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Show Board to hear property tax complaints The Board of Equalization hearings, hear-ings, the one time of year the taxpayer tax-payer has the opportunity to contest the taxable value of his property will begin Wednesday. Commissioner Lorin Merrell said about a half a dozen people have already al-ready signed up to contest their assessed as-sessed values. Taxpayers cannot expect ex-pect their taxes to be lowered if they just show up in protest, Merrell said. "They have to show there is a legitimate reason for decreasing their property value." The deadline to sign up for a hearing hear-ing before the Board of Equalization has already passed. Half of those who have signed up for Board of Equalization are from the westside of Uintah County where property values were reappraised reap-praised this year. Vernal man charged with child sex abuse A preliminary hearing has been set for Brent E. Gilley, 32 of Vernal, for Sept. 7 on charges of sex abuse and sodomy of a child. Gilley has been charged with two first-degree felony counts of sodomy on a child and two second-degree second-degree felony counts of sex abuse of a child. Gilley appeared before Judge A. Lynn Payne in Eighth District Court July 15 to hear charges filed against him by the Vernal City Police Department. Court records show the charges stem from two separate incidents between April 1 and June 20 of this year involving a child not related to Gilley. In the July IS hearing, Judge Payne reduced Gilley 's bail to 510,000 and ordered with the reduction reduc-tion that the defendant have no contact con-tact with the victim or her family; have no unsupervised visits with any female under the age of 18 years old and that he not reside in his own home until after a home study is completed by Social Services. City Judge completes Nevada course Judge Pat McRae of the Justice Court in Vernal has completed the Special Court Jurisdiction course held June 19 through July 1 at The National Judicial College. Special Court Jurisdiction assists participants to learn techniques for handling their cases to meet constitutionally consti-tutionally mandated procedures. Judge participants examined civil procedure and the basic principles of tort, contract and the rules of evidence evi-dence as well as techniques for conducting con-ducting small claims court trials. Other issues explored during the two-week course included judicial immunity and liability, communication communica-tion with the media and the image of the judge in the community. Located on the campus of the University of Nevada, Reno, the Judicial College was featured on CBS's "60 Minutes" as the leading national training and education center cen-ter for trial judges. This perception was further endorsed in the 1993 "Eye to Eye" segment on violence in the courtroom. Since the College was founded in 1963, more than 30,000 certificates of completion have been issued to graduates, including U.S. Supreme Court Justices Sandra Day O'Connor and David Souter. "Vernal's Got It AH" theme to spark campaign "Vernal's Got It All" is the theme of a campaign and a jingle created for a current advertising promotion sponsored by the Chamber Retail Merchants Committee. Posters, statics and a logo have been designed to use in the print media, according to Mike Merrell, director and Jim French, chairman. The Economic Development office helped with up-front money needed to get the campaign rolling. The committee is also helping with a business conference on August 25 at the USU building. Contact the Chamber for more information. Survey shows, education is important Vernal Express Wednesday, August 17, 1994 3 by Kathleen Irving Staff Writer According to the Uintah County Business Expansion and Retention Survey, employers successfully used simple word of mouth to attract at-tract most of their employees. But they also used employment services, such as the federally funded fund-ed Job Service, and referred back to applications they had on file a significant sig-nificant percentage of the time in order to locate workers. County-wide, the average wage currently being paid is $7.74 per hour, although the hourly average in the oil industry is $9.28. Sixty percent per-cent of businesses offer some type of benefits. So, who's being hired? Lots and lots of local people. The survey indicates in-dicates that close to 75 percent of employees throughout the county live in Ashley Valley. A large number num-ber of them also received their high school educations here. Beyond the basic requirements for the ability to communicate well and present a good appearance, nearly 79 percent of employers say they require re-quire specialized training - from bicycle bi-cycle mechanic and jeweler's skills to legal knowledge and public relations rela-tions abilities. The employers also say that, by far, the largest percentage of their training is provided on the job. Very few send employees to college or technical courses, although it is apparent ap-parent that previously trained or educated, ed-ucated, highly skilled employees are sought after. Over half of survey respondents did not reply to questions about the quality of education provided to employees by the USU Education Center and the Uintah Basin Applied Technology Center, but of those who did reply, the overwhelming over-whelming majority expressed favorable favor-able opinions about the education and training their employees brought to work. Sixty percent of employers indicated indi-cated they had hired graduates of Uintah High School. Of that number, num-ber, 48 percent expressed opinions favorable of the education received there by their employees. Of special interest in the survey were figures indicating that only a quarter of local companies have policies which encourage the hiring of economically disadvantaged or low income individuals. Forty percent of businesses currently cur-rently have minority employees and 26 percent of local companies offer cross cultural training to their employees. em-ployees. Of the 196 business operators who responded when asked what percent of their business is dependent on the Ute Tribe, 58 percent said there was no dependence. The remaining 42 percent of respondents estimated their dependence on the Tribe at between be-tween five and ninety percent, although al-though there is only a tiny fraction of businesses which is more than 25 percent dependent on the Tribe. The employment and business outlook in the county seems to be brighter than it has been for years, according to Uintah County Economic Development Director Marie Yoder. "People need to grasp that there are a lot of diversified businesses that have come in over the last five years," said Yoder. She said that 80 to 90 new businesses busi-nesses have opened, accounting for over 270 new jobs. Yoder estimates that another 200 jobs will be created within the next two years. Express Current with what's happening WE CAN HELP! FULL SERVICE Call For Free Information 1-800-446-7241 CFC MORTGAGE Lead MAVt YOU HAD... DO YOU NEED... LateSlow Payments Cash Out of Your Equity Bad Credit Debit Consolidation ForeclosureBankruptcy Home Improvements Any Stock Any Amount Any Price Chase Smith, Broker CALL 781-0880 NOW IN VERNAL White Discount Securities A Division o( Thomas F. While & Co.. Inc. 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