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Tuesday, October A3g03% • TKiJJIp§^Hy N^spdjjer in, the Adirondack Park • Ninety Seventh Year • Volume XCVIII • Number 192 • 35 * Tupper/Altamont boards hire consultant for merger study By MATTHEW RUSSELL Enterprise Staff Writer ' TUPPER LAKE — Despite hints that some local officials have misgivings about the project, the town and village boards reconfirmed their commitment to conduct a consolidation study. In 1990, the town of Altamont and village of Tupper Lake boards approved a study of local government operations to see if any tax dollars could be saved by merging or consolidating any or all municipal func- tions. The boards at that time agreed that the cost of hiring a consultant to help with the merger study was. a good investment which could hold down future tax increases if the study revealed any cost-saving measures. After a search, local officials decided the Latham- based consulting firm C.T. Male offered the lowest Sales tax issue to be checked by LP group By ELLENBALLOU Enterprise Staff Writer LAKE PLACID — Members of the Lake Placid City Study com- mittee were given their homework assignments Monday evening — find out how many other counties in the state deal with sales tax reimbursement to towns and vil- \price for consolidation expertise. At a joint meeting of die town, village and planning boards Monday night, officials entered into a contract with C.T. Male — the town and village each promised to pay a maximum of $6,000 each for the study. Planning board Chairman James Ellis sought and received a three-point mandate from both boards. He asked officials to formally agree that all but person- nel records on file at the town and village would be kept open for the purposes of the study. Also, he sought a commitment that no village or town employees would lose their jobs as a result of any possible future consolidation — any \redundant' positions would only be eliminated through retire- ments or resignations. Finally, Ellis asked for the boards to direct the study group to finish the project within a target date of 12 months. The boards each approved die three-point resolution, although it was agreed the study might stretch into as much as 15 or 18 months. \I'd like to applaud both boards for what I diink is a historic step. This is great,\ Ellis said. But village Trustee Richard Clark wanted an assurance that $12,000 was the ceiling figure for the study, and planners agreed me contract made that certain. Then visiting former trustee Zigmond Fraczek stood to ask if, in view of the fact mat \the village provides all the services,\ die study would look at the possibility of the village becoming its own town. Town Supervisor Dean Lefebvre said die study would look into that possibility, although he said he could not see where village residents would benefit greatly from such an arrangement. C.T. Male consultant John Montagne addressed the officials, noting first that regional planner Scott Mueller would tapped for his information and exper- tise in the study. Montagne said the study would Idol; at the economic relationship between the town arid village as well as any possible overlaps in municipal functions. He said die boards would be provided in- terim reports along die way, when tiiey would be ask,- ed to make any important decisions on any possible reorganization. The transition from die present \ar- rangement to any future new system would not be abrupt but would instead be implemented over a period of years, he said. Trustee Kevin McClear asked if the boards could cut me study off at any point if constituents demand- ed an end to the effort. Montagne said die consultants would only charge for the work tiiey perform. (Continued on Page 10) Chairman Norm Hess explained tiiat there are 68 counties in the state and, to his knowledge, 21 did not have cities. Of those 21, 13 did not distribute sales tax revenue back to the towns, such as Essex andFraruclinrcounties. ?:<^ 5i ,,,'. Members have also begun reviewing some city charters from cities under 25,000 in population. Some of the mayors have offered words of wisdom to the commit- tee, some of which Ed Weibrecht feels should be heeded. One such piece of advice came from die mayor of die city of Batavia, who said mat die com- mittee should carefully consider its boundaries, since annexation after becoming a city is difficult and costly. Hess agreed tiiat while it could be expensive, time-consuming and controversial, the committee has agreed that it would like to see the city boundaries remain where the incorporated village line currendy exists. Other issues die committee has come to consensus on include: •Preservation of the existing town water, sewer, and fire protection (Continued on Page 10) ! . '' m *» ' ^'•'•-.•.1 \ : GULL GLUTTONY -~ 87-year-c proTjer .methbite of bird-feeding. 3 Lake Flower boat launch recent!ji the seagulls. Lee just had to join n } M r ^ ; 1J Id Naoma Martin instructs Lee Freeburg, 2, in the teebuj^-^md;iiis-parents. r w;erfiyenjoying lunch at the when Martin canteralong with a bag of goodies for l. ~. (Enterprise Photo — Matt Paul) Understudies on prime time Tonight's vice presidential debate has many subplots Rescuers search through rubble as earthquake kills 370 in Egypt CAIRO, Egypt (AP) — The high death toll from a relatively moder- ate earthquake in Cairo can be blamed on the capital's plethora of weak, old buildings and poorly constructed new ones, an official said today. The statement from Dr. Joseph S. Mikhail, director of the National Research Institute for Astronomy and Geophysics, came as rescuers continued to search through the rubble of some of the nearly 200 buildings that collapsed. Assembly hopeful Sawyer takes on incumbent King By KATHLEEN SCOTT VAUGHN Enterprise Staff Writer SARANAC LAKE — Saying he wants to work widi and for the people, state Assembly can- didate David Sawyer made a campaign stop here Monday. Sawyer is running on the Con- servative line against incumbent Assemblyman James King, R- Ticonderoga, for the 109ih Assembly district, which is comprised of all of Warren and Essex counties and a portion of Clinton and Franklin counties.. There is no Democratic can- didate running for die seat. Sawyer, of Glens Falls met in an editorial board meeting with the Enterprise and explained some of die issues he is concern- ed widi and what he hopes to ac- complish in office. His main objective, if elected, would be to get opt and meet his constituents, to hear their con- cerns and educate people on what is happening in Albany, something he feels King has not done recently. \I think it's hard for people to relate to someone with his finan- cial stature,\ said Sawyer, refer- ring to King being a lawyer. Sawyer believes that because King is part of the Republican minority in the Assembly, he has no way to get anydiing ac- complished in Albany. He should at least be spending time David Sawyer with his constituents when die Assembly is not in session, he asserted. \I don't, see that happening witfi King \ Said Sawyer, who sees himself serving as a liaison between Albany ancfthe people, • Sawyer admits, however, that he and King share many of the same views on the issues. For example, he agreed with King's decision to vote against the Assembly-sponsored Aow%. dack bill whKh-mirrored the fin- dings of the Commission on the Adirondacks in the 21st Century. (Continued on Page 10) At least 370 people died in the quake — most of them in Cairo and Giza — and 3,369 were in- jured, the government Said. Hundreds of aftershocks raced through the area, startling die al- ready traumatized residents of this city of 14 million. \Now I know what hell is like,\ said Nadia Ezzeddin, a housewife in central Cairo's residential Zamalek Island. The quake measured 5.9 on the open-ended Richter scale, a medi- um-strengdi quake. Many of the deatiis were not from buildings collapsing, but from people being trampled in panicked stampedes. More tfian 100 children died in me Cairo area as they rushed from swaying schools, said Maj. Gen. Rida Abdel-Aziz, an assistant interior minister. The quake was centered about 20 miles southwest of Cairo, a few miles from the pyramids and the Sphinx on die Giza Plateau. But Information Minister Safwat el-Sherif said major monuments survived intact from die 20-second temblor. The quake was preceded by a roar. \At first I drought it was a bomb in die bank,\ said Samy Moham- saw it med Ali, a lawyer.\Then I people running, and I realized was an earthquake.\ People dironged Cairo's streets after die quake. Many seemed daz- ed. One woman stood on a side- walk screaming. A knot of people sat in a downtown square, tears streaking down their cheeks. Thousands crowded around the ruins of a 14-story apartment building in the northern suburb of Heliopolis late Monday while four bulldozers cleared debris under floodlights. An ambulance worker said about 15 people were pulled out alive before nightfall. The dead in die southern suburb Maadi, where many Americans and other Westerners live, includ- ed six Egyptian schoolchildren. Maadi resident Fahima Taha Aly Suleiman told The Associated Press of seeing a girl about 14, wearing a school uniform, fall dead after a collapsing wall hit her. In downtown Cairo, a wall col- lapse in a kebab shop killed a worker. Five boys died in a stampede from a collapsing school in Shubra, a poorer Cairo district. ATLANTA (AP) — The understudies — Dan Quayle, Al Gore and James Stockdale — get their only turn on stage together tonight to sell the American public on the merits of their running mates. But this vice presidential debate also has some unusual subplots: —Will Quayle be able to con- vince voters he is not die laughing stock who launched a thousand late-night television jokes? —Will Gore's book, \Earth in the Balance,\ be a source of pride or an embarrassment for die Dem- ocrat? —How will Stockdale, die former POW-tumed-philosopher and po- litical novice, match up widi the two career politicians? This evening's 90-minute debate on die campus of Georgia Tech University will be held under die format the Presidential Comrnis j sion on Debates wanted for all of this year's debates: a single mod- erator asking each question, widi each candidate getting 75 seconds to respond, followed by five minutes of open debate. Democrats are nervous that ex- pectations are so high for Gore,- the cerebral senator from Ten- nessee, and so low for Quayle, one of die least popular vice presidents in modern times, mat die vice president could very well wind up the winner. \If Gore does anything short of reducing Quayle to a quivering heap at the end, reporters will say, 'Quayle held his own, that wasn't so bad,'\ said Democratic analyst Ann Lewis. Quayle, 45, has been eager to take on his former House and Sen- ate colleague, his ideological op- posite. \I desperately want a debate,\ he said last month. Four years ago, during a shaky campaign that the vice president would rather forget, Quayle made one of die most memorable gaffes in debate history: trying to com- pare himself to John F. Kennedy. Sen. Lloyd Bentsen knocked that one out of die park, by reminding Quayle and the audience that he knew and had served widi die late president. \Jack Kennedy was a rnena of mine. Senator, you're no Jack Kennedy.\ Gore, 44, who ran for president himself in 1988, has campaigned, extensively at Bill Clinton's side and raised questions about Presi- dent Bush's pro-Iraqi policies be- fore die Persian Gulf War. He also wrote a best-seller mat portrays tiireats to the earth's en- vironment in stark language.. Perot's support grows after debate performance WASHINGTON. (AP) — Ross fcerot is en- joying a bounce it) his sagging poll ratings from his solid, if mx show-stealing perfor- mance in the first presidential debate. Analysts say that still doesn't make him a serious con- tender. Perot's stumpy one-liners Sunday night helped make him the. winner of the debate over Bill Clinton and President Bush in three of four public opinion polls. , ^ ;! \From the standpoint of debating pouj&, he clearly won th6 debate,\ said Dougiftaijipy, a RepdJ&lican jpolitical 1 consultant \^m^ the standpoint of die election, Clinton clearly won the debate.\ Two surveys taken after the St Louis debate signaled a flight gain in Perot's «ippo|tv He Went from less OmMpe^^lMi^m^s to &'j$ioti&.jtt4y^J^^ and 14 The independent candidatewaj doing hale u> try to capitalize on his newfound place m the with his adveitijijiR team but scheduled w public campaign appearances this week otiwr tiian his participation Thursday night in die se- cond debate in Richmond, Va. Political analysts predicted mat Perot could continue to rise in the polls but they dismissed his candidacy as ultimately a sideshow to die real contest between Bush and Clinton. 99- In many respects, he remains a political sideshow (Professor Robert Schmuhl) \His window ot opportunity slammed shut on him on July 16,\ Sabato said. \Most peo- ple have concluded tiiat he doesn't have the temperament to be president\ Perot's standing in die polls \will go up some, but I tiiink there is a very low ceiling on Ross Perot,\ Sabato said. ' Perot apparemly scored well with viewers; Sunday night because they use different stan- dards to grade his performance. 'In many .respects he remains a political side-i. show,\ said Robert Schmuhl, a Notre Dame professor who has studied the use of television \I mink he will get a little bump in die polls,\ Bailey said. But \he has got to be above 20 (percent) or he won't be considered a serious candidate,* . Because Perot witiidrew from die race in July 6TO>t6ie-ehter mis month, \most people have closed ' ; m hook m him,\ said Larry Sabato* a University of Virginia political scientist. Perot lights up our televisions,\ he said. But \upon sober reflection people will look beyond die one liners and realize that it takes much more tfian effective platform talents to run the federal government,\ ./,':'';•$'*:!-.'\- : . ]., Even Perot's son, Ross |t, s^Ui^Oujd take! a \political miracle\ for his father ift win uw '.QlriAIV-V '; %• presidency. :*• Sharon Holman, Perot's press secretly,*; dismissed the significance of any Of the poH&f: $
