The following text may have been generated by Optical Character Recognition, with varying degrees of accuracy. Reader beware!

PUBLIC PULSE PLAINDEALER- HERALD S H A W F R E E P R E S S M E D I A , I N C . October 19, 1984 2 5 C E N T S County is likely to hike most fees It's that time of year again In another week-and-a-half, hobgoblins, ghosts, witches and of all Aapes, kinds and maimer will be roaming the streets search of tricks or treats. The city Park and Recreation Depart­ ment Is holding a Halloween parade on Oct SI at 5:30 p.m. For more PUindealer-Herald Photo by Anthony Oliver information, call 344-3300. The Police Department has jet Halloween trick-or-treat hours from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. on that day and urges parents to accompany their fchfldren. Make this Halloween a safe one for all. By Angela Borden Blaming hikes in McHenry County employee salaries and the general increase in operating costs, the county board's health and agriculture committee Tuesday recom­ mended an increase m county's McHenry County Board wed the increases, which result in doubling the cost of many health department fees. In the animal control division, the cost of the required annual dog Registration will jump from $4 to $8, and the three-year registration fee will be raised to |20 from the current $10. The $25 adoption fees for dogs will be increased to $40, and, for cats, from the current $10 to $30. All fees in the animal control division will increase, with the exception of one. The wildlife removal traps will remain fat $26. The annual permit fee for f< service establishments and; retail food store operating permits will increase by an average of 10 percent. Board members at the Tuesday meeting balked at the proposal to increase the fee lor bacteriological tests on water at private beaches. * . The current $50 fee will Jump to $160. Several members of the board said they feared that the. fee hike would deter requests for private beach water-sampling. "The fees must cover the cost of the services. Vie cannot run the department on a deficit," Ann Hughes, chairwoman of the health committee, said. County Board Chairman Clint Claypool, who has been em­ phasizing his concern about the county's financial situation to past months, once again cautioned the board to be aware of the current circumstances before finally adopting the next fiscal year's budget next month. "On Nov. IS, the budget will come before this board, and I would like to inform members that, currently, $100,000 per month is being spent .by the county. Ifthe proposed budget is adopted, the county's ex­ penditures will be over $800,000 each month," Claypool said. He said that, if the budget as it stands were approved, the balance by Dec. 1, 1986, would not be sufficient to cover year- end expenditures. * In other business at McHenry County Board's Tuesday meeting, the board upheld recommendations from its Zoning Board of Appeals to grant reclassification from agricultural district to estate district in Nunda Township and deny a change from agricultural td estate district in Corgi Township. county' ordinance varia for property in McHenry and Richmond Townships., . • . ' i Water company buy-out is i County board hears RT A plans okayed with reservations •; By Angela Burden FtaMMtarflflnM Niwi Swict A new paratransit bus service for Algonquin Township and a ; promise to keep existing levels of commuter rail service, in­ cluding continuation of the 10 -percent fare reduction, top the 3 list of suburban commuter proposals for McHenry County. The preliminary programs and budgets of the Regional Transportation Authority's Suburban Bus Division and Commuter Rail Service Board were highlighted by their : respective chairmen at -Tuesday's meeting of the McHenry County Board. Florence Boone of the suburban bus board said the paratransit service for Algonquin Township is in the 1985 operating program and budget. She said the new service would be added to the six paratransit services already operating in the county in Woodstock, Crystal Lake, Harvard and Marengo and in McHenry and Nuncje townships. No major changes are planned for the RTA's fixed-route bus service in McHenry County. However, according to Boone, proposals to both add and reduce service on those routes are included in the budget. Under the 1985 capital outlay, seven Dial-A-Ride paratransit vehicles have been programmed for McHenry County. Of these, four will replace the aging vehicles in Harvard and Marengo, and the remaining three vehicles will be used for new or improved service in Woodstock and McHenry Township and for countywide service. - "Our negotiations with the Teamsters Union will generate large savings for the system," Boone told county board members. j__ She also said that there has been an increase in ridership. "We want to initiate paratransit services in the suburbs. We may have to take off the large buses in some areas and follow up with paratransit service,""1 Boone said, explaining that the smaller buses would have connections to regional inter-county routes. "The smaller vehicle is the way to go," said Boone, who indicated that a possible fare increase might be necessary. "Hopefully, 'though, ridership will increase." According to Boone, there has been a 16 percent increase in* Dial-A-Ride ridership this year. Jeffrey Ladd, chairman of the Commuter Rail Service Board, and CRSB Director Donald A. Udstuen, both McHenry County residents, presented outlines ol the 1985 program and budget, (Continued on page 17) Lakeland Park residents may soon have the benefit of city water, if all goes well with a tentative agreement to purchase the Lakeland Park Water Company. McHenry Mayor Joseph Stanek said agreement was tentatively reached at a special meeting Tuesday night and the council voted to purchase the company from T.P. Mathews for about $480,000. Stanek said no papers would be signed or final action taken until the system was pressure tested and Mathews had in­ stalled meters for those customers without them. The pressure testing is slated for Oct. 29-Nov. 1 and residents served by the lakeland Park Water Company can expect discolored water and some during this time, the residents wU) Stanek said. "We have to put the pressure on and flush out the system. If the system is faulty, we wont exercise the action taken Tuesday." The mayor that the fi >roposed also commented the of not sendee area, had decided a as yet. A public meeting bU been d for 7:50 p.m. next at Partianajfchool to inform area residents of thi. developments and answer questions. Wonder Lake trustee dies Wonder Lake Village Trustee Richard F. Matthei, 63, died Sunday at Memorial Hospital for McHenry County, Wood­ stock. He had served on the board for three years and was chairman of the police com­ mittee as well as a member of the board of trusteees ordinance committee. Serving on the committee for three years, Matthei worked extensively to change weight limits on Wonder Lake roads after they had been repaved, according to village President Duane Zeman. Zeman said Matthei was active while serving on the board. "He was very active. His attendance record was perfect, tie never missed a meeting," Zeman said. A full obituary appears elsewhere in this issue. GOOD MORNING! McHenry High School will have a boys' varsity soccer team beginning in 1985, the District 156 School Board decided Tuesday. Details in Sports, page 20. \w> vS ? INDEX <§> MMWNNINia Church Sec. 2. Page 9 Business Page 4 Lih T o d a y . P a g e 6 Vol.109. Number 17 Neighbors Sec. 2. Pages 2 3 Schools Sec. 2, Page 4 Sports • Pages 18 20 2 Sections. 301 No place to land could barely get an hour of (flight instruction} in at ions," Kropf said. At that time, eight flight in- irport manager, a shop manager ana a chief pilot from imiw u> OtJ retraining aircraft to: Editor's Note: This is the second in a four-part series presenting an overview of the problems facing private aviation in McHenry County. By Jim Nash Shrouded in an early autumn fog, Gait Airport looks like a )graph brought to life. only two shades lighter than the Industrial- vintage black-and-white photograph brought td life. 1-grey buildings, 01 asphalt runway, blend into an equally dreary mist. Airport its age at 30 years. acre, two-runway air facility is for sale. The asking price is $2.25 million for an airport state studies say contributes $6.9 million to McHenry County annually. The revenues come in the form of sales, fuel and property taxes as well as new and expanded businesses using the airport. Inside the airport office sits George Kropf, Gait's flight and shop manager. On a day like this, there is little for him to ao. Gait is not equipped with the technology necessary to make airplane landings by instruments an easy task. Business will be slow this day, but that does not bother Kropf. Weather in northern Illinois makes flight for light* to medium- weight aircraft difficult or impossible an average of 100 days each year. It's the possibility that slow days I ' common in fair weather that troubles him. In '68 you without reservations _ chief pilot worked out of the airport's main building. Now one part-time and two full-time teachers (and Kropf) are left Ibere is a possibility air business will turn around. " Ibis summer was the first good summer in a couple years, which made us very happy," be said. The bulk of air traffic in northern Illinois is shifting from recreational flight to business flight, he "General aviation is switching corporate aircraft," Kropf said. High costs are forcing the individual out of the 1960s and much of the 1970s, Washington helped flood nation with amateur pilots by subsidizing lessons with the GI Bill. Corporations today are buying CM* leasing larger ' capable of carrying six or more passengers. Uminrisf are ** making this move largely because major airlines have ended : runs to smaller cities nationwide, including some cities as large ' as Springfield. • Terry Schaddel, airport planning engineer for the Illinois Department of Transportation, said, "Due to (federal airline)' deregulation, a lot of small cities have lost (major airline) " connections to Chicago." Gait's longest runway is 700 feet too short for the larger aircraft to which corporations are turning. Large twin-engine planes and small business jets need at least a 4,000-foot strip on which to operate. Gait has a 3,000-foot asphalt runway. Kropf remains cautiously hopeful about the future of Gait and other small private airfields. Gait, he said, "is slowly working its way out of existence. It just looks that way to me. "I tanda hope I'm wrong." be added. High schools plan dramas SCHOOL - .a. . . / ' . SECTION 2, PACE 4