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if: star Casper Area Sunday, May 11,1 986 Star-Tribune, Casper, Wyo A3 Casper College projects 2 spending decrease next year caiMt wiwuCi' fl I IV nit uiilLiaiiLftuunuIjii i El i Sl.il -1 rihiiiicllill Willaix 1 The cloned cattle-auction facility in (ilenrock, which once employed 2'. colc SBA assumes control of Glenrock's Central Wyoming Livestock Exchange clude funds lor supplies, repairs and ongoing expenses have been cut from $3.27 million in fiscal year 1985-86 to $2.96 million for the next fiscal year. Slulhril said the cutbacks were "across the board in all areas." Capital expenditures funding used for campus site improvements and acquiring new or replacing instructional equipment also will be limited next year, according to the preliminary budget. Funding for campus improvements and equipment will be down 46 percent from last year. Capital expenses for fiscal year 1985-86 were budgeted to be $658,900, while the 1986-87 preliminary budget shows $450,000 for capital expenditures.

Loftin said the capital-expense cutbacks will "throw off" the college's rotating schedule for equipment purchases. "This is a very difficult thing in education," he said, "keeping up with the state of the art. So this is a concern that equipment becomes outdated." However, despite the cutbacks, Stutheit said the only "major change" in the budget compared to previous years is the cutback in the school's legal reserve from $200,000 to $50,000 a year. Beginning fiscal year 1986-87, all Wyoming community college's have been assigned a $50,000 legal reserve, compared to previous years when the fund varied among the seven institutions. The legal reserve is money allocated to every college to be used in the case of an emergency.

The fund can be added to but not decreased unless there is an emergency, in which case the college board can spend up to 80 percent of the fund. The fund money, unlike other surplus funds, is carried from one biennium to the next. Loftin criticized the change in the amount of reserve money allotted to each college, explaining that Casper College invests the reserve and uses the interest in the budget. "They didn't replace the interest income that the other $150,000 would have generated," he said. Stutheit estimated the lost income would be about $10,000 a year.

Despite spending cutbacks, previous budgets show a trend of much greater expenditures for capital and current expenses during the second year of each biennium due to the large amount of cash that is carried over from the first year of the biennium into the second year. amount the agency had to pay to Hilltop, Nemetz said. And, he said, the SBA plans to go after the livestock exchange's former owners for the difference. The agency has a "security interest" in other assets including real estate and securities of the auction barn's prior owners, he said. But Nemetz held out the possibility that control of the livestock exchange could revert to its former owners.

The partners in the business, which has been closed since January, have 90 days to buy back the property by raising the capital to reimburse the SBA the amount that the agency paid to Hilltop on the defaulted note, he said. That is exactly what the former owners plan to do, said one of those prior owners, who spoke on the condition that he not be identified by name. He expressed optimism that the partners in the venture would resolve their financial difficulties and reacquire the property soon. But he declined to reveal specifics of the former owners' plans. N.

P. VanMaren, vice chairman of Hilltop, blamed "a considerable shift in grain and livestock markets" for the sale barn's demise. The 10 percent of the loan from Hilltop that the SBA did not guarantee "is probably uncollectable," VanMaren said. "It is part of the banking business today." Although the livestock exchange which opened for business in September 1984 and at one time employed 23 people failed to survive, Nemetz said that would not necessarily be true for the au-tion barn's next owners if and when someone buys the property. He was optimistic that new By KLNDKA I.NSOR Slur-Tribune si a IT writer C'ASIMR Although Casper College expects to spend 3.3 percent more next year on salaries and benefits compared to this year, total expenditures at the school are projected to be down by 2 percent.

According to the college's preliminary budget, the school expects general fund spending to be $13,175 million in fiscal year 1986-87 a decrease of $251,423 from the current fiscal year. As part of the preliminary budget, college officials have included instruction costs for the joint Casper College-University of Wyoming at Casper program, according to college board President Edward McCarthy. Although the instruction cost for loaned Casper College teachers is not a budget item because "we're not into such definitive accounting," Casper College President Lloyd Loftin said the college will continue to provide instructors for the joint program. According to Loftin and the college's Dean of Faculty Allan Skillman, Casper College operates with UW-Casper on a "barter" level, exchanging professors on an even basis. For example, Skillman said, the two institutions have agreed to exchange history teachers during the fall semester because "our history professor has a strong European-history background and the person the University had hired has a strong American-history background." "We feel this is a reciprocal swap on a 50-50 percent basis," Loftin said.

"It doesn't cost us one bit more to run it," he said. In February, Loftin cautioned that several staff members teaching at the UW-Casper campus could be removed if the college were not allotted a bigger budget increase than the Joint Appropriations Committee had allocated. However, Loftin Thursday said he meant if funds were short and "there were any cuts, everything would be affected." "I said 'nothing is exempt from "he added. As far as fiscal year 1986-87 is concerned, "large reductions" to the current-expense category of the budget were made by the Legislature during the budget session and so "cutbacks have been made in this area," according to Casper College Business Manager Randall Stutheit, Current expenses which in Teens Continued from Al Children want to learn about human sexuality "at a younger age than we had anticipated," Cusack said. According to the study, about half of the students wanted sex education between the ages of 6 and 10.

About 70 percent said they wanted to learn about sex from a combination of sources, including home, school, doctors and churches. At Thursday's meeting, the results of a recent high-school alcohol and drug abuse survey were also reviewed. High-school math teacher Burr Storrs told the school board there was "wide acceptance of the use of alcohol" among teen-agers and "no feeling of danger" attached to its usage, even though drinking Dan said he never registered as a Republican or Democrat until 1976 or 1977, when he returned to Wyoming to live in Casper. "I came back to be the director of the Wyoming Community Development Authority and that thrust me into politics," he explained. "Within the next year or two, I found my philosophy became fairly conservative and it much more mirrored the philosophy of the Republicans than the Democrats." As a result, Dan said, when he decided to run for a senator's spot, it was on the Republican ticket.

"But a lot of my family didn't know I was Republican until I did run," he said. "It made for some interesting discussions around the Thanksgiving dinner table." The difference in politics has not created any friction between the brothers, they say, and neither believe Dan's standing in the Republican Party will affect Mike's Democratic campaign. LLOYD LOFTIN 'Nothing is exempt from cuts Casper College is nearly finished with the second year of the current biennium. Loftin later added, "We are more cautious the first year than the second." Stutheit said, "Over the last number of years, spending has been higher in the second year." and this could be the case for the college in fiscal year 1987-88. But according to the preliminary budget, "no surplus or cash carryover is anticipated at year's end" in fiscal year 1986-87.

If actual revenues fall short of projected revenues, Stutheit sajd the college would request additional state funding through a supplemental budget request to the Legislature and the Wyoming Community College Commission. The only expenditures that reflect an increase from last year are for salaries and benefits which make up 74 percent of the budget. The 3.3 percent salary increase allocated by the Legislature for the first year of the biennium boosts total salaries, benefits and wages to $9.76 million, up from last year's $9.5 million. Reflecting the overall decline in college expenditures for fiscal year 1986-87, revenues to the school are projected to be five percent less than this year. However, that decline mostly reflects the lega.

reserve decrease and the absence of nearly $1 million in cash that was carried over last year into this, the second year of the biennium. But, despite those revenue decreases, state appropriation to the college was up by $241,483. And college officials are expecting an increase in revenue from tuitions, motor vehicle fees, interest and fees, according to budget estimates. Officials are expecting funds from taxation to be at the same level as last vear. students are mimicking, Storrs said.

Regarding marijuana use. 59 percent of the students indicated they had not tried marijuana. About 85 percent said they were not using drugs other than marijuana now. Storrs said marijuana and other drugs "are perceived as a good bit more dangerous" than alcohol. The survey showed 21 percent did not use alcohol because they felt it was a danger to their health.

uliilt1 ahonl 60 niwnt tVlr were dangerous to health. As far as substance abuse in general, a large majority said there was a problem at the high school with alcohol and drugs. One quarter of the students admitted they had attended school under the influence of drugs or alcohol. DAN SI LLIVAN eiwss I'm the Hack sheep' A owners could run a profitable operation because they would be able to buy the property from the SBA for less money than the original owners paid to build the facility two years ago. That lower initial cost would mean less of a drain on the business' cash flow, he said.

"We'll probably wait the 90 days, then list it with a commercial Realtor," Nemetz said. The SBA probably will ask between $350,000 and $400,000 for the sale barn, he said. But "it might take up to a year" to sell the livestock exchange, he said, because it is a "single-use" property and despite the absence of any competing facility between Torrington, about 125 miles to the southeast, and River-ton, about 150 miles west. The livestock exchange's owners initially sought to locate the facility on a 132-acre parcel of land on Cole Creek Road near the North Platte River about three miles east of Casper. But after months of negotiatons and public hearings, the Natrona County Commission citing environmental concerns on April 3, 1984, unanimously denied a conditional use permit for the site.

The county planning office had recommended denying the permit because of a potential pollution hazard to groundwater and the North Platte. But the town of Glenrock and Converse County had approved the project before Natrona County officials rejected the facility. Within a week of the Natrona County Commission's action, the auction barn's owners announced they would open in Glenrock. 1 Radar detectors taken from vehicle CASPER Someone stole two radar detectors that together are worth $825 last week from a vehicle parked at a Bella Vista Drive residence, a Casper police report says. Jack Hartnett of 3155 Bella Vista Dr.

told police someone stole a $350 detector that was mounted on the dashboard of his 1983 GMC Suburban and also took a $475 detector that was hanging from a visor. The theft reportedly happened sometime between 6:00 p.m. Thursday and 1:36 a.m. Friday. background is Democratic back to their great-grandparents.

Their father, Joseph, was elected county attorney in Converse County on a Democratic ticket. So what happened to Dan? "Dan graduated from college and went out of state and the first time anybody asked him, he was Republican," Mike said. "We never did figure out how that happened." Dan, however, has a better idea of why things turned out the way they did. "I don't know that there's anything magic about it," he said. "I had little political involvement as a child, I was more interested in girls and sports.

"I left the University of Wyoming and went into the service, came back and got involved in banking in Colorado. I guess that's the first involvement I had. As I began to get some age and mature, I got into the fringes." By P. J. ROSE Star-Tribune staff writer GLENROCK The defunct Central Wyoming Livestock.

Exchange was sold to its largest creditor, the U.S. Small Business Administration, at a sheriff's sale Friday. But one of the former owners of the closed auction barn vows to redeem the property from foreclosure and reopen the 47-acre facility. According to Paul Nemetz, SBA district director in Casper, "We were the guarantor of a bank loan that was made to the borrowers." The SBA guaranteed a loan made by Hilltop National Bank in Casper to the auction barn's owners two years ago, Nemetz said. Several months ago, he said, when the livestock exchange's owners defaulted on that loan, the SBA was forced to pay off Hilltop and take over the loan.

Although he declined to reveal the amount of the loan from Hilltop, or how much the SBA lost on the deal, Nemetz said that the agency guaranteed 90 percent of the loan. At Friday's Converse County sheriff's sale, the SBA bid $350,000 for the auction barn, Nemetz said. That bid was based on what the SBA considered a fair price for the property and improvements, he said a price for which another party could buy the property from the SBA and still operate a profitable venture. "There were about 20 interested buyers there" at the sheriff's sale, Nemetz said, "but nobody really bid." However, the $350,000 that the SBA received from its own bid on the property fell short of the Sullivan urges no 'crossover voting CASPER Democratic gubernatorial candidate Mike Sullivan is urging members of his party not to "crossover" and vote in the Republican primary election, according to a press release from Sullivan's campaign office. At a Democratic rally in Gillette last week, according to the release, Sullivan told voters, "If Republicans want Democratic votes, let them run as Democrats." The Wyoming election code enables voters to affiliate with a party or change affiliation on the day of a primary.

"Crossing over defeats the pur A tale of MIKE SULLIVAN Long Democratic roots pose of a primary, which is to let party members choose their nominees for the general election," Sullivan said. Tools, tool box stolen from truck CASPER A tool box reportedly was taken from the bed of a pickup truck parked at a Grandview Place residence Thursday or Friday. The tool box, which, along with miscellaneous tools is worth $400, was taken from William Jackson's truck sometime between 8 p.m. Thursday and 6 a.m. Friday, according to a Casper police report.

two brothers: blood runs thicker than party loyalty while driving is the number one killer of 16- to 24-year-olds. According to the survey, in which 424 high school students participated, 76 percent felt it was OK to drink if they wanted to, and 58 percent said they had tried beer, wine or liquor several times. Almost 70 percent of those who used alcohol said they had taken their first drink (not just a sip or two from a parent's glass) bv age 14. But Storrs said, "We are not pointing a finger and accusing them of being much different than we are." He said alcohol was not a high-school problem or a student problem, but a community problem. The community's acceptance of alcohol and the resort nature of Jackson are the kinds of things the "I don't think it will," Mike said.

"We've always gotten along pretty well without regard to our party differences." And Dan points out that in Wyoming, Republicans and Democrats really aren't too far apart. "The difference between Republicans and Democrats in this state isn't that wide," he said. "That's really why we've had a Democratic governor for 12 years. People vote for the individual." Dan has considered one way to avoid conflict during the gubernatorial race. "As I've told my friends, maybe I ought to leave the state and come back in December," he joked.

But he added that his brother can probably count on his support in the voting booth. "I think he's a wonderful person," Dan said. "I won't get out and knock on doors for his campaign or anything, but I think he'll get my vote." By JIM ANGELL Associated Press Writer CHEYENNE- If Mike Sullivan wins the Democratic nomination to run for governor in August, he can count on at least one Republican vote his brother's. Although the brothers have their political differences Dan Sullivan is a Republican state senator from Natrona County they don't let them get in the way. In fact, when questioned recently on the issue, both joked about it.

"I refuse to apologize for my brother," said Mike. "He wandered out of Wyoming and came back a Republican." Admits Dan, "I guess I'm the black sheep of the family." Dan Sullivan's political allegiance certainly makes those who know the family sit up and take note. The Sullivan family.