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Show y y wnnd'' V' WEEKLY REFLEX DAVIS NEWS JOURNAL, APRIL 12, 1979 Commends Governor On April Proclamation KaysvilleCity Council Meeting During the regular meeting the Kaysville City Council on Tuesday evening,, bid opening on double tennis courts to be built at 3rd North and 4th West, as advertised, was held. Two bids were submitted, one from Asphalt Paving Corp. for $19,479.70 and one from Parsons Asphalt Products for $19,400. MAYOR ELISON said the sheriff had indicated he would be willing to serve the city s of INASMUCH exceeded Seth Stewart appeared before the council to ask that additional fill dirt be hauled on his property which had been leased to the city for 40 estimated years as a dump, that the $16,000, Councilman Gerald Purdy moved that supervisor Max Major look over the bids as submitted and a decision will be made at the next council meeting. Mr. Major reported if bids were accepted now, the courts could not be ready for play until July. In other matters, bids for a pager alerting system for the Kaysville Fire Department, as advertised, were opened and read with the following submitted: General Electric ground is continually settling due to the type of material dumped there. He would like to put the field back into production by planting this spring. THE MAYOR reminded Mr. Stewart that they had used city equipment to go over the land last fall and found it satisfactory and they feel they have completed the of the requirements agreement signed with him. There was considerable discussion on the matter. Mr. Stewart expressing that he had not been dealt with fairly by the city and the council-me- n questioned how long the city should be responsible for the ground now that the H. L. Curtis $11,194; $10,616.80 (with phone line and hand radio would run Chambers Mo$13,036.80); torola, $12,500 (complete system including hand radio and dedicated phone line). There was considerable discussion on the Motorola system which is UHF and the city system agreement had been LETTER from Jack Brigance outlining how the present city system could be utilized for the paging system was noted. Councilman Purdy questioned why the UHF system is preferred over the VHF system. Councilman David Sanders observed that there was some thought that the city is doing this at the wrong time, that methods of notification are inadequate at this time. James Dotson, Kaysville, Fire Chief said he had been advised by a Motorola representative that eventually all emergency systems will go to UHF, that in checking with other emergency systems in the area, they prefer the Motorola over other systems, that it offers better penetration of buildings. He also stated that the fire department preferred to be on their own channel and not on the police or city channel. A ? tf t - p gi fk r a (i- pi j r - r r. n rr r i THERE WAS also a discussion on obtaining a new telephone number out to the pubiic. Following further discussion, Councilman Purdy moved that they accept the low bid from Chambers Motorola of $12,500. This was passed by the council, r. Councilman Purdy moved that Mayor Gar Elison be authorized to write a letter to the FCC requesting a license for the new fire department paging system, this was seconded by Councilwoman Carol Page and passed unanimously. ter- minated. When ask by the mayor, exactly what he wanted from the city, Mr. Stewart said, he wanted two feet of additional fill dirt and the land cleaned up. The mayor noted this would bring the one side higher and hinder watering and Mr. Stewart said he would take care of the problem. which is VHF. n on weekdays aiso. AS both bids the also pager utility weekends, however, Supervisor, Max Major stated they do use the pagers during the AFTER FURTHER discus- Councilman Purdy sion, moved that the council take a field trip, Saturday morning, to observe the property in question. The council agreed. Fire Chief James Dotson presented the life safety code for consideration of the council. He said the code is designed to minimize danger in buildings, exit facilities, etc. and should be adopted for use with the Utah Building Code and the Utah Fire Code. DISCUS- FOLLOWING sion on the effect of OSHA standards and the fact the code would be retroactive and might prove a hardship on older buildings in use. Councilman. Purdy moved the proposed code be studied by the building inspector and the matter rescheduled for the first council meeting in June. It was seconded by Councilman Howard Bonnemort and passed unanimously. THE COUNCIL accepted a quick claim deed from Ivory and Company for a small portion of land which sits between the west seven acres of city property adjacent to the Kaysville City Cemetery 7 and south boundary of Fair-fiel- d Drive, going into Hods Hollow Subdivision to insure the acres full access to Fair-fiel- d Drive. Mr. and Mrs. Jim Miller and Mrs. Barbara Ence appeared to present an offer of $300 for the stub end of 200 East north of 500 North which adjoins their properties. The matter was taken under advisement by the council until their next council meeting. - DUE TO vacancies existing on two committees, the Kays- ville Library Board and the Economic Growth Committee, it was decided to advertise for residents interested in serving on those committees. The for accepting applications will be Monday, April 16. Councilman Purdy moved the positions be ad- vertised and applications submitted to the Kaysville City Office. The library board submitted several names for their board. Mayor Elison announced there will be a hearing with the Public Service Commission on April 16 between p.m. in the city chambers 2-- 5 considering the telephone rate decision. Anyone wishing to be heard should contact Randy Thompson at First Security Bank in Kaysville. Mr. Thompson is coordinating the hearing in Kaysville. Other meetings will be held on April 17 at Layton and' April 18 in Salt Lake City. COUNCILMAN travel abroad. Our language is not the universal language, nor is it by any standards superior. We cannot expect others in foreign countries to speak English, and, as guests, we are the ones who must try to communicate in their tongue. Many people question the educational value of languages. Many teachers and Governor Scott Matheson as Utah named April Foreign Language Week. Although this week passed unnoticed by the majority of Utah residents, I would like to commend the governor for recognizing the important role foreign languages have in todays society. TODAY 12-1- 3 .administrators oppose the are more advanced than yesterday and will become still practice of substituting a year of foreign language for one of the three years required in English. When studying a foreign language a student is forced to dissect every aspect of the language. WHEN THE grammatical structure of a different language is examined closely, the student is able to make comparisons and in the process gains a better understanding of English. Also, when studyinjg a language, the student gains enrichment by being involved in the culture, thus developing a knowledge of the world around him and an appreciation and tolerance for others. The majority of countries make language studies mandatory. Our country does not. Foreign Language Week will honor those who take the extra step to gain this knowledge. These students have learned something valuable; language is not a barrier.. .ignorance is. more complex tomorrow. Communication lines encircle the earth, pulling it closer together than ever before. This breakthrough enables us to speak with anyone in the world. Nevertheless, are not these any country in technological advancements useless if we do not have the language skills and cultural awareness essential to understanding one another? high school student of AS A languages I have encountered many degrading remarks concerning my involvement in the program. These comments come not from students, but from, counselors and teachers. Remarks such as these which imply that I shouldnt waste my time with languages come from people who are ignorant of a world beyond the microcosm they live in. IT IS people such as these who transmit the snobby American image when they Jeannette S. Dubach Public Hearing On Rate Change Purdy moved that the city again reconfirm by letter their position concerning telephone rates in Davis County as presented earlier. This was passed by the council. Kaysville's Assistant Building Inspector Brent Steed was authorized by the council to attend the building inspector course on April at Park communications public hearing has been scheduled for Monday, April A 16 at the Kaysville City Chambers from p.m. with the Public Service Commission to once again discuss the telephone rate change in the Davis County area. First Security Bank. Mr. 2-- MAYOR Gar Elison who wishes to be heard should contact Randy Thompson at the Kaysville anyone Thompson is coordinating the hearing in Kaysville. Other are meetings scheduled, one in Layton on April 17 and in Salt Lake City on April 18. np said City. Trys To Set The Record Straight their see someone violate the law. I am all for them patrolling the county as well as our city because our one car cannot be all over at once, and if a car is speeding on the road I live on, I would like to see the driver ticketed no matter who gives him the ticket. It may just very well save one of the neighborhood children, as well as my own, from being run over someday. If you really believe in tne saving of lives, which l am sure you do, please consider these few cases that could not have been saved by the I am a e paramedic with the Salt Lake County Fire Dept, and a substitute paramedic with the Davis County Sheriffs Dept., plus a volunteer fireman with the Davis County Fire Dept. As a volunteer fireman of the Dav(s Co. Fire Dept., I am also a of the South Davis Ambulance Association, since the ambulances are owned and operated by the firemen and not the countv. YOU STATED in your letter . to the editor of the Davis County Clipper, that if elaborate equipment is needed, why not give it to the Davis County Fire Dept. Well, let me try to set you and the full-tim- part-own- emergency medical record straight. Elaborate equipment is needed if you want advanced emergency health care, but you also need people who are trained to use A TEN month old baby girl is strangled to death in her sleep by a railing on the bed. Paramedics are called and administer drugs and defibrillation and the child is brought back only because of the drugs that were used. A 57 year old male eating a steak in front of his television set chokes on a piece of the meat and by the time the paramedics arrive is in full, cardiac arrest. Again the paramedics saved the life of a it. The emergency medical technicians of the DCFD are well trained for the equipment they are authorized to use, but are you willing to pay the price of sending these people to Paramedic School to be trained, and then would you be willing to pay the wage for their added expertise? THE COUNTY is only sub- - . sidizing the South Davis Ambulance Association by letting us house the ambulances in the fire department. I wonder how many people are aware of the name Diamond Park as the choice of the recreation committee for the park located near the Kaysville City Shops. It was approved by the themselves, the equipment in them and the insurance on them are actually paid for by the firemen and the small amount we charge for our services and not by the Layton Building and Engineering Department report for the month of March 1979 is as follows: BUILDING permits issued: single dwellings, 17, $973,962; county? You asked why the sheriffs office took this from the fire department, well I ask you, what did they take away? The council. Justice of the Peace Henry Scheuller was authorized by the council to attend a train-din- g session for justices to be: held on May 10, 11 and 12 at the Ramada Inn Hotel in Salt Lake City, np The final day for the Layton will "be Saturcity clean-u- p The Layton City Improvement Association is sponsoring this clean-up- . Volunteers with pick-u- p trucks should meet at the city day, April 21. CITY RESIDENTS are asked to place their trash in garbage bags or to tie refuse in bundles, so it can be easily removed.' Large items of offices April 21 at 8 a.m. The LCIA would like to have one truck and three men from e, appliances or fieavy parts of trees should not be Dlaced out for collection. v.. . r each service club and church in Layton participate In the project, dmg The Layton Jaycees will sponsor their annual Easter Egg Hunt for children on April 14, at the Layton Commons Park, Wasatch Drive, just east of city hall, at 10 a.m. IT HAS been anticipated that many families will be there searching for the dozens of eggs which were donated by the merchants of Layton. The hunt will begin at the park at 10 April 14 and continue until all . the Easter eggs are found. The Layton Jaycees call the event one of the main attrac- tions of the year for the children of Layton. a.m., Saturday, full-tim- that costs for extended area service from to Salt Lake City will be substantially, almost double, the cost figures presented to the PSC at recent hearings. Mountain Bell also alleges wrongdoings and irregularities on the part of Davis County legislators for their contact with the PSC which resulted in the final PSC decision as being considerably more liberal than the original order. Kaysville-Layto- n Why does everyone point the finger at Davis County as being the culprit" in this controversial proposal for extended area telephone service? AS I SEE it, Davis County has the right in fact, the obligation to stand up and fight for improved calling, something that has been lacking in this small, but densely populated, county for a long time. For years, Ma Bell service has been restricted in Davis County. e WHILE NEIGHBORING counties have e and inter-count- y service for years, Davis County subscribers have been restricted toll-fre- e to very limited calling, except through METROPAC. And now that Davis County legislators, city and county officials, and subscribers in general plea for extended area service, at least one Public Service Commission member, Mountain Bell officials and the Utah Division of Public Utilities are objecting. been enjoying nearly county-wid- long-distan- ALSO, STATE legislators from neighboring counties of Weber and Salt Lake (and even Sen. Earnest Dean of Utah County) are already screaming that they want equal rights. Equal rights to what? DAVIS COUNTY was granted approval by the Public Service Commission to e county-wid- e calling as well as toll-fre- (376 customers) to call Ogden and Salt Lake City without toll charge. - Now, Mountain Bell and the Division of Public Utilities are opposing the PSC permitting Kaysville-Layto- n decision and have filed a petition for a rehearing. MOUNTAIN BELL officials maintain i0i - tion. Attorney Barker argues that allegations that state legislators had an influence on the PSC's final decision are made with no accompanying proof or that the alleged contacts had influenced the ultimate PLANNING commission action taken on the following: Dr. Clikeman occupancy was granted; Lee CoAiradt lien waiver was denied; writing members. Attorney Barker, in his response, also cited specific contentions for extended area service in Davis County. They include: EVERYONE points the finger at Davis County for fighting a cause it feels justified. IN THE full day of hearing in Farmington many residents of the area appeared and prevented evidence in support, of their need and desires for toll-fre3. The funny thing is, Davis County - e; calling from Kaysville-Layto- into Salt' n Lake City. I 1 jBb lift, didnt e service into actually bargain for Ogden and Salt Lake City from the county's 376 area just one direction or the other. toll-fre- m rhwiSi fi ifr ITT tm 84087 building permit, occupancy, site plan was denied; site plan, building permit and So. g Fort Lane should relocate their building and limit their accesses. ALSO Forbes rezone RIB to CP2 the planning commission asked for no hearing; Chapel Street Church building permit was granted; Shades of Gray occupancy was granted; Ivory rezone A to CPI hearing was recommended to city council; Forbes rezone RIB to Bamberger curb and gutter y; .. resolved, 1. Called inspections, 320; business licenses received, 75. Applications Being 'Accepted Z In Kaysville 7-- dead-endin- -- Applications are being accepted at the Kaysville City Office up until Monday, April 16 for persons interested in serving on either the Kaysville City Library Board or the Kaysville City Economic Growth Committee. DUE TO vacancies existing on these two committees, the council urges interested citizens to submit an application by the cut-of- f date of. April 16. np PORTRAIT Ogden or to Salt Lake City without toll. It also asked for county-wid- e service. THE THREE member PSC first handed down a verbal order which permitted 376 e prefix subscribers to call Ogden e and allowed county-wid- e calling. However, before the order was finalized toll-fre- toll-fre- and signed, Davis County legislators approached the PSC with the proposition that Kaysville-Layto- n (376 subscribers) be allowed to call Salt Lake City as well because many family and business associations were in Salt Lake City. calling, Davis tain Bell officials. area'. West Bountiful, Ut. Antelope Drive to Highway 89. BOARD OF adjustments: cases presented, 2; cases . (Regularly 88c) e c THIS WAS agreed to by two PSC members, with Comm. Kenneth Rigtrup dissenting. He said he objected to service and disapproved of county-wid- e e Kaysville-Laytosubscribers calling c to 4 a uw toll-fre- n to Salt Lake City. , u Mountain Bell officials then filed a protest and appealed to the Public Service Commission for a rehearing. Division of Public Utilities, too, filed a similar protest and supported Mountain Bell in a request for a rehearing. N SO A REHEARING has been set by the PSC. There will be four hearings beginning Monday at 10 a.m. at Kaysville City Hall. Hearings will also be held Tuesday at 10a.m. at Layton City Hall; Wednesday in Salt Lake City at the Public Service Commission hearing room; and Thursday in Ogden. THE HEARINGS will pertain only to matters including proposed county-wid- e e service and whether or not 376 prefix customers should be allowed to call toll-fre- toll-fre- e to Salt Lake City. A 44c 9 toll-fre- SO 1053 West 700 North n toll-fre- IF DAVIS County is allowed to call north and south to metropolitan cities of Ogden and Salt Lake City, Utah County Senator Dean is going to seek the same service for Provo area subscribers. Likewise, Weber Countys Rep. LaMont Judd has voiced his concern and says he, e sertoo, will ask for county-wid- e vice for Weber County. It's a similar story in Salt Lake County, according to Moun- L CITY AND county officials in all cities of concern had council approval for the extended telephone service and letters of support were written to the PSC. 2. Backing the official letters were petitions signed by 4,545 persons, 2,518 of whom gave their addresses and telephone numbers as being in the 376 and 776 prefix v Larry LaBelle, Paramedic Original arguments before the PSC asked only that Kaysville-Laytosubscribers be allowed to call either to County would be the only county in Utah with complete county-wid- e service. Not even Salt Lake, Weber and Utah sercounties have complete county-wid- e vice but almost. its individual ed with. metropolitan areas. 5. IN THE June 7 hearing in Farming- ton, 18 of the 25 witnesses expressed a e need and desire for county-wid- e sion allows THINK AGAIN, Council-woma- n Stephens, is the price really too high? I think not. I hope you change your mind and retract that letter to the editor and ask the commissioners to keep the paramedic service, no matter what department they are affiliat- IT WAS AN afterthought that resulted in the PSC's ruling for service to both AND IF THE Public Service Commis- "CERTAINLY, THE commission (PSC) has no way of prohibiting anyone from or calling That METROPAC had been a help to. calling but when it was in- -, stalled in 1969 it was unlimited timing. This system was found to be used so much that the company (Mountain Bell) set a time limit on the service instead of extending facilities. 4. toll-fre- decision. As it turned out, she left the hospital three weeks later in perfect health. Emergency medical technicians are not allowed to use this advanced equipment or drugs as of yet, so you see, the price paid for paramedics in these instances was really well worth it. forms; Whitesides Street; Graphic Prints occupancy was i., granted; .. railroad development and setback requirements required the city planner to check other cities; Wardleys Realty 8x10 long-distan- county-wid- e tubation, she would undoubt- edly remained in her full arrest condition, that is, dead SPROUSE REITZ SfORES calling. Outsiders maintain that if Davis County is allowed to call from its 376 prefix numbers (Kaysville-Layto- n area) to Ogden and to Salt Lake City, it would be the only area in the Mountain Bell system to e two metropolitan cities. call ASSISTANT ATTORNEY General James Barker, arguing the case for Davis County, says poppycock and has filed a petiresponse to the Ma Bell anti-shoc- trousers and drugs along with endotracheal in- right-of-wa- $2,373,824. WHAT GOOD would it do to decides to end it all with a small caliber pistol. She is in full arrest and bleeding severely internally since she shot herself in the stomach. k Without the military regulations; 9, Also fencing, 3, no valuation; signs, 3, no valuation; others, 14, $10,850; total, 66, Davis County Has The Right To Stand Up For Improved Long Distance Calling By GARY R. BLODGETT 6, $77, 07a the service by providing a fast response with the elaborate equipment they have been trained to use. train the DCFD firemen in the use of this equipment if you are unwilling to hire the men full-tim- e to man a rescue unit? It would require nine men to fully man one rescue unit. There is presently only e two men employed with the DCFD. The sheriffs department has e men who are doing double duty, as far as being a paramedic and patrolling, and are really underpaid as far as being paid for their expertise. YOU ASKED why they are writing tickets in our cities, well I think that any law of- - -ficer, no matter where he is, should write a ticket if they A 27 year old lady, distraught over her marriage, CP2 was recommended to city council; State Liquor Store site plan was accepted. Action pending on the following: 208 Water quality; Valley View road scheme; depths of corner lots, review of natural waterways; special tax assessment; review of C3 $1,108,421; commercial-new- , 3, $174,306; remodeling11, $29,209; dwelling, garages-residentia- l, full-tim- Easter Egg Hunt Set dwellings, multiple are actually supplementing Layton Clean Up . Layton Building Report the fact that ambulances sheriffs office paramedics FOLLOWING A discussion, Councilman Purdy submitted tech- nicians as we now have on the ambulances without the advanced training and the elaborate equipment and drugs that the Davis County Sheriffs Paramedics now carry and are trained to use: advanced person with training and equipment. 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