THE PRESS DEMOCRAT, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 11, SR schools, 3 unions settle; teacher mediation is next By JOHN ADAMS ratified contracts or partial agreeStaff Writer ments with three employee unions Santa Rosa's Board of Education and the pay adjustments for manTuesday approved labor contracts agement and other employees not covering about half the city school represented by bargaining units. employees, leaving 660 teachers The $500,000 in total salary adwaiting for a state mediator to justments involve more than 500 schedule new meetings. employees. The raises are city school system's teachers tive to July 1. The money comes management have been at from the general fund.
odds over pay and other contract Ratified were three-year conissues since early September. Me- tracts for about 80 maintenance adiation was delayed by a death in and other service employees in the family of state mediator John Chapter 367, California School New meetings are expec- ployees Association, and about 30 ted soon. supervisory employees in Local The teachers have been seeking 250, Service Employees Internaa 10.5 percent salary increase tional Union. Pay and other issues which they say will bring them in also were resolved for 400 school line with comparable-sized school and office secretaries, instructional districts and to provide senior aides and other members of Chapteachers with more frequent steps ter 75 of the state school employees on the salary schedule. The board's association.
negotiators have been offering a While most employees get a 5.6 raise of more than 5 percent, percent raise, Chapter 75 members matching that of the agreements agreed to divert a tenth of a approved Tuesday. percent to a $50,000 life insurance In successive votes, the board policy for each employee. Sitter testifies in child abuse trial The defense in the child abuse months. She described him as "a trial of David McClelland began typical boy" who "loved to climb" Tuesday with his attorney assuring and jump. "He fell sometimes, but jurors that his client was not re- he would get right back up," she sponsible for injuries to 2-year-old said.
Christopher Code that left the child She also testified the tot had hospitalized with permanent brain occasional temper tantrums. "If he damage. didn't get his way, he'd just fall and Attorney Stephen Gallenson said start kicking and screaming, fronthere is no question the child was twards or backwards," she said. the victim of child abuse, but that The babysitter said she never nothing in the prosecution's evi- saw bruises on the child's body, but dence showed that McClelland that he came to her house with a caused those injuries. bruised eye that his mother exThe first defense witness was plained had occurred when he had Gloria Elaine Jones, a baby sitter fallen at his grandmother's house who cared for the infant for eight the previous weekend.
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and 438 Santa Rosa Plaza 579-5545 Burrow was southbound when for an unknown reason his car ran off the road, rolled over several times and struck a large wooden post about 1:20 p.m., the California Highway Patrol said. He was pronounced dead at Ukiah General Hospital. Burglar hits Lake museum LAKEPORT A burglar who may have diverted attention from I himself by reporting that a body had been found in a dumpster broke into the Lake County Museum last weekend and stole several historical items, police say. Police never did find a body, but the apparent ruse occupied the city's only on-duty officer early Saturday morning when the museum burglary occurred. The burglar made off with an 82-karat piece of quartz, a dollar gold piece, two or three pocket watches and a number of old coins, said Curator Donna Howard.
Most of the stolen items were from the 1800s. "It is very sad to think people would stoop to that extent," said county Historian Marion Geoble. "It's almost like robbing graves." Police estimated the damage and loss at $2,000. The burglar broke a window to get into the museum and then broke three glass exhibit cases to steal the historic memorabilia. The quartz, called a "Lake County diamond," was one of many mined from Lake County about 50 years ago.
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Petaluma carcass storage depot OK'd Board studying Amaral. "This is not the of type business stricter controls you said want Perdue, in this who owns growing Rancho area," Arroyo Racquet Club across the By JO ANN GARLINGTON street from the auction yard. Staff Writer Residents of a nearby mobile Over the objections of neighbors home park said odors and flies who do not want a dead animal from the operation would make storage facility in their Petaluma their lives miserable and unneighborhood, Sonoma County Su- healthy. pervisors on Tuesday tentatively But county farmers said there is approved plans to establish a trans- a need for the transfer station. With fer depot at the Petaluma Live- the pending closure of the county's stock Auction Yard.
only rendering plant, Royal Tallow, Supervisors upheld a September the county is faced with the likelldecision by the Board of Zoning hood that dead animals will be Adjustments granting auction yard dumped along county roads and in owner Manuel Brazil a permit to fields and canyons. construct a buildDom Carinalli, president of the ing at 84 Corona Road. Sonoma County Farm Bureau, told The structure would be used for storage of animal carcasses pend- "find dead animals scattered all supervisors that they can expect to ing transport to rendering plants in over the if Brazil is not San Joaquin Valley. county," Chairman allowed to collect the carcasses. Board Ernie Carpenter called for stricter controls "We must think ahead before Royon al Tallow is closed." Carinalli said.
the operation and eventually to the tentative Ed Ricci, whose firm transports agreed approval the dead animals to after Supervisor Jim Harberson plants, said that Marin and Sonoma rendering requested an additional week to counties about 120,000 the issue and to incorporate average study pounds of dead animals each week. federal and state agriculture guidelines into the permit requirements. Ricci said his firm has been The use permit application with picking up animals left at the the stricter controls will be consid- auction yard twice a day, five days ered by the board at 10 a.m. Nov. a week and on the weekends when 17.
necessary. Under the conditions of Appeals had been filed separate- the use permit, animals must be ly by Dave Perdue and Jessee picked up seven days a week. Nice forms new services district NICE Lake County supervi- day voted 5-0 to form the new sors Tuesday approved Nice's di- district. vorce from the Upper Lake Fire Nice has become more urban Protection District. than Upper Lake and has different Within the week, a newly-formed firefighting needs as a result, said Nice Community Services District John Barnette, Nice's fire chief.
will take control of the lakeshore Barnette will continue to serve as community's fire and emergency chief of the soon-to-become autonocalls. mous department. The Upper Lake Volunteer personnel are expec- district will retain two chiefs, one ted to remain the same for both in Upper Lake and one in Blue Nice and Upper Lake. But the Lakes. reorganization will allow the new With voter approval, the new district to hold on to its tax dollars Nice district could take control of and to try to upgrade services.
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