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Aleppaofficiars tire$ are slashed during meeting
The tires on an Aleppo Township commissioner's car were slashed sometime during last week’s board of commissionm’ meeting on Dec. 10 at Aleppo Township Municipal Building.
Commissioner Kenneth Leininger, of South McCoy Place, said he found both passenger-side tires slash* ed shortly after he left the meeting at 10;45 p.m.
Aleppo police determined the damage had been inflicted with some kind Of blunt object.
BA douses its plans for borough building
Citing residents’ com^)laints about water conditions in the Hawthorne Acres section of the-borough. Bell Acres Council has decided not to go ahead With plans for a new borough building.
Heated discussions about borough priorities were heard at last week’s council meeting. Some residents asked how council could go ahead with a building estimated at between $200,000 to $400,000 while some homes are without running water.
“I hope that the council is now working' with us on our problem,” said Sandy McNamara, a resident of Hawthorne Acres, who. hasi
lodged numefous complaints about the water problem in her home.
Three days after the Dec. 9 council meeting, Bell Acres Water Authority and council held a meeting to draw up specific iilans for a water line to feed residents in the Hawthorne Acres area.
According to Chuck McNamara, a Water Authority member who is experiencing the water crisis firsthand, the two groups updated cost estimates for water lines for Fern Hollow Road, Big Sewickley Creek Road, Camp Meeting Road Extension, Sevin Road and their offshoots.
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Sewicicley OKs budget for '92: No tax increase
By Frank Tiboni
staff writer
Sewickley Council unanimously approved a $2,702,000 general budget for the 1992 fiscal year Monday night, holding the tax rate at 32 mills, the same as in 1991.
In fact, this year’s budget is $79,000 less than the previous year.
Council also approved the capital budget of $417,00 for the same year. Councilman Clinton Childs announced that the sewage plant and the upkeep of Sewickley streets were the biggest expenses in this budget,
Childs said the borough has spent 89 percent of the budget it allocated for 1991. He cited, the property-tax increase and the biisiness-privilege tax as the reason for the borough’s rosy financial picture.
However, Childs, said that building permits, police fines and parking tickets decreased. He noted that public works was the borough’s largest expense this year, but thal he expects this year to end within the budget without any major problem.
Council approved the tax anticipation resolution by awarding the $300,000 bid to Equibank, which offered a 4.3 interest rate. Equibank under-
bid Pittsburgh National Bank, which came in at a 5.1.
Sewickley Council also appointed the accounting firm of Hosack Specht Muetzel & Wood to another three-year term.
Council approved a new weapon for Sewickley Police Department., A nine mm handgun will be : added to their arsenal of a .357 magnum and a .38 revolver.
According to Police Chief Walter Brannon, this new weapon has more firepower and will provide the officers with more protection. At $475 a piece, the borough will buy the handgun for the officers, but will be reimbursed by the officers by the end of next year.
Only full-time officer? will be compensated for the, weapon and they have to agree to sign up for it before afay guns are bought.
Nominated by the council to fill vacancies for boards and commissions are: Brewster Cockrell to the Zoning Hearing Board, Anthpny Cicco and Peggy' Standish to Sewickley Water Authority, James Cronin to the Vacancy Board, Goldie Mitchell to the Police Selective Service Committee, Robert Kloes to the Parking Authority, and Virginia Harriger to the Hospital Authority.
It's now official: Jack Long victor in Aleppo race
By Nicole Peffer
staff writer
The final count is in, and Jack Long is the victor of the November elections, beating Gloria Vish 182 to 159,
Long said he received official notice last week from Allegheny County Department of Elections, confirming his election to another four-year term,
“It’s just the way it worked out,” Long commented, “I have to honor the people who voted for me.”
According to fellow commissioner James Addison, votes poured in for the incumbent during the November election, but under various names and titles. The fu-st counting showed incumbent Robert Montgomery and Mrs. Vish reeeiv*
ed the most voteS; with Long following in third place.
Last week, Mrs. Vish and Long were informed that the other incorrect names intended for Long counted, and that he was the victor.
Long, a native of Cleveland, has served a total of six years on the board of commissioners. He now serves as vice president and finance chairman.
He moved to Aleppo in 1978.
The former president of the American Bridge Division of U.S. Steel is director and board chairman of Pittsburgh Des Moines Steel and an honorary member of the Boy Scouts of America.
In November, he told The Herald that his main concetv!<i^ as commissioner were keeping taxes to $ minimum and community interests.
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