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Page 12 The INDEPENDENT, May 1, 2003 Banks Council starts budget meeetings Betwoan the Bookends By Ann Krutsinger, Library Assistant Banks Public Library The Friends of the Banks Public Library held their annual plant and book sale on Fri day, April 25th and Saturday, April 26th. Shoppers perused a large and varied as sembly of used fiction and non-fiction, videos, magazines and cassettes. New books donated by Timber Press and by Barnes and Noble were also available. This year, the Friends bought some new books and sold them for 20 percent off the list price - there were many titles, most of them were gardening books by Sunset Books. Plants rushed out the doors - shrubs, trees, bamboo, tomatoes and peppers, herbs, perennials and more. The sale featured an nuals, perennials, colorful hanging baskets, potted arrangements, and beautiful garden assessories from Lumberjack Nursery. There were also tomatoes, herbs, bee boxes and wonderful toma to and cucumber hanging baskets from Green Spirit Nursery. Flo ra Lan Nursery provided shrubs, including rhodies, azaleas, and much more. lone brought her famous cinnamon rolls for the volunteers and Ann made some strong coffee. The Community room looked pro fessionally arranged (thank you, Fran, Pat and Jill!). For the last two years, the entire sale has been contained inside the Commu nity room, which is quite a feat! A big Thank you! to all the volun teers who, year after year, help make the sale a successful fundraiser. It was two days of hard work but the proceeds will be used to fund Preschool Story time and the Summer Reading Pro gram. Forever, by Pete Hamill, is one of the new books that our Friends group purchased for the library. Forever is the story of Cormac O’Connor who leaves Ireland in the year 1740 to avenge the deaths of his parents and honor his ancestral code. In New York, O’Connor is enveloped by the chaos that is New York and comes to the aid of an African Shaman who was brought to the colonies in chains. In return the Shaman makes O’Corinor invinci ble—he will live forever, as long as he doesn’t leave Manhattan Is land. Banks Public Library: 111 Market Street. Hours: Tues., Wed., Thurs., 11 a.m. - 7 p.m.; FrL and Sat. 11 a.m. * 5 p.m. Preschool Story Time: Wednesdays, 10:15 a.m., when school Is In session. Phone: (503 ) 324-1382 Internet: www.WILinet.wccls.lib.or.us. to browse library sources or to reserve materials electronically. ■> □ l-l rr BANKS M IN I STORAGE Ask about our Clock a Lock Giveaway! Deborah Deegan, City of Banks budget officer, reviewed the budget format at the first budget meeting held April 23. Teri Brandstitr was elected to chair the budget committee and Pete Edison will serve as vice chairman. The budget commit tee is composed of all mem bers of the city council, the mayor and seven community members. Mayor Bob Orlowski pre sented the budget message. Orlowski thanked all members of the committee for their time. He also told the committee that this year’s budget will be chal lenging and includes notable changes in the general, water, and police funds. Orlowski told the committee that costs for workers compen sation and PERS will both be increasing. The cost of health insurance benefits will also in crease, about 12 percent over all. Additionally, an increase will occur in the police department to cover an employee not cur rently participating in the plan. The city pays 80 percent of the premium for qualified employ ees. Though Orlowski had indi cated that decreased revenue projections would be discussed at the budget meeting, in his message Orlowski said that the reasons for declines in general fund revenue will be discussed April 30th. In his message, Or lowski said that transfers out of the general fund will decrease. The police department will re ceive about $7,000 less and the library transfer will be about $3,400 less than in the current budget year. In an effort to decrease the city’s overall debt, the budget proposes an additional pay ment on the outstanding water loan debt of $54,333. Accord ing to Orlowski this should im prove the city’s bonding capac ity. According to Orlowski’s budget message most of the payment on the water loan will come from a one-time balloon payment of $60,000 which will derive from the sale of property at 140 Market Street. The library faces some very difficult decisions in the coming fiscal year because of the fail ure of the county library levy. According to Orlowski, if the Please see page 20 Double Your Savings with ENERGY STAR® off any ENERGY STAR qualified clothes washer fo r customers of ( 5 West Oregon Electric Cooperative, Inc. A -5? 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