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Show i- - 4 Src- - r- c- - -. Vol. 17, No. 20 50 cents a single copy Wednesday, May 17, 1995 No tax increase in proposed city budget By RUSS DALY City Editor "We do not plan to increase property taxes again this year," said Councilmember Dee Ray Russon as he presented the preliminary budget for FY 1995-9"We want to hold your tax burden to a minimum." Public hearings will be held on the budget prior to its finalization, which must be completed by June 6. 22, 1995. v With an overall increase of than $850,000 in expenditures, or nearly 29 percent, significant increases were seen in both the parks and streets departments. ' Russon said the 158 percent more increase in the parks department, representing over $100,000, would be used for land purchase. The $300,000, or 63 percent increase for the streets department would be for what he called Police Department were at the meeting to see what impact the budget would have on their department. "We need to do some work down around the rookie area," said Russon, who also said that he understood the salaries of the Lehi force to be "if not the lowest, then close to the lowest" in the county. The proposed police budget for the coming year would be Councilmember Wayne Carlton seconded Russon's motion about the tentative budget; the voting was unanimous, with the exception of Councilmember Carma Johnson, who was absent. "We have experienced tremendous growth, with new businesses "projects." Most members of the Lehi New Lehi Rodeo Queen to be named 1994-9- Expenditures Administration Ambulance Animal Control Master Plan, maintaining controlled growth, launching the Micron project, pursuing the Saratoga sewer complex and y searching for new businesses. In a related motion, the council also approved revisions to the FY 1994-9budget of nearly of a million dollars, reflecting growth in the city. The funds represent revenue and expenses related to the new substation, as well as connections fees and sales tax receivable. Buildings Cemetery CommunityEvents Court Debt Service Fire Department Garbage high-qualit- one-ha- lf than $550. Library Museum Parks three-quarte- rs 5 Police Public Works Recreation Senior Citizens Streets ' it' i If A f" :, ' V appearance, and " 7, "77 1- - 7?v?ij '77777L"" 'J :3 26-ye- 18.68 0.49 23.93 5.60 10.10 20.54 21.05 88.48 25.68 18.88 3.43 10.54 158.45 22.14 30,300 168,700 180,900 24,350 48,710 108,000 166,194 355,100 116,929 24,200 164,500 733,313 319,913 104,060 14,900 780,255 -- -- -- 35.51 16.91 10.06 62.96 the day will be spent on "Core Subjects" (reading, writing, language, math) while the remaining portion of the day (two hours) will be spent on "Specialty Subjects" such as music, art, science and social studies. One half of the students will begin school at 8 a.m. and study core subjects during the first half of the day and specialty subjects for the second half. Another group will start at 9:30 a.m. and begin the day with specialty subjects and end with core subjects. Students will spend exactly the same amount of time at school as before. The savings in space comes from the staggered schedule as well as from the use of larger class size for the specialty subjects. According to Rasband, most parents will be able to choose which schedule most nearly meets their needs. All families will be able to stay together under the program. Further questions concerning the extended-da- y program may be directed to Rasband at 768-702- 5. ar come through Lehi Junior High School. One of her greatest joys has been seeing students who were not readers find a love of books. At the end of the current s , 'J s ' $ v sis- - Chamber to meet methods of keeping businesses safe against burglary. $364,100 115,040 school year, Frances M. Comer will retire after 26 years of teaching. Her assignment for the entire vi a - time has been at Lehi Junior High School, first as a classroom teacher in English and history, and most recently as the media ' 768-372- 5. and $306,800 114,483 24,450 178,700 164,300 20,200 40,240 57,300 132,240 298,700 121,082 27,050 63,648 600,384 236,083 89,007 13,538 478,795 Frances Comer to end teaching career 768-992- 6; Chief Karl Zimmerman 28.73 lf 4; Detective Chad Smith of the Lehi Police Department will discuss $3,819,464 school year. The decision was made by members of the Alpine School District board of education at their May 9 business meeting held at district headquarters in American Fork, and follows a recommendation from a majority of the patrons and staff at the school. According to Sonja Rasband, principal at Meadow, the change is being made in order to alleviate enrollment pressure at the facility. "The student population has grown an additional 150 students just since October of 1993," she said. "By this coming fall, our popthat's ulation will stand at 877 30 percent more students than the school was built to accommodate." The extended-da- y program will increase the capacity of the school by nearly 20 percent. Under the new program, students' days will be divided into two hours of parts. Three and one-ha- horsemanship 'y skills. The queen and her attendants will visit city, county and state dignitaries and will serve as representatives of the Round-u- p celebration and rodeo. They will help advertise the Round-u- p in personal appearances and will ride in parades both before and after the celebration. They will take part in all three nights of the rodeo will enter the 1995 Miss Rodeo Utah Contest if possible. Miss Lehi Round-u- p receives a traveling tiara, trophy buckle, banner, cash and entrance fee for the state competition. The attendants receive a trophy buckle, banner and cash, and all contestants receive two complimentary tickets to the rodeo. For more information, call Carl and LaRee Stewart, 768-346Melvin and Dona Anderson, or Lee and Nancy Stewart, Members of the Lehi Chamber of Commerce will meet at noon in the board room of the Lehi Branch of First Security Bank, 99 W. Main. Lunch will be catered by Subway Sandwiches; the cost will be $5 per person. change Pet, $2,967,000 Meadow at Students Elementary School in Lehi will attend school on an extended day schedule beginning with the new p " 1995-9- 6 5 extended day schedule The Lehi Round-uQueen contest will be held on Saturday, May 20 at the Lehi rodeo grounds and the ,7 Budget Meadow Elementary to make switch to Saturday Lehi Riding Club, 290 N. 500 West, Lehi. Registration begins at 10:30 a.m. at the Riding Club, with the personal interview phase of the competition at 11 a.m. , The judges tea will be held at noon at the Riding Club, with the horsemanship portion of the contest to follow immediately after at the arena. The public is invited to attend the horsemanship competition. Any single girl at least 16 years of age who has not formerly been a Round-u- p Queen is eligible to enter the competition, which includes modeling formal Western attire, impromptu speaking, miscellaneous rodeo knowledge, personality and 1995-9- 6 Revenues coming almost every day," said Russon. He also outlined the city's major goals for the coming year, which include updating the $733,313, up 22.14 percent from last year's budget of $600,384. At the bottom of the list was the museum, the library and other government buildings, all of which would sustain losses ranging from three to 10 percent, or from $2,850 to $10,000. . The Ambulance Department fared little better, with percent increase of slightly more Lehi City Tentative FY coordinator. Mrs. Comer has seen a tremendous change in education over the Photo by Russ Daly Another new business framed Many of the students she turned on to books still meet her with a fond "thank you" for her influence in the library. She has also been privileged to work with some great teachers and principals. When J. Ferrin Gurney hired her she intended to only finish out one year, but she has never regretted her decision to remain. She and her husband, Paul, are looking forward to doing some traveling. She also intends to do some writing and spend more time with her family, which includes four children and four grandchildren. past years. It used to be that the biggest problem in the classroom was someone chewing gum or being late for class. All that has changed. Now the teachers worry about gangs, apathetic students and parents, and the perception that education is low on the priority scale. The best memory Mrs. Comer will take with her is the association of the great kids that have . . . The skeleton of the new Best Western Timpanogos Inn takes on coverings as workers move toward completion scheduled for this summer. Next door, more workers shape the new Walker Oil and Wendy's complex on Main Street and further north, work begins on new storage structures at Lehi Roller Mills. Other projects, such as the Micron complex, and a potential McDonald's and Burger King, are in various stages of planning. K brief h istory of Lehi By RICHARD VAN WAGONER Recently the University of Utah Press published the Utah History Encyclopedia, edited by Kent Powell. This Utah Centennial project, years in the making, consists of hundreds of entries providing significant information on individuals, organizations, locations, institutions, and topics important to Utah history. Over 200 contributors donated their time to this project as a gift to Utahns for the state's centennial celebration in 1996. 1 was invited to write the entry on Lehi, a task that I was pleased to do. Although my treatment is not as extensive as my 39 page "Making of a City" chapter in Lehi: Portraits of a Utah Town, it nevertheless is a comprehensive overview that I will share with you today. Lehi, the northernmost community in Utah Valley, was first settled by a small group of Mormons in the fall of 1850. Known as Sulphur Springs that first year, the ' . community later was named Dry Creek and then Evansville. Early in 1852 local bishop David Evans presented a petition to the Territorial Utah Legislature requesting that the community be incorporated. This request was granted on Feb. 5, 1852, making, the town Utah's sixth oldest. Also approved was Bishop Evans's suggestion that the town be named Lehi. Like the Book of Mormon patriarch of the same name, the colonizers of Lehi had been uprooted on numerous occasions before finally settling in their promised land. Agriculture (producing wheat, oats, barley, and alfalfa) and animal industries (cattle ranching, sheep raising, dairying, poultry raising, fisheries, and mink ranching) have made a profound impact on the economic history of the community. With the establishment of the Utah Sugar Company's first plant in Lehi in 1890, the sugar beet became the town's most important cash crop and remained so until after World War I. Important early industries in Lehi included Mulliner's Grist Mill (1856-90the Lehi Banner newsLehi Cereal paper Mill (1922-74Lehi Stone, Marble, and Granite Works and the Standard Knitting Factory A wide range Company (1904-09of companies continue to maintain offices in Lehi in the 1990s. Historical sites and points of interest in the area include the portion of the Pony Express Trail in Utah (at the Point of the Mountain). Indian Ford at the Jordan River and Dugout a Pony Express and Overland Trail ' station - are also located west of town. Seven People's buildings, once part of the ZCMI chain, remain in Lehi. The two most significant were recently recognized by ZCMI, which installed two replicas of the 1869 ZCMI sign on the See YESTERYEARS on Page 4 ), (1891-1914- ), ), s (1897-1930- ), wmm ). 'HIIIW"1 l- V - M best-preserv- ) V e Hfiit" - tin l Co-o- p This c. 1910 photo was taken at Main and 200 West, looking east. The building with the belfry and lightning rod was Lehi City Hall. The two buildings on the immediate left are the Hammer Hotel and the Hammer Livery and Feed Stable. The largest building to the view's right is the Lehi Opera House. v |
