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COLUMBIA, Ku. 65211 jffcfjl'-- Columbia 7SthYearNo. 210 Good Morning! It's Tuesday, May 22,1984 2 Sections 14 Pages 25 Cents WASHINGTON President Rea-gan, in message to King Fahd of Saudi Arabia Monday, said he would seek to provide American military assistance to protect Persian Gulf shippxig from future Iranian attacks if requested formally by the Saudis, administration officials said. The tetter, officials reported, said now is the time to begin detailed lo-gistic planning on what would be needed and what Saudi facilities could be made available to Ameri-can forces if the Saudis and other Gulf nations desire U. S. naval or air support. The letter, which reportedly noted that no such aid had been requested, was being delivered in Riyadh by Richard Murphy, assistant secre-tary of state for Near Eastern and Sooth Asian affairs. Murphy pre-viously had said the United States would be willing to discuss such as-- sistance if requested by Saudi Ara-bia or other Persian Gulf countries. One official said the Saudis had been told privately that if they gave permission for the use of Dhahran air field, a squadron of 24 U-- S. Air Force F- 1- 5s could be in Saudi Arabia within two days. At the same time. State Depart-ment officials said. Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher is sending a del-egation of British officials here for consultations with State and Defense Department representatives on pos-sible joint allied efforts in case the situation worsened in the Gulf. White House and State Depart-ment officials said, however, that the administration's tactics for the moment were to ha re the Arab coun-tries, and in particular the Persian Gulf Arabs, take the lead politically and militarily. Officials repeated that the Ameri-- Officials say U. S. prefers a negotiated solution to the war between Iran and Iraq can preference was for a negotiated solution to the Iran- Ira- q war and an end to tiie increasing incidents in-volving air attacks on tankers in the Persian Gulf. In recent days, the Saudis, with their advanced American- mad- e F- 1- 5s, which give them the best- equipp- ed air force in the Persian Gulf, have taken the lead in promot-ing an Arab policy of confrontation against the Iranians for their attacks last week against two Kuwaiti tank-ers and one Saudi tanker. - On Sunday, the Saudis were able to persuade the Arab League foreign ministers meeting in Tunis to vote by majority rule to condemn the Ira-nians, overcoming efforts by Syria and Libya, the two Arab backers of Iran, to insist on all votes being unanimous. Iran is not an Arab country. The Iranians launched the attacks last week with American- mad- e F-- 4 Phantoms that bad been supplied many years ago to the Iranian gov-ernment of Shah Mohammad Reza PahlavL The Iranians said they were respondhg to Iraqi efforts to discourage world shipping from tak-ing on oil in Iranian ports. The Iraqis for months have threatened to hit any ship within a 50 mile radius of Iran's Kharg Island terminal. The United States is taking the po-sition that the Iraqis are limiting their attacks to ships in a defined " war zone" near Iran's waters but that the Iranians are hitting ships ei-ther in international waters or in the waters of non- belligeren- ts. Prince Bandar bin Sultan, the Sau-di ambassador to Washington, in-formed Secretary of State George Shultz last week that the Saudis might have to take military action against the Iranians, and wanted to know, administration officials said, if the United States would be there in case an emergency arose. " The president's letter is meant to answer that question.'- - n White House official said. The official. however, stressed that it w js not the United States" intenuon to ' force it-self" into the Gulf. The United States since December 1980. shortly after the outbreak of the Iran- Ira- q war. has flown AWAiS surveillance planes on loan to the Saudis. Since Saudi Arabia began its mil-itary modernization program 10 years ago, it has been a major pur-chaser of American military equip-ment. Norman Hooke. a spokesman for Lloyd's Shipping Intelligence, a divi-sion of the Ixindon- base- d insurance company that keeps extensive data on maritime incidents, said in a tele-phone conversation Monday that 63 ships have been hit since late 1981. when attacks began on commercial shipping in the Persian Gulf. Working to keep bridges, roads safe By Josh Rappapoit M8ssorian stall wriier It is a misty morning in early ApriL On a gravel- covere- d county road in southern Boone County, sev-eral men lean their weight against a 20- foo- t, steel culvert pipe. " Posh now!" one yells. Simulta-neously, eight hands begin rolling the pipe some six feet to the edge of its destination: a freshly dug trough cutting across the road. " Counryl- ye- Us Bart Earner in ex-ultation as the pipe falls' and settles into its trough, For the county's bridge crew, it means another project started. For Boone County dozens, it mean a new culvert, and that means better roads andtransportation. Throughout the year, come rain or shine, the county's seven- ma- n bridge crew performs manual labor on the county's rural roads and bridges. The crew is chiefly respon-sible for bridge repair, but it also works on the roads fixing culverts. The bridge crew works on all of the county's 346 bridges and on miles and mites of county roads. Most of the roads are graveicovered. Earner, 22 and the youngest crew member, says people the crew meets on its rounds often suggest as-signments. " A lot of the time, when we stop to eat or get gas, someone will tell us about some culvert that needs to be replaced or a road that needs po-tholes fixed," hesays. Other assignments are made by county residents who call the Road and Bridge Department's main of-fice at 449515. The crew's most common tasks are replacing culverts, building and repairing low- wat- er crossings, clearing trees from roads; cutting brush from the sides of roads, and replacing old railings and floor-boards on bridges. When they are not busy with a bridge or culvert, crew members might be asked to do other tasks, sacbas fix pothoks. The crew likes to kid around dur-ing its work day. Crew members -- . Takinq a break are, from left, Jerry SSegel, Victor Sims. Leon Bise and Richard Bass. compete for recognition as top jes-ter. Describing the various duties of crew member Harold Perkins, Barri-er notes Perkins runs the backhoe, the bulldozer and the road grader. " Also his mouth," jests fellow crew-man Pad Griggs, 53, who can't re-sist the opening. The crew members are asked to identify their ages. Foreman Victor Sims is non- committa- l. " Fifty- thre- e or21," he says. This spring, the crew has been kept busier than usual replacing and installing culverts. The heavy rains have dislodged many of them, leav-- ing some roads impassable -- until the crew fixes them within a couple of days. One county laborer said this has been a " weird spring, just nasty, nasty weather." From fine to time, the crew works on a major project for a week or longer. Currently, it is repairing Bridge No. 148 at Timmons Road in northeastern Boone County. This project win keep the crew occupied for about a week. In file last few years, the crew has begun performing several more complicated deeds. For example, the crew has developed a use for as-- phalt dug up when it reapplies as-phalt to a road. The crew uses the old asphalt to reinforce gutters on the sides cf roads. Sims, who is 53and not 21, says the bridge crew has come a long way in the 14 years mat he has been work-ing with it-- He says that when be started, the crew labored manually on many tasks now performed by machines. The crew used to dig up culverts with shovels; today a backhoe does the job. The manual method re-quired about six times more time. The crew's workday doss not al-ways pass easily. During one partic- - ular culvert repair, two trucks got flat tires, the backhoe became stuck . for 10 minutes on a narrow road, and a pickup truck was delayed trying to gain traction on a four- inc- h bed of gravel. One crew member, Richard Bass, 26, commented that it was " an aver-age day."-- On the whole, county citizens seem pleased with the bridge crew's work. Robert Tufts of Route 7 in north-ern Boone County, and Arley Per-kins of Route 4 in the southern part of the county, both say they have had few problems with the' county's roads and bridges. Hotel- nospita- T helps to cut costs IByMWwFaOrYsmorRttTolem& oians PHILADELPHIA This, the patients said the other day, was like no hospital theyhad ever seen. There was a simple reason for the surprise. Though" the patients were still on the grounds of the Presbyterian- Universit- y of Penn-sylvania Medical Center, they' were no longer in hospital rooms. Latter Benjamin spent much of his time as he recovered from sur-gery watching television from an easy chair white bis wife, Delia, - sst nearby crocheting or reading. They shared a spacious room in a balding nextto the main hospital. Besjsmin was one of the first three wtyM'tR of Presbyterian's PesseEl Care Residence, devel-oped by L Donald Snook Jr., the bsspgal's president B was de-- signed primarily for recovering patients who need medical serv-ices but not the constant care that hospSals provide. The main difference between Benjamin's room and a hospital room is the cost A room in the " hotel- hOBpSal- ," as Snook calls it, averages about $ 150 a day, com-pared with eboot $ 50 for a regular hospital room. Spouses or ether family mmhm can share the persooatcare rossss at a cost that covers meals and linens, about $ 29 a day. At the Personal Care Residence, petieaia are cared for en an " a la carte" basis. The hartal's doc-tors and muses visit the residence or fbe pieafe go to the hospital or "" MI",,'"" """" doctors' offices. " It's a wonderful place to stay white you are getting well," said Benjamin, a general contractor. Dressed in slacks and a sport shirt, be often interrupted bis tele-vision watching to phone bis busi-ness in Charlotte Amalie. Virgin Islands. The residence is Snook's re-sponse to ctBtrcutting measures adopted by the federal Medicare program that are to take effect in Jury. The program generally has re-imbursed hospitals for whatever they spent on patients covered by Medicare. Under the system to go into effect in Job, hospitals are to be paid a flat rate, often less than they now receive, depending on the diagnosis of each patient cov-ered by the program. " Most hospitals are going to be losing racney,'' Snook said in an in-- j tervfew hi the Personal Care Resi-dence spacfarB patientlounge. He predicted that many hospi-tals were E& efy to adopt a pro-gram like the one at Presbyterian. Gompgaeg& of tog Presbyterian See KOSCTTALS, Pago 6a shooting Incident ' bizarre' Stray bullet killed woman By Evan Miller Mlssouruwi staff writer FULTON Saturday afternoon, a Fulton area hunter took aim at a rabbit on a hill 35 feet above him m Callaway County. He missed the rabbit. Monday afternoon, the Mis-souri Major Case Squad said his bul-let had struck and killed Donna Sue KuDman. Roger Rice, a spokesman for the investigating squad, said the case was " about as bizarre as they come." The hunter, unaware he had shot anyone, was found during a canvas of the area Sunday afternoon. Dur-ing questioning he said he had fired four shots at a rabbit on a hill ap-proximately 1,000 feet north of the Show- M- e Nursery, off Interstate 70 at the Millersburg exit. The bullet crossed 1-- 70 and struck Kullman in the head. She died in-stantly. The incident occurred near the Callaway County and Boone Countv line, a few miles northeast of Mil-lersburg. Investigators confiscated the hunt-er's .22- calib- er rifle and ammuni-tion. He later was released but not identified by authorities. Ballistic tests determined that the weapon and the ammunition have " similar characteristics" to the ones that killed Kullman. The results of the investigation are to be turned over to Callaway Coun-ty Prosecuting Attorney Diane Garb- e- r to determine if criminal charges will be filed against the hunter. She was unable to say when that decision will be made. Rice said the hunter would be identified only if charges were filed. The Major Case Squad planned to conclude its investigation Monday afternoon. The squad followed more than 50 leads to find the hunter. Rice said. The squad, composed of mid- Missou- ri police and Missouri State High-way Patrol officers, was assembled Saturday night at the request of Cal-laway County Sheriff Ted Salmons. ByStevoVisssr and Laura Quest Mtesourian staff writsra The dry Council Monday night unanimously approved a measure to tax property owners in the Forest HOI Court area for routine street maintenance. The measure calls for property owners in the area to pay a maxi- nm- m of $ 2 per foot of property that abuts the streets. Public Works Di-rector Ray Beck called it a " one shot deal" and said the money will go to-ward major road maintenance be-fore winter. The cfty's position has been that property owners benefited from the improvements and should pay for part of the costs for road mainte-nance. Nonetheless, problems with tax billing arose when Columbia extend-ed t& 3 pokes' from the city's devel-oped areas to Gndevekped cues, mbish are rccstiy farmland, making the taxes cs2rsordmarfly high. BeS jpsJslSe cpiaSsa expressed at Energy program proposed Monday night s meeting was gener-ally in favor of the maintenance tax inside the city. Steve Scott, 201 West- woo- d Ave., called the project " very much needed." He also said his neighbors favor the tax. The council also unanimously amended the bill that gives banks the option of renting on- stre- et me-tered parking spaces to include sav-ings and loans institutions. Mayor John Westiund said be thought the amendment was necessary to create more equal treatment for savings and bans associations, which pro-vide many cf the same services as hanks. Water and Light Department Di-rector Dick Malon explained to the council a proposed energy load man-agement system to be installed on an experimental and limited basts in volunteer homes in Columbia next summer. Malon said the system will use radio controls to cut power deliv-ery to air ccadiHoners M hemes for seven minutes every nour. The council also unanimously ap-proved a recommendation dealing with sewer bids in the Grindstone Drainage Area. The city staff sug-gested that the $ 1.4 million contract with J. C. Industries of Jefferson City be handled in two phases to maxi-mize state grants for the project The recommendation calls for the first phase to focus on the Grindstone Park area. The second phase will begin after the current fiscal year, which ends Sept. 31 . In addition, the council voted unanimously to consider a proposal from the Boone County Court to pro-duce $ 60,000 of the $ 300,000 needed to replace the bridge on Business 63. The county is entitfled to 80 percent state funding for bridges if it pro-vides the other 20 percent. County officials say they are will-ing to share their funding allocation with the city if the city provides the 20 percent since the bridge is within the city's jurisdiction.
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Item.Transcript | COLUMBIA, Ku. 65211 jffcfjl'-- Columbia 7SthYearNo. 210 Good Morning! It's Tuesday, May 22,1984 2 Sections 14 Pages 25 Cents WASHINGTON President Rea-gan, in message to King Fahd of Saudi Arabia Monday, said he would seek to provide American military assistance to protect Persian Gulf shippxig from future Iranian attacks if requested formally by the Saudis, administration officials said. The tetter, officials reported, said now is the time to begin detailed lo-gistic planning on what would be needed and what Saudi facilities could be made available to Ameri-can forces if the Saudis and other Gulf nations desire U. S. naval or air support. The letter, which reportedly noted that no such aid had been requested, was being delivered in Riyadh by Richard Murphy, assistant secre-tary of state for Near Eastern and Sooth Asian affairs. Murphy pre-viously had said the United States would be willing to discuss such as-- sistance if requested by Saudi Ara-bia or other Persian Gulf countries. One official said the Saudis had been told privately that if they gave permission for the use of Dhahran air field, a squadron of 24 U-- S. Air Force F- 1- 5s could be in Saudi Arabia within two days. At the same time. State Depart-ment officials said. Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher is sending a del-egation of British officials here for consultations with State and Defense Department representatives on pos-sible joint allied efforts in case the situation worsened in the Gulf. White House and State Depart-ment officials said, however, that the administration's tactics for the moment were to ha re the Arab coun-tries, and in particular the Persian Gulf Arabs, take the lead politically and militarily. Officials repeated that the Ameri-- Officials say U. S. prefers a negotiated solution to the war between Iran and Iraq can preference was for a negotiated solution to the Iran- Ira- q war and an end to tiie increasing incidents in-volving air attacks on tankers in the Persian Gulf. In recent days, the Saudis, with their advanced American- mad- e F- 1- 5s, which give them the best- equipp- ed air force in the Persian Gulf, have taken the lead in promot-ing an Arab policy of confrontation against the Iranians for their attacks last week against two Kuwaiti tank-ers and one Saudi tanker. - On Sunday, the Saudis were able to persuade the Arab League foreign ministers meeting in Tunis to vote by majority rule to condemn the Ira-nians, overcoming efforts by Syria and Libya, the two Arab backers of Iran, to insist on all votes being unanimous. Iran is not an Arab country. The Iranians launched the attacks last week with American- mad- e F-- 4 Phantoms that bad been supplied many years ago to the Iranian gov-ernment of Shah Mohammad Reza PahlavL The Iranians said they were respondhg to Iraqi efforts to discourage world shipping from tak-ing on oil in Iranian ports. The Iraqis for months have threatened to hit any ship within a 50 mile radius of Iran's Kharg Island terminal. The United States is taking the po-sition that the Iraqis are limiting their attacks to ships in a defined " war zone" near Iran's waters but that the Iranians are hitting ships ei-ther in international waters or in the waters of non- belligeren- ts. Prince Bandar bin Sultan, the Sau-di ambassador to Washington, in-formed Secretary of State George Shultz last week that the Saudis might have to take military action against the Iranians, and wanted to know, administration officials said, if the United States would be there in case an emergency arose. " The president's letter is meant to answer that question.'- - n White House official said. The official. however, stressed that it w js not the United States" intenuon to ' force it-self" into the Gulf. The United States since December 1980. shortly after the outbreak of the Iran- Ira- q war. has flown AWAiS surveillance planes on loan to the Saudis. Since Saudi Arabia began its mil-itary modernization program 10 years ago, it has been a major pur-chaser of American military equip-ment. Norman Hooke. a spokesman for Lloyd's Shipping Intelligence, a divi-sion of the Ixindon- base- d insurance company that keeps extensive data on maritime incidents, said in a tele-phone conversation Monday that 63 ships have been hit since late 1981. when attacks began on commercial shipping in the Persian Gulf. Working to keep bridges, roads safe By Josh Rappapoit M8ssorian stall wriier It is a misty morning in early ApriL On a gravel- covere- d county road in southern Boone County, sev-eral men lean their weight against a 20- foo- t, steel culvert pipe. " Posh now!" one yells. Simulta-neously, eight hands begin rolling the pipe some six feet to the edge of its destination: a freshly dug trough cutting across the road. " Counryl- ye- Us Bart Earner in ex-ultation as the pipe falls' and settles into its trough, For the county's bridge crew, it means another project started. For Boone County dozens, it mean a new culvert, and that means better roads andtransportation. Throughout the year, come rain or shine, the county's seven- ma- n bridge crew performs manual labor on the county's rural roads and bridges. The crew is chiefly respon-sible for bridge repair, but it also works on the roads fixing culverts. The bridge crew works on all of the county's 346 bridges and on miles and mites of county roads. Most of the roads are graveicovered. Earner, 22 and the youngest crew member, says people the crew meets on its rounds often suggest as-signments. " A lot of the time, when we stop to eat or get gas, someone will tell us about some culvert that needs to be replaced or a road that needs po-tholes fixed," hesays. Other assignments are made by county residents who call the Road and Bridge Department's main of-fice at 449515. The crew's most common tasks are replacing culverts, building and repairing low- wat- er crossings, clearing trees from roads; cutting brush from the sides of roads, and replacing old railings and floor-boards on bridges. When they are not busy with a bridge or culvert, crew members might be asked to do other tasks, sacbas fix pothoks. The crew likes to kid around dur-ing its work day. Crew members -- . Takinq a break are, from left, Jerry SSegel, Victor Sims. Leon Bise and Richard Bass. compete for recognition as top jes-ter. Describing the various duties of crew member Harold Perkins, Barri-er notes Perkins runs the backhoe, the bulldozer and the road grader. " Also his mouth," jests fellow crew-man Pad Griggs, 53, who can't re-sist the opening. The crew members are asked to identify their ages. Foreman Victor Sims is non- committa- l. " Fifty- thre- e or21," he says. This spring, the crew has been kept busier than usual replacing and installing culverts. The heavy rains have dislodged many of them, leav-- ing some roads impassable -- until the crew fixes them within a couple of days. One county laborer said this has been a " weird spring, just nasty, nasty weather." From fine to time, the crew works on a major project for a week or longer. Currently, it is repairing Bridge No. 148 at Timmons Road in northeastern Boone County. This project win keep the crew occupied for about a week. In file last few years, the crew has begun performing several more complicated deeds. For example, the crew has developed a use for as-- phalt dug up when it reapplies as-phalt to a road. The crew uses the old asphalt to reinforce gutters on the sides cf roads. Sims, who is 53and not 21, says the bridge crew has come a long way in the 14 years mat he has been work-ing with it-- He says that when be started, the crew labored manually on many tasks now performed by machines. The crew used to dig up culverts with shovels; today a backhoe does the job. The manual method re-quired about six times more time. The crew's workday doss not al-ways pass easily. During one partic- - ular culvert repair, two trucks got flat tires, the backhoe became stuck . for 10 minutes on a narrow road, and a pickup truck was delayed trying to gain traction on a four- inc- h bed of gravel. One crew member, Richard Bass, 26, commented that it was " an aver-age day."-- On the whole, county citizens seem pleased with the bridge crew's work. Robert Tufts of Route 7 in north-ern Boone County, and Arley Per-kins of Route 4 in the southern part of the county, both say they have had few problems with the' county's roads and bridges. Hotel- nospita- T helps to cut costs IByMWwFaOrYsmorRttTolem& oians PHILADELPHIA This, the patients said the other day, was like no hospital theyhad ever seen. There was a simple reason for the surprise. Though" the patients were still on the grounds of the Presbyterian- Universit- y of Penn-sylvania Medical Center, they' were no longer in hospital rooms. Latter Benjamin spent much of his time as he recovered from sur-gery watching television from an easy chair white bis wife, Delia, - sst nearby crocheting or reading. They shared a spacious room in a balding nextto the main hospital. Besjsmin was one of the first three wtyM'tR of Presbyterian's PesseEl Care Residence, devel-oped by L Donald Snook Jr., the bsspgal's president B was de-- signed primarily for recovering patients who need medical serv-ices but not the constant care that hospSals provide. The main difference between Benjamin's room and a hospital room is the cost A room in the " hotel- hOBpSal- ," as Snook calls it, averages about $ 150 a day, com-pared with eboot $ 50 for a regular hospital room. Spouses or ether family mmhm can share the persooatcare rossss at a cost that covers meals and linens, about $ 29 a day. At the Personal Care Residence, petieaia are cared for en an " a la carte" basis. The hartal's doc-tors and muses visit the residence or fbe pieafe go to the hospital or "" MI",,'"" """" doctors' offices. " It's a wonderful place to stay white you are getting well," said Benjamin, a general contractor. Dressed in slacks and a sport shirt, be often interrupted bis tele-vision watching to phone bis busi-ness in Charlotte Amalie. Virgin Islands. The residence is Snook's re-sponse to ctBtrcutting measures adopted by the federal Medicare program that are to take effect in Jury. The program generally has re-imbursed hospitals for whatever they spent on patients covered by Medicare. Under the system to go into effect in Job, hospitals are to be paid a flat rate, often less than they now receive, depending on the diagnosis of each patient cov-ered by the program. " Most hospitals are going to be losing racney,'' Snook said in an in-- j tervfew hi the Personal Care Resi-dence spacfarB patientlounge. He predicted that many hospi-tals were E& efy to adopt a pro-gram like the one at Presbyterian. Gompgaeg& of tog Presbyterian See KOSCTTALS, Pago 6a shooting Incident ' bizarre' Stray bullet killed woman By Evan Miller Mlssouruwi staff writer FULTON Saturday afternoon, a Fulton area hunter took aim at a rabbit on a hill 35 feet above him m Callaway County. He missed the rabbit. Monday afternoon, the Mis-souri Major Case Squad said his bul-let had struck and killed Donna Sue KuDman. Roger Rice, a spokesman for the investigating squad, said the case was " about as bizarre as they come." The hunter, unaware he had shot anyone, was found during a canvas of the area Sunday afternoon. Dur-ing questioning he said he had fired four shots at a rabbit on a hill ap-proximately 1,000 feet north of the Show- M- e Nursery, off Interstate 70 at the Millersburg exit. The bullet crossed 1-- 70 and struck Kullman in the head. She died in-stantly. The incident occurred near the Callaway County and Boone Countv line, a few miles northeast of Mil-lersburg. Investigators confiscated the hunt-er's .22- calib- er rifle and ammuni-tion. He later was released but not identified by authorities. Ballistic tests determined that the weapon and the ammunition have " similar characteristics" to the ones that killed Kullman. The results of the investigation are to be turned over to Callaway Coun-ty Prosecuting Attorney Diane Garb- e- r to determine if criminal charges will be filed against the hunter. She was unable to say when that decision will be made. Rice said the hunter would be identified only if charges were filed. The Major Case Squad planned to conclude its investigation Monday afternoon. The squad followed more than 50 leads to find the hunter. Rice said. The squad, composed of mid- Missou- ri police and Missouri State High-way Patrol officers, was assembled Saturday night at the request of Cal-laway County Sheriff Ted Salmons. ByStevoVisssr and Laura Quest Mtesourian staff writsra The dry Council Monday night unanimously approved a measure to tax property owners in the Forest HOI Court area for routine street maintenance. The measure calls for property owners in the area to pay a maxi- nm- m of $ 2 per foot of property that abuts the streets. Public Works Di-rector Ray Beck called it a " one shot deal" and said the money will go to-ward major road maintenance be-fore winter. The cfty's position has been that property owners benefited from the improvements and should pay for part of the costs for road mainte-nance. Nonetheless, problems with tax billing arose when Columbia extend-ed t& 3 pokes' from the city's devel-oped areas to Gndevekped cues, mbish are rccstiy farmland, making the taxes cs2rsordmarfly high. BeS jpsJslSe cpiaSsa expressed at Energy program proposed Monday night s meeting was gener-ally in favor of the maintenance tax inside the city. Steve Scott, 201 West- woo- d Ave., called the project " very much needed." He also said his neighbors favor the tax. The council also unanimously amended the bill that gives banks the option of renting on- stre- et me-tered parking spaces to include sav-ings and loans institutions. Mayor John Westiund said be thought the amendment was necessary to create more equal treatment for savings and bans associations, which pro-vide many cf the same services as hanks. Water and Light Department Di-rector Dick Malon explained to the council a proposed energy load man-agement system to be installed on an experimental and limited basts in volunteer homes in Columbia next summer. Malon said the system will use radio controls to cut power deliv-ery to air ccadiHoners M hemes for seven minutes every nour. The council also unanimously ap-proved a recommendation dealing with sewer bids in the Grindstone Drainage Area. The city staff sug-gested that the $ 1.4 million contract with J. C. Industries of Jefferson City be handled in two phases to maxi-mize state grants for the project The recommendation calls for the first phase to focus on the Grindstone Park area. The second phase will begin after the current fiscal year, which ends Sept. 31 . In addition, the council voted unanimously to consider a proposal from the Boone County Court to pro-duce $ 60,000 of the $ 300,000 needed to replace the bridge on Business 63. The county is entitfled to 80 percent state funding for bridges if it pro-vides the other 20 percent. County officials say they are will-ing to share their funding allocation with the city if the city provides the 20 percent since the bridge is within the city's jurisdiction. |