Confusion Over AgreementEcho Lake Road, and "failed to year periods, and not be directly inform" the agency prior to do- included in, the annual Board ing the work. The building re- budgets. "Supplying Water To Area cently was purchased by the Sie- Of chief concern is the esti- mon Company. mated $1.5 million, it will take to When the Water and Sewer vert to the original two-year Mr. Deland said work practice Authority and Watertown Fire terms where the W&SA would make physical changes to the requirements also were violated schools in order to bring them District originally attempted to build a, facility or upgrade its pre- when the contractors removed reach an agreement on how to sent one to replace water it is into compliance with state fire using. asbestos without "adequately codes, and the Federal 504 serve water to the Grandview wetting " the materials, and the Handicap Access Law. and Circuit Avenues neighbor- The Fire District feels there is asbestos containing materials Dr. Fallen said it is "impera- hood, it was with the under- confusion as to how the facility 1 were not kept wet until collected tive" the town, make some prog- standing some 30 to 40 homes will be upgraded, paid for, and for disposal. ress by September, 1985, in would hook up to the district's when work: would occur. The dis- William Moskaluk said the addressing the codes and law, water supply. trict said it might: .want to up- state has no regulations on the or be threatened with having to The original terms also stipu- grade the facility before the books concerning asbestos remo- close the schools. lated the authority had two years W&SA is required, to do so. val and he was unaware of the it The superintendent and. com- to provide another facility or The authority is balking such a federal requirements. He stress- mittee painted a brighter picture- means of replacing the water ca- move would not be fair unless ed however, the materials—prin- in revealing the $75,000' esti- pacity it would be purchasing the boards agree on, the method cipally piping with asbestos cov- mated cost per year over a. 20- •from, the WFD from its line off of upgrading. ering-were "properly handled." 1 : r year period, some $42,000 yearly Route 6 (Woodbuty Road). There are three ways to im- The materials were wet down, r< -1 - - - •>- would be furnished through, Now there's another problem. prove a pump house: modernize and still are housed on the pre- state aid, leaving only.. $33,000 'The authority has learned if (Continued on, page 2) mises, he said, until- Murtha ALL SMILES at M"tiday night's annually to be picked up by local accord is reached with the Fire Board, of Education meeting in taxes. Interest charges are not District, very few hom.es would the high school library is Judith included. • hook, up immediately-perhaps as, New Town Manager Begins'Thompson, a WHS mathematics State aid would amount to a few as four-Town. Attorney teacher who was selected to be- total of $840,000. or roughly 56 Franklin F'ilicy told the district come the new assistant principal percent. Initial funding would commissioners at their meeting Job In Watertown Feb. 25 for Swift: Junior High, School. Monday night. The city administrator for Elk with, the chairman in effect the -Mrs. Thompson is among the (Continued on page 2) 'The snafu, could scuttle an ear- River, Minn, said he is "very major, and. elected at large. • very few -Watertown school ad- ly solution, to the problem that pleased, and. excited" about be- " Mr. Middaugh was raised ministrators to have grown up February Talks has been targeted as a priority in. coming Watertown *s new town through his mid-teen years in in the community and. be educat- the new year by Town. Council manager and beginning work Syracuse, N;Y., before his family ed at local schools, former Jud- Feature 'Our Chairwoman. Barbara Hymel. here Feb.. 25. moved to' Cincinnati. His parents son School Principal, Livingston The authority since has made a Robert: C. Middaugh, Jr., a now live in Tampa, Fla. Crowell being: at least one other. Town' As Theme change in the original proposal 32-year-old " chief administrator He is married, and he and wife (Valuckas Photo) "Our Town" will be the theme drafted by the Fire District, in, a community of 7,300' halfway Melissa have three sons, Robert:,, of the Friends of Watertown Li- which, the district has .reviewed. between Minneapolis and, St. 7, Brian, 5, and Bradley, 3. from the University of Colorado, brary's seventh annual Tuesday The authority now feels with so Cloud, unanimously was hired by "Melissa likes the physical, ap- Boulder, Colo.,, in 1976. He was Luncheon Lecture Series during few homes tapping into the water the Town Council Jan. 10 to suc- pearance of Watertown, and the an undergraduate intern in Ham- the month of February. supply, it would be pointless to ceed former Town Manager people have been very nice," ilton, Ohio for four months in The following lectures, all upgrade its water pumping facili- James Troup and ,A:ting Mana- the new town manager' said in, a 1974. being held, in the 470 Main St. ty when the extra capacity is not ger William Halliwell. phone interview. ' He served an administrative Friends Gallery of the library be- needed. His salary has been set at Coming into a community internship in, Estes Park, Colo. ginning at 12 noon, are: According to Mr. Pilicy, the 839,700. where political strife often runs from. May through October, Feb. 5-Ma.rgaret Judd, form- authority has suggested the Mr. Middaugh was the final- rampant "doesn't really bother 1975, and. became administra- er principal of Polk School, will number of new homes being ist from around 60' applicants-for me," Mr. Middaugh said. "It's tive assistant: and personnel di- talk about the history of educa- served reach a certain consump- the manager's job. He visited something that every,-manager rector in Coon Rapids, Minn, in tion in Watertown. tion capacity, . the authority Watertown twice for several days has to face.' * March, 1.976 through July, 1978. Feb. 12-A.ver.y Lamphier, fire would have six months to com- while being interviewed by the He said he has developed a Council worn an Mary Jo C'ic- chief for 26 years and a, member plete work on another supply fa- Council. "good, interest and, handle" for chetti said in talking with a. of the International, Organiza- cility. He has been city administrator labor and staff negotiations over newspaper1 editor in Elk, liver, tion for Fire Chiefs, will discuss Another option would call for at Elk River from July, 1,978 to the years, but will let the Coun- she .heard Mr. 1*4 id da ugh. de- the Watertown Fire Department. the authority to replace its 60- the present, where he supervised cil establish the priorities for scribed as '''respected in the Feb.