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Show Milford Monitor P. O. Box 224 Milford UT 84751 Serving Beaver County Since 1991 Formely the Dodge City News VOL. V APRIL 7, 1995 NO. 14 Four-Day School Week In Jeopardy State School Board rules currently require a minimum of 990 hours of instruction per school year. Rule changes are under discussion. which would amend that requirement to a minimum of 990 hours instruction on a minimum of 180 days. A minimum of four hours would According to Superintendent Carl Holm, be required for each or any day to be counted. State Board Representative Neola Brown stood alone Wednesday in her defense of the 4-day school week. “The rule needs an escape clause allowing for unique conditions. It may be that: the general guideline just doesn’t. work for us,” Holm said. While rural areas face the loss of the 4-day week, year-round schools may feel a more direct impact. Their current 174 day schedule allows the entire month of July as a school recess so that families with children on different tracks can plan vacations. The 180-day school year requirement would eliminate this convenience. First reading of the rewritten rule will be presented to the State Board on April 6th. A 30-day comment period follows before the rewritten rule can actually be adopted. Individual preferences can be registered by writing to Scott W. Bean, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, State Office of Education, 250 East 500 South, Salt Lake City, Utah 84111. _ Superintendent Bean can be reached by telephone at 801-538-7510. better call me in here.” Current law enforcement budget is approximately $50,000. Hagberg proposed increasing that figure to $87,000. and adding Dave Mott as a second Chris Craw and Cheryl Bradshaw The 1995 Junior Prom Wilderness Law Enforcement Sheriff Kenneth Yardley and Police Chief Worst case scenario is that. Beaver approximately County 7,000 acres in the northern Wah-Wah range could be affected by wilderness designation. proposals to the system city to officer. County examined in light of the Fair Labor Standards Act. The issue was until the next meeting. Annexation is just not an option, but we couldn’t find very many places not inhabited by man,” distress calls, County growth is quickly eliminating the dedicated time available in the | past. When asked about a position of responsiveness. to the city council if the metro system is adopted, Yardley answered, “Pil never apologize for doing my job, but if I’m not doing it, you | Concerned citizens converged again last Monday on the — county commission meeting to request caution in dealing with the Circle 4 Farms. corporate hog operation. Commissioner Gary Sullivan proposed that expansion be limited to 40,000 sows until the actual impact is evaluated. “A red flag went up for me when we met with the company during the January commission meeting. We need to have control of this thing instead of being on the end that is being controlled. We need to let it be known that not everybody is happy with letting Circle 4 in,” he said. Available estimates indicate that 40,000 sows produce about one table coverage for $68,000. Per . year and 20 hours of coverage for $90,000. Although the Neil Bradshaw’s Sheriff's Department is proposal for annexation of a required by law to take Governor said ‘no wilderness’ commissioners are committed to representing the wishes of their constituents on this issue. presented choose between 16 hours of the range may be negated due to aircraft activity. “The _ Beaver County do. not want wilderness, and _ the both evening. Metro options allow the commissioners seriously doubt that it meets wilderness criteria. - Even the upmost elevations of hearing revealed a clear consensus that the people of Hagberg Milford City Council Tuesday However, Commissioner Johnson said. The March 6 public Donald full-time Attorney Leo -Kanell said Hagberg’s proposal of 24hour coverage with only two officers would have to be re- How Many Pigs? 20-acre parcel north of Milford, and adjacent to the west boundary of the proposed North Star Addition, was tabled until the April 18 meeting. _—- Feasibility of supplying water to the plot requires further study. Owners of — the proposed North Star Addition (Continued on page 2) million pigs per year. John Carter, Milford City Councilman, was not satisfied with Sullivan’s statement. “Everything you just said, we said two years ago. Why wasn’t something done then?” he asked. Keith James, Milford flat resident, added, “We didn’t get up and oppose it then, and I suppose we should have, but it should say quite a bit that not one farmer has signed up for their contract operation.” ~ Commissioner Chad Johnson was adamant in his support for the project: “Next month we may have a different group in here and they will give a different input,” he said. Johnson also reaffirmed his position on locating the slaughter facility in the County. “I have said all along that if we are going to have the hogs, we should have the slaughter house.” When asked his feelings about having it in Beaver, where he lives, he answered that he had no problem with that if it was approved by the Beaver City Council. (continued on page 2) |
