U.S. officials have said theysee no evidence that anyone inthe upper echelons of Pakistan’smilitary and intelligence estab-lishment was complicit in hidingbin Laden in Abbottabad, anarmy town only 35 miles fromthe capital. But suspicions re-main, and members of Congresshave threatened to cut off U.S.aid if evidence is found.

President Barack Obama saidthe U.S. believes bin Laden musthave had a support network in-side Pakistan.

“But we don’t know who orwhat that support network was,”Obama said in an interviewbroadcast Sunday on CBS’ “60Minutes.” “We don’t knowwhether there might have beensome people inside of govern-ment, people outside of govern-ment, and that’s something thatwe have to investigate, and more

importantly, the Pakistani gov-ernment has to investigate.”

Gilani proclaimed the death ofbin Laden as “indeed justicedone” since al-Qaida haslaunched many attacks insidePakistan. But he warned the U.S.not to try a similar covert raid inthe future.

“Unilateralism runs the inher-ent risk of serious conse-quences,” Gilani said. “Pakistanreserves the right to retaliatewith full force. ... No one shouldunderestimate the resolve andcapability of our nation andarmed forces to defend our sa-cred homeland.”

At the same time, however, hestressed the importance of Pak-istan-U.S. ties and insisted the re-lationship was still strong.

“Our communications at theofficial and diplomatic levelswith the U.S., during this phase,have been good, productive andstraightforward,” said Gilani.

Gilani’s speech and the sus-pected leak of the CIA stationchief’s name illustrate the bal-ancing act that Pakistani officialsseem to be trying to achieve inresponding to the bin Laden raid.

Civilian and military leadersmust placate a domestic popula-tion that is upset at the U.S. forviolating the country’s sover-eignty and outraged at the coun-try’s army and intelligenceagency for allowing it to happen.But they must also worry about

preserving their relationshipwith the U.S., which provides bil-lions of dollars in military andcivilian aid for cooperation onthe war in Afghanistan.

“Gilani’s statement and theleak of the name of the name ofthe supposed CIA station chiefappear to be in keeping with Is-lamabad’s need to maintain rela-tions with the United States andat the same time try and countergrowing U.S. pressure in thewake of the Osama bin Ladenkilling,” said Kamran Bokhari, ananalyst with STRATFOR, a pri-vate security think tank inAustin, Texas.

Even before the discovery ofbin Laden, many U.S. officials ac-cused Pakistan of playing a dou-ble game by taking American aid,promising its support and thenfailing to target key Islamist mili-tants wanted by the U.S., includ-ing Taliban chief MullahMohammed Omar.

But the U.S. is in a difficult po-sition because it is reliant onPakistan’s help to go after Tal-iban militants on its territory andships a large percentage of itsnon-lethal goods to its forces inAfghanistan through the country.Pakistan also allows the CIAdrones to carry out missilestrikes on militant targets in theborder regions. Pushing Pakistantoo hard could jeopardize the re-lationship with the critical, iffickle, ally.lunch pricing, all paid lunches

must be compliant with the fed-eral free-lunch reimbursementrate, currently set at $2.46 permeal.

The Yankton School Districtcurrently charges a rate of $2 atthe high school, $1.90 at the mid-dle school and $1.70 at the ele-mentary schools, among thelowest in the state based on asurvey done by the school dis-trict.

“Basically, the requirement issaying we can’t fund our lunchprogram on the free and reducedmeals,” she said. “We have tocharge the same price for a mealto our paying students as we dofor our free and reduced meals.”

Compounding the issue forthe district is the fact that otherregulations will directly raise thecost of providing a meal.

Changes in the proposed nu-trition standards could have a di-rect result in an increase of aminimum of 75 cents per meal,Kramer said.

Proposed changes include: • increasing the fruit served

per lunch from 1/2 cup to 1 cup(an estimated cost of 25 centsper meal);

• increasing the vegetablesserved per lunch from 1/2 cup to1 cup (an estimated cost of 25cents per meal);

• the district must serve atleast one cup of dark green veg-etable, one cup of orange veg-etable and one cup of legumesper week;

• the district may only serveone cup of starchy vegetablesper week (corn, peas and pota-toes, for example).

“All of these changes will di-rectly affect the cost of the mealswe provide to our students,”Kramer said. “Other nutritionalstandard changes that will di-rectly affect our future costs are

going to be the increased re-quirement of using whole grainsand the reduction of sodium inthe meals. These changes don’teven begin to reflect the changesin our cost of foods.”

Kramer noted that her annualcommodities budget ranges be-tween $80,000-$90,000.

“We will get less food for ourmoney next year,” she said. “Withwhat I contracted for hamburgerlast year, this year I am only get-ting about 3/4-pound versus onepound last year. With what I ampaying for chicken and turkeyproducts, we are only gettingabout 80 percent what of what wedid last year. Every truck thatpulls up to our door is chargingmore for gas, as well.”

Because many of the changesare only proposed at this time,the board opted to table settinglunch prices for next school yearuntil the June board meeting.

Also during the meeting, Su-perintendent Dr. Joseph Gertsemapresented the board with the pre-liminary 2011-2012 budget for the

Yankton School District.“This is just a snapshot at

where the district is today,” Gert-sema said, noting the to boardthat the budget is set assumingthe opt-out will not pass. “We arerequired by law to provide a pre-liminary budget and set a hearingdate on the budget at our Maymeeting.

“This budget reflects cuts toteachers, staff and programming.It reflects no salary increases forany school employee and it re-flects cutting all 5th-8th grade ac-tivities. ... If this budget isadopted as written, it will requirethe district to spend an additional$1.725 million of our general fundreserves to meet the budget.”

The board also heard a reporton the May 24 opt-out electionprocess including setting pollingplaces and appointing electionworkers. It was reported that, asof last Friday, there had alreadybeen more than 150 absentee bal-lots turned in for the opt-out elec-tion.

The board set the hearing forthe 2011-2012 budget for July 11

at 5:40 p.m. in the administrationboard room.

Other business during themeeting included:

• canvassing the results of theApril 12, 2011 school board elec-tion and confirming that JayWilliams was elected to the Yank-ton School Board;

• adopting the 2012-2013school calendar; and,

• hearing a report on thegame-limitation and length-of-sea-son survey completed by theschool.

The next meeting of the Yank-ton School Board will be held at5:30 p.m. June 13 at the adminis-tration board room.

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what had been working.“The idea was, let’s not do

away with these programs thathave made us successful, butlet’s add a whole slate of initia-tives oriented towards somehigher-valued industries, higher-valued jobs, some things that wethink we really have a competi-tive advantage in, and let’s goafter them very aggressively,”Barr said.

The organization identifiedseveral targets, including medicalservices and research science,data centers, renewable energy,and warehousing and distribu-tion.

To help in its efforts, the or-ganization hired a lead genera-tion firm to contact executiveswithin the target industries. Theprogram was piloted last yearwith 500 companies and resulted

in 31 conference calls and onevisit.

“Those numbers, for this kindof business, are really good,”Barr said. “So we’re going to beexpanding that, and we’re goingto do 1,500 of those a year overthe next five years.”

The foundation will also bedevoting substantial resources toa national public relations cam-paign with the help of a firm thatmarkets communities.

While South Dakota’s busi-ness statistics are among thebest in the nation, other factorsare involved in attracting compa-nies. While most communities inthe state shy away from incen-tives, Barr said they might benecessary to expand nationally.

“The lack of having somethingto show the love on the front endis a detriment to landing thesebig projects,” he said. “And we’retalking about trying to quit frombeing a regional player to becom-ing a player on the nationalstage, and they’re throwing hugeamounts of dollars at the frontend of these deals. We need

something. We just need to beable to apply it smartly for theright deals and protect our-selves, and there are ways ofdoing that.”

To fund their efforts, the foun-dation has a goal of raising $11.2million during the next five years.Currently, it sits at $9.4 million.

“It’s not completed yet, butwe’re making strong progress,and hopefully we will cross thefinish line and be able to dothese very aggressive programs,”Barr said.

Also at the meeting, YAPGPresident Mike Dellinger gave up-dates on economic developmentopportunities for Yankton, sayingpreliminary plans for infrastruc-ture and site layout have beenprepared for the east side indus-trial park. The YAPG is also con-sidering assisting the NationalField Archery Association with areal estate transaction thatwould expand the FAA complex.

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