Oakland Tribune from Oakland, California • 29

Dec. 8, 1 971 29 THREAT ,7 Average Gar Costs Will Increase by $20 ground movement in the area which might have an effect on our underground lines. Eaneman's letter said putting pipes above ground is Standard procedure whenever there is any suspicion or potential problems to our underground lines. He said the pipes in the gutter would be covered with asphalt at each driveway entrance. The McKillop Slide is a great scar in a hill above Sau-sal Creek at a point generally northwest of the intersection of Fruitvale and MacAr-thur Blvd.

EBMUD officials have long been concerned that a slide in the area could eat its way back into Hie slope to undermine Central Reservoir, a 153.8 million gallon reservoir, Secret Board Meeting Suit Dismissed RICHMOND The- secrecy law suit against the trustees of the Richmond Unified School District has been dismissed at the request of the plaintiffs. In more than a year it cost taxpayers $7,453 in attorney fees, and uncounted hours of school staff time. Plaintiffs were James Skerl, former El Cerrito High School student and associate editor of a student newspaper called Free Us, and Elizabeth Segal, an executive of the monthly anti-establishment newspaper Freedom News. They insisted that the school board should debate in open meeting a policy oh distribution at schools of off-campus and underground publications. The trustees held they could discuss the policy in closed sessions, since it involved litigation.

The plaintiffs frequently amended their complaint but the courts denied all their pleas. money-raising legislation af -fecting the driving public is a bill by Sen. Randolph Collier, D-Yreka, adding $1 to the motor vehicle- registration fee. Thats to build up a $13 million Annual fund to pay for removing abandoned vehicles littering California roadsides. Youll also wind up paying two bits more for a drivers license $3.25 but it wont be just to raise money.

Itll be to have your picture in color to make it tougher on license -forgers who use black-and-white copying equipment. And if you drive an antique car, the special license plate youve been buying will cost you more. In addition to the current one-time fee of $25 for the horseless carriage license plates, youll have to pay a $13 annual registration fee for a car made in 1922 or earlier. Antique cars up to now have been exempt from the registration charge. SACRAMENTO (A P) -Each California motorist will pay an average of around $20 in higher vehicle-related taxes or registration fees under bills passed by the 1971 legislature.

Nearly all of the additional $270 million wiU go to local government for such purposes as removing junk cars from roadsides and building mass transit systems. The motorist really got it in the back bumper, said one aide at the Department of Public Works, which builds the states highways. Most of the new money will be raised by a new law extending the state sales tax to gasoline next July, raising the price about two cents a gallon. The pump price of gasoline already includes a total of 11 cents in federal and state gas taxes. The proposal by Senate President pro tem James Mills is expected to cost motorists about $185 million a year.

That bill has been signed into law by Gov. Reagan, bid another using part of the money for bicycle trails is awaiting his signature Sen. Walter Stiern, D-Bakersfield, was author of a bill changing the calculation of the license fee paid in lieu of property taxes on motor vehicles. The measure would boost the tax from 2 per cent of the vehicles market value to 2.65 per cent. That would raise about $76 million the first year a little less than $6 per vehicle on the average.

In three years, the additional take would rise to about $96 million. The money raised by Stiems bill is for helping cities and counties with their own revenue pinch. The third major piece of -h Schedule Studied built in 1910, which sits near, the crest of the sliding hilL This is EBMUDs largest reservoir on the west side of the Oakland hills. The area where pipes have been placed above pound is close toOaklands Jewish Community Center at 3245 Sheffield although the center is not directly affected by theslide. Bids Asked On Hayward Cable TV HAYWARD The city council last night caUed for bids on a cable TV franchise award after approving a special report urging that at least six channels be set aside for public service uses.

Bids' are scheduled to be opened Jan 12, with the city hoping the cable TV system will be in operation before new regulations by the Federal Communications Commission go into effect next spring. The city received a special consultants report last week from John Cambus, communi-' cations professor at California State College at Hayward. report, which cost the city $1,250, recommended that the city insist on reserving no less then six channels for educational and governmental use. Cambus also recommended that the city utilize its early franchise revenues to promote and develop the public Water pipes serving 24 houses at the top of the McKillop Road landslide have been placed above ground as a precautionary measure after new cracks opened up along Shef-field Avenue, the East Bay Municipal Utility District announced today. The big slide destroyed 14 houses in the 1930s and has moved occasionally since then.

The new cracks opened more. than 100 feet above the top. scarp of the slide while Alameda County Flood Con-, trol District crews were moving earth on the slide. (The McKillop Slide in die Dimond District, is 1 miles from the i l.s i Heights Landslide near he Mormon Temple which destroyed 17 houses in the past two years -and threatens 16 more.) City paving crews worked yesterday to fill cracks in the 6treet along the 3100 block of Sheffield Avenue where two inch water pipelines have been placed in the gutters to serve homes. EBMUDs underground pipelines along the street have been shut down.

A letter sent by EBMUD to customers in the area said above ground service was being provided for homes on both sides of the street between 3106 and 3109 to 3164 and 3171 Sheffield Ave. The above ground pipes were also run to houses at 3186 and 3192 McKillop Road and 3214 and 3216 Morrison Avenue, EBMUD said. EBMUD said the notice was sent to 50 homes in the area. The letter signed by R. G.

Eaneman, manager of EB-MUDs Oakland business office, said, We have indications there may be possible OPEN NITES TIL CHRISTMAS. SUNDAY NOON TO 5 P.M. ence Dahms, assistant general manager. 1 Dahms presented data that BART fares would be cheaper than the cost of operating an automobile. The fare schedule consists of a minimum 30 cent fare for trips up to six miles with additional charges beyond that to a maximum of $1.25 for the longest one-way rides.

Dahms urged the BART Board to consider reduced fares for all riders in non rush hour periods. But he said it is too early to adopt specific reductions and recommended this be reviewed after trains start. Typical one-way fares to 12th Street and Broadway in downtown Oakland include: from Hayward, 60 cents; Fremont, $lu Union City, 85 centsj downtown Berkeley, 30 cents; El Cerrito Plaza, 35 cents; Richmond, 50 cents; Concord, 90 cents; Walnut Creek, 65 cents; Orinda, 45 cents; downtown San Francisco (Montgomery '55 cents. Bay Area Rapid Transit directors today are studying a revised fare plan' that is said to be competitive with existing bus fares and at. the same time would allow youngsters and senior citizens to ride for half fare.

The fare schedule was presented yesterday to BARTs Adminstration Committee. It is not expected to be adopted by the full board of directors until next The plan ran immediately into opposition from repre-' sentatives of senior citizens groups. They asked the committee to give free rides to persons 65 years of age and older. The districts staff replied this would cost $1.7 million a year and that the agency could not afford it. On Hie average, a typical BART ride would cost nine cents more than what a bus charges today for the same journey.

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