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Show z" 'i x! ' . a' N Fi -- ' ! INSIDIi , Improving safety CVrw ifi'Utlri 1 In - lttJii Wwmonl fHji h4Ljry latlir luring vtlur tmlnr(l mwm s VOL 10. NO, 22 150 CENTS DAVIS CO UNTV'S COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER December 27, 1997 CITY LIMITS Officials look forward to new year "We dont want to violate the PM It) would like to utilize leant learning, comcarbon monoxide stanmunity partnership, and the lol of tech- (particulate) und nology to facilitate the learning process, to dards, or well be facing stricter inspection fully educate our students, Ihontpson programs. People in the community can do their part by properly maintaining their said. and not using their woodhurnmg cars, Davis of director Jim Kelly, County's Alcohol and Drug programs, said they stoves on yellow or red bum days," said. would like to expand ami improve their Lt. Wayne Tarwater of the services. Resolutions for agencies focus on better serving public Dy CATHY McKimiCK frvwo A LMmmr draw to an end, many of u pause to reflect on aspiration fitr 1 Ufcltl Teaching 3lSjLi ' iuw iraf fe iji i;srvi.iIdeas , V ; r 7 -V ' ) Stnnikml-Kvamine- 1997 De-cur- ia the coming jear. Wcber-Mor-ga- n Hie following is a sampling of North-cUlah area institution and agencies and what they resolve to do in 19VK. Paul Thompson, president of Weber State University, riant to focus on facilitating leaching und learning in our rapidly m We especially want to work on prevention, by continuing to educate the community about the hazard of drug and alcohol abuse, Kelly said. I hi has to start with elementary age children. Joe Deearia, director of Weber County I nvironmental Health, said his agencys resolution for 1998 is to stay within the federal guidelines for air quality. changing world. -We have a World Wide Web and oih-c- r technological tools at our disposal. We Narcotics Strike I orcc said that their goal for 1998 also would be one of preven- tion and education. "It would be niec to have less people to arrest," Tarwater said. "One of our major goals encompasses educating citizens about the environmental and safety hazards of mcthamphctamine labs, and the signs indicating a meth lab is in opera tion." Jerry (Jam. lieutenant for live Ogden Salvation Army, said they need to raise $3.5 milium In 1998 to cover their needs to expand und better serve the commumiy. "We have an drug and alcohol program, and would like to open a similar program for women. Wed also like to open a domestic violence center, and a commumiy gym to accommodate the neighborhoods around the center," (Jams said. "If 6.000 people donated $600 cash, .wed reach our goal." Mike Paskcwicz. superintendent for Ogden City schools, resolves to find support for two new programs that com-nvunt- b SC0 19032 I don't want to lose. 1 want this. Ifed I desaxc it. This is me. Work to start on jail Dan Gardner Dy BRYON SAXTON Sunddrd Examner Davw Bueau FARMINGTON - To give themselves $30,000 worth of elbow room, the Davis County ShcrilTs Department has asked county crews to do the preparatory earthwork for its new $2.5 million Davis Work Center. -Public Work officials have agreed to do the work on the condition they not get stung should there be cost overruns on the federally-funde- d project. - The 120-bc- d center, to be built in west Farmington north of the Criminal Justice Complex, will serve as a minimum security holding facility for those inmates on work release. . . This summer the ShcrilTs Department entered into a contract with the U.S. Marshals Office to build the center, which is expected to alleviate overcrowding in the county jail. No county funds will be used for the project. Still, the county doesnt want the cost of the center to be more than what the federal government has budgeted. Officials are already looking at ways to save money before a stone is turned. ; Joe Rhoads, project manager, said having county crews do the earthwork for the project will save about $30,000 on the total ' cost because some work doesnt need to go out to bid. -- Rhoads said having the county participate also gives him more flexibility in keeping the project moving on its present timeline. He. said a construction time frame that has about four weeks of what he refers to as wiggle room should there be bad weather. K.D. Simpson, of the sheriffs department, said his hope is to have the design plans of the center before the Farmingtonofficials on Jan. 8, and -City have it under construction by March. He said the contract with the federal government requires the building be complete by the end of next year. "Dave Adamson, county public works assistant director, said county crews can do the work, but other projects may be delayed some or have to be contracted out because of it. Im hoping we can squeeze it iivin getting everything in, he &Ic: Aclamson said his only concern is that the public works department not have to pay for cost oytrruns on the center for one reason or another. XiWe dont want to be holding the "bag at the end, he said. 'Simpson has assured the County Commission that will not be' the case. County Commissioner Dan, McConkie said he expects construction of the building to be routine. Deputy County Attorney Gary McKean said in looking through the contract the sheriffs department has with the U.S. Marshals Office there is nothing preventing the county from doing some of the construction work. ty CLEARFIELD Open house set for Hamblin Mayor Noldon E. Hamblin for 24 years ha served CtearMd City, On Wednesday, the community. InendS. and coworkers will bo extended an opportunity at a city sponsored open house to say thank you. The open house wU be held from 12 to 3 p m. on Dec. 31 at the Clearfield City office budding, 140 Center Street. Hamblin, 63. is leaving office after 16 years as mayor, and seven years as a member of the council. Hamblm was defeated in the Nov. 4 municipal election by former Councilman Thomas Waggoner. But the defeat, a first in his political career, came after his legacy. City Manager Jack Bippes said Hamblm demonstrated a vision lor Clearfield as he made many impressive decisions. Bippes said the city under Hamblins leadership has prospered and moved forward' and as a result of his efforts the city has been able to keep up with rapid growth and change. Things accomplished during Hamblin's tenure included removing Hill Air Force Base from the base closure list, and putting into the place the funding needed to build a $5.5 million 200 South Street overpass and a $10.5 million public safety building. For further information on the open house contact 774-721- family center he is building on his Clearfield property. He plans to attach Dan Gardner sees no problem with the modular units, two of which are in place already, for the facility he will use for extended family parties. LOTS OF ROOM: five large room for a large family A Clearfield man wants to build basketball-court-size- room d By BRYQN SAXTON Davis Standard-Examin- Bureau - One mans surplus is family room - should fire code. Dan Gardner, father of nine, is piecing together five military modulars off Hill Air Force Base in creating an unattached 4,200 family room in his backyard at square-fo245 N. 1000 West. Im in the business of raising kids, Gardner said, who supplements it by owning eight jewelry stores from Boise to Provo. Gardner is using some of the same modular units city officials two years ago ordered Spencer Blake to move or sell when 41 of them cluttered land behind a nearby Maverick Convenience Store. Vem Hamblin, Clearfield Planning Commission chairman, said back then there was no rhyme or reason for the units to be on the land where they were being stored. So Blake sold, and Gardner bought them. Since then Gardner has sold 31 of them, CLEARFIELD ot moved five others, and is using the last five to build a family room on the southwest side of his 3 12 acre home lot. His dream of having the open family room as large as a basketball court, however, has turned into a bureaucratic nightmare for city officials. Hamblin said he hoped a permit for the building would come through the commission, allowing public hearings to be held and conditions to be put on the project. But when the intent of the project went from a family center to a family room, Gardner avoided the commission by defining the project as an accessory building, similar to a metal shed, allowing him to apply directly to the city for a permit. One city official Gardner will not be able to avoid with the change is Clearfield Fire Marshal Craig Whitesides, who vows the building will adhere to fire codes. Its a genuine concern, Whitesides said of the project he believes is being rushed through the city process. The city really should have looked at it closer, he said. Whitesides said Gardner will have to access road to the provide an building and an ample water supply for fire protection. Gardner said he will meet conditions by piping water to the building from one of the fire hydrants near his home. Whitesides said his department didnt tell Gardner he couldnt build it, they just felt he needed to go through the planning commission so hearings could be held. Gardner said his definition of the building changed after members of the commission discussed having his project follow the same route needed in building an assembly hall, including installing a paved parking lot. I wasnt ever planning to do a public building, he said. And as far as a parking lot being needed, Gardner said, They park the cars on the grass at BYU (football games). Gardner said he believes this room, which he needs for extended family parties, is no different than someone having a metal shed or a wooden bam behind their home. I dont want to lose. I want this. I feel I deserve it. This is me, Gardner said, known See ROOM2 Majority in south Davis back highway way, is intended to relieve congestion on Interstate 15 and provide another major thoroughfare in northern Utah. New poll shows only 19 percent oppose Legacy Highway The poll was taken for The The Associated Press Nearly dents two-thir- polled of the resi- in southern Davis County want the LegacyWest Davis Highway built. The poll by Valley Research found 64 percent of southern Davis County residents back the highway from proposed Farmington to Salt Lake City. Nineteen percent oppose it. The road, part of Gov. Mike Leavitts proposed Legacy High 12-mi- le r Salt Lake Tribune, which reported it in a copyright story. In Salt Lake County, 42 per- cent of the residents surveyed want it and 38 percent dont. Thats a statistical dead heat in the poll, which carries a 4 percent margin of error. The support shown for the is a pleasant little highway Christmas present, said Carlos Braceras, project engineer for the Utah Department of A The survey results also pleased Leavitt. The poll demonstrates who has to sit in traffic most, Leavitt said. There is a growing appeal for this highway. Its almost predictable that people who would be most affected by it would support it. Despite that support, road planners are running into snags with their plans for the highway: The Environmental Protection Agency has questioned whether the highway is needed. UDOT and south Davis County leaders are in a standoff over the route. Selection, of a preferred alignment has been delayed indefinitely while an environmental contractor double-check- s UDOTs work. Construction, initially scheduled to begin in the fall of 1998, has been pushed back until at least the spring of 1999. The road cannot come soon enough for Kurt Higgins. His 6 a.m. commute from Centerville to downtown Salt Lake City is as hectic as it was five years ago, when he departed at 7:30 a.m. If he leaves that late now, he faces a horizon littered with brake Layton New council to be sworn in Clearfield and Layton are making November's election results official Jan. 5. Winners in the city council and mayoral races will be sworn in at special ceremonies at noon at the city halls, 140 E. Center St. in Clearfield and 437 N. Wasatch Drive in Layton. Clearfields Mayor-eleThomas Waggoner and Councilmen James Barlow and Ivan Anderson will take their oaths, as well as Layton's Mayor Jerry Stevenson and Councilmen Stuart Adams and Renny Knowlton. Clearfields first official meeting of the year will be 7 p.m. Jan. 13. Laytons will be 7 p.m. Jan. 15. CENTERVILLE City names new manager The city council has approved a contract for a new city manager. Steve Thacker, who is currently city manager at Canyon City, Colo., is scheduled to begin his new job Feb. 2. He still must notify his current employer. Thacker is the brother of Kaysville City Manager John Thacker. Steve Thacker replaces David Hales, who resigned in October to take a similar position in Kanapolis, N.C. Hales had been city manager for 1 1 years. Centerville received more than 65 applications for the position. forums lights. See LEGACY2 I l |