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Show :--U ADC SO I' 1 IDLVILIO 500 Per Issue Online: www.HarkTheHerald.cam an edition of THE DAILY HERALD j:id yearNumber 17 THURSDAY, APRIL 24, 2003 538 South State Street, Orem, UT 84058 (801) 225-1340 ft liss Orem prittany fjfiscombe -gjoys year " service X - Brittany Wiscombe SCARLETT M. BARGER 1 1 Times Reporter f ing her last week as Orem, Brittany ombe reflects on her of service and th. le daughter of Stanley Ronda Wiscombe, ombe said her family played a large part in lyear as Miss Orem, icularly her 18-year- rother, Michael. iscombe chose her brm, "Celebrating ities," in honor of lael, who was born rprphrnl nalsv "Tt. . I H)letely centers around EJ because he's my inspi- n," she said. siting Orem public ys to tell children lit her platform has J the highlight of her Oshe said, om the time she was LIU, wuuiu opcnu each summer at the Peterson School in ncan fork, where ael attended. use ot this experi- , she said, she wanted "elp children better yirstand people with Mailities and to feel comfortable around If ft 0 0 ince I've been around y whole life, I didn't r any different." r the past year, ombe has spoken at nblies at Orem ele-iary ele-iary schools and to wjes ana sxuaent ieaa-Hat ieaa-Hat junior highs and (7 schools. Eight out of fla's 16 elementary V'rts participated with ombe in a fundraiser I the Dan Peterson 1. The money went ra adaptive equip- 0 jntinued on page A7 iscombe said she and nly sibling, Michael, always been close. imgh Michael cannot or walk, Wiscombe he communicates gh his eyes and, at through a talking -Mil nr , ...wT;-;.'&" . ... m 1 . "5 s JknK 3 ' Ml i ti ?'"'-.,." get f ... 5B ' f -.. (. " E-iK.:". ti ; 'i ' ... ' ' . 4 - ii i Photo by Clyde E. Weeks, Jr. One of the three large apartment buildings at Parkway Crossing, which will house some 850 UVSC students this fall, is a part of the first phase of the 40-acre student village development, being built between 800 South and 1200 South, west of the UVSC campus. EParEuvay Crossing to pravidie sft&odieBitt village v" expas3dji&ig !WS eL'oSBmeni: CLYDE E. WEEKS, JR. Times Correspondent The approved expansion of Utah Valley State College's campus last week by nearly 12 acres reinforced the recent forecast by the school's administration for a student body of 40,000 within the next decade. Voting to purchase Vineyard Elementary School and Alpine Life and Learning from Alpine School District, the UVSC Board of Trustees approved the action, which adds the 11.88 acres at the north end of the existing campus. Meanwhile, the City of Orem and one visionary developer have taken very seriously the prospects of the four-year college that will continue to increase its enrollment, 90 per cent of which originates within the state of Utah. With large expanses of undeveloped undevel-oped land in Orem becoming fewer every year, concerns in recent years by city officials have focused on the possible encroachment of student housing into residential neighborhoods. neighbor-hoods. Thus, when developers looked to undeveloped properties west of the Utah Valley State College two years ago as the possible site for an innovative and self-contained student stu-dent village, Orem City planners saw the development as a welcome solution to growing student housing problems. Believed to be a totally new concept con-cept in student housing in Utah, at least, Parkway Crossing is envisioned envi-sioned to be a 40-acre village, con taining much more than just apartment apart-ment buildings. Heath Johnston, developer of the Parkway Crossing, has projected a wide assortment of typical village amenities, such as a meetinghouse chapel for church services, swimming swim-ming pool and assorted shops, stores and restaurants to serve the residents. resi-dents. One singular attraction being planned is a gondola, designed to carry students from their apartments, apart-ments, across Interstate-15 and onto the UVSC campus. This move would reduce the load on already-crowded student parking lots. According to Orem Mayor Jerry C. Washburn, the City of Orem has Continued on page A7 "T f 1 f: r ..Mr"' ft I I I ! t r - 4 1 v- f u lJ it I J 'f " T i 1 "' Photo by Reva Bowen Quick as a bunny... Alicea Behunln, 3, (center of picture), was In fine form for the youngest division egg hunt. Pictures continued on B6 Orem City looks at $62 million 2003-04 budget REVA BOWEN Times Reporter "As you are well aware," Orem City Manager Jim Reams told the Orem City Council Tuesday, April 22, "this has been a very challenging chal-lenging budget to put together." That night, Reams and Administrative Services Director Jeff Pedersen presented pre-sented to the ' council the city's tentative 2003-2004 budget of $62,082,845. The council will hold a work session ses-sion on the budget beginning begin-ning at 5 p.m. Tuesday, April 29 in the City Center. The public hearing to adopt the final budget will be June 3 at 6:20 p.m. Reams explained that when the city began working work-ing on the new budget in January, there was a gap in the General Fund of $2.2 million between estimated expenditures and estimated revenues. The gap was due to revenue shortfalls caused by the economic downturn the nation has faced since the events of September 11, 2001 and necessary increases increas-es in the budget for salary adjustments, park maintenance, mainte-nance, elections, and medical med-ical insurance. Reams said that he and the city's executive staff, which includes the department depart-ment heads, "grappled with the situation" and made adjustments to come up with a balanced budget. He noted that the department heads each showed concern for city-wide issues and did not "protect their own turf" in developing budget solutions. solu-tions. The proposed budget shows no increases in property prop-erty tax or the city's franchise fran-chise fee or water, sewer, or storm sewer utility fees. However, monthly increases of 50 cents for a first garbage can and 51 cents for a second can are suggested sug-gested for solid waste collection, collec-tion, to cover increases in collection costs and landfill tipping fees that were made in January of 2003. Also proposed are minor increases in miscellaneous General Fund and Fitness Center and recreation fees, and in charges for utility activation, business licensing, licens-ing, and cemetery lots and interments. The city made a $527,803 expenditure adjustment by opting to leave 11 personnel vacancies unfilled. Two of the vacancies are considered consid-ered permanent; nine are due to attrition, and will be filled when funding becomes available in the future. No new city positions posi-tions are proposed this year. Another budget adjustment adjust-ment was made by having funds other than the General Fund pay the salaries of some management manage-ment employees. 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