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Show liiaall.l?laB By ROSELYN KIRK A former Davis County 1 School District buildings and grounds supervisor pleaded guilty to one of three Class B misdemeanors charges in the Layton City Court on Monday at 3:30 p.m. DEWAYNE D. Jay, 244 West 250 South, Kaysville appeared ap-peared with his attorney in court on Monday, two days before the trial date originally set and pleaded guilty to the charge of accepting gifts and a loan exceeding $50. The complaint, signed by Davis County Deputy Sheriff Leo Monks alleged that Mr. Jay accepted gifts in the form of carpet and labor from another, knowing he would be involved in governmental action ac-tion directly affecting the giver. The complaint was the gift was in excess of $50. ASSISTANT County Attorney Attor-ney Steven Vanderlinden, said the trial date was moved ahead two days from Wednesday Wed-nesday to Monday when the defendent's attorney Gregory Diamond called him and asked that the trial date be moved. Mr. Vanderlinden said he met with the defense attorney and Jay in the Layton City Court before Judge Douglas Cornaby and negotiated pleas. The plaintiff agreed to the dismissal of two of the Class B misdemeanor charges if Mr. Jay pleaded guilty to the other charge. ONE complaint had alleged that Mr. Jay accepted a loan for $1000 and the other complaint alleged that he accepted ac-cepted a trip knowing that in the near future he would be involved in governmental actions ac-tions directly affecting the giver. After negotiating, Mr. Vanderlinden Van-derlinden said the county agreed to allow the alleged charges of accepting a $1000 loan and the trip to be dismissed dis-missed if Mr. Jay pleaded guilty to the charge of accepting ac-cepting gifts and loans in the form of carpet and labor. ACCORDING to a spokesman spokes-man from the court, the court document showed "the court inquired and determined that the defendent understood the agreement and was willing to participate in the agreement prior to pleading guilty to accepting ac-cepting a gift of carpet and labor. The plaintiff also specified that he was not under the influence of drugs and agreed that no promises were made prior to sentencing, according to the court document. THE court accepted the plea of guilty and called for a pre-sentence report from the Division of Adult Probation and Parole. The Class B misdemeanor mis-demeanor charge carries with it a maximum penalty of six months in the county jail and a $299 fine. Mr. Vanderlinden said although the court document said that the plaintiff had agreed not to file another misdemeanor charge against the plaintiff, that the county was continuing the investigation investiga-tion into irregularities in the Davis School District which began when the Davis County Sheriff's Office assigned Sgt. Leo Monks to that investigation investiga-tion in May. LAST month the county attorney's at-torney's office was granted subpoena power to question . persons who had previously refused to answer questions posed by the investigating team. Wednesday, Mr. Vanderlinden Vanderlin-den said that he could not estimate es-timate how much longer the investigation would take, but said it would continue until there are no more leads to follow up on. THE county attorney's office of-fice has not released information infor-mation on the names of those who have been questioned under subpoena power. Davis County School Superintendent Bernell Wrigley said that Mr. Jay has been terminated from the school district. "Mr. Jay took the action himself." ACCORDING to SuDerin- tendent Wrigley, Mr. Jay has not been able to work since July. At that time the Superintendent said Mr. Jay applied for disability compensation. com-pensation. According to Superintendent Wrigley, Mr. Jay had some days of sick leave coming and was listed as an employee of the school district for some lime after that. "But he was terminated six weeks to two months ago" According to Superintendent Superinten-dent Wrigley, the termination I of Mr. Jay's employment did ! not have to be approved in an open school board meeting since- the action was initiated by Mr. Jay. MR. JAY had been Director of the Buildings and Grounds Department, but was listed as an employee of that department depart-ment at the time the complaints against him were signed. |