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Show Layton IHIoteS LAYTON The City Council has given SPC Fiancial Corp. another 60 days to complete legal work on industrial revenue bonds for a $9 million hotel in the city. SPCs Bernard Berney told councilmen the amount of legal work required to arrange for bonds has been more than he expected, but he believes construction will begin in less than two months. I frankly expect (the bonds) to be ready in a couple of weeks, he said. We are proceeding as if the bonds are sold. The hotel, now designed to be five stories high, will be a facility with 231 full-servi- Revenue Bon d Deadline Extended rooms, two lobbies, four elevators, a restaurant that will seat 200 people, and meetings rooms for as many as 300 people. It will match anything you can find anywhere in Salt Lake City, Berney said. Best Western will be the franchise group, he said, because it has a large nationwide referral operation. The management group has been chosen, but he declined to name it. Design work has been moving ahead as if all financial arrangements have been made, Berney told the city. Investors are running tests this week in Arizona on an new kind of solar generating system that would cut full-sca- le power costs. John Baker and Golden Two councilmen Sill expressed concern about the project, im still wondering if this thing is going to go, said Baker, adding that he would be surprised if the bonds are ready by the June 4 deadline granted by the council's extension. Sill said he wants the project to go quickly or not at all. He said he believes it has taken too long. Im more anxious than you are, Berney said. If it doesnt go Ill lose my shirt. He said SPC has invested llVfe million in the hotel project. A recreation center also is being considered by investors. The proposed private club would be built without bonds, he said. They are a very large group. They dont need any bonds. Said the IRS will not allow any capital expansion for three years after the bond agreement is signed. The hotel project will include eight acreas of a parcel of land north of Layton Hills Mall. Berney said it will employ 150 people and construction will take 14 months to complete. The bonding idea was first taken to the city The bond council a year ago, Berney said. market blew apart then, but we never stop-H- e said he believes the bonds can be sold quickely. There is room for expansion, he said. We 100 rooms The expansion will have to wait, however, if industrial revenue bonds are used. Barney Industrial revenue bonds are sold in the name of the city, allowing a lower interest rate but they do not because the interst is tax-freincumber city money if the project fails. 48-ac- re have already designed another Index ClmrchScliool 4 Classified Economy Review Home Living 8B-9- B Sports 4B-7- B -- . A 2B IB 4 Vol. 1 No. 35 Serving 3 1,500 Families From Roy Through Centerville Wednesday, April 22, 1981 Clinton Drops Jydfedl 'Resource About Merger By JIMSAWDEY Staff Writer A four-cit- y CLEARFIELD merger discussion changed to a three-cit- y merger discussion when Clinton dropped out of the running before the talks got under way. The Clinton City Councilmen told the mayor that they were not interested in having him participate in the four-cit- y merger discussion held during the Clearfield City Council. The reasons for the councils decision were many. But the main reason was based on a 1978 survey indicating 65 percent of those polled were not in favor of a merger. City Manager Damon Edwards said that he didnt know if people had changed their minds since then. The poll was taken before the present Republican administration, the merger of Layton and East Layton, the incorporation of West Valley, and the change in the economic situation. He said the legislators had indicated to him that help for small cities was on the horizon and may be discussed-durina special session May 5. , Meanwhile, at the Clearfield Council meeting held April 13, Mayor Norm Sant of Sunset presented material to the council and audience explaining the pros and cons of the merger. Sant said that determining the cost of the government is the key issue. He listed the advantages and disadvantages of a merger. One of the possible advantages of a merger is land use. A larger city would maintain a means to establish more defined areas in agriculture, industry, commerce, and high density and residential areas. He said a small city has a hard time protecting itself from large developers that arent concerned with the wellbeing of the city. . They may come into an area and offer to develop the land, thus creating a broader tax base. The development may be good for the town but not for the larger geographical are outside the city boundries. Through centralization, the cost of government could be reduced he said. Some of the areas include fire, police, public works, equipment, personnel, courts, :: attorney fees, administration and animal control. He said that other costs could be reduced by planning recreation and park areas oin a larger scale. A larger city would also have greater buying power. A larger city would have more politicalclout within the county and the state. It would qualify for federal grants not now possible, he said. It may be easier to coordinate water Recovery' Program By MARILYN L. KARRAS IK K 3 Ct,., Staff Writer The days of the old garbage dump as an answer to trash disposal problems in Davis County are numbered. A new concept called resource recovery is gaining acceptance among officials who see it as a way to greatly extend the life of costly landfill operations and convert waste to useful energy. Resource recovery is the subject of an extensive study now being conducted by the Wasatch Front Regional Council. It means, simply that waste N s Mi It rA A x !!.l I including trash from homes and projects, storm-- sewers systems, businesses which is currently being schools, .parks and other major disposed of at the North Davis Refuse District landfill north of Layton would developments. g become fuel for a A larger city has greater buying power and bonding potential and is less Hill Air Force Base has indicated dependent on the county and state. interest in the project during strong adhe mentioned as Every thing , vantages are possibilities he said not recent meetings in Davis County. Thg realitities. He was informed by Mayor type of place being discussed for the' Townley of Clearfield that Sandy north Davis area could upply enough Poulson, a Utah State University, steam to meet the needs of the base a student would like to research the year around basis. Base officials estimate the military possibilities for her masters thesis. installation could use all the steam She will look into the advantages of the merger generated by. the plant during peak by comparing the cities to each other. useage periods. At other time of the year, the steam would be sold as Sant said there were several electricity to utility companies indisadvantages that must also be con- cluding Utah Power and Light, acsidered. He listed them as the loss cording to Wasatch . .Front Regional of present city identity, greater initial .Council Executive Director Wilbur R. debts, alignment problems with Jefferies,. . . Jefferies said the north Davis plant water.and sewer districts, larger and less responsive government, problems could produce between 7 and 9 withprioritization of the citys needs, megawatts of power enough to satisfy more departments and sub- the needs of a city the size of Kaysville. departments, and greater bureacratic Studies already completed for the council indicate the plant would be levels. to To identify the problems he located on or near Hill in order to the steam power conveniently supply suggested forming central committees of elected officials, area residents and base. Hill would want a contract professionals. steam-generatin- power plant. Sunsef Zoning Awaits Opinion About Descriptions; No Action of possible garbage-to-energ- y plant which is being considered for nothern davis County by the Wasatch Front Regional Council shows how solid waste from homes specifying them as preferential users of the city and governmental agencies that would be involved in changing the power produced by the plant, from the present garbage . Jefferies said. The landfill would continue to be used Jefferies said the earliest possible for some types of trash, but the life of the north Davis facitlity would be date for final approval of the system would be 1984, with construction of greatly extended by the construction of a resource recovery system, he said. resource recovery system plants to The mammoth project has been take the next several vears. The advantages of resource recovery under study for two years by the Wasatch Front council. Other agencies systeams have been identified by in Salt Lake and Weber counties also proponents of the systems. Besides tending the life of landfills, the system conducted studies of similar operations would, provide recovery and. sale of the 1970s. during The next steps toward making a energy and materials and enresouce recovery system a reality in vironmentally sound disposition of discarded waste, . they say. Davis County will be to indentify The Wasatch Front Council is possible sites forplants and to study the the claims through an environmental impacts on such a studying Envirdnmental Protection Agency-funde- d facility, Jefferies said. Legal aspects of study. The EPA provides 75 the project will also be discussed with percent of the dollar amount, with local systems. disposal -- far, the study has looked at three aspects of the project: the general feasibility and economics of different systems, the development of market agreements for sale of energy resouces So which would be produced, and the development of an agency to provide the legal and financial framework for implementing the system. The plant being discussed for North Davis .Countv would have the capacity to convert about 350 tons of solid waste into steam and electricity each daay. The two Davis County landfills, one in Layton and the Bay Area Refuse landfill northwest of Bountiful, currently handle more than 400 tons per day of waste. The proposed resource recovery plant, called a plant, would make use of the heat in solid waste governmental disposal waste to produce steam and electricity organizations paying the remaining the steam to be sold to Hill and elecof the cost. tricity to utility companies. portion -- Roy Considers 5Vi Increase In City Budget ROY A 5 Vi percent increase over the current budget has been requested by Roy City department heads. The proposed zoning plan had missed request from the citys police departBy LUCINDA M. SCHUFT increase would allow most services to the Staff Writer several apartments within the city. ment He saidit is aimed at helping be maintained at their 1980-8- level, but SUNSET The rezoning of the Last week at the council meeting law enforcement personnel locate a few services may have to be reduced, entire cityof Sunset is still being these omissions had been added to the stolen property more readily. Richard Kirkwood said. city manager debated by the City Council. proposed map. City Attorney Steven Bailey also The City Council will review The council had projected a Concerns were also raised in the informed the council of two other or- department the head requests for decision would be reached during last public hearing on the exact location of dinances to be considered for the city to the budget. The budget will weeks council meeting but again the commercial zone within the city. In solve some vehicle parking problems. depend on how much of a These ordinances restrict the parking raise the city employees will receive. delayed action. This time the council is the proposed plan the commercial ted Main move areasdoca Street for of of the an recreation vehicles and semi trucks An employees association spokesman along waiting opinion descriptions of what type of dwellings are back and forth around adjacent on the cities streets. has aked for a 13 percent residential areas. allowed in each of the proposed zones. No action was taken on the parking Increase. In a public hearing the week before, Several residents at the public ordinances. Kirkwood said a descrption the way A bid was awarded to Art Jacobson the councilmen had indicated that hearing pointed out that the existing Roy plans to generate revenue for the of the against the wishes of some of those in commercial zone allows business Construction for the will be available this week. attendence, they would make a final development for 450 feet along main Sunset city office building. Jacobson budget Several budget hearings are planned, decision by the following week. street throughout the entire city and not bid 632,622 for the completion of the including Tuesday - However, the council was still pinconnights meeting that includes the also which indicated areas the the in project by just discussed revenues the council can the struction of handicapped ramps into pointing where missed apartments planning commissions map. next .anticipate year. budget of the and the the relocation Norm Sant matters these said were, as had been done before in the building Mayor On May 5, Kirkwood will present public hearing, on the color coded map are still being studied and the council police antenna. was not ready last week to make a final which shows the tentative rezoning. At the end of the meeting the council spending recommendations to the The city's planning commission had decision on the rezoning. was presented a petition from Jerry council. That presentation will take In other business, two ordinances for Eves, . a candidate for the council seat place before the regular hearing that constructed the map to locate the zones which would exist if the city adopts the the city were adoped. The first dealt vacated by Bruce Watkins. He will discuss the budget. new zones. The biggest change will be with having a primary election in the A citizen's advisory committee presented a petition, which was signed the rezoning of the residential areas city this year. The council voted not to by local businessmen who supported his recommendation and Kirkwoods from multiple family use to single hold one since all candidates run on the bid for the seat, just before the council proposals for spending will be consame ticket and the top family use. moved into an executive session to sidered during another heraing slated In the process of making that change, become the city's representatives. discuss the selection of the additional for the last Tuesday of June. the commission had decided to leave The second ordinace requires that all council member. The $2.9 million spending request existing multiple family units zoned so pawn brokers and second hand dealers includes step raises for all employees An executive session is one at which but does not include a they were nonconforming uses in a in the city keep a record of the items no one except the council members are they handle. single family zone. increase present and can be called for the increase. The At the public hearing it was pointed Sant said this ordinance was being discussion of personnel or property depends on how much revenue is out by those in attendence that the available next year. brought before the council on a transactions. 1 cost-livin- cost-of-livi- , vote-gette- and businesses in the area would be converted to steam. A study on the feasibility of such an operation is being conducted by the council. A DIAGRAM rs cost-of-livin-g cost-of-livi- g i Parents Question Council Again About Kids Around Pool CLEARFIELD Margaret Larsen wahnt to know what Clearfield City is going to do about the growing problem of delinquency at the municipal pool. Mrs. Larsen is the president of the Clearfield High School PTSA. She and others, including Prinipal Lawrence Cook, were at city council meeting to seek ways to improve conditions in and around the pool located across the street from the high school. They also want o know what progress has been made in correction prolbmes at the City Manager Gayle Starks agreed with Townley. He said another problem is that there hasnt been as much funding available for the maintenance of the pool this year as in previous years. He also said that the district took better care of the children before this year. Starks said people are quick to blame the pool for juvenile delinquency. It ' has been closed before and hasnt solved the problem," he said. "The pool. problem just moved outside to the Mayor Donal Townley said there has parking lot. At least there is a superbeen a rather large improvement in the visor there to watch the kids, he said. problems at the pool since it had been Councilman Neldon Hamblin said the brought to the councils attention last worst thing for the district, the parents year. The pool attracts students as a and the council to do, is for everyone to gathering place to talk, play cards, play take sides. We need to bring a focus the pinball machines and possibly back into the kids lives by identifying exchange drugs instead of attening the problem since their parents dont seem to give a darn, he said. school, parents have claimed. But Townley said there is more of a Councilman Kay Chandler informed the council that a committee has been problem in the parking lots surrounding the school than at the pool. Of the pool fomred with him as the head, to look was closed again, Townley said, the into the problem. He said there may be problems would just move out into the federal funds available that can be used parking lots, creating a larger problem. to look into the problem. . t |
