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Show Park Record Thursday, June 22, 1989 Page AS Commission Judge decries Singer sentences approves I FA bond by SENA TAYLOR Record staff writer The Summit County Commission June 14 adopted a resolution approving approv-ing the issuance of a $1 million bond as part of the county's interlocal financing plan, which allows governmental govern-mental entities to bond for delinquent delin-quent taxes. Eleven entities are involved in the interlocal financing authority, according ac-cording to County Treasurer Glen Thompson, who identified the participants par-ticipants as Summit County, which will receive $953,500, Park City with $203,235.48, the Park City Fire Service Ser-vice District with $59,352.85, the Park City School District with $474,141.41, North Summit School District with $49,733.46, Hoytsville Cemetery with $300.47, Oakley with $746, Francis with $1,410.50, Kamas with $5,262.72, Coalville with $5,119.53, and Service Area No. 5, which serves Lake Rockport Estates, with $663.70. The cost of creating the IFA bond, including financing, legal and administrative ad-ministrative fees, amount to $46,500, and that, coupled with the payments to the various entities involved, equals $1 million. This is the third year an IFA has been formed in Summit County, and this year it boasts the lowest loan amount due to better collection rates. In 1987, the county bonded for $3.2 million to cover the delinquent taxes from 1983 to 1986, and in 1988, the bond was for $1.6 million to cover 1987's delinquent accounts. Using this method of bonding, governmental entities supported by public monies can receive a fuller share of their allotment even when tax delinquencies are high. Thompson noted that the county bonds only for those accounts he feels will eventually be paid. "The IFA is based on the amount outstanding outstan-ding on taxes, then we deduct the 'problem' delinquencies that won't be paid quickly," said Thompson. "The law allows us to bond for 90 percent of our delinquent taxes, but Zions National Bank, which we have bonded with, allows us to bond for only 80 percent of our good delinquent delin-quent accounts." The acting officials for 1988's IFA administrative board were reelected re-elected June 13. Blake Frazier, Sum- mit County auditor and Oakley town councilman, was re-elected chairman, chair-man, and Coalville Mayor James Burns was re-elected secretarytreasurer. Thompson said he approved of bonding for the back taxes again this year, saying, "I really don't have any problems with the IFA, as long as it's doing some good for Park City. Ci-ty. The Park City area has more of a dramatic need for it, and Summit County will continue to help as long as it helps the Park City entities balance their budgets. "I don't believe in borrowing money to solve problems," Thompson Thomp-son continued, "but this has been working and it has been a positive thing for everyone concerned." The federal judge who sentenced four members of the polygamous Singer-Swapp family more than a year ago, last week criticized the mandatory guidelines he was forced to use to resentence the defendants. U.S. District Chief Judge for Utah, Bruce S. Jenkins, again complained about the federal sentencing guidelines and minimum, mandatory man-datory prison terms he was required to apply to Addam Swapp, Vickie Singer, John Timothy Singer and Jonathan Swapp. The four were convicted con-victed in April of 1988 of staging a standoff with authorities after Addam Ad-dam Swapp blew up the Kamas IDS Stake Center in Marion, near the Singer residence. State coorections officer, Lt. Fred House, was shot to death by Timothy Singer when police moved in to arrest ar-rest the bombing suspects. Judge Jenkins drafted a written opinion explaining his basis for resentencing the fundamentalist Mormons, after the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the guidelines requiring requir-ing him to resentence the defendants. defen-dants. The judge wrote, "Sentencing by the numbers is a unique experience for one called upon to 'judge.' The exercise is long, involved, complex and is somewhat akin to filling out schedules as a procedure for demonstrating an accounting problem. pro-blem. "It brings to mind the observations observa-tions that one should be unconcerned when computers begin to think like men, but that one should be greatly concerned when men begin to think like computers.. .Calculation is a function far different than judgmenta judg-menta distinction which has great consequences for the whole social structure," he wrote. The judge disagreed with the set prison terms and guidelines, claiming claim-ing that they do not account for circumstances cir-cumstances surrounding a crime. "The context in which the acts took place is grounded in Utah's unique cultural history, a context obviously not contemplated by the commission" commis-sion" which sets the sentencing guidelines. The judge addressed the cases of two defendants, first mentioning Addam Ad-dam Swapp by saying "the defendant's defen-dant's claim to status and personal communications with 'higher powers' may explain his conduct, but in no way relieves him from his duty as a citizen to comply with the rules of the civil society in which he lives." Swapp claimed that God told him to bomb the church. ., For Vickie Singer, Judge Jenkins rejected federal prosecutors' requests re-quests for a longer prison term, writing, "this grandmother with a unique personal history and unusual faith in a determined son-in-law is not a mafioso, and treating her as one serves no purpose at all." ' Both Addam Swapp and Vickie Singer were convicted of the bombing bomb-ing and of using a bomb in the crime of violence. Although Vickie Singer remained in the family home while Swapp planted the bomb, she was convicted of aiding and abetting him in both offenses. The second conviction stemmed from what is commonly called a "weapons enhancement" provision of the law. It requires that the defendant defen-dant be sentenced to a minimum of five years in prison, a term over which the judge has no discretion. "It is fundamental that a defendant defen-dant may only be convicted of two separate offenses arising from a single act if each offense requires proof of a fact not essential to the other," wrote the judge. "Where the pleadings as written require the same proof where one is to be punished for destroying the same building through the use of the same bomb to sentence on both counts is unlawfully cumulative. To do so would impose double punishment." The judge also ruled that the sentencing guidelines and minimum, mandatory sentences which are not affected by the guidelines conflict with each other. The guidelines require seven to nine months on the main bombing count for using an explosive ex-plosive device. The weapons enhancement conviction, however, requires five years. trntmmmmmmmwvrm .' .I1 " MlfWWffjW .1 1 . . ill j.i.i .1. . .1.1 Lodging is up The projected lodging tally for the week of June 18 through 24 is up six percent over the same week last year. Year-to-date tallies show a 24 percent increase in total visitor nights over 1988. In 1988, 14,002 visitors stayed in town. This year an anticipated 14,827 are expected. A visitor night represents one visitor in Park City for one night. The projected lodging tally is compiled for the coming week by adding the number of visitors expected ex-pected in Park City each night. Authorities from Summit and Wasatch counties have searched six days for a retarded man who wandered from a camp in Soapstone Basin east of Kamas last Friday. Ogden resident Joe Olson, 44, was reported missing from Camp Rogers at 7:30 p.m. June 16. The camp is located about 20 miles from Kamas, in the rugged foothills of the Uinta Mountains. Olson, who has a mentality capacity of a 3-year-old, was last seen wearing only street clothes. Search dogs, airplanes and helicopters have been used to aid search and rescue teams from both counties, and more than 50 officials have been involved in the search. Olson is described as 5 feet 7 inches in-ches tall, 140 pounds, with brown hair and brown eyes. He must use daily medication. No increase, no comments A public hearing to consider a no-tax-increase budget for the 1989-90 fiscal year drew no commentary Thursday, but was continued to June 22 to make a few minor revisions. The total city budget recommended for next fiscal year is $13.68 million, explained Finance Director Kent Parker. About half, $6.69 million, is for general fund expenditures. City staff and department operations are included in the general fund, which is financed by property and sales tax. Other major funds are recommended for funding as follows: $1.38 million for the water fund; $1.36 million for the transportation fund; $1 million for the downtown redevelopment agency operation; and $800 million for the city's self insurance fund. The 1989-90 fiscal year begins July 1, and the final budget must be approved ap-proved by city council members before that date. Rails, reservoir funded Council members agreed to take $10,000 out of next year's contingency fund to finance the city's participation in Rails to Trails, a Jordanelle Reservoir recreation task force and work on water conservation. Landscape Architect Jennifer Harrington had requested $20,000 for mailings, design costs and other details for all three earlier, but the request re-quest had failed to pass muster during a city staff review and was not recommended as an item to be funded. At Thursday's council session, Council Member Kris ten Rogers, who is most adamant about continuing the city's funding of long-range contingency con-tingency and depreciation funds, said she would "make it easy" on her fellows by suggesting the $20,000 be taken from contingency. Council Member Brad Olch recommended only using $10,000 with the ' understanding Harrington could always ask for more: Olch'S suggestion was approved by the council. Officers locate heroin following Echo accident On June 14, at approximately 7:45 a.m., Utah Highway Patrol officers responded to an accident which occurred three miles west of the Echo port of entry near the Wyoming state line. Three males from Laos were injured and transported to the Evans ton Regional Hospital. But while securing the vehicle, officers located about 1.5 pounds of pure heroin, which had an approximate street value of $150,000. According to the Summit County Attorney's Office, Lo Lee, 29, of Sacramento, Calif., was arrested and charged in state court with possession posses-sion of a controlled substance with intent to distribute. He is in custody and bail has been set at $150,000. A 14-year-old passenger in the vehicle remains hospitalized in Salt Lake City, while the third passenger died after the accident at the Evanston Regional Hospital. PLANNING COMMISSION MEETING AGENDA Marsac Municipal Building June 28, 1989 7 P.M. PUBLIC HEARING 1 . To receive publir input on a proposed amendment to the Lnad Management Code vhioh would modify Section 10.9 to remove regerence to bonus density . 2. To receive pubi input on a proposed amendment to the Land Manegment Code which would TiOdify the Land Use Tables of Section 7 to allow muiti-d muiti-d welling structures as conditional uses in the HR-1 Zone as part of a Master Planned Development. REGULAR MEETING 1 . Roll Call 2. Public Input 3. Minutes of June 14, 1989 4. Consent Agenda 1 . Conditional Use Request tor outdoor ummg tor unesapeaxe urw, 1500 Kearns Blvd. 5. Old Business 6 New Business 1 . Conditional Use Permit Request for HR-2 Overlay Zone Change of Use from Residential to Office Use at 250 Grant Ave.- Alan Frandsen. 2. Conditional Use Review for ti e Kimball Project, a 15 unit condominium on Parcel 8 of Silver Lake Village. 3 Final Plat Approval for Solamire. Phase 3, a 9 lot single tamiiy subdivision. 4. Subdivision Pint Approval for the Knoll II, a 7 parcel single family subdivision along Sterling Drive, Silver Lake Knoll, Deer Valley. 5 Final Plat Approval for Bald Eagle, a Condominium which includes 40 Jingle Family Units and Expandable Area. 6. Recommendation to City Cou icil on a proposed amendment to the and Management Code which would modify Section 10.9 to remove oference to 'bonus density'. 7. 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