The News Tribune from Tacoma, Washington • 2

A-2 Tocoim Sot March 1 1980 The News Tribune Channel 13 crew goes quietly into last goodnight together to give the effort that made KPEC (the original station call letters) and KCPQ such a stitute were almost empty So were the rooms A SKELETON CREW was on hand for the last day but there were hardly any skeletons At midnight the huge metal door between the television part of the building and the portion which houses KPEC-FM the radio station was to clang down to be locked perhaps forever with the locks all changed almost immediately The last program an hour-long show was to be a nostalgia piece featuring members of the Channel 13 crew and ending with Barbra Streisand singing Way We Were" The original tape had a photo of MounRainier but they cut that to By JACK PYLE TNT Special Writer I law a newspaper die once It was my newspaper Tbe Seattle Star in 1947 and it felt as if somebody had grabbed me by the necktie and pulled the knot so tight it wasn't worthwhile to breathe Yesterday I got a little of the same feeling as I saw KCPQ-TV Channel 13 pass into oblivion as a public broadcasting station I talked with people who had been there 15 18 even 20 years All had their hands hanging loosely at their sides not even in their pockets or clutching a coffee cup or a candy bar The halls of the building at Clover Park Vocational-Technical In have the show end with Bill Kimber the chief engineer switching the button that would shut off KCPQ for the last time SOME EMOTIONS were mixed Everybody who was a member of the staff was sad very very sad But there was a feeling that Kelly Broadcasting Co which bought the station would bring quality commercial programming to the area The sadness was that public television would originate no more from Channel 13 don't feel very good" Kimber said always felt that public television and the kinds of challenges it presented were the ones I enjoyed the Kimber has a teaching certificate He will be able to stay on with the school district if he wants AL BREVIK former University of Washington music director who managed the Clover Park television station for all 20 of its years also will stay with the district in some form of administration feel happy but I'm awfully Brevik said team we had was as good as any commercial team in the business really are concerned about losing a public broadcasting channel not saying millions of them but there are hundreds and In the final televised program on the Clover Park channel Brevik told the audience is highly unlikely that ever again such a talented dedicated staff will be gathered goodbye to say how much we appreciate the friendships made here We never had time to say that before" Talbot said THE GANG THAT was left went to lunch together It was a long lunch At night the crew was to gather at home to watch that last program Bob Piatt who teaches radio production said the school district still will maintain its radio broadcasting program and it still will teach television work though not on-the-air TV There was a bit of Lang at the station but it didn't reach a point of despair TV crew VIRGINIA TALBOT executive producer in charge of special projects who also has teaching credentials said she will be going to the elementary school gifted program she said helps take away some of the sadness of seeing this place close one of our executives who have teaching credentials Just stay around to see tbe closing He said he had compensating time for overtime coming and he just took off was too painful all taking time to say WPPSS directors split over control problems granted By JOHN GILLIE TNT Staff Writer The Washington Public Power Supply System board of directors yesterday was clearly split along rural-urban lines yesterday on how the board could gain better control over the vast WPPSS power plant construction projects The board nonetheless approved appointment of a five-member panel to study how the board's executive committee might be restructured That resolution over the objections of most large urban power system representatives included a specific instruction to that committee to study replacing the present part-time executive committee with a full-time professional committee Both Tacoma City Utilities Director Paul Nolan and Seattle City Light Superintendent Bob Murray objected strenuously to the idea of a full-time paid executive board Murray suggested that a fulltime executive board would simply be another layer of management over the system's managing director What the board should do instead of establishing a full-time executive committee is to establish firm policies and goals for the paid management to follow and then get of said Murray If the management doesn't live up to those goals nr fails to carry out those policies the management should be changed he added Nolan said that any move to a full-time executive committee would likely require changes in state laws A full-time board said Nolan might destroy the concept of grassroots representation in the policysetting and implementation Nolan said he found it puzzling that the board should now seem so enamoured with a full-time executive committee when it had adamantly opposed a somewhat similar proposal by Senate Energy and Utilities Committee Chairman Ted Bottiger thought we did not want to give up that he said Nolan said he was puzzled too about the sudden urgency of the proposal special board meeting had been called on two notice principally to discuss the executive committee study The Institute of Public Administration was paid 3200000 to do a study of WPPSS administration said Nolan and the board had paid scant attention to it Proper representation on any full-time board concerned Bill Hubert of Snohomish County Public extra pay Fourteen people who stayed on until Channel 13 closed yesterday have been granted regular pay until March 12 by the Clover Park School Board district felt that because of the wwk they had done and stayed to keep the station running it would short notice' man Randy Lewis Lewis said school officials were not exactly certain what actions Kelly Broadcasting Co the new station owners would take people stayed and risked their said Lewis may have passed up career offers" Three of the 14 including station manager A1 Brevik have contracts with the Clover Park School District and will be assigned to positions elsewhere said Lewis The board this week decid'd to invest the $625 million from the Channel 13 sale in short-term treasury notes at 14 percent interest The district also is considering using the money to build a new high school and will set a date for a bond issue at the March 10 school board meeting said Lewis Meanwhile Tacoma School educational TV station KTPS will continue airing its telecourses and Public Broadcasting Service programs said station manager Tom Rogstad Rogstad said Channel 62 usually presents similar programs as Channel 13 through an exchange system He said that since the station is off the air the tapes will just be held at 62 Utility District Hulbert was successful in modifying the resolution to let the study committee know that any new executive committee structure should give proper recognition to the relative size of the investments that the each member of the consortium has in the construction projects Tbe current executive committee chairman Ed Fischer of Clark County attempted to get the board to remove language specifically instructing the committee to study the full-time committee concept The motion was defeated 12 to 8 Voting on the losing side were Tacoma Seattle Clark County (Vancouver) Snohomish (Everett) Chelan (Wenatchee) Cowlitz (Long-view-Kelso) and Wahkiakum utilities Board President Glenn Walkley of Pasco appointed A1 Fletcher of Clallam County as committee chairman and Jim Thompson of Tacoma City Light Hulbert of Snohomish Fischer of Clark and Don Clayhold of Benton County as members The board voiced no objections over his selections Earlier Walk-ley said he intended to appoint a study committee He assured urban board members that the committee be a tool of the so-called faction of the board representing rural Eastern Washington Some Eastern Washington board members had been upset because the present executive committee which is dominated by urban Western Washington utility representatives recently forced the resignation of WPPSS Managing Director Neil Strand WPPSS officials vote for better view By JOHN GILLIE TNT Staff Writer The Washington Public Power Supply System board charged with overseeing the construction of $12 billion worth of nuclear power plants yesterday spent nearly two hours deciding what kind of view it wanted from new offices in a Sea-Tac office building The board also became involved in a lively and lengthy discussion of how the board should be seated in a yet-to-be-built boardroom In the end the board decided to spend more than $10000 yearly to move their new offices from the second to the fourth floor The board in past months had mid flow windows look out on an adjacent parking garage Tacoma City Utilities Director Paul Nolan said it was a matter of providing a suitable working environment for WPPSS employees Strand said the highest flow still unrented in the eight-story building was the fourth The board debated at length whether the fourth flow view would still be blocked partially by the nearby garage before recessing to walk next door fw an inspection The board voted to move the offices as high up in the new building building as possible The rental costs increase the higher the flow The board after another lengthy discussion also voted to redo the design fw the new boardroom been thoroughly briefed of plans to move from its present quarters in the Sea-Tac Office Tower to a new building next dour The board had seen schematic drawings of the new office and boardroom layouts but had shown scant interest except to suggest the organization's offices be located on the east side away from highway and airport noises The board had even formally ap-( proved a lease on 8500 square feet' of space on the second floor The topic of the offices emerged again yesterday because several board members had toured the unfinished interior of the proposed office Thursday Snohomish County Public Utility District representative Bill Hulbert told the board that he thought an organization with a $12 billion budget should be higher than the second flow WPPSS Acting Managing Director Neil Strand said carpenters were poised to begin work on the interior If the board wanted to change it they had better (to so before the interior work was begun Strand suggested WPPSS Executive Committee Chairman Ed Fischer noted that the system had an image to project to the visiting financial experts from New York who arrange WPPSS vast bond sales and give the agency bond ratings Some of the new sec- In parole board tiff Committee to call prober We're celebrating a calm week with no disasters (for a changel) That's right 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