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Show Wednesday, June 30, 1999 Nephi, Utah djs Page 2 Commission reduces fees School district board votes to for convention at accept district strategic plan fairgrounds for state group master before graduation, were also outlined. In addition, core s Correspondent beliefs, or goals and methods of operation, and the districts reThe Juab School District Board sponsibility to the public were of Education voted to accept the included. final draft of the district strateStrategies for reaching the atwere listed as were metha goals poorly gic plan following tended public hearing on ods of implementing the plan. The district will also emphaWednesday. size effective use of technology the attended one Only person will work to develop the and was the as public hearing plan presented for the hearing and whole child through involvement in extra curricular activities. reviewed for formal adoption. The district, according to the Several months ago, a committee made up of patrons from all plan, will ensure an exemplary walks of life, educators and dis- staff, will ensure optimal physitrict staff were assembled to cal facilities, and will achieve make recommendations for the shared decision making. The first exit behavior indistrategic plan and to make comcates which had ment on the portions that there must be proven been compiled as a draft. high cognitive levels of achieveAll of those comments were ment as demonstrated by sucbeneficial and all the members cessful learning of designated approved the elements of the skills and knowledge (College plan," said Kirk Wright, super- Boards What students should know and be able to do) prointendent. gram, said Wright. Following the board vote, Other exit behaviors are that Hathaway, board member, said she wanted to assure that students will demonstrate evithe board begin the process to dence of by completinstigate a district wide program ing educational standards and to provide continuity for other system benchmarks and by parprograms. ticipating in activities and proI know we have the distii-- ' grams in order to develop social she competence. writing program together, Students will also exhibit comsaid. Now it is time to do the same thing with other pro- petence in process skills such as grams. She said she would be effective communication, solid willing to make a motion in or- decision making, analytical der to begin the process if need- thinking, individual accountabiled. ity, and the ability to function All that was needed, said Ter- well in groups. The last two exit behaviors ry Menlove, board was that Hathaway have adopted are that students will the request noted in the minutes. demonstrate evidence of being and able to learn in Then she weuld request .that the with Wright begin meeting independent settings and will principals and doing the prelim- exhibit evidence of being responinary work to see the program is sible, ethical, and possessing a By Myrna Itauntvein Times-New- amount of the rooms had already been booked." s He said there were 225 rooms correspondent available and all would be rentJuab County Commissioners ed. We collect a surcharge per decided to be the good guys" and let the state riding club state con- couple for meals, building costs, vention meet at the county fair- hired entertainment and the grounds at a reduced rental rate. band," said Jarrett We know we Reed Jarrett, riding club dis- will use a lot of heat and we do for district II, not expect the facility to be free. trict requested the commission give But we were wondering if the fee the state jamboree attendees a might be reduced." A few things concerned him, break and reduce the costs. I bid for the state jamboree to said Wm. Boyd Howarth, combe held in Nephi this year," said mission chair, and those were Jarrett. He said he won the bid that the county still had expensfor the two-da-y event which will es for maintenance and for utilibe held this winter on Jan. 21 ties gas, lights, heat I am also and 22 a Saturday and Sunday. concerned about setting a preceHe said usually those attend- dence." Robert Steele, commissioner, ing would arrive in Nephi on a Friday evening, would attend the said he thought there were some conference sessions beginning considerations that needed to be early Saturday morning, would addressed. When a group or have a dinner and a dance later company is making money from in the evening, would attend a events held at the fairgrounds breakfast Sunday and would which involve clients, that is a leave town. different score, and the fees e should not be waived. If a busiWe will need both buildings and will have an ness is entertaining clients or indoor event at the indoor are- making money, then they should na," said Jarrett. He said he had pay the rental and fees." A been quoted a rental fee of $100 organization is a day for each facility plus $15 different and we should conside er that," he said. per hour on the Bob Day, county buildings and and on the hour $1 per buildings bam. roping grounds superintendent, said Jarrett told commissioners that the commission had already this was a good opportunity to set a precedence. "We just had a showcase the county and to bring organization have a business to the area. I started convention at the fairgrounds, booking rooms at our local mo- we charged them $100 per day tels in March and found a fair and waived the hourly charge." By Myrna Trauntvein Times-New- There still was a $75 returnable deposit, in addition, which was paid on the keys to the facilities. Those who paid the deposit were much more careful to make certain they returned the keys after the event. From page vice-preside- nt multi-purpos- non-prof- it multi-purpos- non-prof- it Area Forecast National Weather Service From the Internet 1 Budget ing of the new high school. The payment of principal and interest on this bond issue represents the majority of the debt service fund expenditures and the largest portion of the districts property tax rate, said Clark. Once again, the budget for the school lunch program does not anticipate a price increase for patrons of the food program. The food services program is included in the special revenue fund. A large percentage of the dis- trict students cent over 60 perparticipate in the districts school lunch program. The school lunch program has been able to operate so efficiently that few price increases have been necessary. Clark said one new plan introduced in the district was proving cost effective and was helping with the budget. "During the 1999 fiscal year, the district also introduced a differentiated staffing plan for maintenance that significantly reduced the overall amount of maintenance cost that would have been necessary with staffing the new high school under the old plan. g He said the practices of the district, the use of cost-savin- reserves and other funding sources, are expected to help the district balance the budget for the coming year. However, these funding sources are short term only and the district must eventually look, to additional state and local funding or a reduction in services provided." Dear Editor Reunion Extended forecast... Thursday... Lows in the low 80s to low Dry. 45-6- Highs 0. 90s. Saturday... Locally windy with a chance of mountain thunderstorms. Lows Highs in the 90s. 0. Nephi weather Levan weather June June June June June Alfred Godek, reporter Date High Low Prec June 22 85 55 .00 June 23 86 54 .00 June 24 91 53 .00 June 25 61 89 .00 June 26 86 52 .00 June 27 51 86 .00 June 28 88 55 .00 Norma Sherwood, reporter Date High Low Prec June 22 88 55 .01 53 June 23 98 .00 24 25 94 53 26 27 92 90 88 60 50 28 88 49 51 .00 .00 .00 .00 .00 Allan R. Gibson, Publisher Mariann C. Gibson, Editor Myrna Trauntvein, Correspondent Nephi, Sherie Partridge, Correspondent Levan 623-019- 623-573- Call: (435) FAX: (435) self-direct- Commission finds cash to purchase history books By Myrna Trauntvein Times-New- s Correspondent It took some time at last MonJames Jenkins, and Elizabeth Juab County Commission days Wright Jenkins will be holding a to come up with a way meeting reunion family Suqday, August to order enough county history 8, and Monday, August 9. It will be held at my home, 575 books for Juab County residents West Main Street 63 in Mount to purchase and not break the Pleasant. For further informa- tight budget commissioners have been working with this year. tion, call Pearl Wilson, one of the auI am a of the centennial history, thors and 2nd to met with commissioners to inthese couples. form them that it was time for Shirley Simpson the commission to order the Mt. Pleasant number of history books they would like printed in this first Part-tim- e printing. er hs 5. 60-7- vice-preside- great-granddaught- er Warmer with a chance of thunderstorms. Lows 85-9- self-estee-m 7. Friday... for subscription, news or 623-052- 5 623-473- 5 ; job open at schools By Times-New- s 9 advertising INTERNET timesnewsnebonet.com gibsontnnebonet.com The Tunca-New- e C (UPSP m pubUbed each Wednesday by The Publishing Co., 96 South Main. Nephi, Utah 64648. Periodical postage is paid at Nephi, Utah. 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Reproduction, reuse or transmittal of aQ matter herein is prohibited without prior written penniaoiaa by the publisher or editor: i 631-06- Tin-Ne- s, , A- - Correspondent A part time person needs to be hired to work with the high school counseling department in the program. There is a grant available, said Kirk Wright, superintendent. In order to apply for the grant, however, the board needed to give approval to the project. If the funding is received, said Wright, the district could afford to hire a person to shadow those School-to-Caree- rs who were working with businesses in the community as part of the work experience. The apprentice program needs someone to make certain everything is progressing as outlined. The counselors at the high school are so busy it is difficult for them to make the time to School-to-Caree- 5 Myrna Trauntvein rs .. June McNulty, was not present at the meeting. The manuscript has been turned over to the state historical society and has been reviewed, said Wilson. The state will pay for 1,000 books which are to go to the different libraries around the state which will have complete sets of books from each of the counties. She said some of the counties books are completed and are already in public libraries. We have several of the volumes, one of each of the counties histories, in the Nephi Public Library and at the high schooL Wilson said the publisher will charge between $6 to $8 per volume published, depending on the number of volumes ordered. The lesser amount is for a larger order. While the county could pay as much as $8 a book to have the history published, it could charge enough to recoup the costs and make a profit, said Wilson. The state historical society had been over the project which, to some extent, was funded by the for them, how many will we need? The state suggested each county order at least 2,000 volumes per county. She said the county DUP organization had sold a reprint of an old history in no time. Howarth recommended Wilson call several women who had been involved in ordering a reprint of an old Juab County history, and find out just how many had been ordered and how many were sold. Commissioner Joseph Bernini said the money might be loaned by Special Service District No. 2. He sits on the governing board of that organization. Special Service District No. 2 has the money. The money will need to be paid back, said Robert Steele, commissioner, said, in his opinion he could not see why money budgeted for one of the special service districts could not be used to publish the books. Funds could be borrowed but would need to be paid back with interest. On a community level, he said, he knew funds could be treated in this way. He also wondered if the project could be made a project. However, said Steele, he was certain the commission could find a way to fund publication that would be legal and he, was ways-and-mea- See Book on page 3 Do You have problems with bugs (insects)? Are trees & shrubs turning yellow? .If. llebo Lawn and Pest Control G23-0G0- 3 Offering: Deep root injection for yellowing of leaves Boom spraying for large fields and land Bug spray for foundation, lawns & flowers Weed & Feed for lawns Ground Sterilization TVee Spraying . Aerating . oversee the program, said Wright He said the program was highly successful and was an important addition to the high school state legislature. In educational experience. a $ 10,000 grant was assigned to In order to track students as each county for the early expensthey need to be tracked, we es of the history. Another grant should hire someone to shadow followed later. However, neither students, said Wright. The of the grants was to go for publigrant if it is received, will allow cation costs, said Wilson. How many volumes of the the addition of a part-tim- e person to act as a mentor for the past histories written about Juab have sold? asked Wm. Boyd program. 1992-199- - of beliefs that innovation requires risk taking, each person is responsible for his or her ac- tions, the education of all citizens is fundamental to a communitys well being, and the entire community can, and should, contribute to the success of all children. Individual differences are critical to the growth and vitality of a community, said Wright. If individuals in the school community meet their obligations, the system will then meet the needs of all stakeholder, thereby creating a sense of trust and commitment within the organization. Family involvement and personal responsibility are the most significant factors in a childs success in school. The districts responsibility to the public is to create high expectations and high standards to ensure that all students achieve at high levels, create safe, chalfor others. concern lenging, and supportive learning developed In the overview portion of the Reading from the cere beliefs environments for students and plan which was adopted, the section, Wright said: It is our staff, and open and maintain board gave a mission statement belief that how we operate is as channels of communication with in which district parameters important as what we do. Spe- all interested parities in the comcific goals and measures of suc- munities served by the district. were set. Desired student exit behaviors, cess are essential and relate to or those items a student should our charge of being accountable. Jarrett, Ann Jenkins Jarrett, Partly cloudy with highs in the upper 70s to upper 80s. we will never achieve our goals. Ultimately we must operate under the beliefthat all children can achieve at high levels, said Wright. If a class or program is not good enough for the child of the most educated, most affluent, most ambitious family in the community, then it is not good enough for any child. The district also believes that honesty is the foundation for all healthy relationships, that all students have a right to an excellent educational program, all persons have a right to a safe environment, each person has a responsibility to be a contributing member of society, and all persons have the right to be treated with respect. In addition, it is part of the core Del-an- ie The families of Robert Henry Wednesday... that unless we create the appropriate atmosphere, Yet we realize 3, Board members agreed to give Howarth, commission chair. Assuming we can find a way Ip pay their vote of approval. I STUDIO TECHNIQUE GUMMED SPECIAL Free Conditioning Treatment TCIth Shampoo. Cut. Cl Style cCuU For Men. Women. 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