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Show B Tuesday, April 9, 1996 The Daily Herald ah's number of Juvenile inmates growing OsfcSj rk City ending ltntrovorsial foo JARK CITY The city (AP) halted its use of a controversial school impact fee on new homebuilders aimed at forcing new comers to pay their own way. Officials concluded that the experiment, which raised roughly $2.5 million through a fee of $3,393 imposed on new homes since 1994, was not worth the hard feelings it generated. That, and lawmakers made such fees illegal lastvear. Those hit with the want their money back. Jawed levy far the school district doesn't seem anxious to give any refunds. Instead, they've scheduled public hearings on the matter. T&s now-ou- t- Some residents see the move as disingenuous. -- f want my $6,800 back," said Ed Brophy, who was taxed a double impact on the duplex he built at Deer Valley last year. "It's not fair,"' agreed Janet Smith, a resident of the new Moose Hollow subdivision adjacent to Jeremy Ranch and among those who question what they say is the inequity of the fee. Bad contractors coming to Utah I te Fork. . Essex said the vehicles rs professional-lookin- g and offer to do and pav inc. roofing, other work for what seem to be bargain prices. "What they typically do is tree-trimmi- they'll approach someone and offer them a sen ice that maybe the person didn't even realize he needed ir was marginally interested in." Essex said. Cost estimates of jail increase SALT LAKE CITY (AP) Designs for the new Salt Lake Counts jail have vet to be completed, but already the cost estimates hae cone up $20 million. H An extra $5 million is needed to deal with unexpected soil probsite ready lems to get the for construction of the 2.(XX)-be- d facility, said project manager Lee 38-ac- re Barms. The other problem is that the hooking building must be built to accommodate the inmates who would eventually populate the jail when it is expanded to 4.(XX) beds. The booking building accounts for half the construction budget. Bar-ru- s said. The extra cosis mean the project will have to be scaled back. Barrus is developing a list of what can be cut to sta within the budget. soil tests conducted when the county purchased the land a year ago showed the water table was a foot below the surface. Initial Roommato faces charge in doath SALT LAKE CITY (AP) Dale Riegle. 25. has been charged with manslaughter in the death of his roommate, w ho authorities say had been stripped and left lying in a field. T. Jason Kendall. 25. of Kcarns 'died Dec. 22 in a field in West Jordan. An autopsy concluded that Kendall died of blunt force trauma to his head and neck, exposure to the cold and acute alcohol intoxi- cation. was charged Monday iwith manslaughter. Riegle had moved in with : Kendall fie da) s before Kendall's Vdeath. fraRirglc said documents Kendall passed out in Riegle's car after the pair had gone out drinking. Bob Shober. a detective with the West Jordan Police Department, claims Riegle took all of Kendall's clothes off and left the m. n.iLti in the field. Kendall ivas still alive when Riegle left fum. accordint to bhooer. Riegle "did not call police. He jid not call emergency medical ersonnel, charging documents J 'Charging SALT LAKE CITY (AP) Utah has 58 inmates who entered prison at 17 or younger. That is a sixfold increase from three years ago, according to Chris Mitchell, a planner with the Department of Corrections. Nineteen of the young inmates had slaying convictions. Twelve are serving time for property crimes, eight committed assaults and five were convicted of sex offenses. The others are in prison for other crimes. "This is a conscious decision on the part of prosecutors who are certifying them as adults and the serious youth offenders program." Mitchell told The Salt Lake Tri- - Association gives honor to Ogden bune. Mitchell's figures don't include many teen felons like Nathan Martinez and Tarn Nguyen. who were sentenced to prison in 3rd District Court last year for slayings they committed as juveniles. One youthful offender who recently went before the state Board of Pardons is Jerrod Baum, 19. Baum was born to an alcoholic teenager, then adopted by his grandparents, who struggled to raise him as he earned straight F's in school, shoved other children and daydreamed about guns. i n ti vi ; i ; according to court records.? At age 10 he shot another boy. to juvenile court according records. By age 14 he had about 40 convictions, mostly for property crimes. The week before his 15th birthday, he was absent w ithout permission for the third time from Project Ascent, an Orem youth home. from an Me walked away appointment with a Provo therapist and spent the next three days stealing cars and firearms before holding up a Burger King. The spree came to an end after a police officer trainee pulled over the stolen pickup he was driving. li Baum was arrested after fumbling for a gun. said his parole officer. Odell Erickson. Baum was certified for adult felony counts prosecution on over the objections of Lriskson. who believed Baum could have been rehabilitated. reaction." "It's a knee-jerErickson said. "Once they got him (in the adult system), they didu't know w hat to do w nh him." Baum pleaded guilty to attempted aggravated murder and three lesser crimes and 4th District Judge Lynn Davis imposed the senstandard tence for first degree felonies. "This case has haunted me." 1 1 k Erickson said. "Prison should have been the last option. It's just throwing the kid away." In prison. Baum got a tattoo and joined older inmates in prison disturbances. He is charged with 30 discipline violations, resulting in 315 days in punitive isolation. "I was mainly out to get high on an adrenalin rush." Baum, speaking of his crimes, told the L'tah Board of Pardons at a March 2K hearing. "'It was not to hurt people, just to get away with it. the crime itself"' Pardons Board member Don Blanchard said he would recommend scheduling a rehearing, rather than giving Baum parole. ill. n ; " u Iu mh recorder As a child. OGDEN (AP) Gloria Berrett's favorite toy was a typewriter where she would pretend to take notes at an important meeting She would file papers, or e dictation on scratch make-believ- It s SALT LAKE CITY ( AP) springtime: the swallows return to ;San Juan Capistrano. and the unscrupulous contractors flock '.back to Utah. ' Investigators with the state Division of Occupational and Licensing already have 'received complaints that con artists are here, victimizing homeowners with shoddv "paving and roofing jobs ! Hill tssex investigations supervisor for the division's con tractors section, said an unlicensed work crew made the rounds this week in Midvale and Spanish travel in new. 3 a pad. "My mother always told me I would have a job like this." said Berrett. the Ogden City recorder. "I was always play ins office." The play time led to typing, shorthand and business machine classes in high school and eventually certification as a municipal clerk. Then, she was named last month as Outstanding Cits Recorder of the Year by the L'tah Municipal Clerks Association. "It comes as no surprise that Gloria has received this level of recognition from her peers." said Mayor Glenn Mecham. who appointed Berrett to the city recorder position in I1). "We are proud of her accomplishments and fortunate to have her on our team." The clerks association honored Berrett. 4s). a former president of the recorders association, for establishing a centralized records storage facility and an optical imaging system for city records. In the past few years she also has developed a new filing and indexing system, consolidated 63 voting districts to 31 and completed the transfer of vears of hand- after-scho- APPtKHO Building last week. Berrett was named Municipal Clerks Association. Berrett has Ogden City Recorder Gloria J. Berrett searches through files in the Ogden City Centre standing City Recorder of the Vear by the Utah been the Ogden recorder since 1990. written cemetery records to an ers. recorders are the people who real- - in knowing what is happening. " electronic database. Berrett. who first took short - Iv know the city's political circles, she said. "People ask me how I The city recorder's staff can be hand notes w ith a pencil and pad of ordinance changes and policy pn- - can take minutes for a living. But it is documenting history. I love my seen at all public meetings, quietly paper when she started as a deputy cedures. involved in the that 19S3. "I of recorder lapping laptop computreally enjoy being job. and I love Ogden City." city keys jokes Out- - Incineration plans opposed A SALT LAKE CITY (AP) group which opposes the Army's plan to begin incinerating tons of aging chemical weapons at Tooele Army Depot this summer said it intends to sue to stop the project. The Chemical Weapons Working Group, based in Berea. Ky.. said it will be joined in the lawsuit by the Sierra Club and the Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation. It claims plans to fire up the So50 million incinerator at the Tot vie Army Depot. 50 miles southwest of Salt Lake, will endanger the public and violate any number of federal laws and regulations. Craig Williams, a spokesman for the group, said notices of the intent to sue. required by federal law before a lawsuit can be filed. went out by registered mail to President Clinton. Attorney General Janet Reno and the Army Monday afternoon and the suit will be filed in U.S. District Court for l'tah later this month. "If they think they're going to fire that plant up. they're wrong." he said Monday. "The stubborn arrogance of the Army and other government agencies has left us no choice, expect for a lawsuit." A telephone message left with Craig Campbell, a spokesman for the incinerator, went unanswered Monday night. CWWG's lawsuit does not come as a surprise, given the controversy surrounding the incinerator. Last month, a San Francisco- - based IVpartment of Labor administrate e law judge held a hearing into allegations by former plant safety manager Steven Jones. Jones, a former engineer with the Army Inspector General's Office, filed a whistleblower lawsuit after he was fired by the plant's contractor. EGG Defense Materials Inc. The lawsuit claims the plant is riddled with delects and poses a danger to the public. TAD contains 42 percent of tin. nation's chemical weapons, many stored in deteriorating munitions in bunkers that dot L'lah's west desert. Six other states aNo have stockpiles w hich the Army plans to week-lon- burn at tther. g incin- erators. Property act could help landowners LOGAN ( AP) Several Cache County property owners who have stopped farming because their land is federally protected wetland could receive reimbursement under a proposal before Congress. Senate Bill 605. the Omnibus Property Protection Act. would require the federal government to reimburse property ow ners for any losses in property value when land is declared a protected wetland, endangered species habitat or otherwise protected from develop-men- ! by federal regulation. But its fate remains unclear, especially since opponents include President Clinton and Secretary of Interior Bruce Babbitt. The bill coulJ come up for a vote as soon as next week. Both the L'tah Association of Realtors and the L'tah Farm Bureau are endorsing the legislation, which was introduced by Majority Leader Bob Dole and by both l'tah senators., among others. It has passed the Judiciary Committee and is awaiting action in the full Senate. Similar legislation passed the last w eck as part of House House Resolution 9. w ith all three 277-14- 1 L'tah Representatives favor of a. voting in "If private property rights are impaired for the public benefit, the public should pay for it rather than requiring an individual citien to shoulder the entire expense." the "Whenever there's a taking, there ought to be compensation." Clark Israelsen, Cache County Farm Bureau L'tah Association of Realtors said in a prepared statement. Clark Israelsen. president of the County Farm Bureau, there's a tak"Whenever agreed. ing, there ought to he compensation," he said. "But here you have instances where a fanner ts told he can'l farm his own land and receives no compensation whatsoever." Israelsen said there have been at least four cases in Cache County in the past few years where farmers Cache were told they couldn't farm or that thev could not build on their land. "We had one case where the land had been farmed for quite some time." he recalled. "There was one wet spring, a few wet spots appeared, and it was declared a wetland. He was told he could no longer farm his land." In other parts of L'tah. Israelsen said, farmers have inadvertently created a federally protected wetland by allowing a pipe to leak. "Certain types of plants spring up. and they've got a wetland on their hands." he said. Paul Smith. Sen Orrin Hatch's press secretary, said such cases prompted the senator to sponsor the bill. However, some government officials say there already are exemptions in the law for such borderline cases, and that farmers can obtain them if they go through the proper channelv "I don't see a lot of problems." said Bill McMullin. a soil conservationist wi;h the National Resource Conservation Service office in Logan. "Usually if it's a wetland, they're not farming it." Aunt says child died after falling from bed SALT LAKF CITY MM Glenna J TalSn. charged in the death last year of her niece, contends the child's injuries came from a fall from her bunk bed and other falls. Talbot's daughters supported ihe claim that Tara Amanda Talbot fell from her bunk bed. according to police interviews submitted Monday during a hearing in 3rd Ctrvuil Court. The night of March S. Glenna Talbot tusked Tara into bed. wished her a "good night" and "sweet dreams.' according to Amy Talbot. Then she went upstairs to bathe her two sons. Richard. 3. and ear-ol- d 15. 1 Tylan. 2. Minutes later. J year-ol- d Heidi Talbot heard a "big huge loud scream." followed by a "big bump." according Heidi's interview with police. Heidi and Amy ran into Tara's bedroom to find the eirl unconscious on the floor beside her bed. Ann ran fir her moth er, who called 911. Tara died the following day of massive brain injuries. Glenna Talbot told relatives that Tara had slipped twice and fallen once in the shower and once on the bathroom floor earlier that night. An autopsy found severe wounds on the toddler's body, including tiny parallel puncture wounds on the cirl's back. A pathologist thvHight the wounds might have been caused by a corncob skew er Todd Grey, the state's chief medical examiner, said earlier that the girl also had retinal hemorrhages and optic nerve damage. Grey said there were 2s contusions on Tara's head, chest, back, amis and legs. iX'fense attorney Ronald Yengich claims Tara was prone She pulled out to hanks of her own hair, she bit herself and others, and she banged her head against walls, according to testimony. self-abus- e. Court lets DUI ruling stand SALT LAKE CITY ( AP) The L'tah Supreme Court has refused to review a ruling by the L'tah Court of Appeals that the state may, pnor to the filing of criminal charges, revoke the licenses of drivers suspected of drunken driving. "Simply put. drunk drivers beware. Not only do they risk losing their dnver's license, but they can be prosecuted criminally as well." Attorney General Jan Graham said Monday. In a decision written by Judge Norman Jackson, the Court of Appeals found that the practice did violate the U.S. Constitution's f ifth Amendment The ruling in January came in appeals filed by Bret R. Arbon and Ktmherly S. Milhgan. In separate nt incidents, the two had been arrested for driving while under the influence and both failed chemical tests given after they were taken into custody. Authorities sought suspension of their driver's licenses pnor to criminal charges for DUI being filed. Arbon and Milligan sought dismissal of the charges, arguing they had already been punished by the license suspensions, Thty argued that further proceedings against them could result in additional punishment, thus violating the Constitution's double jeopardy clause. The trial court rejected the defendants arguments, and they then appealed and their cases were consolidated. i t !. |