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Show Alpine budget shows Highland now pays majority of police costs Citizen - Wednesday, June 23, 1993 - Page 3 By RACHEL C. MURDOCH Public hearings on the proposed budget and a proposed tone change occupied the Alpine City Council for much of their meeting on June 8. The proposed budget, which was to be reviewed again at a public hearing on June 22, includes an increase in the police budget, an expected increase in fees paid to the city for plan check and building permits, as well as an increased expenditure for engineering and inspection in the building and subdivision sub-division categories. Highland will be contributing over fifty per cent of the police budget bud-get for the first time this year, which reflects the increase in their population, popu-lation, said Mayor Don Christiansen. Highland's contribution is up to $149,000 from $99,000 in recent years. Alpinecontinues to buy andmain-tain andmain-tain all police vehicles and handle any over runt in the budgets. Spending on government buildings build-ings is expected to go down, with the completion of the new city shops behind Kencraft last year. Several citizens wanted to know why the recreation budget appears on paper to have gone down only $300, when it was supposed to drop significantly from last year. Last year the recreation budget had a $70,000 matching grant from the state. Councilman Stephen Denier said that due to a reporting or accounting account-ing error, the reported budget from last year does not reflect actual spending. He said actual spending was about $30,000 more than is shown on the budget report, and that next year's budget will go down about $30,300 rather than $300. The second public hearing was regarding the recommendation of the planning commission to change a portion of the land in Alpine to business commercial and service commercial zoning. Several citizens attended the hearing, most of whom border the proposed areas, which are located west of the Shadow Junction service ser-vice station and other commercial buildings there. Most of the neighbors were opposed op-posed to the zones being in that neighborhood, where there are already al-ready several residential homes. They suggested that there were several other areas in town where no homes had been build that would be better suited to service commer- . cial businesses. These businesses could include such things as auto repair, hardware stores, warehouses, ware-houses, and so forth. The council will decide on the issue at the next city council meeting meet-ing on June 22. In other business, the council passed resolution 93-07 which con demns the Busch protective strip on the east side of town. . City attorney Ray Harding attended at-tended the meeting, and said that although the council had earlier decided to condemn the entire strip, he thought their case in court would be stronger if the city just asked for the four 54' strips needed to put roads across. "We anticipate that whether or not we end up with the whole area, our purposes will be served if we can condemn those four 54-foot strips where we need those roads," said -Christiansen. Harding said, "We would hope the judge would agree that the part remaining would be an uneconomical remainder, and just condemn it too, but our case will be . stronger if we ask for those four strips." Harding also asked for some guidance guid-ance on the animal ordinance the council has asked his office to draw up. The council liked many of the aspects of the Highland ordinance, but asked Harding to require the , licensing of cats as well as dogs. Taylor Smith had made a formal protest to the approval of the Tolbert duplex at 140 S. 100 West, and contended that the planning commission com-mission had said they could not impose conditions on the building, when the ordinance in fact says they can. Highland Elementary earns guv's award for excellence Highland Elementary, an Alpine District School located in a growing community of the same name, has been awarded the prestigious Governor's Award for Excellence. The award is given to 20 schools state wide who demonstrate "exceptional "ex-ceptional effort and achievement" in the public education process. The award carries with it a cash grant of $10,000 to be used by the school for whatever purposes it wishes. Highland High-land was the only Alpine District School to receive the honor this year. Uponreceivingnotificationofthe award, Highland principal Kathy Whitbeck expressed appreciation to her staff and to the community for the honor: "When you see a school receive recognition, you know that the school staff, the students, and the community have worked successfully suc-cessfully as a team," she stated. And youH not find a greater team than here at Highland. Both staff and parents care very much about children and strive to make learning learn-ing meaningful and exciting." There are several criteria for rec ognition as a state school of excellence, excel-lence, according to the Governor's committee which oversees the program. pro-gram. One of these is how well the applicant school succeeds at its local lo-cal mission statement. Highland Elementary's statement state-ment reads "Through the united commitment of students, staff, parents, par-ents, and community, the mission of Highland Elementary is to empower em-power students to value life-long learning and participate as competent, compe-tent, responsible citizens in a changing chang-ing world." . "Our mission statement reflects our purpose in motivating students to love learning, to appreciate their talents and develop them to their fullest potential," , said .Ms. "Whitbeck. , . ?' Asa"Schoolof Excellence,"High-land Excellence,"High-land demonstrated measurable success suc-cess in several areas including students stu-dents as full partners in learning, parental and community involvement involve-ment in the educational process, effective instruction and curriculum, curricu-lum, a positive learning climate, satisfaction of staff, and the application appli-cation of technology in the local setting. 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