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Show Thursday, November 15, 2007 NORTH COUNTY NEWSPAPERS Page 17 local poeoo to oer s tools go missing in Oirem Janice Peterson DAILY HERALD Don Peterson played french hogi in the Utah Symphony for 49 years, and when he retired, he decided to put his talent to another use: piano tuning. "Being in the symphony, you learn how to listen," he said. Listening is 99 percent of piano pi-ano tuning, Peterson said, and the rest of the skills he needed were learned from the professionals. profes-sionals. Now, after 25 years, Peterson has hit a stumbling block in his business, Peterson Piano Service. After tuning a piano in a home near 1190 East and 1040 South in Orem last Wednesday, Wednes-day, Peterson loaded some Alpine school board may vote Caleb Warnock DAILY HERALD Alpine School District board members may vote to double their pay. Board members met in a two-hour work session before their regular meeting Tuesday night to discuss changing their own compensation. The seven members are now paid $250 a month in addition to having free health insurance for them and their families, access ac-cess to a laptop, compensation for mileage and home Internet services, and are paid an extra $60 to $90 per meeting for 12 additional meetings per year. On Tuesday board members mem-bers said they would like to add their compensation to an upcoming agenda, where they will debate doubling or even tripling their monthly stipend. They will also debate tying their pay to inflation so they would get annual cost-of-living raises. It was not clear how soon the debate would happen. "I get hives when I talk about money," said board member Donna Barnes. 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The kit containing a tuner, tuning hammers and various others tools is expensive ($2,500), and tuning pianos is his only means of income. "I'm a senior citizen," he said. "I'm 82. Piano tuning is enough." He said he didn't realize his kit was missing until he arrived ar-rived home in Highland, 20 minutes away from where he left the kit. When he returned to the site, the tools were gone. Peterson said he doesn't know what might have happened hap-pened to his tools. The took are so unique a pawn shop would not know what they are to sell shaw. The board's pay has not been increased in at least 15 years, said board member Guy Fugal. Board members each attend about 100 meetings a year, including committee meetings, trainings, weekly visits to schools and more, according to a summary of board activities prepared for Tuesday's meeting. meet-ing. "Last week I probably spent 25 hours talking to people in the grocery stores about vouchers," Barnes said with a laugh. "But I wouldn't count that." Board member Christine Hannemann said she learned long ago to shop for groceries in cities where people don't know her. On average, members said they spend between 10 and 15 hours a week on board work. Board members compared their pay to Council members in Orem, who are paid $9,900 a year; Provo, who get $12,240 a year; and Bountiful, who get $7,800 per year, among others. "I am already discouraged," said Barnes. "I didn't realize I had been to so many meetings. We don't do it for the money, but we put in a lot of hours." Board member Christine Hannemann said she is scheduled sched-uled to attend 11 meetings this Disc Pain?" promising non-surgical disc treatment today. For your free report entitled, "How Space Age Technology Tech-nology Is Solving Solv-ing Back Pain Without Drugs Or Surgery!" call 1-800-893-7644 and listen to the toii-rree hr recorded message mes-sage for all the details or go to www.91 lbackpaininfo.com. These free reports are available avail-able for a limited time. Paul Beck D.C. Maple Ridge Spinal Pain Center V them. "They open it, they say 'What is this? " Peterson said. "It wouldn't do anyone any good. They couldn't sell it anywhere." any-where." When he spoke to residents in the neighborhood where the tools were lost, some told Peterson Peter-son they had seen the box on the ground, and crews from Orem City had been working nearby. He called the city to find out whether crews had accidentally picked up an extra tool box, but none remembered seeing it. "It would seem to me like maybe some kids came along the sidewalk and picked them up," Peterson said. "You never know." The tool set will not be easy month alone. Hannemann and Barnes each said they had not even known that board members were paid when they first ran for their seats. Many local people who run are the same way, and increasing salaries would likely have little affect on drawing candidates for the board. Board member Timothy Osborn said he would be okay doubling or tripling the pay. The money would help his family, fam-ily, with increasing gas prices and expenses, he said. "It is not unreasonable to be remunerated," he said. "The key is what is fair and proper in today's society. That is a tough call. I don't go to work and tell them what I would like for a salary." On the other hand, he often takes time off work to attend school district meetings, he said. The position of board president presi-dent should be paid more than the rest of the board because the time commitment is larger, Hannemann said. Both Hannemann and Osborn Os-born said getting free health insurance in-surance from the school board for their families is significant compensation. 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