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Show t7 S a- - Tit Jmdm Valley Sentinel Volume 41 Number 24 Published Continuing The Midvale Sentinel Reefy at 12S W. (USPS 347-940- Thursday June 11, 1981 ) Carter St.. Salt Lake County. Utah by Midvale Sentinel. Inc. Second-clas- s postage paid at Midvale, Utah. Subscription rate $6 per year in Jordan School District This issue two sections. Countywide levy?. . . Cities reject zoo proposal Salt Lake County's proposed establishment of a special service district for the Hogle Zoo is meeting with less than the enthusiastic response expected. Of the seven local cities, four (West Jordan, South Jordan, Riverton and Draper) have flatly refused to participate in a special election on the issue; Sandy has tabled it for further study and is expected to deny it; and Bluff dale has yet to take any action. iJo If 2 budget, it remained for city .5 Who's going to pay? Pegsant Juno 18 . . . businessman Ray Ertman to put a ribbon on much of the comment from the floor: "Too many employees, too many police, too much administration, too much inspection, too much engineering, and finally, too much expense." That was the feedback the Midvale City council received on the city's budget public hearing, held Tuesday night with an overflow crowd jamming the city hall auditorium. Many complaints centered on the number of police officers employed by the city, to which much of the three mill increase in the budget is Who's going to pay for the zoo? With funding cutbacks, the county planned to go for, and on the new commissioners are looking at alternate ways of raising needed business license fee scale and the revenue. However, their proposed special district and one mill levy level of city inspection service it is is being severely criticized by area cities. supposed to fund. The meeting began with a budget presentation by city administrator Ted Anderson, but with the conclusion of his remarks it would be a long time before anything else positive was said about the proposed budget. Anderson said that with the city's assessed evaluation being held at last year's level and a of Sherral Mrs and Mr daughter crocheting, enjoys singing, $60,000 shortfall in anticipated Northrup. She enjoys rodeos, sales tax receipts, together with sewing, and cooking. and animals. Connie Butterfield, 24, the rollerskating, Lori 17, is the daughter Forman, daughter of Mr and Mrs Clyde Butof Mr and Mrs Julian Forman. A terfield. She is a 1975 graduate of Minerette president and drill Bingham High and an employe of mistress, she also enjoys handMountain Bell. work and writing. Karla Smith, 17, daughter of Mr Ilene Boehme, 16, is , the and Mrs Karl Smith. She is a daughter of Mr and Mrs Glen wrestling cheerleader at Bingham Boehme. She will be a wrestling High and enjoys dancing, skiing, cheerleader and a member of the and motorcycle riding. A Cappella and Madrigal choirs at of Kathleen Miller, 22, daughter Bingham next year. Sandi White, 17, daughter of Mr Mr and Mrs J. E. Miller. She is an accomplished pianist and enjoys and Mrs David White. She'll be a wrestling cheerleader next year at swimming, racquetball and runBingham. She enjoys singing, danning. Seah Butterfield, 16, the cing, swimming, and waterskiing. Marianne Kwiatkowski, 16, is daughter of Mr and Mrs Dewayne Butterfield. She is a member of the daughter of Mr and Mrs Fred Bingham's FFA and enjoys Kwiatkowski. - She sang with Bingham's A Cappella and is a swimming. Lori Forman of the Prospector Staff. the member Laura Northrup, 17, fe 1981-8- 2 Eleven young women vie for Miss Herriman crown Eleven young women will be competing for the Miss Herriihan crown during the queen contest to be held Thursday, June 18 from 7 to 9 p.m. at the Herriman LDS warehouse. Contestants will be judged on street wear, formal wear, talent presentation and a personal interview. The queen and her attendants will reign over the Herriman Homecoming celebration on June 19 and 20. Camilla Dean is pageant chairman. Contestants include: Lori Jaramillo, 20, daughter of Mr and Mrs Albert Jaramillo. She is currently attending the University of Utah on a gymnastics scholarship. Lori Ewell, 18, daughter of Mr and Mrs Walter Leon Ewell. She the special improvement district. Under the resolution, if the service district is approved by voters, the county may levy a one mill maximum on all taxable properties within the county. The money would then be used for the management, operation, ministration, and financing of the zoo. Commissioners then passed the resolution onto the cities for their consideration. inflation, a mill levy increase was needed. The levy increase would bring in an additional $90,000 in revenue. On the business license fees, Anderson stated the proposed new fee schedule was the first adjustment made in that area in five years, that it would provide common criteria for fees to be based on, would permit the tax to grow with the economy, and provide additional revenue for the city. . . Anderson . added, .that if com-.'. munity development, revenue sharing, and budget surplus funds were taken out of the proposed budget actual spending for ongoing operations was actually down from $1,542,233 to $1,494,870. The city has about $1.3 million in sure plus funds planned for expenditures. But, judging from the comments that followed, most of those in attendance didn't buy it. Local attorney Everett Dahl addressed the meeting stating that he was not present in an adversary role, but was offering his assistance and that of the chamber of commerce in pulling together a final budget. Dahl also reminded those in attendance that the tentative water and sewer budgets weren't yet ready for inspection. He suggested that the new one-tim- business fee schedule will likely be challenged in the courts. Dahl asked three things : that the city go back with the community's the budget, help to eliminate the mill levy increase, and repeal the business fee schedule. He concluded by asking if it was advisable to have so many city employees and department heads living outside of the city. Cindy Coombs stated that the two main groups of people making up the population of Midvale, senior citizens and young families, would be those hurt worse by the tax increase. David Godfrey added that it was not just Midvale's tax increase that was doing the hurting, but also those planned by the school board and Salt Lake County. Howard Stephensen of the Utah Taxpayers Ass'n, called Midvale's preliminary budget "the hardest to understand" of any he's reviewed recently, that it didn't give anyone looking over it a chance to compare with past budgets. On the business license fee, he stated, "it's like hanging a sign up around Midvale saying 'no new business.' " He added that the city in the past had not been the cause of increased taxes and he hoped it would not be so this time either. g, ?MWvi El&Hte I Lori Ewell 'd Mil lii Marianne Kwiathowskl V ' . r : . rwS 'f i Connie Butterfield ad- Proposed Midvale budget 'too much' say residents After nearly two hours of debate on Midvale City's proposed 1981-8- i Only Midvale stands in support of such an election. However, officials there are quick to point out that the recent unanimous vote of the council did not indicate their support of the proposal itself, but rather represented an agreement that the citizens should be allowed to decide the issue. During their May 20 meeting, the Salt Lake County Commission adopted a resolution which initiated proceedings to establish Laura Northrup Sandi White J& ' i. W , UM Karla Smith v N in J WW Seah Butterfield Kathleen Miller |