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ir-T DEMOCRAT AND CHRONICLE, ROCHESTER, N.Y.. THURSDAY, DECEMBER UR to dedicate center for optical technology to benefit industry Revenue estimates rise to keep tax rate down v1. One of five centers of advanced tech light and how to apply light in industri FROM PAGE 18 "It's not what we hoped for, but it is an increase and we appreciate it," said Robert Greenberg, director. "It will be very difficult to make it to September. We will have to ask the people in the community to help more." A $3,000 request by the Genesee Valley Council on the Arts, heavily supported by speakers at Tuesday's budget hearing, was narrowly approved, 1,106 weighted votes to 893.

A majority of nine supervisors voted against the proposal. Carroll Bickford of Caledonia, a member of the Finance Committee that proposed most of the amendments, voted for the final budget, but reluctantly. "We can't say We never do," he said. But Howard Kramer of Springwater, committee chairman, said, "It may not be the one we all desire but we can live with it. It will keep us out of a deficit situation." which have pledged $2.1 million four years along with Corning daS Works.

The New York State Science Technology Foundation last summer awarded an initial grant of support the center through March 198C Today's ceremony will be a cutting, with a host of guests including' William Donohue, state commissioner of commerce. New facilities of the center will be ready for occupancy early next 'V year, said Director Kenneth Teegarderf.i Rochester Institute of Technology Snife. Monroe Community College will be'cdor'i perating in activities at the center, nology in the state will be dedicated today at 11:30 a.m. at the University of Rochester. Called the New York State Center for Advanced Optical Technology, it will be based at the UR's Institute of Optics.

The center is one of five designated by the state to foster university-industry programs that will develop technologies with high economic potential. Those technologies will be made available to industry. So far, the center has generated wide interest from businesses in the field of optics the study of the properties of al and scientific uses. Businesses have begun to ask ques- tions about the center and their possible participation in iU research. "They have gotten quite a few queries from firms outside Rochester, as far away as the West Coast," said UR spokeswoman Judy Brown.

Industry representatives will work with university personnel, giving them an early view of promising research in their field, Brown said. Major industrial sponsors of the center are Eastman Kodak Xerox Corp. and Bausch Lomb Inc. CHRISTMAS 83 VALUESEHZ The Finance Committee recessed for some emergency planning. When it returned, it won approval for increasing Off -Track Betting Corp.

revenue estimates by $5,000, and estimates of interest revenue from short-term investments by $15,000. "The rate's now $5.89," said Hart. The committee's proposal to grant 5 percent salary increases to all part-time employees, including the supervisors, was approved. "You're back up to $5.90 now," Hart said. The committee responded by increasing sales tax revenue estimates by $30,000.

"If that passes, we'll bring it back to $5.86," Hart said. The motion passed. The vote was unanimous to adopt a new budget balanced at about $28.4 million $1.4 million larger than the 1983 budget. Th two largest changes made by the afternoon's amendments were an increase of $90,000 in medical insurance costs caused by Blue Cross-Blue Shield's announcement of rate increases Tuesday, and a decrease of about $118,000 in the appropriation for operation of the county's Health-Related and Skilled Nursing Facilities. The other changes were comparatively small in dollars, but high in drama.

Nine supervisors voted against a motion to provide $3,000 for a shelter for victims of domestic violence, but the eight who voted for it were from larger towns and the measure passed, 1,145 weighted votes to 852. District Attorney Theodore Wiggins helped reverse the board's earlier decision not to grant pay increases to part-time employees by arguing that his three part-time assistants "deserve respect and consideration for their long service." The county originally had planned to cut the proposed $100,000 budget for the STOP DWI program in half, but yesterday restored $50,000. The county will contribute $30,000 to the program, up from $15,000 this year. Most of the program's costs are met by fines paid by convicted drunken drivers. The Livingston County Council on Alcoholism had asked for an additional $5,000 to carry its program to September when new medical insurance reimbursement would come into effect.

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The county -will decide the air condition ques-. tion in early. January. Paul A. Watson, 60, dies; was firefighter 30 years Former Rochester Fire Department Capt.

Paul A. Watson, 60, died of cancer Monday in Rochester GeneTal Hospital. Mr. Watson, who served with the Fire Department for 30 years before retiring in 1979, was born in Corning, Steuben County. He later moved to Rochester, where he graduated from Madison High School.

Mr. Watson joined the department in 1949. In 1958, he was promoted to lieutenant, and to captain in 1962. From 1976 thro'ugh 1978, he was a training officer at the Fire and Police Training Academy on Scottsville Road. Near the end of his career, he was a captain at' Engine 10 company on West Ridge Road at Kodak Park.

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He was a member for more than 30 years of the West Side Memorial Slagger-Band American Legion Post No. 948, and served three terms as its commander. He also was a member of the Rochester Fire Department Benevolence Association and of the Rochester Fire Department Retired Benevolence Association. He is survived by his wife, the former Gladys Smith; his daughter, Patty Wright of Nashville, his mother, Eva Watson of Rochester; and his sister, Marilyn McGinnis of Rochester. John Hammond $328 reg.

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