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Page 10 The INDEPENDENT, June 20, 2001 anks school board receives offer of major work by volunteers Banks School Board Chair Anne Station recognized sev eral administrators for their work and welcomed new ad ministrators to the district, at the board meeting June 11. Discussion of administrative salaries and construction of a wrestling facility occupied the balance of the meeting. Retiring Junior High School Principal Ted Faro said that he “wouldn’t have gone any other place for 30 years." He also warned the high school admin istration that the junior high had promoted 92 students, the largest class ever. According to Faro the recently promoted class is “a bunch of really neat kids.” Faro announced that Banks would have summer school sessions in Math and Language Arts for students in grades 6, 7 and 8 beginning Hofshier for her donation of June 18. Also reporting a “largest” $1000 to the Freshman Con class, departing Banks High nections program. School Principal Jeff Smith Grade School Principal Es said that 69 students participat ter Lee said, “no one is more ed in graduation exercises. surprised than I am that I have The ceremony had to be to tender my resignation." She moved to the football stadium said it was a difficult decision to when the power went out. Jim leave the district after so short a time but that family concerns Foster, who was recently pro forced the decision. In her final moted to principal for next year, report to the board, Lee said thanked retiring teacher Rita that the Fine Arts Fair was a big success, Run for the Arts had raised $2800 for elementary arts programs, and Outdoor School football stadium. Since School recently completed at BCYM would like to make this Triple Creek Outdoor School the first of a series of annual was fun for all. events, Durham is getting com ments and recommendations Superintendent Marilyn Mc- from concerned parties. Glasson’s year-end report not Banks requires a permit to ed many accomplishments, in ude an amplified sound sys cluding: tem. Durham said he would like Elimination of the four-year council members or the police debt, three years ahead of department to approve the schedule. sound level at a sound check Establishment of web-based before the event. Durham said learning options for high stu that music would start at 6:00 dents beginning in 2001-2002. p.m. and end at about 9:30 Establishment and continua p.m. The event would end at tion of the Intel “Teach to the 10:00 p.m. Durham also re Future” program. quested that a police officer at Improved district security. tend the event. Orlowski said Completion of five grant ap that an officer would be on plications, ranging in size from duty, but that the city could not $14,000 - $145,000, to secure provide an officer to serve ex outside funding. clusively at the event. Coun The board voted unani cilors made several recom mously to offer McGlasson a mendations and encouraged salary of $96,000 for the 2001- Durham to apply for the need 2002 school year. Volunteer labor will provide ed permit. a new wrestling facility for the district, according to Ron Alley. Representing a group of com munity members, Alley said the facility would use -the same plan as a facility recently com pleted in Seaside. The new building would rest on the foot print of and replace the tennis courts. Banks council institutes water user fee, passes budget Banks City Council held four public hearings and one addi tional session for public com ment, without obtaining a re sponse. The agenda included actions on the annexation of Banks Lumber Company prop erty (reported elsewhere), the 2001-2002 budget, and the wa ter utility user fee. The council approved a one year water utility user fee of one cent per thousand gallons of water purchased from the city. The fee has been dis cussed for several months as a way to reduce the city’s budget deficit. It will appear on water bills as a separate item begin ning July 1 and will expire June 30, 2002. Depending on the amount of water used, water bills will increase from about $4.00 to about $10.00 per month. Councilors Ryan Birr, Terri Branstitre, Gary Coffey and Katie Murdoch approved the resolution. Councilor Tim Hardie opposed it and Coun cilor Judy Clifford remains on leave. Following this action council was able to act on the city’s budget. The proposed budget, as approved by the budget committee, included funds from the water utility user fee, but the council felt that one change was still necessary. They added $70,000 to the general fund for land acquisition, with revenue to be obtained from timber sales. The city is explor ing an opportunity to purchase land to protect the city’s water shed. Orlowski said that the budg et shows continued fiscal con servation but will result in an unappropriated ending fund balance of $ 44,983. Council approved the amended budget unanimously. Orlowski thanked the com munity members who partici pated in developing the 2001- 2002 budget. He said that he had never, in twelve years of experience with city govern ment, seen this kind of partici pation. Budget Committee members also agreed to attend quarterly meetings to monitor the city’s expenses. Darin Geldert and Gregory Thiel, of LDC Design Group, presented a report on water system development charges (SDCs), as requested by the council last month. The city may collect SDCs to cover the portion of infrastructure im provements that can be appor tioned to population increases. The report projects a popula tion increase of 374 people by the year 2025. The recom mended increase to $2,825.20 per dwelling unit was accepted by council. City engineer Dale Merrell reported that all bids received for water system improvements were in excess of available funds. No award was made. Michael Durham, of Base Camp Youth Ministries (BCYM), made a presentation to council about Jesus Jam ’01, a Christ ian youth concert to be held July 7 at the Banks High The board approved the proj ect and asked Alley to provide monthly updates. In other business the board:. Agreed to review graduation requirements in April 2002 to determine if Technology Con cepts should be added. Accepted the resignation of Business Manager Tim Collier. While designed for wrestling, the building would also be available for other physical education uses. Alley said that the group would like to begin construction as soon as possible. T h in k y o u ’re a n o rg a n a n d I is s u e d o n o r? N o t if y o u h a v e n ’t to ld y o u r fa m ily. Talk to your family about organ and tissue donation. Talk to your family about donating life. 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