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for OV speeding offenders
Court sessions in tiro 'Fuson at one time allowed a work possibility. Litter Valley has liability in-
Valley have periodically for such payments. there needs constant surance coverage should a
turned up a few people who The people who have clearing, worker be injured and the
can't afford or choose not taken part in the working Working off money owed cit sued for not providing
to pay the fines they have have generally been pretty the town is at the discretion a safe place to work.
incurred, appreciative that the op- of the judge. To receive the Jim Kriegh, town
Royal Bouschor, Town tion exists,"Bouschor said. right to make the alternate engineer, comes up with
Magistrate, displays flexi- payment it is necessary to most ideas for the work to
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bility in dealing with these The fine would have been appear in court and plead be undertaken. He said he
situations. an expense they hadn't the case. tries to provide Police
budgeted for and couldn't
"If a person can't pay a Chief Fred Roof with a
pay. The town gives those -By far the majority of
fine right away, we give people choose to pay their running list of jobs that
him a month to do it inwishing to work $2.50 an
," tjnes,". Bouschor said. could be done.
hour credit. They are told
Bouschor said. "If he says "There haven't been
I'm not working, I'm to report to the town office The fines usually involve nearly as many people who
unemployed, fine, he has and are assigned work." a speeding offense. Most wanted to work off fines as
time on his hands and we Work rosters include Oro Valley citations are
-oriented and I would I would have liked,"
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give him the option of repairing road shoulders, Kriegh said. "A lot of
working the fine off." repairing street dips or say that most of the people
wishing to work off fines people think it's a good
Working off fines isn't cleaning out the entrance idea. I have friends who
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original with Oro Valley. to troublesome arroyos, are young people. say it's what they'll do if
Bouschor said that a Bouschor said---thit jhe , Bouschor said That Town -the time comes.
number of cities and towns ditch banks from Ina to the Attorney Walt Henderson "The maintenance load
have similiar policies. Catalina cut-off are always has led him to believe Oro hasn't been taken care of at
all by people working off
Proposedfines,-he continued. "I've
- boundaries set just gotten together a list of
jobs the town will have to
contract out. We've got
for TN GC annexation, potholes in roads and some
‘vork in drainage ditches
Progress toward annex- Drive on the east. contiguity requirement, that can't wait for someone
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ing the Tucson National A western boundary is the annexed area would wanting to work of a fine.
Golf Club and its surround- still undecided. run through the Rancho Roof favors the work
ing subdivisions to Oro Val- In order to meet a legal Verde subdivision, system as an alternative to
ley continues to move slow-
fine paying or arrest when
ly, as a committee corn- a a misdemeanor is involved.
posed of three Tucson Na-
He said offenders often
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tional residents and three think theyve worked off
Oro Valley residents met their fines before the
two weeks ago and es-
stipulated number of hours
tablished some tentative . have been put in.
boundaries. No other observance
According to Oro Valley could be made about the
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Vice-Mayor E. S. "Steve" work habits of a specifi
group. one kind of of-
Engle, spokesman for the
1 fender hasn't proved more
committtee,the committee
has "set out some fairly willing to take his medicine
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definite boundaries" which than another.
have been sent to an en- . -The number of people
taking the work option has
gineering firm for review, been so small, really, and
The boundaries laid out sporadic that no trends at
run between Overton Road all have developed,"
on the north, Magee Road . Bouschor said.
on the south and La Canada '
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