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Show Thursday, July 14, 2005 SPRINGVILLE HERALD June building permit values drop $1.8 Martin Conover SPRINGVILLE HERALD . Permit valuations last month dropped $1.8 million over last year according to a report submitted by the planning plan-ning and zoning department at monthly directors meeting held Tuesday afternoon at city hall. However, single unit housing hous-ing permit values were up in this June over last year by about $700,000. The big valuation drop was in multil-family units which were down $2.1 million this year over last year. It is noted that although permit valuations were down, building still continues to "boom" in the west fields area of the city as more and more final plat approvals come before the council. Water It was reported in the meeting that the 400 South well has been completed and will come on line next week as final fine tuning ' of the new equipment at the well site is accomplished this week. This well will produce 3000 gallons per minute into the system. The Springville World Folkfest has an after the performance party on the stage two nights during the festival week. Dancers from all the visiting countries gathered on the stage Monday night for an hour to just have fun and dance together. A Street Dance for members of the community was held Wednesday Wednes-day evening at the Art Museum where each country taught one of their dances to anyone who wanted to get out in the parking lot and learn. All ages took the invitation and had a wonderful time. The Utah State Tax Commission's Criminal Investigative Unit Catches Scofflaws Howard Stephenson You may have seen a recent re-cent news report of a Utah resident who was found guilty of several-tax related felonies regarding unpaid Utah income taxes. Many Utahns mistakenly think the Utah State Tax Commission doesn't go after income tax cheats-that they only piggyback piggy-back on tax audits conducted by the Internal Revenue Service. Ser-vice. They're wrong. The case of one Salt Lake County resident illustrates measures taken by more than a few Utahns who want Night against crime Continued from Page 1 officer's vehicles and the new Command Center that will be on display. Officers will pass out phamplets on substance abuse, Neighborhood Watch, Internet safety and property protection. Get your child Identification Identifica-tion Kits. Springville Fire Dept. Members of the fire department de-partment will talk about fire safety. The fire trucks will also be on display. I I INBOUND CUSTOMER SERVICE Our representatives support questions from customers regarding their mail service. Must have strong customer service, communication, and PC skills. Join the global leader in customer service, human resources and billing services today. Our employees enjoy: $8.25hr to start, $0.50 increase after 90 days Medicaldentalvision insurance, 401(k) plan Tuition reimbursement program (effective day 1) Holidays and vacations 765-7300, Call nr annlv online at: www.convergys.greatjob.net Media Code: 424 Job Code: GE77 crm ; -in Development is complete at the Canyon Road well and papers are being filed with the state to certify the well with the state. Work will not go forward to build a well house, purchase pumps and electric equipment to operate the well and to beautify the area and protect the well. The intention of the water department is to have the well finished sometime this fall. Sand is an ongoing problem prob-lem at the Evergreen well as it was when the well was first drilled. The city has ordered or-dered a video inspection of the well to determine why or where the sand is coming from. In the meantime the 10th South well has being placed back into service this week. With the better water year the city is having spring production pro-duction of water has become better and no problems exist at this time with the amount of water the city has in its system. ' The power department reports re-ports that all of the hydro-generating hydro-generating owned by the city are operating at full ca to avoid paying their fair share of taxes. Fortunately, the Utah State Tax Commission Commis-sion has a team whose sole responsibility is to investigate investi-gate these individuals and they did just this in a case won in court on Friday, June 3, 2005. In Salt Lake's 3rd District Court, Mr. Kevan C. Eyre, was found guilty of 12 tax-related felonies after a three-day three-day trial presented by the State Tax Commission along with lawyers from the State Attorney General's office. The case against Mr. Eyre CERT Team Members of CERT will discuss emergency preparedness pre-paredness plans. Utah County Sheriff K-9 Team Members of the Utah County K-0 Team will do a K-9 K-9 presentation that will be interesting in-teresting for the whole family-Utah Highway Patrol, A Utah Highway Patrol trooper will talk about seat belt safety and the seat belt sled will be available for demonstration. ext. 424-GE77 Converges Outlhinking Outdoing. Converts is an EOE M.'FDV pacity producing about 1.7 megawatts of power for the city. Power The power department reports re-ports that all systems are working this year. However, it was reported that three of the city's main power sources, Deseret Generation Gen-eration and Transmission, Nebo Power Station, and In-termountain In-termountain Power Project ceased to produce power on the same day. The city used all of its power generating resources to maintain power to residents and businesses. June saw many minor Eower outages to homes and usinesses, but nothing of major proportions. Other departments Revenue at the golf course was down the last fiscal year due to the rainy weather last fall and this spring according to Golf. Pro Sonny Braun. Play remains very good this month with the better weath- The library is still having some minor problems learning learn-ing to use their fancy new computer program. Librarian Librari-an Lynette Catherall report- 'J was not a simple instance of overlooking small amounts of income. Instead, it was determined de-termined that he did not file returns or pay taxes on many year's worth of earnings earn-ings with an estimated combined com-bined dollar figure of almost $750,000. So how do cases such as this end up in the hands of the Tax Commission's criminal crimi-nal investigators? Some cases cas-es come in as referrals from the Internal Revenue Service, Ser-vice, law enforcement and other government agencies or the commission's own auditors. au-ditors. Many others come straight to the state investigators' investi-gators' desk from taxpayers who are upset that someone is not paying their fair share of taxes. In the Eyre case, the investigation inves-tigation originated out of a question asked by a government govern-ment official in another state who was unsure of the residency resi-dency status of Mr. Eyre and made a phone call to the Utah State Tax Commission. Looking into his residency status to verify the information, informa-tion, it was apparent that Mr. J l.t'M.UI'U 1.1,1 THE ONLY TI1HJG HISSING ... f nm kxGldltn I HIS WttKtNU Saturday, July 16 Let's Logo million ed that many services of the library can be accessed through the Internet at Springville.org. She also reported that the library has purchased a CD and DVD cleaner which will make the service and use of this type of material much better for library patrons. Alan Curtis reported that all summer leagues are operating oper-ating at full capacity and that the swimming pool is running run-ning very well. He also reported that work is moving forward at the new Freedom Park located just west of the new church on about 300 West and 600 North. Power board hears 'sell Nebo' Martin Conover SPRINGVILLE HERALD Councilman Rodney Burt told the Springville Power Board to think about selling Springville's share in the Nebo Power Station at their regular meeting Wednesday morning at the Whitehead Power Plant. He said the facility is costing cost-ing the city about $2 million a year and the city has no control con-trol about running the plant which is scheduled to operate oper-ate only four months out of the year. The plant is governed by 18 member cities and they have overruled our desire to run the plant more so that we can recoup our money which we are paying for the debt service and maintenance mainte-nance of the plant. Burt also asked the board to consider getting out of the Utah Association of Municipal Munici-pal Power Systems organization organiza-tion and go it on our own in the purchase of power which we are basically doing now and save all of the fees that UAMPS tacks on our main power purchase bill. The board will consider these ideas for a month and then come back with some recommendations. Eyre was in fact a Utah resident, resi-dent, and one who had not filed taxes for multiple years. Historically, those charged with tax evasion and related charges come from all walks of life and use a variety of causes, philosophies and reasoning rea-soning in their attempt to justify jus-tify breaking the law while burdening the rest of state taxpayers with their actions. Some claim that they are not legally required to pay federal or state income taxes, tax-es, while the really gutsy ones set out to intentionally defraud the state by forging documents and filing false returns in order to claim an illegitimate refund. With so many different styles of trying to beat the system,, state criminal investigators inves-tigators have to be one step ahead of trends and schemes, looking for unusual patterns in filing, examining well-crafted counterfeit earning statements and conducting con-ducting interviews to verify information. The objective is always to increase compliance compli-ance and make tax responsibility responsi-bility something we all share rfjf If; The Pet Dish ( 1 MYTH: Cats should drink milk everyday. FACT: Most cats like milk, but do not need it if properly proper-ly nourished. Also, many will get diarrhea if they drink too much milk. If it is given at all, the amount should be small and infrequent. MYTH: Cats that are spayed or neutered automatically gain weight. FACT: Like people, cats gain weight from eating too much, not exercising enough or both. In many cases, spaying or neutering is done at an age when the animal's ani-mal's metabolism already slowed, and its' need for food has decreased. If the cat continues to eat the same amount, it may gain weight. Cat owners can help their cats stay fit by providing exercise and not over-feeding. MYTH: Cats cannot get rabies. FACT: Actually, most worm-blooded mammals, including in-cluding cats, bats, skunks and ferrets, can carry rabies. ra-bies. Like dogs, cats should be vaccinated regularly according ac-cording to local laws. MYTH: Pregnant women should not own cats. FACT: Some cats can be infected with a disease called toxoplasmosis, which occasionally can be spread to humans hu-mans through cat litter boxes and cause problems in unborn babies. However, these problems can be controlled con-trolled if the expectant mother avoids contact with the litter box and assigns daily cleaning to husband or other oth-er family member. MYTH: A cat's sense of balance is in its' whiskers. FACT: Cats use their, whiskers as "feelers" but not to maintain their balance. MYTH: Animals heal themselves by licking their wounds. , FACT: Such licking, actually can slow the healing process and further damage the wound. Shuttle to be visible from Utah after Wednesday's launch Assuming an on time launch tomorrow (Wednesday) (Wednes-day) Space Shuttle Discovery Discov-ery is predicted to be visible from Utah over the following several evenings. See the following website: http:spaceflight.nasa.govre equitably. The Utah State Tax Commission's Com-mission's criminal investigation investiga-tion team works tirelessly to go after those literally picking pick-ing the pockets of all of us, because when some decide not to pay, the financial burden bur-den gets passed along to those who do. It is a job that often goes unnoticed, except for a brief mention in the pa- Eer to highlight months of ard work. After all is said and done and the case goes to court, a guilt verdict in favor of the Tax Commission is a win for all of the honest taxpayers of the state. Whenever someone some-one cheats on their taxes, they're really cheating the rest of us whose taxes would be lower if everyone paid their fair share. July 15 (1:05) 4:00 (12:35) 3:35 (12:50) 3:45 (1:00) (12:45) 3:40 G3f 3H9ffijj 6:55 lips? Dr. Harold Davis D.V.M. MT. WEST ANIMAL HOSPITAL Here are some myths and facts about cats. MYTH: Cats always land on their feet. FACT: While cats instinctively fell feet first and may survive falling from high places, they also may receive re-ceive broken bones in the process. Some kind of screening on balconies bal-conies and windows can help protect pro-tect pets from disastrous falls. LakeCity.html i Note that none of the pass es listed will be particularly! good but since it is the space shuttle's return to space flight, it is good to know. If you have problems understanding un-derstanding the data in the visibility table or if you'd like additional information, feel free to contact Patrick WigJ gins, 435-882-1209. FACTORY AUTHORIZED DEALER & SERVICE CENTER We offer service and tune-ups on most lawnmowers or small engine yard tools! I Get yours : " donetodayf.; s "OUB SEEDS 6R0W" f n 1 (arpentereed:; 1030 South State, Provo 373-3740 Hours: Mon. - Sat. 8 am to 5 pm "The place to watch a movie!" 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