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Jane Ratcliffe, CEO of Great Yarmouth Borough Council, at University Campus Suffolk (UCS) Yarmouth graduation ceremony at Yarmouth Minster last year. Picture: James Bass

Lauren Rogers Friday, January 10, 2014 10:53 AM

Great Yarmouth Borough Council will next week consider options to temporarily cover the work of its chief executive, Jane Ratcliffe, who is now seriously ill with cancer.

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A special meeting of the borough councils cabinet will take place on Tuesday to discuss three short-term options to ensure the statutory and strategic duties of her role are fulfilled in her absence.

Mrs Ratcliffe, who was appointed to the permanent post in January 2013, has not been at work full-time since late November, and is expected to remain on leave for the next three to six months to undergo treatment.

On Tuesday, cabinet will consider three options for providing the necessary temporary management cover during this period. Full council, which is scheduled to meet as normal on Tuesday, will then be asked to endorse the decision.

The options are:

1. The recruiting of an interim full-time replacement of the post of CEO;

2. One of the borough councils existing three directors acts up to provide full-time cover of the chief executives duties;

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The Corvallis Economic Development Commission will discuss its priorities for 2014 and hear an update on the Regional Accelerator Innovation Network from Mayor Julie Manning at its 3 p.m. Monday meeting at the Madison Avenue Meeting Room.

In other public meetings:

Monday

The Corvallis School Board will meet at 6:30 p.m. in the district office, 1555 S.W. 35th St. The agenda includes a presentation on a potential expansion to the teen center at the Boys & Girls Club of Corvallis, which is located on property the district is leasing to the club.

The Corvallis Public Participation Task Force will hold a special outreach session at 6:30 p.m. at the Corvallis-Benton County Public Library, 645 N.W. Monroe Ave. The task force hopes to hear suggestions for improvements from members of city boards and commissions and neighborhood associations.

The Philomath City Council meets at 7 p.m. at City Hall, 980 Applegate St. and will discuss appointments to the Planning Commission and Budget Committee and a contract offer for the Philomath Police Personnel Association.

The Monroe School Board meets at 7 p.m. in the library at Monroe High School, 365 N. Fifth St. The boards agenda includes finalizing appointments to a special committee that will screen potential candidates for the new superintendent of the district.

Tuesday

The Corvallis Citizens Advisory Commission on Transit meets at 8:20 a.m. in the Madison Avenue Meeting Room, 500 S.W. Madison Ave.

The Corvallis Commission for Martin Luther King Jr., meets at 5:15 p.m. at the Osborn Aquatic Center, 1940 N.W. Highland Drive.

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Habitat for Humanity Quad-Cities is branching out to housing rehab.

The nonprofit Christian housing organization that has built 80 newhomes in this area since 1993 has been donated atwo-bedroomMoline bungalowthat it will rehabilitate for about $30,000 and sell to a low-income family.

The 1920s-era home was givento Habitat by Bank of America via a new national alliance in which up to 2,000 foreclosed-upon properties will be turned over to various Habitat affiliates over the next three years.

Habitat has long shied away from rehab for several reasons, including the fact that older homes can have lead abatement issues, and theycan be "money pits," requiring moreto repair than they are worth, said Dougal Nelson, the director of development for Habitat Quad-Cities.

But the Bank of America homes offer a good opportunity because if Habitat can rehab a solid, existing property to near-new condition at half the cost of a new home, the organization can serve more people, he said.

"It's a great way to serve more families and to improve neighborhoods," he added. "No one wants a vacant home on their street. I'm thrilled."

Habitat provides the bank with postal ZIP codes for its coverage area and a profile of the desired square footage, number of bedrooms and so forth. The bank then reviews its properties, looking for suitable matches.

But because the bank staff is "lookingfrom afar,they dont always have a handle on suitability," Nelson said. "It rests on us to look at the property and be able to get back to them within seven days to say yes or no."

Habitat considersoverall condition, size, tax affordability andenergy efficiency, he said.

The Moline house is "in great shape and the perfect size" at about 1,000 square feet, he said. The taxes are affordable, it has new windows, some new insulation and a high-efficiency furnace, plus it has vinyl siding, meaning less future maintenance.

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Residential roofing firm A.R. Roofing is adding a commercial division.

The Pratt-based company said Gabe Goepfert, a three-year employee in Nebraska who also is a former commercial contractor, will lead the new division.

Goepfert will be based in Pratt.

A company official said Thursday that A.R. Roofing has been doing some commercial roofing work on request in the past five years jobs that came about from its residential work.

Recently the company has seen increasing demand for that type of work, said Phil Haase, a storm operations team member and marketer for A.R. Roofing.

It just kind of took on a life of its own, Hasse said.

Besides Pratt, A.R. Roofing operates an office at 4010 W. Irving in Wichita, and it has operations in Tulsa and Hastings, Neb. It does about 1,200 roof installations a year, company officials said.

The privately owned company was founded in 1995 and has more than 40 employees.

Haase said the company is actively hiring, including plans to add up to four sales people, partly to support the new division.

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INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) - The warm thaw is good news for roads and sidewalks, but could be bad news for homeowners. Roofing companies say they are starting to see problems.

Ice dams are when ice clogs up gutters, and they are the main concern for roofing companies.

The companies 24-Hour News 8 spoke with say that's a sign of a bigger problem. They said homeowners should beware that there isn't a quick fix.

With one glance at an older home, roofing experts already know a leak in the walls could be in its future.

Tim Williams runs T. Morgan Construction and knows his company is going to get a little busier in the coming days.

The phones start ringing in the office and people want you to come out and get rid of the ice that's on their roof, he said.

While it might seem like a good idea to chip away at the ice or remove the snow to keep a leak from happening, roofers disagree.

The first thing that you don't want to do is begin taking a hammer or a shovel or anything to your roof.

Williams said that might damage the gutters or shingles, creating more problems in the long run.

So rather than finding yourself cleaning up a flooded mess in your home, Williams says your best bet is prevention.

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A LANDSCAPER who posed as a roofer to carry out 9,000 worth of shoddy work has been given a suspended jail term. Bill Buckley suffered in the recession and resorted to roofing to try to keep his family together, Bristol Crown Court heard.

But, due to his hopeless lack of ability and aggressive trading, he ended up in court after taking 9,300 from three customers for useless or unnecessary repairs.

In one case he was paid more than 4,000 to install a new garage roof but instead he demolished the garage and built a carport, which leaked rain and was too short for the car it was intended for.

Buckley, 45, of Whiteladies Road with a Clifton-based company, pleaded guilty to three offences under the Fraud Act 2006, and five under the Consumer Protection from Unfair Trading Regulations 2008.

The prosecution was brought by Bristol City Council Trading Standards staff after complaints were made about the trading practices of Buckley and his company JB Roofing, based at Triangle West.

Judge Michael Longman imposed a six-month prison sentence, suspended for two years. He ordered Buckley to do 300 hours' unpaid work and be subject to a year's supervision.

The judge also made a five-year order banning Buckley from doing building work, including construction, maintenance and repair.

Judge Longman told him: "You pleaded guilty to eight offences, representing a course of behaviour whereby, working on people's homes, you used dishonest and unsavoury business practice. You have no skill as a roofer. You believed it might prove more lucrative during an economic downturn."

Buckley pleaded guilty to the fraudulent claim that he was a "specialist" in roofing.

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