Reno Gazette-Journal from Reno, Nevada • Page 20

4B Reno Gazette-Journal Sunday, December 23, 1990 Reno losing ground as county gains control If the county wants to orchestrate things, they are going to have to take the responsibility for putting environmental controls in place. Kathryn WishartReno councilwoman David ParkerGazeuejournal FIRE: Workers doing remodeling work in a restaurant area at the Eldorado Hotel and Casino apparently started a small fire which damaged a portion of the restaurant's wall Saturday. Reno firefighters quickly extinguished the fire. An unknown number of guests in the hotel were evacuated for a short period. From page 1B Almost all year long, the Double Diamond Ranch with its plans approved for nearly 7,000 homes was caught in the struggle between Reno and Washoe County.

Reno officials wanted to keep the ranch in the city so the homes there could be hooked into the Reno-Sparks sewer plant, making a planned $150 million expansion project feasible to build. At the same time, the county is building a sewer plant at the ranch. Not until an engineering consultant was hired by regional officials did the city give up its expansion plans. In November, the consultant decided the county was in the best position to oversee water and sewer. Last week, Washoe County's state lawmakers insisted that recommendation not be tampered with.

Reno has spent $3.9 million on sewer plant expansion plans that will now sit on a shelf until regional officials decide if expanding the plant is necessary. County officials have made no secret that they would like to postpone the costly project as long as possible. Now the good news While Reno may have lost on some of these issues, it was involved with a number of other issues, many of which benefited its citizens. Water settlement: 1990 brought an end to the decades-old fight over distributing water from the Truckee River when the negotiated settlement was signed by President Bush in November. Under the bill's framework, Reno and Sparks residents would have access to water in Stampede Reservoir during drought times over nearly four decades.

The agreement calls for the area to develop a conservation plan. Will that mean water meters? Local and tribe officials are negotiating on a plan requiring meters only after residents sell their homes, but activist David Farside said he'll press to put water meters on the ballot in Reno and Sparks. River sweep: Early last year, the city ICfl the historical preservation commission, a community services commission, an arts commission, the mayor's youth advisory board. The environmental commission has zeroed in on recycling issues and is working with Reno Disposal on a pilot curbside recycling program. The wetlands commission proposed a list of incentives for property owners to protect sensitive lands that don't qualify for federal protection.

The arts commission plans to ask the city for $225,000 in room tax money each year, largely to be used to promote a downtown arts district and put art in public places. Downtown: The first public artwork will be bronze reliefs of native animals to be displayed in fountain areas of the city's $8 million riverfront plaza. It is being built in front of the Riverside Hotel. The city's redevelopment agency also is working with the Reno-Sparks convention authority on building a national bowling center downtown. The city is considering buying a city block that would be shared by the center and a city parking garage.

The agency also is seeking consultants to design a new riverfront park downtown that also would include shops and restaurants along the Truckee River. But how much the agency can accomplish in revitalizing downtown Reno is not known. The National Automobile Collection also is vying for a share of the agency's money. If the city doesn't help the museum refinance its $9.1 million construction loan, Sferrazza said the museum will close its doors in February or March. He would like to see the city refinance its debt at a lower interest rate and help make the payments for several years.

"That's with the understanding that the cars would be sold, the debt paid off and the city reimbursed," he said, if the museum doesn't begin to operate in the black. What kind of deal will be structured is hard to say Councilwoman Karen Bryan said she's not willing to buy off on the mayor's plan. "I am not going to be the one selling off those cars." Stanford to cut government research rate created a greenbelt preservation committee that organized a clean-up campaign of the Truckee. Once a haven for transients, the river is now routinely patrolled by police officers on foot and bikes. The city also hauled away more than 70 truckloads of garbage, collected by parks and public works employees as well as volunteers.

Prison crews were hired to cut back bushes and tree branches used for cover by campers. But that's not to say transients have disappeared from the river, says police Capt. Bob Galli: "We still on occasion find camps," he said. "But we had a lot of positive comments last summer. People feel a lot better about the river." Room tax: City parks in general saw a big boost.

The City Council approved a 1 percent room tax in January and agreed to spend half of it on parks and recreation. In all, the city approved 14 new positions for park maintenance, 10 of them hired this fall. Recreation gained six new employees. Homeless shelter: City and county officials hope to open a shelter and provide services to get people back on their feet. It would be located at the Nevada Mental Health Institute grounds and Sparks officials are taking steps to de-annex the property so the shelter will become a Reno problem.

The city has committed $2 million from the room tax to build the shelter. Do-gooders: Reno officials recognized other social and environmental problems this year by creating a number of new commissions and boards: The environmen- STANFORD, Calif. (AP) Stanford University, which says faculty discounts on football and basketball game tickets are research-related expenses, has agreed to a temporary 2 percent cut in its billing rate to the government, officials said. The decrease is part of a "provisional agreement" drafted during three days of talks last week between Stanford administrators and a team of contract experts and administrators from the Office of Naval Research one of three federal bodies investigating Stanford's billing of research overhead costs. The interim agreement "permits business relationships to be put on aq orderly basis" while the investigations continue, said Larry Horton, Stanford's associate vice president for public affairs.

Stanford was charging the government 74 percent above the cost of a research contract to pay for overhead costs. The university will be reimbursed under the temporary contract at 72 percent until June 1991, when the Navy is expected to complete its investigations of claims that the school may have overbilled the government as much as $200 million. Overhead costs include electricity bills, building depreciation, administrative expenses and the use of campus libraries and other facilities by researchers under government contract. But Stanford also contends that fringe benefits for faculty members such as discounts on football and basketball game tickets, swimming pools, tennis courts and gyms are ordinary costs of doing business and includes them in research overhead charges. Nevada digest His first wife died in 1976.

Surviving are his widow, Anne of San Jacinto; son, Robert, daughter, Elizabeth Pierpoint, and stepdaughter, Michelle Greb, all of Sparks; stepson, Jeff Greb of Los Angeles; stepson, Christopher Greb of Ellsworth AFB, Rapid City, S.D.; brother, Leonard Schmitt of Brandon, sister, Karren Elm-shaeuser of Ogallala, sister, Jeanie Welsh of Imperial, and 11 nieces and nephews. A memorial service is scheduled for 11 a.m., Dec. 27, at McWane Family Funeral Home in Hemet. Cremation will also be at the home. at the Community Center in Gerlach.

Glen F. Van Hoove CARSON CITY Glen Franklin Van Hoove, 76, died Thursday at Carson-Tahoe Hospital. A native of Oklahoma City, he was born April 5, 1914, and had lived in Carson City for nine years, coming from San Francisco and Oklahoma City. He owned and operated New State Ice Company in Oklahoma City from 1945 to 1956, and worked 21 years for the Downtown Center Garage in San Francisco, retiring in 1979. He was a member of the Eagles Lodge 1006 in Carson City, the Elks Club in San Francisco, and the Senior Citizens in Carson City.

He is preceded in death by two brothers and a sister. Surviving are his widow, Mar- cella Chase of Carson City; a son, John W. of Las Vegas; sisters Iona Greenhaw of Oklahoma City, and Dovie Gee of Houston; four grandchildren; and five greatgrandchildren. Funeral services will be held at 12 p.m. Monday at the Bill Merritt Funeral Home, Bethany, with burial following at Chapel Hill Memorial Gardens, Oklahoma City, under the direction of Walton's Chapel of the Valley, Carson City.

Jean Mann CARSON CITY Jean Mann, 70, died Wednesday at Carson Convalescent Center. A native of Desha, she was born Jan. 20, 1920, and had been a Carson City resident for three months, coming from South Lake Tahoe and San Jose. She was a manager of a laundry cleaning service. Surviving are two brothers, Clarence and Dorman, both of Great Falls, Mont.

Cremation will be at FitzHenry's Funeral Home and Crematory, Carson City. Darrold W. Pierpoint SAN JACINTO, CALIF. Darrold "Pete" Wayne Pierpoint, 62, died Thursday at Hemet Valley Hospital in Hemet, Calif. A native of Brule, he was born May 17, 1928, and had been a San Jacinto resident for almost a year, coming from Sparks and Long Beach, Calif.

Mr. Pierpoint was a retired cabinet maker, working for both Har-rah's and John Ascuaga's Nugget. He also served in the Marine Corps. vices following at 2:30 p.m. at the Tonopah Cemetery.

A memorial is being established with the Cancer Society, co Beverly Triguero, 435 Cindy Lane, Fallon 89406. Clyde W. Fisk GERLACH Clyde W. Fisk, 82, died Friday, Dec. 7 at Washoe Care Center.

He was born April 5, 1908. He was preceded in death by his wife. Surviving are his son William H. and several grandchildren. Cremation was at the Masonic Memorial Gardens Crematory, under the direction of John Sparks Memorial Cremation Society.

A memorial service is scheduled for 1 p.m., Saturday, Jan. 12, 1991, IN MEMORIAM Obituaries Mildred C. Banovich FALLON Mildred C. Banovich, 66, died Friday at Churchill Community Hospital. A native of Butte, she was born Sept.

29, 1924, and had been a Fallon resident for 26 years, coming from Tonopah. Mrs. Banovich was the under-sheriff for Nye County from 1956 to 1961, and worked for the selective service board in Tonopah from 1961 to 1964. She was a member of the B.P.O.E. Does in Tonopah and the Nevada State Peace Officers Association.

Surviving are her husband, David M. and four sons, David M. Randy, Ricky, and Raymond, all of Fallon; 13 grandchildren; and one great-grandchild. A funeral will be held at 10 a.m. Wednesday at the Smith Family Funeral Home, with graveside ser- Northern Nevada Memorial NOW, CREMATION THE SENSIBLE.

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