https://thorntonco.cvlcollections.org/files/original/834e41ca8d6fe7627502b3c8d3d42527.pdf 0f1a796ace8b44f4061e4b4588a58f5a PDF Text Text ---~----------------------------------------------------'• MONTHLY NEWS FOR THOR~TON CITY E~1PLOYEES Vol. 9 No. 10 October 31, 1980 Prom tfie Cityc:Jvla11f1gerS C/Jesk_ On October 13, the 1981 Budget of $33,514~300 was approved by the City Council. The General Fund Budget of $10,170,800, the main operating fund of the City, includes a 17 percent increase over 1980. The principal objective of the budget is to maintain services at expenditure levels which are within available revenues. To accomplish a balanced budget, nearly $2 million was cut from expenditure requests for needed or desired programs. Several programs will be improved to meet demands for service or to provide support through the addition of new positions scheduled for June, 1981. Eight positions are being added to the Police Department, five of which will be assigned to a new unit defined as a "React Team," and three of which are being added to keep pace with connnunity growth and allow for quicker response to reported incidents. The React Team will have the capability of impacting specialized problems such as narcotics, high risk crime areas and other problem areas which require more attention than current personnel allows. The Fire Department will be adding another paramedic unit, consisting of three firefighters, who respond from the station at 112th and Colorado Boulevard. A clerk is also being added to handle the growing amount of paperwork. A secretary will be hired to provide secretarial services to the new full-time City Attorney and soon-to-be employed Ee- anomic_ Development Director, and a permanent, part-time position in the Municipal Court will be converted to regular full-tim~ status, An Accountant will be added in the Finance Department to perform internal auditing and oversee routing and special accounting activities. To increase inventory control and prepare for anticipated expansion of the stock room supply of parts, equipment and material, a Stock Clerk position is being added. Community Development increases will include a new Building Inspector, a Public Works Clerk, two Maintenance Workers in the Sanitation and Parks Maintenance Division, a Recreation Leader, an Administrative Secr~tary for Parks and R~creation, and a new- Planner. Other items of note for next year include: 1. Construction of a fourth fire station. 2. An expanded Economic Development Program. 3. Increased attention to establishing performance standards for City jobs. 4. Beginning construction of a new City Hall - Public Safety Complex. 5. Expansion of data processing programs for financial and statistical reporting. 6. Review of new technology and procedures for the trash collection operation to im.prove efficiency. 7. Utilization of more plastic striping materials on City streets in lieu of paint. 8. Revision of procedures for snow removal operations and the addition of a plow. 9. Reorganization of the street maintenance operation to oversee and pre-plan activities. Each year the budget becomes a more difficult task, and I wish to acknowledge and thank both the staff and the Council for the hund~ reds of hours devoted to the 1981 budget. !Jlappy !Jltanllsgiving �NEWS FROM: rnrn~rnrnilllf □@~ HOLIDAY CRAFT WORKSHOPS A variety of holiday craft workshops are scheduled to be held at the Thornton Recreation Center, November 24 through November 26. These workshops are for all ages--children and adults. In the tree ornament catagory, the follow-_ ing classes are offered: ~ /JA*'!. ;~~-1~"~ . Calico-c~vered Styrofo~m Balls Old-fashioned Clothespin Dolls Quilted Snowflakes ~ ~~ Macrar:ie Snowflakes ~ ~ Ceramic Ornaments ~ 'JW Dough Ornaments }ft:~ . . ~IIJ' Other workshops offered are: Net Christmas Tree (Centerpiece) Santa Tissue Box Cover Santa Keyhol~ Cover Pine Cone Wreaths Candle-making Greeting Cards Bows Fees range from $2.00 to $5.25 per work-_ shop, which includes all supplies (except for the Pine Cone Wreath class, for which you must bring you~ own pine cones lnd natural dride filler.for the wreath). Registration is being held at the Thornton Recreation Center, 2211 Eppinger Boulevard, through November 17. Classei are being held afternoons and evenings, with baby-sitting _ service provided. Please bring your Thornton Recreation Photo I.D. card with you when you come to register. Call 287-5569 for further iriformation and exact times and fees for each class. of humor, to City Employees for theirfamous or infamous deeds. Some of the categories from last year were: MALE CHAUVINIST PIG AWARD ABSENT-MINDED PROFESSOR AWARD (for the most forgetful person) TRENCH MOUTH AWARD (for the dirtiest jokes) We are looking for new categories for this year's awards. If you have any suggestions for a category (we are asking for categories QQ]_y at this time--later we will publish the categories so you can nominate your favorites) please list them below, and return your suggestions to the Recreation Center or the mailroom--we just may use them! CATEGORY NOMINATIONS: If you have some ideas for this year's Christmas Party, please let us know--call Pete at the Recreation Center, Ext. 265. ~ussett Jtol'er Candy miscount Jate It's that time of year again folks! RUSSELL STOVER CANDY is now on sale. Deadline this year is November 25 for delivery before Christmas. As was the policy last year, we cannot accept personal checks--cash only, please! (We need to order 50 pounds to make our qiscount quota this year.) To place your order, contact any of the following people: City Hall EMPLOYEE CHRISTMAS PARTY AWARD CATEGORIES WANTED Believe. it or not, Christmas is only 58 shopping d~ys away; Part of the festive season is the Employee Christmas Party ahd the much-sbught-after CITY SUPERLATIVES. These awards are presented, with a touch Annex .. Columbine Cit;y Shops Fire Department Police Department Sandy or Diane (ext. 2L.2) Libby (ext. 2L5) Diane (ext. 272) Pat (ext. 273) Candy Irish page 2 �_, , . ~ -~TH··l H· 1 l i 1 l 1 11 1':Ue":•·1 Jl/ LLG'Jl·. 1·,f~i 9 9L :· '£ : ( ·• ·• I , j 9 I '. \' \ J • : . ,1 .• , • , -! ,./ i\ . ~ i I 1 STBIIES llT 111111 'I'he fabled HOLE-IN-THE-WALL GANG has apparently been reunited around their newfound leader~ alias Gerry Backhaus. They recently i.ne'tal.led in their hideout a large (hO/.;J large? --bigger than any door in the bui.Ldi.nq) , 500 pound, 64 square foot_, pocket traffic computer game~ which will (someday) shOI.;) them every traffic light in the city so that they can plan their route of es~~~~T'neir leader was looking for an escape route.when it was discovered that his eight foot by eight foot machine would not fit through a six foot~ six.inch door. This resulted in removing the front door and transom windOI.;) of the annex to get the machine into the building~ and cutting a large hole in the wall in order to move it into the computer room, [o l.Looed by plugging. thornton fe1tival day, McDONALD'S COUPON 0OOKS ON SALE 1981 marks the 25th Anniversary of Thornton's incorporation as a city. A number of events are being planned to c e Leb r at e the occasion. One of these is a new, improved version of Festival Days. A committee of residents and businessmen is currently working on organizing this threedar event, which will take place May 29 - 31. To raise funds to finance Festival Days, the committee has arranged a coupon book sale with McDonald's of Thornton. The_coupon books, which have a redeemable value of _$12.00, are being sold for $2.00. The cornm:ittee hopes to raise $10,000 for Festival _Days through these sales. Coupon books are available at City facilities from the following employees: City Hall • John Miller and Allen Gerstner Annex . • DeGina DeMott Recreati6n Center •. Dorothy Stevenson Fire Department ••• Greg Sheehan Police Department •. Jim Smith -J,. r- r. ·-· • i 1!· .. , • \ ·1 · \ l '. J: I . THORNTON ' up the holes left in its path. The only one left open was the one in Gerry's head, but then it wouldn't do to change a leader's image. -Anoymous THE WORLD'S WORST QUESTIONS Will you promise not to get mad if I ask you something? Do you have statistics to back up that statement? Haven't you any sense of humor? You don't remember me do you? Have I kept you waiting? NOW what's the matter? You asleep? So what? When are you going to grow up? ~~~~~ ~ A baseball coach once.rebuked a confident player who said their team would win becav$e it had "the will to win." "Don't kid yourseif~" said the coach. "The will to win is important~ but ii i er:": worth a nickel unless you have the wfll tc prepare." page 3 �,un Dear Solar Fans, In this i.eeue 's ~ article I am passi;~? ~ 0 on to you some ener;y saving tips from Pub Zic Service. Some of them may seem quite obvious, but sometimes we tend to overlook the obvious. GENERAL --Close the damper on your fireplace when it's not in use. Open da.nrpers can result in a significant amount of heat Zoss. We also highly recommend the use of glass screens. --On cool, sunny days, open the drapes and take advantage of the sun's radiated warmth. At night, close all drapes over windows. Heat esccrpes qui<'Uy through glass. --Clean or change air filters in your fv.rr.ace every two months so that the free fZo-w of wa1>m air will not be irrrcaired. Also tru to arrange furniture ar0. draperies so that they will not interfere with the flaw of heat. u ' ... .c .., Randy Nelson Gail Skuches Wi Uiam Youts Robert Sanchez Albert Rickenbrode Karen Thelen Mark DeLeUis Judi th Wa Lker Pete Di.Domenico . .Werner Horst Sharon Davis Bruce Mann James Creekmore Linda, Moscato Katherine Lindhorst Daniel Boru.chin _='ran Mi Z Len John Ritter David Bata Ruth McCul Lah. John Miller Ward Hor.ton Harry Ewig Joseph Mccloskey Degina DeMott Donald Rohrbauah Anthony Slifk.a" Kenneth Wilder Elizabeth Miller John Harrington Charles Bailey Margaret Carpenter Robert Perry Duane Tinsley Timothy Bartel Robert Wi Leon Lureita Beauvais Walid Hajj Eric Boss Robert Ruskaup Jeffrey Rider 11/1 11/1 11/2 11/2 11/2 11/2 11/3 11/4 11/4 11/4 11/5 11/5 11/11 11/11 11/12 11/12 11/13 11/13 11/14 11/14 11/14 11/14 11/14 11/15 11/16 11/16 11/17 11/18 11/19 11/23 11/23 11/24 11/24 11/24 11/25 11/25 11/26 11/28 11/30 11/30 11/31 Police Police Bldg. Nai.rit . Public Works Police Uti Z i ties Eng. Fire Parks Recreation Police Finance Police Pub Zic fvorks Police City Counci Z Civil Defense· Personnel Police Utilities Finance Bldg. Nai.nt». Recreation Thornton Plant City Council Administration Data Processing Police Bldg. Maint: Columbine Plant Community Dev. Streets Eng. Mayor Personnel Planning Fire Police Purchasing Utilities Admin. Parks Police Uti ic ties Eng. --Avoid unnecessary opening and closing of doors during the uri.ntier , Exhaue i: [ans i.n bathrooms and kitchens also res~Zt in heat Zoss, so use them with discretion. --Have your heating system checked regularly by a qualified contractor. --IN YOUR EFFORTS TO REDUCE 'I'HE LOSS OF HEAT tt:» YC~ sc:«, ,E~_ ~. _. _~~4 :'.r:· tt:. ~r: ':/~ s~.T_-::. INC APPLIANCES ;VEED SUFFICIENT FRESH AIH FOH P.r?OPER COV?/iST!rJH SO AZHAYS MAKE sirn: THERE IS ADEQUATE VENTILATION IN YOUR HCM!:/. more hints next time . 1 ~ 11 : 1 71 PATSY KALLMAN ;~ ~~ ~ ~~ ~ ~~ ~ ~~ ~ ~ .~~~~~~~~~ l11@.llll~1ll1@.llll~tll1@.llll~tll1@.llll!l!11ll1@.II There is a four-word formula for success that applies equally well to organizations or individuals--rnake yourself more useful. DO YOU HAVE A "NOSE FOR NEWS"? DO YOU WANT TO SEE NEWS OF YOUR DEPARTMENT IN THE CITV CHATTER? SUBMIT YOUR ARTICLE TO VICKI BY THE 18TH OF EACH MONTH!! f page 4 � 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/. Title A name given to the resource City Chatter, the Voice of Thornton Employees Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Public Domain: <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/">http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/</a> Date Created Date of creation of the resource. 1972-1982 Subject The topic of the resource Municipal officials and employees--Colorado--Thornton Newsletters Description An account of the resource Drafts and published volumes of City Chatter, a newsletter by and for city employees. It was published for roughly a decade from 1972 to 1982 and contains articles relating to local events, developments in city government, and other topics relevant to city employees. 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