Sewickley Herald

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Vol. 92 No. 43
Serving Aleppo, Bell Acres, Edgeworth, Glenfield,Haysville, Leet leetsdale, Osborne, Sewickley, Sewickley Heights, Sewickley Hills
Wednesday, November 15,1995

Shortte Cook! j of Moon J Township educates herself on the history of the Old Train Station on Chadwick Street. For more'on the exhibit, see page. 13.
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INSIDE
Sports
• Will it be Quaker Valley dr Sewickley Academy wrip will gel the opportunity to play Steel
Valley in the P1AA AA State Boys' SoCcer Semifinals this week?
Pagte’25 Election '95
• Who were the winners and who were the losers in the hotly-can-tested races in the boroughs of Bell Acres and Sewickley Hills?
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School
• An "Appel" a day at QV will be leaving the district this June as Dr. George Appel retires. He reflects on nls career.
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▼ SEWICKLEY
Council
proposes
■ Sewickley Council has ap proved to advertise the 19% ■ budget which calls for a reduction in millage from 27 to 25.5. The catch is sewer and permit fees will be increased to compensate for
the reduction in millage.
By towthaa KerJtlng Staff writer
Sewickley Borough residents may be paying less hi property taxes next year.
But they may also ha gouged with steeper sewage and permit fees if council has its way tliis
'CLARIFYING' A POINTS Borough Manager Kevin Flannery explains to	’	,
Councilman Richard Brandt (right) how the primary clarifier works at the Sewickley _	“
Wastewater Treatment Plant. An open house was held this past Saturday for the public so mj]lion budae? , 1996 residents could see where their tax dollars - approximately $927,000 - Were spent.	eludesaL5infflreductionto25,5
mills.
t TAXES
Susan Laughlin supports local petition
By Frank Tibod
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State Rep. Susan Laughlin, who represents the local 16th Legislative District, has written to Attorney General Thomas Corbett Jr. supporting the petition filed in October by Dolores Bassett of Edgeworth, Peter Floyd, of Sewickley and Marianne Wagner of Osborne.
The petition, signed by several property owners in each of the communities above, seeks redress for grievances on the “wrongful, discriminatory, un-lawfulassessmcntsonreal property in each of these communities in 1034.”
Edgeworth saw an assessment increase on average of 52 percent in 1994, 45 percent in Osborne and 41 percent in Sewickley.
Susan Laughlin
“I support their effort to pursue administrative and judicial avenues for seeking redress to their grievances,” said Mrs. Laughlin.
Mrs. Bassett contends inves-
tigative studies she has conducted of assessment changes throughout the county over the past five years shows there is evidence of violations of the uniformity statutes of tax laws covering second-class counties.
“The capricious, unfair reassessment increases in 1924 exceeding an average of 40 percent for each community with individual reassessments up to 300 percent in one year are without precedent in Allegheny County and warrant examination by your office,” said Mrs. Bassett in the petition to Corbett.
She went on to say that the citizenry of these communities believe that tliis wrongful action cannot be corrected in the Allegheny County Governmental System sincethecounty isknow-ingly violating a court order by issuedby A.J. Papadakosin 1962.
This will be the third year in a row millage will be reduced in the borough.
To compensate for the reduction in millage, Sewickley plans to increase Sewage and permit fees.
Borough Manager Kevin Flannery said it is more equitable for residents to pay for the exact amount of services they use.
“The fee will be as close as possible to the delivered service,” said Flannery, noting that Sewickley Borough wants, to make services more cost efficient.
With each mill generating approximately $44,000 for Sewickley, the borough also wants to increase the cost of streetopenings, building permits and sewer tap-in fees to help cover the loss.
The budget can be approved at council’s regular meeting on Monday at 8 p.m. in council chambers. Sewickley Council has until the end of the year to approvethebudgct,asmandated by state law.
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