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Illinois Valley News, Cave Junction, OR Wednesday, June 6, 2007
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TEEN COMMUNITY SER-
VICES Project on Satur-
day, June 2 provided four
teen-age workers to help
with landscaping work at
Illinois Valley Visitor
Center. Four of the pro-
gram teens worked a total
of nine hours pulling
weeds, spreading bark
chips and planting flow-
ers. Bob Litak, of Illinois
Valley Community Devel-
opment Organization,
helped organize the event.
It was the second session
the young workers spent
at the visitor center this
year to prepare the area
for the summer tourist
season. The Teen Com-
munity Services Work
Project is sponsored by
Illinois Valley Family Coa-
lition and funded by Cow
Creek Umpqua Indian
Foundation, Juan Young
Trust, The Carpenter
Foundation and The
Collins Foundation. The
program provided full-
time students between 15
and 19 with paid employ-
ment for working with
senior citizens, disabled
persons and other I.V.
residents. For each three
hours of paid employ-
ment, the teens contribute
one hour of community
service. (Photos provided
by Illinois Valley Family
Coalition through the
courtesy of Carol Ronan,
executive director)
First office at I.V. Medical Center
Monday - Friday by appointment
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Deep massage
CranioSacral Therapy
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This open workshop will be from 12:30 PM to 3:30 PM the 3rd
Wednesday of each month.
Building boom results in dramatic increase for interest income, notes City Recorder Jim Polk
expenses. But the city left a
utility clerk position unfilled
for six months, and former
public works supervisor Gary
Biggs worked only part time
for some of the year. As such,
payroll expenses ended up at
$504,810.
The city had also re-
negotiated its franchise fee
agreement with Pacific
Power, raising the revenues
received from that source
from $48,000 to $90,000.
Also, a telephone franchise
agreement with Citizens
Communications netted ap-
proximately $67,100 for the
city, instead of the $8,000
originally anticipated.
Polk said that income
from interest “went up dra-
matically” due to an increase
in System Development
Charges (SDC) from the
city’s building boom.
Some expenses also have
been altered from the city’s
original ‘06-’07 budget.
Legal expenses were set
at $2,000, but the city spent
approximately $69,000 for
those services due to the set-
tlement of a termination law-
suit brought by former city
employee Diane Schwartz.
The city is still expecting
$8,000 from the Josephine
County Sheriff’s Office
(JCSO) after canceling a ser-
vice contract in March. That
figure was for deputy patrols
from last October through
December, but staffing short-
ages forced JCSO to elimi-
nate the patrol.
Icky-blicky buggy wuggies can sicken you
They’re lying in wait for
you at the ATM machine and
on your computer keyboard at
work.
Secretly, they attach
themselves to your hands
when you push a shopping
cart at the store. The little
pests will even attach them-
selves to your children’s
hands when they romp on
playground equipment.
They’re germs, and
they’re lurking in more places
than most people think, just
waiting to be touched so they
can hitch a ride on people’s
hands.
“Most people think they
have a good idea of where
germs are, but I think they
would be surprised to learn of
the places or things where
they can pick up germs that
may make them sick,” said
Dr. Charles Gerba, environ-
Member Oregon Ground Water Assoc.
J OB SEARCH H ELP
CJ Budget Committee OKs $3.15 million for ‘07-08
By SCOTT JORGENSEN
IVN Staff Writer
City of Cave Junction
Budget Committee members
passed a $2.8 million supple-
mental budget for the 2006-
07 fiscal year, and voted to
approve its $3.15 million ‘07-
’08 budget during a Wednes-
day, May 30 meeting.
The supplemental budget
was necessary because
changes to the originally
adopted figures exceeded 10
percent.
“We had to do adjust-
ments,” City Recorder Jim
Polk said during an interview
Monday, June 4.
According to city docu-
ments, the original ‘06-’07
budget had set aside approxi-
mately $594,900 for payroll
WWC #1504 • CCB #152266 • CPl #7-113
mental microbiology profes-
sor at the University of Ari-
zona at Tucson.
According to Gerba,
many people know there are
germs in bathrooms, but may
not realize that the computer
keyboard at work or the
sponge in the kitchen can be
even filthier than a toilet seat.
From the workplace, the
home and school to cars,
trains and planes, germs are
everywhere.
Even during activities
such as exercising, playing,
shopping, going to the movies,
attending sports events and
commuting, people are com-
ing in contact with germs.
Since many germs are
spread by hand contact, prac-
ticing good hygiene every
day is a solution to the prob-
lem. When soap and water
aren’t available, using an in-
stant hand sanitizer like Purell
will do the job. This alcohol-
based hand sanitizer kills
99.99 percent of the most
common germs that may
cause illness.
They lurk in locations
including:
*At work- elevator but-
tons, phones, shared ink pens
*At gyms - exercise ma-
chine handles, mats
*When traveling -
subway poles and handles,
gas pump nozzles
*At school - shared toys
and books, cafeteria trays,
playground equipment
*At home - pet toys, light
switches, thermostats
*When shopping - esca-
lator handrails, shopping bas-
ket handles. The full list of
germy places and tips on
staying well can be found at
purell.com.
Additionally, the city
saved $24,000 by not paying
JCSO for the remaining
months of that contract, Polk
reported.
The extra funds saved by
the city through the contract
cancellation will be set aside
for water and sewer system
upgrades and kept in the gen-
eral fund to offset the addi-
tional legal fees it incurred
last year.
“Not doing the law en-
forcement contract leaves
$100,000 expendable money
in the General Fund,” Polk
said. “The money we saved is
being used to offset operating
deficits.”
The ‘07-’08 fiscal year
budget was approved as pro-
posed. The $3.1 million fig-
ure includes approximately
$183,000 in debt service,
$100,000 in contingency
funds, $1,026,350 in reserves
for future water and sewer
facility expansions stemming
from SDCs, and $525,000 for
personnel.
The budget is slated to go
before the city council to con-
sider its adoption during its
June 25 meeting.
You may also schedule an appointment at another time based on
availability.
Come by or call:
Illinois Valley Family Coalition
535 E. River St.
Cave Junction OR
97523
592-6139
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