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Show State Employee Benefits Facing Lawmakers State Employee benefits anc salaries will be one of the big issues facing lawmakers in the Budget Session. There are now about 10,000 state employees receiving annual salaries of $ 75 million. Fringe benefits such as retirement, social security, life and health insurance cost $15 million annually. This amounts to 20 of the payroll costs. Any new benefits or liberalization liberaliza-tion of benefits will directly affect Utah taxoavers. Do you enjoy all ox these benfits? Salaries: 80 of state employees em-ployees get an annual merit increase of 3.5. There are also raises as an employee advances up the steps of job classification. On top of this, there are cost-of-living adjustments adjust-ments - 3.33 in 1973 and a requested 7.4. Work hours: State employees have a 40 hour work week. Overtime: Employees receive re-ceive overtime or compensatory compensat-ory time-off for everything over ov-er 40 hours. Vacations: 1 to 5 years -12 working days annually. 5 to 10 years - 15 working days annually. 10 or more years -18 working days annually. A maximum of 30 days annual an-nual leave can be carried from one year to the next. Accumulated Accumulat-ed leave is paid if an employee is terminated. Holidays: Employees receive 12 holidays a year. These are New Years, Lincoln's Birthday, Birth-day, Washington's Birthday, Arbor Day, Memorial Day, Independence In-dependence Day, Pioneer Day, Labor Day, Columbus Day, Veterans Vet-erans Day, Thanksgiving Day, and Christmas Day. In addition, any day designated by the Governor Gov-ernor will be a holiday. Sick leave: Employees receive re-ceive one work day sick leave for each month. They have unlimited un-limited accrual of this time. E mergency leave: E mployees receive up to three days for death in their immediate family. Tenure: Following a probationary proba-tionary period, the employee has the security of tenure. Retirement: All state employees em-ployees are covered by social security. This is paid on top of state retirement. This costs the state $3.7 million. In addition, addi-tion, all state employees are covered by state retirement which is paid for them by a state full contribution of 9.75. This cost $6.8 million in 1973. Health insurance: The state's excellent plan includes $50,000 major medical coverage, hospitalization, hos-pitalization, surgical procedure, pro-cedure, maternity benefits, etc. The state pays for all costs for the employee and one dependent. de-pendent. This plan costs the state $2 million annually. Life insurance: for $10,000 term insurance, the employee pays $3.40 and the state pays $3.00 per month. The cost to the state is $232,000. Travel allowances: $19.50 per day for in-state travel and $27.50 for out-of-state is paid to the employee. 12? per mile is paid when the employee drives his own car. The state has many dedicated hard-working employees. However, How-ever, like a businss, state government gov-ernment should realize that there is a limit to what it can afford to pay. Whitefish Provide Angling White fish populations in the Weber River have increased rapidly rap-idly the last several years, according ac-cording to Jack Rensel, Northern Regional Supervisor for the Division Divi-sion of Wildlife Resources. "Before Flaming Gorge fishing became so popular, participation participa-tion in angling for whitefish in the Weber was good," said Rensel. Ren-sel. With the decrease in pressure pres-sure on the Weber, whitefish numbers have reached high levels. Rivers, just as land, have only so much carrying capacity. Whitefish compete directly with trout for space and possibly food. Reduction of their numbers through legal harvest is needed. For this reason, the season this year was extended. In light of the current gasoline gaso-line shortage, Rensel pointed out that Utahn's who live in the metropolitan areas can conserve fuel by visiting waters close to home. The lower Weber - from Echo Dam downstream - is the best area to visit, according to Rensel Ren-sel Fisheries biologist Dexter Pitman reported anglers have been catching two whitefish per hour along that streatch. Nearly all anglers have been using stone fly larvae gathered in the Weber, said Rensel. One fisherman holds a window screen at a 45 degree angle on the water while another kicks rocks from the riverbed upstream from the screen. This loosens the larvae which float, with the current into the screen. Fishing for whitefish is best with very small hooks, about 14, and one split shot sinker on the line, said RpiipI F inane 5 mnpaigns Discussed The frustration wliicri tlio col lection of abuses referred to under the name of -rW atergate has engendered here inWashing ton and across the land lias; led to severalproposals for- cliange in the method of financing elec tion campaigns. The most popular of these proposals has been the suggestion that Congress pro vide for the public financing ox certain election campaigns. On Tuesday, November 2 7, n public financing bill passed the Senate but was killed in protracted de-bate de-bate over the debt limit bill to which it was attached. I opposed this legislation. I believe it would 1g a grave error to let an emotional emo-tional respoase to the present dxXficulties stampede the Congress Con-gress into making substantial changes in our political system without the benefit of careful and considered reflection on all facets and implications of such a change. Supporters of this legislation leg-islation have indicated they will have a similar bill ready in Feb ruary next year, and I anticinate that Congress will again be involved in-volved in a lengthy and heated controversy before the issue is disposed of. Because I have announced my retirement and will not be involved in-volved again personally in the question of financing campaigns, I hope that gives me some credibility credi-bility as a more or less objective observer of this proposal. I am perfectly willing to agree that there is a need for a comprehensive com-prehensive review and perhaps overhaul of our election campaign systems. They last too long. They are too expensive, and they are too wearing on the candidates. But, the question of how the money is going to be raised is only a small part of the problem. I think that if we chase this rabbit down the detour, we may not only postpone consideration of equally important problems, but we will create new problems which will make it more difficult to face the overall situation of campaign reform. I believe other problems which should be examined in campaigns are as follow?: 1. The power and effect of the media. When I ran the first time in 1950, the cost of my campaign was just l6th of what it cost to run the last time, in 1968, and the difference is the media. 2. The power and effect of quasi-political movements that stand on the side of the campaign and spend money, presumably on principles and on issues, but actually and effectively on candidates. candi-dates. Labor unions are theoldest of these organizations. The newest new-est is probably Common Cause. Nothing in public financing legislation leg-islation will put any limit on these organizations. Orem-Geneva Times 3. Where will the individual voter fit into such a system. He is to be deprived of his freedom free-dom to support his own candidate with his money. I believe there may be substantial Constitutional Constitution-al problems in this situation. Can we deny an American citizen the right to spend his money to express ex-press his own preference for a candidate, for a party, for a bond issue, or for any kind of a political proposal from the bottom to the ton. IGA CRISP FRESH I Ml ROSEDALE oTC m CAN IGA QUALITY u uu y SB s Sold Every r n HE a 3 d 4Cf 0 0 IJ So h' r UU IGA DISCOUNT 658 NORTH STATE 0REM Frimif" Cide I llll-l I .1). l I I.I.1IN..I ING N " tc: INIo. 1 r nly t 1 VS1 DISPOSABLE DIAPERS IT! 1 "2. OVERSMITE Eddy IONGHORPM Bread S a r J vrl c IGA White - w W BREAD , 3 for FRO. Pictsweet 1 O-Oac. 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