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Show Community meetings to focus on overcrowding at area schools . Jordan School District Middle, Jan. administrators are seeking public input for Middle. i involved will be An open meeting with, scheduled sometime next parents of studentsi month. attending West Jordan, The elementaries in the Hills p.m. Jordan Middle, Jan. 19, 7:30 at West Jordan recommendations they will make to the School Board 14, 7:30 at Bingham High; West Middle; concerning Westvale Oquirrh Elementary, Jan. 20, 3 at Westvale; p.m. Majestic Elementary, Jan. 20, 7 p.m. at boundary changes or other options for housing students attending overcrowded schools. Several meetings with community groups of the schools involved and open Majestic; middle schools has been scheduled for; Feb. 10 at 7:30 p.m. at West Jordan Middle, 7550 S.1700W. Welby district are at 99 percent one capacity, the middle administrators, will not be selected option schools at 96 percent for the entire District, but capacity and high schools individual decisions will at 87 percent capacity. Without the funds Elementary, Jan. 21, 2 A possible boundary available to build the Westland pjn. at Welby; change due to the new needed schools, options Elementary Jan. 21, 7 West Jordan Elementary such as double sessions, p.m. at Westland. meetings with parents are planned. will be discussed in the year-roun- d school, meetings of Majestic, busing, and extended day Westland, Westvale, and schedules will be Welby elementaries. addressed in these The following school community groups will meet as listed: Oquirrh The school community groups of Oquirrh Hills, Bingham, and West Jordan middle schools Open meetings for meetings. will meet together Jan. 27 parents of the several A brochure explaining at 7:30 at West Jordan elementary schools the conclusions of the ' Elementary, Jan. 13, 7 at p.m. Oquirrh Elementary; Bingham Parent Ad Hoc Housing thousand . Jordan Committee on alternative students. housing will be sent out to This option would most all homes in the district. According to district likely be on a volunteer be made concerning each community. , One option, busing students to Granite schools, would help both Jordan with ' its and overcrowding Granite District with its declining enrollment. Granite has room on its east side for several Extending the day schedule is another option to be looked at. According to this system, half of the students would basis since Jordan begin school at 7:30 a.m. parents would not be able and leave at 1:40 p.m. to vote on school issues Three periods later, at affecting their students about 10 a.m. the attending schools in remainder of the students Granite District. The attend school until their Jordan students would be day ends at 4:30 p.m. This "adopted" into Granite method would increase District, which would the number of students a receive funds allocated building can serve 25 to 35 by the state for each percent. student, but no change will be made in The option of double boundaries or the voting sessions would double the and taxing status of .number of students able Jordan parents. to attend school in one One of the two plans of building. School for half of the students would year-roun- d sessions begin at 7 a.m. and would require a group of continue until 12:30 p.m., students to attend school with a regular lunch for 45 days (nine weeks) hour. The second half and then vacation for 15 would attend school from days (three weeks). This 1 p.m. until 6 or 6:30 p.m., would be repeated four depending upon whether times during the year. parents opt for a regular The second plan would school lunch or a snack at require students to attend recess. school for two consecutive sessions (88 days) and then vacation for one session (44 days). This pattern repeats twice during the year, school is the final option to be considered. School held 12 months instead of nine would increase the number of students able d to use a building to Year-roun- d requiring students to attend a total of 174 days one-thir- one-hal- of school. f. Commercial zoning in doubt A petition to develop 35 acres as property was considered at a public hearing Jan. 5, at a Sandy. City Council meeting. The council chamber was filled to capacity, with an overflow crowd in the hall, appearing to hear the arguments for and against the rezoning commercial petition. In behalf of M. Kenneth White 1 and Investment Magna Herber Development, Halliday explained the request for rezoning. The property at 10500 S. 1300 E. is residential. presently zoned The request is to rezone to CC a to commercial zoning, accommodate the construction of 'a Skaggs and Alpha Beta grocery store complex, approximately 87,000 sq. ft., a larger complex than the present Harmon's at 7200 R-l-- S. The concensus of the 80 people who appeared at the hearing was that Sandy did not need another grocery store and that the traffic problem would be prohibitive. As a matter of information Halliday told the council that prior to the annexation process on Feb. 9, 1977, his clients had entered into an agreement with the city icn stated that the cty wcufcl encourage the preservation of the acreage for commercial development The developers also obtained an economic impact study for the area which disclosed a definite need for a commedal of the type development on 34.72 acres. the contemplated Mike Burton Attorney reported that the city may have a moral obligation toward the support of the agreement, but such an agreement made by another administration was not binding. Several people in the audience asked that another market analysis be made, questioning the developer's figures. Grocery chains, established in the Sandy area, had representatives at the meeting, each reporting profit loss. They also requested another analysis report. Alta Canyon Tuesdays in Sandy City municipal building, A planning session will begin at 6 p.m. and end at 7:30 p.m., and The regular session will begin at 7:30 p.m. On the last Tuesday of each month, the council will meet in its regular planning session and shall quadrant chairman, . Dick Bradford, reported a scheduled meeting with its citizens to discuss the pros and cons of this issue. His report will be included at the next meeting. Although the Planning Commission voted four to three for the project, Councilman Ken Prince, sitting on the commission, stated that it was his vote that was needed to break the tie. His purpose was to have the project accepted so that the council would have the opportunity to review it. concluded. The council has traditionally adjusted the meeting schedule to accommodate specific hearings, maintains the light system is unreliable and subject to ' frequent breakdowns. Ted administrator City council Jan. told the Anderson city 5, that because State Street is a D.O.T. highway, amendable were representatives to a new agreement underwhich the state would assist the city in planning a new system and provide the power costs if the city, would install, operate, and maintain the system. Midvale would also first have to pay off the county on the back power bills. state I Councilman Richard Vincent made the motion to pursue the state option and get the lights back on as soon as possible. He was seconded by councilman Doug Reed. The motion, passed unanimously. The council moved to resolve the weekly .ContOMg Tlie Midvale Sentinel at 125 Ceiter W. St. Salt Lake . a Jordan ' . 347-940- baity . BUb by Midvale Sentinel. Inc. Subscription rate S6 per year . (USPS -- Thursday. January ) Second-clas- s 14, 1982 postage paid at Midvale, Dtab. School District This issue two sections. tf . v V 1 1 , r-- 0 , II R-l-- original zoning the council voted that the city waive zone change fees. The original 23 acres in the Crescent Ridge subdivision had unanimously been approved in public bearings and there has not been change in the approved plat nor in the neighbors involved. The following meeting schedule was adopted by the council: Regular meetings will be held on 17 L Midvalo Alta View dedicated ly audit received office. Tom Allen said that the report came in Tuesday morning's mail. A press release issued Jan. 7 said that Midvale was one of 31 Utah cities that had missed the Dec. 31 filing deadline. Ted Anderson, Midvale City COG Administrator, said he . "hand-carriethe audit to the state office the first of November. Apparently, the audit was lost wheu he auditors moved their offices shortly afterward and Midvale sent a second copy last d" For hourly employes, overtime week. pay and compensatory time is Anderson added that this was allowed, but anything over 60 hours must be okayed by the the second time Midvale's audit had been lost in the past two years. council. Next year, be said, the dry would send it by certified mail. Mayor Trent Jeppson, chairing his first city council meeting, proposed to the council that it drop its 6:30 p.m. executive meeting held prior to its regular council The long talked about meeting. In its place the council "Household Pet Ordinance" will would hold a .workshop meeting not be on Sandy City's books. beginning at 7 p.m. on the second By action of the council Jan. 5, and third Tuesdays of each month. the proposed ordinance was found The workshop meeting would be to have insufficient information, open to the public, but no minutes and by a vote of four to three, it will be recorded nor any action was not adopted. s taken. Smith Larry Mayor not will action council be recommended that meetings Regular third until a still be on the first and taken on the ordinance Tuesdays, but will be moved up to better method was studied. on 7 p.m. from 7:30. Items for the determining in what areas the needed. council meetings will be identified ordinance was, Councilman Dick Adair said that at the prior workshop meeting. The deadline for getting items on the council is reacting, perhaps the council meeting agenda will be needlessly, to the need of a household pet ordinance only on the Monday before each council The because a small portion of the workshop meeting. citizens have asked for one. approved the change. Sandy drops 'Pot Ordinance)' , and was open for business the next day. At ceremonies marking the event, hospital administrator Jay D. Southwick (above)made some remarks, along with Richard Christensen, chairman of the board of gvernors, Dr. Keith Hansen, president of the hospital medical staff, William N. Jones, of the Intermountain Health Care Board of Trustees, and David H. Jeppson, of the Intermountain Health Care, Inc. The dedicatory prayor was offered by Hartmon Rector, Jr., of the First Quorum of the Seventy. A ribbon, made up of surgical masks, was cut by hospital administrators with surgical scissors. Alta View Hospital Midvale's audit has been received by the state auditor's non-hour-ly hesitant to pay because it finished roll-bac- non-hour- the electrical costs of their Volumo 49 Numbor 2 holidays, and circumstances Chairman Steve Newton's which arise during the year. motion received the approval of Before adjournment of the the council. The motion stated that council meeting, Councilman this development could possibly be Ralph Tolman made a motion to referred back to the Planning have the council accept a k Commission for more detailed in salary, to the level of the last study before the council would increase. The motion died for lack make its decision. Council will of a second. Ruth Hardcastle, inl have the project back for review in the audience objected to then three weeks. chairman's quick decision to In other business the Earon adjourn the meeting, failing to Fakbourn property, located at 350 bring the motion up for discussion. v E. 1183) S., was rezoned from Following the disturbance, the S chairman asked tJatBardcasQe ;"rrv ' Tti property, although under request to be on the agenda for active development with plat next week. was approvals granted, The council adjourned to bold a in the inadvertently placed where planning meeting holding zone, which does not allow Legislator Mac Haddow discussed smaller lot development. with the members what legislation In as much as this change in be will be supporting at the budget zoning was a change back to its hearings being held this week. The Midvale City council has . issue of overtime or compensatory decided to pursue the possibility' time for Class I or city that street lighting along employes. Based on an opinion by Midvale's portion of State Street city attorney Marc Mascaro, city could be operated under an ordinances will allow overtime agreement with the State payments or comp time to be Department of Transportation given to a employe only rather than the current arrange- by special permission of the city ment with Salt Lake County. council. operation. But, Midvale has been Jordan Valley Sentinel schedule a shortened regular council session to act upon exigent matters after which the council shall then reconvene to a planning session which shall last until the business of the council has been Midvalo seeks pact on street lights with state The city is being billed by the county, which owns the lights, on . was dedicated Jan. supports proposals. 7 .. Zoo funding is still an issue The Hogle Zoo controversy is heating up again and many of the south county mayors have vowed to fight any move to finance the facility with tax dollars. A five part resolution, aimed at seeking financial assistance from the State Legislature, was passed vote during the monthly by a meeting of the Salt Lake County Council of Governments. West Jordan's Dennis Randall and Sandy's Larry Smith cast the dissenting votes. Elected officials from South Jordan, Riverton, and Draper, who were not in attendance at the meeting, later voiced similiar disapproval. The resolution, presented by 9-- 2 Commissioner Mike Stewart, contained five separate suggestions for funding the zoo. including placing it in the statewide system to parks and recreation; developing a formula for funding on a user basis; funding it from the state's general fund; allowing the county to levy up to one mill to finance it; or have the Legislature grant the county commission an exemption to their ceiling to levy money for ill the zoo. Two bills will be introduced in the current legislative session. The first before the House of ; Representatives, calls for county-wid- e funding and an exemption to the county's 16 mill ceiling.-Thsecond, in the Senate, calls for the establishment of a statewide zoo. Because of the short budget session, officials feel there is little hope for the establishment of a statewide zoo. They are more optimistic about the chance of the legislature donating money to the zoo as part of a budget line item. Mayors generally agreed that the zoo should not be allowed to die and that its survival was a statewide responsibility. Mayors Smith and Randall, however, said they not could Commissioner support Stewart's resolution. Both mayors were against the e options calling for a county-widsaid Smith taxing district. Mayor that it was "frustrating" that the cities who had originally opted out of the special district could face a zoo tax anyway. He pointed out that such a system was inequitable because places in Davis County, such as Bountiful, were closer to the zoo than south Salt Lake Those areas, County cities. not be taxed. however, would Commissioner Stewart acknowledged that the zoo went "beyond the scope of the county" and admitted that his preference went to one of the first three suggestions. He pointed out that should the legislative attempts fail, "the county could still impose a mill levy without creating a special taxing Commissioners district." wished to avoid that option, he said, because the move "would push the county's general fund close to its 16 mill ceiling." Mayor Randall suggested that funding remain status quo for one more year and that the statewide zoo issue be pushed in the regular legislative session next year. Salt Lake City Mayor Ted Wilson said that was impossible. To save the zoo, a majority of the mayors then voted to support the resolution, with heavy emphasis the first three On alternatives. In a related vein, South Jordan's city council is sending a letter to the county commission opposing any mill levy for the zoo. They labeled such a move "a backdoor approach" in light of the fact they had already turned down the special district. Draper's Glen Cannon said he "strongly favors a statewide zoo" but could not support a county levy. Riverton's Mayor Dale Gardiner said that he was "offended" that the county would even consider a valleywide district. He said that such a move would not be fair since areas in Davis County were much closer to the zoo than Riverton. Riverton officials have scheduled a zoo discussion during their next meeting. , " |