https://thorntonco.cvlcollections.org/files/original/80e4bc8a8a9db888396cd2576df02437.pdf be9fbbb1d114b9ed623876526a27d49c PDF Text Text . l MONTHLY NEWS FOR THORNTON CITY EMPLOYEES The New Shops Complex Committee consisting of Jay, Eric, Fred, Devere~ Ward, and Curt, has been meeting for the past several months to work out very preliminary details and coordinate the needs of both the City and Utilities Departments. Specifications were sent to various organizations knowledgable in the field of planning this type of facility. The Committee interviewed representatives from each of the organizations submitting proposals and unanimously recommended the firm of Black and Veatch, a company which has done the planning of ~everal similar facilities in the past. The City Council and the Utilities Board each authorized payment of $21,750 for an agreement with Black and Veatch total] ing $43,500, which is to include the pre] iminary planning and recommendation of a site for the complex. They will be analyzing several sites, selected by the Planning Department, and evaluating them in terms of access by City equipment, community needs and concerns, and traffic impact. The agreement will also include preliminary building layouts and soils tests. Black and Veatch will then make recommendations based on their analysis of each of the criteria and submit them for approval to both City and Utilities Administration. When the Administration agrees upon the site, Black and Veatch will present recommendations to both the Utilities Board and, for final approval, to the City Council. *~*~*~* Vol. 10 No. 6 June 30, 1981 Should the zoning of the recommended site not be that which is required, the matter would also have to be submitted to the Planning Commission for their approval. After the decision is made on the site (either the recommended site or a compromise location) Black and Veatch will take approximately two more months to prepare preliminary site plans, renderings, and cost estimates. They will also be preparing construction phase recommendations during this period. It is currently estimated that the first phase of the Shops Complex will serve the City through 1995. Black and Veatch wi 11 be studying what the needs of the Complex would be between now and 1995, based on estimated growth patterns, and submitting cost estimates for that phase. Using the same bas is, they wi 11 then phase and cost-~·out further needs of the Complex through its ultimate use. Once that study is complete, it will be the responsibility of the Finance Department to see that money is placed in the budget for the final design of the first phase. Means of financing the construction are already being studied. At this point in time, it is impossible to tel 1 what will happen as this process evolves, but the Committee is at least hoping that the first phase of construction of the new Shops Complex can get underway in 1983. H&iVE A HAPPY FOURTH OF drJLY * ..*.,*~* �STUDENT SCIENCE INTERNSHIP PROVES BENEFICIAL On January 19, 1981, the Utilities Department and School District #1 jointly coordinated and implemented a senior high school science internship. Meetings were held with Mark Speed, Chief of Water Treatment and Tom Feeley, instructor of water courses at Community College of Red Rocks, to gain added insight and assistance for the science internship. Job descriptions were posted at Highland High School and Mapleton High School. Seniors interested in the Plant Operator Trainee Program then called David Bata, Community Relations Specialist, for an interview and the Plant Operator I test. Selections were based upon interview and test results. Michelle Grise and John Ciancio from Mapleton High School and Debbie Davidson and Cam Boldan from Highland High School were selected for the trainee program. The students recently completed the internship . program and received two full high school credits, minimum wages, and, most importantly, a practical learning experience. The trainees s_p_ent four hours a day, five NEWS FROM: rP@Jm[1□~ w@rn[R~ days a week, for one semester learning the duties and responsibilities of a Plant Operator. Under the guidance and dedication of Terry Jerman, Plant Operator at the Columbine Plant, all four students passed an equivalent D State Plant Operator examination. The examination was actually said to be equivalent to a mild "C" State Plant Operator examination. John Ciancio is currently working this summer at the Thornton Well Fields. Cam Boldan has been hired full time at the Western Hills Treatment Plant a~ Plant Operator. Michelle Grise and Debbie Davidson are both seeking new careers th i s fa 11 i n nu rs i n g . The student internship is unique and is being expanded next school year to include student trainees in other areas of the Utilities Department. There will be student trainees in drafting, billing, contract administration, and plant operation. School Districts #1, #12, #50, and #14 will be encouraged to take part in this program. DAVE BATA 11 11 ~vening at tlie !Jheater ~ WOW! What a month! With the tornado emergency and, before that, the flooding caused by the heavy rains, the Public ~forks Department has not slowed down for a minute. We do wish to thank everyone who turned out· to help with the clean-up. We would also like to thank everyone who turned out to help Maurice Vansoest celebrate his recent retirement. Thirty-seven people had lunch at the Royal Fork in honor of Maurice. We all wish him good luck. Congratulations go to Beckie Gregory for being selected as the Employee of the Month for the month of May. Beckie has been doing a great job since coming aboard in February. She was honored at a luncheon. John Smith was transferred from the Streets Division to the Sanitation Division to fill the position of Maintenance Worker II. Good luck to John. -2S.B. Thornton City employees are invited to attend a performance of the musical, WEST SIDE STORY, on Thursday, September 10, at Boulder's Dinner Theater. Group discount tickets are available for $14.32 per person, which is a savings of over $5.00. Boulder's Dinner Theater features gourmet meals served at your _·table. ( No waiting in buffet lines.) Menu offerings at a recent show included: Prime Rib of Beef, Red Snapper with Hollandaise Sauce, Chicken Cordon Bleu, and Ricotta Crepes. Make plans now to join us on September 10! Call Vicki (ext. 234) for reservations and more information. �NEWSFROM: rIDOJJO[L[Q)O~® [Q)~[¥)£~UU0U~~U FREE DAY AT OUTDOOR POOL City employees are reminded that Tuesday is "free day at the outdoor pool. From noon to l :00 p.m. is adult swim, so bring your Thronton Employee Identification card and your bathing suits and enjoy!! 11 SUMMER CLASS REGISTRATION Registration for the second five weeks of classes this summer is coming up. Early registration will be held on Saturday, July 11, from 9 a.m. to l p.m. at the Recreation Center. Registration week follows, July 13 to 18. Thornton employees and their families may register as residents upon presentation of their Thornton employee cards. MOVIE DAYS Fridays during July are Movie Days at the Recreation Center. Thornton employees, bring your children down to the Recreation Center on Friday afternoons, 3 to 5 p.m., and let them watch G-rated ~ovies while they enjoy popcorn and orange drink--all for 50¢. Don't forget--they'll need to use your Thornton employee card to get in. (Anyone under age 8 must be accompanied by a parent.) FREE OUTDOOR CONCERTS Two free outdoor concerts are planned for July--Nashville Jamboree on July 12, and an American Jazz Festival on July 26. Both concerts will be held at Pecos Park Amphitheter (behind Pecos Junior High School) from 3 to 5 p.m. The entire family is invited. WATER CARNIVAL SCHEDULED On the Fourth of July, there will be a water carnival held at both pools from noon to 6 p.m. Call the Recreation Center for details (extension 265). The Recreation Center will be closed Saturday, July 4. T.W. -3- Needless to say, we have been extremely busy issuing reconstruction permits and handling various calls since the tornado earlier this month. Hopefully, things will quiet down soon so we can catch up on our regular duties. The inspectors have started working a four-day, 10-hour work week beginning the first of June and continuing through the end of August. The schedule was designed to give better service to the public, especially homeowners. We would like to give a big welcome to Colleen Asay from the Adams County Youth Program, who will be working for us this summer. We hope we will be of help to her, as she has been a help to us in getting some of our paperwork caught up. After struggling with a calculator that never gave us the same total twice for the same figures added up, we got a new calculator. The new one is so complicated that Lorraine is about ready to start counting on her fingers and toes--she will probably come to work in sandals one of these days!!! Recently, two Annex employees were seen riding in the rumble seat of a 1931 Delux Model A Roadster driven by Ralph Overbay, Chief Building Official. Ralph's hobby is antique car restoration and he presently has 17 antique cars in various stages of restoration. When Ralph joined the City of Thornton, he drove to Colorado in a 1954 MG-TF classic. Attention, Ordinance Enforcement--those old jalopies you see from time to time in the Annex parking lot are antiques--no tickets, please! c.s. �NEWS FROM: TIDO@rn[illTI@)~ Tirn~illTI~rn~TI rP~ill~TI MA'S RULE. No matter how many pencils or pens there are in the house , none u.Jill ever be u.Jithin l5 feet of a telephone. KAUL'S LAWS. It never rains on water-resistant materials. (2) Do not try to solve all of life's problems at once--learn to dread one day at a time. MRS. MURPHEY'S LAW. Anything than can go wrong will go wrong--WHLLE HE IS OUT OF TOWN. DI Congratulations go to Diane Bird, who was oficially promoted to Administrative Clerk on May 21. Since Liz Miller retired from the Thornton Treatment Plant, Diane has been working solo--so she is looking forward to getting some help when Michelle Campbell starts working at the Treatment Plant as a Clerk II on July 13. Congratulations, also, to Michelle on her graduation from high school. Michelle has been working in the mailroom part-time for about a year while finishing high school. Diane moved up from the mailroom, also (the old starting out in the mailroom routine-one of these days, they'll be president of the company!!) and is happy to be working with Michelle again. 11 11 Ike Clair retired June 4th, and he and Mary Belle will be moving to Montrose, where Ike plans to do a lot of fishing. A party was held for Ike at the Eagles Club with many friends in attendance. Jeff Case accepted a position with the Jack G. Raub Company. His good-bye luncheon was held at the Holiday Inn on June 19th, with 40 people attending. MOfR1~ fR1lUJll~:f ~~ ALDERSON 'S THEOREM. If at first you don't succeed., you are running ahout average. AUNT EMMIE'S LAW. A clever remark is one you don't make at the appropriate moment., but corrrpose immediately after. AUSTIN'S LAW. It tastes better in someone else 's house. BACKUS' LAW. All water is one inch over your boot tops. BARNESS' LAW OF PROBABILITY. There's a 50 percent chance of anything--either it happens or it doesn't. BISHOP'S THEOREM. When you have accumulated sufficient knowledge to get by., you're too old to remember it. BELL'S RULES. (1) Tiny objects., when dX'opped., run and hide. (2) Linear objects (such as wire., string., etc.) when left to their own devices., occupy time by twisting themselves into tangles and weaving knots. (3) The average time between throwing something away and needing it again badly is •· two weeks. EISENSTEIN'S LAW OF TOURISM. If you travel during the season with the best weather., it will be the worst weather in 49 years. Steve Jones left on June 25th to accept a position with Phillips Petroleum Company in Salt Lake City. -4- There is a real void in the Utilities Engineering division without Ike, Jeff, and Steve. We miss them, and wish them all the· very best in their new ventures. We expect to have a full-time drafter on June 29th--meanwhile, Jim Trott is doing some drafting for us this summer before starting college this fall at the University of Wyoming. L.L. �HAPPY BIRTHD Sherry Johnson Sheri Hart Etsle Maggard Steve Partak Peggy Shepard Debbie Davidson Sharon Works Cyri i Leiker Patricia A Lqxrim Harlan Green James Leppek Donald Bisenius Jack BaldhJin John Fletcher Miehe Ll.e Grise Lloyd Gronning Curtis Meier Wi i lard Jacobs Norlin Randal.L Donald Billstone Bertha Kasper Phyllis VanderGast Karen Smith Michael Cutshco.,J Gary Brightenburg Miriam Black Glot-i e Baird Mae Price John Welch Mary Clair Jeffrey Greemood Robert Thomas Ai Zen Gerstner Gwendolynn Berry Michael Morehouse William Caraghar Victor May Bruce Dutton Danie i Harris Larry Jolley Gene Ciancio Devra Adjemian Robert Hobart Coralee Covert 7/1 7/2 7/2 7/2 7/3 7/3 7/5 7/5 7/6 7/7 7/7 7/7 7/7 7/9 7/10 7/12 7/12 7/12 7/13 7/14 7/15 7/15 7/15 7/15 7/15 7/17 7/17 7/17 7/17 7/20 7/20 7/21 7/23 7/23 7/23 7/25 7/25 7/26 7/26 7/27 7/29 7/29 7/29 7/31 Municipal Court Personnel Fleet Maintenance Fire Department City Council Water Maintenance City Council Fire Department Utilities Street Engineering Public Works Recreation Police Department Fire Department Water Maintenance Utilities Parks Parks Fire Department Police Department PayroU Planning Recreation Fire Department Police Department Utilities Payroll Recreation Water Quality Utility Bi Uing Recreation Building Inspection Corrmunity Devel. Recreation Police Department Colwnbine Plant Meter Maintenance Purehasing Recreation Fire Department Municipal Court Fire Department Fire Department Police Department Classified BOARDING OF PETS. Will pick-up and deliver. Contact John Darden at City Court, extension 215 or 217. -5- NEWS FROM: "[['[}{]~ lf Dffii~ [Q)~~&mlMl~OOTI'. M W The Fire Department welcomes the following new employees: DEVRA ADJEMIAN, Clerk II. Devra started with the Fire Department as a Home Surveyor through a grant with Adams County Manpower. When the grant expired, she applied for the position of Clerk II. Devra attends Community College North part-time at nights. CAMERON KASHANI, Part-time research analyst. Cameron is a student at Metro State College, studying Economics. He is working part-time on a residential sprinkler system research project. TRAVIS WILLIAMS, Firefighter IV. Travis come to Colorado 8,000 miles from Ft. Pierce, Florida on his motorcycle on a vacation--he found that he liked it so much, he decided to stay and find a job. He is married and has one son. DAVID CHADWELL, Firefighter IV. David is from southern Orange County, California. He was a firefighter and EMT there for for six years, and fought forest fires with the Forest Department. His hobbies are snowskiing, waterskiing, and backpacking. LEONARD GIULIANO, Firefighter IV. Leonard is from Westminster. He was a student at the University of Colorado, Boulder, and plans to finish his degree in Biology once he is placed on a shift. He likes travelling long distances. MIKE GREBENC, Firefighter IV. Mike is a native Denverite. He has a BA in Aerospace Science, has a flight instructor's license, and flies for the Civil Air Patrol. In addition to flying, he enjoy~ waterskiing. KENT REPLOGLE, Firefighter IV. Kent was a firefighter for ten years with the City of Bryan, Ohio. He is married an has two children. He enjoys camping and snowskiing. We wish all of these employees a warm welcome to the City of Thornton! Candy Radke �r BETTER WATER FOR PEOPLE · WEEK City of Northglenn Adams County City of Thornton City of Westminster Denver Water Department City of Thornton American Water Works Association City of Thornton "Better Water for People Week" was a real success.. Hundreds of school children toured the Columbine Treatment Plant. The students received a detailed explanation of how carefully their water is prepared before it enters their residence. After the tour, the students were bused to City Hall for refreshments. Many customers viewed the water conservation displays at the City Hall. There were many pamphlets and various publications for the taking concerning water conservation and water-related topics. Probably one of the most spectacular events of the Open House was the "Great Bucket Relay Race," held Saturday, May 9, at 10:00 a.m. Teams from the cities of Thornton, Westminster, Northglenn, Brighton, Littleton, Mission Viejo, Commerce City, Federal Heights, Denver, and Adams County entered. We were privileged to have a team from American Water Works Association. The object of the race was to transport a bucket of water as quickly as possible with the least amount of waste, from the Thornton City Hall to the Thornton Water Treatment Plant and back. The Denver Water Department won the race and a fine traveling trophy. The results were as follows: Denver Water Department 1st Place City of Commerce City 2nd Place City of Northglenn 3rd Place Mission Viejo 4th Place 2 lbs., 1 oz. Spilled Bucket This year a water storage symposium was held on May 9 as part of '~etter Water for People Week" with an overwhelming success and participation. The one-day symposium was co-sponsored by the City of Thornton and Water for Colorado, a private organization of water suppliers, city officials, and citizens who are spearheading an effort to promote large scale water storage projects around the state. Senator Fred Anderson, President of the Colorado State Senate, gave the keynote address to the participants of the seminar. Senator Anderson has historically supported legislation in the General Assembly which would enable Colorado to manage and put to use its remaining water entitlements. Senator Anderson stressed the importance of foresight in the use of water resources. The Narrows and Hardin dam and reservoir projects were a few of the many issues discussed at the seminar. The symposium stressed that the Citizens of Colorado develop a coalition to participate in the construction and benefits of storage projects along the Front Range. Also, the underlying symposium theme was "How Should Colorado Deal With Storage in Light of Diminishing Federal Funds." Six other speakers representing federal, state and city governments, and private industry carried the message to 168 persons attending the seminar that they must join forces to protect Colorado water. The seminar was held at the Holiday Inn, Interstate-25 and 120th Avenue. 4 lbs. 3 oz. 3 lbs., 1 oz. 2 lbs., 15 oz. 2 lbs., 8 oz. Federal Heights 1 lb., 13 oz. Water Bandit Award City of Thornton 6 lbs., 8 oz. Water Conservation Award City of Commerce City 3 lbs. , 2 oz. 3 lbs. 2lbs.,12oz. 2 lbs., 9 oz. 2 lbs., 7 oz. 2 lbs., 4 oz. 2 lbs., 2 oz. Dave Bata -6- � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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