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C2 THE HARTFORD COURANT: Wednesday, October 27, 1982 New Audit Unit Proposed in City Cunnane Wants 3 Examiners To Report Directly to Council By JON SANDBERG City HaU Bureau Chief ciency in government, and both report directly to legislative bo dies. The proposal will be brought before the councils Operations, Management and Budget Com mittee today. Cunnane has spent several months preparing the au diting proposal, and he said he hopes council Democrats will en dorse it. Democrat Antoinette L. Leone, chairwoman of that committee, 11..

rr i- John Long The Hartford Courant GROUNDED Fallen leaves, wet down by rain, form an autumn pattern on a Hartford driveway. Republican City Councilman John J. Cunnane Jr. is proposing that Hartford establish its own version of the federal General Accounting Office to monitor city programs and finances. The three-person unit would re- directly to the City Council, he existing internal auditing division reports to the city manager.

Council members have com- Elained that they often do not ear about problems raised by the present three-member auditing unit or that they don't get information from the administration quickly enough. "In a private business, they (the auditors) report to the owners, and in a sense the council is the owner here," Cunnane said. Under Cunnane's proposal, the internal auditors would "have full, free and unrestricted access -to all municipal, education and i enterprise activities, records, property and personnel." It would consist of a head auditor and two The unit's responsibilities would include reviewing: City programs to determine if they are run efficiently and in ac-cordance with management instructions, policies and procedures. The reliability and integrity of i financial information now prepared by the city. The city's present auditing programs.

City conflict-of-interest guide-. lines for administrators and ap- pointed and elected officials. Cunnane said the unit would be similar to the federal government's General Accounting Office and the state's bi-partisan audi-, tors office. Both those agencies are charged with ferreting out ineffi ebates Play Small Role in Senate Race said the item is one Democrats "want to discuss." She said she supports the idea because "I feel we need more direct knowledge of some of the things going on. She added, "There is a feeling on the council that we should be getting information sooner than we do." Both Cunnane and Leone predicted that the city administration will resist the proposal.

Finance Director John T. Walsh, who oversees the present internal auditing division, said he had not seen Cunnane's proposal. If it duplicates the efforts of his division, he said, it may involve the council in the administrative area, but he withheld all other comment until he reviews the proposal. Cunnane said some administrators have told him they fear the new unit could become a political tool that, if turned on a department or an unpopular employee, could drive some workers out of their jobs. "My response to that is that if the council is sincere about removing an individual, they will do so anyhow," Cunnane said.

He added, however, that he wants to work with the administration on the plan, because, "I don't want them to think we are creating a monster here that will work to their disadvantage." said Thomas J. D'Amore, Weicker's campaign manager. D'Amore said he did not view the debates as being critical to Weicker's election strategy. They did allow Weicker to present "his ideas, the philosophical and visionary side of him," and to position himself as a moderate under attack from DiFazio on the right and Moffett on the left. The Moffett camp, however, did see the debates as crucial to the Democratic challenger's chances for victory next week.

Moffett has been struggling for months to distinguish himself from Weicker, whose campaign rhetoric has mimicked Moffett's denunciations of President Rea Continued from Page CI Weicker was the winner. The rest had no firm opinion. Of the 24 percent who paid attention to the debates, only 4 percent said they had changed their minds on the basis of the candidates' performances. That tiny percentage split evenly for Mof-f ett and Weicker. Regardless of their immediate impact, the debates, which were aired live on consecutive Monday nights by Connecticut Public Television, have been a centerpiece of the Senate campaign.

Although CPTV's viewing audience is smaller than that of the major network affiliates, the debates were extensively covered gan's conservative social and economic policies. "The central thrust of this campaign has been to clarify the differences, and the debates were very very helpful in doing that," Robert Hanson, Moffett's campaign manager, said." Hanson claimed that his own in-house polls show that about 9 percent of registered voters watched the first of the six debates and, of that 9 percent, 50 percent favored Weicker and 30 percent preferred Moffett. After the fifth debate, Hanson said his polling showed that 24 percent had watched the debates and that Moffett had taken a lead among those viewers 46 percent to 36 percent. by the print media throughout the state. And, since each of the first five debates focused on a particular issue, they did give voters an opportunity to compare and contrast both the styles and political stands of the candidates.

The debates allowed Weicker and Moffett to stress their differences on energy Weicker favors decontrol, Moffett opposes it; on defense Weicker is more likely to support increases in the defense budget; and on foreign policy Weicker is more apt to take a hard line against the Soviet Union. "I don't think Weicker lost anything from the debates and I don't think any of the candidates did," Libertarians Offer State Voters Anti-Government Alternative The Conservative Party was formed by a group of state and national conservatives after Prescott S. Bush dropped out of the Republican U.S. Senate race. They nominated DiFazio as an alternative to U.S.

Sen Lowell P. Weicker and his challenger De-mocrtic Rep. Toby Moffett. DiFazio has labeled them "liberal clones." Here are the candidates for statewide office and congressional seats nominated by the two parties and not mentioned above: Secretary of State: (L) Peter H. Reed of New Canaan, (C) John 0.

Parsons of Newtown; treasurer: (L) Lewis A. Garofalo of Ridgefield, (C) William B. Krones of South Glastonbury. Krones quit recently as DiFazio's press secretary, but is still listed on the ballot. Comptroller: (L) Richard S.

Land of Ridgefield, (C) David J. Ordway of Rocky Hill. Attorney General: (L) Vincent S. Tirola, Westport. Congress (all libertarians): 1st District, Daniel M.

Landerfin, Manchester; 2nd District Donald W. Wood, Groton; 3rd District: Michael R. Cohen, Milford; 4th District, Lothar Frank, Greenwich, i binding firm, likes to quote Jefferson on the excesses of big government and Thoreau on the excesses of government, period. For now, he says, the Libertarians want to make drastic cuts in government. But the theoretical goal, he says, is a "totally voluntary What about the poor, children and other individuals who are mentally or physically unable to help themselves? Are they entitled to assistance? "No," not unless a person has been injured by another, who would then be held responsible, said Brennan.

Charitable organizations and churches would be expected to come to the aid of the needy. But what if no one comes forward? Babies could starve to death. "Yes," says Brennan, but people starve to death now, with big government in control. In addition to the Libertarian Party, the newly formed Conservative Party has also nominated candidates for some offices, though virtually all of that group's effort has been directed at the campaign of Lucien P. DiFazio, a Wethersf ield lawyer who is running for U.S.

Senate. Continued from Page CI was breaking with the party on "the issue of abortion. The party is pro-choice, but he said he views abortion as murder. Walter Gengarelly, a Ridge-field gas station owner and the party's candidate for governor, is "the author of the proposal to eliminate the Housing Depart-1 ment and a number of other agencies. Gengarelly, 47, a former 'member of the Ridgefield Republican Town Committee, also has his own ideas about defense.

He told a news conference that he favored ah anti-missile system Abased in outer space, but when asked at that time for details, Gengarelly said he didn't have. them and would have to write away for more information. Some time later, he identified the program as one part of a nine-point program proposed by "High a Washington-based group that began as part of the conservative Heritage Foundation. In part, it would involve launching 430 orbiting platforms, each of which would carry 40 non-nuclear "kill vehicles" or missiles. They would sense the ap- 1 proach of an intercontinental Ballistic missiles, lock onto their and then destroy them, ml A L.m WALTER GENGARELLY CHARLES TURNBULL JAMES A LEWIS John Coakley, a spokesman for High Frontier, said.

Gengarelly and the other party candidates won't "be toppling anybody from power this year," concedes Gerard R. Brennan, the state party's chairman and candidate for Congress in the 5th District. But Brennan, a 40-year-old Danbury resident who works as a computer analyst for Union Carbide, believes the party "could have an impact here in four to six years." Brennan was a Goldwater he said he knows the value ofper-sistence. "The idea is to get a sales operation going. We'll either attract some attention or we'll have to pack it in," said James A.

Lewis, 49, of Old Saybrook, the party's candidate for U.S. Senate who has received the most publicity as a participant in all six U.S. Senate debates. In addition to drawing on the marketing metaphor, Lewis, a sales representative for a book Republican in 1964, but says he began studying economics as a 1 hobby and embraced Libertarian-ism as the political philosophy most consistent with his view of economics. Dunn, a good-humored guitar player who once accompanied Sonny and Cher, told the only reporter who attended a recent news conference that he doesn't expect to win this time around, but "I'll be back in '84." A former organizer for the International Ladies Garment Workers Union, Teachers Demand Better Air Quality yk FKKiMM 11,11,11 HI .11 I i li.

iUmmumh into classrooms, but there is not enough equipment to push the air back out. He said the lack of circulation causes the problems, and that necessary repairs could cost as much as $30,000. The the state Labor Department's division of occupational safety and health studied Bulke-ley's ventilation system in the fall of 1980. While it found that air quality met state requirements, it highlighted several problems in a report. The report concluded that more exhaust fans might be needed, and that it is questionable whether sufficient fresh air is provided during extremely cold weather.

since fresh air must be heated at considerable expense and the administration is reluctant to do it. "There is a contest now between conserving energy and breathing," said Timothy Murphy, president of the teacher's union. He said only 10 percent fresh air is being mixed in with recirculated air. He and other teachers want 25 percent fresh air. Mistry, the director of buildings and grounds, acknowledged Tuesday that certain areas of the school have ventilation problems, but he said the flow of fresh air is not the cause.

Mistry said air is being blown Continued from Page CI tion has long been a problem, but that it is worse this year than ever before. They also say temperatures within the school can fluctuate tremendously, being 50 degrees in one section and 80 degrees in another. "People who first felt problems were thought to be a little neurotic," said Marie Elterich, a special education teacher. "But as it (poor ventilation) affected more and more people, it started to be taken seriously. It's a nebulous thing and hard to nail down.

But there's no doubt that it's causing problems." School Superintendent Hernan LaFontaine said Tuesday he was unaware of the recent complaints at Bulkeley, although complaints have been voiced before. "I'm just as concerned with their health as anyone else," La-Fontaine said. "We want our people to work in the best possible conditions we can provide. If there is any kind of mechanical thing that must be corrected, we will try to correct it." Several teachers claim that not enough fresh air is being mixed in with the recirculated air. They say the bottom line is money, in im i fr Reports of Elderly Abuse Increase frequently con jobs such as selling elderly more insurance than they need can be conducted by anyone.

"The elderly are prey to sale-1 speople because they're scared," 1 Shealy said. Many have fairly large disposable incomes, she added. "There are sharks out there who spotted this a long time ago and used it for their own gain," she said. Continued from Page CI "They don't get dressed. They don't go out," Shealy said.

"There's no reason. Who cares that they're there? "This becomes increasingly a woman's issue," she added. "Most of the very old are women." Physical abuse is generally caused by a family member, Shealy said. And exploitation AP PUMPKIN LANE A young couple take an autumn stroll among the corn stalks and rows of pumpkins on display at the Maciejny Farm in Preston. Halloween is Sunday..