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Show A A u LL 7 7 THURSDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1979- - -V- 30 PAGES - the county has maintained A federal district court judge ruled Monday that the Davis County Merit Council must complete its mandate before any further court action can be heard in the Jeanne Layton case. Davis County Librarian, should be reinstated in her position by Jan. 14 It would provide back pay and benefits if the merit council decides ... DRUG SUSPECT pre-daw- By GARY R. BLODGETT cover ed by merit protection at the time of her dismissal. It ruled that she should have was in the unincorporated area of south Davis - County. FARMINGTON Nearly 100 law enforcement officers armed with search warrants and warrants for arrest swept through Davis County early Wednesday ' morning (yesterday) arresting 29 juveniles and nine d adults for crimes WS Other small amounts of drugs were also picked up during the raid throughout the county, it was explained. It was the largest drug raid in Davis County history, according to Sheriff Brant Johnson, n who termed the raid a booming success. the county also are pending in cases that involve Davis County persons. All the statistics point up the bad news in housing. The ' average new home costs more drug-relate- d pre-daw- This roundup was successful because of the cooperation of chiefs of police and law enforcement officers in every community in the county, said Sheriff Johnson. Weve worked five months on some of these cases and this is just the climax to a lot of hard work. We had arrest warrants for juveniles and 16 adults and we arrested all but one juvenile and nine of the 16 adults, the sheriff said. And one juvenile and nine of the 16 adults, the sheriff said. And we expect to have the others in custody before the end of the day (Wednesday). 30 Wednesdays raid began shortly after 6 a.m. with police officers from each city converging on homes of persons charged in a warrant for But Wednesdays which drug bust resulted in arrests from virtually every Davis County city and involved nearly every high school and junior high school in the Davis School District was only a part of the success of a narcotics undercover team. arrest. It was a operation. We just at their homes, some of them got everybody still in bed, he said. It was a raid with a little surprise attached to it. door-knockin- - g fast-movi- five-memb- er Sheriff Johnson noted that during the past five months there have been 167 total d arrests which resulted in the filing of 215 felony charges. Some arrests involved more than one charge, the sheriff explained. And the element of surprise was evident as the police vehicles began arriving at the Davis County Jail with sleepy-eye- d suspects in custody. One young woman was still dressed in her pajamas and wearing a robe. drug-relate- There were also three search warrants issued and carried out Wednesday morning, warrants to apprehend drugs suspected in homes. Once at the jail, juveniles and adults were to the custody of their released parents (at the jail) or taken to Moweda Detention Center in Roy f6r confinement until either We were successful in two of those warrants, said Sheriff Johnson. One search was of a house in North Salt Lake while the other . Please Turn To Page 2 $60, 000.. .interest rates are sky high. ..and even than though the housing market is beginning to slump, prices are expected to stay high. BUT FOR young buyers discouraged about ever owning a home, the Neighborhood Preservation Association has - A FARMINGTON proposed tax increase being considered by the Davis County Commission'is ex- pected to be offset by the distax continuation of a for levied courthouse construction. presently COMMISSIONER Morris F. Swapp emphasized Tuesday that the mill levy needed by the county to meet a proposed salary increase of 10. 5 percent for county employees and to allow the commission to live within the present budget would be about 2 mills. But the increase could be more, or it could be less," he said. We dont know for sure budget figures. COMMISSIONER Swapp explained that there is levy for presently a courthouse construction that will be dropped at the end of this month. levy Thus, a increase would be offset by the discontinuation of the courthouse construction mill, he said. Anything above 2 mills, however, would be an overall increase." the county HE presently operates on a 9.05 general mill levy budget, but the county is authorized by the state to assess as much as SAID mills. Any mill increase coming at this time would be declared 16 a fiscal emergency since the budget for 1980 has already been adopted by the Commission. COMMISSIONER Swapp said the thing that is really putting the county into a financial bind at this time is the cost of operating the countywide paramedics program. But I believe in the paramedics 100 percent and I certainly dont want to see their operation eliminated or even cut back, he said. Id rather be eliminated as a commissioner than to have the paramedics program eliminated. neighborhoods mailing costs. an idea lot of &' The booklet leads prospective homebuyers with ittle p to suet ess money in purchasing an older home. It discusses how to arrange cheap financing and how to get free help from public and private agencies. It describes specific Salt Lake City tire a step-by-ste- sending $2.50 to NPA to cover and is only have fun but save money. TO HELP people do just that, the NPA has published a booklet, "How to Buy a Home for under $30,000, which can be purchased by handling in recent recycling whose time has come and people who get involv ed not to find them. j neighborhoods where bargains can be found and istsi current market prices. 1 -- FOR A copy, send $2.50' to The Neighborhood Preservation Association is dedicated to keeping neighborhood- - T mil at this time. The county auditor is still working on the news articles, he said. neighborhoods, You just have to know how printing, involved in them. AS POINTED out you can still buy good news a house for under $30,000. That may sound impossible, but NPA president Roland Andrews says it isnt. Plenty under of good bargains still exist in some of $30,000 the older Salt Lake City area . should be halted until the merit council makes its decision. The county library board filed a case in Second District State Court in However, the judge' said any further court litigation should be heard in state Neighborhood Preservati on Association, P.O. Box 11!) 72, Salt Lake City, Utah 84147. courts. COUNTY Commissioner Morris Swapp, who also sits on the library board and helped initiate action to fire what we had hoped he would do. other hand, Miss also appeared opLayton timistic at the ruling. "I dont see how they (merit council) -- On the The opinion continued, Even if at the end she triumps, such a Victory may be hollow indeed. A due can find in anyone elses favor but mine. All along the library board has said wasnt entitled to a hearing. process factual inquiry may well end on the administrative level. Its important that the public library board be I THAT HEARING will probably be held after the first of the year, said Merit Council Chairman Robert In view of the judges ruling the merit council will meet on it and will follow through with the hearing. I would suspect it will be held after the first of the year as that would be the earliest we could hear it. ; . Duffin Tuesday morning. , costs about 2 mills to operate. He also admitted that if put to a vote of the public, the program might be defeated. same time, Commissioner Ernest Eberhard said in a Health Department meeting Tuesday morning that if the budget cant be balanced, the paramedics program might be the first to AT THE go." Commissioner Swapp noted lot of money is spent to train paramedics and then some of the these paramedics go to neighboring counties (Salt Lake and Weber) where the paramedics are paid a higher salary. WE ARE either going to have to match their salary or lose them, Commissioner Swapp said. And its the same problem with all county employees, commissioners admit. IF WE dont increase their salaries to be comparable with other agencies and entities, we are going to lose imsome of our long-timsaid portant employees, Commissioner Eberhard. "And without good in- dicated preference against an interim appointment. Evan Board Chairman Whitesides, who voted to retain Miss Layton, has said, however, he would not favor THE OTHER merit council an interim appointment because of problems that might arise. And Eva Jean Law, appointed to the board in October and not a part of the firing, agreed in a members are Mary Ellen Leatham of Sunset and Ernest Little of Kaysville. Mr. Duffin is from Bountiful. In further outlining his page brief, telephone interview. Judge Jenkins said the merit council was the only body that could determine Miss Laytons status. It (merit council) must determine whether the procedures mandated by the merit system ordinance were followed by the library board. If these procedures werent dont I think there should be an interim period. I think it should be explored further by the merit council and then go with the decision they come up with." rjr IN A related matter, -- Miss Layton reaffirmed Tuesday morning that her civil suit against the library board and several of its members, totalling $400,000, was still be- complied with then the plaintiff is entitled to reinstatement and back pay and ing sought. procedure Aids Bi-ling- ual - FARMINGTON Bilingual aides are needed by the Davis County School District to teach English to children Mandarin, CanLao, tonese, Korean, Japanese and Navajo. Those who are proficient in those languages who could teach students English are asked to telephone Dr. Anabel Pmero, ext. 200. She is the Bilingual Education Director for the Davis County School Vietnamese, lrom other lands. NEEDED AT the present time are persons who speak District. Mrs., Bonnie Durrance, public relations representative for the district, said that more than fifty languages are now being taught in the bilingual program in 38 of the employees, the county is endangering the health and safety of the public. Commissioner Chairman Glen W. Flint said there is a critical need at this time to adjust employees salaries." WE HAVE been too con- servative in the past regarding employee salary increases, he said. There have been times when the increase did not even meet the inflation rate. He explained, however, that the proposed increase for 1980 d includes a 7 percent increase for all employees and an additional across-the-boar- 3.5 have board members other. the discharge that have been problems side and Miss Layton the 11 reasons for taking action and have it tested. MISS' LAYTON said she would return to work pending the outcome in spite of hinted at by various quarters. In addition to the three board members who voted for Miss Laytons firing, including Mr. Swapp, Robert Arbuckle and Sharon Shumway, the other indicated that hearing position in the required to present its , 0)(1) that a IT IS important to the plaintiff as she stands jobless through what may well be inappropriate action on the part of her employer (library board). She needs relief now, not after the jurisdictional issue winds its way through the legal labryinth to the state Supreme Court. Miss Layton said of the ruling: We feel good about the judges decision. He has sent it back to the merit council. He has done exactly bMWflU PARAMEDICS are a valuable service to the county, but only those who have had need for their services really know of their importance. As far as Im concerned, they are a security to all Davis County residents." He explained, however, that the paramedics program Judge Jenkins continued that due process is breached if government doesnt provide a full evidentiary hearing. It is important that the merit council complete its work and make a determination as part of the proceedings with which it is charged with overseeing. n. could be open or closed to the public depending on Miss Laytons feelings but said the library board would be on one alive and viabie. We are slowly seeing tt return of young people to the old neighborhoods, b'Ut we still have far to go, President Youd be Fenton said. surprised how mu ch people come to love thes e neighborhoods once they become IT CONTINUED, If tbe merit council determines that the required procedures were followed, the plaintiff (Miss Layton) is entitled to posttermination appellate process to have the council determine after a full hearing whether she was discharged for cause. commission county specifically exempted that position from protection in early August. In making the ruling, Judge Jenkins said that any addi- He InlOU 81 All of the warrants for arrest Wednesday were for known drug pushers in the county, the sheriff noted. A couple of warrants outside drug-relate- By GARY R. BLODGETT she was dismissed without proper cause or whether she was provided with a fair hearing before dismissal. Her reinstatement could also take affect the day following the decision said Judge Bruce Jenkins in Salt Lake City. was terThe minated Sept. 28 from her library post held for eight vote of years after a three-tw- o the Davis County Library Board. That action was taken after the board asked for her resignation during an August was A letter meeting. presented listing sevenn grievances against Miss Lay-toand signed by three board members. AFTER HER firing, the countys merit council "was asked to determine if the librarian should have been Davis County sheriff deputies place handcuffs on suspec tfollowing n drug raid early .Wednesday (yesterday) momiiig. More than 100 law enforcement officers made 38 arrests, 29 of whom were of juvenile age. her position to be exempt. As if to reinforce that point, the tional court action in the case the former MISS LAYTON, i would be defective, null and void. had such protection although By TOM BUSSELBERG SALT LAKE CITY OLUME FIFTY NUMBER THIRTY percent anniversary increase for most employees. COMMISSIONERS said districts that without the raise, Davis County employees would still be below the salaries of county employees of neigh- boring counties. The proposed increase would be in excess of the State Tax Limitation Bill (House Bill 303) which would allow . Davis County about a I evy increase. The additional n lill could be approved under a declaration of fiscal emerge mcy." WE HAVE already gone ove r the entire proposed budget twice and now were going ovei it a third time to trim any . fat. But even at rock bottom, additional money is going tt t be needed, commisw sioner s agree. one-mi- 55 schools. Teaching is frequently a one to one experience, she said. 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