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Deathnotices insalestaxrevenue. A 4.5 percent increase in police, fire and miscella- neous wages is included in theproposedbudgetbecause of existing agreements. The increase comes at a general fund cost of $134,000. Other general fund costs highlighted by the budget committee include funding to retain a sworn officer posi- tion, increased spending to- ward employee retirement and health costs, additional funding for technology ser- vices and computer mainte- nance and municipal election costs, among other costs. The budget, according to the proposal, will see sav- ings in a proposed revised agreement with the Te- hama County animal shel- ter, decreased public safety spending and in decreased funding allocations for the Red Bluff-Tehama County Chamber of Commerce, the county library, 3Core and the Tehama Economic De- velopment Corporation. AnimalCareCenter The City Council will take on a proposed change to the way the city is billed for ser- vices provided by the Te- hama County Animal Care Center, resulting in an es- timated $20,000 in savings to the city, according to the proposal. Animal shelter costs to the city of Red Bluff have surged since the 2000-01 fis- cal year, when the city paid about $12,300 for its share of the shelter's operations. In the 2013-14 fiscal year, shelter costs to the city to- taled about $105,000. The proposed agreement between the county and city would determine billing on a per capita basis, using county population data, in- stead of charging per ani- mal. The city's 2013-14 pay- ment was based on the shel- ter taking in 2,016 dogs and cats, of which 637 were from Red Bluff. Red Bluff Police Chief Paul Nanfito in January said the shelter has little way of knowing whether an animal is from Red Bluff because the shelter only charges res- idents a fee if animals are reported as unwanted, and not if animals are reported as strays. According to the revised agreement, which would be the first change since the current agreement was ad- opted in 1989, the new bill- ing criteria would end dis- putes "over whether a given animal is a 'city animal' or a 'county animal.'" The 2014-15 cost to the city will be set at $82,127, according to the proposed agreement and proposed city budget. The Red Bluff City Coun- cil meeting is set for 7 p.m. Tuesday at 555 Washing- ton St. Budget FROM PAGE 1 against the San Benito project, which will create a newalignment near Holmes Road, citing a concern the improved road conditions would raise speeds in the area. He supported the other two projects. The Orangewood proj- ect will fix a dip in the road near Walnut Road and the Tehama-Colusa Canal. Public Works Director Gary Antone said the dip is so bad a vehicle can be com- pletely out of the vision of a driver coming the other di- rection. All three projects are be- ing funded by a 90-10 fed- eral-local split. The federal portion is coming form Fed- eral Highway Safety Im- provement Program Funds to fix roads with high levels of accidents and fatalities. Tehama County is pro- viding the 10 percent match with Prop 1B funds. Bids for all three projects came in below engineer es- timates. The San Benito project is scheduled to begin in May and end in June. The other two projects have June starts scheduled with July end dates. Antone said he expected the projects to "move rap- idly" this summer into the fall. Project FROM PAGE 1 some of our families from all aspects of tribal activi- ties." On Wednesday, the tribe's chairman, Andy Freeman, accused some tribal members of theft and misappropriation of more than $1 million of tribal funds. The members, he said, were suspended dur- ing the tribe's annual gen- eral council meeting April 12, and had access to tribal accounts and assets be- cause of the positions they held within the tribe. In the news release is- sued Friday, it's said that no members have been sus- pended or disenrolled. Four of the five mem- bers on the tribe's coun- cil, of which Freeman is a member, also claim they have been banned from tribal properties, including the casino, its golf course, Rolling Hills health clinics and tribal offices, and that armed guards were hired to keep them away. "The allegations were ri- diculous, and ultimately the judge shut it down," Swear- inger said. "Frankly, this is simply more evidence that the duly elected Tribal Council needs to be allowed to take our rightful posi- tion on the tribal grounds so that we can move tribal business forward." The four members on the tribal council, includ- ing Swearinger, Leslie Lohse, Geraldine Freeman and Allen Swearinger, said in a newsletter to the tribe issued Wednesday that they continue to seek an inter- nal resolution to the "tribal rift," adding that they still seek to work with Andy Freeman. Tribe FROM PAGE 1 By Brady Mccombs The Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY The body of at least one baby found in the garage of a Utah woman accused of killing six of her newbornsoveradecadewas covered in a chemical that smelled like iodine, accord- ing to documents made pub- lic Friday. In addition, suspect Me- gan Huntsman told police in a phone conversation on the day the first body was found byherhusbandthatthebaby was stillborn and she had been afraid to go to police or a hospital, the search war- rant affidavit says. Authorities also reported findingbloodyleathergloves and women's underwear in the garage, and infant boo- ties and clothes in the mas- ter bedroom. Police took stained sections of a mat- tress in the master bedroom as evidence. Police have said Darren West, the estranged hus- bandofHuntsman,39,found thefirstbodyafteropeninga smallwhiteboxcoveredwith electrician'stapeonApril12. The documents released Friday state that West also told police he discovered the baby in a plastic bag with a strong chemical odor ema- nating from it. West said there was no decomposition smell, just a chemical odor. Police in Pleasant Grove discovered the six other dead babies after obtain- ing a search warrant for the house. They were in boxes throughout the garage, wrapped in shirts or towels, documents show. Huntsman later acknowl- edged that from 1996 to 2006, she strangled or suf- focated six of the babies, put them in plastic bags and packed them inside boxes in thegaragesouthofSaltLake City, separate court docu- ment states. Huntsmansaidoneinfant foundinthegaragewasstill- born. Huntsman has been charged with six counts of first-degreemurder.Shehas not entered a plea. Investigators say they know Huntsman's motive but declined to discuss it publicly. Defense attorney Doug Thompson told reporters afterward that he has spo- ken with Huntsman and she seemed fine, though he de- clined to provide details on her state of mind. CRIME De ad b ab y fo un d in Utah covered wi th c hem ic al s By Alan Scher Zagier The Associated Press ST. LOUIS From male-only corporate jets to guys' golf outings and hunting trips, Francine Katz says her time in the Anheuser-Busch exec- utive suite was rife with ex- clusion and outright discrim- ination. But it wasn't until the King of Beers' 2008 sale to Belgian brewer InBev that shesayssherealizedtheboy's club atmosphere was costing her millions. In a 20-year career that sawherrisefromayoungcor- porate lawyer to a vice pres- ident, key strategist and the beer maker's top female ex- ecutive,Katzbecametheface of her hometown employer, defending the maker of Bud- weiser and Bud Light from overzealous regulators and anti-alcohol crusaders. Now she's accusing An- heuser-Busch of sex discrim- ination, arguing in a lawsuit that reached trial this week that top male executives — including former CEOs Au- gust Busch III and his son, AugustBuschIV—purposely paid her less because she's a woman. Six years after the sale of AB to InBev, the trial fascinates a company town, threateningtoheapunwanted publicity to a family dynasty that's had its share. "This was a company run by men who were unaccus- tomed with working with women at high levels," Katz's attorney, Mary Anne Sedey, told the jury of seven women and five men in opening ar- guments of a trial expected to last several weeks. In March, the White House Council on Economic Advisers issued a report not- ing that on average full-time working women earn 77 cents for every dollar earned by their male counterparts. Critics of the report said that figure oversimplifies the situ- ation, but even they concede that women with advanced degreesinfieldssuchasmed- icineandlawfaceapersistent wage gap as their careers ad- vance. Counting bonuses and stock options, Katz earned more than $1 million an- nually after her 2002 pro- motion to vice president of communications and con- sumer affairs and eleva- tion to the company's influ- ential strategy committee. Her predecessor, former Na- tional Urban League Presi- dent John Jacob, earned four times that amount in his fi- nal year, Katz's lawyer said. Katz said she didn't realize the pay gap until reviewing tax filings connected to the sale to InBev. "Make no mistake about it. Francine Katz earned a lot of money at Anheuser- Busch," Sedey said. "But like so many women in this coun- try, Francine Katz was sig- nificantly underpaid." Her attorney said Katz deserves at least $9.4 mil- lion she was entitled to from 2002 to 2008, plus punitive damages. In 2008, her final year with the company, Katz reported more than $14 mil- lion in income on her federal tax returns, an amount that includes stock options she cashed in. Lawyers for Anheuser- Busch counter that Katz's salary, benefits and bonuses compared favorably to those in similar positions at Coca- Cola, Proctor & Gamble and other large U.S. corpora- tions. They suggested that her primary duty involved public relations, while Ja- cob had far more substan- tive responsibilities, includ- ing as August Busch III's trusted confidant. "Francine Katz was paid based on her job, not her gender," said Anheuser- Busch attorney Jim Ben- nett. "There was a fair pro- cess used, a rigorous process used." Both August Busch III and his son and namesake, who led the company for two years before its sale, are ex- pected to testify, perhaps as soon as Friday. The elder Busch, 76, suc- ceeded his father as CEO in 1975 at 38 in a coup initially resisted by August "Gussie" Busch Jr. August Busch III remainedinchargefornearly threedecadesbeforehis2002 retirement and stayed on as chairman of its board of di- rectors through 2006. Under his watch, the family busi- ness founded by German im- migrants in 1876 became the country's largest brewer. August Busch IV, 49, was better known for his legal missteps and love of night- life before his ascendancy to the boardroom. As a sopho- moreat the Universityof Ari- zona,Buschcauseda1983car accident that led to the death of his 22-year-old passenger, waitress Michele Frederick. A seven-month police inves- tigation of a possible involun- tarymanslaughterconcluded without charges being filed. In2010,theyoungerBusch re-enteredthespotlightwhen his27-year-oldgirlfrienddied of an accidental drug over- dose at his mansion. Katz testified that Busch and another company execu- tive forced her to fly on a sep- arate corporate plane when thegrouptraveledtoOhiofor meetings with government officials. On other occasions, she was excluded from cor- porate golf tournaments and other functions, she said. "I felt invisible," Katz said. BEER Trial highlights gender bias in pay The Associated Press SAN JOSE A relative of a 15-year-old boy who sur- vived a 5½-hour flight in a jet's wheel well says Ha- waii officials won't allow the boy's father to see him, a newspaper reported Friday. Mukhtar Guled, a cousin of the boy's stepmother, said it's not clear whether Abdu- lahi Yusuf will be allowed to bring his son home, the San Jose Mercury News re- ported. "He could not see him. They won't let him see him or visit him or talk to him," Guled said. Hawaii state officials did not immediately respond to a message seeking com- ment late Friday from The Associated Press. Earlier, a spokeswoman said the state wouldn't comment on the case of the teenager, Ya- hya Abdi. A spokeswoman for the Council on American-Is- lamic Relations in San Fran- cisco, which has been speak- ing with media for the boy's family, did not immediately respond to a message seek- ing comment Friday night. Guled said he doesn't know how Yusuf would be able to bring the boy home. "They won't allow him to see him. How can he bring him back," Guled said. Abdi has been in the cus- tody of child welfare officials at a Honolulu hospital since boarding the flight April 20 in San Jose, California and landing in Maui. Hawaii of- ficials had been caring for him after FBI and Trans- portation Security Adminis- tration questioned him and determined he was doing nothing more sinister than running away from home. Abdi hopped a fence at Mineta San Jose Interna- tional Airport after an argu- ment at home, then climbed up the landing gear into the wheel well of a Boeing 767. He survived the flight at 35,000 feet despite freezing cold and a lack of oxygen. The incident raised ques- tions about security at the large airports, where secu- rity cameras recorded Abdi making his way to the Ha- waiian Airlines plane even though he wasn't discovered until he climbed down from the wheel well in Maui. Abdi's journey also spot- lighted the personal fam- ily drama of a Somali immi- grant, the son of divorced parents who missed his mother and struggled to adjust to life in the United States, according to people who know his family. Abdi's mother, Ubah Mo- hammed Abdule, lives in a refugee camp in eastern Ethiopia. She told The Asso- ciated Press her son wanted to see her but couldn't be- cause his father told him she was dead and didn't al- low contact. Hawaii state officials ac- knowledged Wednesday that Yusuf had arrived in Hawaii, but were tightlipped about how they would pro- ceed. Yusuf said previously he looked forward to bring- ing the boy home, but de- clined to give details of if and how they would be re- united. FLIGHT Hawaii won't let dad see teen stowaway ERIC RISBERG — THE ASSOCIATED PRESS A worker moves equipment near gates used by Hawaiian Airlines at Terminal A of Mineta San Jose International Airport on April 21in San Jose. ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH, DAVID CARSON — THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Cars move near the Anheuser-Busch St. Louis brewery in this 2008photo. SATURDAY, MAY 3, 2014 REDBLUFFDAILYNEWS.COM | NEWS | 9 A