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Show 0 Court! Peers pass judgment Continued from front page close to the case because her name to the panel of they are friends, relatives or in any other way connected to an judges. The judges will announce offender may be excused the case and tell the juvenile from that case. Once sentenced, the offender that he or she must pay a $20 court fee, which should be paid obtains a receipt for payment of by the offender; if a parent pays the court fee and the name of a the court fee, the sentence will contact for community service. All of the schools in Lehi include the stipulation that the have back. be agreed to participate in to paid parent is the program and offer superOne of the prosecuting attorneys will read the facts of the vised opportunities such as case from the police report. The pulling weeds, cleaning and other jobs. The Utah State offender is then given an opporCenter also tunity to present his or her side Developmental of the case. After deliberating allows youth to help in the food amongst themselves, the panel service facilities. Officer Toby Peterson, who of judges will impose a senserves as the liaison with the tence, which consists of a certain number of community ser- Police Department, would like to see local businesses and vice hours and its correspondother organizations extend date. ing completion themselves to provide similar Several factors the attitude and appearance of the opportunities to these youth. For more information on the defendant, as well as the severand how to become program of case the the into go ity call Officer Peterson, involved, of sentence. a imposition or Youth Court adviAny member of the court who feels that he or she is too sor Barbara Peterson, Free Press - Wednesday, November 12, 1997 - for minor offenses A ! 7 A Board fo present r , status report 1 . - i - ... Its . - zr. ; The Alpine School District administration was to present a status report on the financial condition of the 45,000 student district to the five member board of education during the boards monthly business meeting last evening, Nov 11. The meeting was held at district headquarters in American ' ? 1 'A!'- Fork. The Comprehensive Annual Financial "Report (CAFR) covers all areas of the district's W i monetary standing. A financial audit, performed by an external auditor as provided by law, was also introduced to the ?! ft - board. si.''.1 Other action items included a decision on four policies to student and relating employee use of the internet, and adoption of the board meeting schedule for 1998. 4 V Photo by Russ Daly 768-711- 768-701- 0. Cops IP- Judges Natalie Richins, Alycia Peterson and Guys Continued from front page be without an education. School expands your knowledge and opens you up to so many different things." Cassie, too, hopes to further her education beyond her corrections and peace officer training when she returns to school in January at Utah Valley State College, where she would like to pursue a degree in child psychology or child social work. She said that it has been a goal of hers since childhood to work with, youth and to help them. Doug has served as patrol sergeant with the Lehi Police Department for more than five years. In addition to scheduling the officers for all of the patrol shifts, he is also responsible to schedule each one for training. Each officer must complete 40 hours per year in continuing training courses. Now that she is a certified officer, Cassie must also meet that requirement with the Department of Corrections. During their training, both Doug and Cassie were taught the various aspects of police work, from laws and the legal Page 3 Continued from front page system to interrogation techniques and arrest control. The production will be Cassie said that Doug was a directed by Melody Johnson, of to her source great help when she was completing the with musical direction by Manu Harris and choreogratraining. The two agree that crime in phy by Mindy Berry Young. "Guys and Dolls" starrs recent years has steadily increased and that alcohol Jennifer Nattress as Sarah, Joe Walker as Sky Masterson, and drugs are a major contribAaron Miller as Nathan utor to crimes. and "It continually gets worse," Detroit Misty said Doug. "It seems like Christofferson and Bethany double-cas- t as nobody has any regard for the Johnosn health and safety of others or Adelaid. Clint McKell stars as their property." "Big Julie." But in their own home, they cast members Other don't talk shop include Andrew Monson, Sam usually because "it's kind of a strange Davis, Trent Bezzant, Glen business," according to Doug, Smith, Nathaniel Kerr, and because they don't like to Nathan Miller, Richard Webb, dwell on the negative. They April Deilmer, Nikki Loiseau will occasionally discuss teleand Marie Ludwig vised accounts of local events, Also appearing are Marie on what they Emerson, Mary Anderson, speculating might have done differently Wendy Milam, Becky had they been involved. Williams, Bethany Simpson, celeThe Larsens, who will Tonya Shepard, brate their second wedding Kayla Jolene Hamon, anniversary next week, do like Loverige, to spend their spare time Kimball Snyder, Pat Roe, Brian VanBloem, watching NASCAR races and Caleb hockey (Doug is a dyed-i- n the-- . ,Ulrich, Peter Mtz., Beth wool Calgary Flames fan); Sharon, Wendy Milam, Roslyn they also enjoy fishing and Fairbanks, Angel Davis and Pat Roe. getting Slurpees. e Emily Murphy hear a test case court. in Lehi's Youth District Continued from front page ing to tax themselves to "build buildings, yes, but provide programs for the kids that we haven't been able to fund. We have to balance the need of the taxpayer with the needs of the children." Baugh said while the district is no longer the 40th district in the state in terms of how much is spent on each student's educational funding, it has moved up to 36th or 37th. With 386 classes held in modular classrooms, the district is number one in the state in use of the units to regular classsupplement rooms, he said. McKelvy said the two percent growth pattern shown in the district over the past 10 years is expected to continue. This would mean the an elementary school would be needed for the Strawberry Pointe area of Pleasant Grove, and one on the boarder of Highland and Alpine. In addition, Shelley in School Elementary American Fork and Sego Lily Elementary in Lehi are cur ed to replace existing modular rently overcrowded. Jack Reid, assistant superintendent over elementary classrooms with additional schools. Reid suggested the district move toward a single text policy to reduce the costs of buying books and create a consistency between schools. He schools, said continued development in northeast Lehi, south American Fork, Manila, southwest Lehi, Vineyard, Cedar Valley and Lindon will mean new schools will be needed in those areas. Officials said most of the older schools in the district need refurbishing major andor remodeling, many need safety concerns with parking and dropbe to off zones need and secondary addressed, schools need more library books to be on par with other said the district expenditure of $13 per student for texts is too low and should be closer to $30 a student. If board members decide to go for a bond election andor a voted leeway to be phased in over a several year period, the decision needs to be made by March 5 with voting in May. McKelvy said the district currently has a legal debt margin available to it of $179 million. Existing debt is $136.5 million. The voted leeway could raise $9.3 million for books, air consitioning, class size reduction and the elimination of textbook fees if voters agreed to a tax rate increase from .0012 to the maximum schools. McKelvy said the wish list from district maintenance personnel totals $41 million and includes everything from air conditioning of schools to electrical needs to carpeting. He said some schools with modular units may need to be enlarged permanently with brick and mortar. Cost to do this would be $34 million. This amount would be considerably higher if it were decid allowed of .0020. The board will begin discussion on the specifics of the study session as early as the December board meeting. - i? r.' K- " i ' . .. ; w IE, 4: if : 1 777 D I aMHMt -- MildBThlll IF YOUR COMPANY a I IS UTAH POWER, THE REASON IS SIMPLE. I .:;- - ' mtW .... tWWMtmtmnt Witty VfluntU'tiMli ' N.7xA 7 li tef emu ., ?7!WfVMwr it II rlr sr jf I |