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Show 1 Main Street's Music 7F Over Al's Hill see SPORTS on B1 1 ! Man see PROFILE on A7 see LIMELIGHT on B8 - ' ''' ' - V - V . -1 - ,1 nnn v iWlfifillS Tl HRrlRI-'-M- I 1 hH I LJ City has $1 million wish list by HEIDI WEST Record staff writer Capital improvement projects without a funding source were prioritized and added to the city council's list of possible new programs pro-grams for next year. The council had already thrashed thrash-ed out which new operating budget items it wanted to consider at a work session two weeks ago, and had voted for the top six. At Thursday's Thurs-day's session, it added capital items, priced all of them, then re-voted re-voted in view of cost. The final list of top priority new budget items (i.e. without an existing ex-isting funding source) in order of importance were as follows: pavement pave-ment management ($175,000), hiring hir-ing two new police officers ($61,000), buying new equipment for public works and leisure services ser-vices ($140,000), hiring a tax collection col-lection specialist ($58,000), creating a depreciation fund for buying new equipment ($311,000), re-paving cul-de-sacs which were improperly chip sealed last year , ($120,000), repairing the Old Town " stairs ($70,000) and making improvements im-provements in the south part of City Ci-ty Park ($10,000). Self-insuring the city was also voted as a top priority, priori-ty, and although it would be a new program, it would not cost any .money in FY 88-89. The estimated total price tag on the new items is very near one million dollars ($945,000), and that would translate to about a $200 annual an-nual increase in property taxes charged on a $100,000 home, according accor-ding to City Finance Director Kent Parker if all were approved. Without any of the new programs, pro-grams, the city's operating budget would be $5,587,000, up $154,000 over FY 87-88, City Manager Arlene Loble told council members. The additional money would be spent on parks maintenance, administering the newly acquired racquet club and repairing street lights, she added. Revenue would be up slightly by $10,000, said Loble. That figure assumes the same amount of property pro-perty taxes coming into the city as this year, and it assumes Summit County will choose to bond for see BUDGET on A2 Court rules against by HEIDI WEST Record staff writer A decision on at least one facet of the multi-faceted myriad of lawsuits filed over building in White Pine canyon was rendered by third district Judge Hon. J. Dennis Den-nis Frederick March 30. Frederick ruled in the case of White Pine Ranches, et. al. vs. John C. Sharp, et. al., filed in Sept. 1986, in favor of the defendant. John and Geraldine Sharp sold about 30 acres of their White Pine canyon land to Hy Saunders' com Possible misuse of funds atTimpanogos by SENA TAYLOR Record staff writer ' A three-county mental health facility of which Summit County is a member has come under investigation investiga-tion for alleged misuse of funds, and seven of its employees have been suspended with pay, according to Summit County Commissioner Ron Robinson. The Tlmpanogos Community Health Center serves Summit, Wasatch and Utah counties, and is located in the latter county. The organization has more than $8 Tn il JJLLvH LUjnno ... r v I ; ' - ' 7 . - h- i if f - C s . - ' I i ' v ; SV - . ,f ; . .... .. - . ( ..I'-f" f i ' , ' " ''' ' J - Il , . f :' ' ' '-J--l;'i ' i .-- '' A happenin' place Jimmy Kimball demonstrates some of his fine bicycling form at City Park. The park has been a busy place lately. Look inside for more1, "Park" photos. pany, White Pine Ranches, and retained re-tained eight acres for their own use, according to attorneys for the defendants. As part of that transaction, tran-saction, the Sharps were to receive $140,000 payments for each of six parcels and the right to water and sewer hook-ups for their 1 own home. v According to Saunders, although his company continued to make payments to the Sharps, it only received five of the six lots, and did not receive a 7-acre unplatted piece of land also part of the deal. But, according to the judge's rul million in state contracts for handling handl-ing mental health services for the indigent, in-digent, and alcohol and drug treatment treat-ment for . persons who are under court order to go there. Its board of directors is comprised of commissioners from three counties, coun-ties, and Robinson is the representative represen-tative from this county. He said the. suspensions came after a meeting of the board which he could not attend. The meeting, April 5, was between Utah County Commissioner Gary Anderson and Wasatch County Commissioner Larry Duke. Anderson informed JL1A iLJM - Vol. 109, No. '10 3 Sections, . . - vi - ! 3 White Pine Ranches ing. Saunders was delinquent in his payments to the Sharps as Well as to Summit County for property taxes on the pieces which had been conveyed. By the date of his ruling, the judge said the amount owing the Sharps, including interest and penalties, was up to $557,642. ' Because White Pine Ranches was behind in its payments, the Sharps scheduled a trust deed foreclosure sale for the land they had yet to convey in September of 1986, but Saunders was able to get a temporary restraining order bar Robinson of the actions. Robinson confirmed that the probe follows a suspected misuse of funds that could be as high as hundreds of thousands of dollars. Although some officials have said a criminal intent to the alleged misuse has not been suspected, Robinson said "what would you call that?" in referring to the alleged reasons for the probe. What is in question are the salaries of some of the administrators ad-ministrators and program directors at Timp, and contracts those employees give to themselves through the agency, which uses state 36 Pages Thursday, April 14, 1 I s " ' - J" i Jennifer Madgic ring the sale. He filed suit against the Shams the same month and they in turn countersued. Saunders claimed he was due the sixth lot and unplatted land, as well as sewer and water hook-up fees equal to $43,000 about one-thirteenth one-thirteenth the amount he had to pay to build a sewer system up the canyon. see LAND on A2 funding. The contracts are reported ly for consulting services and for leasing buildings in Utah County used us-ed by Timp and owned by the employees. Those same employees allegedly OK'd those housing contracts. con-tracts. Robinson said he doesn't understand unders-tand how the check payments for such contracts could have been see TIMP on A2 988 Opening arguments start for Singers by SENA TAYLOR Record staff writer The "road map" of evidence presented in beginning remarks in the SingerSwapp trial started with few surprise turns Tuesday, as attorneys at-torneys mapped out to a jury the Jan. 16 bombing of the Kamas LDS Stake Center and subsequent events. The federal trial in the court of U.S. Chief Judge Bruce S. Jenkins April 12 began with remarks from U.S. Attorney for Utah, Brent Ward. He painted the January scene and displayed pieces of key evidence to support the charges against brothers Addam and Jonathan Swapp, and Vickie and her son John Timothy Singer. The charges are for bombing, attempted murder and assault. On Wednesday the prosecution presented 23 different weapons into evidence that were found largely in two rooms of Vickie Singer's house after the 13-day siege in January. Defense attorneys had objected on Tuesday when the state had introduced in-troduced the arsenal into the courtroom cour-troom during a jury break by bringing bring-ing in a shopping cart of. weapons. Ironically forcing the state to introduce in-troduce each weapon one by one may have had more impact on the jurors. The state also produced witnesses who found more than 8,300 rounds of ammunition at the farmhouse after the ordeal. In addition it was noted after he was taken into custody, Addam Ad-dam Swapp was discovered to have 24 rounds and a number of fishhooks in his clothes. Conspiracy charges linking Addam, Ad-dam, Vickie and Timothy were dropped drop-ped in a pre-trial decision last week. However, a defense motion for a change of venue for the trial was denied. The trial is expected to last from three to five weeks. In his remarks Tuesday, Ward showed the jury a red pole carrying nine feathers found stuck in the ground near the bombed chapel on the morning of Jan. 16. He also read the message written on the pole and spoke of letters written by family members which spoke of a forthcoming for-thcoming "destruction of nation, church and state," as a basis for their actions. "The crimes were also for revenge," said Ward, "and to bring attention to themselves. They intended in-tended to bring about a violent confrontation." con-frontation." Next, Ward cited seemingly incriminating in-criminating passages written by Vickie Singer in her diary Jan. 15 that illustrated her anticipation of the events. "Corruptness will be thrown off and it will begin here.. .this is the last stronghold," she wrote. She called her two-acre plot of land "sacred ground" and said "it won't be long before things heat up here... the pole is being made.. .it's been so hard waiting all these years." Ward said his evidence would show that "Addam was the bomber," and that he and others took eight sticks of dynamite, blasting agents, a detonater and the pole when they blew up the church about 3 a.m. that night. He said tracks in the snow were traced from the chapel through fields back toward the Singer compound. "This was more than just a bomb-ing...it bomb-ing...it was an invitation to a violent confrontation, and Addam wanted to be known as the bomber." Only two of the four defense attorneys at-torneys followed Ward's beginning remarks to the jury with remarks of their own. Kathryn Collard, representing Vickie Singer, said her client was innocent in-nocent because a person can't be found guilty by association with other alleged criminals. "None of the evidence shows Vickie personally committed any of the crimes," she said after prefacing prefac-ing her remarks with the Bible quotation that, "Ye shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free." 50? She said the scripture was a favorite of Vickie's, and added that she, herself, often referred to it during dur-ing "difficult times." "A person's actions represent the sum total of their experiences," she said, continuing that the "mis-justices "mis-justices against the family became impossible to bear they couldn't be pushed any further." As far as any cooperation in the alleged crimes, Collard said Vickie only permitted her 15-year-old son, Benjamin, to carry the spear when he went with Addam and Jonathan Swappp to bomb the chapel. Further, Fur-ther, she said Benjamin only carried the spear "to commemorate the death of his father," John Singer, and that he didn't even go on church property in doing that. Later testimony Tuesday didn't establish the exact location of the spear. "This was more than just a bombing... bomb-ing... it was an invitation in-vitation to a violent confrontation, confronta-tion, and Addam wanted to be known as the bomber." Brent Ward Regarding a charge against Vickie that she illegally possessed an unregistered sawed-off shotgun, Collard said Vickie "did not know one type of gun from another, or even knew they were in her house." When Fred Metos addressed the jury with his beginning remarks, he spoke with regard to his client, John Timothy Singer, who is wheelchair-bound wheelchair-bound but is suspected of firing the shot that killed state corrections officer of-ficer Fred House. "Timothy had no intention of harming har-ming anyone," said Metos. Further, he said the "light-weight carbine" gun Timothy allegedly possessed was "not a very accurate" type of gun, and added that his client might not have known there were officers in the direction he might have been shooting. "He knew the dogs used to try to distract the Swapps were there," said Metos, but he further said it would have been difficult for him to shoot because his shoulder was "actually "ac-tually below the window" where he was positioned on the morning of Jan. 28 during the shootout. In making their decisions, Metos asked the jury to remember that "things happened fast. These people were under a lot of stress, and they hadn't had a lot of sleep." But prosecutor Ward insisted to the jury that evidence would prove the four members of the family indicted in-dicted on the charges had every intention in-tention of bringing about the events that happened. "The defendants admitted what they did, but they weren't going to surrender peacefully... Every conceivable con-ceivable means was attempted to bring br-ing about a peaceful resolution," he said, but the family's actions were based on the premise that "nation, church and state had to be destroyed first," and that they were going to "destruct the sanctuaries of the ' wicked.. .The Lord will fight our battles. bat-tles. ..there will be death and killing," kill-ing," Ward quoted. Ward said the family wanted to "create a new nation governed from the Singer compound," and noted that during the 13-day standoff of- see SINGERS on A2 |