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#• One" of the grtediesb ifts anyone can give is e gift of time. We take .a- look at one 'places where that gift can be given beginning this 'week ..te" T‘:-	*'
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Wednesday, December 1, 1993
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Hoisting a holiday wreath onto the Wolcott Park gazebo are
From left, back row, are Linda Wallace, director of the Sewickley Choir Institute; Maleet ©ordon of the Kiwanis Club; and Kelly Mane© of the Sewickley Valley Jaycees, which are selling luminaria. In front are three young members of The Choraieers, who will sing for Light Up Night; Bethany lack, Elizabeth Dickinson and Jonathan Cheponis. For more, seepages. ' :	■	- ■	'	- PhQto by Davidson Chan
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County sparks borough to lower taxes
'The estimated value of real property in the Borough of Osborae for 1934 has been increased by more than SO percent over 1303.
After being informed ©f the life by Allegheny County, the borough is proposing to reduce ito tan millage rate by a similar percentage in order t® keep tax revenue from real estate to a level closer to that of Has year.
Consequently, the rate will go down from 30
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mills in 1903 to 20 mills in 1804 As Borough Secretary Marylou Sullivan explained, over the past six.years, increases in real-estate tax
assessments by the county for Osborne have averaged about six percent.
Residents of the borough concerned about the' millage-rate plans by the county or Quaker Valley School District are asked to get in touch directly with those taxing authorities.
This week, three members of - ■ an arbitration panel will issue an award.or .decision ■ about Sewickley Borough’s new contract with its eight full-time policemen.
In July, both the borough and the policemen could not reach an amicable settlement, so arbitration was agreed upon, said Borough Manager Kevin Flannery./'
Flannery reported Sewickley is seeking a three-tyear contract with increases of 3.5 percent each year. However, he said the police are asking for a 15-percent increase plus another C percent.
A nil-time Sewickley policeman’s base salary is $32,009, while a sergeant’s is t $35,000. If the panel agrees with the policemen, a full-time policeman’s salary would increase to $40,000, according to Flannery.	•
Both sides chose their own arbiter as well as both choosing a neutral one. A hearing was held Nov. 10 at which both sides presented their sides, with the -panel then having 30 days to render an award. ■
Flannery said the policemen currently receive'a benefits package worth approximately §7,000 per year. “In general ' terms, the borough would like an effort.to have the police-ena-. . ptoyees pay for an increase in costs in their'benefits.”
Ken Wolf, a senior Sewickley patrolman who is representing ' the foreein the negotiations, said the eight officers are seeking a two-year contract but prefer a five-year contract.
• Wolf said the police are seeking a 15 percent total package . increase, while the borough is
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