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Show ) tJTA3 STATE PRESS AS S3 B: 0 SALT THURSDAY, JUNE 9, 1327 BOX , USE CITIt CTAS 84 UO . . .a r. 197- 7- VOLUME SEVENTY-NIN- NUMBER TWELVE E ira By ROSELYN KIRK Residents in the south end of Davis County may get two new fire without organizing a fire district, according to Commissioner C.E. Moss. Moss COMMISSIONER said a meeting with city officials from Centerville, Woods Cross and West Bountiful had resulted in an agreement to assess two mills for fire protection, condi- tional on the approval of the city councils. The mill levy would be assessed only in these three towns in the south end of the county and in the unincor- porated areas. North Salt Lake, Farmington and Bountiful assess their own levies and supply fire protection in those cities. COMMISSIONER Moss said two locations for fire stations are being considered, one in Centerville, adjacent to the city hall and another at 2600 South and 800 West in Woods Cross. He said, There will have to be a lot of .checking done before we decide what station to build first. County Fire Chief Russell Earl had said earlier that stations should be located so that no engine would have to travel further than two miles from the station to put out a fire. Commissioner Moss said North Centerville was a lot mill toward the purchase of a longer than two miles from the county fire station located at 400 North and 500 West in engine is paid for, the additional one mill can be used to finance the additional building. The cost of the two substations has been estimated at Bountiful. BUT HE also indicated that area in the unincorporated area of the the Val Verda county was also much further than two miles from the county station. If the station is built in Centerville, Commissioner Moss said Centerville officials had indicated that the county might be allowed to build on land owned by the city next to the city hall. But Commissioner Moss pointed out this proposal is only under consideration and no official steps have been taken. The issue over money has been central in resolving the problem since officials learned earlier that cities in the north end of the county were paying 24 mills for fire protection while those in the south were assessed only one mill. Commissioner Moss said this discrepancy was explainable based on an agreement initiated by. former County Commissioner Stanley Smoot. HE SAID the agreement had set the one mill levy since cities in the south end were contributing the additional Named Acting Police Chief For Clinton A. Weibell Alan Weibell is Clintons new acting police chief. MR. WEIBELL, who has served on the city police force the past 18 months, was appointed acting police chief at least until the city council appoints a permanent chief after July 1. He fills the position vacated by the resignation of chief, Hank Kodele, who accepted a position with the Utah High- - way Patrol in Eastern Utah. A GRADUATE of Weber State Colleges police science course and a veteran of law enforcement, Mr. Weibell previously served as a Clearfield police officer and a security officer at Clearfield Job Corps Center. He is married to the former Joann Talbot. They have three children, grb fire engine. Commissioner Moss said now that the fire $80,000. If the county from Farmington south were assessed two mills for fire protection, the county could collect $55,944 this year. This amount raised by the two mill levy would net about $31,000 more than the $24,000 raised by the one mill levy last year, Commissioner Moss said. THE COUNTY had considered forming a fire dis- trict, in the south end of the county since they didnt want cities in the north end to pay an unequal share in fire costs. But Commissioner Moss said the statistics show that the county only collected $14,000 in property taxes from the north end of the county and paid out $16,830 in fire protection costs. The county has no fire department in the north end of the county, but pays the larger cities to supply fire protection for unincorporated areas of the county. COMMISSIONER Moss said county and city officials from the south end did not favor going with a fire district since that would require a mill Ipvy election. It would ;be two or three years before anything could be done and then maybe the people would vote it down. He said the fire problem is crucial and the south end cities need fire protection soon. If the city councils approve the project and the county decides to go with the levy, the $31,000 would be used for a Commissioner Moss said. He suggested that the county buy the fire pumper on a time payment By ROSELYN KIRK Davis County Planning Commission approved the submission of applications for grants totaling $20,000 from the Housing and Urban 701 (HUD) Development funds and $200,000 in grant requests through the EnProtection vironmental (EPA) 208 Water Agency Quality Study. graphically display planning concepts. Presently the concepts are in ordinance not graphic form. APPROVING IN the $200,000 grant application for the EPA Water Quality grant, the planning commission accepted Mr. Scotts recommendation. He said a study of the area had been 1951-5from undertaken of to construction the prior the freeway. This study must be revised, necessitating a mountain study suitability analysis and a geologic analysis of groundwater in the lower areas of the count- COUNTY Planner Robert Scott said the matching grants, if received, would be percent federally funded, with the local contribution set at 25 percent. The bulk of, the request for money under the HUD grant request would be the $15,000 application to update a county master plan. Mr. Scott said a Davis Plan was County Master completed eight or nine years ago, but was not officially adopted. County planners feel the original plan would give planners something to build on. If the money is awarded, it will be used to get the master plan updated and approved. 75 ADMITTED that the county will probably get only a portion of the $15,000 reHE quest, but said the money could provide the funding for publications costs. The planning staff will do most of the work. Last year the counties did not apply for the funding, Mr. Scott said, but eight or nine cities did apply and were awarded funds. The commission also approved the application for a grant for $5,000 to write a Community Design Manual. Mr. y- The grant application asks for $100,000 in each of these two areas. Grant applications will now go to the Davis County Commission for ap- proval. business, the commission approved two unrecorded subdivisions and required some changes before approving a recorded subdivision in the West Farmington area and a planned dwelling group in the South Bountiful area. A request for an unrecorded subdivision at 1100 West 300 South in the West Farmington area was approved by the commission the applicant provided Gordon Peterson could meet the Davis County Health Department rules for the three lot subdivision. IN OTHER planning ANOTHER unrecorded subdivision at 3900 South and 2625 West in the South Bountiful area was also approved subject to the developer Ivon Clinton residents have banned together for the safety of their children. NEARLY 1,000 have signed a petition asking the Denver, Rio Grande and Western Railroad to widen an underpass at 2300 North 1000 West. The petition states that the narrow underpass is hazar- - persons dous to our children as well as being too narrow for safe passage of cars." MAYOR Gary Bush saltHhe underpass is so narrow that only small autos can pass each other going separate directions, but the larger cars must wait for the other to children going to and from clear the underpass. Also, he said, there is no room for pedestrians and it is extremely dangerous to been plan. GLEN AUSTIN, county KNIGHTON had quested that the 39 acres be MR. re- as retained agricultural parceling with an unimproved road. As the ruling was passed by the commission, lien agreements on the property for putting in curb, gutter and sidewalk will also be required. The commission also approved a planned dwelling group at 4250 South Highway 91 requested by Jim Keiser in the South Bountiful area but required that only four s be constructed in that area. The commission felt the area was too crowded and required that one building of the proposed five be dropped to provide more open space. IN A FINAL manner, the commission tabled a request by Jack Johnson to rezone his property off Highway 91 at 3100 South in North Salt Lake from The to C-commission told Mr. Johnson he would have to check with his neighbors and bring back a concensus from the community before the decision on the rezoning request is made. four-plexe- funding for storm drain By ROSELYN KIRK projects. The funding of projects will not begin until the plan is presented to the Council of Governments (COG) on June The newly organized flood control advisory committee said Tuesday they will set up priority groupings for storm drain projects but added that no first priority grouping will be inflexible. Wall providing roads and curb and gutter. The commission also required that Mr. Wall meet the lot sizes specified by the ordinance. In approving a recorded subdivision west of 1100 West and North of Glovers Lane in the West Farmington area, told commission the developer Ken Knighton that a full 30Toot hard surfaced road will be required before building is allowed in the subdivision. LDS Primary services. THE MAYOR said he has and all cities 15 make suggestions. The committee delegated Mr. Nielsen to make the presentation. en- member of the gineer committee, said that several projects may be undertaken and a at the same time since some projects will take longer on the drawing board than others. The committee said that consideration will be given to need, but added they will take into consideration the efforts of the community to get the projects started. The system will reward the city that gets things moving, said Mr. Austin. Gene Nielsen, consulting engineer on the committee, said there are some projects that can get into construction immediately while others will need to wait for litigation to establish y and solve other problems. right-of-wa- ROLF NELSON, a member of the committee, said this does not mean there is no priority grouping. The committee established nine priorities which they clas-sifeas crucial, but did not place them in order. The list included Wasatch Drive in Layton, Clinton de- d tention basins and storm drain system, North Salt Lake Center Street storm drains, Clearfield storm drain at 1450 South 1000 East, Bountiful culvert at 400 North, Holmes Creek, Weber Delta detention r Canal dedrain, tention drain, and 2600 Suui'n storm drain. Davis-Webe- Glen COMMISSIONER Flint said the county could borrow money on tax anticipation notes to finance any projects that are ready to go before the money is available from the mill levy. The levy will provide about $506,000 in HE SAID the county will not jump into projects immediately, but indicated that some construction may begin more rapidly than others. He said the first step would be an agreement between the city and the county, specifying how work will be done and how it will be funded. The county would have the responsibility for the overall engineering planning. Commissioner Glen Flint said the county would be the central agency through which the plans and the funding were filtered. Well have to have receipts on everything we do. Flint said the commission had already had pressure from Bountiful, Clearfield and Layton to begin projects. Clinton City officials were present at the meeting to suggest the construction of two areas that could serve both as detention basins and as parks. Larry Smith, Clinton City COMMISSIONER manager, said the city already has $10,000 available from a Bureau of Outdoor Recreation (BOR) park grant. The project could be completed with some additional money from the county. that not too serious or costly and the MR. NIELSEN advised ihe project was county might be able to solve the problem without too much expenditure. Commissioner Flint cau- tioned that the presence of Clinton city officials at the meeting did not guarantee that they had an edge over other cities who are seeking funding for their projects. COMMISSIONER Flint mentioned that the storm drain problem in Layton at Wasatch Drive and Fairfield Road was critical and suggested the county "move out on the project." Mr. Austin said, Cooperation from Lay-toshould be a factor as to how fast the job gets done. The committee asked Mr. Nielsen to contact Bountiful city engineer Jack Balling on two projects one, the repair of tne culvert at 200 West and 400 North. Another project discussed by the committee to was the possibility alleviating flooding problems at Barton and Mill Creeks in Bountiful by allowing the storm water to flow into the n Weber-Davi- s not be wasted. aqueduct and MR. NELSON agreed to contact Wayne Winegar, manager of Weber Basin Water Conservancy District, to see if the plan would be acceptable to the district, which owns the aqueduct. The committee also considered the project of placing a detention drain at the site of the Weber Delta to prevent flooding east of Sunset and Clinton. Mr. Nielsen suggested the project, which he said would supply the water to the West Layton area. WEBER Basin is consider- ing extending the Layton Canal in that area. Mr. Nielsen said the canal could be constructed on the east and the detention basin on the west. The road could provide a berm in between. The committee said they will also require that all sub- division plats in the county be reviewed for storm drainage plans before the plat is approved. Mr. Austin said cities should adopt that requirement as a part of their subdivision ordinance. THE committee stressed that inter-citrelations will be necessary' for the priority grouping proposal to work. They noted that the first priority grouping may change after the committee receives input from COG. y -willwhich be public hearing has been set for Thursday, June ifi at 7:30 p.m. to review Layton Citys proposed general Jund budget of $1,628,038. The budget, according to Citv Recorder Randall Heaps, represents an increase of percent THE tentative budget, which has a balanced income and expenses, will be presented for public discussion before the city council at the regular meeting. over this years fiscal budget. NOTED that the HE $169,690 met with additional income and there will be no increase in the property tax mill levy, he said. increase is reflected largely in a six percent cost of living pay raise for city employees and inflationary costs of all maintenance and operations. However, the 11 percent HE NOTED that department heads have been working with the city council for several weeks in preparation of the new budget, grb approximately 11 increase such improvement projects and in a subsequent meeting told me that they could not spend the money for what they termed beautification of Clinton, he said. MORE recently, however, some steps have been taken to work closely with the State Department of Public Transportation and with the state the legislature, mayor explained. Things are a little con- fused as to whom on the state level has jurisdiction over such matters, said Michael D. Lyon, attorney for the city. "In the past, the Utah Public Service Commission had direct responsibility and now its the Utah Department of Transportation." noted THE LATTER Mayor Bush, "is willing to work with us on this problem and that seems to be the route well take. But if we get no results from this, well have to resort to legal action." Not only is the underpass narrow, but is hazardous to traffic with the view from either side of 1000 West being blocked to traffic. Its difficult for drivers going from 1000 West onto 2300 North to see if the way is clear, the mayor pointed out. CLINTON city council also expressed concern that the railroad should remedy other hazardous or dangerous crossings as follows: Fencing of the along the west side of the DRG&W tracks between 2300 North and 1300 North; smooth grade crossings 1300 and 1800 North; and replace the wooden bridge across the tracks at 800 North, grb y right-of-wa- Public Hearing Will Review Layions General Fund Budget A the with working railroad and others since I came into office three years ago. But I have had absolutely no results. At that time, railroad officials said they had no money for sub-statio- Planning Commission Approves Applications Scott said the manual would By GARY R. BLODGETT THE WEEKLY REFLEX 197 B" North Main 8L, Layton Phone 378-91- Published totals 33 Wkty by CLIPPER PUBUSHING CO. John Stable, Jr PuNtshpr Socond Class Postage Paid At Layton, Utah SUBSCRIPTION $4.50 per year Out of Slats SubacripUon S5J0 Subscription SIS JO (Payabl In Advance) Pvamti I "" |