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Biattieboro Reformer Friday, January 15, 1 988 $20 million sought for Vicon plant RUTLAND (AP) The Rutland County Solid Waste District board has voted to ask the Legislature for a loan from the state of up to $20 million to buy the troubled Vicon Recovery Systems waste incinerator. Under a draft proposal approved by district representatives Wednesday night, the solid waste district would purchase the facility from Vicon for the benefit of towns in Bennington, Addison and Rutland counties. Officials said the district hopes to secure a loan through a state revolving fund for solid waste projects. There was no indication whether Vicon or the Legislature would go along with the deal. District representatives gave the districts negotiating team the authority to start negotiating the terms of purchase of the plant with the Industrial Bank of Japan, Vicons financial backer.

The bank has loaned Vicon nearly $30 million toward the project. District officials suggested Vicon might be paid to operate the facility if the distinct bought it. Members of the districts executive committee said Gov. Madeleine M. Kunins special counsel on the Vicon project, lawyer Jonathan Brownell of Calais, had met with them in Rutland on Monday to discuss the possibility of the district financing and operating the facility The district took the move alter Vicon officials issued an interim agreement to burn trash at tne plant at $65 a ton.

District officials have balked at that price and voted Wednesday night to pay no more than $32 a ton for trash disposal there. Vicon has threatened to burn out-of-state trash at the plant if the district towns decide that the project has become too expensive for them The district originally contracted with Vicon to build the plant to burn trash at $16.50 a ton. SAVE S6I save Montpelier votes down income tax 26350 MONTPELIER (AP) The Montpelier City Council has decided against imposing an income tax on the 19,000 people who work in the capital city. The council rejected the proposal Wednesday, 4-2, after 50 people resisted the idea at a public hearing. We dont feel its good for our employees, our company or for the city of Montpelier and we strongly oppose it, said Mike Boardman, controller of International Coins Currency of Montpelier.

of-tax payments to Montpeliei Some business and community leaders said they in creased revenues, but didnt like the proposed tax Council member Harriet Slay-baugh who voted for the tax said the city still will nave to find solutions to funding municipal services We are going to fix roads and bridges here because well have no choice, she said Its a health and safety matter and it is our mandate to maintain this city. City Manager Ryan Cottori sug gested an income tax of as much as 1 percent as a way to maintain and improve city roads, bridges and sidewalks without increasing property taxes. Mayor Sally Rice recently called the tax proposal just one option among several aimed at increasing city revenues City officials have compalined for years that tax rolls are reduced because the state owns much of the most valuable property in town and pays inadequate in-lieu- Our lowest price for a Kenmore mid-size microwave Kenmore 3. 5 peak HP canister vac Accused murderer says God appointed him Reg s68 158 $219.99 in 87 annual catalog Powerful Power-Mate head loosens deep down dirt and whisks it away. 90-HP VCMA).

Solid state electronic tc jntrols Programmed defrost 3 lue nemo 650 watt. Temperature probe empe last Saturday and confessed to killing Miss Evans. A pretrial conference was scheduled foi Jan. 22. The victim, who had changed her name from Cynthia S.

Songei was stabbed several times the chest, an autospy indicated Her body was found Saturday under a porch at 6 Honey Pot fid. in Hadley According to police, Miss Evans had lived in a trailer and Lotegeluaki lived in a cottage on the property She was iving there when she disappeared March 27, 1980 kl NORTHAMPTON, Mass. (AP) -A man accused of stabbing a woman to death and burying her beneath his porch told a court psychiatrist he felt he was appointed by God to combat satanic people, the doctor testified Thursday. Stanley O. Lotegeluaki, 27, was ordered held at the Hampshire County jail without bail by Hampshire District Judge Alvertus J.

Morse after pleading innocent to a murder charge in the death of Tara Lee Evans, 36 in March 1986 Morse found Lotegeluaki competent to stand trial after hearing testnnony fi forensic psychiatrist H. Shirazi, who saia the defendant understood the charges against him and the function of the courts. Shirazi also said he did not believe Lotegeluaki was criminally responsible for his actions at the time of the alleged murder Lotegeluaki had been hearing Gods voice and was trying to carry out his mission as a disciple of God, Shirazi said. The psychiatrist said Lotegeluaki had been in several Veterans Administration medical centers before the alleged stabbing and had been diagnosed as delusional. He believed he faced a group of satanic individuals and his mission was to counter these individuals Shirazi said.

Assistant District Attorney Michael Goggins, in asking that Lotegeluaki be held without bail, said the defendant was a drifter and considered a street person in Atlanta, where he turned himself in to police SAVE $91 SAVE 20 -50 DAMP BASEMENTS Basement Waterproofing our only busutt-v: 7 months -tin Vatftrproofmg has the npietely ano perrna to Budget adjustment approved MONTPELIER (Apf Mid-year The Budget Adjustment Act Basem-' 3 iSWer neatly riI Pobie. is WRITTEN-TRANSFERABLE GUARANTEE All Merillat Kitchen Cabinets On Sale Mg icive ouiS'Oe excavatio -di 03 rRt vf-y Nriit roofing spe. -u sts on dli ypes resident oomme'Ci. Tasemews proposed by the administration was balanced; savings equalled addi tional expenditures. However, the House Appropriations Committee decided to put another $600,000 into special education to cover reductions that had been ordered by the Education Department in the fall.

The committee was upset because the department had changed its funding rules last fall, after many school districts had already pre pared their budgets. The money is to be put into a reserve account so that school districts will still have to negotiate their special education budgets with the department. 492-3510 1-800-842-5900 19-in. table top TV with remote OR WRITt TODAY PQR A HEE BROCHURE budget adjustments, including a $600,000 increase in funding for special education, won approval in the Vermont House on Thursday. The so-called Budget Adjustment Act, which now goes to the senate, reallocated approximately $3.8 million among various agencies and departments of state government.

Because of a decreased caseload, approximately $800,000 from the Social Welfare Departments Aid to Needy Families with Children Aid to Aged, Blind and Disabled and Medicaid programs was shifted to cover a reduction in federal funds for the work incentive (WIN program and other increases The state is halfway through the 1988 fiscal year budget that was passed by the Legislature last spring. Mid-year adjustments in the appropriations are common. Demands for additional spending in various departments were largely offset by a $2.8 million savings in interest payments that had been budgeted for this year. 278 Reg. $369 99 -AVE an Trim ia- iciA i oi CLnrt ywc od idditiOia SAVE 40 on Nouvea low ounter- 1 icet' fau, ets, sinks, plumbing, Base'ne Waierproofiny Nationwide Hte 103 Box JU9 Cuttmgsville 05)38 Electronic quartz tuning, 17 key remote, 117 channels, one button color, sharpness control, cable compatible.

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