Rutland Daily Herald from Rutland, Vermont • 14

14 RUTLAND DAILY HERALD, MONDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 23. 1981 Four-Way Mayoral Race A Hot One in Burlington! POLITICAL ADVERTISEMENT poses construction of the southern connector, taking the opposite position of Wadhams on both issues. Incumbents Maurice Mahoney, D-Ward 1, and William Blanchard, D-Ward 5, are running PUue WekooM TOM EGAN WARDWALKING For MAYOR In WARD No 5 TODAY COLUMBIA ARTISTS PRESENTS v. Alderman Allen Gear is being challenged by Richard Sartelle, who has aligned himself with mayoral ehalllenger Bernard Sanders' Independent Coalition. The Democrats did not come up with a candidate.

In addition to DeCarolis, the Citizens Party is fielding two other aider-manic candidates. Terrill Bouricius, formerly of the Liberty Union Party, is run-ning against Marion Fisher, mother of former aldermanic president Paul Fisher, in Ward 2. Greg Guma of the Citizens Party, is opposing RsBuhlican incumbent Ricnard Wadhams in Ward 6. Guma, who also received the Democratic endorsement, favors a Fair Housing Commission and op MARLBORO MUSIC FESTIVAL PRESENTS MusicFirom Marlboro The Secret is a Sense of Joy CArqj Tim, Joseph McGrath Jr. Gordoo Paquette CASTLETON STATE COLLEGE The Fine Arts Center Tueidiy, February 24, 1981 8:15 P.M.

Tickets Information: 468-56 15 vu STONE -J SILVER in the GREAT RUTLAND MALL Route 4 East Woodstock Ave. Rutland, Vermont Richard Bove guts" to fight for new sources of revenue. Sanders proposes that: The University of Vermont and Medical Center Hospital be asked to contribute $250,000 in lieu of taxes. Property taxes be reclassified so business and industry pay taxes at a higher rate than home owners. Such a classification system is used number of states, including Massachusetts and Minnesota.

Licensing fees be charged to physicians and other professionals. Church Street Marketplace merchants pay back the $1.5 million Marketplace bond. Sanders has also won praise from a loose coalition of low income working and elderly residents for his opposition to the controversial southern connector and his support for a Fair Housing Commission to mediate landlordtenant disputes. His emphasis that city government must open up, holding meetings and referenda votes on development issues such as the southern connector and lakefront condominium projects, has struck a responsive chord in neighborhood groups sprinkled around the city. Sanders said he envisions the role of mayor "not just somebody who gets the streets clean, but as a political leader attempting bring together a vast majority of people." Paquette has responded many of Sanders criticisms by ignoring them or calling them unrealistic.

At a forum last week, the mayor compared Sanders Robin Hood, taking another would establish the legality of the Burlington International Airport police force. Voters will also have a chance to make their feelings known concerning one local, and one global issue. City residents successfully petitioned for a vote on whether to retain access to the lakefront which is slated for a high-rise condominium by real estate developer Antonio Pomerleau. And Burlington will join about 10 other towns considering a referendum which would urge Vermonts three-man congressional delegation to support a nuclear weapons moratorium. Voters in all six of Burlingtons wards will be picking new aldermen, though only four of the races are contested.

In Burlington's downtown neighborhood, Ward 3, four candidates will struggle for a seat vacated by Democrat Elaine Charbon-neau, who was elected to the Vermont House last November. Former Burlington Rep. Sadie White, retired city employee Paul Trepanier, County Republican vice chairman Ron La tour and Gary DeCarolis, a UVM staff member running on the Citizens Party ticket, will battle for the seat. In Ward 4, Republican Public Notices CHITTENDEN -Barstow School Board, regular meeting which would normally be held March 2 has been moved to Feb. 26, 7:30 p.m., library at Barstow School.

ing water plant. The money would be used to install a complete filtration system to cut down on the use of chlorine in the city water supply. It will also be used to purchase reservoir covers. The Burlington Electric Department is seeking approval of a $12 million bond for energy conservation measures such as hot water heater insulators, shower flow regulators, and electric socket gaskets. A similar $1.5 million general obligation bond failed last year because it required a two-thirds majority vote for passage.

The revenue bond, which is paid for out of BEDS revenues, requires only a simple majority for passage. Voters are bring asked to approve a $1.8 million public schools improvement bonds to upgrade the high schools heating system and improve access for the handicapped. Voters will also have a chance to approve a $360,000 bond for repairs to the Lakeside Avenue underpass. Residents of the lakeside area in the citys South End have complained for a number of years about chronic flooding in the underpass whenever it rains. The underpass is really the only entrance to the four-block square lakeside neighborhood.

Another money item on the March ballot would see voters approve a one-time only, 12-cent police tax to pay for new radios. Voters will also face two minor city charter changes; one would raise the ceiling on a short term borrowing by BED from $2 million to $5 million; from the rich and giving to the poor. It didnt work for Robin Hood, he said. Mostly, however, the mayor has campaigned for the 65-cent tax hike, which he says is essential if city services are to be maintained. Paquette maintains the 65-tax increase is necessary to meet rising fuel, insurance, and utility costs, "this years inflationary costs, not last years or the year before." The tax hike will also be spent on new capital expenditures and staff increases, he said.

Included in Paquette's $7.3 million budget is $195,686 for the salaries and fringe benefits of eight new police officers and eight new firefighters, and $300,000 for negotiating salary increases for unionized workers. Major capital expenditures include' four plow-ddmp trucks at $88,000, a street sweeper at $40,000, and police cruisers at $40,000. The newly renovated Fletcher Free Library is slated to receive $35,000 for new staff and book purchases and $80,000 has been set aside for assessors maps. If the 65-cent tax hike is approved, the general city tax will increase by 31 percent to $2.72.5 adding $1.4 million to the city budget. Paquette has threatened drastic cuts in many city services, including police and fire protection if the increase is not approved.

The tax hike is just one of many big-money ballot items voters will face on Town Meeting Day. Voters are also being asked to approve a $12 million revenue bond to renovate Burlingtons archaic drink 30 -40 OFF STOREWIDE 3 Stop In Today! Sole ends Fri. Feb. 27th By DEBBIE BOOKCHIN BURLINGTON Four mayoral candidates, a 65-cent tax increase, four major bond items and a host of aldermanic candidates all on one ballot are making this citys temper boil a week before Town Meeting Day. Three aldermanic races include bids by Citizens Party candidates.

Few of this years ballot items escaped controversy, and though some issues never made it onto the ballot, they have livened up a mayors race that may be remembered as one of the most aggressive in recent history. At the first of a trio of scheduled mayoral forums Wednesday Paquette came out swinging, comparing his chief opponent, Bernard Sanders, to "Robin Hood and accusing challenger Richard Bove of being too "busy making spaghetti to attend city planning meetings. Bove is a partner in the Italian food, family operated restaurant Boves on Pearl Street. But Paquette's challengers charged right back, accusing the mayor of being too concerned with developing the city and not responsive enough to the needs of the great majority of his constituents. Despite Paquettes attempt to distance himself from his challengers and to emphasize his record of bringing many federal dollars into Burlington, the mayor has faced hostile charges that he governs the city with business interests in mind and is unconcerned about low and middle income residents.

Bove has based his challenge to Paquette largely on his opposition to the mayors 65-cent tax hike request. In an interview last week, the 43-year-old restaurateur and former alderman said he believes Paquette has lost the pulse of the people." He criticized Paquettes refusal to allow a measure that would delay construction of the unpopular southern connector to appear on the ballot, despite a petition requesting the item signed by more than 1400 south end residents. Like Bove, Joseph McGrath Jr. is a Democrat who is running against Paquette as an Independent. McGrath, 57, is the most soft-spoken of the candidates and has not campaigned actively.

He, too, -opposes the mayors 65-cent tax hike, saying the city can get by with an increase of half as much. In two of the three scheduled forums for the four candidates, McGrath, a retired building superintendent, has generally limited his remarks to a call for greater police and fire protection and continued access to the lake front. The most outspoken of the mayors three challengers has been Bernard Sanders, a former Liberty Union Party gubernatorial candidate. Sanders, a writer and filmstrip maker, produces audiovisual material for schools. The 39-year-old political veteran has focused his campaign on the issues of development and citizen participation in government.

The entire country, Burlington included, is going through a major economic crisis, Sanders said in an interview last week. "Burlington, like probably every city in the country, is facing enormous financial problems. The real solution to these problems has got to lie on the national and state levels and in major changes in the nations economic and tax policies." Sanders would like to see the city property tax junked, and replaced by a progressive tax system based on personal income. Just as the state places a "piggyback tax on federal taxes, the city could tax individuals based on a small percentage of their state income tax. Such a tax would tax the wealthy most and would be a more equitable means of deriving revenue, Sanders said.

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