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Show 84 k1! EXF 119 FFESS UTAH 307 SALT W 200 LAFE S ASSOCIATION STE 5005 CITY UT 61 Serving East Juab County - A Nice Piace To Live! Volume 95, No 48 ' Wednesday, December 3, 1997 . Nephi 20 ysar old held on sexual abuse charges By Times-New- Myrna Trauntvein s Correspondent The state is t posed bill is adopted by the state legislature which calls for voter approval for s Correspondent any property tax increase above the cerJuab County should not plan to raise tified rate. Ike Lunt, Juab County Commissiontaxes on any property within the couner, said the bill was discussed in the ty for 1998. In fact, it will be difficult to raise a Revenue and Taxation Steering committax for anything in the county if a pro tee and in the business session of the Penrod had been held in the Juab County Jail since his arrest in September. Bail has been set at $100,000. , . He is charged with two first-degrfelony counts of aggravated sexual abuse ofa child, one first-degrfelony count of sexual abuse e of a child, and two felony counts of sodomy on a child. He also feces 11 second-degre- e ofsexual abuse of a child and two third-degre- e felony charges of dealing in harmful material to a minor. A Class B misdemeanor charge of sodomyforcible sodomy on a child has also been charged. We think there were eight victims, said Leavitt Five offenses are not being charged, he said, because they allegedly occurred while Penrod was a juvenile. In August, Penrod was met at the Salt Lake International Airport by Juab County Sheriffs deputies and questioned as he was returning from an LDS mission where he had served for just four months. Other alleged perpetrators are being charged in juvenile court on sexual abuse charges which arose from an association with Penrod. A dozen or so members of Bikers Against Child Abuse silently monitored the legal proceedings on Drursday. Wayne Luck, spokesman for BACA, said the group hrs already been working with three of the victims and their fomZae. V.a have been trying to make our presence felt at court proceeding!, said Luck. 4 the association. Ray Short, state legislator, is the sponsor of the bill, said Lunt. The proposal began with a suggested implementation date of January 1999 said Lunt. However, he said, John Valentine, representative, made a decent motion that passed with only one 'dissenting vote to change the effective date to this January instead of January 1999. Valentine argued, in the Revenue and Taxation Interim Committee, against allowing a one-yegap with no voter approval requirement. Even though the committee did not act on the bill, there was clearly enough support to pass it, said Gardner. "And since Representative Valentine is a member of House leadership, we can only assume that the bill has the support of all of the leadership making it even more likely that it will pass. Perhaps we should just shut county government down and let the state take over, said Wm. Boyd Howarth, . - i " n ar V rK THE PILGItARIS AND INDIANS CAME TO SCHOOL FOR THANKSGIVING The Kindergarten students of Mrs. Wood enjoyed a Thanksgiving dinner last Wednesday at the Nephi Elementary School. Each had to dress up as a Pilgram or a Indian and it appears from this picture most of the boys choose Wild Indian" and the girls played Pilgram. will pay piredatoir Jtm&Ib Ibanti onuEy first-degre- felony charges ffimtaire My purpose in sending this memo to you is to warn you against basing your 1998 budget on a property tax increase, wrote Gardner. I know you are in the process of finalizing your budgets over Monday, commissioners reviewed a the next couple of weeks. I anticipate letter from Brent Gardner representing the legislature will pass the bill requiring voter approval come January and make it applicable to your 1998 budget Commissioners complained that first the state had ordered them to revalue property and, now, was strongly suggesting the commission not raise taxes on the very property the state wanted raised because, according to the state tax commission, it had not met current market values. We had to hold new BOE (Board of Equalization) hearings in Eureka because of the latest order, said Joseph Bernini, commission chair. V not willing to go to Provo, he said. Penrod feces 19 counts, five of them first degree felonies. First degree felonies cany a possible five to life sentence fix each count which judgment Utah Association of Governments held in St. George recently. The members of Utah Association of Governments voted not to support the proposed bill and adopted a position in opposition of the proposition. yi w,. may run concurrently. It will be the judges decision whether the prebminaiy hearing fcr Penrod is held in Nephi or in PltrTOi Both areas are inducted in the 4th District Court jurisdiction. Burmingham did nde that the preliminary hearing would be scheduled fcr Nephi and would be before Judge Lynn Davis, another 4th District Court Judge. If the site were to be changed, Judge Davis would still sit in ttat feus imiareasss wni lba gsfl3m tamgter m ttiks Times-New- James William Penrod, 20, was offered a chance to plea, said David Leavitt, Juab County attorney, but refused. Die deal offered was for Penrod to admit guilt to reduced charges which still carried a five to life sentence but less counts ofeach. Leavitt offered a plea to one count of aggravated sexual abuse of a child, for example, rather than the two counts he feces. I don't know why he rejected it, said Leavitt Penrod was not present at court but was represented by his attorney. Judge Guy R. Burmingham, 4th District Court, was requested by Wilford N. Hansen, attorney for Penrod, to have a preliminary hearing in Provo rather than in Nephi, his hometown and the site of the alleged sexual abuse. Leavitt, brother of Gov. Mike Leavitt, objected to the request made in 4th District Court held on Thursday inNephi. Conramimssnoini fessurs By Myrna Traantrein Single Copy Price 50(2 10 pages Times-New- s to cmnimtiy iresMsoiife take advantage of the fund. By Myrna Traantvcia Correspondent Juab County Commissioners once again agreed to pay into the bounty fund toward predator control in Juab County approximately $2,000 if the budget will bear it. This year, however, they made one stipulation the money is to be paid to residents of Juab County only. "Last year, a lot ofthe money went to people from out of our county," said Wm. Boyd Howarth, commissioner. Commissioners suspected, he said, that quite a few of the predators used to collect the predator killing fee didn't actually come from Juab County. However, Terry Kay, Steve Ingram, "The fund will still be a great benefit, said Lunt Stephensen said he also would like permission from the commission to pay those who wanted to collect the bounty fee personally. "I would then bill the county periodically, he said. I think that would be a lot better than writings lot of checks through the county," said Lunt The Bureau of Land Management said there were only five people in Juab County who were authorized to sign land and gravel use permits. Nancy DeMille, Bureau of Land Management (BLM) wrote to tell commissioners of the restriction. "Any individual not listed below should be removed from the list of authorized signatures, said DeMille. "The following are currently authorized to sign land and gravel use permits on behalf of Juab County," she Bill Morgan and Rex Stephensen thought the idea of paying a bounty helped control the number of predators found in the county. "Perhaps there is a way to check the coyote genealogy to make certain they wrote. come from Juab County, Joseph BerChe then listed Joseph Bernini, Juab said ccmsuzrica chair, jokingly. nini, County Commission Chair; Ike Lunt, to retidznts the of commissioner; Wm. Eoyd Howarth, Paying ccney only the county djerat errors, kowsvca', that ccr.r.kaer, Mike Catty, county adell ty r.ii! will snJ wp ftna ministrator, and Ikkcrt CrrrtU, of the county road departJuab County, said Ike Lunt, csmnia-sioneEven though the vert majority ment. Juab County Commissioners are presenting evidence of the death ef tha xedator are honert and will cTcr only current! y holding fcudgrt work sessions 'rzemtm creatures from the county, a fow mry with Q rzzizd-- rr:2 I super-izimh- ti r. ir' ' We will meet with employees all day on Wednesday, said Joseph Bernini, commission chair. The meetings are being held, he said, to get input from elected county officials and from all department heads. "They will present a proposed budget and we will review it with them, said Bernini. The work is being done to get all of the needs of each department on paper so the commission can then red pencil it. A draft and final budget will be prepared from the county officials requests. The draft budget will be reviewed and budget hearings will be held before final adoption. All the work will be done in time fix the new year and to meet state requirements, said Bernini. Juab County operates on a fiscal year running from January to January. Juab County Commissioners voted ed to support Riley in his bid. "I think we should make the request in writing, said Wm. Boyd Howarth, commissioner. "Riley has done an excellent job in the appointment and should be reappointed. Joseph Bernini, county commission chairman, said he agreed. "I think we should see the letter gets out right away Juab County Commissioners will continue their traditional mode of meeting again in 1998. Commissioners voted on Monday to continue to meet from 3 p.m. to 7 pm. On the first Monday of each month, unless the Monday is a holiday, then they will meet on the Tuesday of that weak. The second meeting, each month, will he kali on the third Monday and will begin at 19 am. and wifi continue until 2 pxl If a holiday occurs on that Monday, the roasting will be held on Tuee-dx- j. to send a letter requesting the reappointment of Howard Riley to the Central Utah Water board. "We support Howard (EikyVcmJ Iks Lunt, commissioner. "He has Czz a Mertlzg dates were act, as follows: 5 and 23; February 2 and very fine job and has eoctimmi to support Juab County's dams for CU? wa- 17; IlrrJi 2 and 13; April 6 azJ 3; ter. We appreciate that ahmg wrlLh the Ifoty 4 tzi 13; Jane 1 and 13; Jtty 6 other work be has dose. 12; Arrzrt 3 and 17; CcpUlcr Another perron is making a tkl for the 8 21; Cctiksr 5 and 13; I 1vcj-M- r same appointment, said Lunt 2 12; t:d Cat: bar 7 azd . ty . 21. Jtitry aJ aJ tzl |