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Show June 24, 1993 13 Hilltop Times Phone numbers Action Line V The base agencies listed below can be contacted directly if you have a complaint or a problem with their services: Security Police Morale, Welfare and Recreation I 50 ACTION LINE is your opportunity to make Hill AFB a better place to live, work and play. When you call Ext or send on LOGDIS or Office-Visio- n to ID "ACTION," your comments will be recorded and staffed through the agency responsible for action. Please give your supervisor and chain of command the opportunity to work with you in answering questions and solving problems before calling ACTION LINE. This will help me better serve your interests through ACTION LINE. Items of basewide interest to the Hill work force will be published in the Hilltop Times. Brig. Gen. Lester L. Lyles Ogden ALC : commander (, .XT SiSSfc. s4x 11 OWN Base Restaurants RetirementCompensation (civilian) Social Actions Employee Relations Military Pay Civilian Pay Air Force Suggestion Program IG Complaints (for appointment) Fraud, Waste and Abuse (recording) 649th Medical Group Civil Engineering Public Affairs Military Housing Maintenance Safety Office Union AFOSI Narcotics Hotline pi Limited legal assistance will and wanted to have 43 42 16 28 51 ...7-777- 5 01 05 05 18 38 01 63 33 57 84 It also has a secondary benefit of eliminatto vehicle drivers when travela distraction ing of curved road and passing a section my updated ing through told the base legal office could no by the storage yard. Removing the brown slats longer provide services to retirees, except nofrom the fence on the north side of the road would not increase driver visibility. tary assistance. Is this true? For pedestrians crossing South Gate Drive at You were correctly advised of the reduc-J- F this location, there is approximately five feet betion in services for retirees. This reduction tween the fence and actual roadway. Although was due to recent personnel losses. Within the not an ideal situation, with the decrease in speed last few months, our legal office lost four posiand the flashing lights, the crosswalk is Weeks, and Federal Women's Week? Why not limit tions. As a consequence, we were left with should always remember the Pedestrians safe. just have Employee Appreciation Week for difficult choices. We could not curtail mission-essentirules whenever crossing a street and look safety everyone? both ways before crossing. legal services, so a reduction in workload had to be made. The choice of programs to South Gate Drive will be overlaid with asphalt I appreciate your comments with regard to absorb the reduction was among optional prothis summer. The northbound lane was repaired the various special observances held at based was and selection the that June 10. Thank you again for expressing your upon grams, Hill. The purpose for each of the Special Emphawhich would have the least direct impact on the concerns about the safety of the Hill work force. sis Programs is not to single out any particular morale, discipline and good order of our active group or any particular person. It is an opportuduty units. nity for everyone to value the diversity of our I don't mean to imply that legal services for most important asset, our employees. retirees are not important, they are extremely I personally appreciate the time and effort is the latest status on the law that important. However, the reduction just had to spent by each of the Special Emphasis subcombe made, and legal assistance to government employees could not mittees to plan and execute the variety of proretirees was one of the few practical options for Were there any exclusions to write money? grams held throughout the year. All of the available to us. Incidentally, there have been this law? memactivities are prepared with every military other legal programs curtailed by this cut. ber and civilian employee in mind. None of the I deeply regret any inconvenience that this has functions IX The law you refer to is Title 5, United is limited to any specific ethnic group. caused you and others in our retiree community. States Code App, Section 501. Although We live in the greatest country in the world. I am hopeful that in the future we will be able been efforts to repeal the law and it have there Our greatness j comes from the multitude of culf to obtain enough people to permit us to restore is presently being challenged in the courts, it is tures throughout this land. My hope is that we this important service. in effect. The law prohibits officers or emstill will continue to cherish everyone's rich heritage If you do not have a family lawyer to help ployees, but not enlisted personnel, from acceptand work toward a common goal, equal opportuwith your will, you may wish to contact the ing compensation for an appearance, speech or all. nity for Utah Bar Attorney Referral Service for referral written article. to attorneys in your area who can help you. This Honoraria is defined as anything of value. 5 service can be reached by calling in Works of fiction, poetry, lyrics or scripts are not Salt Lake City. The Judge Advocate's Office is considered articles, and compensation may be acprecluded by regulation from making referrals to cepted for writing these. Children's stories which road that runs along the east side are fictional or largely fictional in nature would specific attorneys or firms in the local area. Bldg. 349 is full of chuck holes. It also fit this exception. Additional guidance conhas been that way for a very long time. Will cerning the honoraria law may be obtained by something be done about it any time soon? General Law Division at Ext. fence. Ql al J space-availab- Is it law QWhat le or not? . 1 531-907- Chuck the chuck holes QThe contacting the Civil engineering recognizes that B Street, East of Bldg. 349, is in need of repair. Pavement repairs are prioritized by vehicle ca- JX Jr pacity and mission and work force impact. B Street is a secondary street and has a lower priority than our main roadways. The severity of this winter caused considerable unexpected ' tM&M (iffA Er the celebrations? Why all in the sight all people being equal and having fought to be equal in the sight of each other, why do we have fo have so many separate ethnic recognition celebrations such as Black History Month, Heritage Hispanic and QWith Asian-Americ- an damage to our main roadways that were not scheduled for repair. These main roadways are receiving pothole repairs. The permanent reconstruction of B Street was completed Tuesday. it safe for all Making it Wouldn't increase the safety of Q peo- ple crossing South Gate Drive from the 649th Combat Logistics Support Squadron building to remove a few of the brown slats from the fence on the north side of the road? This would vastly improve visibility for northbound drivers. Right now you can't see someone until they step out into the road. Slower speeds don't help a bit if you can't see someone until they step in front of your car. Removal of only two or three slats would make a very big difference. Also, there is a big rectangular patch in the middle of South Gate Drive, northbound, by Bldg. 225, which is much lower than the rest of the road. Can it please be fixed? rt I appreciate your concern for safety. The flashing lights and a 20 mph speed limit at the crosswalk near Bldg. 237 are precautions taken for pedestrian safety. The brown slats were placed in the fence to obscure the view of equipment being stored on the north side of the business High prices, less there Action Line column, a recent a statement made in answer to a question that the profit margin in the base restaurant operations has declined dramatically. In view of the exorbitant price increases that have recently occurred, wouldn't that have been expected by management? When the prices of certain items are nearly doubled, fewer people will buy them. As as an example, the yogurt I used to buy nearly every morning went from 60 cents to $1. It's definitely less expensive for me to bring my own. Perhaps in the future, consideration should be given to whether a price is reasonable rather than just how much profit the base Qln wants from an item. Jl Restaurant management apologizes for the sometimes abrupt price adjustments that are passed on to its patrons. The restaurant does not immediately pass intermediate cost increases to its patrons. The first step is to find a substitute product of equal or better quality without increasing the patron's cost. Often, it does become necessary to increase prices. Yogurt has been very high on the list, having doubled in price due to a misquote in Jrl pricing. We are continually searching the market for the best deal offering quality merchandise to compliment our standards. For further information, please contact restaurant management at Ext. |