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Tuesday, October 26, 1993 Santa Maria Tlm A-3 GUADALUPE City Council puts city water policies under microscope Grounded rocket By Carlos Lemus Times Staff Writer I AP The McDonnell-Douglas Delta Clipper Experimental rocket lifts off on its third test flight at White Sands Missile Range near Las Cru-ces, N.M., in this September file photo. A lack of funding has grounded the revolutionary rocket, designed to take off and land vertically, designers announced Monday. 4 Currently the average water user in Guadalupe is charged $38.40 for a two months or $19.40 a month. Guadalupe voters approved a $1.9 million bond measure in 1991 to partially finance the State Water Project. Guadalupe participates in the State Water Project through the Central Coast Water Authority.

The SWP runs from Polonio Pass to the Santa Barbara County line and includes four pump stations, five tank sites and a power recovery plant. The CCWA's part extends past the Santa Maria River and includes a pump station, dechlorination facility and 2.5 million gallon storage tank. Guadalupe is responsible for its local facilities, a pipeline from the Guadalupe turnout of the aqueduct's crossing of the Santa Maria River. Two weeks ago, it awarded a $105,000 engineering design contract bid to Boyle Engineering Corporation for the pipeline. Construction plans call for a storage tank to accommodate the city's growth.

State water should reach Guadalupe by 1996. The city's allocation totals 550 acre feet of water per year. CABLE DISPUTE GUADALUPE City leaders addressed questions about water prices and customer billing complaints at Monday night's City Council meeting. In previous meetings, residents complained about inaccurate billing and water use rates, prompting officials to review water billing procedures. A representative from the water meter reading company explained meter reading procedures; city staff outlined complaint procedures and the city's water rates.

Alexander Enterprises provides water meter reading service for Guadalupe. Its representatives noted meter readers provided accurate readings. They noted employees double checked readings and would be fired for falsifying readings. Council members requested city employees to annotate complaints and follow up procedures. They also asked staff to report complaints at council meetings.

Officials noted Guadalupe still has lower rates than many Central Coast cities. Only Santa Maria has lower water rates, according to officials. Sonic Cable drops KTA's signal By Carlos Lemus Times Stall Writer pid," Johnson said, describing Sonic's action. "Moving the case makes it inconvenient and expensive for everyone." Johnson said he filed a motion yesterday in federal court in Los Angeles, requesting the case's Nov. 15 date be moved up to this week.

Johnson will request another restraining order, preserving the signal until the dispute is resolved. During the summer, Sonic wrote KTA requesting permission to carry KTA's signal through 1996 but later changed its mind, an action initiating the legal bat tle. KTA said Sonic had a contract, an interpretation Sonic denied. In addition to moving up the date, Johnson will also request the hearing be transferred back to Santa Maria's Superior Court. Johnson added Sonic moved the case to federal court to prevent a local ruling.

"We got a fax from them at 5:59 notifying us they were taking the signal off," Johnson said, stressing Sonic had not dealt fairly. Sonic Cable Manager Steve Burrell'' said he had worked with KTA-TV station owner Chester Smith but failed to reach an agreement. "We just exercised our rights," Burrell said of Sonic's decisionito drop the station after the temporary restraining order expired. Despite losing its retransmission signal through Sonic, KTA-TV continues reaching more than 65,000 Hispanics from Sol-vang to Guadalupe on Comcast and Falcon cable systems. KTA also has off air coverage in Atascadero, Morro Bay, Los Osos and San Luis Obispo.

KTA provided local news coverage, a feature not included in the Spanish programming Sonic has used to replace KTA. A San Luis Obispo cable television network, dropped the signal of a Santa Maria station last week. Sonic cable of San Luis Obispo dropped Santa Maria-based KTA's signal Friday. Santa Maria Superior Court Judge Zel Canter had granted KTA-TV a temporary restraining order Oct. 1, preserving its signal on Sonic.

However the case was moved to federal court in Los Angeles by Sonic, according to KTA's attorney Mark Johnson. "What they did was really stu AFRICANIZED BEES Agriculture Department officials confirm killer bees in Tucson TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) A swarm of bees removed last week from the eaves of a Tucson home has been confirmed as Africanized "killer" honeybees, raising the total number of confirmed identifications in the state to 20. The state Agriculture Department removed the bees Thursday and collected samples for laboratory analysis. Identification of the bees as Africanized was made Monday, department spokes woman Suzanne Sorich said in Phoenix.

Though they have the same venom as common European honeybees, Africanized bees are more aggressive and more easily provoked. Since their accidental release in Brazil in 1957, Africanized bees have migrated northward. They crossed the U.S. -Mexico border into Texas in 1991 and were first found in Arizona in May. The two will meet again Wednesday in front of an United We Stand America-sponsored forum at 7 p.m.

at the Union Plaza Lounge, 120 N. Broadway. Both events are open to the public. Varni is a community college instructor. Adam is the incumbent.

At the League event, both candidates speak to prepared topics, then answer written questions from the audience. A UWSA press release described their forum as a question and answer session. Both events are open to the public. ARMS Officials find guns on campus By Knight-Ridder Newspapers UNION CITY Two high school students have been taken into custody for bringing loaded handguns and as many as 30 extra rounds each to the Union City campus and flouting a number of lesser school rules, police said Monday. A police officer at the school said the incident is the first in at least three years to involve weapons on campus of the school.

A sophomore and a junior, both about 16 years old, called attention to themselves by arriving late to school Friday morning and parking illegally near the office of an assistant -i PHOTOGRAPHY STUDIO instructional media center, 501 Dyer Street. Airport director plans media critique Airport Director Ed Hennon will present a "comprehensive critique" of the Santa Maria Times news coverage of the airport district at a 7 p.m. meeting Wednesday in the Santa Maria Inn Hancock Room. Other agenda items include volunteer youth programs, federal forest service fire fighting and burn policies, and updates from citizen action committees. Water panel candidates to speak Two candidates for Santa Maria Valley Water Conservation District election will meet twice this week in public forums the first tonight.

Charles Varni and Richard Adam, the two candidates for the vacant board seat, will meet in a candidate's forum sponsored by the League of Women Voters at 7:30 p.m. in St. Peter's Episcopal Church Community Hall, 402 S. Lincoln St. CHILDREN'S HOLIDAY PORTRAIT SPECIAL Studio Session MEETINGS Trustees plan resolution No matter what voters decide regarding Proposition 170, the Santa Maria-Bonita School District will continue to collect developer fees.

Trustees will consider passing a resolution Wednesday that clarifies how much money residential developers will pay if Proposition 170 passes or fails. If the amendment passes (allowing voters to approve the sale of school construction bonds with a majority vote instead of two-thirds) the district will continue to collect $2.14 per square foot of residential development. If the amendment fails, it reverses a law enacted in January and forces the school district to reduce its fees to $1.14 per square foot. Trustees meet at 7 p.m. in the Souza Student Support Center board room, 708 S.

Miller Street. District to review drug education Orcutt Union School District trustees will review the district's drug education program Wednesday and discuss implementation of similar anti-gang curriculum. Trustees also will consider adopting a policy prohibiting students from wearing clothes, accessories or hairstyles that denote gang membership or advocate violence, drug use or disruptive behavior. Trustees meet at 7 p.m. in the Two 5x7 Portraits it 5 a XI I 00 $35( S90" Value GOVERNMENT CALENDAR TODAY San Luis Obispo County Board of Supervisors Meets at 9 a.m.

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