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T H E R E S S S E R V I N G T H E W A R W I C K A R E A F O R N E A R L Y A C E N T U R Y 98th Year ESTABLISHED APRIL. 1877, AS THE SUNBEAM | CONSOLIDATED WITH THE LITITZ RECORD, 19371 Lititz, Lancaster County, PA 17543 Thursday, January 30,1975 10 CENTS A COPY; $4.00 PER YEAR BY MAIL WITHIN LANCASTER COUNTY’“ 24 PAGES — No. 45 Is Gas Rationing the Answer? Will Wait for Warwick Twp. Lititz Residents Say No’ BOID DITTOS Water ISSlie « i Last Friday, Record- Express reporters took advantage of the current upheaval in the fuel situation to ask people about their views and opinions on the subject. What are people worried about as the tight fuel situation relates to their own needs? Would most persons Chief George Hicks prefer paying higher prices rather than be told they can use only an allotted amount of gas per week, or do they favor rationing as a measure of conservation? Or, do some people have their own solutions to the problems? We wanted to know; and when we want to know something, we head for the streets to ask the public. Here is what they told us. Mrs. Sarah B. Slosser, 44 E. Lemon St., is a secretary at the Lititz Borough Hall. - She told Record-Express interviewers that rationing wouldn’t affect her too much Business Directory 20 Church News 18 Classified Ads 22,23 Editorial Page 4 Sports Section 6,7,8 Women’s 16 Company. “People have to begin to discipline themselves (in the area of gas consumption). “Some of my employees are really concerned about this and what will happen to the cost of gas,” he told us. “My philosophy is that the whole e n v iro nm e n ta l situation will eventually solve itself. If auto m a n u f a c tu r e r s could produce engines that consume less gas, clean air would solve itself.” Gingerich seemed to be of the opinion that the government has the power to make or break us, so to speak, as far ecology and economy are concerned, for he said, “The whole economy is affected by government regulations on clean air and oc-cupatioinal safety. One affects the other and it pyramids. The regulations came on too fast; that’s part of the reason why the whole economic situation is where it is. “Information needs to be given to the public on the gas crisis,” he asserted, “and fi k Steve Leed Mrs. Dennis Andrews and children, Amy and Jay. the government is the logical body to do this.” James Eckman, 317 N. Broad St. is an employee of Wagaman Brothers Printers. He said he doesn’t think rationing would solve the problem and admitted that he “could easily walk to work but usually drives.” ‘I think a lot of answers can be found in engineering that we aren’t being informed about. There must be something automobile manufacturers could do to help. High prices won’t solve anything; they won’t help inflation.” [Continued on Page 8| U.S. Gingerich James Eckman since she doesn’t use her car, very often. She added, “But I wouldn’t want to see higher prices, either.” After a moment’s thought, she continued, “Rationing might mean I wouldn’t be able to see the kids as much; they live out of town.” She told us that rationing would be nothing new to her as she and her Dr. Roy Yeager husband had faced the problem during World War II and solved much of it by car pooling. “I don’t think rationing is going to solve the problem,” answered U.S. Gingerich, president of Badorf Shoe In This Issue THIS WEEKEND — 3 Big Days to Save DURING LITITZ RED TAG DAYS Thurs., Fri., Sat. — Jan. 30 & 31 and Feb. 1 ★ SAVINGS THROUGHOUT LITITZ AREA STORES ★ TWO HOUR FREE PARKING ALL THREE DAYS ★ MOST LITITZ STORES OPEN THURSDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHTS ★ REGISTER FOR '150 GIVEAWAY RULES FOR REGISTRATION 1. Register your name at any participating merchant listed below. No purchase necessary. 2. Contest open to persons 18 years of age and over; persons under 18 must be accompanied by an adult to register. 3. Prizes will be awarded as follows: $100 Lititz Shopping Dollars first prize; 2nd prize: $25 Lititz Shopping Dollars; 3rd and 4th prizes: $10 Lititz Shopping Dollars; 5th prize: $5 Lititz Shopping Dollars. 4. Contest closes at 5 P.M. Saturday, Feb. 1. Winners will be selected at random from those who register. SHOP AND REGISTER AT THESE PARTICIPATING MERCHANTS: Back Porch Candle Shoppe Benner’s Pharmacy Bingeman's Clothing Store Bingeman’s Restaurant Bob's Save Rite Cam Tech of Lititz The Carpet Shop Commonwealth National Bank Dori.Mae’s Dress Shop Farmer’s First Bank First Federal Savings & Loan D. E. Furlow 5 & ,10 General Sutter Inn The Gladell Shop Glassmyer's Hagy’s Western Auto Hershey's Shoe Store Hess Men's Wear House of Warwick The Jewelry Shoppe Kathryn’s Flowers & Gifts Kenyon’s.Pastry Shop Klotz Kleners Lads" & Lassies Children's Apparel Lippart’s of Lititz Lititz Book Store Lititz Central Market (Spring Meadow Farm) Lititz Record Express Lititz Sewing Center Lititz Sports Center Long & Bomberger Home Center McElroy Pharmacy Miller’s Furniture Store The Pewter Mug Stauffer's of Kissel Hill Shoes 'n Things Spacht's Furniture Store Travis Mills Fabric Outlet Trudi K Shop Wilbur Choc. Factory Outlet Boro Council tabled action on an agreement to sell water to Warwick Township Tuesday night, with no discussion other than saying they were tabling action “in light of new information.” Asked what that “new information” was, Councilmen said they were “trying to find out what Warwick Township is doing with this.” “We’re not trying to force the issue,” Councilman Bill York said. Councilman Donald Stauffer, who has been strongly opposed to selling water to the township for the past several years, agreed to the tabling, and told the Record- Express following the meeting that he had been “approached” by other Council members to drop the hot issue for the time being. He said the borough is not going to do anything more about the water issue until Warwick Township actually approaches them. “But we’re ready to go with a referendum if the matter comes up again,” Stauffer told the Record. He said he had already prepared a referendum to put the issue to a public vote, asking local citizens whether they wanted the borough to sell bulk water to Warwick Township. He also said that a number of local persons had petitions ready, but that he had told them not to present them to Council Tuesday night, but to wait until Council resumes any talk of action on a water-selling agreement. Stauffer had stated last month that he would bring a crowd of local citizens into Tuesday night’s meeting to oppose selling water if Council pursued the issue, and reportedly had two other Councilmen lined up to vote to put the question on a ballot in the form of a referendum. Several statements from persons questioned by the Record Tuesday afternoon actually throw a new light on the water issue, and make it appear that perhaps there has been “much ado about nothing.” Bill Dussinger, chairman of supervisors, told the Record that no one in Warwick Township except Amos Stoltzfus has even asked for water, and that a poll taken in 1972 showed that the majority of township residents do not want borough water. And Bill Crosswell, the borough’s solicitor, told the Record that there is no provision in the Boro Code for an issue of this type to be put to a popular vote. Asked if any of the borough officials had asked his advice on the legalities of a referendum, he said they had not. “Very few things are a matter of referendum, to my knowledge,” Crosswell said, adding that annexation was an example of a proper issue to go on a referendum. And even if the water question would go to referendum, he said, Boro Council would still have to vote on the issue, and could over-ride the results of a popular vote. Asked who in Warwick Township really wants water from the borough, Bill Dussinger, chairman of the Warwick Township supervisors, told the Record that Amos Stoltzfus is the only person that has asked for it. Stoltzfus is developing the critical area in the borough’s watershed area, an area that lies in Warwick Township, but is the present main source of Lititz’ water supply. This development is the one which has drawn the most objections from Council, so far as servicing it with water. Because it is not now sewered, Council fears that further, development there will pollute the borough’s water supply. Asked how the whole issue of seeking water for the [Continued on Page 8J New Plan Approved R e s id e n t s , I n d u s t r y t o G e t I n c r e a s e in S e w e r R a t e s By Peggy Frailey Expansion of the Lititz Sewer Treatment plant is going to mean an across-the-board rate increase for all residents of the borough, and will have a financial impact on local industry. When federal money is used, Sewer Authority officials pointed out, every user must pay the same rate for sewage treatment. A graduated rate scale, now used by Lititz, will no longer be permitted. This means that sewer rates will go up for everyone, Don Russo, the Authority’s engineer, said during a public meeting on the sewer expansion last Thursday night. Rates probably will increase two and a half to three times the present ones for big users, he said. Industry will also be hit under an Industrial Cost Recovery bill, which states that every industry that puts industrial waste into the system must pay back, over a 30 year period, a share of the grant based on the percentage of the overall flow that is put into the plant by that industry. For example, if 10 percent of the overall flow (a hypothetical figure) treated by the sewer plant comes from the particular industry, that industry must pay back 10 percent of the grant over a 30 year period. Fifty percent of this will be retained by the local Sewer Authority (with 80 percent of this to go into a fund for more expansion), and the other 50 percent will be sent to the Environmental Protection Agency. What this amounts to is that the federal government is willing to subsidize municipalities, but not industries, for their waste treatment. Russo said that local industries now use about 40 percent of the plant’s capacity, and he expects tham to be using 50 percent in coming years. Boro Council, and not thè Sewer Authority, will be setting the rates in Lititz, officials said, but pointed out that the Council “can’t really set sewer rates as they see fit.” According to Curt Amidon, Council president, “with a grant in the picture, we’ll have to have uniform rates for everyone.” Close to 50 persons attended a public meeting last Thursday to question members of the Authority on plans for the multi-million dollar expansion of the treatment plant, and the effects it will have on the environment. Despite numerous protests that expansion will lead to excessive development of land surrounding the borough, and despite the fact that the federal government might not grant funding for anything over a 2.5 million gallons per day expansion, the five members of the Authority passed a resolution to go ahead with a 3.1 million gallon expansion. In a regular business session following the public meeting, Authority Chairman Elser Gerhart made it clear that the borough would go ahead with the full-scale expansion originally planned, even though it might mean the borough will have to foot a bill of about $60,000 for expansion over and above what the Environmental Protection Agency has recommended. The resolution, approving the plans subject to any changes the Department of Environmental Resources might require, was approved by Boro Council Tuesday night. [Continued on Page 8] Who Should Run Swimming Pool? Who should manage the community swimming pool, the Rec Center or Boro Council, through its present hired manager Larry vanBrookhoven? The question came up again at Boro Council Tuesday night, as members of the Rec Board and Rec Director Jerry Kiralfy urged Council to make whatever changes were necessary to improve operation of the pool. The Rec Board had submitted a proposed new management plan, which leaves financial responsibility with Boro Council, at last month’s meeting. “This is only a proposal,” Kiralfy and Rec Board President, Patricia Neuroh, stressed to Councilmen. “We’re willing to look at any compromises that will insure a good pool operation.” Kiralfy told Council that he had been asked “by the community” to propose a new method of operation. “I’m not standing here to fight for this, but to offer our services,” Kiralfy said. He said that some citizens want the Rec Center to get involved with management of the pool, which he said is done “in most areas.” Major complaints, according to the Rec Board members, were that Larry vanBrookhoven was not managing the pool properly. “He (vanBrookhoven) is not a part of our proposal,” Faith Tallman from the Rec Board told Council. “Three-fourths of our proposal relates to poor management, which goes back to Larry,” she said. One of the main areas of complaint which she mentioned was that lavatories at the pool were not being kept clean. vanBrookhoven, whom Council had asked to attend the meeting Tuesday, said he had studied the Rec Board’s proposal, and found a number of “weaknesses” in it. “But I’m not here to criticize,” he said. “There’s a lot more to this than meets the eye. It’s not as simple as it seems.” “I know the Rec Center has problems, financial and otherwise, and I don’t know if this is going to be good for the Rec Center,” he said. “We’d be giving them another problem, and goodness knows, they have enough problems already.” He added later, “If this is what Boro Council wants, I would be happy to work with them through my experience and expertise.” He said the proposal was not a matter of good or bad, but that the timing was important. Council agreed that this would be a “poor” time to turn pool management over to the Rec Center. “We would love to unload it (the pool) on the Rec Center, but I think you need to work into it,” Councilman Bill York said. “I don’t think you realize what you’re getting into. The problems are deeper than what is in your proposal.” Council President Curt Amidon acknowledged that the borough has a “problem” with the pool — “We just haven’t generated enough enthusiasm and perhaps the Rec Center could inject this,” he said. “Last year was rough,” he said. The pool was set up so that it would support itself. But, Amidon said, a $15,000 sinking fund set up by the Jaycees many years ago will be “clobbered” this year. “I think we’re going to have to put some tax money in,” Councilman Donald Stauffer commented. Councilman Jim Yerger, who said he probably had “more experience than anyone with building pools around here,” reminded Council that it had promised never to use tax money for the pool. “And our reserve fund is practically gone,” he said. “It takes guts to put the dues to the point where they cover expenses. Some people are afraid we’d lose members if dues go up, but I don’t believe this,” he said. Stauffer said the Rec Board’s proposal has a “lot of good points in it,” and asked Rec Board members to consider a compromise to their proposal, wherein the Rec Board would run the pool program, vanBrookhoven would manage the pool, and Boro Council would do the administrative work. A meeting with Rec Board members, vanBrookhoven and Council was set up for Feb. 6 at 8:30 p.m.
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Title | Lititz Record Express |
Masthead | Lititz Record Express 1975-01-30 |
Subject | Lititz (Pa.) -- Newspapers;Lancaster County (Pa.)—Newspapers |
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Full Text | T H E R E S S S E R V I N G T H E W A R W I C K A R E A F O R N E A R L Y A C E N T U R Y 98th Year ESTABLISHED APRIL. 1877, AS THE SUNBEAM | CONSOLIDATED WITH THE LITITZ RECORD, 19371 Lititz, Lancaster County, PA 17543 Thursday, January 30,1975 10 CENTS A COPY; $4.00 PER YEAR BY MAIL WITHIN LANCASTER COUNTY’“ 24 PAGES — No. 45 Is Gas Rationing the Answer? Will Wait for Warwick Twp. Lititz Residents Say No’ BOID DITTOS Water ISSlie « i Last Friday, Record- Express reporters took advantage of the current upheaval in the fuel situation to ask people about their views and opinions on the subject. What are people worried about as the tight fuel situation relates to their own needs? Would most persons Chief George Hicks prefer paying higher prices rather than be told they can use only an allotted amount of gas per week, or do they favor rationing as a measure of conservation? Or, do some people have their own solutions to the problems? We wanted to know; and when we want to know something, we head for the streets to ask the public. Here is what they told us. Mrs. Sarah B. Slosser, 44 E. Lemon St., is a secretary at the Lititz Borough Hall. - She told Record-Express interviewers that rationing wouldn’t affect her too much Business Directory 20 Church News 18 Classified Ads 22,23 Editorial Page 4 Sports Section 6,7,8 Women’s 16 Company. “People have to begin to discipline themselves (in the area of gas consumption). “Some of my employees are really concerned about this and what will happen to the cost of gas,” he told us. “My philosophy is that the whole e n v iro nm e n ta l situation will eventually solve itself. If auto m a n u f a c tu r e r s could produce engines that consume less gas, clean air would solve itself.” Gingerich seemed to be of the opinion that the government has the power to make or break us, so to speak, as far ecology and economy are concerned, for he said, “The whole economy is affected by government regulations on clean air and oc-cupatioinal safety. One affects the other and it pyramids. The regulations came on too fast; that’s part of the reason why the whole economic situation is where it is. “Information needs to be given to the public on the gas crisis,” he asserted, “and fi k Steve Leed Mrs. Dennis Andrews and children, Amy and Jay. the government is the logical body to do this.” James Eckman, 317 N. Broad St. is an employee of Wagaman Brothers Printers. He said he doesn’t think rationing would solve the problem and admitted that he “could easily walk to work but usually drives.” ‘I think a lot of answers can be found in engineering that we aren’t being informed about. There must be something automobile manufacturers could do to help. High prices won’t solve anything; they won’t help inflation.” [Continued on Page 8| U.S. Gingerich James Eckman since she doesn’t use her car, very often. She added, “But I wouldn’t want to see higher prices, either.” After a moment’s thought, she continued, “Rationing might mean I wouldn’t be able to see the kids as much; they live out of town.” She told us that rationing would be nothing new to her as she and her Dr. Roy Yeager husband had faced the problem during World War II and solved much of it by car pooling. “I don’t think rationing is going to solve the problem,” answered U.S. Gingerich, president of Badorf Shoe In This Issue THIS WEEKEND — 3 Big Days to Save DURING LITITZ RED TAG DAYS Thurs., Fri., Sat. — Jan. 30 & 31 and Feb. 1 ★ SAVINGS THROUGHOUT LITITZ AREA STORES ★ TWO HOUR FREE PARKING ALL THREE DAYS ★ MOST LITITZ STORES OPEN THURSDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHTS ★ REGISTER FOR '150 GIVEAWAY RULES FOR REGISTRATION 1. Register your name at any participating merchant listed below. No purchase necessary. 2. Contest open to persons 18 years of age and over; persons under 18 must be accompanied by an adult to register. 3. Prizes will be awarded as follows: $100 Lititz Shopping Dollars first prize; 2nd prize: $25 Lititz Shopping Dollars; 3rd and 4th prizes: $10 Lititz Shopping Dollars; 5th prize: $5 Lititz Shopping Dollars. 4. Contest closes at 5 P.M. Saturday, Feb. 1. Winners will be selected at random from those who register. SHOP AND REGISTER AT THESE PARTICIPATING MERCHANTS: Back Porch Candle Shoppe Benner’s Pharmacy Bingeman's Clothing Store Bingeman’s Restaurant Bob's Save Rite Cam Tech of Lititz The Carpet Shop Commonwealth National Bank Dori.Mae’s Dress Shop Farmer’s First Bank First Federal Savings & Loan D. E. Furlow 5 & ,10 General Sutter Inn The Gladell Shop Glassmyer's Hagy’s Western Auto Hershey's Shoe Store Hess Men's Wear House of Warwick The Jewelry Shoppe Kathryn’s Flowers & Gifts Kenyon’s.Pastry Shop Klotz Kleners Lads" & Lassies Children's Apparel Lippart’s of Lititz Lititz Book Store Lititz Central Market (Spring Meadow Farm) Lititz Record Express Lititz Sewing Center Lititz Sports Center Long & Bomberger Home Center McElroy Pharmacy Miller’s Furniture Store The Pewter Mug Stauffer's of Kissel Hill Shoes 'n Things Spacht's Furniture Store Travis Mills Fabric Outlet Trudi K Shop Wilbur Choc. Factory Outlet Boro Council tabled action on an agreement to sell water to Warwick Township Tuesday night, with no discussion other than saying they were tabling action “in light of new information.” Asked what that “new information” was, Councilmen said they were “trying to find out what Warwick Township is doing with this.” “We’re not trying to force the issue,” Councilman Bill York said. Councilman Donald Stauffer, who has been strongly opposed to selling water to the township for the past several years, agreed to the tabling, and told the Record- Express following the meeting that he had been “approached” by other Council members to drop the hot issue for the time being. He said the borough is not going to do anything more about the water issue until Warwick Township actually approaches them. “But we’re ready to go with a referendum if the matter comes up again,” Stauffer told the Record. He said he had already prepared a referendum to put the issue to a public vote, asking local citizens whether they wanted the borough to sell bulk water to Warwick Township. He also said that a number of local persons had petitions ready, but that he had told them not to present them to Council Tuesday night, but to wait until Council resumes any talk of action on a water-selling agreement. Stauffer had stated last month that he would bring a crowd of local citizens into Tuesday night’s meeting to oppose selling water if Council pursued the issue, and reportedly had two other Councilmen lined up to vote to put the question on a ballot in the form of a referendum. Several statements from persons questioned by the Record Tuesday afternoon actually throw a new light on the water issue, and make it appear that perhaps there has been “much ado about nothing.” Bill Dussinger, chairman of supervisors, told the Record that no one in Warwick Township except Amos Stoltzfus has even asked for water, and that a poll taken in 1972 showed that the majority of township residents do not want borough water. And Bill Crosswell, the borough’s solicitor, told the Record that there is no provision in the Boro Code for an issue of this type to be put to a popular vote. Asked if any of the borough officials had asked his advice on the legalities of a referendum, he said they had not. “Very few things are a matter of referendum, to my knowledge,” Crosswell said, adding that annexation was an example of a proper issue to go on a referendum. And even if the water question would go to referendum, he said, Boro Council would still have to vote on the issue, and could over-ride the results of a popular vote. Asked who in Warwick Township really wants water from the borough, Bill Dussinger, chairman of the Warwick Township supervisors, told the Record that Amos Stoltzfus is the only person that has asked for it. Stoltzfus is developing the critical area in the borough’s watershed area, an area that lies in Warwick Township, but is the present main source of Lititz’ water supply. This development is the one which has drawn the most objections from Council, so far as servicing it with water. Because it is not now sewered, Council fears that further, development there will pollute the borough’s water supply. Asked how the whole issue of seeking water for the [Continued on Page 8J New Plan Approved R e s id e n t s , I n d u s t r y t o G e t I n c r e a s e in S e w e r R a t e s By Peggy Frailey Expansion of the Lititz Sewer Treatment plant is going to mean an across-the-board rate increase for all residents of the borough, and will have a financial impact on local industry. When federal money is used, Sewer Authority officials pointed out, every user must pay the same rate for sewage treatment. A graduated rate scale, now used by Lititz, will no longer be permitted. This means that sewer rates will go up for everyone, Don Russo, the Authority’s engineer, said during a public meeting on the sewer expansion last Thursday night. Rates probably will increase two and a half to three times the present ones for big users, he said. Industry will also be hit under an Industrial Cost Recovery bill, which states that every industry that puts industrial waste into the system must pay back, over a 30 year period, a share of the grant based on the percentage of the overall flow that is put into the plant by that industry. For example, if 10 percent of the overall flow (a hypothetical figure) treated by the sewer plant comes from the particular industry, that industry must pay back 10 percent of the grant over a 30 year period. Fifty percent of this will be retained by the local Sewer Authority (with 80 percent of this to go into a fund for more expansion), and the other 50 percent will be sent to the Environmental Protection Agency. What this amounts to is that the federal government is willing to subsidize municipalities, but not industries, for their waste treatment. Russo said that local industries now use about 40 percent of the plant’s capacity, and he expects tham to be using 50 percent in coming years. Boro Council, and not thè Sewer Authority, will be setting the rates in Lititz, officials said, but pointed out that the Council “can’t really set sewer rates as they see fit.” According to Curt Amidon, Council president, “with a grant in the picture, we’ll have to have uniform rates for everyone.” Close to 50 persons attended a public meeting last Thursday to question members of the Authority on plans for the multi-million dollar expansion of the treatment plant, and the effects it will have on the environment. Despite numerous protests that expansion will lead to excessive development of land surrounding the borough, and despite the fact that the federal government might not grant funding for anything over a 2.5 million gallons per day expansion, the five members of the Authority passed a resolution to go ahead with a 3.1 million gallon expansion. In a regular business session following the public meeting, Authority Chairman Elser Gerhart made it clear that the borough would go ahead with the full-scale expansion originally planned, even though it might mean the borough will have to foot a bill of about $60,000 for expansion over and above what the Environmental Protection Agency has recommended. The resolution, approving the plans subject to any changes the Department of Environmental Resources might require, was approved by Boro Council Tuesday night. [Continued on Page 8] Who Should Run Swimming Pool? Who should manage the community swimming pool, the Rec Center or Boro Council, through its present hired manager Larry vanBrookhoven? The question came up again at Boro Council Tuesday night, as members of the Rec Board and Rec Director Jerry Kiralfy urged Council to make whatever changes were necessary to improve operation of the pool. The Rec Board had submitted a proposed new management plan, which leaves financial responsibility with Boro Council, at last month’s meeting. “This is only a proposal,” Kiralfy and Rec Board President, Patricia Neuroh, stressed to Councilmen. “We’re willing to look at any compromises that will insure a good pool operation.” Kiralfy told Council that he had been asked “by the community” to propose a new method of operation. “I’m not standing here to fight for this, but to offer our services,” Kiralfy said. He said that some citizens want the Rec Center to get involved with management of the pool, which he said is done “in most areas.” Major complaints, according to the Rec Board members, were that Larry vanBrookhoven was not managing the pool properly. “He (vanBrookhoven) is not a part of our proposal,” Faith Tallman from the Rec Board told Council. “Three-fourths of our proposal relates to poor management, which goes back to Larry,” she said. One of the main areas of complaint which she mentioned was that lavatories at the pool were not being kept clean. vanBrookhoven, whom Council had asked to attend the meeting Tuesday, said he had studied the Rec Board’s proposal, and found a number of “weaknesses” in it. “But I’m not here to criticize,” he said. “There’s a lot more to this than meets the eye. It’s not as simple as it seems.” “I know the Rec Center has problems, financial and otherwise, and I don’t know if this is going to be good for the Rec Center,” he said. “We’d be giving them another problem, and goodness knows, they have enough problems already.” He added later, “If this is what Boro Council wants, I would be happy to work with them through my experience and expertise.” He said the proposal was not a matter of good or bad, but that the timing was important. Council agreed that this would be a “poor” time to turn pool management over to the Rec Center. “We would love to unload it (the pool) on the Rec Center, but I think you need to work into it,” Councilman Bill York said. “I don’t think you realize what you’re getting into. The problems are deeper than what is in your proposal.” Council President Curt Amidon acknowledged that the borough has a “problem” with the pool — “We just haven’t generated enough enthusiasm and perhaps the Rec Center could inject this,” he said. “Last year was rough,” he said. The pool was set up so that it would support itself. But, Amidon said, a $15,000 sinking fund set up by the Jaycees many years ago will be “clobbered” this year. “I think we’re going to have to put some tax money in,” Councilman Donald Stauffer commented. Councilman Jim Yerger, who said he probably had “more experience than anyone with building pools around here,” reminded Council that it had promised never to use tax money for the pool. “And our reserve fund is practically gone,” he said. “It takes guts to put the dues to the point where they cover expenses. Some people are afraid we’d lose members if dues go up, but I don’t believe this,” he said. Stauffer said the Rec Board’s proposal has a “lot of good points in it,” and asked Rec Board members to consider a compromise to their proposal, wherein the Rec Board would run the pool program, vanBrookhoven would manage the pool, and Boro Council would do the administrative work. A meeting with Rec Board members, vanBrookhoven and Council was set up for Feb. 6 at 8:30 p.m. |
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