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Show ( UTAH 467 E. PRESS ASSOC. 300 SO. SALT LAKE LIT 84111 ti ti I Single E Volume 3, Copy 25c Number 24 Thursday, Feb. 26, 1987 A Midvale Seeking ReplacementFor Richard Coles Jan Callister MIDVALE. Residents who have ever considered a job in city government may get the chance, according to the City Council. Council members will choose a replacement for resigning councilman Richard Kohl next week. Mayor Everett Dahl annonced at the council meeting here Tuesday night that any Midvale resident interested should be prepared to present themselves at the next council meeting, scheduled for Tuesday night. Councilman Reid Fillmore said the council has heard from five persons who are interested in the position, but that anybody is welcome to come to the council meeting next week. "There is no formal application necessary. Anyone that is interested just needs to show up next week and be ready to plead their case," Fillmore said. Fillmore explained that the council will listen to all interested parties, consider their qualifications and probably vote on the subject that night. In other business, the council discussed purchasing policies affecting city officials. Councilman Fillmore said the council is reviewing procedures concerning the purchasing of items buffeted for and setting f f i. thost v public office r purchasing of products for city use. The council decided more information was needed to design an effective policy and will wait to vote on the matter later. The council also discussed proposed zoning amendments. Problems have developed with property . LaMonte Hansen Gordon Johnson Five Residents Receive Silver Beaver Awards Five residents area will be LAKE. SALT er among those receiving the highest award given by the Great Salt Lake Boy Scout Council here tonight (Thursday). Gov. Norm Bangerter, a longtime friend of the scouting program, will be the tribute speaker during a 7:30 p.m. program at Symphony Hall. Presenting the awards will be council president Kevin ;R. Watts and his wife. Serving as emcees will be Mark Van Wagoner and Margaret Smoot. The 46 men and women receiving the Silver Beavers were selected for having demonstrated exceptional service to youth, the community and to the scouting program. Friends and families of the recipients are being invited to attend the program, but due to limited seating, they are to obtain complimentary tickets and the Boy Scout service center. The area recipients: T. Alan Walker, 530 Hoover in Mid-valJan E. Callister, 12211 So. 1600 East in Draper; LaMonte M. Hansen, 8796 So. 1645 East; Dennis E. Holtby, 8755 So. 1185 East; M. Gordon Johnson, 9 Dawn Hill, all of Sandy. er e; Jorban Sentinel Published weekly by Diversified Suburban Newspapers, Inc. 155 1. 4905 South Murray, Utah 84107 US PS 454-38- 0 ) (ISSN Second Class Postage Paid At Salt Lake City, Utah 8750-4707- Postmaster: Send Address Changes TO GREEN SHEET 155 East 4905 South Murray, Utah S41 07 Subscription Rate: $12 Per Year ' al-pf- dv After further SALT LAKE. Business and service group petitions are pushing for an elect n on a proposed council-executiv- fall. The Dennis Holtby Weekly Contest - 'Getaway' Prizes Awarded MURRAY. The first winner in the "As We See It" Country Getaway Contest is M. Giordono of Sandy. Various prizes go to the winner, including a case of Coca Cola products, a Vestron Pictures tote bag, a copy of "Nightshirt" by Stephen King, free pizza from Peter Piper, a copy of United HOme Video's "Jet Benny," two editions of ,"The Post Movie Trivia Game" from Newdex, Inc., a 1986 Academy Awards sweatshirt from Variety Clubs, Int'l., tickets to Century 5 Theatres. Now in its second week, the contest offers several prizes to a contestant who can correctly answer a movie trivia question. This week's question appears in the Entertainment Section of all Green Sheet editions. Application deadline is Monday at 5 p.m. All entries must be mailed to: "As We See It," P.O. Box 7187, Murray, 84107. All applicants will be eligible for two-nigthe three-datrip to Nashville. y, ht If you fail to receive your Green Sheet on Thursday afternoon, please 262-668- delibera- 27-3- e lorm of government next call the Circulation Department, before 5:00 p.m. tions on the modified 5 calendar approved by the Jordan School Board at a prior meeting, a revision of the modification was brought the board for its consideration Tuesday ' , . r night. Assistant SuperintenAccording dent Marlin Fairbourn, several minor modfications, recommended by a group of parents and principals, have been added to the calendar. Those recommendations will add three days to the last week in July, in addition to the two days previously scheduled, providing a full week of school from July The addition of the three days was accomplished by eliminating Dec. 23 45-1- make sure all interests represented.. are JSk Councilman Fillmore said the problem may have been a lack of communication between the City Council and the Planning Commission. "An explanation to the Planning Commission that the Council was ready and willing to deal with specific problems through ordinance would have avoided the problems that have surfaced in the past few weeks,' ' said Councilman Fillmore. He explained that the Planning . Commission attempted to deal with such businesses as pawn shops and massage parlors and other operations termed undesirable by the Planning Commission by adjusting zoning. , THIS WEEK .... . South county communities covered by the Green Sheet are featured this week in a tabloid, "South Valley Progress 1987." Readers will find pictures and stories about activities in Sandy, Midvale, West Jordan, South Jordan and Riverton. 24-pa- Spring Cleanup Scheduled In April Post Office Seeks Aijta Canyon Site S. group is 40.000 seeking signatures on a petition, asking that the issue be on the November ballot. Spearheading the effort is neighborhoods, Creen Sheet Staff Writer commercial WEST JORDAN. April has been designated for this city's annual spring cleanup. During this period residents of the four cities owning the Trans Jordan landfill may dump a pickup load for 50 cents plus a coupon. The coupons will be available upon request at City Hall beginning March 30 through SANDY. The U. Postal Service is advertising for sites for the Alta Canyon Station of the Sandy Post Office. The postal facility will be in addition to the main Sandy Post Office at 8850 So. 700 day beautification by Connie S. Bumip East. Maes said bidders are being asked to offer a site of about 117,000 square feet bounded on the north by 8000 South, on the south by 10600 South, on the east by 2200 East and on the west by 1900 East. Mailed bids must be received by the close of business on March 19 at Mateo Real Estate, P. O. Box 620422, Bids may Littleton, Colo., 80162-042also be delivered in person to a representative of the Postal Service who will be at the Sandy Post Office from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. on March 25. May 4. In addition to the spring cleanup days, the city bicentennial committee has announced plans for a citywide youth cleanup day. Mayor Bob Roberts said that area leaders are coorecclesiastical toward involving efforts dinating youth 14 to 18 years of age in a one- - 2. effort in main parks, areas and school the grounds in the city. "The purpose is to promote community pride," the Mayor said. More than 300 youths are expected to participate on March 28 from 9 a.m. to noon. The West Jordan Good Neighbor Council has also scheduled Good Neighbor Days for May 28, 29 and 30. The community group is sponsoring the three-da- y effort to encourage residents to spruce up their yards and neighborhoods. Volunteers will also gather trees from the Dam site and plant in the main city park. The West Jordan Lions club will also sponsor a dinner in the park on the final evening of the beautification effort. Jor-danel- Police Probe Accidents MIDVALE. Charges of running a red light and driving too fast for the conditions have been field against a Sandy girl in connection with a two-ca- r collision at 7200 So. State in Midvale. Both the suspect and a West Jordan woman recieved minor injuries in the accident accident. According to police reports, the suspect's vehicle was heading north on State St. when it collided with the West Jordan car, which was proceeding west on 7200 So. through the intersection on a green light. In another traffic accident with inMurray man is juries, a PxiveSF.F,)il Government Vote Vj "Until you can show it will really save taxes, it won't fly," Jones said. But the survey also showed consolidation "might fly with some voter education." Seven out of 10 poll participants said they would fight any measure that replaced elected positions with political newly-electe- d Commissioner Dave Watson. He and the petitioners have already planned a series of public meetings in March concerning modernization of county goverment. e The form of government calls for a council to set policy. An elected executive would administer the system. The county attorney would still be elected, but seven other ad- being charged with driving under the influence and leaving the scene of accident Saturday. Police investigators reported'. that the suspect's vehicle was trying to make a turn from Hoover onto Adams, but couldn't hold the corner. The car apparently jumped the curb, crashed into the porch of a home, backed up and struck a parked car then rammed a fence, all while trying to get back out onto Adams. The suspect was injured in the mishap and was taken to Cottonwood Hospital for treatment. council-executiv- nine-memb- er ministrative posts - assessor, auditor, clerk, recorder, surveyor, sheriff and treasurer - would be filled by appointment. e form of The government was drafted in 1985 by a chamber of commerce group after it determined Salt Lake County had outgrown the commission system. Interest in filing a petition began after Commissioner Dave Watson e form of said a government would be lost in the hoopla of the 1988 general election. council-executiv- council-executiv- timetable set before Watson entered office calls for testing the modernization concept in A November, 1988. If the plan passes, officers would be elected two years later and the new government would go to work Jan. 1,1991. But Watson wants the concept tested in November, 1987 when cities hold regularly scheduled elections. If it passes, officers would be elected in the 1988 general election. The new form of government would then be incorporated in 1989. A $26,200 poll conducted by Dan Jones last fall revealed the change of government "won't fly." Board Revises Modified SANDY. 1987 South Valley Progress Edition owners in some of the areas to be rezoned and the council wants to by Scott Hill Green Sheet Staff Writer Alan Walker Green Sheet Publication ' ..l . Ilk - choose will need to be made quickly. Pullan later returned to the Martin Luther King Day as a holiday and eliminating July 1 as the final rostrum to introduce a proposal to alternative create a district-wid- e dayof school. The revisions, as presented, .housing committee to study the received the unamimous vote of the various options for a school board. perspective to Crescent and Altara elementaries planning on a district-wid- e basis. The board would consult have already adopted this calendar and and now Rosamond and Columbia with local PTA groups and act as a sounding elemenaries are considering. Assistant Superintendent for the West board for the Board of Education. Pullan said said such a committee Area, Grant Pullan, noted that information on the revisions to the was needed because of the growing modified 4515 calendar will be soon number of schools going year-rounlooking at the future when secongoing home to parents in the Rosamond and Columbia areas. He noted dary level alternatives will be needthat a decision on what housing ed and how to blend those alteralternative those two school's natives with those now in place in school-communi- ty d, ty ' . $309,100 for spend approximately textbooks to accomodate the move, plus $39,626 for funiture. Figures released during the meeting indicated that the added textbooks for each middle school students will come to $82 and $67.90 for each elementary student over $12.50 ,r -- - - ... 'vJ-.V- '. One Injured another auto then rolled off into a ditch running along the east side of 7800. A female passenger in drive vehicle received minor the four-whe- Ed Calendar elementaries. Fairbourn also returned to introduce needs that will have to addressed as ninth graders and sixth graders begin the move back to the middle elementary schools. Textbooks and furniture are among the two more pressing needs, Fairbourn noting that the district will need to the '. ' ' - West Jordan police ofcollision on ficers investigate the cause of two-ca- r Thursday on 2700 West just south of 7800 So. Apdrive vehicle collided with parently, the four-wheWEST JORDAN CRASH . . . Year-Roun- d as a school day, incorporating the school-communi- y-- and $10 regularly allocated for books at these grade levels each year. However, about $24 of the middle school figure and $15.90 for the elementary will be defrayed of books returned from the high schools to the middle schools and from the middles to the elementaries. That will make the net additional cost $58 per student at the middle school level and $52 for the elementaries. District Superintendent Raymond Whittenburg took some time to update board members on education related legislation being considered by the state legislature, noting that much of what he was discussing could be changed in the next day or so as the current session concludes. because Whittenburg reported that it appears the leadership of both houses will look to maintain the weighted pupil unit at $1,204 and to fund career ladder programs at this options year's level. Special purpose may be funded at a three-quartlevel as this year's, driver's education is still included in the package and the busing limit is, so far, still at two miles. Of special interest was a bill that would allow students the opportunity to graduate at the end of 11 years of education instead of 12, if they can er ol meet state and district re- quirements. Also a measure providing e.irly retirement incentives to state and other public employees. |