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the Journal Times, Tuesday. September 9, 1986 Racine, Wis. 3A heiriHr It's jail ex Doim pBaei cHilspy tod By Marcla Nlckow Journal Times Sheriff Robert Rohner'a, rationale for proposing that the county Includemaximum-security cells in a proposed Jail addition was disputed Monday by a member of' the county board's executive committee. The county shouldn't base its jail expansion plans on the fact that there were 85 more prisoners than beds on Aug. 20 or on any short-term trends, David Anderson told fellow committee members.

"I mean that's insane," said Anderson, also the board's finance committee chairman. Rohner recommended in a memo discussed Wednesday by the board's public works committee that the pew jail addition include maximum-security cells as well as the 88 beds for work-release prisoners and IS holding ceils that a jail expansion study" committee recommended in June. Anderson acd Rohner both served oa the jail expansion study committee. Anderson noted that the study committee's plan would free up space in the existing facility, housed in the law enforcement 'center at 717 Wisconsin to create 24 new maximum-security cells. The committee's proposed addition, which would increase jail capacity to 33S from 206, is large enough, be said.

The plan was based oa a projected annual increase in the average daily population by 11.2 prisoners, to 248 in 1990. "If anything, I think the numbers tend to be high," said Anderson, 4 Rohner want available this morning for fomnvnti The committee's plan calls for providing space for another work-release dormitory or cell block complex on the second floor of the addition should future needs require more expansion. The project would cost roughly $3.2 million, if it included an indoor parking garage to house 18 sheriff's department squad cars. Also, County Engineering and Maintenance Superintendent Patrick Carroll, who beaded the study committee, said 11 new staff positions would be needed for deputies and a few clerks if the city closes its lockup, as planned. The public works committee went on record only as supporting some jail expansion, said chairwoman Jean Jacobspn.

She said various alternatives will be explored. In a cost breakdown, Carroll Monday reported the study committee's proposed 88-bed work-release dormitory, intake-booking center with 18 additional holding cells for people awaiting processing and would cost $1.68 million. The unfin ished second-floor space would cost another $291,541, he said. Carroll didn't give estimates of the cost of Rohner's latest recommendation, but said the county could add a fifth floor to the existing jail with 48 maximum security cells for $1.55 million. An 18-car indoor parking garage would' cost $308,000 if built underground and probably $220,000 to $230,000 if built above ground, Carroll said.

For $150,000, the county could build a 60-car parking lot on the south lawn of the' courthouse, Carroll said. pamis "ran "nj ErmroDDmnieiDll: at Packside holds steady "Projections were that we were going to be 150 to 200 down, so holding steady is quite an' accomplishment. Gary Goetz, assistant chancellor 'i t. Chuck D'Acquisto, Journal TimM City's dumpster site on Pearl Street has proved to be more popular than officials expected since it opened. Trash sn4e too snaccesslfyB By David Irioiiid Journal Times PARKS IDE Enrollment at the University of Wisconsin Parkside is about the same as last year, and that's a good sign, campus officials said today.

Enrollment has declined since peaking at 6,000 in 1983, but there are more freshmen and sophomores this year than there were last year, according to Gary Grace, assistant chancellor for student affairs. Grace said enrollment figures are preliminary and final numbers won't be known until after late registration. So far, Parkside has 5,070 students, so enrollment should reach 5,100 about the same as last year, he said. Freshmen enrollment is up from 1,603 a year ago to 1,698, and the number of sophomores is up from 853 to 864. There also was an increase in the number of full-time students, according to Grace.

The number of juniors has fallen from 634 to 582, and seniors from 841 to 811, Grace said. Enrollment of students listed in other categories, including graduate students, has dropped from 1,226 to 1,151, he said. But the increased number of freshmen, sophomores and full-time students is encouraging, he added. 1 "Projections were that we were going to be 150 to 200 down, so holding steady is quite an accomplishment," said Gary Goetz, chancellor for administration and fiscal affairs. Some UW campuses have been trying to limit enrollment, but system President Kenneth Shaw said at a luncheon in Racine during the spring that Parkside should increase enrollment.

While other schools have made admission standards tougher in Journal Times staff Where's all that trash coming from? City Public Works Commissioner Fred Larson plans to ask the city council's public works and services committee tonight to recommend setting aside $30,000 more for the city's bulky items disposal site because the pilot program has been too successful. An "unbelievable" amount of trash has been brought to the site at 821 Pearl a half block north of 9th Street, Larson said. "We've already overspent (the budget) by $10,000," Larson said. From when the manned dumpster site opened in mid-April until the end of August, Larson said, the city got 3,081 loads of trash. That filled 69 30-yard dumpsters and 203 twenty-yard dumps ters that were emptied at Land Reclamation landfill.

The amount of trash dumped at the site may seem even more remarkable considering the city held its annual cleanup week collection for bulky items the week of May 4, and two months later started using larger trash trucks on a daily basis to accept more large items. "I don't know if they're storing it or cleaning up properties more," Larson said. The 32-week disposal site pilot program, which is to end in November, was anticipated to only cost $20,000, but now may cost $45,000 or more, Larson said. The city may recoup some of the trash costs if next year's cleanup week doesn't involve as much trash as previous years, Larson said. City officials still plan to have cleanup week pickup of bulky items next year because the new trash trucks cannot handle appliances, such as refrigerators or stoves.

Only city residents are allowed to use the bulky disposal site and proof of residency, such as a city' tax bill, must be shown. Car parts, demolition materials, hazardous substances and branches greater than 3 inches in diameter are prohibited. The city's disposal site is open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesdays through Saturdays.

order to limit enrollment, Parkside has made them tougher as a way of attracting thcan, said Grace. "There is the perception that the school is interested in quality," he said. The new dormitories, improved services for students and more aggressive recruiting have helped to stem the ebbing tide at Parkside, he said. The 309-capacity dorms had 267 students as of today, Goetz said. Most of those living in the dorms are from the Racine and Kenosha area, according to Grace.

Stepped-up recruiting has concentrated on Racine and Kenosha counties, he said, but the school intends to start looking to the Milwaukee area in the near future. The Milwaukee Sentinel reported today enrollment at UW-Madi-son is 42,069, compared to 45,000 a year ago, but officials said enrollment should equal last year's figure after late registration. UW-Milwaukee enrollment is close to last year's, about 26,000 and UW-Whitewater is at 10,709, down from 11,027 last year. Declines were reported at Plat-teville and Stout, while enrollment increased at Oshkosh, Eau Claire, Green Bay, La Crosse, River Falls, Stevens Point and Superior. Enrollment in two-year UW centers is about the same as last year.

IRidcjjwood opsiriBinicjj postponed Most Racine pets are not licensed organized, it will transfer into better care for the patients," said Danculovich. Adams said High Ridge employees are contacting families and guardians of patients to inform them that the move has been delayed. The number of patients at High Ridge at 2433 S. Green Bay Road was reduced between June 1, 1984 and March of this year in preparation for the move. Most affected were traditional nursing home patients, who now number about 30, down from about 140 two years ago, Adams said.

Ridgewood is designed to serve chronically mentally ill people, other mentally ill people under court-ordered placements because of a need to live in a structured setting, Alzheimer's disease patients and developmentally disabled people, especially elderly. Adams said the traditional nursing home patients now at High Ridge require intense care. All Ridgewood jobs have been filled internally. Eighty-one people who were full-time will be part-time at Ridgewood, Adams said. Staff changes affected only nonprofessionals, he said.

By Marcia Nickow Journal Times The county's new Ridgewood Health Care Center won't open Thursday, as planned, partly because 164 new hospital beds haven't been delivered yet. Instead, patients at High Ridge Health Care Center will move into their new home Oct. 1, said Kenneth Adams, the facility's administrator. Adams said a salesman for Medline Industries of Mundelein, 111., which is supplying the hospital beds, "made a verbal guarantee that he could not back up," promising delivery by today. He said the county found out last week the salesman was wrong, and it takes at least eight weeks to get beds from Medline.

They are scheduled to be delivered the week of Sept. 22, said Adams. Fifty dormitory-style beds for Ridgewood's locked psychiatric unit, bought from Nemschoff Chairs Sheboygan, were delivered Monday, Adams said. Ridgewood, at 5455 Durand is to replace the 350-bed High Ridge. It will house 210 patients, with additional beds placed in isolation rooms.

County Executive Leonard Ziolkowski said the hospital beds weren't ordered until July 23, because it wasn't clear if there would be enough money to pay for them. The county board allocated an additional $70,000 of the $8.16 million borrowed for the Ridgewood project to buy the beds July 22. Adams said the old beds, furniture, furnishings and other equipment at High Ridge will be auctioned. Adams said he isn't disappointed the move has been postponed. "We'll take extra time to refine some things," he said.

"We've been going at a feverish pitch, shooting for the 11th. Now we can re-evaluate where we are, look at things a second time." High Ridge's assistant administrator, Brenda Danculovich, said she's relieved that the move has been put off. With "all the little details," the move seems like "an insurmountable task," she said. "If the staff is more established and more Volunteers sought for center move vans and bus, she said. Community volunteers are needed to greet patients at Ridgewood and help them unpack and get oriented, she Danculovich said, she'd like to have 210 volunteers, because one-on-one contact with patients would be ideal.

But she said she'll be pleased if 50 people volunteer. Anyone interested is asked to contact High Ridge at 636-3411. "It could be very difficult for some of them," Danculovich said. "They're being uprooted from their homes, where many of them have lived for many years." They'll be in "a foreign environment," with new roommates and staff members who might not be familiar to them, she said. Danculovich said 10 rescue squads in the county will help transport patients between 8 a.m.

and 2:30 p.m. Patients also will be driven in a private ambulance and in High Ridge's two Journal Times staff Want to help High Ridge Health Care Center patients get settled in their new home? Brenda Danculovich, High Ridge's assistant administrator, said volunteers are needed to spend about an hour with patients Oct. 1. That's when the 210 High Ridge residents will move to the county's new Ridgewood Health Care Center. Literacy Council's goal two-fold By Mike Hill Journal Times Most dogs and cats in Racine are not licensed and checked for rabies shots, city officials say.

"It's fairly obvious people don't know about the requirement or are ignoring it," said Public Health Administrator Richard Wissell. Wissell also said he's sure there are many people who violate the city's law restricting pet owners to one dog and one cat for every 20. feet of frontage at their homes. If you check the records, officially this city of 81,000 people has less than 2,500 dogs and cats. As of Monday, the city issued 1986 licenses to 2,277 dogs and 205 cats.

"We don't really do a land-office business here on licenses," said City Treasurer Paul Sullivan, whose office issues pet licenses. Nobody knows how many pets live in Racine because nobody checks, Sullivan said. But, if a check was made, officials may find 12,500 dogs and cats here (according to Sullivan's guess of 20 percent being registered) or 15,000 (Wissell's guess). "Every pet in the city is supposed to be registered," Wissell said, to insure they have their rabies shots. Wissell and the city's animal control committee are reviewing the city's animal regulations to better define dangerous animals and find ways to improve enforcement in light of a pit bull terrier attacking a 4-year-old boy several weeks ago.

The city may find ways to increase its pet registration process, but that may not result in increased detection of dangerous animals because it's not easy to tell, Wissell said. The city eliminated its dog catcher position a few years ago, contracting instead with the Humane Society Animal Shelter and relying on police to handle animal complaints. This year's budget lists $22,830 for the shelter. Wissell said he doesn't favor reinstating the dog catcher's position because "My opinion is that one person cannot run a program." The McHenry County, 111., health department Wissell previously headed vhad a very active animal control program that cost about $210,000 a year and resulted in registration of 20,000 dogs, Wissell said. McHenry has a few thousand fewer people than Racine County, he said, and cats are not required to be registered in Illinois.

The McHenry program had six dog catchers, four secretaries and four vans, he said. The county also ran its own animal shelter and got the proceeds from its registration fee. "The program was self-support-' ing the last year I was there," he said. Wissell said he doesn't recommend Racine County get as involved as McHenry because of Racine's tight budget situation. Sullivan said the city can get only 50 to 60 cents for every animal license sold here, with the rest going to the county, as required by state, law.

That's not much money to beef up the animal control program, Wissell said. Suggestions so. far, Wissell said, have included working through veterinarians and the Humane Society to increase pet "registrations, and setting up a vaccination-registration clinic. The registration fee is $6 for each dog or cat, or $3 for every pet that's been neutered or spayed. Owners have to show proof their pets have been vaccinated against rabies.

The "fee is reduced to half-price after June 30 for new pets, Sullivan said. Puppies under 5 months old are exempt from registration. There's a $5 late fee for pets registered after March, and the city has a $25 fine for unregistered dogs and cats that are picked up. Wissell said the city restricts the' number of pets to prevent them from being a neighborhood nuisance. Too many pets can mean a lot of animal waste that could draw flies that carry disease, he said.

Farm animals and those that are wild or vicious are prohibited in city limits, he said. "We see people with little hope being given the gift of hope. They come in with hung heads and leave lit up like Christmas trees' Sandy Tait, Executive director Racine Literacy Council By Margaret C. Owen Journal Times The Racine Literacy Council Monday sponsored a combined celebration at its new headquarters at 420 7th St. Besides getting a new location, the council was celebrating 21 years of service.

Earlier this, summer the council, a United Way agency, moved from a two-room office at 806 S. Wisconsin Ave. to an eight-room area on the second floor of the Family Service Building. The number of students helped by the organization almost doubled within the last few years. In 1984, 195 students were served.

Last year 300 were served and this year an estimated 400 students will be served, according to Executive Director Sandy Tait She estimates 15,000 Racine residents are functionally illiterate. Nationally, the number of people who can't read is expected to increase The council's goal is two-fold: to build self-esteem and to teach reading and writing. "We never want anyone to leave this place feeling the way they did when they came in," she said. "We see people with little hope being given the gift of hope. They come in with hung heads and leave lit up like Christmas trees." At the center, students receive free, confidential tutoring tailored to their individual needs.

Those who can afford it are asked to pay for books. Students cover first-grade through fourth-grade equivalency material. They can use textbooks, novels, magazines, driving manuals, newspapers and the Bible. They also work crossword puzzles. About half of the students will successfully complete the fourth-grade material and graduate, Tait said.

by 1 million this year. Tait said the illiteracy problem has received more public attention recently. Modern technology, including the use of robots and computers, is creating a demand for literate workers, she said. Businesses are more aware of the costs of illiteracy because of damaged work equipment and liabiltiy problems. Public declarations for Literacy Month in September help to show the damage illiteracy can cause to self-esteem and its social impact on welfare costs, Tait said.

Solving the problem is difficult because "illiterates often try to hide in the crowd. Many are humiliated and take a long time to get assistance," she said. "The majority of students at the center are unemployed because they can't get over the initial stage of completing a job application," she said..