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PageB4 Waterloo Courier Tuesday, May 7, 1991 AG backs state law on neighboring city tax vote Ground the Amundson said the tower is approved by both Federal Aviation Administration and Federal Communication Commission. An IPTV representative added "it is perfectly safe from health hazards." In other business, the board approved reducing next year's kindergarten from three sections to two and maintaining three sections in first renewed the Kum 'n Go beer and Sunday sales permit, and Russ's liquor license and approved the plat for Meadowbrook Third Addition, a housing development owned by Roger Baker. Baker, a council member, abstained from the vote. The 26 lots are for homes in the $75,000 to $100,000 range, and are in the east part of town. BREMER Clothes dryer causes Are at Country Kitchen WAVERLY A fire that broke out in a clothes dryer at the Country Kitchen here early Monday caused minor smoke damage to the restaurant.

Firefighters were called to the restaurant at 7:51 a.m. to find smoke pouring out of the basement, Fire Chief Dave Nelson said. Apparently, towels in an electric clothes dryer in the basement caught fire. The blaze was quickly extinguished. After the building was ventilated, the restaurant was open for business Monday morning.

DES MOINES (AP) A state law requiring neighboring cities to vote jointly on local option taxes meets constitutional standards, the Iowa attorney general's office said. An opinion issued today said there are good reasons for the requirement, including a desire to keep businesses in one city from gaining a competitive advantage over businesses in another. It was requested after a 1 percent local sales tax was imposed in Waterloo and Cedar Falls. Voters in Waterloo rejected the tax, but it was passed on the strength of overwhelming support in Cedar Falls. "The uniform application of the tax in a metropolitan area whose contiguous cities in the aggregate approve the tax rationally recognizes that such metropolitan area, in the commercial world, is really a single marketplace which should not be divided along city lines for tax purposes," said the opinion, written by special assistant attorney general Harry Griger.

Rep. Jane Teaford, D-Cedar Falls, had sought the opinion to clarify a section of the state's local option tax laws governing refcrendums on the taxes. Critics claim it isn't fair for residents of one city to face higher taxes when they've voted to reject those taxes. The law requires contiguous cities such as Waterloo and Cedar Falls to be counted as a block. The opinion said the law merely recognizes economic realities and meets a "legitimate state purpose." "In our society, those who'sell at retail goods and services that can be subjected to the local option county sales and services tax usually compete with each other," the opinion said.

The opinion said an even greater unfairness would result if individual cities in a metropolitan area could opt out of the tax. "Such a resuft could place some retailers in the metropolitan area at a competitive disadvantage vis-a-vis the tax," the opinion said. In reviewing laws approved by the Legislature, one of the bedrock standards is whether there's a rational reason for imposing burdens on citizens, the opinion said. "The avoidance of competitive disadvantages in the same metropolitan area, as a result of the tax imposition, is a legitimate state purpose," the opinion said. FAYETTE Dates changed for E911 plan hearings WEST UNION The Fayette E91 1 Service Board changed the public hearing dates for approving budgets and mapping for the rural address system from May 16 and 17 to May 23 and 24.

A hearing on the budgets will be 7:30 p.m. May 23 at the courthouse. The first public hearing on mapping for the rural address system will be that night at the courthouse. Another hearing for the maps will be at the Oelwein City Hall at 7:30 p.m. May 24.

Hearing on access to property set for May 20 WEST UNION Access to the property continues to be an issue for the West Union City Council. A public hearing for comments on the proposed classification change of Distribution Inc. has been set for 7 p.m. May 20. The West Union City Council, Monday night approved a resolution on the proposed change recommended by the Planning and Zoning Commission.

The proposed change requested by the company would allow for the construction of a storage addition south of its food warehouse. The council will also have to consider some recommendations made by the commission to address traffic problems. A petition was presented to the commission on April 1 1 opposing the expansion because of increased traffic. The three recommendations include: constructing an eastwest street from Vine Street to Highway 150; designating Cherry and Linden streets as one-way streets with traffic on Cherry flowing west to east and Linden from east to west; and widening Cherry street to 24 feet. On another matter, the board (ABC).

Residents will have to receive the three dropped stations from their TV antennas, Monroe said. Some council members were not happy about the decision and urged residents to contact Westmarc about their feelings. City Attorney Roger Ott said, "I'll go one step further and say, lf they do this, I'll An official at Westmarc Cable in Waterloo said the company felt there was a lot of duplication of services in the Charles CityFloyd area, and dropping some of the duplicate national networks would make room for other channels. He added that the company also plans to drop some duplicate networks in Iowa Falls, which now has eight channels broadcasting the three networks. CHICICASAW New Hampton council sees Highway 63 bypass routes NEW HAMPTON The New Hampton City Council discussed the proposed widening of U.S.

Highway 63 from Waterloo to New Hampton Monday. Rod Larsen of Iowa Northeast Regional Council of Governments said that a contract to do a study on the project will be let June 1 with completion expected in six months. A map of two possible routes for the four-lane bypass around New Hampton was displayed. One route would pass just east of Mikkelson Park in New Hampton and the other would be west of the city along what is now called Airport Road. Larsen said an advantage of the west route would be the proximity to the Industrial Park.

The possibility of a small lake along either route is also in the plans. There will be a meeting in New Hampton the first part of June for public input on the proposed routes. The council also heard a report from Police Chief Mike Anderson concerning complaints he has received about local stock car owners disturbing their neighbors while they work on their cars. The car owners rev the engines loudly while they work on the cars and have parts laying about their yards. Anderson said many of the complainers won't leave their names, leaving the department unable to prosecute without witnesses.

Many car owners were present at the meeting, but Anderson said they were not the offending parties. Councilman Don Schueth said, "Some property values have dropped because of the noise. I don't think we can forget the citizens and let these property values continue to fall, Let's try to settle this problem without an ordinance." The council agreed that the stock car owners should try to police Dates set for butter, beef, applesauce distribution grade. Expected enrollment is 41 kindergarten students and 48 in first grade for next year. With the action the board will avoid replacing a retiring elementary teacher.

The district is facing a $15,000 cut in state funding next year, coupled with an already tight budget and a need to replace classroom computers and other equipment, said Superintendent Bob Crouse. The board also endorsed subscribing to Channel One, a 12-minute daily news program for schools, through the Whittle Corp. There js no cost to the district, but students must view the program each day. The program has been controversial in other districts because it also contains two minutes of commercials. FLOYD Charles City board set to choose search service CHARLES CITY The Charles City School Board heard its second presentation of a superintendent search service Monday and decided it will choose a service next Monday.

An official of the Institute for Educational Leadership presented a 10-stcp, $3,000 process it would use to pick a successor to Superintendent Larry Beard, whose resignation is effective in June. Some board members said at the special meeting that they are concerned how negative publicity about Beard and the district would affect the recruitment of a new superintendent. Network TV duplicates to be dropped in Charles City CHARLES CITY Mayor Bob Monroe said at Monday's Charles City Council meeting that duplicate ABC, CBS and NBC television affiliates soon will be dropped from local cable service. Monroe said Westmarc Cable, which serves Charles City and other Northeast Iowa areas, has decided to drop duplicate national networks because it needs room to add other programs, including the movie channel. Encore.

The localWfiliates that will be dropped are: KTTC of Rochester, Minn. (NBC); KCRG of Cedar Rapids (ABC); and KGAN of Cedar Rapids (CBS). The local cable service will continue to provide KIMT of Mason City (CBS); KWWL of Waterloo (NBC); and KAAL from Austin, Minn. GRUNDY Grundy school officials address tower concerns GRUNDY CENTER Some Grundy Center residents are concerned about a 360-foot-high tower the Grundy Center School District has erected to receive transmissions from a nearby technical college. The tower will be used to link the school district to Hawkeye Technical College and Iowa Public Television, Dale Amundson of Hawkeye Technical Institute in Waterloo told the Grundy Center School Board Monday.

Some of the services it could provide include filling voids in curriculum without hiring more teachers, providing hookups to other colleges and universities and bringing in community training programs, such as emergency medical training classes, Amundson said. The system is federally funded. Amundson said Kirkwood College in Cedar Rapids "has been in this business for 12 years and claims you can get a two-year associate degree and never go to campus." The system is expected to be in place early next year. The new transmission tower is to the west of the school near a developing residential area. Several residents questioned the safety of the tower, both from the standpoint of height and radiation health problems.

They also voiced concern and opposition to the bright lights on the tower, and the effect on potential home building in that development as well as the effect of values on existing homes. approved the sale of land purchased from the Iowa Department of Transportation to the First Judicial District of Department of Correctional Services for the construction of a 30-bed residential correctional facility for $5,000 for about one acre of land. A public hearing on the sale was held with no objectors present. In other business, the council approved relocating the recycling trailer from the city street maintenance garage to the city parking lot at the intersection of Walnut and Elm streets. Aredale, Town Hall, 1 to 3 p.m.; Bris- tow, Community Building, 1 to 3 p.m.; Clarksville, IPS Building, 2 to 4 Dumont, City Hall, 1:30 to 2:30 p.m.; Greene, Community Center, 12:30 to 2:30 p.m.; New Hartford, Odd Fellows Hall, 2 to 3:30 p.m.; Parkersburg, Civic Center, 1 to 2 p.m.; Shell Rock, Boyd Building, 2 to 5 p.m.

CHICKASAW Alta Vista, City Hall, 1 to 2 p.m.; Bassett, Royal Neighbors Hall, 1:30 to 4 p.m.; Fredericksburg, Amvet Hall, 1 to 2 p.m.; Lawler, City Hall, 1 to 2 p.m.; Nashua, IPS Building, 2 to 4:30 p.m.; New Hampton, Sara Lee Union Hall, 2 to 4:30 p.m. GRUNDY Beaman, Memorial Hall, 2 to 4 p.m.; Conrad, Community Center, 2 to 4 p.m.; Dike, Community Hall, 2 to 4 p.m.; Grundy Community Center (May 15), 12:30 to 3 p.m.; Holland, Recreation Hall, 2 to 4 p.m.; Reinbeck, Memorial Building, 2 to 4 p.m.; Wellsburg, Community Building, 12:30 to 2:30 p.m. ALLAMAKEE Postviile, Memorial Hall, 10:30 a.m. to noon. FAYETTE West Union, Fayette County Historical Center, 12:30 to 1:30 p.m.; Ocl-wein, Peace Lutheran Church, 2:30 to 4 p.m.; Arlington, Community Build- ing, Library basement, 2 to 3:30 p.m.; Clermont, Library, 2 to 3:30 p.m.; Elgin, Fire Station, 2 to 3:30 p.m.; Fayette, Senior Citizen's Center, 12:30 to 2 p.m.; Hawkeye, Trinity Lutheran Church, 2 to 3:30 p.m.; Waucoma, Legion Hall, 2 to 3:30 p.m.; Wadena, Fire Station, 2 to 3:30 p.m.

HOWARD Cresco, Expo Building (Fairgrounds), 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.; Elma, Memorial Hall, 9 to 1 1 a.m.; Lime Springs, City Hall, 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. WINNESHIEK Decorah, U.S. Army Reserve Center, 10 am to 12:30 p.m.

Questions about commodity distribution should be directed to respective county Human Services offices or to Maribeth Woolsey, benefit payment administrator, Waterloo District Office, Dp not call McElroy Auditorium for information. Canned beef, applesauce, butter, rice and peanut butter are scheduled to be distributed in Black Hawk, Bremer, Buchanan, Butler, Chickasaw and Grundy counties, with the exception of Grundy Center, on May 14, in Grundy Center May 15, and in Allamakee, Clayton, Fayette, Howard and Winneshiek counties May 16. Stout no longer has a distribution site. People are asked to bring sacks or boxes to carry the food. Applicants may receive commodities once a month and at one site.

Applications must be prepared to show identification. i Those unable to apply in person may have someone pick up commodities for them. The applicant must sign a proxy note naming the proxy and giving the person permission to pick up the commodities, stating the applicant's name, total gross monthly income, number of persons, in the household and signature of the applicant. This is the only acceptable procedure for proxies. BLACK HAWK Dunkerton, City Hall, 1 to 3:30 p.m.; Hudson, Town Hall, 1 to 3 p.m.; La Porte City, Community Center, 2 i to 5 p.m.; Waterloo metro area, South Anniversary Hall, Cattle Congress grounds, 9 a.m.

to 2 p.m. BREMER Denver, American Legion, 1 to 3 p.m.; Frederika, Community Building, 12:30 to 2:30 p.m.; Janesville, City Hall, 12 to 3:30 p.m.; Plainfield, City Hall, 2 to 4 p.m.; Readlyn, Telephone Office, 12 to 1:30 p.m.; Sumner, City Hall, 12:30 to 2:30 p.m.; Tripoli, City Hall, 12:45 to 2:30 p.m.; Waverly, 1803 Horton Road, lower level, I to 4 p.m. BUCHANAN 'Aurora, Legion Hall, 1 to 4 p.m.; Brandon, City Hall, 1 to 5 p.m.; Fair-bank, American Legion, 1 to 5 p.m.; Hazleton, Legion Hall, 2 to 5 p.m.; Independence, York Center, 1 to 5 p.m.; Jesup, Ambulance Building, 1 to 5 p.m.; Lamont, Community Building, 2 to 6 p.m.; Quasqueton, Fire Station, 2 to 6 p.m.; Winthrop, Connolly's Pub, 1 to 5 p.ni BUTLER Allison, City Hall, 1 to 3 p.m.; Aplington, City Hall, 1 to 2:30 p.m.; I Smaam mmm mm mm ammu mmmm mmm mmm mmm mmm MANUFACTURER COUPON EXPIRES BUTLER Parkersburg, painting company settle dispute PARKERSBURG The City of Parkersburg settled a disputed bill with Water Tower Paint and Repair. The city will pay an additional 10 percent, or $35p for a recent paint job on the water tower. The council said it had agreed to pay $3,500 to the company, which claimed the total was $5,600.

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