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The Banner-Press - Your Butler County News Source

• Services Wednesday for Doris A. Bouc
  
  
  Doris A. Bouc, age 53 of Brainard, NE died Nov. 20, 2009 at her home. She was born Mar. 4, 1956 in Lincoln, NE to Stanley and Rose (Jirovsky) Bartek.
  
  She grew up near Agnew and attended a country school there. She later graduated from Raymond Central High School in 1974. After high school, Doris worked at A.C. Nielson in Lincoln. On Nov. 27, 1976, she was united in marriage to Glenn Bouc at St. Joseph Catholic Church in Agnew.
  
• City Council to conduct special meeting
  The City Council will conduct a special meeting at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 24.
  
  On the agenda are items related to the continued operation of the David City Police Department in the wake of the departure of Chief Steve Sunday and Officer Kevin Broman.
  
  Sunday resigned last week after an executive session of the City Council, during which Mayor Dana Trowbridge told him he was strongly considering not to re-appoint Sunday in December.
  
  Broman resigned on Friday.
  
• NPPD announces rate hikes, budget cuts
  
  COLUMBUS - The Nebraska Public Power District's Board of Directors has taken steps to cope with its budget challenges.
  
  The board voted to increase electric rates an average of 5.7 percent for retail customers those end-use customers that receive a bill from NPPD directly, and 5.9 percent for wholesale customers - those other Nebraska utilities that purchase power from NPPD and sell to their end-use or retail customers.
  The changes will go into effect Jan. 1, 2010.
  
• Mayor seeks sales tax committee
  
  Mayor Dana Trowbridge has asked citizens to let him know if they want to serve on a committee to determine a direction for the future of the city's sales tax.
  
  The current sales tax of 1 percent "sunsets" in October 2010 after at 10-year run. The tax will have raised an estimated $2.6 million by next year.
  
• Schemmer Associates hired to design municipal building
  The City Council voted Wednesday night to hire Schemmer Associates Inc. of Lincoln as the engineering and architectural firm to design a municipal building which would house the city offices and the police department.
  
  The vote was 5-0, with Councilman Gary Smith absent.
  
  Other companies submitting proposals were Gilmore and Associates of Columbus, Prochaska and Associates of Omaha and Olsson Associates of Lincoln.
  
• Park Supervisor: "I'm working with city"
  
  
  On Thursday, Park Supervisor Bill Buntgen said he had very little to say about  the Nov. 18 City Council meeting, when several citizens rose to speak in support of him.
  
  Buntgen emerged from an executive session with the council. Mayor Dana Trowbridge had announced that the closed session was called, in part, to discuss personnel matters.
  
  Following the executive session the Council made no announcements regarding Buntgen's job.
  
  Early in the meeting, Trowbridge and City Attorney Jim Egr both stated that the
• Gaston: Citizens exploring initiative, referendum
  
  The Nov. 18 City Council  meeting brought a 10-minute exchange of words from citizens who were active in the failed effort to remove Mayor Dana Trowbridge from office.
  
  Their concern this time was directed at the suspension last week of Park Supervisor Bill Buntgen by City Administrator Joe Johnson.
  The City Council and Johnson made no statements regarding Buntgen's job status.
  
• Mayor presents recall challenge legal bill during Council meeting
  
  Note to those who want to run for city office: Being in office and facing a recall can be expensive.
  That was the point Mayor Dana Trowbridge said he wanted to make when he put Item 12 on the Nov. 18 City Council agenda.
  A document listed the $10,232 attorney's bill that Trowbridge faces for challenging the recent recall filed against him. His challenge succeeded.
• Sunday saw "handwriting on the wall"
  By Larry Peirce
  Banner-Press Editor Steve Sunday said he is extremely disappointed, but not angry, that he was not able to stay on as police chief of David City.
  
  A 37-year-veteran of law enforcement, he tendered his resignation Wednesday night a month and a half shy of the 26th anniversary of his hiring.
  
  He talked about his departure from the job Thursday after attending a Rural Apprehension Program meeting in York.  Like other city department heads, he was facing his annual re-appointment decision next month.
  
• David City Police Chief Steve Sunday resigns
  By Larry Peirce
  Banner-Press EditorUpdated 5 p.m. Friday, Nov. 20
  
  Police Chief Steve Sunday tendered his resignation during an executive session Wednesday night at the City Council meeting.
  
  After the meeting, City Administrator Joe Johnson said the public should be re-assured that local police protection would not be interrupted.