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Show Oremo Volume 61 Number 3 Wednesday, January 16, 1991 I City ponders pay if employees called to active duty service By Jeanne Thayne What is the City of Orem's financial obligation to employees who as members of the National Guard are called to active duty? Some obligations are required but there are also options. Members of the City Council were divided Tuesday night and asked Peggy D' Avignon, personnel person-nel director, to come back to the Council meeting Jan. 22nd with a written plan outlining the worse case scenario if the City chose to go with a couple of options regarding regard-ing pay as well as the benefits mandated by law. Required benefits include reinstatement to a like position in a reasonable amount of time upon return from duty; benefits based on seniority and reinstated pay including increases, etc.; contributions con-tributions and benefits at accrued levels to continue during military leave. Pacesetters of the ProvoOrem Chamber of Commerce welcome new businesses and re-welcome old ones with a new look. Kentucky Fried Chicken, 155 S. State, Orem, gets VIP treatment at grand re-opening last week. Cutting the ribbon is Shirley Hamblin, district manager. At right, with hat, is manager Scott Brown and wife Itaylene Brown. The store features a larger kitchen, new colors inside and out and new parking with an easier in and out. Division Manager Jay Alexander, far left, attend the gala affair. Kentucky Fried Chicken has 35 part-time employees. Liability too great at landfill, City says By Jeanne Thayne Increased liability for landfill operations brought about by new standards imposed by the Environmental En-vironmental Protection Agency caused the City of Orem officials to take a second look at their liability costs as the operating agency. City of Orem has been the operating agent for the North Utah County Landfill for about 10 to 12 years," said Stewart Cowley, newly appointed Director Direc-tor of Solid Waste for City of Orem. Cowley said the Lindon Landfill has been in operation at least 30 years with various North Utah County communities taking a turn as operating agent. But that kind of management may change when the landfill is moved. The State Board of Health Mt. View-Orem game features pasta spaghetti dinner Its always a week of excitement ex-citement when the Orem-Mountain Orem-Mountain View teams chal-lenge chal-lenge each other. This Friday at 7:30 p.m. will be the first basketball contest at Mt. View gym. Both teams are chasing Timpview for the league title, andjockeying forone of the three berths in the State Basketball Tournament. Tourna-ment. The Bruin Endowment Council members have no problems with the requirements. The question arises when options are added such as a supporting salary and payment of health and life insurance premiums while the member is away. "The difficulty comes because of the leanness of the operation of the City," said City Manager Daryl Berlin. "We would have to find a way to fill the vacated job but can't hire a full-time employee because of the promise to give the job back. We'd have to fill the jobs with temporary people." Another difficulty is the huge difference in pay (between military and employee pay). It would create hardships for the families. "Because we care we need to look at salary, military pay and temporary salaries (of replacement employees)," said Berlin. "We need to study the is now reviewing a site plan to construct a landfill at Cedar Valley. Val-ley. When approved the process may two to three years to complete. com-plete. City of Orem wants to be ready for the transition and does not want to be saddled with increased in-creased liability. At last Tuesday's city council meeting City Manager Daryl Berlin recommended the city terminate its position as operating agent. "It would appear timely for the City to terminate its status with the District," said Berlin. He said it is probably more appropriate ap-propriate for the landfill operation opera-tion to be under the special district dis-trict governing body. Liability in the past has been based on a percentage use with the operating agency assuming Fund Committee is having a pre-game pasta spaghetti dinner, Friday, Jan. 18, from 5:00-7:15 p.m. in the Mt. View High School cafeteria. All money raised will go to the organization of your choice. The cost is $12.00 for family or $3.00 individual. Tickets may be purchased at the door or from Joel Gardner 225-9162 225-9162 or Lon Roberts 224-0411. issue and look at maintaining at the same level. The thing is do we , go beyond the level? If we are going to war do we have the responsibility to support these people?" Councilman Norman Wood-house Wood-house said, "We ought to do everything every-thing we can." He said he has seen incomes drop 70 percent when a member is called to active duty. He also said insurance coverage could cost the City about $300 a month per absentee employee. Mayor Blaine Willes suggested sug-gested the City could pick up the difference between Champus (military insurance) and what the City covers. Some cities are using the employee's vacation and accrued sick leave to pay insurance premiums while he or she is away. Councilman Kelvin Clayton said he had problems with the additional liability. With new EPA standards for landfills those liability costs will increase. "We really don't have a choice," said Councilman Keith Hunt. He also added his concern that a new operating agency will be considerate of current employees. All council members agreed. A resolution expressing the city's intent to terminate service as operating agent and encouraging encourag-ing the District to work with the city and employees in a compatible com-patible manner during the transition transi-tion was presented Monday to the Landfill Board of Directors. The resolution is to take effect immediately. The transition becomes be-comes effective with the move to the new site so City of Orem will not be liable at the new site. Orem provides varied locations for recyclables Recycling of products which can be gathered and shipped to recycling centers was given a boost this week with the purchase of six large semi-trailer vans by the City of Orem. The vans are being situated throughout the city as recycling depositories for newspapers, bond and computer paper, glass and aluminum. Since there is currently no market for plastic items, these will not be recycled. However, there are designated locations to which corrugated cardboard, motor oil, aluminum, used bottles and organic materials can be taken. Bins for the disposal of newspapers (no magazines or phone directories) are located at: 1200 N. State, 100 N. 600 W., 200 N. 200 E., 651 E. 1400 S., 1660 N. 50 E., 150 E. 600 N., 1950 N. issue and wanted to see everything every-thing in writing before voting. "These people were not drafted," he said. "When they signed up they did so of their own free will and are compensated and get reduced rates at commissaries, etc. It is something they wanted to do." Clayton said he agrees with the required benefits but said it is "asking too much of our taxpayers for optional benefits." Councilman Jim Evans said guard pay "is not enough to be considered a reward. It's just enough to put up with the hassle." Woodhouse refused to back down on his motion to go with all the options. Another motion was tin ally passed which called for the personnel director to return with a developed plan and a way to supplement health and life insurance in-surance premiums. All council-members council-members voted for the motion except ex-cept Woodhouse. According to Cowley, options were purchased for the new landfill site at Cedar Valley and the site plan is being reviewed. It is due back from the State Health Department by April, said Cowley. He also said ground water monitoring at the new site is underway. "I don't see any problem," he added. The new EPA guidelines and policies should be in the city's hands by February. Cowley said there will be about an 18 month window between the time the Lindon Lin-don landfill is closed and the new guidelines are in effect. If the Cedar Valley landfill is not operable by then, City of Orem will likely use Provo's newly constructed con-structed landfill until construction construc-tion is complete at the Cedar Valley Val-ley site. State, 750 W. 50 S., 130 N. 400 W., 158 E. 1100 S., 1700 S. 400 E., 800 N. Main, and 899 E. 1200 N. Corrugated cardboard may be deposited at the rear dock of Albertson's on Saturday from noon to 6:00 p.m. Motor oil is collected at Lube Doc at 131 S. State; Pep Boys at 150 S. State; and Orem City Shops at 955 N. 900 W. Aluminum is collected at the Reynolds Aluminum Van at 600 N. State and at National Steel and Tube Distributors, 126 N. 1330 W. Most stores that sell auto parts, tires and batteries will take used batteries. Leaves, grass clippings, weeds and similar organic matter can be taken to the county land fill where a special compost pile has been started. c ' "rr iM i - J' j f, ,,;Jg;,sb , , a f , PARLELL Parlell Peterson... he was there "The Shepherd of the Hills" By Clyde E. Weeks If you happened to be one of those who attended the premier Program held to inaugurate the openingofthe SCERA Theatre on Sept. 1, 1941, you may remember that Parlell Peterson was there at the door to take your ticket. Following Fol-lowing the program which featured fea-tured an address by Utah Gov. Herbert B. Maw, Mayor B. M. Jol-ley Jol-ley and county and church officials, offi-cials, the movie, "The Shepherd of the Hills" was shown to the Charcoal portrait of Orem resident H. Clark Fails done by Chinese artist Yin Dong Quan. The picture was done on the Great Wall of China when Fails was visiting his daughter there recently. Traveling to 66 countries? Our Clark Fails never fails! By Clyde E. Weeks Orem has it share of people who are widely-traveled, including includ-ing a large number of former LDS missionaries who collectively have seen and worked in nearly every country in the world. It is rare, however, to find a person who has, himself, visited some 66 countries all around the world. Such a man is H. Clark Fails, 76, a retired teacher of languages, PETERSON delighted audience in "Utah's Most Distinctive Theatre." For the previous year, Parlell had worked in his spare time on the construction of the community com-munity theatre, along with many other fellow citizens. That activity ac-tivity reflected a lifetime of service ser-vice to Sharon's Cultural Educational Educa-tional and Recreational Association Associa-tion (SCERA) which began in 1938 and continued through 1984. Continued on Page 10 who has made Orem his home for the past three years. A native of Idaho, he never left that state until he was 20. In 1935 he went to Mexico City to attend college and that taste of travel made him yearn for more. Later, as an LDS missionary in France, he visited in Switzerland Switzer-land and Germany. In October, 1939, he was evacuated from Continued on page 9 |