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Show WEEKLY NEWS JOURNAL, REFLEX-DA- VIS NORTH DAVIS LEADER, SEPTEMBER 3, 1981 Clinton Council Ponders One Fest Vs. Two CLIN TON I he residents of Clinton probably enjoy celebrating as much as anyone else, but the an council is considering ways ut combm-mthe city's two maior festivals g CIRRENTLY. THE I DS Church stages a maior event that draws wide community support each June while the city formallv backs the July 4th "Clinton Day s." Mavor Keith Cisnev evplained Wednesday morning. "It seems we could do belter combining We just w ant to sec w hat will make the people most happy he l.DS event has been staged for the last lew yeaisas a monev making protect to suppoit camp activities, he said, noting the council has no mteiest in creating a chuich-statissue, however e OTHER city council action luesday night the may oi said hopes for tedeial Bureau of Red cation paik funding aie looking "much mine bleak" than previously, due to proposed additional tedeial cutbacks I mal wind should be IN forthcoming within 60 days, however. The council also heard a request the city reimburse a resident involved in a subdivision project where the developers provided water lines and were to receive city reimbursement based on revenues from development fees collected after each house is constructed. said, with attorneys working on the issued. The council will also meet with a representative from Vern Smith Insurance should be mcieased. the mayor said. THE CITY'S claims were down from $11,000 to S3. 0(H). last y ear. he said, w ith the possibility the city could incorporate "umbrella coverage. The city will hold its next regular session I uesday at 7 p.m. KKLLY DRU1 ER, who was developing a subdivision as was his brother. Claude, and asked the city to prov ide of the "at least money he says was spent for the water project but a determination must be made on who would receive what with sevone-thir- d eral other parties also in Clearfield to aid in deciding it the city's insurance coverage in- volved. the mayor said. One former participant is now in the process of declaring bankruptcy while Claude H. Ni Construction installed the water lines to both subdivisions. an amount some have said totalled more than About Your Home APRIL RHODES By Now is the time to have your heating equipment cleaned $1110.000. and checked for cold weather H RTHER clarification is needed before any city action can be taken. Mayor Cisnev For a better paint job. dip the brush or roller in vv ater and wring or shake out excess Phone System Installed In the name of efficiency and fiscal savings, Humana Inc., the an telephone communications system has been installed for the staff and physicians at Davis North Medical Center. HIE PROJECT was a total system and requited training seminars conducted with all employees by a communications specialist from Layton hospital. LAY ION ultra-moder- n Louisville-base- d firm operating the "Over the years Davis North has simply outgrown its present telephone system," said Ellen Shaw, a corporate telecommunications specialist. "The new system is a rt result in faster communication, less operator time and cost savings model and w ill OK School Busing For Clfd. Children CLEARFIELD The Davis County School District has agreed to bus a group of southwest Clearfield youngsters to and from Cook Elementary in Syracuse. THE DECISION came in response to a request from the Clearfield City Council, whose members are worried about the safety of a small group of schoolchildren who must travel along 1000 West. The council and representatives of the Melanie Acres subdivision complained recently that 1000 West has a dangerously narrow shoulder and that there are several uncovered ditches near the route the children take to Cook Elementary. SPEAKING. BEFORE city councilmembers Tuesday night. Clearfield City Manager Gayle Starks said the school district agreed to bus the students for one year only "By next year, the city will have to install a sidehe said, referring to suggestions by district walk. representatives. . RACl'SE CITY officials have already come out favor of a plan to cover the remaining irrigation ditches. However, no specific time has been set for the renovation. Clearfield officials admit there should be a sidewalk along 1000 West, but are unable this year to fund the project. SY in council, in successful." Mr. Starks told the getting the district to agree to busing for WE WERE one vear. mdm An. Davis Get A New Drivers THE DIMENSION system is designed to save employee time, including such efficiency-relfeatures as automaated call forwarding tic and zonal paging. Another advantage is that the svstem can be reviewed via a Mountain Bell computer in Salt Lake City, resulting in fewer call-bac- repair visits, finder Dimension 40(1 each patient will receive an individual telephone. "We view the new system not only as an aid to the hospital. said Mr. Holman, "but also as a continuing drive to hold dow n the costs of hospital medical care. ALL EMPLOYEES re ceived a orientation the week prior to the system going into effect. I hree hospital staff members. Colleen Willey. Mary Brown and Karla Johnson, were appointed as communications counselors and received an added three-datraining. In order to modernize the By TOM Bl'SSELBERG FARMINGTON Heavy bookmobile patronage in Sunset and Centerville could lend itself to branch libraries, some By MARK n users. Mrs. Shaw said the Bell System offers companies lower over-al- l rates following new installation. "Davis North was ready for the sy stem and it makes econoshe said. mic sense. CLEARFIELD ill Facility? - The Clearfield City Council has tabled a recommendation from the planning commission to allow concrete mixing companies in the city's existing manufacturing zones. THE PLANNING commission made the recommendation at the request of a Clearfield man who wants to build a readv-miconcrete plant in an Ml, or manufacturing zone. The existing ordinance says nothing about cement mixing in the zone. Assistant Davis County Planning director Albert Cole said the ordinance allows MICKELSEN - Utah lawmakers be asked to allocate money in January for a combined Utah Highway Patrol, driver licensing office in the Farmington area, according to State Director of Driver Licensing Fred Schwendiman. w D. M1CKELSEN x telephone systems of L STRUTURE FLOOR PLAN Portable and compact libraries, no larger than the average house, could help solve the problem of making libraries accessible to as many people as possible. The Davis County Library Board is due to study the issue in future months. day, although nothing is in the offing tor now THE LIBRARY board has received data outlining library plans for iwi "altei-nativ- e lacilities one with only 170 squaie feet interior space to 1.600 in a larger version Available fiom an eastern firm, both would accommodate Clearfield Council Tables Decision On Concrete Work THE DRIYER Licensing Bureau asked the Legislature in 1981 to appropriate money for the purchase of several acres of ground in the central Davis County area. According to Mr. Schwendiman. lawmakers were unable to come up with the total appropriation and plans for the building were delayed for another year. In addition, legislators were forced to cut more than $230.(88) from the bureau's fiscal budget, forcing the terminayear 1980-8tion of 13 bureau employees statewide. 1 License - LIBRARY ALTERNATIVE "By having the system SALT LAKE CF1 Y When PORTA THE t'L'TBIC'KS came when the govoffice looked at state revenues and determined that there would not be enough money to cover addititonal appropriations suggested by the Legislature. ernor's Almost at the same time. Mr. Schwendiman said Davis County officials informed the bureau they would have to vacate their office in the basement of the Farmington courthouse to make room for a new data processing center. manufacturing on rocks, some metal work, and clay and pottery, and told councilmem-berready-mioperations are "within those classifica- tions." Neldon MAYOR PRO-TcHamblin said he is worried that the revision might result in the development of larger, industrial cement plants There is a possibility that could happen. Mr. Cole said. BIT, HE said if the planning commission receives a request for a larger manufacturing plant, developers will have to construct the facility to meet zone restrictions. "I'm concerned about larger industry coming into a rela- - REALLY found myself with $230.(881 in appropriations reductions, plus $10.(881 in additional costs we hadn't counted on." Mr. Schwendiman said. He said the answer I was either reduce staff or cut services. The bureau looked at several alternatives at that point, including a reduction of several staff members. Schwendiman said the cutbacks increased the workload for the remaining workers. TO COMPOUND problems, a study of the Davis bureau's expenditures as compared to total revenues revealed that the department was "running in the red According to Schwendiman. "our ex- penses exceeded collections $38.(88). tively light manufacturing area." Hamblin continued. s x PRIOR TO that request. Davis County began charging for the first time since the bureau was established a monthly rental fee of $539. Plans for the rental fee were announced in the spring of 1980. several months after the Legislature had already approved the bureau's fiscal budget. Mr. Schwendiman. who began as bureau chief in Dec. 1980. said the bureau entered into an agreement with the county to pay the rental fee before he began his term w ith the department. Since the $6.5(8) per year stipend was not budgeted, bureau officials began to worry about severe deficits in the Davis County office. by over 10 6 I e transfered from another hospital we are able to have a basically new- system at moderate price." added Dean Holman. administrator of Davis North Medical Center. 13 0 B00KRACKS OPTIONAL 9-- 12 business communication, is being leased from another Humana Inc. hospital in Phoenix. ROTATING B00HRACKS MOVABLE 1- -8 1 ENTRY ACCORDING TO Bill Lawrence, a communications expert for Humana Inc., the new system could save the hospital $235,000 over the next seven years. The Dimension 4(H) system, created by the Bell System for use in By M ARK 1). Will ' hp EXIT which can be used to dectease any climb in future hospital costs. MR. COLE suggested that x operations he included in the "conditional use" section ol the ordinance-lo- r cement-mi- added protection. The city council agreed to send the ordinance revision back to the planning commission for additional study. IN A similar matter, the council approved Ihe reonmg of an additional 83 feet along South Mam Street from residential to commercial. The commercial zone has been extended to allow development of a grocery store at T6 S Main thousands of volumes. In fact, the facilities would provide space for about the same number of books as the bookmobiles but could be permanently placed on a site within a matter of weeks, literature from the firm says. "But some systems are build- alternatives (to branches). They can be picked up and moved as needed." As the northwest county area grows, for example, such libraries could provide service during limited hours. Because ol normally higher use in the alternoon and evening hours those would be considered rather than alternating stall between libraries during the day e . THE foot version, about the size of a house, could house more than 12.000 paperback or 8.000 r books and with the addition of book carousels could reach 18,(88) paperback Seaand 12,000 ting would be available for 32 or more patrons. Even in the smaller version, or 3,(88) up to 5,(88) books could be housed with the possibility of moving either version if needs changed. 1,600-SOLAR- E hard-cove- hard-cove- soft-cov- hard-cov- Like Davis County. Schwendiman said most statewide driver licensing bureaus spend more money than they take in WE'RE NOT out to make monev. but we d at least like to break even." he said "We looked at (he possibility of closing the serv ice in 1 armington. Schwendiman explained, but said residents would have-beeforced to travel a great distance to T HE F U T REM AINS that we are hereto serve the public and the need was determined several years ago that the population of Davis County could support a driver licensing office Closing the I armington center "would not be in the best interest of the county and would not he in the best interest of the state. 1 THEY ARE used in high traffic areas as a rule," Library Director Jeanne L.ayton says. ing them as Schwendiman said BIT WHYT measures should the state-takto curb funding cutbacks and departments that operate at a deficit "1 don t think we II get away from the fact that Davis County will cost us more (han we lake in." says Schwendiman He said the possibility of raising driver license fees must be considered by the legislature Dl RING T HE last legislative session, however Schwendiman said lawmakers favored a two cent gas tax over the in "THAT'S A slight change in philosophy." Board Chairman Evan Whitesides said. "Fen years ago we decided to go with the regional philosophy and wanted to go to Layton (with a headquarters) but think we should get the particulars, particularly for the northwest area. Asked if it might be time for a Centerville library, Ms. Layton said. "I would not want to say one way or the other My recommendation would be to gel cost figures, etc. and see who else uses it (portable libraries) AND COL NT Y Com. Glen Saunders said he had met with "two or three groups and received a "number of calls that would indicate "there doesn't seem to he much consensus. Some say we should stay with the larger libraries and expand our filmstiips. etc and build up types of services." With the hook policy modification adding more "light reading material, more book- mobile readers are being attracted to the county libraries, Ms. Layton said "A majority of the people who use the bookmobile also use the libraries." LOST HGl'RES and other details should be available by the next regular meeting Sept 28 creased driver licensing tees We intend to ask the legislntiiie tor lee increases t9K2i.' he said, because 14 years without an increase ' is long enough. I HIRE WILL also be a pu-bv the bureau to conv ince legislators to appropi monev for the I armington driver license, highway patrol complex The problem, according to Schwendiman. is the cost of land in the area He added that the need tor space is not h unique to Dav is ( ouni IF WE can iiistifv a a week operation we can operate and afford a new building." he said ' We do not intend to cutback our Davis County service In the meantime. Schwindiman said some of the positions vacated bv former bureau employees are not being refilled for budget reasons And that rtiav mean tor longer lines for resident' driver s licenses live-da- SCHWENDIMAN said the bureau is looking at land "in dose proximitv" to Farmington in hopes that the Dav is Countv center will remain centralized He said he is hopeful that the legislature will appropriate enough money to cover the cost of land and the cost of the proposed building |