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\\v«l Inn. IW). I lull.lnn IlntUi /u4lllull Page 8A Jerles pushes for tax cuts at council budget session By Torey Jolley W , Pern' City Council mem - tiers met May 27 for a work session focusing on a pre liminary fiscal year budget and including, real estate acquisition discussed in executive session. According to Councilman William Jerles Jr.. “We’re spending a mil lion dollars more than we are taking in. We need to make cuts. We should not tax the people more." Jerles said. “We have to balance the budget. Cutting money from carry overs is a smart way to go. We have a sufficient reserve." The reserve is approxi mately 2-3 months of money required to run the city. According to Skip Nalley. Perry City Manager. After making some more cuts we are closer to meet ing our budget." However. Nalley said it is wise for a city to maintain "at least a six month money reserve in case of a disaster." Jerles said Perry is “6-8 mills above others in the county." The city expects rev enues to loial .8 I 1.5 mil lion. The general fund will contribute slightly more than $6.1 million to the total revenue while the water revenue will provide $2.4 million and the gas revenue will total just shy of $2.4 million. The expen ditures are almost $11.9 million Several departments are requesting new vehicles. Harold Deal. utilities superintendent, comment ed that the department needed to get a new half ton truck and a pickup t,-uck because “the ones in use are a piece of Junk.” Danny Walker, water/ waste water superinten dent. said his department is “in good shape." Though it will cost $132,000 for the clearing of the exten sion of new service lines, “we will recoup the cost later.” The sewerage depart ment requested a one-ton truck with a service body similar to the one the water department uses currently, a traffic divert trailer, and a screen for the waste water plant which will take the grease, wood, and such out of the system before sending it on to be treated. "t is not EPA mandated, but we are trying to update when we can." slated Walker, adding the cost of the screen is about $84,000. He, also, added they would like to get a sewer camera for the 4" to 6" lines mostly. He told the council members that the demonstration the sewer camera company did for them saved the city $3,000 alone. The camera would go into the sewer lines and the department could identify problems and repair them quickly and with less cost. Perry Police Chief George Potter said his department needs ten new vehicles.He explained out of the department s cur rent vehicles "one was wrecked and nine others had over 120,000 miles on them." He suggested a lease/purchase of ten Ford Crown Victorias with the police packages. “They are the best deal for the money." stated Potter. The cost of the ten vehicles is $93,000. He said the department had twenty-eight officers on the road with a 24/7 rotation in three zones. In addition, he request ed traffic; accident soft ware. five notebook com puters to ease the report generating work for the officers, forty new Georgia code books, new guns, and two new officers. Perry Fire Chief Gary Hamlin said he depart ment needs two new fire fighters. one for each shift. He said in the capital out lay area, the department needs a new valve on the hook-n-ladder truck and uniforms and clothes for the new firefighters. The council members also discussed having a downstairs display featur ing gas products, such as a fireplace with gas logs. Though the new City of Perry administration building does not use any gas. they want to market the city's gas. Mayor Worrall men tioned the city needed to focus of selling its gas more. He continued that Flint Electric changed its name and maybe getting into the gas market as well.” Other items discussed were looking into an early retirement plan. Recreation Department budget and need for new lighting at Rozar park, sell ing signs to local company on the baseball fence, new equipment for Recreation Department sports teams, irrigation ol grass in park, and upgrading the 91 1 system. Panthers finish spring training By ALLINE KENT Home Journal Staff The Perry Panthers fin ished up spring training last week after two weeks of practice with the varsity and a one week of introduc tion for the rising Bth graders. “We definitely have a good group coming up from the middle school. " said Coach George Collins at the end of the third week. “Most will be playing JV this fall, but we are still looking for a few' answers on varsity. Traditionally, there has always been a few that tran sition from the middle school straight to the varsi ty-" The Panthers graduate several hard to replace and very talented seniors including Dontarrious Thomas and Anthony Lane who were three year letter men and Dante Holmes and Eddie Gary who were four year letter men. Collins commented that his rising junior class is already stepping into the leadership roles voided by the seniors and described his juniors as a “solid, excit ing' group". The Panthers spent most of their time working on fundamentals but did hit three days. With the amount of play ers who play both offense and defense, it is hard for a AA team to full scrimmage successfully. Another thing that Collins said was in the %%%&*** Cleaners SATURDAY ONLY^W [ SHIRTS $1 29 ] r Laundry, business-type A shirts NOW IN TWQ LOCATIONS! 1422 Sam Nunn Blvd.,Perry 1109 Macon Street, Perry f_ - r Jr®* : \ My \s** ' N> ' ANTICIPATION - Kids at Tucker School wait impatiently to see their principal A promise is a promise, and a pig is a pig Last laTTT’nncipai John Gordon told the students at Tucker Elementary' School that if they earned 7.005 points in the school’s "Accelerated Reader Program", he would kiss a P>g- The students not only met the challenge; they surpassed it. earning over 8.000 points. The reading program is designed to encourage children to read for fun. and provides points for each book read. The children can then redeem the points for prizes. back of his mind was keep ing his team physically fit for the upcoming fall. “We were very cautious and didn't work too long and get wore down. That's where you get injuries.” Going into the 1998 sea son, Collins made several coaching changes. This year therewill be just one major one. the addition of Coach Don Sherwood who replaces defensive line Coach Carl Thomas. Thomas, who coached Perry's boy's basketball team to their first back to back region championships in 25 years, will continue to coach basketball and soccer for the Panthers but leaving his fall open will allow him more time to concentrate on basketball season which overlaps football. Coach Sherwood comes to Perry after being defen sive coordinator of a highly successful program at Mount De Salles in Macon for five years. Perry will have their first mandatory practice July 26th but Collins said that he knows that his players will work some on their own until then. The team set a goal of working as individu als 3-4 days a week in the weight room this summer. “We have a lot of hope going into the season," Collins remarked. "The group of seniors that we are losing left us with a taste of success that makes us hun gry for more." keep his promise to kiss a pig. They got their big prize when their principal kept this promise - in front of A 4f1%~ 1 *** m Wv m -1 <3jp|L Horn,- Journal photo by Charlotte Perkins KISSING THfc PIG John Gordon is shown here kiss ing “Charlotte ”, the pig. who is none too happy about the encounter. Go on. And on. And on. And on. And on. Philips AH fIHB NEC digital mm Get 1,125 minutes d™ BH for only month! l| $2995 (3-month introductory offer.) sZj.^9s Hurry in and get 30% off all Superior cellular phone accessories" @ BELLSOUTH Mobility- For more information or for local delivery, call 1-800-986-BELL. 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