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Show PAGE EVlaana n 9 n iim tT!!V Times As a result of several years of political uncertainty, and J HOWARD STAUI Publishei M GLF.N uneasiness ADAMS J, Howard Stahls Afton B. Cameron CORRESPONDENTS: SOCIETY Dorothy Bracken, Janice Holmes Hubbard, Jennie GuyMalmborg, GENERAL GENERAL PHOTOGRAPHER 250-512299-484- 5 L. Comes now, the Granger-Hunte- r incorporation, which if successful, will remove tlL area from Salt Lake community integrity, many small communities in Salt Lake County are attempting to incorporate as an alternative to County Government. As a concerned c Firefighter-Paramediwith the Salt Lake County Fire Department, I feel the citizens of Granger-Hunte- r should be made aware of one of the multitude of problems these incorporations will create; problems that carry economic and Assistant Publishei EDITOR concerning annexation, taxation and F MANAGING EDITOR fire insurance cost reduction to area residents and businesses. CWnty fire jurisdiction. Although medical services would still be offered, Salt Lake County would be relieved of fire jurisdiction and would remove its men equipment from the above mentioned fire stations. What are the implications of these results? First, as stated above, Salt Lake County would not be required to social implications for residents of these areas. Hansen 250-678- 4 furnish fire protection. Second, ambulance and Paramedic service would come from areas outside the The fire and emergency medical services furnished to new incorporations. As a Paramedic, I am well aware that long response times greatly lessen the chances of saving the life of a critically ill patient, Response times would greatly increase into and Draper. Granger-Hunte- r by Salt of Granger-Hunte- r Lake County are a matter public record. Salt Lake County maintains two fully Incorporation cont. from page manned stations serving Granger-Hunte- 1 for which probably wouldnt include a paramedic unit permenantly installed within the city boundaries at 4100 South as it now does. A lessening of fire protection services will bring ., about an increase in fire insurance residents. rates for Granger-Hunte- r , Presently .the two fire station in Granger-Hunte- r cost the County $1,480,855.15 a year, according to the ""i commissioned by the group. .study ' A similar situation will occur with the Sheriffs department should incorporation be approved. Granger- Hunter was responsible for 19,011 'calls for service during 1977 in comparison to 87,255 calls for the entire unincorporated area of the county. This represents 22 percent of the sheriffs total law enforcement : effort or $1,600,000; more than a third ' of the citys proposed budget. Proponents of incorporation estimate the citys budget at $3,666,000. Opponents of incorporation point out that the new city would place " residents on the short end of many programs which are now under way or have been proposed for the area, such as Community Development and Roads and bridges programs. The group was accused during a mass meeting Saturday night of .CouptyV Urban County proposal and doing it on County time in their effort to defeat the incorporation of Granger-HunteDetective Bob Warner of the Sheriffs, Department denied that he or any of the firemen or deputies involved in the effort were being paid by the county to do so., He said the Sheriffs Mutual Aid Association and their unions were backing them as were hundreds of concerned citizens living in the area. He pointed out that many people have called and offered their services to the effort because they were concerned that only one view was being presented to the people. ' s - A brief recapitulation , i r Salt Lake County removing fire protection and With of operating costs of these stations is in order. In I apparent. believe alternative r. $542,479.15. corporation, several form the new in- alternatives then become 1977 has each over- whelming disadvantages. As one alternative, , could with Salt Lake County for fire and medical Granger-Hunte- r contract expenses bill to day operating the brought quick response medical service Salt Lake County operated two stations in Granger-HunteTotal cost of the Beaver Street Station for 1977 included the building and land, two fire units and salaries for 16 men. Day to services. Based on 1977, to costs to Granger-Hunte- r receive the present level of services would be ap$1,400,000.00. proximately The basic error made by those favoring incorporation is failure to realize that at present,fire andmedical costs are spread more or less evenly throughout the county. . new fire station on 4100 So. Street was opened in A The station houses a engine company and grassfire unit, as well as a fire investigator, and requires a complement of 27 men. Total costs in 1977 were $938,376.00. Recently 1977. Paramedic unit, the Insurance Services Office dropped Granger-Hunte- r from a Class 7 to Class 5 rating, a 20 percent With incorporporation, these costs would fall in total to the cities themselves. In essense then, contracting ' - 5 by Bart Barker INCORPORATION MEANS LESS SERVICE FOR MORE MONEY A few weeks ago, when the effort to incorporate Granger and Hunter looked like it was gaining momentum, we begged for more information. At that time only one side had been presented. But now the facts are in, and if Granger and Hunter become Granger-Hunte- r City each family will pay more taxes and receive fewer services than they do now. When the Granger-Hunte- r Community Council (which represents several local clubs and groups) decided last summer to push for incorporation, it hired a man who lives outside the Granger and Hunter area to administer the incorporation efforts Recently at least two groups of Granger and Hunter residents have organized to fight incorporation. The larger of outside consultant to these groups has hired a research the true costs of forming a new city. The facts are astounding. If Granger and Hunter were to incorporate, the average family would pay more than $200 each year in new city property taxes on top of the more than $400 it already pays to county, school, water and sewer, and mosquito abatement taxes. Only $77.28 in new special services taxes would be Sunday, Jan. 2320 e, E. 9158 29 - 2 S. p.m. 'til Dark Quail Run, Sandy PRICE REDUCED now SPECIAL OF EACH BABIES, CHILDREN, ADULTS, GROUPS-O- NE PERSON SINGLY 88t, GROUPS 88 PER PERSON SELECT FROM FINISHED COLOR PORTRAITS MADE ON KODAK EKTACOLOR PAPER. ONE TO PRESSURE YOU TO BUY COURTEOUS SERVICE-N- O LIMIT-O- NE SPECIAL PER CHILD FAST DELIVERY. your life. PM-- 6 PM ! ! $59,950 for Lovely Contemporary Home located within minutes of four major ski areas Easy access to major thoroughfares and system. Fantastic view of the mountains Cothedral ceiling in living and dining rooms fueplace 3 bedrooms 2 baths ideal kitchen with all built ms 12)0 square feet on main level, 600 m unfinished family room with roughed in fire place 2 car garage landscaped gaiden area close to shopping schools churches and bus routes Check this one out and you will fall in love with the location! Assumeable loan. Immediate possession if you act now For viewing appointment call; QUICK SALE needed I 3561 So. 8400 W., Magna, Utah ARBOR PARK SHOPPING CENTER Inland, Inc. and ask for Jeanne Office 3300 262-331- sJ sllIT z department. This depart- ment would be manned by citizen firefighters who are paid by the call. When the alarm sounds these men would respond from their homes. The fallacies of this approach are readily apparent. The new city would have to purchase and maintain its own buildings and fire equipment. Eighty thousand dollars is not an unusual expense for a new pumper, and aerial ladder trucks cost upwards of $200,000.00. Recruitment and training of volunteers also presents problems. Urban fire protection requires highly trained professionals and swift response to fire. It is impossible to train volunteers, or part-tim- e firemen to fulfill a full time job. Volunteer departments work on the assumption that when the alarm sounds, men will leave their livelihoods and respond to a high risk fire for little compensation. Alternative three would be a fully manned, professional fire department hired by the new incorporation. With the present costs involved in providing fire service the expense of this alternative would be prohibitive to a newly incorporated city to find it attempting economic way. A final alternative may be no fire department at all, but reliance simple upon mutual aide compacts with other incorporations. Fallacies again become Insurance rates in an urban incorporation without a fire department would skyrocket. Licenses to self-evide- mutual aide agreements, these compacts negate themselves in several An ways. underlying assumption is that the city 3S S. 3 E., Homs Salt Lake or call: Stan Steuri, owner: Ogden area 359-261- or Sandy 943-039- The Magna Mountain Riders drill team has elected new officers to serve for the coming year. Christine Anderson will serve as Leda Smith, drill President; mistress; Leatha Gillett, secretary, and Phylis Wimmer will act as property manager. This group has participated in many parades and won many trophies. Anyone wishing to join may call or Leda, Christine, Linda Anderson, at The drill team is sponsoring a western dance to be held Feb. 11th at the Magna Lions Club at 8 p.m. Cost is $2 per person. Dancing will be to the lively music of Country Kiss. feels its own fire protection is inadequate and outside assistance must be relied upon in a crunch. These compacts also presuppose that any party will protect its own area before offering service elsewhere. Mutual aide mean agreements lengthy response times. Who needs help when the only remaining words is to save The foundation. the 969-116- companies responding from several areas. In conclusion, it appears that fire protection is not a priority in the incorporation of Granger-HunteIn this case less is more. With less Election Polling Places r. more fire protection, property will be lost. With longer Paramedic response times, human lives will be lost. The level of fire protection and medical services offered by the Salt Lake County Fire Department is higher now than any preceeding period in the countys history. Salt Lake County Fire Department is on the road to becoming a Class One is It department. imperative that citizens of Granger-Hunteand all small incorporations in Salt r, Lake County, incorporation, register a vote fire protection vote against and thereby for adequate and medical services. Larry C. Hinman 1202, 1204, Whittier School, South. 2- 1210, 1212, Sandberg School, 1206, 1222; 5975 W. 3500 1224; Carl 3900 S. 5325 W. 1214, Monroe 1218, 1302; School, 4450 W. 3100 1216, S. 1213, 1226, 1228; Jackling School, 3760 S. 4610 W. 5- 1220, 1230, 1330; Farnsworth School, Philo T. 3751 S. 467-701- f City" 1 825-166- for information. w Salt Lake eliminated. These figures are for an average $40,000 home. In exchange for that extra $200 per year in city taxes, residents would receive fewer services. State law would require the county to stop all municipal services (police, fire protection, garbage collection, street lighting, parks and recreation, etc.) as soon as possible after the Feb. 7 election, if voters decide to incorporate. The new city must then either buy all the vehicles , buildings and equipment necessary to serve its citizens, or contract for those services. Because of the high cost of initiating them, even by contract, the services will probably be reduced substantially. To begin providing the law enforcement the Sheriffs Department now gives would cost $2.5 million. Contracting those same services woudld cost $1.6 million per year. The city would have to buy the two fire stations in the area for the $1,480,855.15 they are worth. State law requires it, even though local taxpayers helped pay for them, aided by the federal government. Otherwise the law would force the county to remove the trucks and equipment, and sell the buildings to the highest bidder. Or, if the new city could afford it, it could contract for some degree of service at the countys true cost. Plans to build two new fire stations in the area by 1981 would have to be scrapped. By that time, if incorporation fails, the county would be providing the area more than $2.23 million in fire protection. The cost of contracting services from the county could not be reduced because state law requires the county to had to cut the level charge its true costs. If Granger-Huntof these services to save money, it would endanger lives and property. The city shouldnt phase into public safety, as incorporation proponents have suggested. The proposed city budget is much too small to operate a the size of Granger and Hunter. city ' Proponents of incorporation have suggested budgets of up fo $3,661 million. But careful calculations based on the costs of operating established cities in Salt Lake Valley show that Granger-Hunter- s budget must be. at least $9 million. That doesnt even include the tremendous costs of facilities and equipment to establish a new city. Unfortunately, the tax base in Granger and Hunter is not large enough to provide $9 million a year. Even if the city council saddled residents with a tax levy (the maximum state law will allow) on top of the 85 mills of county and other taxes residents already pay, the city would still not have enough revenue to complement its income from sales tax, licenses, etc. Candidates for mayor of the proposed city have said they would seek federal aid. But federal controls that accompany federal aid would reduce local control, and local control was supposed to be the main reason for incorporation. Those who want to incorporate say local residents should have the chance to govern themselves. But they already do govern themselves! The county has 11 elected officials. The new city would have only six, and the rest would be appointed. Another layer of local bureaucracy would not make government more accessible. In scrapping for incorporation, its proponents have tried to scare voters into believing that unless they incorporate, and do it now, they will be suddenly swallowed up unwillingly in some evil, undesirable government in which they will have no say. That simply isnt true. Those who feel county government should be changed will have the opportunity to vote on other forms of government later this year. Most of the plans being considered would be better and less costly than this expensive incorporation scheme. The biggest danger in the Feb. 7 incorporation election is that those who dont want incorporation may leave the voting to those ho do, and let someone else raise their taxes by more than $200 per year. Incorporation wbuld mean fewer services for more money. The issue wont go away - it must be voted away. er 35-m- W. 1320, 1322, 1323; School, 3275 W. 3100 3106, 3108, 3110, 3112; Academy Park School, No. 4580 West Point Dr. 3114, 3116, 1, 3118; Academy Park School, No. 2, 4580 West Point Dr. 143202, 3203, 3204 ; Robert Frost 1304, 1332, 1340, 1344; School, 3860 S. 3380 Pioneer 13- School, No. 1, 3444 W. 4400 S. Robert 3206, 3208; School, No. 2, 3444 W. 4400 S. 15- Frost 7- . W. 3800 S. 124- S. r Granger School, No. 1, 2450 W. 3800 S. 101348, 1346, 3212; Granger School, No. 2, 2450 11- 3- Paramedic Salt Lake County 250-058- 968-748- agreements also present hazards to human safety. It is difficult to protect traffic, pedestrians and firefighters when there are several Less Service SV3reMor&y OPEN HOUSE PHOTOGRAPHERS HOURS MONDAY THRU THURSDAY 10 AM-- 1 PM, 2 FRIDAY 10 AM-- 1 PM, 2 PM-- 7 30 PM 30 PM SATURDAY 10 AM-PM, 2 PM-- As a second alternative, the new incorporation could build its own volunteer fire protection. As for Hillsdale PORTRAIT papecForagoodlookatthetinresof much more ' than their present share of the pie. operate large malls and hazardous businesses are based on available fire 6- full-tim- Kodak services 4225 W. full-tim- e. 8x10 of Granger-Hunte- r Guest Editorial r. C Granger-Hunte- and Paramedical services from the respective stations in these areas. , ' r. is offered ambulance present level would cost 26, 1978 Riders Elect Officers Disadvantages More Prevalent , :nj.TjrP!rrmei 'Issued each Thursday at 9124 W 2700 S Magna Utah 84044 betvnd Class postage paid at Magna. Utah Mail subscription Payable m advance $4 00 per year in Utah $5u0,u ofnte Al1 advertising nust be in out office by noon Monday for Thursday publication, and preferably by 5 pin f iU.k Area businesses wishing information aho u rv- - v iy coi,Kt our offue at 2'0 56r6 ASSISTANT THURSDAY, JANUARY TIMES Letter To The Editor the, ' MAGNA THE 2 1308, 1306, Stansbury.Schoojq. ' S. 2700 W. 8- 1326; Stansbury No. 2, 3050 S. 2700 W. 1324, School, 9- ' 1310; 13Q0 " 1334, 1336, 1342; porafion Election: 3340, 4742, 4802, 4808, 4820, 4828; Draper Elementary School, 1080 E. 12660 S. NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS Sealed proposals will be received by the Board of Education of the Granite School District at its office, 340 East 3545 South, up to Tuesday, Feb. 7, 1978, 7:30 p.m., for the furnishing of all labor, materials, transportation, and services for the construction of a new Kearns High School Auxiliary Gymnasium at 5525 South 4800 West, Salt Lake County, Utah. Bids will be publicly opened and read in the aduitorium of the Administration Office Building, 340 East 3545 South, Salt Lake City Utah at 7:30 p.m., February 7, 1978. The right is reserved by the Board of Education to reject any and all proposals. A certified or cashiers check or bid bond of not less than five percent (5 percent) of the amount of the bid, drawn payable to the order of the Board of Education, of the accepted bidder shall be forfeited in case he fails or refuses to enter into the contract or furnish the 100 percent performance bond, and 100 percent material and labor payment bond as required by the Owner and the State of Utah. All general contractors will be required to submit, prior to award of contract, a list of the subcontractors which they propose to use. Bidders shall have subcontractor listing available at time of opening, as award of contract shall occur within approximately one hour of bid opening. Said listing shall be categorized as specified, and shall include a specific bid price from each subcontractor included on the lists. A subcontractor, as an alternate, may package categories resulting in a deduction to the bid. After the bid opening, the General Contractor may not, without the specific written consent of the Office of Administrative Services of the Granite School District, alter the subcontractors identified on the bid list. All laborers, workmen, mechanics, and apprentices to be employed on this project shall be paid not less than the general prevailing wage rates as determined by the Industrial Commission of Utah as set forth in the schedule shown in the Contract Documents. The Owner shall enter into only one contract for the construction of the project. The successful bidder, to be known as the General Contractor, shall have the responsibility for proper execution of all work contracted by him. Instructions, plans, and specification as prepared by The Environmental Associates, Architects, and proposal blanks will be on file in the office of the Granite School District, 340 East 3545 South, Salt Lake City, Utah where they may be consulted or secured for the purpose of bidcung after Tuesday, Jan. 17, 1978. A deposit of $50 per set will be required to guarantee return of said plans. Said deposit will be refunded provided the plans and specifications are returned to the Owner in good order within ten days following receipt of proposal. Publication dates: January 19 January 26 Febraury 2, 1978 (s) Briant G. Badger Business Administrator, Board of Education Granite School District Treasurer |