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Chamber phone-a-thon
ropes in 31 new members
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I hi- C'antun Chamber of Com-
•rre recently competed in the
t annual Chamber Challenge
e Five Star Chambers.
and Westland tied for first place
at 19 members, winning Tigers
tickets donated by Jack Demmer
Ford.
The Canton Cowboys, however,
roped in the most members of the
day — 31 — because they continued
calling all day.
The Canton chamber had more
callers than phones. Chamber executive
director Linda Shapona
thanked the follwing callers,
runners, contributors and coordinators:
Carol Hay. chairwoman/
cheerleader/caller; Gloria Janks,
chamber office runner-coordinator;
Nick Kulka. cowboycheerleader
and inspiration; Tom
Adamusik. highest memberships
The Observer/ MONDAY, MAY 31, 1993
sold; Frankie Middleton, prize
"rounder-upper"; Cowboy callers
Carol Felker, Dennis Thoune,
Philip Sugg, Dawn Scott, Jess
Callaway, Mary Kay Witzke. Bob
Olson. Janet Volante and Thom
Kenney; and Cowboy runners Bob
Boyer, Ron Lieberman, Lynda
Willis and Frank McMurray.
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Hi
1 > May 7, the wild Canton
alloys took on the Westland
'wings, the Garden City Gil^.
the Westlaijd Wolverines
I the Wayne Wildcats in the
-i annual "Chamber Challenge
•il>er Drive" at Garden City
pital. The hospital donated
rtnd
to the top six finishers and
1 hers-up in each class.
"^arevstrrce the first race
hptfi rrr California m 1953.
it- have built and raced more
Si million pinewood derby
. • nationwide.
! he Gemini District boys had
It their miniature race cars
;i block of wood, with the as-^
mce from a family adult, for
. tace Nu two car designs were
with Mime of the car designs
kinc like real race cars, and
were futuristic advance des
is The cars were raced on a
• c iane wooden track, with
:vitv providing the only means
•ropulsion.
A total of 450 parents and
Monday
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The Observer/ MONDAY. MAY 31, 1993 *5A
SC to raise tuition
$3 per credit hour
BY RALPH R. ECHTINAW
STAFF WRITER
Schoolcraft College trustees
tended to a tower of business last
week, raising tuition, adopting a
tax levy, adopting a budget and
raising the salary of 66 employees.
By unanimous vote, trustees
Mary Breen, Michael Burley,
Winifred Fraser, Harry Greenleaf,
Steve Ragan, John Walsh and Patricia
Watson raised tuition for
in-district students from $40 a
credit hour to $43, a 7.5 percent
increase.
In the 29 years since Schoolcraft
was founded in 1964, trustees
have raised tuition 17 times.
Fourteen of those increases have
come in the 15 years since 1978.
Trustees also raised non-resident
tuition from $60 to $64.50
and out-of-state tuition from
$87.50 to $94.
However, Schoolcraft tuition
still compares favorably with
other suburban area community
colleges. Next fall, students at
Henry Ford, Oakland and Washtenaw
community colleges are expected
to pay $41, $45 and $47 per
credit hour, respectively.
The reason tuition has risen so
dramatically, Schoolcraft officials
say, is that the state government's
annual subsidies to all community
colleges haven't kept pace with
inflation. Years ago. the state
subsidy accounted for roughly
one-third of Schoolcraft's budget.
Property tax revenue and tuition
comprised the other two-thirds.
In the $32 million budget for
1993-4 approved last week, the
state subsidy- accounts for 26 percent,
property taxes 39 percent
and tuition 34 percent. The state
subsidy fell by 0.78 percent in
dollars, but by more than 3 percent
if inflation is factored in.
of cutting programs. Greenleaf
said the board will ha^e to "take a
concentrated look at the whole
cost-containment area" in the
next few years because tbe state
subsidy isn't expected to rise anytime
soon.
Ragan was more blunt. "Some
universities are looking at drastic
cuts in salary," he said. "We're
going to have to look very hard at
that."
Yet just a few minutes later
trustees voted unanimously to
raise the pay of the 12 top administrators
and 58 clerical employees
by 4.5 percent, effective
July 1. Schoolcraft president
Richard McDowell said the raises
are consistent with what the
unions at Schoolcraft are getting
this year.
The top three salaries in that
group of 12 are:
• $88,000 for vice-president for
instruction Conway Jeffress.
• $81,000 for vice president for
business service Adelard "Butch
Raby.
• $81,000 for vice president for
student services Barbara Geil.
McDowell, whose salary the
board will consider raising later
this year, currently gets $95,000 a
year.
The board also set the next fiscal
year's millage levy, reducing it
from 1.9231 to 1.8521, in accordance
with the Headlee Amendment
to the state constitution.
The Headlee Amendment says a
taxing body has to reduce its millage
levy if assessment increases
rise faster than the rate of inflation.
Technically, Schoolcraft's authorized
millage has been 2.27
since 1986 when voters approved
the addition of 0.5 mill.
Although Headlee has reduced
tiie district ;
nue generated eonatnie- boosted Schoolcraft's tax coilec-
M a t e & p S S f f i 6 i B
Trustees last week saw no alternative
to raising tuition short
House party bills
heading to Senate
BY TIM RICHARD
STAFF WRITER
Adult hosts of teen drinking
parties face jail, and drunk drivers
who seriously injure others
could have their vehicles confiscated,
under bills heading to the
state Senate floor.
"I call it the 'house party' bill,"
said Sen. Fred Dillingham, R-
Fowlerville, sponsor of Senate
Bill 154.
He listed teen deaths along old
Grand River Avenue that occur
every spring, adding, "There's
nothing to prosecute the adult
who had served alcohol in his
home. This will send a strong
message."
The bill, approved 3 to 0 Thursday
by the Senate Judiciary Committee,
would apply to adults in
social gatherings in meeting halls,
hotels, conference rooms, their
homes, cottages, mobile homes,
apartments and even tents.
Penalties: up to 90 days in jail
and a fine of $500.
Dillingham said the Senate had
passed his bill twice in the past,
only to have it bottled up in the
House Judiciary Committee by
chair Perry Bullard, D-Ann Arbor
Bullard has left the Legisla
ture. "We won't get into the nolove-lost
between Rep. Bullard
and myself," said Dillingham.
"Is a $500 fine enough?" asked
Sen Virgil Smith, D Detroit.
"It makes the point," said Dillingham
His bill was supported by the
Michigan State Police and Michigan
Council on Alcohol Problems.
MICAP chief Alan B Rice said
city ordinances prohibiting teen
parties have been effective in Saline,
Traverse City and Groase
Point*.
Vehicles only
Sen. Michael Bouchard, R Birmingham.
sponsored SB 555 to
authorize prosecuting units of
government to seiie the vehicles
of drunk driver* who caused
someone's death or long-term disabling
Injury
The state Crime Victims Fund
. would share in 25 percent of the
vehicle s value
Smith asked whether it would
alio
h
i confiscating someone's
"I told you I have my reser-
vations about taking someone's
bocse." he said.
• Adult hosts of toon
drinking parties faco
jail, and drunk drlvors
who seriously Injure
others could have
their vehicles confiscated,
under bills
heading to the state
Senate floor.
Bouchard said the bill would
apply only to vehicles as "the instrumentality
of the crime." He
added, "Where they've gone after
a person's property, they've done
it under the provision to take proceeds
of drug activity."
MICAP's Rice also supported
the bill, which the Judiciary Committee
reported out under another
3-0 vote.
Bills delayed
Chair William Van Regenmorter,
R-Jenison, delayed a hearing
on hia bill to ease some penalties
for drunk driving.
His SB 631 would make it a felony
for a drunk driver to cause
"serious injury." Current felony
law applies to "long-term incapacitating
injury."
But the penalty for a third offense
would be reduced form one
year to 30 days
A Senate Fiscal Agency impact
statement said the bill would result
in more convictions but a
cost savings for the prison system.
"In 1990, 42 individuals were
sentenced to prison under this
section of law with an average
minimum sentence of 1.7 years.
If, in the fature, judges chose to
sentence only half as many people
to prison, annual costs for the Department
of Corrections could decrease
by $535,500." said the
SFA.
Van Regenmorter canceled a
hearing on SB 394 to reduce the
definition of drunk driving from
0.10 percent blood alcohol content
to 0.08. The 0.10 percent law has
been In effect since 1972.
For hearing aefceduia* or to
comment on bills, write to Senat*
Judiciary Committee, 405 Farnum
Building. Landing 48913. It Kelp*
to refer to the bill number
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