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Wednesday. A»ri! 5,1978
Voi. 79 No. i4
Library budget
under
consideration
Looking to 1978-79 operating expenses for Sewickley Library are tentatively budgeted at $77,776, according to figures released at the Board of Trustees Marcy 27 meeting. Salary increases are being considered.
Included is the Quaker Valley School District’s share of $48,000. It was noted by Trustee Francis B. Nifnick.Jr., that QV’s figure has remained constant for the past three years. However, the school district is credited with assisting on maintenance jobs during thesepast several months.
Additionally, although variable, are the dedicated funds of some $19,900 the library anticipates. This includes income from the Library Society, gifts from local organizations and memorials, This money cannot be used for the day-to-day running of the library.
• The library was recently notified of a $2000 bequest from the estate of Margaret Shaw Campbell, a long time Sewickley . resident. The beques.t.will be set-aside for capital improvements.
: From the report of . librarian Ruth Fondi: “In comparison figures with : February 1977, the circulation is now at an all time high. The ’78 figures are ten .percent over 1977, considered to be the j second highest year in the library’s . history.
i Recognition was given Child Health s Association for their volunteer "hours in on ¡.the “big move” of relocating children and s adult books. “When a big job has to be [ done, Child Health can be counted on to do tit,” said Mrs. Fondi.	.
i Thelibrary staff was complimented with >a “job well done” by the Duquesne Light for their conservation of electricity during the recent crisis, according to the staff’s report.
Spring Cleanup, May, not April
Osborne’s Spring Cleanup dates are set fAor two times in May, according to Mary Ann Sullivan, Public Works chairman. No pickup is scheduled for April.
On May 15-16-17 the free pickup service wul extend from Boundary St. to Glen Mitchell Road. On May 22-23-24—from Glen Mitchell Road to River Avenue.
Mrs. Sullivan is stressing the two dates because through error pickup dates for April were listed on tire Board of Trade’s calendar in last week's Herald. "There wm be no pickups in April,” Mrs. Sullivan stressed.
pthe Spring Cleanup days in May u ni^are ashed to place articles at tin ^ saiall pieces should be In i ^mainCr to expedite collection. No con J"aer ortarticle is to be heavier than tw< a™ c?n handle* Excluded from collectioi msWMge appliances, constructioi Twals’ gardening and lawn debris.
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the1'Sai<J 016 borough provides their ^ftumty to its residents to keei tliscnr^^61’1^ C^ear of unused ‘ant 5Sed materials, "it aids in a bette
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THE WALLS CAME TUMBLING DOWN last Thursday might- start a more serious landslide.' afternoon in front of three abandoned Leetsdale properties Leetsdale Council met in special session Friday evening in the 300-400 block of Beaver Street. As a result of the cave- ¿nd decided to make attempts to acquire property rights in, traffic has been rerouted from Beaver Street because and, then, demolish the buildings which have long been borough officials fear that the heavy traffic along the street considered a health hazard.
Sewickley okays equipment purchase
Sewickley council authorized purchase of a new garbage truck at a special meeting last. Thursday evening. Some sparks flew over an atteempt by Councilman Baird Atwood to add a restriction to the purchase.
In a .five-to-two vote, council members favored the purchase of a $54,666 Mack truck with a packer from A.&H, Equipment Co., Bridgeville, Pa., the lower of two bids opened at the March meeting. Clinton C. Childs Jr. joined Atwood in a nay vote. Both are Republicans.
Atwood said he did not oppose the purchase of the machine, but wanted to introducé a resolution to revise employee work practices with the maintanance workers union, No. 66 International Union of Operating Engineers, before authorizing the purchase.
Atwood agreed that the A.&H. truck was “the right piece of equipment,” but he expressed concern that the borough's equipment is not lasting long enough. Before making such a big investment, business sense dictates that we should sit down with Local No. 66 and work out
revisions in work practices, he said.
Atwood’s concerns with the borough crew included general employee work practices including scheduling, crew sizes, assignments between seniority units and day to day equipment maintenance.
He said a cheek with a neighboring borough indicated that ten years is the life expectancy of a garbage truck. The new truck in Sewickley replaces a six-year-old model. Atwood also questioned why five
Sie are on the Sewickley garbage truck 3 other boroughs engage a three-man crew
Atwood’s main concern, hesaid after the meeting, is that before making a sub-
stantial investment on capital equipment, it is wise to work out conditions for its proper use.
The Atwood resolution went down five-to two with all Democrats supporting the purchase. Republicans Robert Wood and James Maloney were absent.
Sewickley’s new garbage truck has
Will there be enough HUD money to go around?
This is a question Joseph S. Palmer, head of the planning commission in Leetsdale, began asking when he saw ambitious plans for a stven-story senior citizens’ housing in Sewickley unveiled by developer William E. Marra recently,
Palmer( who has been working for over four years for senior citizen housing on the old elementary school site on Beaver St., Leetsdale, thought his borough had the inside track on the monies provided by the Housing and Urban Development, (HUD) a federal agency. The agency’s funds are distributed at the county level by the Allegheny County Planning Commission.
“We were told our proposal had a high priority. In fact, we were second on the list at one time for funds that go through the office of David O’Laughiin,” Palmer said.
already been delivered by Monday, Apr. 3, according to Elizabeth Phlugh at the Sewickley borough office. It is the second major piece of equipment purchased by Sewickley since January. The first was a new dump truck for salting and plowing snow at $10,922. Also proposed is the purchase of a new sweeper.
When Palmer saw the Sewickley proposal, he began checking with the county planners to insure Leetsdale’s place on the priorities’ list.
“They have ours, but they do not have the Marra proposal yet,” Palmer said.
What worries him is that-the county planners may not be interested in two housing units located' in such close proximity.
Palmer also points out that if the HUD money doesn’t come through, Quaker Valley, which holds the deed to the Leetsdale property, may lose a good potential source of income.
He suspects the county may be reordering priorities and he is on thee phone constantly to see that they don’t forget Leetsdale at tthe O’Laughlin’s office where the HUD pursestrings are held,
Will Marra plan
spoil Palmer's?