FROM SOCCER TO SWEEPERS; MIDYEAR SPENDING PLAN HIKES FUNDS FOR POLICING, SPORTS.Byline: Jim Skeen Daily News Staff Writer Proposed midyear mid·year n. 1. The middle of the calendar or academic year. 2. a. An examination given in the middle of a school year. b. midyears A series of such examinations. budget revisions call for spending an additional $958,000 to build soccer fields, adding $150,000 to law enforcement efforts, and increasing street sweeping street sweep An investment strategy in which large amounts of a company's stock are quickly purchased. Street sweeps generally occur in the stock of a company involved in a takeover attempt. Also called market sweep. from once to twice a month. City officials said the additional spending can be supported by an increase in projected revenues of approximately $1.4 million, bringing the total general fund revenues to $32.5 million. The additional revenues are coming from a variety of sources, including increased funding from the state from vehicle registration fees and gas taxes, additional funding from hotel taxes and from federal grants for law enforcement. The additional $958,000 for soccer fields will allow Lancaster to add 12 more fields to its soccer complex being developed between Avenues K-12 and L, near 30th Street East. By September 1998, the complex will have 29 fields. ``We're moving ahead with the leveling and ground preparation,'' said Jeff Long Jeff Long is an American writer. Long is an experienced climber, and Rock climbing often manifests in his writing. Bibliography Fiction
pl.n. Construction projects, such as highways or dams, financed by public funds and constructed by a government for the benefit or use of the general public. Noun 1. . ``That takes a couple of months. Then when the weather turns warmer, in February or March, we will plant grass.'' The increase for law enforcement includes $50,000 for a child-abuse prevention program the Antelope Valley This article is about the Los Angeles County region. For the census-designated place in Wyoming, see Antelope Valley-Crestview, Wyoming. The Antelope Valley Hospital is spearheading. That program is aimed at assisting parents considered to be at high risk for abusing their children. The other $100,000 for law enforcement will go toward the city's target-oriented policing programs. Those programs include gang and graffiti graffiti Form of visual communication, usually illegal, involving the unauthorized marking of public space by an individual or group. Technically the term applies to designs scratched through a layer of paint or plaster, but its meaning has been extended to other markings. enforcement, prostitution prostitution, act of granting sexual access for payment. Although most commonly conducted by females for males, it may be performed by females or males for either females or males. sweeps and the city's Target-Oriented Policing, or ``TOP Bomb,'' program, in which two-deputy patrol cars are directed toward problem areas or to look for particular crimes. ``As we think there is a particular issue that is problematic we will apply a program to it,'' said Assistant City Manager Dennis Davenport Davenport, city (1990 pop. 95,333), seat of Scott co., E central Iowa, on the Mississippi River; inc. 1836. Bridges connect it with the Illinois cities of Rock Island and Moline; the three communities and neighboring Bettendorf, Iowa, are known as the Quad Cities. . The additional revenues will allow the city to resume street sweeping twice a month instead of once, at a cost of $73,000 for the last half of the fiscal year, which ends June 30. The city cut back on street sweeping after opting to drop an $80-a-year landscape maintenance tax and a $45-a-year street light tax in the wake of the passage last November of Proposition 218. Proposition 218 blocks municipal governments from enacting property-based assessments without voter approval. The revised budget will be considered at a City Council at 7 p.m. tonight at City Hall, 44933 Fern Ave. CAPTION(S): Photo PHOTO (color) Parks worker Lenny Spellman fixes a sprinkler line at the Lancaster Regional Soccer Complex. Shaun Dyer/Special to the Daily News |
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