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Osborne Borongti already had a budget put to bed, in tEsfedile;; psncilsV %eje .still kscrawliag and'?alciiia tors'glow-
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Leetsdale’ Boifough Council .tentatively adopted a 1990 tojjdg^t at its peceinl&sr meet^g ttef (Md not include the expected cat in last year’s tax rate of 33>^ mills. Fin^l approval was expected ]^day, Dec, 29, after Tlje MeraM went to press.
This year, millage was to have faeen jfeduced by 5 mills.
. However, teough officials say the prpm^e wa^ made by a previous-council; “'there was a false sense of understandihg of the business-privilfige tax^^' contends Coancilman Phil Per-cia^#g, a finance-committee memljer. ‘‘It didn’t geri^r^te as much as was thought.	^ ^
“We e^Iored every avenue to reduce ftiBlage, but it just wasn’t possiW^’Vi he insists. Thp tax rate is 30 pills for real estate, 3.5 for stireet lighting.
Entering 1089, Leetsdale was $59,Cftty in the red. This year, a surplus of $40-50,COQ^is fexpscted. Perciavalle cites three spots where the borough listened its belt: Major road repairs were not done; everyday • operations • were str(®mlihed, and the purchase of a computK^for borough finances was nixed.,
Road repair alone would have swallowed $60-55^000, Per-ciavaUjS explains. Better maintepaiice o£bor<^ugh vehicles also reduced expenses. Anticipated expenditures for
the coming year aire. $703,129, Among,, the., largfe chanlis of money are $20i>292 for public safely and$204^016 for highways, roads and streets. Borough officials Ijave earmarked |20,COO for sanitation, $8,000 for ctature/|ecreation and $3,500 for conservalion and development. Debt service is zero.
However, Leetsdale must seek a tax anticipation loan. The maximum amount would be $150,000. But with $40-50,000 in the coffers, Perciavalle says $100,000 might be closer to the mark.
Some businesses are norre-;iwred: ’to’ jpay'-a. busiriess-privilege tax. Ee numbers ani0j^ them distributor^ who are not biUing out -of^ t^^ LeetetJale locale and, inanufac-tiirers. The tax Ss brought in 10 periient of what was hoped for, accoMngto Perciavalle.
The new budget, which will pull in a total of $573,495 in taxes, contains a figiwe of $130,000 for the business-privilege tax.
Two men made farewell appearances in council chambers. -------------------Cont’d flm p.2
TELLS test won't tell total aGademle story
By Tony SoMs
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HIEADIPJG FOR the 1990s are these flying saucers filled with winter revelers. The girls are Mindy Eacliel KEprecM of Edgeworth, entertainimg their coinsins Joshua and Ian Bartosh from
Massachusetts. Mrs. Bartosh is the former Valerie Ruprecht, a 1975 graduate of Quaker Valley High School, whose back hill afforded the sledders a fast trip to the bottom. (Photo by Doug Kaup)
What does the TELLS test tell? The statewide tests help to sort out the kids who need extra help, according to George Appel, Quaker Valley assistant superintendent. But he does not . believe they tell mucb more. 'Altfeoiagii thfe nttirober-'br
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~ above the cut score is nbt as high as, last year’s, Appel sees no caitase for alarm. •
“We look foir-patterns. If thet'e -were ‘radical ‘ differences • we would-be concernedrThefluctna-” tions are not statistically significant.”	^
This year, the QV school district had 368 students take the tests, and 308 scored about the cut score. Last year, of the 362 students to be tested, 314 scored above.
The statewide math and reading test (Testing for Essential Learning and Literacy Skills) measures whether schools have brought students to
a state-established minimum level of performance, says the Pennsylvania Department of Education.	_
But the Department of Educa^ tion warns that &e tests “do not describe’ the overall quality o£ schools,.;and thatin some cases a small -number o£ students can -a .Mpi
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third, fifth and eighth grade students’ abilities to answer ' math and reading questions.-But the tests are not set up to com-! pare school districts, cur-nculums, Or teachers, stresses Appei. .; . . ^ j .	_
The percentage of studeiaife who scored above the cut score in 1989 (83 percent) is lojver thari those who took it in 1988 (87 percent). But in a school district of QV’s size, ^oneWtwoirtds'canr influence the percentages,” says Appel.
While percentages for third graders who scored above the
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Menff Chalfaiit dies at 80°. industrlalistg erne ieador
Henry Chalfant, 80, an industrialist and civic leader, died of pneumonia Dec.- 24, 1989, in Sewickley Valley Hospital.
Mr. (3ialfant was an executive with Spang Chalfant, a pipe and oil-field tools company, with plants in Ambridge and Etna. He stayed with the company through its acquistion by National Supply Co. and later by Armco, retiring in 1881.
-	4Ie*was^born-in^ Pittsburgh^ in 1809, son of Henry and Harriet Watson Chalfant,^ and grew tip in the family townhouse oh Itidge Avenue in Old Allegheny. He
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received his education at St. Paul’s School, Concord, N.H. and was graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University in 1931 with a bachelor-of-arts degree in Enghsh literature.
During World War II, Mr. Chalfant was a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army Air Force, serving in Africa and Italy.
During Mr. Chalfant’s long career in public service, he was treasurer,-lay administrator and executive secretary for the Pitt-sbtirgh Episcopal Diocese; senior warden and vestryman at, St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church,
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Alieghehy General Hospital,
Sewickley Valley YMCA and Weston Pennsylvania School for the Deaf.
He \served on Sewickley Heights Borough Council, was president of the board of directors of Canterbury Place and participated in the early development of Planned Parenthood.
Mr. Chalfant is survived by his wife of 54 years, Nancy Doyle Chalfant of Dundee Farm, Sewickley Heights; two daughters, Anne Brown of Los <?atOs, Calif, and Nancy Chalfant-Walker of Sewickley; a
son, Henry Chalfant Jr. of New York City; eight grandchildren; six great grandchildren; and a sister, Eleanor Cooper of Baltimore.
Preceding him in deaSi were a daughter, Verlinda Chalfant, and a sister, Martha Thompson.
Friends were received at the family residence. Services were held at St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church on Dec. 27. Burial was private.
The family suggests memorial contributions be made to St, Stephen’s Church or the Parkinsons Disease Foundation.
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