Pensacola News Journal from Pensacola, Florida • 30

Thursday, February 7, 1985 DOT puts Garcon Point airstrip dispute on hold By KATHY BEASLEY Journal Staff Writer MILTON The Florida Department of Transportation will honor a Santa Rosa County Commission request and delay its ruling on a Gar-con Point airstrip application. Larry Parker, DOTs district aviation specialist, said the matter will be placed on hold until the County Commission sends its official response to the application, which has drawn protests from area residents. "Weil have to honor the commission request," Parker said Wednes day. "We can't go in and do something the county doesn't want" The commissioners agreed last week to have the application reviewed a second time by the county Aviation Advisory Committee for a recommendation to DOT after hearing the residents' concerns about noise and safety. A letter dated Jan.

31 was sent to Parker requesting a delay in the ruling so the committee can reconsider the matter and conduct a public hearing to gather input from citizens. Public notice of the application stated that a decision could not be made by DOT before Feb. 13. The advisory committee will meet today to review the details of the application and conduct a public hearing Monday at 4:30 p.m. in the County Courthouse.

Parker said he has not received the commissioners' letter but is aware of their intentions. He said he will not send the paperwork for the application to Tallahassee until he receives some official word on the matter from the commission. E.T. Thompson submitted the application to operate a grass airstrip in Garcon Point with the restrictions of two single-engine airplanes on the ground and 10 landings a month. Parker said he has received letters and petitions of protest and expects to receive more letters.

Residents also have contended in their complaints that the Thompson does not own the land he proposes to use for the airport. But Parker said the legal descrip tion of the land filed with the application is for property owned by Thompson. The wrong sections of land were included in a letter of intent because the location was identified incorrectly on a map, he said. Applications for airstips are submitted to DOT but local governing bodies must sent a letter of approval indicating the permit will not violate zoning laws. Santa Rosa County has no zoning restrictions but sends permit requests to the aviation committee for review.

"If the Aviation Advisory Com mittee doesn't agree (with the application) it goes no further," said Parker. The advisory committee initially put its approval on the Garcon Point application but commissioners agreed that the citizens' concerns, should be considered. They told residents that the commission will follow the committee's recommendation made after the review. Parker said both the applicant and those protesting the permit can appeal any decision and request an administrative hearing. Page 4C The Pensacola Journal NARF employees file suit to preserve Friday payday By BARBARA JANESH Jooraol staff writer Employees at the Naval Air Rework Facility in Pensacola have asked a federal judge to help them in their battle to keep their payday on Friday.

In a class-action suit filed in U.S. District Court in Pensacola, the NARF employees at the Naval Air Station asked that a judge keep NARF officials from moving the payday from Friday to Wednesday, until their grievance in the matter can be heard and resolved. Judge Roger Vinson will consider their petition during a court hearing at 3 p.m., Feb. 12, the day before the 4,000 NARF employees are to receive their first Wednesday paycheck. The change in paydays is necessary to accommodate a move to connect to the Federal Reserve System's electronic system for depositing NARF employees' checks directly into their bank accounts, said Marge Sanders, NARF public affairs officer.

The direct deposits now are made manually for employees who request them, she said, by mailing the checks to the appropriate banks. The electronic hookup ultimately will save employee time and money, Sanders said, adding that the change is being made throughout the base. Fridays and that any change made regarding paydays be negotiated between the union and NARF. Movement of the paydays, according to the court document, will cause the petitioners to lose three days pay during 1985. Sanders, however, said NARF employees will be paid for all of the time they work.

Attorney James Johnston, representing the NARF workers, said the pay loss mentioned in the suit refers to money that the employees will receive next year instead of this year, because of how the paydays will fall in December. The four men are named as petitioners in the court action and also have filed a grievance through their union in an attempt to resolve the matter. The grievance procedure is expected to take between four and six months to complete. Respondents in the court action are NARF; Robert D. Duff, NARF commanding officer and G.G.

Woodward, commanding officer of the Naval Education and Training Financial information Processing' Center. The petitioners said their contract calls for them to be paid on But to accommodate the change, this Friday's payday must be delayed five days, Sanders said. As a result, payday thereafter will continue to be on Wednesday. Lloyd Simoneaux, Roy Phillips, Gary English, as NARF employees and members of Local 1960 of the American Federation of Government Employees, the AFL-CIO and Harold E. Stout, president of the local, say the change violates their contract with NARF.

Mitchell says he sees no need for the county to block improved service to island businessmen who seek it. He says he favors case-by-case evaluations with the county granting exceptions based on individual circumstances. THE Sf lOlHRMIl story I No new garbage plan for Okaloosa Island SL "fj! UST TIMES TONIGHT OPEN 5 PM i 1 1 hSfl ADULTS Till 5.30 P.M. ONE SHOW 5:20 'TUFF TURF' 'HEAVENLY BODIES' 'PROTOCOL' STARTS TOMORROW! At 20.9 30 p.m. By CHERYL MICHAELS Journal Stoff Writer SHALIMAR A major upgrading of the garbage service the county provides Okaloosa Island is apparently not in the cards.

Okaloosa County Engineer Dave Heinrich has concluded it's not cost-effective for the county to upgrade service to accommodate garbage compactors like the one installed at the island's Holiday Inn. In a memo to commissioners, Heinrich recommends larger garbage containers be offered to customers, but that no overhaul of the system be performed to accommodate roll-off compactors. A study found that too few island HUTTGri SEHN FEO garbage compactor, which must be hauled to a landfill for disposal, could not be hauled on the county's dump truck, Mitchell said. Hotel officials were unaware of the requirement that they use county service, the commissioner said. THE FALGOH A true STARTS: TOMORROW $250 Sat Stom lurM bliiil'H SaatavFtul Ska Oaty AM IbhtkW AM Tunm tm Cit.

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Tuesday in the Okaloosa County Courthouse in Crestview. Concern about the quality of garbage service arose last month when Mitchell became aware the Holiday Inn was not using garbage service, as required by the island's restrictive covenants. The Holiday Inn hired a private garbage service because its modern sa County's Council for Exceptional Children, drew some 200 exhibits for an awards contest. Participants were students enrolled in exceptional programs for the gifted, physically handicapped or learning disabled. Ribbons donated by the Junior Service League of Fort Walton Beach were presented last week to 45 winners in the areas of painting, crafts, collage, drawings and From Page 1C But radio is a business, a commercial venture where dinosaurs die out.

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