May 30, 1973 (12 pages)

perma spacineerrse Capitol Comment By Earl G. Waters POLICE PAY By EARLG. WATERS Among the various efforts to upgrade law enforcement throughout the state is a measure by Assemblyman Walter Karabian which would establish a uniform retirement program for all police officers. in It is Karabian’s theory that such action would increase police proficiency by permitting them to move from one jurisdiction to another without sacrificing their retirement benefits. The idea of lateral moves by police officers has had increasing support among police administrators who’feel it would introduce new concepts into stagnating departments. A strong advocate of transfers between police agencies is Highway Patrol Commissioner Walter Pudinski. His position is understandable since his agency performs limited police work and has an inadequate promotional program. But others not confronted with such problems also favor the idea. “If police organizations are to achieve professional status the officers need to move laterally to any region in the state,’’ says Gerald Townsend, director of education for the State Peace Officers Standards Commission. ‘One of the greatest restraints upon such mobility has been the retirement constraints of the local systems.”’ Karabian’s bill proposes that all local law enforcement officers would be granted retirement at half pay after 20 years or full pay after 30 years. It would affect more than 25,000 police and deputy : sheriffs. He concedes that if his bill passed it would be the most generous retirement program in the state and probably in the nation. But he said it would encourage early retirement and permit younger officers to move up thereby improving morale. While the Commission has taken no official position on the bill, Townsend declared it to be ‘‘A fine piece of legislation on the whole. The Commission studied it and I personally feel it contains needed provisions to promote the professional standards equally in police departments throughout the state.” As to its effects on local government Karabian contends city and county governments would benefit because the state would pay half the costs. He did not however provide any estimates of those costs. Whatever merit Karabian’s proposal may have its obstacles will be greater than the unspecified price tag the bill would impose upon the state. For it is difficult to understand how the program would work unless the state also established standards for salaries as well as retirement benefits. Currently police salaries are established mostly on the basis of what one city pays compared to another with no other criteria involved. Thus San Francisco, Los Angeles and Oakland are constantly being jockeyed for higher salaries as one exceeds the other. The normal methods of comparing like work in private industry cannot be made since the private sector does not hire police. It is inconceivable that many would leave high salaried departments to accept something less regardless of any desire to improve their ‘‘professional status” or the guarantee of continued retirement benefits. Further it is not clear how a guaranteed 50 per cent retirement benefit would encourage lateral transfers into situations where that rate was applied to a salary half as great as the one they left. Probably the: only real method of accomplishing the goals Karabian aims at would be to establish state salary standards for the police. Such an act would eliminate the quandary local governments now face in salary setting by having it already determined. And it would eliminate the present game of playing one jurisdiction against another. If the law establisheda base pay however, it would probably require extra allowances in high living cost areas to make it workable. But that could only be done if the state undertook to subsidize police pay. And that would be the only was the state could impose a statewide salary standard upon local government. What must first be answered is not just how desireable all this might be but how necessary it is to assure good law enforcement. Nevada Union scholarships Five Nevada Union High Purebred Beef Breeders Wed., May 30,1973 The Nevada County Nugget 3 Veterans plan installation dinner in June Veterans of Foreign , Wars. Banner Mountain Post and Auxiliary will hold a joint installation ceremony June 3 at the Nevada City Veterans Memorial Hall. Mr. and Mrs. Tom Bernall are the outgoing commander and president and Mr. and Mrs. Frank Smith are the commander and president-elect. Gene Jeffers and Ada. Bell Barajas will be the installing officers for the 2 p.m. ceremony, to. be followed by a_ putluck dinner. New post officers will be Jim Parker, H. Nolan, Emery LaFountain, Milburn Hendrick, R. Lavelle, L. Hoskins, J. Johnson and R. Hicks. New auxiliary officers are Janet Bernall, Eulla Wright, Lucille Garner, Irene Gordon, Ginger Parker, Dean Hicks, Gertrude Edison, Delores Lavelle, Marvel Purdy and Laura Kalben. Capt. Fontana honored CAPT. CHRISTOPHER E. FONTANA received the Air Force commendation medal recently for meritorious service while he was attached to the 3rd Weather Wing at Dyess Air Force Base, Texas. Fontana completed his tour of duty with the U.S. Air Force in March and is now employed by the U.S. Weather Service in Portland, Oregon. Fontana is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Fontana of Grass Valley. Fleece-fabric summer course fabric from 9 a.m. until 4 p.m. on A college extension course, fleece to fabric, will be given this summer at Nevada Union High School. Chris Rex will teach extension course X 446.4 which covers all fibers; including wool for sorting, washing, spinning and weaving: plus the making of a hand loom to weave the fibers thus prepared. The fee for the course is $40 and is worth two credits. Mrs. Rex will teach fleece to four successive Tuesdays, beginning June 26. Those wishing to preregister may write the University fo California at Davis Extension Section, Davis, or register the first day of the course. School Agriculture students were awarded scholarships at the recent 17th annual Future Farmers of America ParentMember banquet. It was held in the multi-purpose room of the high school and attended by about 300 persons. Cliff Kitts and Tom Conway were both awarded Ghidotti Foundation scholarships presented by Mrs. Marion Ghidotti. Leslie Stanley won the Nevada County Association scholarship presented by Mrs. Ghidotti as president of NCPBBA. The Placer Nevada Cowbelles and California Bankers Association presented scholarships to Steve Paasch, with Coy Miller, CBA member making the Banker’s presentation. Don Sauer won the Sierra Aggie scholarship presented by Jerry VanRien, Sierra College faculty. Solving the energy problem willbe expensive. — For you as well as for us. More costly fuel supplies, construction schedule delays, high interest rates, inflation and the increasing costs of protecting the environment all add up to higher utility rates. At PG&E we’re doing everything we can to provide you with reliable gas and electric service and to keep rates as low as possible. But rates are higher today and they’l] continue to increase. Here’s a closer look at the reasons why: Higher fuel costs. The search for new gas supplies, including exploration in Canada and the Alaskan north slope, is expensive. Such gas will cost more and bringing it from greater distances will add to its price. Alternatives such as synthetic gas, gas made from coal, and importing liquefied natural gas could cost even more. Besides natural gas, only low-sulfur oil is acceptable as fuel in steam-clectric power plants under present air pollution control standards. And we have to pay high premium prices for low-sulfur oil. (When the costs of oil and natural gas go up, so must electric rates, because most of our steam-electric power plants are fueled by gas or oil.) Construction schedule delays. Regulatory procedures, involving 30 or more public agencies, are taking longer and longer. And new laws have established more complicated procedures for plant siting and 9248-1578 construction. All these slow down construction schedules, and inflation alone is adding substantially to costs during these periods of delay. Environmental costs. It costs more to put power lines underground, to build and landscape esthetically pleasing plants, to. minimize stack emissions and to cool the water discharged from power plants. During the period 1973-76, PG&E's environmental costs will excee@ $300 million. Higher interest rates. Utilities are “capital intensive’industries. That means money to build new facilities must be raised-in vast sums. Our construction program this year will exceed $600 million.And interest rates have risen from 4!2% in 1965 to about 72% today, which adds more millions to the cost of gas and electric service. All these things, plus the inflationary pressures which affect business, add up to higher costs for us and higher rates for our customers. The era of plentiful energy at bargain rates is ending. Our job is to hold down costs wherever possible, without sacrificing the environment or the quality and reliability of your service. We’re working hard to meet that challenge. You can help—by not wasting gas and electricity and by understanding the reasons why your utility bill is going up. Like almost everything else. K™@G2ne]E)

perma spacineerrse Capitol Comment By Earl G. Waters POLICE PAY By EARLG. WATERS Among the various efforts to upgrade law enforcement throughout the state is a measure by Assemblyman Walter Karabian which would establish a uniform retirement program for all police officers. in It is Karabian’s theory that such action would increase police proficiency by permitting them to move from one jurisdiction to another without sacrificing their retirement benefits. The idea of lateral moves by police officers has had increasing support among police administrators who’feel it would introduce new concepts into stagnating departments. A strong advocate of transfers between police agencies is Highway Patrol Commissioner Walter Pudinski. His position is understandable since his agency performs limited police work and has an inadequate promotional program. But others not confronted with such problems also favor the idea. “If police organizations are to achieve professional status the officers need to move laterally to any region in the state,’’ says Gerald Townsend, director of education for the State Peace Officers Standards Commission. ‘One of the greatest restraints upon such mobility has been the retirement constraints of the local systems.”’ Karabian’s bill proposes that all local law enforcement officers would be granted retirement at half pay after 20 years or full pay after 30 years. It would affect more than 25,000 police and deputy : sheriffs. He concedes that if his bill passed it would be the most generous retirement program in the state and probably in the nation. But he said it would encourage early retirement and permit younger officers to move up thereby improving morale. While the Commission has taken no official position on the bill, Townsend declared it to be ‘‘A fine piece of legislation on the whole. The Commission studied it and I personally feel it contains needed provisions to promote the professional standards equally in police departments throughout the state.” As to its effects on local government Karabian contends city and county governments would benefit because the state would pay half the costs. He did not however provide any estimates of those costs. Whatever merit Karabian’s proposal may have its obstacles will be greater than the unspecified price tag the bill would impose upon the state. For it is difficult to understand how the program would work unless the state also established standards for salaries as well as retirement benefits. Currently police salaries are established mostly on the basis of what one city pays compared to another with no other criteria involved. Thus San Francisco, Los Angeles and Oakland are constantly being jockeyed for higher salaries as one exceeds the other. The normal methods of comparing like work in private industry cannot be made since the private sector does not hire police. It is inconceivable that many would leave high salaried departments to accept something less regardless of any desire to improve their ‘‘professional status” or the guarantee of continued retirement benefits. Further it is not clear how a guaranteed 50 per cent retirement benefit would encourage lateral transfers into situations where that rate was applied to a salary half as great as the one they left. Probably the: only real method of accomplishing the goals Karabian aims at would be to establish state salary standards for the police. Such an act would eliminate the quandary local governments now face in salary setting by having it already determined. And it would eliminate the present game of playing one jurisdiction against another. If the law establisheda base pay however, it would probably require extra allowances in high living cost areas to make it workable. But that could only be done if the state undertook to subsidize police pay. And that would be the only was the state could impose a statewide salary standard upon local government. What must first be answered is not just how desireable all this might be but how necessary it is to assure good law enforcement. Nevada Union scholarships Five Nevada Union High Purebred Beef Breeders Wed., May 30,1973 The Nevada County Nugget 3 Veterans plan installation dinner in June Veterans of Foreign , Wars. Banner Mountain Post and Auxiliary will hold a joint installation ceremony June 3 at the Nevada City Veterans Memorial Hall. Mr. and Mrs. Tom Bernall are the outgoing commander and president and Mr. and Mrs. Frank Smith are the commander and president-elect. Gene Jeffers and Ada. Bell Barajas will be the installing officers for the 2 p.m. ceremony, to. be followed by a_ putluck dinner. New post officers will be Jim Parker, H. Nolan, Emery LaFountain, Milburn Hendrick, R. Lavelle, L. Hoskins, J. Johnson and R. Hicks. New auxiliary officers are Janet Bernall, Eulla Wright, Lucille Garner, Irene Gordon, Ginger Parker, Dean Hicks, Gertrude Edison, Delores Lavelle, Marvel Purdy and Laura Kalben. Capt. Fontana honored CAPT. CHRISTOPHER E. FONTANA received the Air Force commendation medal recently for meritorious service while he was attached to the 3rd

Weather Wing at Dyess Air Force Base, Texas. Fontana completed his tour of duty with the U.S. Air Force in March and is now employed by the U.S. Weather Service in Portland, Oregon. Fontana is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Fontana of Grass Valley. Fleece-fabric summer course fabric from 9 a.m. until 4 p.m. on A college extension course, fleece to fabric, will be given this summer at Nevada Union High School. Chris Rex will teach extension course X 446.4 which covers all fibers; including wool for sorting, washing, spinning and weaving: plus the making of a hand loom to weave the fibers thus prepared. The fee for the course is $40 and is worth two credits. Mrs. Rex will teach fleece to four successive Tuesdays, beginning June 26. Those wishing to preregister may write the University fo California at Davis Extension Section, Davis, or register the first day of the course. School Agriculture students were awarded scholarships at the recent 17th annual Future Farmers of America ParentMember banquet. It was held in the multi-purpose room of the high school and attended by about 300 persons. Cliff Kitts and Tom Conway were both awarded Ghidotti Foundation scholarships presented by Mrs. Marion Ghidotti. Leslie Stanley won the Nevada County Association scholarship presented by Mrs. Ghidotti as president of NCPBBA. The Placer Nevada Cowbelles and California Bankers Association presented scholarships to Steve Paasch, with Coy Miller, CBA member making the Banker’s presentation. Don Sauer won the Sierra Aggie scholarship presented by Jerry VanRien, Sierra College faculty. Solving the energy problem willbe expensive. — For you as well as for us. More costly fuel supplies, construction schedule delays, high interest rates, inflation and the increasing costs of protecting the environment all add up to higher utility rates. At PG&E we’re doing everything we can to provide you with reliable gas and electric service and to keep rates as low as possible. But rates are higher today and they’l] continue to increase. Here’s a closer look at the reasons why: Higher fuel costs. The search for new gas supplies, including exploration in Canada and the Alaskan north slope, is expensive. Such gas will cost more and bringing it from greater distances will add to its price. Alternatives such as synthetic gas, gas made from coal, and importing liquefied natural gas could cost even more. Besides natural gas, only low-sulfur oil is acceptable as fuel in steam-clectric power plants under present air pollution control standards. And we have to pay high premium prices for low-sulfur oil. (When the costs of oil and natural gas go up, so must electric rates, because most of our steam-electric power plants are fueled by gas or oil.) Construction schedule delays. Regulatory procedures, involving 30 or more public agencies, are taking longer and longer. And new laws have established more complicated procedures for plant siting and 9248-1578 construction. All these slow down construction schedules, and inflation alone is adding substantially to costs during these periods of delay. Environmental costs. It costs more to put power lines underground, to build and landscape esthetically pleasing plants, to. minimize stack emissions and to cool the water discharged from power plants. During the period 1973-76, PG&E's environmental costs will excee@ $300 million. Higher interest rates. Utilities are “capital intensive’industries. That means money to build new facilities must be raised-in vast sums. Our construction program this year will exceed $600 million..And interest rates have risen from 4!2% in 1965 to about 72% today, which adds more millions to the cost of gas and electric service. All these things, plus the inflationary pressures which affect business, add up to higher costs for us and higher rates for our customers. The era of plentiful energy at bargain rates is ending. Our job is to hold down costs wherever possible, without sacrificing the environment or the quality and reliability of your service. We’re working hard to meet that challenge. You can help—by not wasting gas and electricity and by understanding the reasons why your utility bill is going up. Like almost everything else. K™@G2ne]E)