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Bills Late \'•n School tax bill_s for property owners in, the Fayetteville- Manlius school district Have been delayed because the equalization rate for'ihe ^own^of Cazenovia, part of the district^has not yet been' setby the state. Nevertheless, taJCvbills' for the ESM district are being mailed this week according to Joanne Cunningham, tax receiver.. * , The time for payment without penalties will be extended for both districts she said. Mrs. Qunningham said that her office has had many phone calls and some people coming in asking about the delay. After the equalization rate is known, the school board must meet to set the actual tax rate and then the bills are calculated and printed by the county's computer. Pool Supporters Continue Quest Construction workers use a hydro- demolisher on the Rt. 481 bridge re habilitation project to remove the dam- aped concrete deck. The machine uses a high-pressure water jet to do the same work as a jackhammer, .but with less noise and dust, andenables the work to continue into the night without causing as much disruption; Photo/Graham- L. Johnson. Supporters of construction of a swimming pool at Fayetteville-Manlius High School again spoke at the Au gust 27 meeting of the FM Board of Education. The issue will be decided Sep tember 10 by voters of the FM school district at a special re ferendum to be held from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. at Fayetteville Elementary School off South .•Manlius St. in Fayetteville. Helene Ballantyne read a let ter from Mark Randall, a swim ming pool consultant in aquatic therapy, lis||tig.)^!' benefits to ~;the distrwfc^1fea*pobl. . Thoma4r ^%le ^«^u6Btioned some of th^em^pal^rfryided in , ;ftheV : &9ta^r ^eji ^leit9r ^ < distri- Mr. Buckley noted that the board had never before stated that athletics is not an educa tional priority, as it did with re ference to a school pool. He also said that in former bond issues, the board never addressed the issue of bond indebtedness. Charles Mitchell, executive director of the YMCA, agreed with Mr. Buckley that the prop osed pool at Camp Iroquois on Sweet Rd. is not an alternative to an FM pool. The Y pool, to be constructedtnrough the support of an on-going capital fund drive, wiilbe a six-lane pool with a maximum depth of six feet. It has been designed'.to,be enclosed whensulBficierit; funds \have been received, ' '. , \The campaign now is to con struct an- outdoor pool,\ Mr Mitchell said. An Unusual piece of machin ery is being employed on the Rt. 481 bridge reconstruction pro ject, enabling work to continue until midnight on a regular basis without causing a great deal of disruption. The contractor, Crane-Hqgan Structural Systems Inc. of Rochester, must complete the project by the end of this con struction season. To meet that deadline, the firm has brought Full House At FM in a hydro-demolisher which . Uses a high-pressure water jet to remove damaged concrete from around steel reinforcing bars on the bridges. This method, first used on the project August 25, is quieter and raises less dust than the traditional jackhammer method. The--$3.38 million project, begun in Spring of 1985 con struction season, involves re habilitation of the concrete decks of 11 bridges in the But ternut interchange section of Rt. 481, including the two long and wide bridges over the railroad yards, those over Kirkville Rd. and several ramps. According to the state pept. of Transportation project en gineer, the work also involves replacing the concrete and top ping it with a one-and-a-half inch layer of salt resistant con crete. Appeal Still On indergarten Sections Moved Attendance boundaries for kindergarten students in the Fayetteville-Manlius School District have been adjusted this year to equalize enrollment in the district's two elementary schools. Seventy-six students who would have attended kindergar ten classes at Enders Rd. Elementary School have been assigned to rooms at Fayet teville Elementary School for this year. \It seems quite obvious that the objective of transferring stu dents is only a one or two-year solution,*' Dr. Philip Martin, superintendent of'FM schools, told the FM Board of Education at Its August 27 meeting. Lasl year, district officials realized that enrollment at En ders Rd., which has kindergar ten through third grades, was increasing to the point that all available classroom space was being used. A list of alternate solutions was developed, and es tablishment of new kindergar ten enrollment-boundaries was selected as the least disruptive and least expensive solution for the 1986-87 school year. Kindergarten students who live in the Cherry Manor, Berk shire Parkway, Candy Lane, Memory Lane, Glencliff Rd., Watervale Rd., Whetstone- Limestone Rd. and Manlius vil lage areas will attend Fayet teville Elementary. Their older brothers and- sisters will con tinue to attend Enders Rd. Elementary or Eagle Hill Mid dle schools. Parents of all pupils involved were notified of the rezoning by letter August 22. District officials projected that there would be 613 students attending Enders Rd, Elemen tary this fait As of August 27, there were 653 students enrol led, a situation that forced the district to add a 12th second- grade section at Enders Rd. This also forced EM, which planned to transfer about 15 to 20 kinder garteners to Fayetteville Elementary, to transfer a total of 76. \All classrooms in both schools are being used,\ Dr. Martin said. He noted that until the last two or three years, enrollment growth had been at the middle and high school level. Now it is at the elementary (kindergarten through third grade) level. The enrollment total at En ders Rd. is 27 per cent greater than at Fayetteville Elemen tary, but there has been only a gradual increase at Eagle Hill Middle School, which serves the same attendance area, com pared with Wellwood Middle School, which serves the same attendance area as Fayetteville El. Throughout the school dis trict, there has been a 1,6 per cent decrease in enrollment, al though actual figures will not be available until the end of the first week of school and later at the end of September. David Breithaupt continued his legal attack against the Jamesville-DeWitt Board of Education August 25 and as serted in a reply to the state's Commissioner of Education that, \Approximately 90 per cent of school district residents are Town of DeWitt residents. Approximately 65 per cent of town residents are district resi dents....The town could save $1.5 million by purchasing the Genesee Hills School for $700,000.\ Mr. Breithaupt's appeal to the Commissioner of Education fo cuses on a petition submitted to and rejected by the school board, asking that the Genesee Hills property be offered exclusively to the town. In his appeal, Mr. Breithaupt contended, \If the (school) board so determines that sealed bid ding is required to obtain the maximum price, it is entirely practical to do so prior to any authorizing referendum. The board can then provide the vot ers-with knowledge of party and price in a subsequent authoriz ing referendum. Since the prop osed date of sale would be Au gust 1,1988, the potential delay in this method would pose no hardship on either prospective bidder. It is the. voters' preroga tive to determine whether such sale is in their best interest.\ He also claimed that if the surplus school property were sold to the town, the school dis trict would be assured of obtain ing monies from the sale through town bonding. Mr. Breithaupt is hoping the commissioner will require the JD board to accept the petition and hold a referendum offering the Genesee Hills School to the town. JCC Sets Meetings The Jewish ; Community Center, currently leasing the Genesee Hills School property, is, holding several community meetings to discuss the Sep tember 10 referendum, the JCC's plans for the site and the implications for JD taxpayers if the JCC succeeds in purchasing the site. Air meetings will begin at 7:30 p.m. The dates and locations are: Wednesday, September 3, First Universalist Church, 250 War ing Rd., DeWitt; Thursday, Sep tember 4, St. David's Church, Jamar Dr., DeWitt; Sunday, September 7, Jamesville Feder ated Church, 6374 East Seneca Tnpk., Jamesville'; andMonday, September 8 m^th* DeWitt Community Libj^Vy, Shop- pingtown.
