City Council passes balanced budget
The Sunnyvale City Council voted unanimously June 18 to approve a balanced budget for fiscal year 1996-97. The budget includes no increases in taxes or cuts in city services. The council also approved a 20-year financial plan.
City Manager Tom Lewcock said the council approved the city's budget in spite of many uncertainties about budget decisions at the state, federal and local levels.
"I can't remember a time when we didn't have a balanced budget," Lewcock added.
Teens extinguish tobacco ads
Sunnyvale merchants have significantly reduced the amount of tobacco advertising in their stores, thanks to months of effort by teens from Fremont and Homestead high schools.
The teens conducted a survey in May showing that, between fall 1995 and spring of this year, 62 percent of the stores where they had directly intervened had stopped displaying tobacco ads near candy.
Thirty-one percent of targeted retailers stopped displaying tobacco ads at or below three feet. The overall number of tobacco ads inside these stores dropped from 37 ads to 28.
Correction
A June 19 story contained incorrect information attributed to Amanda Williams. The story should have stated that Williams said students wouldn't let her out of the driveway of Loehmann's Plaza and that students pelted a neighbor's dog.
This article appeared in the Sunnyvale Sun, June 26, 1996.
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