OCR Text |
Show WESTERN MCROGRflPHr5 U3'?- - Vol. 17, No. 35 Wednesday, August 30, 1995 50 cents a single copy To subscribe call 756-766- 9 Study assesses Micron's impact on North Utah County By RUSS DALY Lehi City Editor What exactly does the coming of Micron mean to north Utah Valley? As part of the official formation of the Economic Development Association (EDA) the taxing entity that will provide for the incentives to Micron for completing the project, the improvements needed to the infrastructure of Lehi City and the assistance to the school district to lessen the impact of growth representatives met last week to move toward finaliza-tio- n of the agreements. Jonnalyne Walker, an independent consultant, presented an economic analysis to the public at a meeting of the Lehi City Council and to representatives of the taxing committee two days later. Her analysis of the project included the following three major benefits and investments: $51.8 million in improvements to serve the development, which include roads, culinary and irrigation water facilities, sewer, storm drainage, fire protection, and gas and electrical power services. $5.1 in interest at three percent per annum on the approximately $34 million loaned by Micron to make public improvements to the infrastructure. $66 million in state incentives to Micron, which include Job Service assistance for recruiting, screening and hiring; sales and use tax exemptions for the purchase and lease of new equipment; and an Micron earns applicable credits. Benefits to the area In return, the project would return several major economic efits to the area. City Editor Water is usually a precious commodity, but not for residents of Sunset subdivision, who are constantly battling water in their basements and on their streets. Ron Galloway, representing homeowners in the area, many of whom were also present at the meeting, made a presentation to the Lehi City Council and asked for their help last week. "On the advice of our attorney, we are not liable," said Councilmember Reed Sunderland. "Being very blunt with you, we don't think this is a city problem." Sunderland said that if the source of the water was from the such as the culinary water city system, the secondary (irrigation) water system or the sewer the city would take care of the problem. Citing his experience as a geologist, he said the problem was with the geological strata. "In said my opinion," Galloway, "the city has put a weak effort into finding out what the problem is." One citizen claimed that developer John Hadfield was aware of the water situation when one foundation had filled with water overnight during the construction process, and another man said his attorney felt the Hadfield has assumed responsibility for the area when he devel- y the subdivision. "If it's determined to be a developer problem, will the city oped help force the developer to put in a drainage system?" asked one of the nearly two dozen area residents in attendance. The City Council asked Hadfield, who was in attendance ben- According to Walker, about 83 percent of the more than 3,000 people expected to be employed at Micron by 8 represent new jobs for local people. That large percentage will lessen the direct impact on schools in the Wasatch Front area. Nearly $32 million will be spent locally on purchases from contracIndustrial Assistance Fund tors and suppliers, utilities and GrantLoan valued at $3 million if transportation services. mid-199- m.i. Ground water plagues new Lehi subdivision By RUSS DALY With an annual payroll estimated to be at $117 million, including benefits, the annual income tax benefit to the state of Utah will be nearly $3 million. Approximately 53 percent of Micron's Lehi facility are projected to earn over $15 per hour as a base wage, which excludes the cost of benefits (about 30 percent of the base wage) or profit sharing programs (which were about 17 percent last year). Other employees are expected to earn $8-1- 0 per hour. Tax benefits projected to accrue to Lehi's tax base include local option sales taxes, real property taxes and personal property taxes. Walker estimated $1.06 in new taxes for ever dollar o public incentive in the first year, increasing to $1.30 per annum after three years. The project, originally announced to be about $1.3 million, is now estimated to be over $1.7 billion, making it the fifth largest project in the world. at the meeting, to address the water issue. Hadfield said he had been familiar with the ground in question all of his life and said they had encountered very little water during the development process and did not locate any springs when they were installing the sewer lines. "I am willing to help out," he did say, however. "Let's get a water engineer in here and find out what's happening." The City Council, too, offered to meet with selected representatives from the subdivision, as well as Hadfield, to try to find solutions to the problem. In one home in the area, the homeowner has to vacuum approximately 10 gallons, of water out of her basement every day, in addition to the work of the sump pump, which she estimated at pumping about five gallons of water every 10 to 15 minutes. The Galloway family sweeps water into their floor drain several times each day, only to find it seeping back into the area. Another resident reported that a large sink hole had appeared at the north end of Sunset Drive, where garbage trucks have furthered the erosion that has taken place. The City Council authorized gravel fill for the sinkhole, which was put in place the following day. "We're willing to get together and try to help, but we can't single out a section of town," said Sunderland, who said the city was "mystified" about the sink hole. Galloway said the group appreciated the council extend- ing the line of communication to the residents. urn in k Camp. Her crime? Her and her brother were accused of stealing food at a Nazi Party. The invited children had shoved food in their pockets to take home to their starving family. "What crime did we commit?" questions Jaramillo. "We were only stealing the food that they had already stolen from us." While the most horrible tortures and experiments were saved for the 6 million Jews that died there, life . . . and death was far from easy for the other 32 million "undesirables." Only a few can recall the atrocities of the camps and Jaramillo is one of them. As a child, Jaramillo was abused worse than most present-da-y American criminals can ever complain or dream about. "It was hard to believe in God when you had to sleep between stacks of corpses," said Jaramillo. "And I think soldiers' wives must have asked them when they got home, 'How many children did you rape today?" She got beat up so many times, she lost count. "After that first beating I vowed no Nazi would ever see me cry again and no matter how many beatings they gave me I never did. That doesn't mean that I didn't cry. I would cry," Yet she has been able to take her nightmares of reality and use them to encourage herself and others to fight against the terrors of hate. Instead of perpetuating the hate she received and consequently hurting others, the remarkable Dutch woman became a nurse. In 1982 at the University of Utah Hospital, one of her patients was Barney Clark, the first man to receive an artificial heart. It was their conversations together that motivated her to write down her experiences. Little bits of paper were scribbled on almost daily, until a grocery box was filled with the past. Newspapers and television companies throughout the region began publicizing her message. She even received a phone call from Steven Speilberg, who was interested in her story and asked return has ly been set at about dollar. previous10 cents per Impact on schools The Governor's Office of Planning and Budget has estimated that the school age population along the entire Wasatch Front will increase by about 2,300 as the result of development in general. Using statistics from the state office, as well as examples from Micron's experience in Boise, Walker estimated that the impact on Alpine School District will be about 1,200 additional students. Larry Newton of the Utah State Board of Education felt that the impact on the schools would affect not only Alpine School District, but also Provo and Nebo districts in Utah County, and Salt Lake, Granite, Jordan and Murray districts in Salt Lake County. Newton felt that the committee should reconsider the impact on the other districts before making final deci- sions. Lehi Councilmember Knollin Haws, who was elected to serve as chairman of the taxing agency committee for the EDA said that Lehi might have to be more "provincial" because he felt that Salt Lake districts do not consider the Lehi area in projects in their county. Newton then suggested that the committee at least consider the other two districts within Utah County. Bill Oswald, attorney for the EDA, suggested that Newton and other school officials meet with him as a subcommittee to work out See MICRON on Page 4 City proposes arts facilities Arts and recreation are alive Lehi as well and in Councilmember Wayne Carlton presented two preliminary proposals for new facilities at two central locations. The first proposal included a sketch of an amphitheater for Wines Park, which would be located in the south quadrant of the park. Carlton cited the popularity of the summer Sunday Night Arts in the Park program and requested input from citizens regarding the concept. 768-380- Citizens should call Carlton, 1 or members of the Lion's Club or Lehi Arts Council for comments or suggestions. In connection with the council's commitment to work toward a new recreation and arts facility, Carlton also presented architect's sketches provided by former Lehi resident David Brems, whose ideas included separate buildings for the two programs. Both buildings would be located on the block with the Memorial Building and would leave part or all of the soccer field intact, as well as provide for parking by the two buildings. No formal action was taken on either issue. Survey seeks input on Lehi's issues of growth mmmmmmmmmmmm:'. mmimimm pf , mmmmm lipliiiiiiiiii Photo by Russ Daly Kim Vitelli, a resident of Lehi's Sunset subdivision, demonstrates the ritual she goes through several times each day to keep the water in her basement at bay. Lehi author's book on her Holocaust experience finally makes it to print By CATHY ALLRED She wants me to see a video she has on the Holocaust and Hitler's concentration camps. Three times she has invited me; three times I have turned her down. "Too busy," I say, which is conveniently true. But the brief silhouettes she has already painted for me with her words are enough. Cato Jaramillo survived the death camps. When she was an 11 she was arrested and put year-ol- d in prison for nearly two years at the Nordhausen Concentration An acceptable questions about her experiences as a young girl in the Nordhausen concentration camp. He is doing a of the WWII documentary Holocaust and its survivors and requested a copy of her book when it came out. Meanwhile, Jaramillo speaks. Her story echoes the memories of millions left to cry from the ashes. "A woman who had just visited the camp two years ago, told me you can still smell the rotting bodies and the burning flesh," said Jaramillo, "and you can still stand upon the thousands of bodies buried there." Having given talks throughout Intermountain the Region, Jaramillo will be sharing her experiences this Sept. 6 at 7 p.m. in the Lehi Library. You might want to come early to get a seat when she spoke at Pleasant Grove, people came and filled the high school auditorium past capacity. had to stand or sit in the aisles. During her presentation, she will also be giving information on the dangers and serious consequences of gangs and hate groups. Because of the sensitive nature of the topics and her story, parents are asked to leave their children at "Johnny-come-latelie- s" home. And the stories are graphic and painful. Small children, three year-- olds and younger lying in the middle of town streets, starving to death; passing soldiers shooting them for sport. Repeated beatings, rape, and human degradation both in and outside of the camps. On the inside, the living were sandwiched literally buried between the dead. Live babies were thrown into fires. "I remember babies holding onto my neck and the soldiers threatening to shoot me if I did not do what they asked me to do," asserts Jaramillo. Live women were frozen to death to see if they could be brought back to life. Prisoners who knew they had crossed over the brink of death would hide their food in their clothing in order to give someone else the chance to find the moldy bit of bread and possibly live (the dead had to be stripped of their clothing by prisoners before they were thrown in the communal grave or burned.) Jaramillo worked on her mauscript for 13 years. Gold Leaf Press, a division of Worldwide Publishers, helped Jaramillo polish and reorganize her work so others could read her story. The 207 page book, Too Stubborn to Die, was originally scheduled to come out in print over six months ago but the resulting work should be for sale at See CATO on Page 4 Lehi residents will soon find another survey in their utility bills within the next month. Prepared by AP Associates for the Planning and Zoning Commission, the survey is designed to help the commission formulate the city's new Master Plan to help form public policy and planning for the future. According to Jennifer Beck, the survey asks about city activities and services, such as streets and road, sidewalk construction, law enforcement, recreation and park improve ments, as well as preferred sources of funding to meet community needs. A special section on Micron's perceived impact is also included, in addition to demographic information on consumer buying patterns for goods and services. Citizens who have questions about the survey should call Assistant Planner Dianna Webb, all surveys should be completed in writing and returned to Lehi City with the utility bill. 768-712- 0; Cedar Fort candidates file Orson Councilmembers McKinney and Tom Groff will be stepping down this year when their tern expires and four Cedar Fort citizens have filed to contend for the vacant position. I i ' V " y ' -- , v JM lllllllllllp " They are Robert Messersmith, Jeanine Cook, Falcon Commichaux and Jed Berry. There will be no primary election and the winner will be determined in November. J,.-.- ,,. - . Photo by Cathy Allred Cato Jaramillo hopes the story in her book, "Too Stubborn to Die" will serve as a lesson about the capacity of people |