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REPUBLIC Ik CJTY B2 0 The Arizona Republic. Wednesday, July Show Low council is accused of violating open-meeting law Quickly State employees' salaries and policy decisions, both items that should be of public record, are regularly discussed behind closed doors. Minutes from council meetings of June 5 and June 19 are being examined by state investigators. G. Terris Porter, Show Low's attorney, was unavailable for comment.

Quails said he has called for an end to council executive sessions to clear the air with the public. "I had about 20 people complain about this and ask for the investigation," Quails said. "This council has a very bad reputation. We need to By MARK SHAFFER Arizona Republic Staff The Show Low City Council is being investigated for alleged violations of the state's open-meeting law, a spokesman for the state attorney general's office said Tuesday. The Arizona Department of Public Safety is assisting in the investigation, said Therese Martin, an investigator with the attorney general's office.

DPS officials were scheduled to meet with the City Council on Tuesday night to discuss the matter, Show Low Councilman Randy Tenney said. Councilman Ellis Quails, a former Show Low mayor, requested the investigation because "we have probably had violations in 75 percent of our executive sessions." Quails said that changes in city said that during the previous year, in which he was mayor, the council 'met in executive session lOVi hours. Other city officials denied that the open-meeting law was being i violated. I Ron Kiedrowski, Show Low's city manager, said the sensitive nature of recent city business has forced the council into more executive sessions. The city has purchased land in the last year after considerable discussion and we have had a number of active personnel issues," 'he said.

Vice Mayor John Potts said he been on the boards of other public agencies, including Northland Pioneer College, and "I have a. good idea about what constitutes legal meetings." Sablno bike ugo clashes with trampL United Presa International TUCSON The Service is considering restricting or banning bicycle use at Sabino Canyon, a tourist attraction northeast of the The desert canyon is auto-free zone visited 650,000 people annually. Allen Jaten, Coronado National Forest spokesman said Monday there have been many near-col--lisions between bicyclists and? the rubber-tired, open-sided trams operated by Sabino Canyon Tours Inc. Bert Ricketts, president of the tour concessionaire, said; there have been four or five collisions between bicyclists" and the trams, which ferry visitors on a 3.8-mile route into the canyon. Bicycling clubs are upset by the possibility that their vehicles may be declared off-limits! Jim Carlson of Gilmour Bicycle Co.

said forest officials have indicated one option is banning bicycle use during hours when trams are running. Coronado Forest officials met with bicycle club representatives July 19. Jaten said the Forest Service has yet to make a final decision. take drastic action to say, iy, 'Hey, to hide public, we re not trying According to Quails, the council has met for 24 'A hours in executive session during the past year. He Tax Continued from Bl erty taxes to make up the revenues that state and local governments would lose through the reduction in commercial-property values.

The greatest number of affected properties, 30,000, is in Maricopa County. The board cut those figures to 10 percent and 5 percent, respectively, in metropolitan Phoenix and eliminated the increases altogether in most of the rest of the county because it found those areas are economically depressed. property taxes from the owners of commercial and industrial properties to other property owners. The suit also contends that the orders were based on "several invalid criticisms" of the department's methodology and that the board "completely misunderstood the department's directives." Revenue Department officials said the rollback would unfairly force homeowners, ranchers and other taxpayers to pay extra prop 3 dogs stolen from pet stores in Tucson TUCSON (UPI) The city's pet-store owners are being warned that dognappers are at work. A trio of well-dressed women stole dogs valued at $750 from two pet shops in the eastern suburbs.

One woman distracted the store clerks while the others stole the dogs, police said. A 4-month-old Boston terrier and two 8-week-old cockapoos were stolen Thursday from Animal Fair, 7229 E. Golf Links Road, and Pet Ranch, 8620 E.Broadway. The suspects were described as blacks between 25 and 30 years old with heavy builds. Muriel Shandling, Animal Fair owner, said she knew something was wrong when an employee told her one of the women walked out without taking the goldfish she had bought.

Pima County selects probation chief TUCSON (UPI) Edward L. Brown, former federal-probation director for Arizona, has accepted a $59,561 job as head of Pima County's adult-probation program. Presiding Superior Court Judge G. Thomas Meehan said Brown will get the permanent appointment in September. Since April, Brown has run the county's Adult Probation Department on an interim basis.

Brown, 52, has spent 25 years in federal probation work. He headed the federal program in Arizona for the past four years. Brown was on loan to Pima County from U.S. District Court. The Douglas native is a University of Arizona alumnus and a former regional president of the Federal Probation Officers Association.

2 escapees recaptured near Fort Grant FORT GRANT (AP) State corrections officers on Tuesday recaptured two inmates who had walked away from the Arizona State Prison at Fort Grant. Corrections Department spokesman Mike Arra identified the inmates, who were reported missing Monday evening, as Larry Geoffrey and Raymond Howell, both 45. A chase team recaptured the two early Tuesday morning about four miles north of the prison, Arra said. Geoffrey is serving an 11 '4 -year term from Navajo County for theft and fleeing law-enforcement officers, and Howell is serving a 5 'a -year theft term from Maricopa County, Arra said. Arra said that the two were at the prison during a noon head count on Monday but that they later were seen heading up a hill on Arizona 266 three miles east of Fort Grant in the Stockton Pass area.

Pool firm in Tucson seeks reorganization TUCSON (AP) One of Tucson's largest pool builders has filed for reorganization under the federal bankruptcy law, an attorney for the firm said Monday. Ponderosa Pools Inc. filed the Chapter 11 proceeding on Friday to "buy some time" until it can pay off an unexpected tax claim by the Internal Revenue Service, attorney Stephen E. Rennekar said. Rennekar said that because "of an internal management problem a year or so ago, they (Ponderosa) got behind on their taxes.

The reason for the bankruptcy filing is not because of any current operational problem. The business is functioning quite well." He did not say how much was owed to the IRS but said the amount' is substantial. Rennekar said that Ponderosa built 200 pools last year and that it was founded about 1980 by William K. Brown, the current president, and Tom Block, its vice president. Both men have previous experience in the pool business in Tucson, he said.

S. Tucson approves $7.3 million budget SOUTH TUCSON (AP) A $7.3 million budget, including about $1 million for a new city complex, won unanimous approval from the City Council on Monday night. The figure represents an increase of 28 percent from last year's budget of $5.7 million. The budget includes pay raises of nearly 23 percent for the city's police officers and Fire Department administrators and a 7.5 percent pay hike for firefighters and other city employees. MIDSUMMER MADNESS SALE! 80" Silk Areca Palm Save Our Regular Price $69.95 Compare at $129.95 "irrational and unjustified." The board found that the department's increases in the values of properties for tax purposes were based on unsound methodology.

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