Show Standard-Examine- r W1 IT® Ogden Utah frtsak© Charging disparities in pay when compared to other cities 70 Ogden police officers Tuesday night reiterated their demands for an 84 percent pay boost At a meeting in Kopper Kottage they said they would take their case to the citizens as well as the City Council and mayor "A lot of individuals were quite upset to the point of calling a strike but we know that's illegal and we're not talking strike" said Phil Howell president of the police chapter of the Utah Public Employees Association Ogden City Manager Cowles Mallory has offered all employees a 5 percent raise plus the city's paying more of workers' health insurance premiums 7E Wednesday June 2 1982 mrooi pay received by officers in other cities Patrolmen with seven years now make $130 to $343 less than is paid elsewhere pay package Officers closed their meeting to the Puffer said while sergeants fall behind with $186 to $417 less pay when compared press but met with reporters afterwards to L Clark Puffer said Dr "We ask" departments in Salt Lake City Orem West chief negotiator for the officers "for 84 Valley City Salt Lake and Davis percent that includes a cost of living We counites "Even if Ogden provided a 7 percent say 5 percent is not acceptable and would create only a larger disparity among pay increase it would still not put our people in a position of equity with officers from grades" execuother jurisdictions" Puffer said Besides said Puffer who is also He said Ogden officers are underpaid tive director of the UPEA neighboring communities are planning a "fair salary now but conceded officers at the entry level of patrolman are paid comparably increase for their police with Layton of9 percent and with those in other cities fering 88 percent Roy Riverdale 895" "But at the top of the scale when an He cited what he called the predicament officer has been on the force for seven or of an Ogden officer who has spent seven more years the pay disparity ranges from years on the force and is "far behind" in $200 to $400 a month" Puffer said Staff 6E pi Except for the police Mallory has said other city employees have accepted his By ROBERT ANDERSON Standard-Examin- e d ©say 3E S Ogden budget Rodeo royalty Clinton budget Most cities have pay scales with a 48 to bers of council members are listed on the percent range between salaries for "be- cards ginners" and those of career officers while Queried over a handbill that contained 35 d more offers for reference to the proposed Mount Ogden Ogden only percent said he professionals golf course and asked what are the city's Howell said Ogden police have in the priorities Puffer said the illustration of a past seven years listened and tried to golfer was "just symbolic" "The current budget" he said "does not cooperate with the city Some officers said they recalled city provide for higher wages because of conmanagers and council members in the struction costs for a new golf course and past explaining that "as soon as we get the major building projects mall built and some other projects finis"But what could be more important than hed" the city would make amends qualified experienced police "We can't eat rhetoric any longer" retaining to insure the safety of area resiHowell said dents?" Puffer asked The chapter's members agreed to set up Development of the golf course will re- a fund for publicizing their demands quire no property tax levies nor money "Blue citations" are being distributed from the city's general fund municipal appealing for public support Phone num- - authorities have said 50 top-pai- ot-fice- Dave LaB!!e Standard-Examine- rs r High tension drama Sharon L Burgener 29 1060 S Main Brigham City driver of one of two cars which collided near the intersection of 2nd and Washington shows concern as paramedics work at freeing Bonnie Burnett 50 1219 N Jefferson from wreckage Mrs Burnett and her passenger Emily Munson 72 620 6th were taken to St Benedict's hospital where Mrs Burnett was in in stable condition seam fry ires By LANCE GURWELL Standard-Examin- Staff er Lacking 10000 signatures on an initiative petition to force the issue of regional prisons to a vote the Concerned Citizens of Utah are offensive this mounting a last-ditc- h weekend to get the names The citizen's group is trying to collect signatures of 60000 legally registered voters — from at least 15 of the state's 29 counties — in an effort to force the question of on November's general election ballot They have until 5 pm Monday to present the petitions to county clerks The petitions must then be certified by the Utah Secretary of State Randy Smart administrative assistant to the state lieutenant governor said the actual deadline for submitting the petition is Saturday but since that is a day the deadline is extended until Monday If the petition drive is successful voters would decide whether to force the state to maintain its centralized prison and prevent construction of additional halfway houses non-worki- ng Wob©r Fir© By DON VETTEH Standard-ExamirM- r Staff A mine safety training director and former county clerk will take over as Weber Fire District's new chief administrator this month Tim W Eriksen 41 Pocatello Idaho was introduced Tuesday at the Weber Fire District Board of Trustees meeting The board has not made a public motion to appoint Eriksen who is to be put on the payroll June 15 Eriksen will take charge of the district during the next month while retreating from his duties at Idaho State University as the mine safety training director The chief administrator will oversee the operation of the dis a sign the petitions — both for and Rep Bob Curran member of the group said about against the prison" Curran said 50000 names have been collected "They think the citizens should so far but he is confident the ba- make the decision and not the state lance will be picked up in a drive and they want to put it on the this weekend in Salt Lake and ballot" Curran who is not seeking reDavis counties "People are more than eager to election to the Legislature this en this morning and Mrs Munson was in satisfactory condition Police reported that Mrs Burnett lost control of her car crossed Harrisville Road and was struck by the Burgener vehicle t iree year said if the petition drive is unsuccessful the Concerned Citizens will look to other methods to stop regionalization The group says the state should build any satellites to the state prison on the 1100 acres it already owns at Draper ¥®f e prisn Meanwhile the Division of Corrections continues to review two potential sites for the proposed $15 d million prison And the division plans to ask the Utah Legislature during a special session later this month for a supplemental appropriation to help ease the over- 288-be- crowding at the state prison at Draper Steve Love assistant director of the Division of Corrections said site evaluations are continuing on two sites — one at Willard Bay and the other at 600 N Redwood Road in Davis County 0o¥s schools plan 1 short 4 long daws 0 week By NANCY CURETON Standard-Exami- nr Staff FAR M INGTON — Students in three Davis County elementary schools may be pleasantly surprised next fall when they're dismissed two hours early one day a week But smiles may also fade when they have to stay a half an hour later the other four days to make up the time The Davis Board of Education Tuesday gave permission for teachers at Burton (Kaysville) Stewart (Centerville) and Oak Hills (Bountiful) elementaries to go on "planning time" beginning this fall Another school Holbrook D istricf making sure the two arms of the department don't get crossed The Weber County Commission advised the district to avoid double taxation questions by keeping the two budgets separate Eriksen handled budgeting matters while serving two terms as county clerk for Bannock County in Idaho He is also a certified emergency medical technician and certified instructor in fire prevention and firefighting with the Mine Safety and Health Adrninistration Eriksen said his initial work qill " be investigating the district's work circumstances and needs "I'll have the taxpayer at heart c out a two-hoblock to plan lessons and activities for the coming week by dismissing students early With the addition of the three schools there are 16 schools in the district using planning time The policy is not always popular because of the inconvience it causes some parents It also increases transportation costs to the district in some areas Assistant Superintendent Gayle Stevenson said most of the schools dismiss students early on Monday and hold them longer the other four ur ance Stevenson said There is usually about a 70 percent level of acceptance before the board will even consider the request he said Steve Ward a parent in the audir ence told the board "you're not doing the kids any good by keeping fairly assess the feelings of the has not seemed to make any differmajority is through open dialogue ence" Without discussion between two-ho- ur Daphnne Aller a Meadowbrook talk but done "You've nothing Elementary teacher said planning and has been successful in that teachers and time about parents about school "What principals" he said "There's not one teacher in my the kids?" school who would give it up now" was the He told the board survey said she to "Keeping students later "slanted" and that the only way them there longer" and that will be a chief concern" Eriksen said "I want to work closely with the men as individuals and a group so we can build the responsibilities that we've been as- The board denied planning time pa- rents and teachers "I don't think for Holbrook Elementary because you have the basis to make a sound a survey taken more than a year ago indicated that only 606 percent judgment" he said Ward also questioned whether of those surveyed supported the the teachers would actually use policy block for planning that Also parents whose children do think it's were transferred to Holbrook from Stevenson said "I adhered to very well They Stoker after the survey was taken (teachers) know it's important not should be given a chance to voice to abuse that time" their opinions the board decided names mew chief administrator trict's fire and paramedic services "fact-finding- Elementary in Bountiful was de- days The district conducts surveys of nied planning time until a parent survey can be taken to assess op- parents and teachers in any school requesting planning time to deterposition to the policy Planning time gives teachers ab- mine the level of public accept- In approving planning time for the three schools the board indicated that if a more current survey were taken for Holbrook parents and teachers the board would consider another request prior to the opening of school m at mm— x mil v Filling in the chief adminisgame" running the fire district "It's a different ball game trying trator's position and completing to keep the paramedics and the fire the rest of the district's organiza- service separate" Hancock said tion should solve seniority vaca"If I felt I was unloaded on I'd tion schedules and salary quessigned" probably chirp out some more but tions he said The new chief impressed the Hiring Eriksen is the first step in I don't have that feeling" the district's reorganization plan board with his experience in He said he will likely apply for firefighting emergency medicine that splits the fire service and of three fire captain slots one and local government Smout said paramedics Eriksen and the board indicated had Board members will now have to hire three fire Eriksen will be making as much captains and a paramedic chief that in the past there had been the current fire chief a little as The board has indicated those posipersonnel problems and more than $25000 a year which tions will be filled from within the public policy differences between could be raised another $2000 withthe board and Hancock department four months according to "I feel more confident now and in Seemingly victimized by the adSmout ministrative change is Chief Ken have been more satisfied in the last There were 32 applicants for the Hancock whose position has been three weeks since we started this new position That list was narabolished However Hancock con- district" said board chairman rowed to a final five tends that it's a "different ball- - Ronald Smout in-hou- se si x $ mm Tim W Eriksen |