OCR Text |
Show By LUCINDA M.SCHUFT Staff Writer CLEARFIELD Square dancing senior citizens shut out by a decision to stop opening Davis County Senior Citizen centers at night are not going to be forgotten. During the Davis County Council on Agings meeting Monday, the board heard the results of a survey on the matter, decided to stand with their original decision and had the Soroptomist Club of Bountiful come to the square dancers rescue. Carolyn Stewart of the Soroptomist International Club told the council her club had , become concerned with the issue after reading a number of newspaper articles on it. She said the club was interested because members have donated over $1,000 to the group in the last few years. The club was interested in what they could do to get the senior citizens back into their center at night. Alice Johnson, director of aging in Davis County, told Mrs. Stewart the group could rent the facility each week for the group. Mrs. Stewart said if that was a possibility the club would be interested in doing that. She said the square dancers are currently meeting in the basement of the callers home. Mrs. Johnson told her they had not eliminated the program but had moved the time from the evening to a time during the day when the center is normally open. The senior citizens had originally agreed to this, but then began to protest. She explained the background behind the councils decision for Mrs. Stewart and told her the dancers were not self supporting as she had ; earlier indicated. She said the centers had to allow a staff member time off during normal hours so that the center would remain open for a few of the senior citizens at night and the council had not felt this was a proper practice. Earlier in the meeting Joyce Smith, director of the Golden Years Center in Bountiful where the square dancers had been meeting, reported to the council on the results of a survey she recently completed on the matter. According to the survey which questioned the senior citizens on interest in attending the center at night only an average of 36 persons would be involved at night. Mrs. Smith said this was quite a few more than the average recorded attendance during the last quarter of 1980. , Mrs. Johnson said, Weve never had 36 people come to a square dancing as long as I've been in aging. After a brief discussion on the issue the council agreed to stick with their original decision of closing the center to evening activities. Mrs. Johnson said, I think weve gone more than halfway and apparently there is not enough interest in that. When Mrs. Stewart appeared later the council informed her of the earlier discussion and told her the club could formally present an option before the council on their proposal and the council would take it under consideration. Index Church School Classified Economy Review 12A 1 IB - 13B 2A Editorial. 11 A Home Living Vol. 1 No. 30 Serving 31,500 Families From Roy Through Centerville LEFT, LEFT, LEFT, right, left. About face, forward march! This is how you do it, isnt it? That is what an unidentified student from Burton Elementary of Kaysville seems to be saying to her friends as they watch the Clearfield Job Corps Rangers demonstrate their precision marching skills. The entire school was treated to the demonstration by the Rangers, who . , w By MARILYN L. KARRAS Staff Writer LAYTON Sen. Haven J. Barlow, said he can defend his vote to change the way sales tax revenues are distributed to cities throughout the state, but in his home town, city officials say they feel betrayed by the senators vote and plan to work to get some representatives changed in the ' next election. Barlow voted for HB228, which was passed by the House and Senate in the final day of the legislative session last week. The bill, for the first time, takes part of the sales tax revenue away from the city where it is collected and distributes it to all cities on a population basis. The final draft of the bill was the third compromise measure in an effort to give cities without a large commercial base a share of sales tax dollars. It divides 10 percent of the sales tax revenue among cities according to Baby Girl Delivered By Not waiting for the customary arrival at the hospital before being born, Carolyn and Bruce Ruschs baby girl entered the world Tuesday morning in front of the U & I Co-o- p in Roy, about two blocks from their home. Rusch said he and his wife had time to call her mother to stay with their other children and get in the car when his wife had three sharp contractions and the baby started to be born. After delivering the baby in the car Rusch said he took the baby and mother on to St. Benedicts Hospital where both are reportedly doing well. The baby girl is the couple's sixth child which the father proudly exclaimed weighed 9 pounds 4 ounces and measured 21 inches long at birth. ROY ' Thursday March 19, 1981 2B 1 4B IB 10B march for various organizations along, the Wasatch Front. The demon- stration was part of Burton Elementarys We Love America week. staff Photo b jimsade Last Bill, Last Night: population and leaves 90 percent at the point of collection. The first proposal would have split with half staying at the revenues the point of collection and the other half divided on a population basis. That bill was and legislation defeated, specifying a 0 split was substituted. It was passed by the Utah House, but defeated in the Senate, where the final compromise bill originated. Barlow said last week he voted 0 0 split and the against the proposal but was convinced that the 0 compromise was the best way to under the new formula. But he also represents Layton and Centerville which were against any redistribution measure. Layton officials, especially, fought hard to try to get the measure defeated. 50-5- Weve 70-3- 70-3- 50-5- 90-1- go. I did some figuring, Barlow said, and I decided Layton would lose some revenue they would have received from the growth of sales tax, but I thought it was not that significant. For the first time we can now give cities without a broad commercial tax base some of the benefit of the sales tax their residents pay in other cities, he said. in a Barlow admitted he was precarious position on the sales tax issue. He represents a number of small cities in Davis County, including Clinton, Syracuse, Kaysville and West Point which will gain sales tax revenue . planned our budgets for years with the expectation of getting sales tax revenue from our mall and other commercial ventures, Layton City Councilman Lynn Wood said. Weve been getting along without capital expenditures just hanging on until we could realize some of those sales tax dollars. The smaller cities already have a lower property tax mill levy than our residents do and now they want to take our sales tax too, he said. It just isn't right. Its not going to affect us too much the first year, said City Recorder Randall Heaps. But eventually we know it's going to hurt us. And our senator still voted against us that's what really perturbs us. Heaps said he doesnt have exact figures on how much Layton will lose in sales tax revenue, because he isnt sure how much sales tax Layton Hills Mall is generating. The city is committed to , support several other sizeable commercial developments, jncluding a center, which wont be in operation for a number of months, Heaps said. In a letter circulated to legislators, Layton City Attorney Bruce Barton said Layton has spent more than $1 million to provide services for the mall development alone. He said it would be at least three years before the city could have realized a sizeable gain in sales tax revenue from the mall. Wood said the city has already cut We the budget as much as we can. exfor capital budgeted nothing penditures this year, but we cant exist that way, he said. Weve banked on getting that sales Wood said. I believe tax revenue, weve done a good job of holding the line while weve been waiting for it, but its like stretching the life of an old car sooner or later, you have to replace it. Wood said the City Council will explore all the avenues to keep this from going into effect, including joining in a lawsuit proposed as a possibility by Salt Lake City. He said city officials will also work to put some different people in the state legislature. Centerville Mayor Objects Father Obituaries Sports Builder Given Bond Resolution CENTERVILLE Over the objections of Mayor Golden Allen, the Centerville City Council Tuesday approved an inducement resolution for $2.5 million in industrial development revenue bonds to help the developers of an existing shopping center obtain permanent financing for the development. The resolution indicates the citys support for the developer and can be used to interest a lender in purchasing industrial development bonds. If the city signs with the developer, it makes the bonds and means the developer can obtain a lower rate of interest. Allen said he feels very negative about this. He said he is fearful that if the developer cannot repay the bonds the city will become liable. Walt Gasser of Centerville Development Company, who made the request for the inducement resolution Tuesday, said the city would definitely not be held liable for repayment of the bonds. He said the citys name on the bonds only makes them and means no responsibility for the city. "I think a buyer would be looking at the city as a second guarantee if the Allen said. developer goes belly-up- , I've had some experience with this some attorneys say the city isnt liable and some say it is, he said. Gasser said he has talked with the Centerville city attorney who had approved the inducement resolution documents. The funds, he said, would be used to loans which were pay off short-terused to get the Parrish Square Shop tax-exem- ping Center in operation. He said the lower interest rate he could get if the city approved the sale of industrial revenue bonds would still be higher than the interest rate his competitors received for developments years ago. He said the city will still have to give final approval before any bonds can actually be sold. He said his company has received inducement resolutions and has been involved in industrial revenue bond sales in a number of other cities, including Layton, and that there has been no real concern about the cities' liability. Councilman Kenneth Holman said he sees no problem with the resolution. I think we should give him all the lead time he can get to get financing for the project, he said. Vocational Center Gets Building Funds from both houses were not in tavor of the funding in the beginning. But after some vote counting by Davis County legislators, it became apparent there was enough support for the appropriation. The center is extremely important, Barlow said. Almost 90 percent of the students who complete several months of training at Davis and other vocational centers in Utah are placed in training-relatejobs. Most are young and almost half are women. Many havent graduated and they receive credit toward high school, too, Barlow said. By JIM SAWDEY Staff Writer In spite of a lean year for public education, the Davis Area Vocational Center will receive $1.5 million in building funds for expansion of the Kaysville facilities. Jack Shell, director of the center, wanted $9.3 million for the project that would add an additional 73,000 square d feet of space to the center. Shell said the $1.5 million money will be used to begin phase I of the conthat of planning and struction project for the construction of the footings. The money was appropriated during the last night, with the last bill, just before the midnight deadline, said State Senator Haven Barlow, Barlow has supported the development of the center and helped establish it as an area vocational center in 1978. Barlow said he was on cloud nine because of the appropriation. He said it if for nothing was a great session more just for that. He said the success of the center depended to a great degree on the appropriation of the money for the construction of the buildings. The center has passed two important milestones since it began operation, Barlow said. The funding for new construction is one of them. The other was when the center was funded as a state institution in 1978. Before that, the center was funded by the Davis School District. The center came very close to receiving no money for building construction. Earlier, the center was near the bottom of the state building board of list to receive money. A building needs by the government operations committee moved it from near the bottom to near the top of the three-year-ol- list. Barlow said the change was unheard d Earlier in the session, the legislature voted to fund the four vocational centers in Utah at last years level. Since 1982 dollars wont pay for 1981 programs, due to inflation, the result is a net loss in funding. If Governor Scott Matheson signs the bill approving the appropriations, the architects will begin preparing for the first phase. The plans for the building are already drawn, Shell said. Shell is hoping that next years legislature will appropriate more funds to complete the $9.3 million project. ! Reviewing The News Mandatory vehicle inspections for air polluting emissions have been an area of concern for two counties in Utah. Davis County delayed making a decision on the adoption of such a program in 1979 to allow time for additional research on the issue. A decision' must now be reached by July 1981 on whether to go with the the inspections. A Lakeside Review government operations committee reporter looks at the proposed in- of before this year. Usually, he said, recommendations is an endorsement of the building board recommendation. Barlow said he was very pleased with the funding, especially since leaders . spection program and the impact it Will have on the residents of Davis CouMyif. O .. . adopted. '" Her story is on page 3B. y |