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Show Stptmhr 25, 1980, Page 4 n Page 4A KDU mpd Lakeside Review Thursday , September 25, 1980 Letters to the Editor Back-to-Scho- ol half-truth- under-hande- Washington, D.C., Davis County. d its Redevelopment Action's Needed budgeted only $1.2 million of the $2 million in federal impact aid. The district tries to make the parents and teachers feel they are broke by cutting supplies and programs that Review Editor: We just returned from a Davis County night where we were subjected to 15 minutes of s brainwashing and broadcast over the intercom into each room urging us to vote for the leeway tax proposal. The same tactic was used in most Davis County schools. This leeway election is one of the things dirtiest, most the .county has ever done. Dirty politics is not only flourishing in booming in have a visible impact on them. According to the latest figures the district spends more per student now than all but two of the six school districts of comparable size. If Davis County schools are so poor how can they afford a $10,000 special election just four weeks before the general election. Who is paying for the massive propaganda that is being put out by the schools. We resent the misuse of our tax money. Your absence at the polls on October 2 is a yes vote for higher taxes. pro-leewa- .The school district does not need the additional money. They are not telling us the truth. Davis operating budget increased $6 million this year. The total of all budgets grew by;$18 million or 25 percent in just one. year! The district will have a surplus this year because it must be nearing I civilization We hear the rattle of dice and beer can pop-top- s! y well-meanin- CCARTOONMIX Mr. and Mrs. D. Jenkins Centerville , .Review Editor: open letter to the citizens of Davis County: TRICTS WHICH BENEFIT FROM A TOTAL OF MORE THAN haVe heard much LEEWAY REVENUES! I Ah In recent weeks you ab- out; our special election to be held October 2 in support of better FOURTEEN MILLION DOLLARS IN education in our schools. Some state- ments made by per- sons from outside our county would have you If Davis County ters approve our way election on October 2, it would generate $1.1 million locally and $878,400 from state matching funds. And it would cost the average home owner just $21 in believe that your Board of Education is underhanded, irresponsible and wasteful. May we set the record straight. 1. Our additional property taxes. This money would help guarantee quality education in Davis County Schools. We ask you to compare that $1.1 million with he $7 million Gra- opposition claims that we should not have been able to afford record a school salary increase nite District receives from leeway revenues each year and the $4 million Salt Lake Dis- of 12.1 percent. THE RECORD that SHOWS our trict reaps. teachers, recognizing our financial difficulties, sacrificed benefits in order to re- ceive a salary The only opposition comes from an organization whose base is outside our county and which refuses to name in- crease. They gave up some medical and dental benefits and they sacrificed extra pay for extra duty. Almost every district in the state gave teachers a 12.1 salary increase this year. Davis Di- County Board of Edu- cation are not secret; they are known to all of you. And our only motive is to act in the best interest of quality education in our District. Our opposition accuses us of holding this election for a few special interests. We do indeed represent special interests, but they are not few in number. They are the 39,186 girls and boys enrolled in our schools this year. if it failed to pay salaries commensu-rat- e with its opposition claims that our budget cuts were not cuts at all, but merely adjustments. THE RECORD SHOWS that we have 35 fewer teachers and 1,421 more students in our schools this year than last. We have two Review Editor: Quality verses quantity. The age old question of which is best. In some areas of our lives we must demand both. Education is one of those areas. In Davis County a Quantity of education is a fact of life. With the massive increase in the population, most of whom are young families with school age children, we have no choice but to prepare for a quantity of education. Quality is a choice left up to us, the citizens of Davis County. We must be willing to pay for quality education for our children or run the risks that our neighborhoods, schools, parks and public areas will deteriorate. The quality of education our neighborhood children receive is in direct proportion to the quality of life in that same neighborhood. A lack of education leads to unemployment. Avenues open to persons who lack a quality education deminish with each passing day. The incentive for personal betterment is smothered and difficult to rekindle. Each unskilled or unschooled person living here chips away at the quality of my neighborhood. My community has little vandalism, petty theft and unemployment. The small cost involved in the passage of the voted leeway is little enough when compared to advantages offered to all citizens of Davis County. I encourage all of you to join me in voting YES for the voted leeway on October 2nd. Louise Henson Sunset are required to drive to these communities on official business pick up parts and supplies, but does it take two or more employees to pick up a part?? At a Sunset cafe? And is it true that a female city employee was seen siphoning fuel from a city utility van at her home? e The Mayor should admit that there are problems in the frequency and accuracy of reading water meters. A call to the city offices revealed that meters in some areas had only been read twice all year, explaining the high usage rate being jammed onto a single bill. Most citizens feel the water consumption reflected on their recent billings was for considerably more than two months. Clinton citi0 zens are finding it tough to work a water billing into their family budgets. low-intere- Small Business' 987 West 2300 North IVIagni al personnel. The $1.6 million cuts in our con- sist of $1,403,304 in actual reduction in per- NO ADDITIVES TO THE GASOLINE sonnel and programs plus an additional $200,000 representing fees charged for activities not charged for in the past. TAKES NOTHING OUT OF THE GASOLINE opposition the District claims does not need the 1 THE RECORD SHOWS that this That a group of parents in Davis County has some real clout with the school district as an advisory group on programs for handicapped students. weighted pupil unit sum guaranteed by the State is only $946. Yet it will cost Davis Di$1,554 to educate each student in our WORKS ON DIESEL FUELS NO MOVING PARTS TO BREAK OR NOW... WEAR OUT. 2 3 4 5 Installs In Minutes. Bums cleaner. Burns more efficient. Resulting in improved mileage Decreased hydrocarbons. Improves overall performance. That some services at Weber County Hospital are going to cost 10 percent more. schools this year! No district in the State only the spends minimum $946 7 per That some city officials believe a proposed tax limiting initiative could cut property tax revenues nearly in half. child. It would be impossible for any district to keep schools open without addition- al funding. Some of Davis Districts additional funding has That in Centerville, policemen are working suc- cessfully to become students friends. come from federal impact aid. Yet that aid has dropped from ten percent of our mainte-nanc- e and operating budget to little more That a letter from an can bring the Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives to a A local school. CALL than two percent. of Many our neighboring districts not only have impact aid funds ' to help pay their bills but also benefit from leeway tax revenues. THE COUNTY IN TRY ONE rJlagni - Fuel money because the State guarantees every district the same number of dollars per weighted pupil unit. strict - Fuel Conditioner Works on scientific principle of Liquid Magnetiztion secretaries and cleric- 3. The r Clinton, Utah 84015 . supervisors of curriculum and many fewer custodial and maintenance staff, budget this year st WITH Bryan S. Wayment , . high-qualit- AYE YOU1R MONEY $75-$13- President, The Davis County Board of Education pt EPA TESTED AND CERTIFIED! defi-nat- Luciie C. Reading, assistant superinten- dents instead of three this year, three fewer Review Editor: Clinton Mayor Keith Cisney is only fooling himself if he thinks that 90 percent of the citizens at the September 9th city council meeting and the September 4th meeting at the The citizens school walked away satisfied. are still just as concerned over the excessively high water rates and unusually high meter readings. Mayor Cisney seems more than eager to defend the high maintenance costs which of the expense of providing resiamount to dential water. But why shouldnt citizens be concerned when they witness the questionable management of the city? One meter reader on foot going from house to house seems to be quite adequate for the electric and gas companies. But the city insists that they need two employees for the water meters : one to read the meters and another to write the figures down. City Manager Damon Edwards justifies this practice by saying that one employee needs to be in a vehicle to write the figures down to avoid the paper from being ruined by the rain. Funny the electric and gas companies does not find this to be such a significant problem, and they read meters year round. There are new residences that have used water for as long as a year without a meter, using only a temporary jumper. And other residences have been found to have their meters installed backwards. the opposing us, a Citizens are also concerned when they see the mystery. city vehicles being operated in local cities and The names of the parked at Sunset and Clearfield cafes and members of the Davis grocery stores. I realize that often employees strict could not hope to keep its good teachers neighbors. 2. Our vo- lee- Redevelopment of Roy C- which seem to be thriving, itys business district is an is- Roys businesses have lost sue that concerns all residents sales to other areas and the entire climate in the shopping of Roy. Business owners and mana- districts has detriorated. But, redevelopment is a gers may be concerned about new of the future arrival frightening word to owners of; force businesses that may small, hometown shops. Vi- eventusions come to mind of bulldoz-- , or even move to them g ers sent by Other doors. their close city ally residents can look forward fathers to raze existing buildhopefully to a more conve- ings and force owners out of nient and attractive shopping business. The reality is that Roys Cidistrict if the redevelopment ty Council, mayor and city plans are successful. One thing most residents administrators are moving as' would have to agree on carefully as possible to help,' some type of upgrading is not eliminate, existinb' needed to maintain a viable businesses. base for tax revenue and to Mayor Joseph Dawson has of reiterated many times his improve the appearance to attract the city shoppers, concern for those who are curtourists and new residents. rently operating business in conA number of years ago, Roy Roy. While promises and officials cerns voiced dont by was as bustling and attractive in- a business area as there was always turn into facts, the in Weber County outside Og- tent is certainly not to proceed with a shotgun approach, but ; den. The major shopping to move with caution to ensure ; and ofareas were well-kemeasures are taken to proper y fered a good variety of the future of goods and services, improve businesses. hometown from grocery items to cloCity Attorney Roger Dut-- . thing and hardware. son, coordinator of the Royx Customers from most of Redevelopment Agency, is do- -' western Weber County, as ing his homeowrk well, and well as north Davis County has shown concern for exist-- ; 4 spent a good deal of their ing business owners. money in Roys shops and serHe has been encouraging vice outlets. business owners and mana-- , Recently, with the develop- gers to consider the formation,, ment of regional shopping of a local development corpo-- . malls in Layton and Ogden, ration (LDC) which would ; however, Roy finds itself make members eligible for loans from the fighting to survive in the business market. Besides the grocery outlets, Administration. ' 731-455- 0 If you read last week's Lakeside Review you would hae learned all these things and more. 2679 WHICH OUR OPPOSITION IS BASED HAS FOUR SCHOOL DIS MIDLAND DRIVE, OGDEN, UTAH X r X |