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108th Year Lititz, Lancaster County, PA. 17543, Thursday, September 20,1984 25 CtN IS A (JOKY: i -.00 PER YEAR BY MAIL
WITHIN LANCASTER COUNTY 22 Pages-No. 26
On Three-Year Trial Basis
Board Approves Staff Incentive
And Development Program
Sally Watkins (right), recently honored by Franklin and Marshall College’s
alumni association as an “ Outstanding Secondary School Teacher," presents
her award of $500 to school board member and Education Committee chairman
Ruth Husser. The money will be used to enhance the educational program at
Warwick.
The Warwick School
Board Tuesday night ap­proved
for a three-year trial
period a staff incentive and
development program which
will allow teachers and non-instructional
personnel to
voluntarily become involved
in the review of the district’s
instructional programs and
operations. Through the
program interested staff
members with demonstrated
expertise will be able to
re c e iv e re c o g n itio n ,
responsibility and financial
compensation for their in-ln
Rudy Dam Rezoning
Mariani Says He’ll 'Put In Writing’
Single Family Home Stipulation
L an c a ste r developer
Anthony Mariani told the
Warwick Township
Supervisors last Wednesday
during a rezoning hearing
that he would be willing to
“put in writing” a restriction
limiting his proposed
development on Rudy Dam
to single-family detached
homes. The supervisors did
not vote on the rezoning, but
said they would wait to
examine the document
which Mariani said he would
direct his solicitor to write.
The matter will probably
come before the board in
October.
Mariani, a partner with
John R. Hager and Richard
L. Collister in Mariani
Enterprises, is seeking to
rezone 37.461 acres of land
located along the east and
west sides of Rudy Dam
Road from R-l (low density
residential) to R-2 (medium
density residential. )
Last April the supervisors
denied a request by Mariani
to rezone the same tract to
high density housing after
township residents protested
the possibility of apart­ments,
townhouses and
concentrated development
in the area.
The developers were
represented at Wednesday’s
meeting by attorney Charles
Grove who presented a
proposed sketch of the
development which showed
a total of 70 lots. Eleven of
the lots would be on the six
plus acres located to the east
of Rudy Dam Road and the
other 59 lots would be on the
30 acres west of Rudy Dam
Road. Grove said a “more
complete layout” would not
be developed until the
rezoning were approved and
the plan “could of course,
change.”
Grove told the supervisors
that the matter “goes back
to tlje early spring of 1984”
when Mariani Enterprises
was “encouraged by several
members of the township
planning commission to go
for R-3 (high density
housing)” Grove said when
that petition was denied the
developers were told they
could resubmit a petition for
R-2.
During the hour and a half
discussion, Grove, as well as
Mariani and Hager, fielded
questions from residents
about storm water run-off,
increase in traffic, and the
developer’s “unwillingness”
to develop the tract the way
it was zoned when it was
purchased^ R-l.
David Heckel, 249 Landis
Valley Read, said a problem
of storm water run-off
already exists in the area
and “when there’s a storm,
unless certain measures are
taken to equalize the flow,
I’m going to be flooded.”
Grove responded that the
engineer “would direct his
attention to that problem” it
p ro b a b ly would be
“enhanced, not increased”
Warwick Township police,
negotiating with the town­ship
for a new police con­tract,
have rejected an offer
made by the township
supervisors.
According to Robert
Smith, Warwick township
supervisor and one of the
negotiators on behalf of the
township, the supervisors
made an offer which was
rejected but “hope to work
out a compromise.”
Smith said the board is
“pretty much in agreement
as to the extent it wishes to
go.”
He said the major issues
appear to be pay and
medical coverage.
by the development of the
tract.
“Whether it is zoned R-l or
R-2, however it’s developed,
the problem will have to be
addressed,” Grove said.
Another citizen asked
Mariani why he bought an R-
1 zone and didn’t then
develop it as an R-l zone.
Hager said the difference
in R-l and R-2 zones is about
30 percent increase in the
number of houses that can be
put onto a tract and that 30
percent “becomes important
when it comes to providing
water and sewer as they
originally suggested.”
“Who is they?” the citizen
asked. Hager responded,
“The members of the
planning commission and
the municipal authority.”
Pat Herr, a township
supervisor, told the
developers they should be
aware that “the municipal
authority does not decide
rezoning, the board of
supervisors does.”
“The main redson you’re
not going ahead with R-l is
“We are attempting to
revise the medical plan and
to bring it in line with what is
h a p p e n in g in o th e r
businesses,” Smith said.
Because of the costs of
medical coverage increased
by 20 percent or between
$400-$500 as of October,
Smith said the supervisors
want to control costs by
increasing the co-insuranee
which is the amount an
employee has to pay on
medical bills.
Smith said currently the
most a township employee or
his dependents would have to
pay out of pocket is $100 in a
year’s time.
“Our current plan is a
dollars, right?” another
resident asked.
Grove said the R-2 zone
would “meet the needs of the
township without using
agricultural land,” and said
the land had been listed as
“marginal” agricultural
land by the Lancaster
County A g r ic u ltu r a l
Preserve Board.
Glen Martin, 313 Fairview
Drive, said he had been born
and raised on Owl Hill and
“heard tonight a half-dozen
times” that this was very
marginal land. Martin said
the people that lived on the
land before “did very well”
and if they’d “put a few
Amishmen on that land they
wouldn’t have any problem
with agriculture and we
wouldn’t be here tonight.”
Several different residents
asked what increasing
density was going to do for
the township.
“What problem has ever
been solved by bringing in
more people,” one resident
asked. “We have to live with
what you do there after
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Cadillac of any insurance,
I’ve ever seen,” Smith said.
“It’s a very expensive plan
and one that not many
residents have for their
families.
Pay and grade scales are
also a matter of discussion,
Smith said.
The supervisors are also
represented by Irel Buck-waiter,
a member of the
board of supervisors.
According to Officer
Richard Groff, one of two
negotiators for the police
officers, a meeting between
th e n e g o tia to r s was
scheduled for Wednesday
evening, Sept. 19. He said
discussions on a new con-
Police Negotiations Underway In Warwick
volvement.
District superintendent
Dr. John Bonfield told the
board Tuesday that the
incentive program is an
effort to “ recognize
k n ow led g e ab le s ta f f
members whose expertise
can be used to improve staff
effectiveness and the in­structional
program” at
Warwick.
During the past few
months, Bonfield has met
with members of the
district’s administrative,
instructional and non-instructional
staffs as well
as parents to review in­centive
programs currently
used in business, industry
and educational settings.
Though the pilot program
phase is similar to a
program used by the Lan-c
a s te r-L e b a n o n In ­termediate
Unit 13, War­wick’s
staff incentive and
development program is an
original, Bonfield said.
“I don’t like to refer to this
as an alternative to merit
pay,” he said Tuesday. “My
problem with merit pay is
that it’s compensation for
work that is already done,
and it doesn’t necessarily
improve the system.”
Bonfield said that War­wick’s
incentive ' and
development program offers
“a variety of rewards such
as recognition, respon­s
ib ility , c h a lle n g in g
assignments, opportunities
for growth, money and other
related reasons.”
“Money is not the only
value,” Bonfield said, ad­ding
that when a single
reward, such as money, is
established, it becomes the
only valued indication of a
person’s performance.
Through Warwick’s in­centive
and development
program, staff members will
be given the opportunity for
in-depth study of selected
areas through review
groups. They will be able to
Township
tract began in June and the
parties have had four
meetings.
He concurred with Smith
that salaries and insurance
are an issue but would not
comment on the rejection of
the township’s offer, other
than to say that the officers
were unhappy with a
proposed reduction in in­surance
benefits.
Groff said the police of­ficers
would continue to talk
and would not consider
arbitration “as long as we’re
able to obtain a meeting time
and place from the super­visors.”
The current contract
expires at the end of 1984.
plan and implement
development programs to
improve staff skills and
effectiveness, Bonfield said.
The program will provide
professional growth op­portunities
for staff mem­bers
through seminars and
conferences and will com­pensate
them for their time
and involvement in these
activities.
Emma Herr, president of
the Warwick Education
Association, said Tuesday
the program is a very
positive one for the teachers.
“Through the staff in­centive
and development
program, the board and
administration will provide
the teachers with an op­portunity
to help make
changes in the district’s
educational process and will
thus enhance the learning of
the students,” Miss Herr
said. “The teachers will be
able to create and share new
ideas related to their in­terests
or expertise.
“ This program is a
positive effort to develop the
talents of our teachers in a
way that would allow con-tinued
evaluation and im­provement
of the district’s
educational process,” she
said.
The program is structured
in three phases, Bonfield
said. In the first phase, staff
members who have shown
skill and expertise in
selected areas will be invited
by the administration to
serve as a review group
convener or member to do
an in-depth study of an area
of instruction or district
operation.
After consulting with an
adm in istra tio n liaison
person, the review group
convener will select three to
five staff members to serve
on the review group. The
review convener will be
provided time to plan
meetings and gather data,
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which the review group will
then analyze and develop a
plan of action. The review
group will prepare a written
plan for submission to the
administration. All persons
serving on the review group
will be compensated at the
curriculum development
rate ($12 an hour) or meet on
released time during the
day, Bonfield said.
Following the submission
of the plan and ad-ministation/
board review,
staff members will be
named to implement it, in
phase two of the program.
Such activities might
include the offering of
workshops, small group
seminars, development of
guides or other related
activities, Bonfield said.
Again, staff members will be
paid the curriculum rate for
providing these activities
outside the work day.
Bonfield said “Phase three
is one of the most exciting
parts” of the program
because it “provides the
opportunity for staff
members to pilot new
programs.”
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Supervisors Grill Developers
Before Granting Plan Waiver
Two developers who plan
to build an 80-unit sub­division
in Warwick
Township were put on the
firing line last Wednesday
night at the Warwick
Township supervisors
regular monthly meeting.
The s u p e rv is o r s
questioned the developers
for almost an hour before
granting them a waiver on
submission of preliminary
plans and telling them they
did not have to install a
capped water system in the
development.
Robert I. Derek and Bruce
Wike came before the
supervisors seeking a
waiver of a requirement to
submit preliminary plans for
Section I of their proposed
development, Brookwood
Perch, located near
Lexington on Route 501.
They were also seeking
conditional approval of the
final plan for Section I,
consisting of 10 houses.
The township’s subdivision
regula tions p ermit a
developer to submit
preliminary and final plans
for a subdivision con­currently,
provided there
are less than 10 lots involved
and if there are no new
streets to be constructed.
Derek and Wike requested a
waiver to submit the
preliminary and final plans
for Section I which has 10
houses.
. Chairman of the board of
supervisors, D.L. (Steve)
Wallace, told the developers
he would have a problem
“approving the partial thing
when I know the whole thing
will have fantastic storm
w a te r m a n a g em e n t
problems,” because of the
sloped land.
Derek, an architect with
McCloud, Scatchard Derek
& Edson, a landscape ar­c
h ite c t from L ititz ,
responded “storm water
management is our ex­pertise.”
In the middle of the
discussion over the waiver,
the topic of the capped water
system came up.
Supervisor Robert Smith
said that those 80 homes in
Brookwood Perch should be
considered a possible target
for a capped water system.
(The township recently
enacted an ordinance which
requires developers to in­stall
a capped water system
if the supervisors felt water
would be available to that
area “within a reasonable
amount of time.” )
Smith said the 80 homes
would represent an increase
of 25 percent in the
population of the Lexington
area and could mean a
“considerable reduction in
the potential cost of water”
to those residents if water
came to that area.
“The Board of Supervisors
has to take this township into
the 21st century,” Smith
said.
Derek then asked the
board to conduct a “straw
vote” on whether it would
insist on a capped water
system for his proposed
developement.
“We don’t take straw
votes,” Wallace replied,
indicating that the board
would either vote on a
matter or not yote on a
matter.
“If there’s going to be a
capped water system...
there’s not going to be a
Brookwood Perch,” Derek
said, adding that he would be
u n ab le to ta k e his
developemnt any further
until he knew what the board
was thinking.
Wallace then called for a
vote on whether the board
would require a capped
water system at Brookwood
Perch. When Smith, who
voted first, voted no,
Wallace stopped the roll call
to ask Smith if he understood
the question.
Smith responded, yes, he
understood and that he was
voting no on capped water
for Brookwood Perch.
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F irs t T im e T r ia th lo n T e s ts
By Karen Belber
I can’t believe I did it. Two
months ago when I
registered for the Lancaster
YMCA Triathlon, I didn’t
dream that I’d actually end
up enjoying the event.
Dreams were not what this
first-time triathlete was
made of. To the contrary, I
was ultimately concerned,
perhaps obsessed, that I’d
wear myself out before I
ever got in the water.
Even my faithful dog put
up with a couple of weeks of
restless behavior. A con­dition
known as pre-race
syndrome - spontaneous and
excessive founds of sit-ups,
push-ups, leg curls, and wind
sprints; days of carbo
loading, others of Keebler
Soft Batch binging.
Neither one of us really
understood the other but we
were tolerant - I’d wake up
from a night of nightmarish
race dreams and he’d have
empty spaghetti boxes and
cookie , b ag s s p re a d
throughout the house. It
didn’t make a dog-gone bit of
sense.
On the night of registration
I was warned by several
triathletes that I’d get ad­dicted
to triathlons after my
first. That I couldn’t figure
out, and wouldn’t until the
next day. But I did get ad­dicted.
(The first thing I
read when I got home was
Triathlon magazine.) Oh
well.
The morning of the race I
was psyched to run in the
heavy rain. But the dark
clouds passed, and so did my
excuses for performing a
little on the “slow” side.
By 11 a.m. I couldn’t stand
myself any longer, I just had
to get out there and do it.
The swim was relatively
easy, a mere quarter mile,
as compared to the 1.2 mile
swim for the longer race
participants. The dark,
murky water was a turn off
but it made me swim more
quickly. I waited until just
about everyone else had
started for the other
shoreline before I made a
splash. There was no way I
was going to get clawed and
kicked just to get to the other
side. So I did the breast­stroke,
alternating with a
few strokes of freestyle when
the coast was clear. Some
people did the backstroke
leisurely, while others just
did whatever they had to do
to get across.
Having to go through the
changing tents provided a
few minutes of breather time
before the next leg.
The five mile run was
scenic and really not too
difficult. There was only one
moderately threatening hill
between the third and fourth
mile on Long Lane. The fifth
mile on the home stretch was
a fast, refreshing one. In any
case, it was possible because
the scenery was so relaxing,
the air invigorating, and the
buoyant bystanders in­spirational.
I even found
myself mooning to cows in
neighboring pastures.
By the time I got to the
bike my muscles were
warmed up and my
lungpower was increasing. It
was really getting fun, and it
was also nice to know that
two of the three portions
were behind me.
Mountain Road was a good
warm-up stretch and the
view was breathtaking. The
course was well planned
except for the hairpin, 90
degree angle turn at the
bottom of Speedwell Forge
Road. But we were warned
beforehand so the in­tersection
was easily
maneuvered.
It seemed the more I
pushed myself the more the
energy flowed. (It was that
healthy meal I ate the night
before.) Sure, my legs were
tight on those few moderate
hills but it felt good - 1 knew I
was reaching peak per­formance.
Crossing the finish line,
with a time of 2:07 (better
than I had anticipated), I
was at the same time
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E n d u r a n c e , S tir s E u p h o r ia
M—
1B1ME
A panoramic view from the bridge of the Lan­caster
YMCA Triathlon long race last Sunday
shows some triathletes coming out of the water
and ready to bike the next 25 miles.