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Show WEEKLY REFLEX-DA- NEWS JOURNAL, MARCH 25, 1982 NORTH DAVIS LEADER, MARCH 25, 19 VIS Audit Report Released Layton Woman Named To Biographical Institute Post - Layton citizens as well. In this LAYTON Mrs. Ralph (Ruby J.) Price of 933 W. Gen-til- position, she will have the opportunity to recommend outstanding people in Layton. Utah and other states and cities for recognition. e, Layton, has been By TOM BUSSELBERG SALT LAKE CITY A ceive vocational training more efficiently and economically are to receive prime than they could in high students schools. We have found that legislative auditors report chides the states four area vocational centers including while the centers havent accomplished these objectives, they have become effective but expensive adult vocational training centers. Davis for providing an expensive program, geared more to adults than secondary students as originally intended with lower than planned graduate job placement. Sixty-fiv- percent of the e Kaysville facilitys students are listed as adults, with the e stuaverage annual dent cost listed at $4,472 for one years training at the four area centers vs. $3,838 at Davis and $2,295 at Utah Technical College in Salt Lake City. full-tim- PREPARED BY the Office of the Legislative Auditor General in Salt Lake City and released late last week, A Performance of Area Voca- - tional Centers in Utah noted 65 percent of Davis students are adults while centers were designed primarily for high school student training with only 49 percent job placement for adult completors, far below the average at the other cen- -' ters in Cache and Sevier counties and the Uintah Basin. The report also notes high operating costs compared to high school and technical school vocational programs although Davis was listed at closer to technical school costs e student. per full-tim- AS ORIGINALLY envisioned," the reports introduction says, Area centers were to serve primarily high school students. High school students from broad geog- raphical areas were expected to attend the centers and re THE REPORT went on to say "existing objectives (for the program) are not attainable" as area centers create diseconomies of scale, result in higher costs for the high schools, discourage them from sending students, including from other school districts that are supposed to be served by centers. It said 99 percent of the Davis Centers students come from within the county with none from Ogden and Weber districts, as intended. Some from Morgan County District were listed as attending, as intended. THE MAJOR purpose of the centers is to serve the needs of high school age youth. High school students . time. ..adult students admitted only after from high school are the report notes. "Because centers are to be served, were ex- pected to teach necessary skills less expensively than individual high vocational schools, secondary students were to be primary beneficiaries of center training. The adult appropriation given to the centers subsidizes teaching high school dents." stu- - IT GOES ON to say that while high school students are given first opportunity to enroll, the major purpose of the centers has changed to emphasizing adult and age youth training, with the State Supt. of Public Instruction indicating that resulted from increased legislative funding for adult training. "Centers dont train secondary students for jobs, the re- port continues. "While dis- "District and high school officials generally feel placement standards are inappropriate because most high school students arent serious about seeking employment related to their center training, the report continues, noting placement standards are being considered. THE AVAILABILITY of vocational education in high schools discourages student participation, the report continues. Larger schools all have vocational programs so arent sending many students to the centers. Layton High School has a 2.1 percent participation and less at other district schools, it adds. The auditors recommend the legislature and state board refor vocational education vise area centers objectives and for secondary students recommends the state board "clearly define expectations. IT NOTES placement information is either with a or unreliable in reporting due to different definitions or methodologies used by the centers, including difference in the definition of placement. nt agreement (on that point) exists, a consensus exists that those students arent ready to e make career decisions. long-rang- EMPLOYMENT training was listed as the original purpose for the centers, with the state vocational education division staff agreeing thats still the goal for adult students. "Some centers counted as placement those students who obtained jobs or went on to school regardless of whether jobs or schooling were related to the vocational training they had received. We counted placement as only those who found schools or went on to school in areas directly related to vocational training. IT ADDED that the Davis Center was the only one where enrollment hadnt been "overstated, but went on to say, The Davis Center is not placing as large a proportion of its completing students as other centers, and currently it falls short of meeting the acceptable standard of effectiveness identified by professional vocational educators. It notes the DA VCs placements are low because of a "high proportion of referred students who are usually h school graduates and have a low expectation of and motivation for success. Because Davis charges no tuition h school graduates, to social service agencies, former students and the Davis School District encourages enrollment. non-hig- non-hig- OTHER CENTERS charge tuition, it notes adding, The DAVC's placement rate indicates they need help and the centers effectiveness needs close monitoring. Fifty pere cent of Davis adult students are school 6 graduates vs. percent at other centers. full-tim- non-hig- h appointed a member of the National Board of Advisors of The American Biographical Mrs. Price is now looking for outstanding youth between the ages of 18 and 30 to recommend for inclusion in the second edition of the Interna- Institute." MRS. PRICE is recognized as a humanitarian, an educator, an author, a lecturer, a civic, political and religious leader. She is included in many publications listing prominant Americans including Whos Who in American Politics, Personalities of America," The American Civic Service tional Youth In Achievement." She recommended two young men from Layton for the first edition. They were Dr. Christensen and Robert Whitman. RUBY FEELS her greatest contribution has been in participating in the building of three churches and the establishment of several mission churches in Utah. The American Registry, Governmental Registry," The American Educational Registry," The World Whos Who of Women, Dictionary of International Biography. "International Biographical England," "The International Whos Who of Intellectuals" and The Book of Honor. She is a fellow member of the Book of Honor. Shrine Area. Capitol Hill. MRS. PRICE was selected by the Community Memorial Chapel Foundation in Salt Lake City as a Distinguished City. MRS. PRICE in accepting the appointment said it was not only an honor to her but to By DONETA GATHERUM On March 20, E. Green was born to John Hyrum and Martha Lovina Pierce Green. His place of birth was the Green family home built in downtown Layton on the banks of Kays Creek by Roberts grandfather, John H. 1 Editor's Note: Comments below re from Jack Shell, Davis Area Vocational Center director, and Walter E. Ulrich, state vocational education administrator, in response to the legislative audit explained In the article at left). KAYSVILLE Noting he has some real contentions, Davis Area Vocational Center Director Jack Shell takes the legislative vocational center audit to task on several areas, including enrollment and per student cost. HE SAYS the center placed "basically 80 percent" of adult completors, including 73 percent in jobs "directly related" to their fields of study, adding DAVC had more completors (roughly comparable to graduates) and the largest enrollment" of the state's four area centers. Those opting for military service werent listed as completors receiving placement as recorded by DAVC. But the biggest problem in the 49 percent adult placement listed by the audit report comes with 41 names where no current job status could be determined. IN A LETTER to Mr. Ulrich dated March 16 Mr. Shell says. Of the 173 completors claimed by the DAVC for fis WRITING FURTHER in that letter Mr. Shell said the definition of "related vs. unrelated placement. ..acted to confound analysis, with the audit employing "an unnecessary restrictive definition of a related placement which hinged primarily on job title rather than job description. He used the example in a Friday interview of a comple-to- r placed in a maintenance position because of electrical background. Seventeen cases termed placements by the center were related to training through job description although the job title was unrelated, Mr. Shell added. ARGUING WITH the point adult students are emphasized over secondary he said the vocational center policy manual says the major purpose is to serve secondary students and indicated secon- dary students have always been allowed first weve never turned any secondary students away yet we have more adult students. We feel we serve those who come to be served. That wasnt the case earlier, with emrollments nearly equal ' " in other years. THEY CLAIM it costs more to go to the area vocational centers than technical schools. Davis and Bridger-lan- d are very close (on costs). Youre comparing two different types of programs," he says. Vocational education does cost more. Special education , and handicapped education cost more. We serve the very heavily student. disadvantaged-typ- e The technical schools serve high school graduates students or beyond and at less can provide training cost," he said. "I'm required to have counseling, placement and evaluation staff. They're not required to at the tech." YOU NEED to compare actual costs between schools. You shouldn't say vocational education is the same but compare vocational centers," he continued. "We never claimed to provide programs at less cost but for high schools, if every high school had to have (the same facilities as DAVC), it wouldn't be as economical. Were like a small rural school vs. a large urban school theyve been unfair there (in report comparisons). IM REALLY angry over their approach. You shoujjj use research based on proven methods geared to remove all bias. "We asked them to remove (bias factors) and they wouldn't think of it. On top of that, higher education facilities have never had such an audit, Mr. Shell added. Costs per student cant be directly compared between a university, technical school and area center because fulltime requirements differ from about 15 hours credit (or class hours a week) at a college to 25 at the Salt Lake technical school and 30 at DAVC. That means more teacher time and money, he emphasizes. IN THE letter from Mr. Ulrich to Mont Kenney, legislative auditor general, "major disagreement was listed with calling adult vocational programs expensive." As we suggested during the audit, it would be more appropriate to compare area center costs with small schools in rural areas that would nearly equate to Kaysville Voting Sites Announced Are you as citizens aware of the upcoming Davis County bond election on March 30? On that day a bond in the amount of $40 million will go before the voters. This election should be of prime concern to every Davis County property owner. VOTING DISTRICTS include: Kaysville 1, 5 and vote at Kaysville Jr. High; Kaysville 2 and 7 at the Burton School; districts 3 and 4 vote at Kaysville 1 1 at Morgan Elementary school; districts 6, 8 and 3 vote at 2 and School; Fruit Heights districts 1, Davis County Golf Course, np 10 By TOM BUSSELBERG North County News Editor Tuesday's the day voters get the chance to exercise their option at the polls. ITS THE SECOND election in four weeks for Davis County voters. This time around, the school board is asking support of a $40 million building bond authorization. What that means. Im told, is the board can then break that amount up. selling portions of it, as needed, to fund various construction projects ranging from new schools to additions on existing facilities, purchase portable classrooms or install air condid schools be- tioning should come a reality. UNLIKE THE paramedics election, where voters for the first time had the chance to express feelings on a funding change, the districts bond election is the seventh in 20 years. Some $82 million dollars in construction moneys have resulted through such means. A dozen or so projects are under way right now thanks to the last of $35 million approved in 1979. The new Columbia Elementary School in Kaysville, Clinton Elementary and Farming-to- n Junior High are among such facilities so funded. year-roun- DEADLINES For: Reflex, Journal, Leader, Bulletin Tuesday CLASSIFIED ADS: DISPLAY ADS: PICTURES: Noon Thursday . 6:00 p.m. FnS Weddings, obituaries, missionaries, etc . UNDERSTANDABLY, some, are asking what approval would mean to area centers. You point out centers are not reaching all high school students they're developed to serve. We still maintain that no high school student is refused attendance at any center except where class enrollment is restricted by class size. Adult students are enrolled to fill up programs after high school students have been served. IT CONTINUED, The emphasis for centers to give prime time and preferential treatment to high school students has not changed. There is some disagreement with your data and elements considered in your audit. "Programs offered at area centers are high cost and do not result in reducing costs at the district level because districts still maintain labs, etc. The high schools in many cases basically offer programs. It would be extremely expensive and very difficult for each high school to offer the same programs as offered at the cen- ters." THE LETTER to Mr. Ulrich added the state board of educa- tion evaluates each institution and adult vocational center and high school on a five year cycle. with accreditation given to area centers by the state board for vocational education. their taxes. Where nearly 40 percent of a workers income goes to taxes and hundreds or thousands go for property taxes, these days, any intelligent voter could be expected to raise that point. The board of education, board clerk and superintendent of schools have all said approval will mean no additonal taxes. Just as the district is currently paying off its outstanding bonding indebtedness on a yearly basis that will continue, at no added expense. Thats possible due to continued growth in the county that brings additonal tax dollars. J, THE BOARD could have opted for a higher bonding figure-t- he capacity is there. Following in the sound conservative tradition held to by the district in bonding for many years thats resulted in an enviable bonding rating, they opted for a lower figure. It wont all be spent at once, although costs mean it wont last as long as it could have 10 years ago, surely. Its anticipated that $40 million n will last years. At a cost of million for an elementary under $3 just school, $5 or $6 million for a junior million for a high high and $17-$2- 0 school, it should last a while. five-seve- ENROLLMENT projections emphasize most growth is anticipated in the elementary age group, ages 1 or 12. That would mean enough money for about 14 elementary schools if all of it went in that direction. 5-- 1 RUBY IS active in civic, political and religious work. She was named Utah , Mother of the Year in 1977. Story Recounted Of Pioneer Robert Green LAYTON cal 1981, followup efforts had yielded data on 32. The status of the remaining 41 was unknown. The audit team incorrectly assumed these 41 werent working or hadnt been placed, and only attempted to verify placement on the remaining 132. He termed that a serious error since there was no reason to assume that lack of information was equivalent to nonplacement and said it wouldve been more accurate to remove those from the comple-torlis- t. employment with Layton Washington D.C. This is a collection of biographies of prominant Americans. 1895, Robert By TOM BUSSELBERG She is the mother of six.chil-dreOne is deceased. She has four grandchildren. Her husband. Ralph, is retired from Citizen. In 1980 she was permanent-lyhouse- d in the Historical Centre-Cambridg- Green, one of the first Kaysville and Layton settlers. ROBERT GREW up on the Green farm which included the part of Layton where the Fort Lane Shopping Center and Layton Park Plaza (remodeled white church) now stands. Roberts father donated one acre of ground to the LDS Church so the White Chapel could be built. 1 Apostle Smith went to find his father, Joseph E. Smith, the President of the LDS Church. After attending the elementary school (where the Layton Telephone Co. offices are now) for a few years, Mr. five-poin- ts one-roo- m Green went on to continue his education at Layton Elem. School. HE MARRIED Malinda (Minnie) Burton on Nov. 7, 1917. She was a native of Kaysville. She was a daughter of John W. and Malinda J. Adams Burton. The couple traveled with their mothers on the old Bamberger railroad to Salt Lake City to get married. As they prepared to enter the Salt Lake Temple, Robert and Malinda were met by George Albert Smith. The LDS Church official recognized Roberts mother and called her by name. Mrs. Lovina Green was a descendant of Hyrum Smith as was George Albert Smith. The LDS Church Apostle said, Does Papa know you are here? When Lovina replied no, , ROBERT AND Malinda Burton Green were married by Joseph F. Smith. They were promised that if they lived by the teachings of the church, they would have a long life together. The marriage lasted 63 years. Malinda Green died Mar. 10, 1981. Robert worked as a farmer and at other odd jobs. Some of the best money he ever made was when he worked with his team of horses constructing the cement highway through Centerville. AFTER HE returned from serving in World War I, Robert moved to 3589 W. 1000 N., Layton. He lives there today. The house the Greens lived in was already standing when he purchased the property, but over the years Robert has done much to improve the home. At first all water had to be Undoubtedly, it'll be split up according to needs, the same as now. where some goes for a addition at Layton High while other funds go for a new media center at Burton Elementary in Kaysville, for example. ARENT THERE other ways to solve the anticipated student growth, or should I say continued boom? The district's been studying everything from extended day. to double sessions, to year-roun- d schools to busing students to other districts. And at least some district officials says several of these will be needed with new building-- to meet the growth. A DISTRICT energy audit of all 70 school buildings has been run and bids are to be opened next month for an energy conservation system thatll gradually be phased into each school, providing for constant monitoring--an- d conserving--o- f energy as well as ooting mechanisms to new problems. A lots been said and written about school financial needs within the last fews years. A voted leeway authorization was approved little more than a year ago. That helps in providing funds for maintenance and operation activities, from paying salaries to books and furnishings. Law permits virtually no mixture between M&O and capital funds such as are the subject of Tuesday's election. trouble-sh- pin-poi- outlay-construc- tion hauled to the home from a distant spring. Mr. Green paid to have a well drilled. The first attempt was not successful. The drillers left the pipe in the hole overnight and it was lost. The second well was drilled and gave a good supply of water. It is still used today. An electric pump delivers the water to the house. THERE WAS no telephone or electricity when the Green's first moved to West Layton. Robert added to his farm by purchasing five acre parcels. Today he owns 30 acres of good farm land which he leases out. Besides raising hay and grain, Mr. Green milked cows and fed cattle most of his life. In 922 he became one of the first school bus; drivers era ployed by Davis, School DiSf.,.j trict. His first bus was a converted sheep camp wagon pulled by two horses. He drove the school buses for 37 years. He was honored by the state for his outstanding safe driving record with a plaque as Driver , of the Year and a cash award. i AN ACTIVE member of the Layton Second Ward he is a high priest. Mr. and Mrs. Green were the parents of two sons and a daughter. They are Mrs. Jay (Marjorie) Simmons and Thayne R. Green, both of Layton; John H. Green, Centerville. He has 13 ldren and randchildren. 16 grandchigreatg- ON SATURDAY afternoon and evening his family members gathered to wish him a happy 87th birthday. Mr. Green is still very active. He walks to get exercise and still drives his car although he does stay away from heavy traffic. THE DISTRICTS trimmed a lot of its programs to meet that tight M&O bus routes and altering schedules to save gas, charging for some music and athletic programs, reducing some staff, from length of hours for elementary media aides to the number of nurses to not replacing four administrators. And the salaries paid staff-su- ch as the superintendent and assistants-have- nt escalated to the point of some districts. They're about in the middle. I'm told, among the nation's districts, even though Davis-t- he state's third most populous-- is also considered large by national standards. ID ASK VOTERS to first, exercise their right and vote; secondly, Id ask them to weigh the issue and give it the attention needed to make a firm decision, one way or the other. Its be my choice to vote FOR the bond. THEN, EXERCISE your right as a citizen, as well, and keep tabs on the five members of that board of education you elected. Give them input on building matters or anything else under their domain. Theyve expressed a desire and need to follow dictates of the electorate. Give them that chance by voicing your feelings, Tuesday and in the future. budget-consolida- ting top-lev- el |