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Show J: " i I DEA BRYON SAXTON The idea of closing schools to make up this shortfall ($1.1 million in the district) is just about the last thing that should be done...there is a sacred obligation to observe employee contracts. The $28 million shortfall was announced by Gov. Norman Bangerter several weeks ago during the state legislative budget session after it was discovered state revenue had fallen off more, than anticipated because of a sluggish economy. Superintendent Lawrence Welling said last week the district is still studying its options, one of which involves the early school closure. The school board will make a final decision on where to make Review staff FARMINGTON The Davis Education Association will test the legality of a proposal in the Davis School District to close schools several days early to make up for a $28 million state revenue short- fall. Closing school for two to three days and reducing pay of school employees for the year is being discussed as an option by state school district leaders to help balance the state budget. The action is considered by one DEA official as a possible breach of contract. DEA Executive Director Dee told the school board last week Bur-ningha- m the cuts at its March 17 meeting. According to school officials, approxi- mately 85 percent of the districts maintenance and operations budget goes to pay salaries for 3,000 personnel, including 1,800 teachers. However, Bumingham, who represents the local teachers union, cautioned board members Please look long and hard before resorting to this option...be-caus- e if you close schools, we will have to test it legally. Bumingham said there are two asthe state sumptions he can make school board can close school early and save the cost involved only with operation and honor the current personnel contracts, or they can renige on the personnel contracts which is a violation." If the school board elects to close school early...we will legally challenge the right of the legislature and the state school board to cut school days and nullify contracts," he said. Associate Superintendent Gayle Stevenson said Buminghams threat has no bearing on the boards decision. If there is no money there, Stevenson said, then the teachers contracts cannot be fulfilled. Stevenson referred to the union leaders statements to the board as inappropriate and said such statements Serving Roy and northern Davis County Volume 7 Number 10 shouldnt be made prior to a final Stevenson said the school board will do everything to avoid the closure. However, according to Sheryl Allen, president of the school board, closing school for two to three days to make up for the states financial deficit is a distinct possibility. Allen said the Davis District does not have as many options as the other districts in the state and closing schools is one of the options the board is currently studying. Bumingham said he felt the district should look at some extreme alternatives before making a final decision. Wednesday, March 11, 1987 O omega ays off workers reels Fruit Heights youth dies after accident A SALT LAKE CITY Fruit Heights boy died Friday night from head and chest injuries he received after a pickup truck collapsed on him. Bradley Kenneth Felt, 1392 E. 700 N., the son of Kenneth and Reta Felt, died of trauma from the injuries about 8:30 p.m. Friday, according to LDS Hospital nursing superviser. Davis County Deputy Brian Weese said Felt was working on the front end of a pickup truck at 6:20 p.m. when it partially collapsed, pinning his head and body between the left front tire and its wheel well. Weese said he was apparently working on the steering mechanism of the truck when his head got caught in the wheel well. Several family members lifted the truck while a neighbor freed the injured boy, he said. Felt was rushed by ambulance BRYON SAXTON Review staff t ROY Iomega Corp. Monday announced the layoff of 365 employees, 183 of whom will not be rehired. Linda Dalton, executive assistant to the chief executive officer, said Iomega Corp. layoffed 365 employees on Monday and Tuesday, which includes 182 employees who may be subject to call-bac- k. Dalton, who serves as a spoke-ma- n for the company responsible for a series of computer discs for desk-to- p computers, said the reduction in work force was made because of a slow quarter for the company and to shore up production efficiency. Dalton said Chief Executive Officer Micheal J. Kucha, who has been with the company for six weeks, requested the reduction in work force in order to make the most money for the shareholders. She said Kuchas top priority is to reduce, adding, and it was a tough decision. Kucha said the 83 permanant layoffs include positions in management and indirect labor, while the other 182 employees are direct manufacturing labor workers. Dalton said she believes those individuals involved with the manufacturing positions could be called back after production is shored up. Iomega Corp., before Mondays layoffs, employed approximately 1,100 at the Roy complex. In explaining the high number of employees at the plant, which opened in 1980 with fewer than 100, Dalton said we were seeing phenomenal growth during the last several years. And we thought the growth would continue, so we hired accordingly. But during the last year, growth for the former California firm has stagnated. In September of 1986 Iomega indefinitely deferred all salary increases and in December reduced their work force by 10 percent. Again in February Iomega furloughed 195 workers for three weeks while it waited for the production of new disc. ce to Humana Hospital Davis North, then transferred by Life-Flig- Lakeside This weeks issue of the Lakeside Review contains a n Progress Edisuch spesecond the tion, cial section to be published by the newspaper. The Progress Edition contains news and features about the north Davis the County area and Roy over progress communitys the past years, its people, history and economy. The section is the result of many hours of work by Lakeside staff and correspondents. It is offered to readers and advertisers to recognize four-sectio- the accomplishments of people, government and business and as a gift from our staff. ht helicopter to LDS Hospi- tal. CHEERING for your team means more than loud voices. these Roy High School students, their teams appearance in state basketball tournament prompted some bi 1 Progress noted in deci- sion by the board. To zarre costumes and colors. The boys are (from left) Steve Williams, Mark Hupp, Brandon McDowell and Joe Duncan. Stories on tournament appear on page IB. e 'Excessive force' used in incident, Kaysville resident charges BRYON SAXTON Review staff Salt Lake City KAYSVILLE attorney Loni DeLand, retained by a Kaysville family alleging an officer used excessive force in the arrest of their son, said Tuesday he intends to file a lawsuit against both Kaysville City Police and Officer Harold Burner. DeLand told the Lakeside Review Tuesday he will represent the Earl Reynald family of Kays-- , ville in the suit. Reynalds son Chris said Burner threw him to the ground and hit his head on cement during an in' cident March 1. him Burner said Chris injured at his residence after the officer stopped to warn Reynalds older brother Roger to refrain from revving a car engine outside the house. Chris Reynald said he was in- side his house at 570 East Center Street just after midnight, when the flashing lights of Burners car woke him. He said he got dressed and went outside after hearing a verbal argument between the officer and his brother, which later escalated into a tussle between Burner and himself. In describing the incident, Chris Reynald said, He threw me to the ground and then grabbed the back of my hair and banged my head into the cement. Reynald declined further comment and referred all questions to DeLand. DeLand, a former police officer of 13 years who is still reviewing the case, said he intends on filing the suit against the department and officer, claiming excessive force and false arrest. Chris Reynald, who was arrested at the scene for disorderly conduct and resisting arrest, was taken to the Humana Hospital Davis North where Dr. Jack Astle said the teen could have sustained a hairline fracture above the right eye. Burner has declined comment on the incident and Ron Barton, a Kaysville Police officer at the scene, said he has been advised by Kaysville Chief Lyle Larkins not to talk about it. However, according to city officials, the Kaysville Police Depart- ment has received about 20 But one school district official on the local level believes the bill Review staff Senate Bill FARMINGTON 28, which passed on the last day of the 1987 Utah legislative session, will require school boundary changes be made in the Davis School District for the upcoming school year. The bill, sponsored by Sen. Lake City, Steven Reese, faciliall education state requires ties to operate at a minimum of 70 percent capacity by the start of the next school year or close their R-S- doors. Reese, who had sponsored earli- er legislation supporting school, was not available for comment. However, Sen. David Steele, Point, referred to the bill as a cost effective measure. Steele said the main thrust behind the bill is to provide financial savings to the state by reducing school operational costs. year-roun- d is misleading. Bonnie Durrance Doyle, spokesperson for the Davis School District, said the legislation is misleading because it bases its capacity measurement on a formula of square footage of a school and the student population, and not whether the classrooms are full. Doyle said, in measuring square footage and not classroom space, the area of school cafeterias, gymnasiums and auditoriums are taken into consideration and classes are not being taught there. We use our schools, Doyle said, and those areas (cafeterias, etc.) are used for other activities associated with indoor physical exercise. She said one formula that could be used to measure the student population accurately is the ratio, which is 27 to one in the Davis District and gets worse every year. Doyle said passage of the education reform bill does impact several of the districts schools, adding, but by slight boundary readjustments all the schools in the district can be made full. The schools currently operating below the 70 percent capacity include Centerville Elementary, 65 percent; Clinton Elementary, 67 percent; Laytons King Elementary, 69.9 percent; Centervilles Reading Elementary, 64.5 percent; South Weber Elementary, 63.2 percent; Woods Cross High, 57.8 percent, and Monte Vista in Farmington, which serves as a special school for the handicapped. Doyle claimed the main purpose behind the bill passed by the Salt Lake senator was to halt the building, of new schools in the state. f t T ; LAYTON Hey, get your signs down, or else! Thats the message City Attorney Mark Arnold said he wants to put across to political advertisers, but the city isnt sure just how to go about it. City Manager Bruce Barton and Arnold prepared a rough draft of a sign ordinance after receiving complaints from candidates and residents after last election. Barton said signs were not only placed in illegal spots around Layton, but were sometimes left up after the elections, creating an eyesore. Barton said the city wants to letters since the incident attesting a on the sign problem get to Burners good character and before jump next the major election. his accomplishments with area It is currently against city laws youth. y to post any signs on Monday Larkins said his de- along Layton streets but Barton partment is investigating the said Layton officials needed to incident. The investigation was consider the practical reality of requested by Larkins after a com- the situation verses the technicalplaint was received from the man ity of the laws, and look at a and his family. novel approach to the election We didnt want to make a sign problem. statement until we had talked to Arnold proposed that the signs be allowed for 60 days prior to an See OFFICER, page 2A election and that candidates be required to remove their advertising by two weeks after the rights-of-wa- Law to change school boundaries BRYON SAXTON Remove campaign signs, Layton warns Currently, the Davis district has two schools under construction. Antelope Elementary in Clearfield and West Clinton Elementary in Clinton, both scheduled for completion for the 1987-8- 8 school year. Davis board member Bob Thur-goo-d said at the present time the Davis district has several schools that are not in compliance with the new law, but with the projected growth those will be at capacity next year. Thurgood said, however, boundary changes will have to be made in the south Davis area in order to have Woods Cross High meet the 70 percent capacity requirement. Doyle said school boundaries will be aligned this spring by the school board and administration and be effective in the fall in order to meet the criteria of the law. On the agenda The board of trustees for Cen- tral Davis Sewer District will hold a public hearing on the methods of upgrading the districts overloaded wastewater treatment plant. The March 12 hearing will begin at 8 p.m. in the Farmington City auditorium, 130 N. Main. Best quote i would like to see this new ordinance pass because we haven't been enforcing the old one Max Reeves, Roy City public work's director, supporting new k law. church and school set-bac- v, |