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Show til Ail T.l ':.': AMAiuJAi 1UW MX. US Mill uu;: WEDNESDAY, November 18, 1987 Vernal, Utah 84078 95th Year No. 45 24 Pages Single Copy40 INSIDE: Life saving award given 5 Ducks-in-a-row 13 "Hello Dolly" at UHS 16 Wrestle Offs Friday 19 ymrfty target to H-7 mBDIfcirD dlym Next year's Uintah County proposed propos-ed budget continues a trend of budget declines, but the 1988 decline required every department to look for areas of fat. The county commission asked every department to cutback 15 percent. per-cent. Not all the departments met the challenge according to budget estimates released last week from the county auditor's office. The figures show the total 1988 General Fund down $1,743,778 from 1987. The budget eliminates $196,716 from the general fund for telecommunications telecom-munications and creates a special fund for the service with $84,000. Areas of decline in the county in clude the County Attorney's Department Depart-ment where $33,678 was cut. The cut includes the elimination of a deputy attorney. About $25,000 will be set aside in an emergency fund in case the department becomes flooded with cases. County Attorney Alvin Nash said the work load of the attorney's office can be handled mostly by himself and that a deputy is not needed. The Sheriff's budget which was $610,120 in 1987 is estimated at $507,466 in 1988. Other areas of decline in the county include district court, westside justice of the peace, juvenile court, data center, clerk, and assessor. New budget items are $32,619 for Budget hearing set for Tuesday purchasing and $39,760 for a personnel person-nel manager and administrator. The county plans to cut recreation by $100,000 and allot no money for bee inspection and industrial development. develop-ment. Areas of increase include the auditor up $2,000, treasurer is up $5,000, and the recorder is up $1,600. In 1986 the budget declined $1,350,950 and in 1987 the decline was $1,560,137. From the peak 1985 year, the 1988 budget is down $4,654,858. Attributing to the decline in the county budget is a falling off the assessed valuation of the county. The value of state assessed property, proper-ty, utilities, airports, mines and oil wells, is down about $1 million. During Board of Equalization hearing hear-ing the county commissioners heard appeals of about 2,000 partials of property pro-perty which resulted in a drop in tax revenue of about $2 million. The 1988 budget hearing will be Tuesday, Nov. 24 at 2 p.m. : cvi j htm ( 4" r' I Ihs iff P I Library 5. ssioner wants A $249,000 budget was approved by the Uintah County Library Board three weeks ago, but a key member of the board threatens that the County Coun-ty Commission will not approve the budget until further cuts are made. Commissioner Jim Reidhead, who is on the five-member library board, said that $50,000 could be dropped out of the budget and not hurt services. "The library budget has been fatter fat-ter than it needed to be for sometime," Reidhead said, at last Thursday's library board meeting. "It needs a. bigger cut to bring it back inline." The commissioners are requesting all departments of the county to cut 15 percent out of their 1988 budgets. The $50,000 would be a 20 percent cut to the library. An alternate budget proposal was presented to Reidhead at the meeting that would cut $49,000 in library material and purchase of publications. publica-tions. "All that this budget docs is eliminate services and leaves the wages the same," Reidhead said. "Unless wages are cut, the county will not approve the budget." A comparison of wages of Uintah County Library employees verses four other city libraries in Utah shows Uintah's salaries at the highest, $149,000. Part of the reason for the high amount in wages is $34,517 for benefits to seven library employees. Several years ago the county commission com-mission implemented a policy that wag IHU m m THE SERVICES provided by the Uintah County Library are what the library board wants to maintain and some feel cuts will jeopardize. all employees working more than 20 hours per pay period should receive benefits. Most of the library employees in the state do not receive benefits. Salaries for 1988 at the Uintah County Library are estimated at $115,056 for four full-time and seven part-time employees. The number of employees at the library include a Regional Room director and a janitor which are not included in city library budgets. Costs which are not included In the city libraries, but compared with the Uintah County Library are the bookmobile, $13,883, the Regional Room, $16,0(10, and Janitorial service in some cases. Wade Olsen, library board chairman, chair-man, said he did not believe the library's wages were out of line. None of the employees have received an increase in salary for three years. "Due to the legalities of lay-offs of personnel, I refuse to discuss it in open session," Reidhead said. Cutting the budget could mean the library will loose a 15.000 grant from the Stale Library which is used for support of the bookmobile. The county pays 48 percent of the bookmobile costs and the State assumes the rest of the cost, To libraries that qualify an "excellence" "ex-cellence" grant Is given. In W4 Uintah Uin-tah County Library received a grant County Fairgrounds receive facelift Nice things are happening at the Uintah County Fairgrounds as a tlM.ono plus govrrnmrnt grant it put la good use. The first step towards improving the grounds was the installation of a block fence on the north end of the properly which includes an ornate entrance way an gale A Rr crr lira I Irfri 11' Mailed this wrek 8n4 new frmr are king in-.!;;rj NVnt tpmL 4 -V- A .J lliU-viiu --' --3 i r ! ; ,v. . 4. r . Ill , ., ,;iUrV .I ', ! '. rrsirwrtm will t hii! dnJ Uml cafir;gi51lir(She "We will tTmr!de lb? rrf line tt4 l! tf-Uy gc ir.lrf, UA thai W ail e da until irrg." Mi4 Jack $Ui, Ihaifftn t t'aiffw-l l"f IhfwgH fr.!ah Cis-'r. T1- !' sff a ..utr l If Vrff-l tily, lie f:t v.-. r( j r.f le j.f ovsl t t he frftwtr-'t-ls Ifjff fl !? t4 !' o t- i-A l-: i u AHa u.r.vati. f-- l?j.;1. ?.:-vt f ' . C-k s : ' i . tvt, l',-'- Aft C'-'t al t---rH- ?l.e f.:- n "V t'J f"-f- -,-V ' ''" 1 f i. ' i -fI -g ?i i c 5 fc'l t?'-"'? i'."r;dj g-J Iic--rk T 1 ' y,rt-'tP3 rf-C'. .,,'2r t.a- rsr- j ' l " 5 :- 1 5 ' fit f7- c-.re '5 1X -r c f ' - ' I J 1 -.c " -S- . : a ,l i' -.i if;-' in the amount of $5,298, said Cecil Barton, Utah State Library. Libraries that reduce budgets from the previous year do not qualify for the grant, Barton said. A library may file an appeal of the denial of the grant, but no precedence has been set. "I don't believe anyone from the state library has the sense nor the understanding to tell a local library what' to do," said Fred Washburn, newly appointed library board number. "No one in this room but Fred and myself have ever owned a business," Reidhead said. "That's all the county is a big business. "I don't appreciate a bureaucrat coming in here and telling us how to run the county. You see things from a bureaucrat's point of view and I sec them from a businessman's point of view." About 15 people attended Ihe meeting and submitted questions about the budget that were answered by the board. "I don't believe taxpayers will see much decrease in taxes because of the library cuts, but a little bit here and a little bit there add up," Reidhead said in response lo a ques-lion. ques-lion. The meeting adjourned Into executive ex-ecutive legion la tlmcuss personnel matters, but library dirrctor Evan Itakcr said the 2H.W buet will be Continued OA pog 2 - v i i a L f 31 m ; -,e'W -V',.'. 3 1 . ,t.t. . THE LAST of Fall's leaves are scattered as Steven Tesar slides into the pile head first. Next in line are Sckuyler Labrum and Christopher Wallis. Bangerter to host Vernal town meeting Governor Norman Rangerter will be in Ihe Uintah t'-assn Dec. 2 Id meet with county and city officials and far a town meeting. From 12 non wstil l:Dpnt. the govrrnnr will I al a special ("hamlcr of Commerce luncheon at the llaifitrre VUiA Hotel. The lun-thrtn lun-thrtn will tie fiq hwt Chambers. 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