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Show (SODOIIBODD Mppirws ieweltraraeiM By ROSELYN KIRK Approval for the Davis County Planning Office to work with a planner from the Wasatch Front Regional Council (WFRC) to develop an economic development plan was approved by the Davis County Commission. BASED ON a request from Planner County Joseph Moore, the county agreed to authorize the cooperation of the two agencies so that Davis County can be designated in the event the county becomes eligible to receive money through the Economic Development Administration (EDA). Although commissioners take a dim view of funding through that agency since their request for $1.2 million for the construction of the addition to the Davis County Courthouse was turned down, they agreed to the proposal. MR. MOORE said the pres- sure for the county to put two businesses in a poster coloring contest for muscular dystrophy. to 11 years of age are invited to enter the Children from AID MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY pre-scho- ol contest as many times as they wish, but each entry must be accompanied by 25 cents that goes to the Muscular Dystrophy Association, said Mr. Winegar. Sixteen prizes will be given in eight age groups. together the plan and form a committee to meet EDA guidelines had come from Centerville. Centerville had applied for an EDA grant for the construction of their industrial park, but had been told they were not eligible to apply since the county has not been designated eligible to apply for further EDA money. Mr. Moore told commissioners, You will have eliminated the whole county if you dont put together a plan while youre eligible. Earlier Jack Oakey, EDA ad ministrator in Salt Lake City, had told commissioners that Davis County is only one of four counties in Utah that have not been designated and, as such, will not be able to apply for EDA grants. funds to be used for planning in Layton and Clearfield and also for development of a county plan. EDA GRANTS are awarded by the federal government cil of Governments through the Public Works Administration to stimulate job development. Davis County government and several Davis County cities were turned down for job applications last year since the unemployment rate in the county was not high enough to qualify the county for the grant. Commissioners had earlier agreed that they wouldnt hire additional people to develop the plan, but said if it could be accomplished by Mr. Moore working with the WFRC that they would agree. Mr. Moore said the plan will have to be submitted by Dec. 15. He will work with Brad Barber, economist for WFRC. NO AGREEMENT was reached on how the committee will be put together to administer the plan, but Mr. Moore suggested that some members of the Resource Conservation and Development (RC and D) committee might serve for both. That committee has also been formed to apply for federal grants. In other business, the commissioners signed the final contract with housing and Urban Development (HUD), which will allow federal 701 i THE commissioners also instructed Mr. Moore to have the storm water resolution, recently passed by the Coun(COG) to be written into the subdivision ordinance so it can be enacted in ordinance form. This will require the amendoring of the dinance, Mr. Moore said. That resolution will require all developers in the county to pay seven percent of the value of the property to build acceptable storm water controls in areas they are developing. sub-divisi- IN OTHER unrelated business the commission signed a lease agreement which will allow the Bountiful Community Action Office (CAP) to move to a new location at the Bountiful Medical Center at 1100 South 100 West. Carl Chappell, CAP director, said this move will decrease the rent cost from $200 to $80. Kaysville Rotary Hears Utah Foundation Kaysville Rotarians met Wednesday evening at the Davis High School for their regular dinner meeting and program. MEMBERS enjoyed an interesting program on Utah Foundation given by Henry R. Pearson, executive director of Utah Foundation. Mr. Pearson presented the history and told of its functions and purposes. it It is a organization, established to study and non-prof- By GARY R. BLODGETT IN A summary of future Donald P. Myrtle of Kays-vill- e will serve as deputy director of the new Thiokol Corp. Job Corps Center in Albany, Ga. MR. MYRTLE will assist Leonard R. Williams of Ogden in management of the new center which will house 250 men and 250 women. Williams was a member of the Clearfield Job Corps training divisions senior management staff with responsibilities for fiscal control and contract administration. Mr. previously MR. MYRTLE was deputy director at the Clearfield Center, a position he held since 1975. The Albany, Georgia center will be operated under a $5.4 million contract which is effective immediately and expires Sept. 30, 1979. The contract is renewable. THIS IS the first such con- tract awarded since Secretary of Labor Ray Marshall announced in August plans for doubling the size of the nationwide Job Corps program. Clearfield Center Director Mose Watkins said plans are hlso underway to expand the local center both in enrollment and in number and types of programs offered corps men. plans for the Clearfield Center, Rex C. Barber, director of finance and administration, said the local center should slightly increase its enrollment by the end of next year. But the noticeable change will be in the programs ofincludfered the corpsmen ing a pilot program to prepare and enroll students in nearby colleges, he said. THE college program should start soon at Weber State College and College of Southern Colorado. Our students will be attending Weber State. Also programmed to begin in Febt uary is a United Auto automo- Workers-sponsore- d tive training course. BOTH OF these programs show a lot of promise, said Mr. Barber. "But well have to move slowly to assure better chance of success. We cant afford a failure of these new programs. He noted that the college program will be very closely monitored and the students will have several weeks of orientation and preparation before going onto a college campus. OUR students have a good attitude and good records on which to base these new do Well programs. it everything possible to be assured that these first groups be as successful as possible. Mr. Barber said there are no other new centers planned, in Region 8, of which Clear- field Job Corps Center is located, but sites are being considered in Maryland, Nevada and California in addition to the new center in Georgia. ALSO OF interest local center are: at the Graduation of between 75 and 100 students at the Dec. 9 ceremony. Graduation exercises will begin at 2 p.m. and Gov. Scott Matheson is to be the featured speaker. BETWEEN 700 and 750 students will begin leaving the center Dec. 13 for a three weeks Christmas vacation. About 500 students will remain at the center, said Mr. Barber. Work will be completed within the next few weeks on the new aining hall and the new facility will be ready for occupancy when students return from the holiday vacation. JEFFREY J. Simpson, director of the ACT Center at St. Benedicts Hospital, has been reappointed president of the Job Centers Community Relations Council. John Elizondo of KOPD Radio is newly elected vice president. by GARY R. BLODGETT if Layton city employees wilF get a whopping Christmas bonus this year. ITS NOT a Christmas bonus as such, but most retroacemployees will get a lump-supay increase which will amount to several hundred tive to July 1 dollars each. The checks should be in the mail in the next week or said Mayor ten days, in plenty of time for Christmas, Lewis G. Shields. THE PAY raises result from action taken six months ago by the city council to issue salary increases "based on a study of employees current salaries and job assignments, the mayor explained. He said the money was put aside from the city budget into a special reserve fund until the study was completed and pay increases recommended accordingly. THE STUDY was recently completed and the new pay scales worked out, the mayor said. Money employees receive in this lump sum will be money they earned under the salary increase since last July 1. Finalizing the pay package came Thursday night when the City Council voted 1 to transfer the money from the reserve fund to the city budget and begin making distribution. 4-- THE DISSENDING vote came from Councilman Robert Austad who had earlier challenged the salary of City Administrator Randall Heaps. When asked why he had voted against the salary proposal. Councilman Austad replied simply : I'd rather not say. It wouldnt do any good now anyway. HAVE A BEBWETTEIR? LET HIM HAVE A MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A DRY BED The greatest gift you can give a bedwetter and the rest of the family, too, is an end to this serious problem, and make no mistake, bedwetting is serious It can cause complicated psychological problems that last a lifetime It s so needless because bedwetting, when not caused by delect or disease, rail be ended Send for What It s All our Iree brochure Bedwetting A report by two About and How To Fnd It medical doctors No obligation Equally tltoctivo tor Ailults rui jU Davis County Commission chambers seem an unlikely spot to conduct a public auction to sell hay, but thats what happened late last week. Clerk Rodney Walker acted as the auctioneer when the commissioners sold five ton of hay at COUNTY Mail to PACIFIC INTFR NATIONAL. LTD P. O. Box 9322 Salt Lake City, Utah 841 Oil MAGAZINE Parenls . Address City Phone State . - Par die International. Zip . . Lid 1977 (Ages 4 - i- 50 Kaysville, who was the highest bidder. Two other buyers appeared at the auction, but did not bid. They said they would not purchase the hay sight unseen. Commissioner Glen Flint said the grass hay was raised on the edges of the Davis County Golf Course. When the county bought the hay fields to build the golf course, the surrounding area continued to produce. SALARY OF the mayor remained at $100 a month and for city councilmen, $75 per month each. Travel expenses, however, were upped from $75 to $125 per month for the mayor and from $50 to $100 for each city council- and man. The city judge is the highest paid city employee, receiving $2,077 per month, an increase of $94 per month. MR. HEAPS is the second highest paid member of the city staff. He receives $1,901 per month but got only $27 per month raise. The biggest salary increase went to Police Chief LaMar Chard who jumped from $1,515 to $1,864 per month. ASKED ABOUT this large increase, Mayor Shields Im sure it was to bring him into line with of police chiefs of other communities of similar size. Salaries for police officers range from $988 for starting patrolmen to $1,446 per month for upper grade officers. replied: salaries THE PARKS and recreation director gets $1,642, up from $1,552; public works director, $1,594 up from $1,509; shop supervisor, $1,364 up from $1,347; and water and street department directors, $1,300 up from $1,276. Overall, the monthly total was increased $4,643 or a yearly increase of $55,716. SHIELDS defended Mr. Heaps saying, He does a good job for the city and he is an assistant to the mayor. I think everything is justified. While city employees received pay raises, the salaries of the mayor and city councilmen remained the same.' HE SAID some employees working under federal grants could not get pay raises as they were receiving the maximum according to the grant stipulations. "Others, he said, "received from a few dollars up to $349 per month raises." There were no pay cuts. Maw Kleire THE COUNTY hired the hay harvested and stored it in the Animal Control shed at Fruit Heights until it could be sold at public auction. Noel Evans, Animal Control Administrator. said that agency will keep about three ton of hay to feed to large animals that are kept there. Lynda agreed to buy any additional hay over the five ton that the commission decides to sell. Lynda, who lives in Kaysville, said she is buying the hav to feed her horse, rk A public hearing of the Syracuse city will be held on Tuesday evening, Dec. 13 at 7 p.m. at the Syracuse Elementary School house for the purpose of adopting the ordinance which will establish the Master Plan now Hearing J rTTTYTYTTTTy The Extraordinary Adventures of CffieMouse y His Quid, h EC H H H H Show Times 7:30 & 9:00 Sat. Mat. 1:15 & 2:45 KAYSVILLE THEATRE 21 N. 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Simmons, chairman of the Board and president of Zions First National Bank, Salt Lake City, is president of the HOWEVER, WITH fringe benefits added, the increases for this fiscal year will amount to about $71,000. 11 Employees were granted salary increases up to of on their jobs, time service, etc., percent depending the mayor explained. COUNCILMAN Kent Randall said the study was initiated several months ago when several city employees, including police officers, came to the council in request of a salary study to determine how Layton compared to other cities according to job descriptions. Thus, the study was made at a cost of about $4,500, said Councilman Randall. "The study was started in early June and was just completed. All job descriptions were audited and a salary schedule set up. $10 a ton to Lynda Moore of "Advertised ex- COUNCILMAN Austad said Mr. Heaps should be made city manager and given city manager responsibilities for the pay he received. He gets nearly $23,000 and doesnt have the duties of a city manager, said Councilman Austad. Why dont we make him a city manager if we are going to pay this kind of salary. Other cities have city managers with added responsibilities, why cant we? MAYOR Which? Several times in life man faces the difficult problem of trying to decide which will To tell the truth or cost less hire a lawyer. However, there was an increase approved in travel penses for the city administrators. to encourage the study of taxation, and the relation of state and local government costs to the economy of Utah. IT WAS established in 1945 in the belief there is a vital need for a reliable source of information ' concerning" government in Utah. 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