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Show r U -j ti v ; t 1 w ..i t . - j T a at . v ; r.; , vw r m; tii Av CO r.t: izimtllin' Wii V5D &Ii Stf-J- -- V Mi 4in t- YXil (MftwT ' Wednesday, March 30, 1983 Vol, 3 No. 31 tudly By KENT SOMERS Rsvlw 5toff FARMINGTON The Davis County School District will soon have a method to determine hazardous areas a where buses should be provided method which district officials hope will prevent previous situations in which those who made the most noise got transportation. A transportation committee established last fall and chaired by Dr. Richard Butler, director of the dis- tricts transportation department, is close to finishing a rating system, which will' be used to determine hazardous areas. Butler said the state reimburses the district for the cost of busing elemen I Irteeoirdtaus iusomi fferinriiiiini v multiplied by the number of hazardous areas a student encounters on the walk to and from school. Butler said his committee is close to finishing the rating of hazardous areas in the district. The districts policy in the past has been quite liberal, Butler said, but the new system should give the district an objective way of determining which students should be transported, possibly saving the district tary school students who live 1.5 miles from the school and secondary students living two miles from school. But the district had to use $158,000 from its general fund to bus ineligible students who are affected by hazardous conditions while walking to and from school. The main goal of the new rating system is to find an objective way to determine a students eligibility to ride the bus if he lives within the 1.5 or boundaries, said Butler. The system allots points for certain hazard problems such as traffic density, speed limits, number of pedestrian students, and the age of those students to determine if an area is hazardous. The average of these ratings is then money. Board members expressed their satisfaction with the committees preOur biggest critiliminary report. cism last year was we didnt have a system, said board member, Dee Forbes, and Butler agreed. Parents would come to me in a group and say Why cant we be hauled? I had a hard time knowing where to place my feet. Butler said the district could also benefit financially from wording in the appropriations bill passed by the Utah Legislature. The new language states that the state will reimburse the district for transporting ineligible students who would walk through hazardous areas otherwise. But the bill does not increase funding for transporting students. Butler said the district must wait to We see how the bill is interpreted. have high hopes this will cut down a big part of our loss, Butler said. Its not going to do us a lot of harm. I think it could do us a lot of good. SujJferintendent Lawrence E. Welling said he hopes the public understands that every walking route to school is hazardous, but that some are more hazardous than others. This (the rating system) gives us some way of judging what hazardous means. Butler said he has attended numerous conferences where people have asked what to do about hazardous walking. I havent heard a good answer yet, he said. A portion of the districts answer should be comthe rating system pleted by the end of the year. Board President Sheryl Allen said the district hopes to let parents know by the end of the school year whether or not their children will be bused next year. Legislature's Decisions Will 'Hurt Education' ance tax on oil compnies. Its silly not to impose a severance tax on these people, said Parry. It doesnt make sense to have the average working man bear the cost of education while energy companies make money hand over fist. By KENT SOMERS Ktvltw Stoff FARMINGTON And often were heard discouraging words. Not exactly how the old song goes, but discouraging words were all the Davis County Board of Education had to say about the 1983 Utah Legislature. Board member Bruce Parry called one decision by the Legislature silly; Board President Sheryl Allen said the best thing about the Legislature is that it has adjourned. v And board member Dee Forbes said some deals were made in the back rooms that hurt public education. Forbes said the oil companies have one of the strongest lobbies in the Legislature and said some deals were made in back rooms. Board members said the severance tax decision was made in caucus, not on the floors of the Senate or the House. There was a slight increase Education is going to face a in sales tax, which we have to difficult time next year because pay, said Mrs. Allen. But no increase in the severance tax. of decisions made up there, That could bring the district And Mrs. 'Allen- said the worst some problems when teacher about she is that it, said, thing and staff negotiation time comthere will probably be discourAllen. The board Mrs. said es, and educators agement among of will be as fair as we education staff in the district. will can we be limited going but District Superintendent Lawrence, E. Welling said into negotiations. facetiously that it made him Mrs. Allen also said the imwish he worked for the road of the Legislatures decipact department. If they get their sion could be felt in years to budget cut 1 to 2 percent all come especially if the they have to do is quit filling economy turns around. One of chuck holes. the biggest problems is this be- But public education cant ing a discouragement for people limit enrollment or raise tuition going into education. As soon as like higher education if its the economy turns around we budget is sliced. School districts may lose some teachers. The must try to survive with the budget of the State of Utah was cuts, despite rising enrollments, balanced at the sake of educahe said. tion, Mrs. Allen said. It seems like we take a beating on the thing most people in Welling said that he didnt a good eduUtah prize most a severance tax would hurt the oil companies because cation, Welling said. ' Board members were espeof the ,10 most successful cially disgusted with the Legis- businesses in the country, five lature for not imposing a sever are oil companies. - HIGHWAY PATROL crews work to dear wreckage after collision of a k and three other vehicles. A semi-truc- x Highway Mishap Kills Kaysville Man -- SOUTH WEBER Highway v Rtvitw Staff semi-trail- t FARMINGTON receive $250,000 in a federal road grant for an environmental impact study and preliminary design of a Davis Highway, which would run from Shepards Lane in Farmington County will , to Redwood Road in Bountiful. Commissioner Harold Tip- petts said in a commission meeting last week that Commission Chairman Glen E. Saunders obtained the grant for the county. Tippetts said Highway 106 and Interstate 15 are the only two routes through Davis County that link northern Utah with Salt Lake City. Another corridor is not only important to Davis County but to the whole northern part of the state, said Tippetts. r . By KENT SOMERS Day's Work A days for bruises and abMcKay-De- e rasions on his arms and legs. work for the ap- pliances or a myriad ID of other things. on the two county landfills, and a financial report from Smith Barney, representatives said. Hal Hallett of Layton told the council that the county does not need to look at resource recovery for another 10 to 12 years if the landfills are upgraded and only-grou- Katy-Segher- s, ' Objection practices . vice-preside- nt All-Sta- rs Local basketball teams were represented last weekend in the cerebral palsy 1C game. All-St- ar ! er Fee Ruling and insurance brokers will I r er semi-trail- 4A in Day Company inClearfield might clude refurbishing antiques or treated and released from semi-trail- come from. The group claims The p CLEARFIELD that resource recovery is a riswho will benefit from a ky business of the complex techresource recovery plant in nology and because the success of the plant is dependant on a Davis County are which will construct and operlarge group of cities using the ate the plant, and an investment plant. If those cities agree to firm that will sell the bonds, management dump at the resource recover of to according representatives plant, said the opponents, they improved. committee opa The opposition report claims are locked into that agreement that upgrading the two landfills for 20 years. posed to the plant. The representatives made will cost about $22 million over Clearfields decision on the their presentation during a City the next 20 years. But a re- resource recovery plant is Council meeting last week. A source recovery plant will cost pivotal if the plant is to be built in the county. A conditional use committee appointed by the about $125 million. council to study the plant and The report, however, did not permit must be granted by the make a recommendation estimate revenue from sales of planning commission, or by the whether or not it should be built steam and electricity, which is city council on appeal, before was scheduled to make a pre- designed to help offset the costs construction can begin. Warren T. Gregory, a liminary presentation last week of construction and maintebut postponed that appointment nance, and keep county resiwith Smith Barney, until the next council meeting. dents tipping fees down. the investment firm that would But the opposition committee The group also questioned market the bonds, said last preceded with its report, which Where the money to pay the month that a decision on the is based on engineering studies . financial underwriters, lawyers plant must be made by July 1 Rtviaw Staff program. Tippetts said the proposed highway must travel through a wetlands area, and permission from the Army Corps of Engineers must be obtained for the road to be built on the land. In the past, the county has discussed building a road semi-traile- r. Sherman Petersen, 32, of Roy, collided with the Symonds car. The semi then collided with suffered minor injuries when' the dump truck he was driving Hilliards car and finally with collided with the semi. the dump truck driven by According to Highway Patrol Petersen. was reports, the One of the diesel fuel tanks on coming down a hill in snowy the then caught weather, just north of the Hill fire, but that was extinguished Air Force Base Road and about after the battery a half mile from the mouth of cables werevehicles cut. out went it when Weber Canyon, It took the Highway Patrol of control an slid across the northbound lanes, Jackknifed approximately three hours to and rotated 180 degrees into the clear the wreckage, Trooper southbound lanes, where it first Lesley said. Group Opposed to Plant out of money by 1987, but the a gallon, additional gasoline tax passed by Congress will almost double the fund. The money can only be used for secondary roads, said Tippetts, and rural communities should benefit the most from the grant through the foothills near Farmington and Centerville, but Tippetts said that the proposed road from Shepards Lane to Redwood Road was now the most attractive to the county. er took an hour to free him from the wreckage, said Highway Patrol Trooper David Lesley. Also injured in the accident was Virginia Hilliard, 62, of Fountain Green, Utah. She was listed in fair condition Monday afternoon in the McKay-De- e Hospital in Ogden. Also injured was Donald Lammert, 27, of Moab, the drivHe was er of the Campaign to Councils program was predicted to run Davis spun out of control, southbound lanes, killing a Kaysville man and injuring three others last Friday at about 12:30 p.m. Lt. Col. Joseph E. Symonds (ret.), 44, 1038 E. Manchester, Kaysville, was killed when his compact car collided with the and became pinned under the frame of the trailer. It Saunders said the funding By KENT SOMERS 89 jackknifed and collided with three other vehicles in the County Receives Federal Road Grant , A semi- truck traveling northbound on be-jlie- ve - Kaysville man driving a small car was killed in the accident, while two others were injured. To Judge Second FARMINGTON District Court Judge Douglas L. Cornaby has taken under ad- visement a motion of objection by the Davis County Attorneys office, designed to clarify the judges ruling that food service inspection fees imposed by the countys board of health are invalid. Cornaby ruled in February that the fee was invalid because the board of health did not follow statutory procedure in establishing the fee schedule, and did not have the authority to pass a law assessing a fee or a tax. In his ruling, Cornaby pointed out that money collected from the fee went into the countys general fund and not into directly offsetting the cost of the inspection and was a tax. |