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Show t Ss C&rerfte 11 1 Lakeside )? l3fbe5n8 Poor pay leaves prisons hurting Seminar covers health insurance issues ll Corrections C"CW5 QCi taring, tften leavo ta,a jobs for rcxxQ nxney prfvuuJ 'Vi"s, 7 duh) take thii joh thinking sr.ry. Time ate iViii and wvvruy 'VJsi," Ilan sayv definite n Inequities, ami the jrdfont vj uen king Adds Clint Hit I. adminuira. uith peqie idm (ue hmle, Mfyywif mi hattjuL Hat -r of i fie maunium'fcuffiy OU Can I wing, Uintah: f'youto to kam sometimes I get thefedmg college an 4inec)rk, ItefjyJ umukxly, hae W be trained by people Mat Lnv w have ha it. Bat our turnover inmate can ) get any er, and the y say thank R - 3ii. Juvl buriYO TtHvn f i!hm a ci.pfwJ j!vi prn fir a hrJ cMini at I IjH Vat frin, ihctimf hu by making re' )&(. f)tf UUitatl Mill) IHIHalfV "We hate id ee a 4rm "iwi jui body," he or1-- . lump m ihe , brj." lt a dtmrlinf J routine. "I count 14 hrftf," ore effWer m tteprven Tebben, efflear Coorrctioo motily drunken drivers and smalltime hoodlums, ; Bui Tebben stays at the big reports, Tebben a hiHinf with the murderers, rartvit with rcpinj -a.-and conmen. Lven he ni sure "Check thii," ene innutc hy. Between January anJ June of jell. "Iley. Tebben," another this year, the pnton has loti 42 correctional officers some re Kfeam. "check your mama." Catcall' are ignore J. the count tired and a few were fired, but moM took jobs eltewhere. ; goes on. f ive bolted to Salt Lake A big blocky young man. Teh. ben it a five-yeeteran at the County, where as deputies or jailPoint of the Mountain Tricon. ers they earn SIJ an hour by . where he hat ecrenence in the their second year. A second ) tar S 1 0 30 nunimum-vecurH- ) wing, He lu' correctional officer gets an hour. . reached the rank of and sergeant coulJ eacity make more money in At Point of the Mountain, one of the county jail' along the nearly IPO of J20 correctional Watatch I ron! - pretiding over yobs are vacant. . ; co high, we re 'taning to people who do the training," Dunng the fift 'is months of this year. IJ percent of nr ftetiooal siaff left. at - - !- ihe "I didnt tale this job thinking "The ri ght of our empkee says Tebben, "Ihcie has evolved to our numtr one are definite pay tncutiiei. and priority." says liaun. who n pre- the problems of worktrg with this aring for his fret vhowd-rwfanuay wuh ihe tightfoted Uuh people who are hotde. belligern let the hatefwh But sometimes I feeling ve helped some of training, inter , state workers have received, on average, significantly smaller pay raises than workers tn Salt Lake County and city and in surrounding counties, says Suzuki-OkabState workers have averaged 3.1 percent pay increases over the past five fiscal years. By comparison. Salt Lake County has given iis workers an avenge 3.6 percent annual increase, and Salt Lake City a 4.1 percent increase. And while the pay disparity and turnover said the rate are bad enough, Suuki-Okab- e AMOCMtvd Its getting so the state cant keep its beet workers, who are jumping ship to take higher paying jobs in Salt Lake City and county. The states personnel director. Karen told legislative leaders recently that the state should give its workers a hefty raise to stay competitive. She says it would help if the Legislature would allow state managers to give merit or special raises to workers to keep them in state jobs. At the same meeting, a special citucn pan-- ; el recommended that Gov. Mike Leavitt and Attorney General Jan Graham each get a 7.3 ; percent pay raise next year: Leavitt to ; S94.200 a year and Graham to $79,200. Suzuki-Okab- e says the sorry condition of Ithe states pay plan "has reached critical mass." If lawmakers dont act, both in giving more money to workers and more flexibility to state managers, some important state pro-- . grams will be seriously harmed. Over the past five years the turnover rate ; among state workers has gone from 5 percent 'annually to 8.1 percent. At the same time. high-produci- ng Legislatures live tKk, Bodi- for a city to operate its own ambulance service. "Were already pajing for Its juvt a mailer Ihe manpower. of siepring in and buying an ambulance," he said. Bodily said this is something needed in reronve to north Davis County growth, and the industrial growth of the Freeport Center. Other entities currently providing the service in North Davis County, excluding the sher Leavitt, who wont release his final budget until Friday, has already recommended a 4 percent increase in the Weighted Pupil Unit for public education, which generally translates out to the amount hell recommend for state salary increases. ... er Ivd 7 a ! htevenn or 6 I IHSh at with rafloe Mediant JVJ-2J7- 4 Kori Taylor. Tarmington Fire LMT, said the city since Aug. I has been operating an ambulance service after houih Davis Ambulance requested they start their own program because their resources were vptead too thin as a result of growth in south Davis County. Bodily said Clearfield having the service will enhance emergency service to the smaller cities in the area through mutual aid agreements and by freeing up those entities now providing to them. service , "It is really going to increase service in the county," he said. cmt-of-livin- g Concerning pay raises for Leavitt, Graham, the state auditor and state treasurer and practice of granting only and some limited merit increases is worse. The result is that nearly three-fourtof state workers are stuck in the bottom half of their salary ranges. No mailer how hard they work or how well they succeed, they dont get financial rewards for it. The solution is to let managers dole out merit raises as they see fit. "We need to let the managers manage" and promote employees and give pay raises to employ ees who deserve them, she said. Nancy Sechrest, executive director for the 16,000-mcmbUtah Pubiic Employees Association, wants lawmakers to give workers a cost-of-livi- materuU. wuh two ambulances. 1 ly said it makes sen (lie vic of Ckarfield 7 percent increase in the upcoming fical year. The raise woulj be broken down into a 4 percent raise, 3 pcrceni for merit increases and I percent in a new, discretionary fund for exemplary workers. e. Tn Plans fire-fight- says. per-co- iff's department, i I a) ion City, whuh operates four ambulances. and I armmiien City, around State needs to stop worker exodus Personnol director urges lawmakers to give employees raise wliith j:f per n UKluJcV lufi,h and Call tf ieeic with OAT Cat the two vehkle will then be replaced every three jeare. With fire iiattonf staffed with a minimum of three young correctional officers ha become routine in Utah. "Oh yes. were Mealing from their peop'e." says Jim Climiun sen, evecuiive director of a three pervm board that evaluates prospective Salt Lake County deputies. "It has been going on for the pact two or three years, ever since we raised jail pay to live levCherry-pickin- brtjy. an inmate who cant get any lower, and they say thank you," Corrections Director H L. "Pete" liaun says the health of Utah's pneon system recti with its correctional staff. But right now, nearly 10 percent of the state's correctional officers are raw recruits or "Our stafT deals with the most volatile offenders - they need el of deputies," Chrt'tiancen high standards o M p m Cost n The tarminar ic tpomorej jouuty by e IVpi- - Of Workforce Servwes lntpkyer An. miitee and the Davie Applied Technology Center I oundation. from Legislature, short-timer- The seminar will be at the Davie Applied Tahn-i-- yv Center in kmvii'c from 1 1 d a m-t- B-- Id nay." ent and preventer. mandated by live federal ginefTifncfti can attend a luRi,n seminar to be held on Ihurvda). Jan, M e rate Attorney 'St law Bruce will be the featured Care le 4 SMI I C - If jnun remanagrr' ad ah bui conierntd shout health KAT source t- DRAPi pm. pvi lrc,4r other top appointed executives, former House member LaMont Richards, chairman of the Executive and Judicial Compensation Commission, told legislative leaders that all top executives are underpaid. Trail crease in the undesirable use," said Jim Bums. From 1 proposed in your master plan are critical," said Bill Roscquist, president of Davis Trails and a Bountiful resident. "There will be great benefit in the trails you have proposed. Many are concerned trails will attract crime. Experience with properly managed trails indicate the opposite is true. More use means fewer problems." "I Lke trails and I hope well have them for future generations," said Leo Wilcox, a Farmington resident living near Davis Creek. "My concern with Davis Creek is a safety issue." i Another Salt Lake City dent agreed. You have an excellent attorney general, a member of the minority (Democratic) party and you should pay her well," said Richards, a Republican who served in the House in the 1970s and 1980s. resi- "Id like you to consider more access trails to the Bonneville Shoreline Trail rather than less. Give people a chance to do r a hike or a day hike. Once you get people using trails on a regular basis, you see a de He said Graham oversees an office of more than 160 attorneys, 29 of whom make more than she does. A dozen of those make $13,300 more than their boss. half-hou- "We need to look into the fu- ture and anticipate the needs of the future," said Ann Martinez, a Farmington resident who has a trail in her backyard. - . "I dont understand loving a trail in everyones backyard but not your own. We worked for a year to decide where the best place for the trail in our area would be. The city worked with us. They did not push. They took into account provisions for privacy. I have the utmost con- fidcnce in this city council." Hospital employees offer up gift of life - LAYTON Employees and volunteers of Davis Hospital and ' Medical Center, 1600 West Ante-- ; lope Drive in Layton, gave the "Gift of Life this week when they donated blood to the American Red Cross. The "Gift of Life" blood donation campaign is a weeklong effort by Paracelsus Health Care of Utah in which employees of all four Paracelsus facilities donated blood during the week. "We decided as health professionals to give the gift of life, said Marla Jensen, director of marketing and public relations for Paracelsus Health Care of Utah. "With the assistance of the Red Cross, we know our gift will go a long way toward directly benefiting people who need blood during this holiday season and in the years to come." The American Red Cross is a volunteer-le- d humanitarian ser- vice organization that annually provides almost half the nations blood supply, certifies more than 8.3 million people in vital lifesaving skills, mobilizes relief to victims in more than 68,000 disasters nationwide, and provides direct health services to 2.8 million people. 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