OCR Text |
Show Utah Pre33 Association 167 East 300 South Salt Lake fcah Mill A WW FRIDAY, September 2, 1983 7" Vernal. Utah 84078 91st Year No. 70 12 Pages Deadlines: News: Thursday 10:00 A.M. Advertising: Thursday 2:00 P.M. Phone 789-351 1 Single ropy LkJ The assessed valuation for Uintah County increased by $74 million this year because of additional building and state assessed property, but for "some public entities the increase wasn't enough to cover their budgets. The bulk of the problem in budgeting money for the 1983-84 year was that public entities had no information concerning con-cerning their assessed valuation when the budgets were set. So most entities just estimated their anticipated revenues from property taxes. The Uintah School District estimated that the assessed valuation of the county would be $347,371,059, almost $16 million more than actual figures released by the county last week. The lower assessed valuation will require re-quire the school district to cut some programs in the special transportation budget for activity buses. Superintendent Phil Ellis said the cuts would come in less activity trips. The budget is short $5,241. The recreation recrea-tion budget is short $9,148 and will also require a cut in programs. Although the Capital Outlay Budget will be $210,099 short because of the lower assessed valuation, the district budget $365,000 for equipment and library books for the new school. Only On-ly $115,858 of the new school budeet will be used so the rest will make up the deficit. The Maintenance and Operation Budget will be under $351,640, but the State Weighted Pupil Unit Program will cover the difference. "Even though we estimated high, we are covered," reported Richard Jolley, district clerk. Vernal City Along with the county assessed valuation, Vernal City also increased but not enough to cover an extensive road improvement program. Wednesday Wednes-day the city increased their mill levy from 1.80 to 6.31. The increase will generate $193,900 of the city which will all be used for road improvements. . The city's assessed valuation increased increas-ed from $36 million to $46.1 million. City Manager Kenneth Bassett said additional money will also be used for 1t' the road improvement program. Even ' p .-l.l .- nn. W 1 7 1 -ML-. M with 5.23 mill increase, Vernal City still has one of the lowest mill levies in the state. Uintah County made no changes in their mill levy, but will have a public hearing Monday to funnel $35,000 to the ambulance service and $75,000 to the Golden Age Center. Publication outlines history of Utah's energy industry Mining for coal, uranium, oil, and gas has influenced the history of Utah at every turn since the mid-1800s. Coal mining has been substantial, off and on, since before 1900. Uranium has also had an elevator history, peaking peak-ing in the 1970s with the prospect of nuclear power plants coming on line. Utah's commercial oil and gas industry in-dustry began in the Uintah Basin in 1948 with the discovery of the Ashley Valley Oil Field. Immense activity took place in the 1970s when the threat-of threat-of a worldwide shortage of oil became a reality. At that time domestic oil was being developed as rapidly as the fields could be tapped. Utah's recent employment and economy have ridden on the back of the energy related industry. Because of that Utah has consistantly shown a stronger economy than the nation as a whole. A recent publication, "Energy Utah's Growth Industry of the '70s," released by the Labor Market Information SErvices, details the growth of the energy field and especially the mining of energy sources, coal, uranium, oil, and gas.' During 1981, 35,120 people in Utah were employed in the energy industry. Between 1970 and 1981 there were 16,100 new jobs created iri the energy industry. This was 8 percent of all new jobs in Utah. In 1970 15 percent of all mining employment was in the energy industry. in-dustry. By 1981 that figure had grown to 35 percent. The publication says energy related mining in the 1970s Economic development professional to speak Doug Dickenson, an Economic Development professional for the State of Utah, will speak at the noon meeting of the Vernal Area Chamber of Commerce Com-merce Sept. 6, 1983. - Dickenson will discuss a program entitled Small Business Economic Revitalization. This is an ongoing state program where technical assistance is provided to successful businesses that are seeking financing for expansion. Mr. Dickenson has been with the Department of Community and Economic Development since 1972. Presently, he is involved in assisting local development groups in economic planning and organizing regional workshops for chambers of commerce, com-merce, elected officials, and bankers to consider economic development strategies and programs. Chamber of Commerce luncheons are held at the Lamplighter Inn. Anyone interested is invited to attend. replaced nonferrous metals as the backbone of the mining industry. Utah began to look at its economy as recession proof, because so much of the economy was based on energy industry, in-dustry, and the energy industry continued con-tinued to be good. During the recession of 1975 Utah and the energy industry was practically unaffected. It seemed that application would repeat itself during the 1981 recession, but by late 1981 the affects of the recession were beginning to be felt. In 1982 and 1983 "V-, the energy industry participated in their first recession. Even so, the energy industry continues con-tinues to be important to the state, and people look to'that industry to pick up before real inroads can be made into improving the state economy as a whole. Payroll wages of the energy industry in-dustry has also been important to the economy of Utah. In 1981 $717,949,710 was paid in wages to people working in the energy industry. That represents about 9 percent of all non-agricultural non-agricultural wages paid in the state in 1981. The growth of the energy industry in-dustry payroll compounded at an annual an-nual rate of 16.5 percent during the 1970's, while other nonagricultural wages rose at an annual rate of 12.4 percent. The average energy industry wage in 1981 was $1,752 per month. This is realitivly high wages in the state of Utah. Only mining, manufacturing, transportation, communication, and public utilities paid higher wages. The Continued on page 2 rrf'-t. f IS -K jr, , imm, J , . . I? JSri v-vT ' Hi ."c'.'' ! h' r':itir ''-lip ' :V'' jilt ' 'r'" i I a '"pi I, -,', v 1 7 1 - i r. x ' - ' -I i ' CARL SEARLE sits on top of pickup after being hit in the back end by another vehi cle and turning wasn't injured. on its side. Mr. Searle Foliage causes truck accident An automobile accident occurred at the intersection of 1500 North and 500 East Thursday about 1:45 p.m. Carl Searle stopped at a yield sign at the intersection, according to Uintah Uin-tah Country Sheriff's Corporal Manuel Cantu, then proceeded because he could see nothing coming. Martin Mangum was southbound on 500 East, didn't see the Searle vehicle until he was in the intersection. Mangum slammed on his brakes, slid 51 feet, and struck the Searle vehicle in the left rear quarter panel. The Searle vehicle spun around and the force tipped over the vehicle off the shoulder of the road. The vehicle ended up on its right side. Searle climbed out of the window of the pickup and suffered no injuries. Corporal Cantu said foliage at the intersection in-tersection was mainly responsible for the accident. Cantu said there were witnesses who saw Searle actually stop at the yield sign. He could not see anything coming either direction and proceeded. Because of the foliage, Mangum was not able to see the other vehicle until it was too late to stop. Skid marks showed the Mangum vehicle vehi-cle to be moving at 33 mph. The posted speed limit on 500 East is 35 mph. After checking out the approaches in both directions, Corporal Cantu decided decid-ed the foliage at the intersection caused caus-ed the incident. In order to keep similar situations from happening, he contacted the Uintah County Road Department to have the problem corrected. No citations were issued. Estimated damage to both vehicles was $7,000. Bids opened for stf eiirfl on high school site preparation jMMWiM -'iwiii"iri'i"ni'iippiiii i 'I'lmi unmi mm nmnn ;m il s--,. KIP HANSEN discussed with Merlin Johnson and high school architect ideas for the vocational agriculture department for the new high school. H.K. Construction of Idaho Falls was apparent low bidder at $924,400 for the site preparation of the new high school to be built at 1700 West 500 North. The Uintah School Board opened five bids on the site preparation at their regular meeting Thursday. The board will award the contract on the site preparation at a Sept. 8 meeting. All bids were given to the architect, Lana, Larson and Roubal, for evaluation. H.K. Construction's bid on the project pro-ject is close to what the architects predicted. Before the bids were opened, Randy Ran-dy Green, Dana, Larson and Roubal, said they expected the bids to be $826,000 with a 20 percent variance. Site preparation will begin immediately im-mediately after the the board awards the bid. Tentative ground breaking is set for Sept. 9. The contract requires the contractor to move 90,000 cubic yards of dirt, which is more than five acres of dirt nine feet deep, Green said. Initial site preparation will require the contractor to de-water the area. Seven to nine feet of fill material will be hauled in. The last three feet of fill will be like a highway base-compacted base-compacted every eight inches and meeting certain specifications. With two buildings, West Junior High and Naples Elementary, sinking from inadequate foundations, "we want the high school to be solid," Ellis said. Although the 50-acre site for the new high school has the best soil analysis of any of the other sites considered by the district, it is wet soil and requires a lot of preparation, Green said. The property falls 13 feet from one end to the other, but five feet of the slope will not require extra fill as a two 2'2 foot ramps in the building conform the building to the contour of the site. The new high school will be two-story two-story on the academic east end of the building. It will set back from 500 East about 100 feet, facing north and will be on a 20 degree from east to west. It will be 800 feet long with about 230,000 square feet of floor space. The west end of the facility will be the technical shop classes: welding, woods, electrical, agriculture and auto mechanics. Adjoining the shop area will be the physical education department with two gyms: a larger that seats 1,728 and a smaller seating 300. The physical education block includes in-cludes locker areas for boys P.E., tearn lockers, girls P.E. lockers, visiting team lockers which will also be kjsed by the community. There is also a dance studio and weight training train-ing rooms. A separate large entrance is planned to allow access to the gyms. The main entrance leads to the administration ad-ministration area and a commons area. Lockers in the building will be consolidated to one area. They will be four-feet high on two stories. Each student stu-dent will have his own locker. The auditorium will seat 1,200 including in-cluding the balcony. "It will be a nice facility for community com-munity and school productions," Green said. A little theater to the side of the main one will seat 116 people. In the academic and other teaching areas of the school, teachers will not have their own room. They will be assigned to teacher preparation centers for each department where they will have a desk and access to all materials of their particular department. depart-ment. Green said that the plans for the building go through three steps before completion: schematic, basic organization; design development, size and shape, equipment location; and final drafts. The architects have met with the staff at the high school and have taken nearly 1,000 pages of information about how they would like their department to be organized. The high school plans are entering the final stage and will be reviewed by the school board Sept. 8, after which there won't bo cha:..i. Cr s.-iid. t t i i |