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Vol. 7!) No. 28
Juvenile office program
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A resolution authorizing establishment of a regional juvenile officer program within the 11 municipalities of the Quaker Valley School District will, be brought before the municipalities tills month, it was learned at the June 28 meeting of the Quaker Valley Council of Governments.
Fred Just, QVCOG coordinator, said approval of the resolution that commits member municipalities to the program for two years and establishes a committee to oversee the program, is the first of three, steps needed to implement the program. Other steps include administration of civil service testing for applicants to the position and finally luring .an officer. Effective date of the program is projected as Oct. 1.
After Just expressed difficulty in finding suitable office space to house the juvenile officer, QVCOG president Marie Guy of Sewickley asked members to help find quarters in time for .the COG’s. next meeting, in August,
Leet Township’s representative, Anthony Persuitte, offered space at his township’s municipal building, but the offer was declined when Just said state program-funding' officals in Harrisburg oppose keeping the officer in the same building as a particular police deaprt-ment.
Just also presented a budget for the . program, calling for $30,000. $15,000 from the budget is allocated toward the officer’s salary. Figures presented by Just at an earlier meeting indicate that the participating municipalities agree to provide a five percentmatching.share during the first year of the program and 15 percent
during the second year.
In other business, members Of the QVCOG:
—agreed to send a letter supporting Allegheny County criminal justice coordinator Steve Jennings in his bid to have his contract renewed.
—learned that its vice-chairman, Mary Lou Sullivan, resigned from Osborne Council so that a new vice-chairman must be appointed.
—learned from Just that Haysville Borough" $iir send a' representative to QVCOG meetings only on matters that aff ectthe borough.
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QV Board to take vacation
Quaker Valley School District Board of Directors voted 8-0 in favor of postponing its July 18 meeting, during the board’s June 27 meeting. Director William Clark Luster was absent.
Five other motions were approved to keep the district operable during July. The board - authorized the school administration to:
—Pay all outstanding bills;
—Legally advertise cancellation of the July meeting;
—Hire new employees that have met with the administration’s approval;
—Award bids to modify the mechanical cooling system in the Edgeworth and Osborne Elementary Schools, cost not to exceed$8,400.
—Advertise and award bids to begin renovations of the Senior High Band Room, the cost not to exceed $45,000.
Solicitor Thomas Rutter noted that contractors who accept the latter bid should be advised to proceed at their own risk, pending board approval of the award at the August meeting. .
Board president Dr. Michael M. Zahorchak said cancellation of the July meeting means the board will meet only in the case of absolute need, for which a special meeting would be called.
Next board meeting will be August 22 at 0 p.in. at the district's Central Offices in the Edgeworth Elementary School.
Saturday events
FOURTH OF JULY in the Valley wasn’t even a fizzle. It was a dud. Early in the day, there was no doubt that it was going to rain on Leetsdale’s big street parade, - so parade and fireworks were rescheduled for Saturday July 7.
ABOVE: One of the Shriner clowns delights a little tot oh Broad Street during the parade.
BELOW: Neither parade nor circus could pull antiques collectors from 124 Centennial Avenue and Sewickley’s biggest auction of the year.
Other photos on pegs 36
Heights adds one councilmember
At a meeting of the Sewickley Heights Borough Council on June 16, Peter M. Standish was appointed to fill out the term of Andrew M. Kennedy, Jr. who has moved to Jamestown, Rhode Island. The term expires in 1982.	.
Standish, a native of the Sewickley Valley, is a resident of Persimmon Road. He has been a member of the Heights’ Zoning and Hearing Board.
David L. Center, Backbone Road, was appointed to fill the seat on the Zoning and Hearing Board vacated by the Standish appointment. The other vacancy on that board, created by the death of George
Hann, will be filled at a later date.
At the meeting on the 16th, council agreed to cooperate in the Quaker Valley Congress of Government’s hiring of a juvenile police officer.
County Elections Director F. Kenneth Dixon is reminding all can’diates for office for the November election they must file financial disclosure statements no later than September 7, 1979, which is 60 days prior to the election.
Dixon said the State Ethics Commission has advised the Department of Elections that a three-part form for the financial disclosure statement has- been prepared and will be furnished for all candidates.
According to Dixon, the forms will be made available by the Elections Department as soon as they are received. “We will mail a copy of the form to every candidate during the month of August,” said Dixon.
“All candidates for -elective office,” he emphasized,” are required to file a copy with the State Ethics Commission, while candidates for state and county-wide office must also file With the Board of Elections in the County, in which the damdidate resides. Candidate for local office must file with the governing body of the political subdivision in which they are running.”
The address for the State Ethics Commission is Ethics Commission, 308 Finance Building, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, 17120, telephone 717-783-1610.