r "X i i VU.. 'iWisFirr. It :vsr cwi 'Var,j. a .xu. Wednesday, July 10. Davis Teachers Still Without Contracts for CHERYL ARCHIBALD Contract negotiations will resume with Review Staff FARMINGTON Davis County teachers are still without contracts for 6 school year. the At the last contract meeting. May 17, We didnt really reach any impasse, but we couldnt agree at that time, said Doug Cannon, a teacher and Davis Education Association negotiator. With school closing, we called the meetings Another problem is that Public Law 844 funding is diminishing. The law gives schools a percentage of federal money for each federal government employee dependant attending school in the county. The funds are about one and a half percent of the schools total budget. Though there are more government dependent students each year, money per student is diminishing, Stevenson says. There are 10,000 students dependent on federal government income in Davis County schools, he says. Another threat to the districts reve after the suspension because of revenue uncertainties. One unknown factor was whether or not the state would cut the districts percentage of state revenues due to a projected shortfall in those revenues. School officials feared the decrease would be one and half percent less, amounting to a cut of $500,000 in the 6 budget, says Davis School Superintendent Gayle Stevenson. However, the shortfall to the state be- -. came a surplus, eliminating the districts concern about the cut in its revenues, he 15 1985-198- off. two-mon- th 1985-198- Typically, Davis has been the first school district in the state to close teacher contracts, Cannon said. But that wont be the case this year. nues, Stevenson says, is House Bill 160, a new law passed in the last Utah legislative session giving counties the option to charge either the taxpayers or taxing districts the cost of collecting taxes. Davis County is charging the taxing districts which includes the school district The district will have to come up with $174,000 more to pay to the county in 1986, according to county figures. Were optimistic that an agreement can be reached, Stevenson says. Additional expenses to the school district must come from areas of the budget that are not fixed expenditures such as utilities, he says. says. the Davis County School District July 1 85-8- 6 Teachers salaries make up 70 to 80 percent of the total school budget In addition to regular negotiated items - insurance programs, medical programs and benefits and salary increases, teachers will propose: a new hearing procedure on complaints against teachers to eliminate legal suits, hiring of special teachers for music, art and physical education in elementary schools increased funding for activity assignments, job sharing and half day contracts, flexible spending accounts. extra-curricul- ar - 6 Cities Give Up Landfill re CHERYL ARCHIBALD r Review Staff 5 It fJ I" ;VrU f f A Svv5' LAYTON In order to meet bank requirements for a countywide burn plant, some cities have signed away their portions of the north Davis $ $ V waste-to-ener- landfill. Six of the 10 cities with an kj)f in- terest in the North Area Refuse Disposal landfill have signed an option agreement giving their rights at the landfill to the burn plants management board, a special service district called the Da- vis Solid County cV- tP rf v, fT I s , &u fci 4 P, 5 s'. L vHuW , k c V" I4) $ '"erv itoesUwai ' ,ir Waste S?' Management and Energy Recovery Special Service District. Two of the cities not signing, Layton and Clearfield, chose not to join the bum plant service district. The other two not signing. West Point and Syracuse, belong to the service district but voted not to sign, feeling it was not in their citizens interest. The Syracuse City Council members said they felt their citi- -' zens would eventually be required to pay tipping fees, which may go up should plans for the ''burn plant fall through or if there were a disaster rendering the bum plant inoperable, said Syracuse City Councilman Ben Thurgood. Continued on Page 2A . v a a fc v t t - f tv'.;-- i? p ? s, , . . ,3 x, x. aVi t He C3 n .ic,. - mo? J- fir Staff Photo by Rodney Wright seen from the Antelope lslandl-1- 5 inover Davis County horizon Sunstrikes terchange, A similar storm Saturday evening sent a fire day. LIGHTNING ball into the sky over a lightning-struc- k Salt Lake electric City power plant Power was cut from Da- vis County south to Arizona, but a few Davis County streets still had lights. Bountifuls older downtown area, with its own city generated power was unaffected by the strike on the UP&L system. Mayors Draft Policy on School District Construction CHERYL ARCHIBALD Review Staff I FARMINGTON Davis a are drafting County mayors building procedure policy for the Davis County School District to follow in hopes of eliminating fu- 1 8-Y- ear think the resolution will do nothing but help. Blackburn, Sunset Mayor Norm and Woods Cross Mayor Lawrence Urry would draw up the policy. School district representatives present were board members Bruce Parry and Dee Forbes, Su- -' perintendent Lawrence Welling, Asssistant Superintendent. John said. The resolution will require the school board to meet with applicable city officials and contractors in meetings so the contractors will understand Forbes their responsibilities, Steven White and building super-Saintendent, Dr. Dean Penrod. Rick Mayfield represented the Davis County planning and zoning de- - said. nt , - of the plan. Disagreements arose in Centerville when the school district began construction on the Reading Elementary School in that city. They (builders of the school) removed a red tag, stop work or the resolution will do but help, Forbes said. nothing The major problem was a lack of understanding between us and I think . , 4 der on an improperly built .street, and went ahead and completed it, Blackburn said. They have indicated to us on a number of occasions that they dont have to comply with cities on disputes over city building regulations. The proposal, if adopted by the school board, will define e school acquisition plans. It will require the school district to notify cities of plans to build. And the school board will have to obtain street excavation permits and building permits. It will also be required to abide by local standard building practices. A draft of the policy will be long-rang- Im a hundred percent in favor partment - de- velop better communication, he The major problem was a lack of understanding between us and the cities. Dee Forbes, Davis School Board member ture disagreements. Mayors in the Davis Council of Governments had accused the school district of not communicating with cities when building schools and of not complying with cities ordinances. Last week, at a special meeting between some school district administrators and three Davis County mayors, it was decided that Centerville Mayor Neil After the cities. The school board is eager to t presented to district officials at a July 15 meeting. Blackburn is hoping the policy with the school district will be a foundation for legislation which he has drawn up because of district disputes. The school districts are governments unto themselves, governed by a board, and the law is very fuzzy, Blackburn said. It says the school board should adhere to city zoning and planning, but it stops there. When you get into parks, water lines, streets there is no language in the state law saying the district should adhere. They turn their backs. city-scho- ol Separation Siblings Together Again and Mark, and sister Mary. Their mother had died and their father was very sick, with emphysema taking its toll on his APRIL ADAMS Review Staff SUNSET Sitting in the comfortable Pettypool living room, one feels mixed emotions watching Lorie and Melvin to- gether. An 18-ye- ar The five Pettypool children They were then transferred to different homes, but stayed in touch through letters and telephone calls. Mary, now 23, lives with the same foster family she was transfered to as a young girl. were placed in a foster home. Both Lorie and Melvin recall that time as unpleasant, saying they were used as work horses around the place. One day, shortly after they arrived at the home, Melvin walked in on the foster father beating .! Mark; then about 8. we took Mark and left, Melvin said, with emotion in his etched its mark on the brother and sister. During that period of time, neither knew where the other; But after finding each other and another brother and sister through a distant relative, they seem to be inseparable now. As the two, sitting on the d couch, tell their look at constantly they story, each other as if in amazement. The story is touched with sadness and laughter, but more often sadness. In 1966, when Lorie was about 3 and Melvin 12, their father placed them in a Baptist childrens home in Arkansas, along with their two brothers, Jimmy , The two sisters were placed m another home, where they lived for three years. body. separation has was. my stayed at the home. ' ,'I eyes. brown-stripe- , k - - , That was the last time Lorie and Mary saw Melvin for nearly two decades. Neither of the sisters has seen Mark again. He is ' still missing. Mary and Lorie lived at the (iome a while longer, then went to the childrens home again to live there for about a year. Jim Lorie, though, was moved around to three more foster homes, she said,. running her.. , fingers through her short brown hair., r After running away, Melvin .lived with his final- brother for a ly finding a job in a steak house in Arkansas. He obtained his own apartment at 12. Mark, now about 26, stayed with his brother only a short time. Continued on Page 2 hand-to-mou- th ' while;-befor- ' Staff Photo by Hodney Wright company after near- - ENJOYING each others ly two decades apart and reading letter that brought them together are sister and brother, Lorie and Melvin Pettypool.