Call us Julle McClure Metro editor, ext. 578 459-3121 or (800) 382-0696 METRO Monday-Friday A2 between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. Kokomo Tribune Tuesday July 16, 1996 Bond lease Phone customers to finance road, drain upgrades County to lease up to $18 million By JEFF PARROTT Tribune staff writer. Howard County Commissioners Monday passed an ordinance setting up a redevelopment authority and commission that will lease up to $18 million in bonds to fund road and drainage improvements near the new Chrysler plant site.
County Attorney Larry Murrell said the county initially had planned to sell the bonds, use the proceeds from their sale 1 to fund the road and drainage work and repay the bonds with revenue from the new 0.2 percent Economic Development Income Tax. But according to County Commissioner Brad Bagwell, city of Kokomo officials were concerned the bonds could adversely impact their debt limit because the city will receive partial revenues from the bond issue. By setting 1 up the authority, the debt limit for the county and city is protected, Murrell said. County officials then considered forming a building corporation to handle the bond issue on behalf of the city and county, as the county did in 1992 when it built the new Howard County Criminal Justice Center and Robert J. Kinsey Youth Center.
But that option would not work because Chrysler Corp. will eventually own a service road paid for by the bond issue, Murrell said. Because of these and other statutory requirements, commissioners approved formation of the Howard County Redevelopment Commission and the Howard County Redevelopment Authority. The commission, a five-member body as prescribed by state law, will consist of the following members, who were nominated by county commissioners at Murrell's request: Dale: Etherington, Larry Hinesley, Brad Newton, E.P. severns, and Phillip Wise, with each member's term expiring on Jan.
1, 1998. The three-member redevelopment authority will consist of Dale Fawcett, George Hopkins and Joseph Pencek, with. their terms ending July 15, 1999. 'The redevelopment commission will meet for the first time Thursday at 3 p.m. in Room 212 of the Courthouse, with the redevelopment authority meeting to follow.
Both bodies will elect officers and adopt resolutions approving the form of lease between the commission and authority, and set a public hearing on the lease, Murrell said. He told county commissioners he hopes to have the bond issue closed during the first week of September. Little leaves -Center PORTLAND, Ind. (AP) Dr. Thomas Little Jr.
on Monday was named new superintendent of the Jay School Corp. Little, 40, replaces outgoing Superintendent George Gilbert, who is retiring, Little signed a three-year contract, with a starting salary of $79,250, to head the eastern Indiana district. With degrees from Ball State, Butler and Indiana universities, Little has been director of elemental and middle school education a at Kokomo- Schools since October 1993. Prior to that, he was an elementary school principal in the Carmel-Clay, Pike Township in Indianapolis, and West Central school districts. Attorneys seek close to $70,000 TIPTON, Ind.
Attorneys for Weda Annette Ward believe that Tipton County owes them close to $70,000 in fees for representing Ward in her lawsuit against the sheriff department, according to the judge on the case. Federal Judge Larry J. McKin- ney said he hopes to make a ruling on the fee petition in one to two weeks. McKinney, who was the trial judge for Ward's case, heard evidence on the petition Monday, Ward sued the Tipton County Sheriff Department in 1994 for retaliatory dismissal and sexual harassment. In April, a jury ruled in her favor in regard to retaliatory dismissal, but not for sexual harassment.
Attorneys for Tipton County plan to appeal the decision, said attorney Tom Lett. get a new prefix Computers, cellular service increase demand By CATHARINE Tribune staff writer TE A good sign GREENTOWN, Ind. Max Schaaf, left, and will be mounted in the rafters of the Show PavilBob Kurtz load signs onto a forklift Monday at the lion at the fairground. The fair will open to the Howard County Fairground. The signs, which are $25 advertisem*nts from various companies, public on Monday and will end July 27.
(KT photo by Clint Keller) Police arrest five boys on burglary charges Five Kokomo boys were arrested Monday on burglary charges following a break-in at the concession stand at Northwest Park, in which several hundred dollars worth of candy were taken, police report. The boys, ages 9, 9, 10, 12 and 14, were arrested around 11 a.m. and were charged with a Class felony burglary, according to Kokomo Police Sgt. Mark Geary. They were taken to the Robert J.
Kinsey Youth Center and handed over to juvenile authorities. Police arrested the youths after receiving several calls from concerned parents saying their children had an overabundance of candy, according to reports. The alleged burglary occurred between 'Saturday night and Sunday morning, Geary said. Several cases of candy were taken. An exact amount of the value of the Telephone usage in Kokomo doubled last year as more people requested additional lines to hook up to the Internet on home computers or for cellular telephones, "Over the past year alone, the need to have a second line doubled in the state and Kokomo's growth is in line with the state trend," said Lee Ann Hoy, spokesperson 'for Ameritech Inc.
"People are having home computers to get on the Internet, plus cellular phones for safety or other reasons and have just gobbled up the numbers." The telephone company ran out of telephone numbers to assign residential and business customers. So effective July 7, another prefix, 854, was added to the existing 10 in use in Kokomo. A call placed from the new prefix to Amboy, Bunker Hill, Burlington, Galveston, Greentown, Kempton, Russiaville, Sharpsville and 'Windfall is a local call, the same as any call placed from anyof the current Kokomo prefixes to these communities. The telephone company explained the demand for new telephones is' a result of new customers moving into the area and from existing customers adding more lines. Two reasons for additional lines are the huge increase in the demand for cellular telephones and the large number of facsimile machines installed by businesses during the last several years.
The company cited teen-agers as another reason why additional lines have been installed. Hoy said the growth in telephone usage is replicated in all the larger. citles served by the telephone company such as' South Bend and Bloomington. The telephone company, representative emphasized there is a difference between the prefixes assigned for "plain old telephones" and those for cellular telephones. The last prefix added for basic telephone use was 864 assigned in May 1992.
Since then four prefixes have been added for cellular users. In July 1993, 863 was added and last year 437 was added in March, 480 in September and 860 in November. About 10,000 telephone numbers can be created within each prefix. But when about 80 percent of those numbers have been assigned, Ameritech usually creates another prefix. The process is started early because when people move away, their old telephone numbers are placed on inactive status for a time before being reassigned.
Ameritech does not re-assign old telephone numbers. for at least three months to give it time to recycle. "When a person moves out, there is a recorded message informing the caller that this person is no longer at this number," Hoy said. "So that allows the telephone customers time to inform their friends and business contacts that there is a change of telephone numbers." discs, a CD case and a car phone Police were residence, taken loss from valued a vehicle $1,115. at that at BLOTTER Fire runs candy was not available.
2:17 p.m. Monday, 1224 Meadowbrook Drive, grease from food Thefts, burglaries cooking guished, caught injuries, fire on damages stove, extin- estino 17:30 p.m. Monday, Andrea Fish- mated at $750. er, 1140 S. Armstrong six tapes Saturday, Phil Burgan, and a flip phone were taken from a Sharpsville, was burning brush vehicle at residence, loss valued at along a fence row on at 2275 W.
$136. Road 600 North when it ignited a 8:55 a.m. Gifford, 742 S. nearby propane tank and spread to McCann a radar detector taken several vacant buildings on his from vehicle at residence, loss val- property, said Monty Henderson ued at $150. of the Sharpsville Fire Depart8 a.m.
Monday, Jeff Tepe, 802 ment. Firefighters from Wildcat Williamsburg Drive, two boxes of and Cicero townships worked the that residence, loss valued at $540. hours, officials injuries compact discs were taken from blaze for approximately, three 6:48 a.m. Monday, David Strus, were reported. No damage 'esti409 Venetian Way, 60 compact mate was available.
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