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Show tt i ' ft-nnt- . Qaoaiitg o t H,. ) 4 aaoawo - 'v y 1 fV,. . former city councilman. Marshall said that to place the issue movement is on the ballot,. 1524 signatures are a Review Staff A BOUNTIFUL underway to place an initiative on the November ballot to decide whether the Bountiful Redevelopment Agency should continue or be disbanded. Three petitions have already been placed in Bountiful downtown stores and about 20 petitions are circulating throughout the city, according to Willy Marshall, organizer of the petition drive. The drive is being by Steve Williams, who was president of an organization of property owners opposed to a downtown mall, and four others including A ' needed before June 29. Marshall, who is the Davis County chairman of the Libertarian Party and who was a candidate for state representative in the last election, said the idea came for the petition drive when he was looking through some bills passed by the state legislature. He saw one bill that gave the requirements for placing an issue on the ballot. I saw that and a little light went on in my head. There goes the RDA, he said. Bountiful Mayor and RDA Chairman . Wem$ Issue n Dean Stahle said the agencys attorneys are looking into the legality of the petition drive. If the drive is successful and the issue is placed on the ballot, Stahle said the RDA would have to counter the movement against the RDA. I think if we were to lose the redevelopment agency in Bountiful, it .would be a serious blow to Bountifuls future, Stahle said. I still believe Bountiful is going downhill economically, commercially and certainly physically and something needs to be done about it. I dont see anything being done without the he added. help of redevelopment, Poll Aids ' A t i "? ' -- ',' controversial issue. But the RDA is a tool many developers want to use now because of some of the financing available. The RDA goes out and does the bonding. The agency also performs some of the time consuming things to help developers, Sant said. He said he didnt feel the RDA would need to mount a campaign to keep the agency going. I think by the positive things we do, we wont have to campaign. People will see what we can Sant said he doesnt believe there is one businessman in downtown Bountiful that doesnt believe something should be done to improve the downtown area. He said that, together the businessmen and the RDA could find a solution. He said the RDA has always been a do. Continued on Pago 2A Home Scales Rise In South Davis By RON KNOWLTON Rtvitw Staff By IRENE R. JANES Review Correspondent CENTERVILLE Lower interest rates have resulted in an increase in home sales in the south Davis area. But many home buyers still appear to be waiting until interest Down pour did not dampen citizens of Centerville from collecting surveys from 500 families in the city. This number is 20 percent of the households of the City surveyed. The City currently has 2,500 families. rates dip even lower. Demand for building supplies for new homes also appears to be up as contractors appear by Jan Witmer.and Ann Ziegler. Utah State University Community Progress specialists Wes Maughan and Jeri Wingar are consultants on the project. They assist in committee and survey collection by providing consultation, printing survey and computer analyzation. The results of the survey will be recovery. Conventional loan interest rates have dropped to 13 percent, while FHA and within a week at the city office. The University provides this throughout the State at near cost, usually from $200 to $250 : per survey. J " '' The primary areas that were polled to be of most concern to '7 . By CHERYL ARCHIBALD Review Correspondent BOUNTIFUL Unemployment in Davis County is up, but has not reached the level recorded in the rest of the state or in the rest of the country. Ken Jensen, labor economist for Utah Job Service, said Job Service derives its figures from the number of unemployed who register with the Job Service office and from an estimate of those who do not register. As a recession set in after 1979, there, were layoffs and, fewer jobs available in Davis County, and by 1982 unemployment reached 7 percent, or 3,400 people per 49,400 work force compared with 4.3 percent unemployment in 1979. Hardest hit was the construction industry as interest rates went up and new building came almost to a standstill. One real estate source said there is a trend beginning this year toward more building starts, as people buy land and hire construction companies to build their homes. In 1979 there were 2,700 jobs in the construction industry in Davis County as compared to 1,748 in 1982. Fewer jobs were available also in transportation, communi-- , cation, and utilities, with most of the decreases felt in the transportation industry. Manufacturing, production of goods, offered about 500 fewer jobs in 1982 than in 1979. A brighter spot in the employment scene was the trade industry. There were more jobs for clerks, salespeople, and others loan his business improve over what it has been the last one and a service for commumities tions, cultural enrichment, economic development and Physical Environment. VA interest rates are at about 12 percent, according to area real estate brokers. The market is still very sluggish, according to Dee Packard, president and broker at Packard Inc., realtors, in Bountiful. Packard, however, said that in the last few weeks he has seen available in printed results the city officials were planning and development, human rela- an economic ready for The survey was i half years. He said that from media accounts,- people have become psychologically conditioned V that things will improve. As a result, Packard believes that gradually they will improve. Brent Moon, owner of Samson WARMER WEATHER signals that Spring may be here, finally. A young Bountiful man has donned his "spring Construction Co. and owner and broker at Bountiful Realty and Sales Corp., said he doesnt be apparel" to practice throwing a frisbee at a Bountiful park. locates Fcall, lieve home buyers should put off the decision to buy a home until later. Moon said he has seen a dramatic increase in the cost of construction materials in recent weeks. He said many suppliers are really busy now and that demand for materials is picking up to a point where it is exceeding the capacity for plants to produce the materials. As this trend continues, it will drive up the cost for a new home and may negate any savings that may have been realized from falling interest rates. For the first two weeks in March, Dave Welch, broker at Century 21 Inc. Grimshaw, said his sales volume has increased. He sold 14 homes during that time. The homes stayed on the market for an average of 58 days. He said his sales volume has been down as low as three homes per week during the recession. It should be, under normal circumstances, at about 15 homes per week, he said. John Dawson, real estate broker at Dawson Real Estate, said the high interest rates over the last few years have made it very difficult for many to qualify to buy homes. Only 30 percent of potential home buyers can qualify when interest rates are at percent, he said. At 12 percent, 8 percent of potential home buyers can qualify. 16-1- 8 67-6- The average home was selling $78,700 in south Davis County in January, Packard said. But the average buyer cant buy the average home because he does not have the income. at Right now realtors are who made their living in wholesale and retail occupa- tions last year than in 1979. The new Layton Hills Mall, which opened in 1980, is probably most responsible for the increase with approximately 714 employees hired by the 70 different stores, and around 12 full or e employees working for the mall itself in maintenance, clerical, and security jobs, Jensen said. Financial institutions, such as real estate, banks, and insurance companies maintain about the same, work force with just a few more jobs. There were 837 more doctors, teachers, barbers or lawyers working in Davis County in 1982, giving service category the biggest increase of jobs in the county. According to Kent Rim- masch of Utah Job Service people need certain services such as legal, health, and social, whether there is a recession or not, and in areas such as social, they may need the service : more. part-tim- And another service that has grown despite the recession, is the computer services. When the population increases, as it has in Davis County, the need for services increased, he ex- plained. Federal, state, and local jobs were more plentiful with the biggest increase in hiring done by the federal government. Even though there are now more people working in Davis County, unemployment figures gov-ernme- nt there are qualified To buy a $70,000 home, Pack- ard said a buyer who had made a $10,000 down payment, would need to make monthly payments of $700 and would need a monthly income of $2500. Thats out of the reach of most people. Packard said he doesnt think interest rates will come down very fast. If they do, he says he thinks inflation will offset any savings. Continued on Page 2A strange dating and courtship scene takes place. If you like someone, plaster their house with toilet 5 percent while the employer learn the best ways of finding a Service handles all of Davis pays the other half. The hope is job. We have some new pam- County and even though it is the that the employer will hire the phlets written by our trainer, fourth largest in Utah, it has worker and pay his full salary Clyde Chatlain, which Im very been the second in placements after he is trained. per staff worker. pleased with, Bailey said. Were trying to do everyThree or four out of ten who Job Club is another program through Job Service. It is of- attend the seminars are finding thing we can, said Bailey, and we have the belief that if fered to the motivated unem- jobs using the knowledge they we cant place workers, then ployed. Those involved can go receive in Job Club, he said. The Clearfield office of Job lets get them trained. to a seminar every two weeks to Percentage as of March, '83 12 11 1 ui 10 National 03 Nation 2 n State Davis County 7.6 County '80 79 '82 81 training is criteria, 8.8 State - For those who meet the home buyers. Dawson said there are plenty of people who want to buy homes and are willing to sacrifice to make the payments, but most do not make enough. 50 provided and Job Service pays Balanced Attack . In Northern Utah, a paper. went up because the population increased faster than the number of jobs available. But, Jensen stated, this year it looks like unemployment figures will be dropping. Job Service of Clearfield is working to keep people employed by helping to train those who those who may be displaced are skilled at a job which is no longer needed. Some of the jobs will never return even after the economy picks up, said Jack Bailey, manager of the Layton office. For those workers, there is a program developing out of the old CETA program called JTPA, Job Training Partnership Act. This is the transition year, he explained, and he said that there is $12,500 available to the Job Service to make OJT-ofor the job training-contract- s We worker. really displaced do not know how many displaced workers there are, he said, We ask questions and code unemployed workers and put the information into the The qualified are computer. then placed in jobs where they can get training. WIN Work Incentive Progis a program operating ram through social services for In Davis those on welfare. County we do direct placement of those on welfare into situations where they can get skills, said Bailey. ex- periencing a buyers market where there are more homes up for sale on the market than nf Up In Countfy, Below Stfate, U.S. Don't Squeeze the Tree i i Ballot RDA Executive Director Randy Sant said he was disappointed when he heard of the initiative. Sant said he has never been approached directly by the organizers of the drive and would like to know why theyre disappointed with what the agency has done. Interest Plans for r . Wednesday, April 20, 1983 By RON KNOWLTON . I,'-- Vni i2xaata tSESD3gD BuuntiM BlBA Fes . ,:l. 34 Vol, 3 No. anti-RD- i. - Index Classified School . .7.,, ... ,7B ...... Sports. . . Thats what Bountifuls Jill Palmer used on her way to the title in the 4A all-arou- 4B,5B . . 1B-3- B gymnastics meet last weekend.- 4A 'f - IB i |