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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.
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