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Show s Thursday, October 1 1 , 1 979 Page 7 Up, Up And Away , i The relocation of the historic his-toric Miner's Hospital has been in the Park City news for well over a year. But this week there's positive proof it finally is going somewhere. City Councilman Bob Wells said Wednesday the building has been jacked up by a Salt Lake City moving company, and plans have the hospital leaving its Empire Avenue site in about 10 days. The new home will be the present site of the tent in City Park, facing west on Park Avenue. At last Thursday night's City Council meeting, Wells suggested an investigation be made into the feasibility of leaving the hospital on temporary supports through the winter while planning a more useful foundation Lhan presently outlined. By contract, con-tract, hospital owners Blaine Huntsman and Ladd Chris-tensen Chris-tensen will pay for relocation reloca-tion of the building to a ground-level foundation. Wednesday, Wells said he now has discovered the cost of temporarily supporting the building would be prohibitive, prohib-itive, and the moving company com-pany has agreed to build a deeper foundation concurrently concur-rently with the relocation. Wednesday afternoon, City Manager Wayne Matthews was to have met with housemover Robert Wells (no relation to the councilman) council-man) to negotiate the additional addi-tional cost of the new foundation. founda-tion. Councilman Wells estimated es-timated the cost to the city to be between $5,000 and $10,000. o o o . ,t.i II i M ., , 1131 Kill 4 '? I, " ' II iJT "TV' ' The Miner's Hospital has been jacked up in preparation for the move to its new Park Avenue home. Wells described the moving process for the cumbersome Miner's Hospital. "They first dig the hole, gradually sloping it into the middle to its deepest level and up to the other side," Wells said. "Then the truck drives down a ramp to a point where the building is over the foundation. Using hydraulic jacks, they lift the hospital and pull the trailer out. They then build the foundation around the building." build-ing." Generally, Wells said, the foundation for a house would be constructed first, with the building edged over and on top of it. The technique to be used for the hospital is commonly applied to heavy and awkward buildings. Wells commented the new foundation would be about four feet below ground and four feet above. The space could be used for storage, furnace and plumbing, or an office. Next on the hospital agenda is an investigation of the cost of restoration and future use of the structure, Wells said. "There are a lot of economics econom-ics of restoring a building that relate better to private dollars because of the tax incentives," Wells said at the council meeting. "Maybe a partnership where the city could put up the building and private investors could put up the restoration dollars." Park City resident Hank Verrone commented last Thursday, "Has anyone entertained the thought of a land lease deal with a private builder? That might lighten the financial problems." prob-lems." Mayor Green responded, "We're amenable to anybody any-body who wants to put a half million dollars into restoration!" Utah Foundation Teachers' Salaries Up 72 Classroom teachers who began their teaching careers in the Park City School District five years ago have received salary increases totaling $5,313 or 72.5 percent. per-cent. This was reported by Utah Foundation, the private research organization organiza-tion in their annual survey of teacher salaries in Utah. According to the study, a teacher who began teaching in the Park City School District in 1974 would have received a starting salary of $7,332. This year (1979-80), the same teacher with five years experience would receive a salary of $12,645. Approximately $3,773 of this increase represents raises that have been made in the salary schedules during the past five years with the remaining $1,540 accounted for by the annual experience increments. Inflation, of course, has been an important factor in the salary adjustments made during recent years. Between July 1974, and July, 1979, the cost-of-living, as measured by the U.S. Department Depart-ment of Labor Consumer's price index, rose by 47.9 percent. per-cent. Foundation analysts point out that the above comparisons com-parisons are for teachers with a bachelor's degree. Additional sums are provided for teachers who have acquired added academic training. For example, a teacher in the Park City School District with a master's degree and five year's teaching experience ex-perience currently receives a salary of $14,225 or $1,580 more than a teacher with only a bachelor's degree. The report indicates that teacher salary levels in Utah are roughly equivalent to those of the surrounding states. Estimates prepared by the National Education Association show that the average salary paid to classroom teachers in Utah was about 3.9 percent below the average of the eight Mountain States. Utah, however, currently pays 5 percent of the employee's share of the retirement contribution, con-tribution, a special benefit not generally available in other states. When this benefit is taken into consideration con-sideration the adjusted amount paid to classroom teachers in Utah is about 1 percent above the Mountain States average. Salary schedules for classroom teachers in the Park City School District were raised this year by an average of $610 or 5.39 percent. per-cent. In addition to this general salary rise, most teachers in Park City School District who are not at the top of the salary scale also received annual experience increments averaging another $463 per year. Thus, the total average increase for teachers who have not ' reached the top step on the salary schedule this year was $1,073 or 9.47 percent. The increases provided to school personnel this year were considerably greater than those granted to state employees in Utah. When the 1979 Utah Legislature enacted enact-ed the 1979-80 general appropriations ap-propriations act, it specified that state employees should be given a 5 14 percent salary increase as of July 1, 1979, but that no merit increase in-crease (standard experience advancement) be granted during the 1979-80 fiscal year. The Foundation study shows that the starting salary for a teacher with a bachelor's degree in the Park City School District is $10,450. The sum rises with experience and added academic training. A teacher with only a bachelor's degree could receive a maximum of $13,690 after 7 years of service. ser-vice. If the teacher obtained a master's degree, the maximum could be as high as $17,752. 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