The Burlington Free Press from Burlington, Vermont • Page 15

1 XxmX OKs Bond For Schools 1etMOKt, Ok Btcurtifrd Uki CkaMptuK WEDNESDAY, MARCH 5, 1975 i A Paquette Sweeps All City Wards MARY PAQUETTE nuzzles her beaming husband, Gordon, after the mayor learned he won a third term Tuesday. (Free Press Photo by Stuart Perry) Kutzko, 108. Bromley was the winner in Ward 3, where the Democratic incumbent, running unopposed, received 606 votes. In Ward 5 Democrats Fisher and incumbent Blanchard were the winners in contested races, with Fisher defeating Republican Joseph Sullivan for a one-year term, 700-365; and Blanchard trouncing Donald Patnaude, Republican, 858-202, for a two-year term on the Board of Aldermen. With no opposition, Ward 6's Democratic alderwoman Mrs.

Novotny will be back in office after receiving 860 votes. Out of an eligible registered voters list of 23,582, the total vote was 6,980 ballots cast. In the mayoral race, the Liberty Union challenger, the first candidate the state's third party has ever run on a Burlington ticket, did best in Wards 2 and 3, where he had been concentrating his campaign with pledges to do more than the present administration for the city's poor and elderly. In Ward 1, the count was 697 for Paquette, 233 for Troville; in Ward 2, 496 for Paquette, 209 for Troville; Ward Ward 4, Ward 5, 889-194; Ward 6, 741-270. Blanchard Milizia Elected Its.

tUlSjLLjVl.Ar.lMW tmwmm in win i By KATHERINE GREGG Carrying every ward in the Democrat Gordon Paquette was swept to his third term as mayor of Burlington Tuesday in a landslide victory over Liberty Union challenger Darcy Troville. The official tally gave Paquette 5,193 votes to 1, 453 for Troville in the Republican-free mayoral contest. With close to 29 per cent of the eligible voters in the city casting their ballots considered a very low turnout by City Hall regulars Troville carried approximately 20 per cent of the vote, leaving the incumbent mayor a wide 80 per cent margin for victory. City voters also picked eight aldermen, reseating the four incumbents who were seeking reelection and putting four new faces on the board. The winners were Joseph Milizia and Joyce Desautels in Ward incumbent Paul Couture in Ward incumbent Chester Bromley in Ward Frank Dion in Ward incumbent William Blanchard and Paul Fisher in Ward and incumbent Patricia Novotny in Ward 6.

The vote for the aldermanic candidates left city Democrats with their 10 Democrats to three Republicans count on the Board of Aldermen, disappointing party regulars who had hoped to pick up a Democratic seat in Ward 4. The Ward 4 race gave Republican Dion, a former alderman, a slim six-vote margin over Democrat James P. McEnrue, chairman of the city Park Commission. It was the only Republican victory in Tuesday's election. With the two candidates, the city Democratic chairman Arte Rothenberg and the regular election inspectors watching, the Ward 4 votes were recounted on the table, reaffirming McEnrue's loss.

Late Tuesday night, McEnrue said, "I am satisfied with the results and don't plan a recount. Dion ran a clean campaign and he's certainly qualified to represent the people of Ward 4." In a brief statement at about 8:30 p.m. when it was evident he had been reelected, Mayor Paquette thanked the voters for their support and said, "It is gratifying to feel the people in the city want me to continue our courses of action in City Hall." He pledged to continue his policy of open government, and said that in his next two years in office he hoped to continue Page 15 Bromley Mrs. Novotny Mayor Brunelle the Street, Water and Sewer Departments, 767465. They approved changing city operations from a calendar to a fiscal year, 803-191.

Of Winooski's 3,550 registered voters, 1,468 cast ballots Tuesday. Huntington Meeting Thursday To Discuss 11 mm By LORNA LECKER After eight years of rejecting school bond issues designed to repair the schools or build additions to them, Burlington voters Tuesday gave the Queen City permission to spend up to $1.37 million to expand Lyman C. Hunt Junior High School and make repairs throughout the 12-school system. Of seven questions on the ballot, only two were defeated: the Burlington Electric Department's $8.5 million bond request, which won a simple majority but required a two-thirds majority for passage; and the city treasurer's request for permission to increase the city's temporary limit for borrowing in anticipation of taxes from $500,000 to $1 million. Voters sanctioned: Changing the name of the Park Department to Park and Recreation Department.

Setting the city's tax rate in June instead of July. Amending the City Charter to require the light and water departments to continue their practice of annually transfering to the city's general fund roughly the same amount of money city coffers would receive each year in property taxes from the utilities if they were privately owned. Calling the Sewage Disposal Department the Water Pollution Control Department. Charging 1 per cent interest per month on delinquent taxes instead of a flat 5 per cent interest. The school bond, a headliner in this year's election, won in three wards and lost in three others.

The final tally of 3,878 to 2,567 showed Ward 4 and 6 passing it by more than a two-to-one margin, and Ward 1 approving it 553-321. As expected, it was defeated in Ward 3, 270-374, where both representatives on the Burlington School Board and one of the ward's two aldermen declared their opposition to it. In Ward 2, the bond went down by two votes, 334-332. Unexpectedly, however, Ward 5 strongly rejected the bond, but passed everything else. The bond vote there was 538488.

Wards 1, 4 and 6 passed all seven ballot items; Ward 2 defeated the light and school bond requests and the city treasurer's request; and Ward 3 defeated both bonds, the city treasurer's request and housekeeping charter revisions which will change the Park Department's name. The school bond is the only one of four bond proposals since 1969, designed to upgrade Hunt School, which has passed. Hunt, built in the 1950s, immediately was termed substandard when the state Board of Education in 1964 adopted minimum educational standards. The school has not been improved because bond proposals to build an addition have consistently died at the polls. The last general school bond to pass was a $1.5 million request in 1967 to build the new Champlain School on Pine Street and to enlarge Thayer School on North Avenue.

Last March, voters in all wards of the city overwhelming approved bond for $523,329 for special education, making possible the construction of an addition to Ira Allen School where the mentally retarded and other handicapped children from infancy to age 6 are being educated. The $1.37 million bond approved Tuesday will pay for repairs throughout the school system, correcting violations of the Vermont Occupational Safety and Health Act and putting the School Department on the road to a preventative maintenance program, for the first time. Bus Next AU3I KALI A VS. UNITED STATES Singles Doubles Finals Hartford, Conn. Newcombe, Laver, Roewoll, Roche, Smith.

Rieien, Gorman i It's My Turn Exercising his right to speak, Donald K. Alderman Sr. raises his hand to be recognized at Milton's town meeting Tuesday at the high school. (Free Press Photo by Stuart Perry)-1 Colchester Voters Reject Board's Proposed Budget tif i running the city government "in a way people want," without increasing the city taxpayers' burden. Voting was heaviest in Ward 4, the largest ward in the city, compared to a light turnout overall.

With 2,293 voting in Ward 4, where the Democrats had concentrated their campaign in an effort to regain the seat being relinquished by Republican Alderman James Draper, the count was 1,109 to 1,103 for Dion. In another hard-fought contest, Ward 1 voters elected Democrat Milizia to a two-year term as alderman over Republican candidate Boman Bushor, 490-406. Mrs. Desautels, a Democrat, won handily over Republican Estelle Deane, 496432, for a one-year term. Tuesday's election made Mrs.

Desautels the second woman, joining Patricia Novotny, to serve on the Board of Alderman in the city's 110-year history. In Ward 2, Democratic incumbent Couture was an easy victory with 413 votes, defeating independent challenger Gerald M. Geier with 169 votes, and Liberty Union candidate Deborah Fisher Mrs. Desautels Brunelle By CARLO WOLFF Donald Brunelle succeeded Dominique Casavant as mayor 27 4 days 7 days $120.00 $237.00 6 5 10 Days $345.00 5 Days $173.00 $118.00 864-0204 864-6811 Get On To Something Great! platform trying to learn whether a vote in favor of keeping in the budget $36,800 for repairs to their road is still binding. "I would guess that it would stay, but I don't know as it stays legally," Selectmen Chairman Henry Schaefer offered.

A motion by the Rev. James Peden to delete the item was defeated, 169-102. Peden, chairman of the capital budgeting committee, had said the road is not a priority of the town engineer, and other roads are as bad or worse. At the earlier annual school district meeting, the voters reinstated $1,250 in the budget for five school directors' salaries. The board had proposed no compensation for its members.

By MARGARET BOWERS Insisting on a level tax rate, Colchester residents rejected the selectmen's proposed budget at their annual town meeting, which began Monday night and dragged into the early morning hours Tuesday. The 120-80 vote, taken at 1:15 a.m., left the selectmen -with the task of preparing a new budget and setting another town meeting. Although it was apparent in the meeting that the voters want the $1.1 million budget reduced, there was no action taken to define how deep the cuts should be or where they should be made. A motion by John Carleton to set the tax rate at the present $1.55 was declared illegal by Moderator Howard Smith and the rules were suspended to allow Carleton to reword the motion. Town Clerk Russell Smith advised that only the budget, not the tax rate, may be set at the town meeting.

The meeting then evolved into a post-midnight tangle of procedural arguments. Carleton's second motion, setting the budget at this year's amount plus $50,000, also was ruled illegal. Ronald Van Buren said the town meeting must set the budget for each department, according to the town charter. The final vote to reject the budget, taken by the weary remnant who had not given up and gone home (about half of the original attendance), left in doubt the standing of actions taken earlier in the meeting. As town officials packed their briefcases to go home, a group of Shore Acres Drive residents milled around the speakers' 9 Jims' mm tar Bis Couture Dion Winooski mayoral race was clear-cut, the race for two council seats may be contested.

Veteran former councilman Felix Bissonnette garnered 695 votes, Edward Matte received 694 votes, Michael Blow 692, and Raymond Peters 459. Blow said Tuesday night he will inspect the ballots at the city clerk's today. "You're talking three votes. .1 don't know. it's up to me, I'n going to have a recount," Blow said.

Councilman James Mazzitelli, a strong supporter of Blow's, said he checked the ballots after the official count Tuesday night, and did not find a mistake. But Blow said he will take a closer look today, and, if he finds mistakes in the sick and absentee ballots, will demand a recount. Eleanor Alarie won the school commissioner's post being vacated in June by Robert Collopy. In the four-way race, Mrs. Alarie garnered 630 votes, Ormond Mongeon 407, William Boldwin 168, and Dorothy Shaw 232.

Voters approved a nonbinding ballot item recommending public ownership of electric utilities, 914-409. They voted against appropriating $908 to maintain Winooski's membership in the Winooski Valley Park District, 807-430. They turned down a five-year obligation bond to pay Winooski back bills to the Medical Center Hospital of Vermont, 720-567. In the most lopsided vote, they rejected hot lunches for Winooski public schools. 1,002 340.

They approved authorization to the City Council to spend $11,700 to maintain the present level of city police manpower, 720-605, and authorized continuation of the 24-hour police dispatching service, 781- 552. But they turned down authorization to the council to spend $10,244 to maintain the present level of manpower in VERMONT TRANSIT Has Packaged America Your Way: Fast, Convenient, Low Cost. You not only see America you experience it! And it's all fun because airport delays and expensive tollway traveling are and the bus is In I You relax In reclining seats, see through panoramic windows, stay fresh with air-conditioning. Rest rooms, too. Your Choice of Spring Tours P.r Ptrion TQUR DATE Shoring Twin of Winooski Tuesday, handily defeating his opponents, Elmer Harman and Nicodemus McCollum.

The tally was 807 for Brunelle, 496 for Harman and 194 for McCollum. Brunelle, 37, is a production control manager at IBM. He heads the Democratic City Committee, and is a former City Council president. His failure to win a third council term last year was widely ascribed to his handling of a controversial bonus for Street Supt. Homer Sabourin.

Brunelle, during a council discussion of the bonus, called a group of citizens complaining about the bonus "vigilantes." Sabourin got the bonus; Brunelle lost his bid. When he announced for mayor, Brunelle told a group of senior citizens he thought he had matured, and apologized for his handling of the bonus issue. He promised residents he would be open-minded as mayor and would respond to criticism. His election Tuesday night represents the continuation of policies initiated by two-term Mayor Dominique Casavant. His defeat of Harman signals voter rejection if only temporarily of a Winooski political power bloc led by former councilman Willard Atkins and former Street Supt.

Rene Deforge. Harman, who runs a Hong Kong tailoring franchise and is treasurer of the Winooski Community Development waged a vigorous campaign and discussed issues with all city department heads. McCollum, a former one-term councilman who works at IBM, said when he announced for mayor he would wage a "door-to-door" campaign and pledged, if elected, to take care of the city's poor and unemployed. His campaign never caught fire; he admitted he ran with little financial and political support. Although the outcome of the Lyric Theatre, Inc.

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