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Show MARCH 3. 1987 L, Secondary lunch menu Lunch menus for the secondary schools for the week of March 9 include: Sausage and Cheese pizza, tos- sliced sed salad peaches, ranger cookies and milk. High schools have a choice each day of burger bar and salad line. Jr. high choice, cheeseburger. Tuesday, March 10, shredded and lettuce, beef burritos buttered mixed vegetables, hot sliced orange, chorolls colate crinkle cookie and milk. Jr. high choice, hamburger and dills. Wednesday, March 11, state school lunch day, trailmaster steak, whipped potatoes round-uvegetables, ranch cheese dutch oven peach rolls and milk. Jr. cobbler p high choice, hoagie sandwich. Thursday, March 12, baked ham, parslied potatoes, buttered carrots, whole wheat rolls slice, apple pie milk. Jr. high choice, beef and Cheddar sandwich. Friday, March 13, tacos sauce, buttered com, fresh fruit butter plate, hot scones and milk. Jr. high choice, sa fish-burge- r. Artist Norma S. Forsberg has her works on exhibit in the Farmington City complex, now through March 31. Elementary lunch menu Bountiful artists works on display in Farmington Lunch menus for the elementary schools for the week of March 9 include: Monday, March 9, barber pole weiner, buttered com, crisp veget- Norma S. Forsberg, prominent Bountiful artist, is exhibiting her oils and water color paintings in the Farmington City Complex, 130 N. Main. They will hang through the remainder of February and through March. Mrs. Forsberg is a native Utahn, a versatile and sensitive interpreter of her favorite subject, landscapes. She is, however interested in many' subjects, working with oils, water colors, arcylic, pastel and other mediums. Art has always been an important part of Normas life. Encouraged by her artist father and mother, she is presently one of Utahs top women artists. Mrs. Forsberg has studied at the University of Utah, Salt Lake Art Center, Bountiful Art Center and with artists in California, New York, Idaho and Utah. This artist has taken many awards at the Utah State Fair, at the Moapa Valley Invitational, St. Marks Art Festival, Bountiful Art Center, Dinosaur Art Festival and at the Utah Watercolor Society and Western Art Guild. She has exhibited her paintings in many local and national shows and has been represented in collections in state and private collections throughout the United States and Europe. Norma is married to John G. Forsberg, the mother of six children and the couple has 23 grandchildren. Among her oils and water colors shown in the Farmington City Complex, are Park City DanMountain dies, Smithfield, Path, and many other most interesting subjects. These paintings may be seen Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. until the end of March. Come in to enjoy these pictures. David Merrill, art director for Farmington brings the work of many excellent artists to the city for the public to enjoy. able salad cherry and milk. shortcake Kindergarten snack, cinnamon Overcrowding of Davis Jail stirs potential explosive situation By GARY R. BLODGETT Editor FARMINGTON Davis County Jail has a potentially explosive situation which can only be relieved by reducing the inmate population, according to Chief Deputy Harry V. Jones, Davis County Sheriff s Department. Just like nearly every county jail in the state, the Farmington facility is overcrowded. Chief Jones emphasized. We are handling things well under the circumstances, but because of the overcrowded conditions there is a potential for serious problems. Davis County Jail is designed for a maximum of 101 inmates and this figure is exceeded almost daily, and especially on weekends, the chief deputy noted. The jail population sometimes reaches between 120 and 140 and is over 15 inmates about 60 percent of the time. On last Dec. 13, a Saturday, the population was 137. On weekends last September the population ranged between 130 and 140, he said. These figures, he pointed out, are actual incarcerated figures and do not reflect the critical situations faced by jail personnel when even a few of the inmates are women or inmates who must be segregated for any reason. He noted that a cellblock of 12 bunks is designated for women, and this cuts into the total number of available bunks for male inmates if even one woman is incarcerated. Also, jails must provide facilities for isolation of inmates who are seriously ill or for any reason are problem inmates. This is the reason that county jails are considered filled to a max- - 1 puff and milk. Tuesday, March 10, hamburger deluxe, lettuce, tomato and dills, French fries crisp carrot coins, pink applesauce, chocolate chip cookies and milk. Kindergarten snack, chocolate chip cookie and milk. imum when only 80 to 85 of Wednesday, March 11, state their available cells are percent being utilwide menu, trailmaster steak, ized, the chief deputy noted. roundwhipped potatoes You must find space for women rolls up vegetables, ranch cheese and separation or isolation inmates dutch oven peach cobfor inmates with serious problVi bler pint cowboy ems. milk. Kindergarten snack, orange So like other county jails, Davis sections and milk. County Jail has had to double up Thursday, March 12, enchila- and use other means to alleviate the das, shredded lettuce, buttered overcrowded conditions. Cutting peas, applesauce, snickerdoodle of jail time for lesser offenders and cookie and milk. Kindergarten being more restrictive of those snack, cookie and milk. into the county jail are only a placed Friday, March 13, chili, soda few alternatives, he said. crackers, fresh fruit combo, Chief Deputy Jones said some of doughnuts, milk. Kindergarten the overcrowding was relieved in snack, doughnut holes or cinnarecent months when an exchange mon roll and milk. was made with Weber County to take their male prisoners in for our female inmates. This would free-u- p as many as 12 bunks for males if at the time we had only a few women incarcerated, he said. "But that procedure is no longer being used and we are back to our same overcrowded conditions throughout the jail. Patience, love, tolerance, undertelevision it He said all and would dedicated, standing make who well as as be words used to describe Animal inmates with contact Davis. personal Adoption Specialist, Betty keep an eye on the inmates. For nearly a year, time and effort But even then, weve had two was spent on developing a new Davis County Animal Care and attempted suicides which were prevented that may have gone un Control Adoption policy, for adoptive animals at the shelter, that would combine a very basic pet ownership responsibility program, with a mandatory program. After many months of research, noticed in some jails. He emphasized that overcrowding breeds moodiness and a build up of stress to a point that many inmates just sit around and brood all day for weeks on end. Inmates may be incarcerated in a county jail for up to one year and thats a long time when there are no recreation or library facilities available.lt creates a potentially explosive situation that is just getting worse, Jones emphasized. Chief Deputy He said about 40 percent of the long jail population is classified termers, serving four to six months, or more. Four to five deputies plus a jail shift sergeant are on duty each shift. With an average of more than 100 inmates incarcerated daily at the Davis County Jail, between 300 and 350 meals are served daily. Is there any question but that Davis County needs a new jail? asked the chief deputy. A new jail is in the planning stage. Although no definite site has been selected, it probably will be built in West Farmington in conjunction with a public safety complex. Tentative plans call for about 200 cells with provisions for expansion to about twice that size. . Meanwhile, Davis Countys overcrowded jail facility mirrors overcrowding of other county jails and the Utah State Prison - as well as extreme overcrowding of jails and prisons across the country. A recent study of prison crowding in Utah and the U.S. prepared by Utah Foundation, a private research organization, shows the Utah Prison population 12 percent of designed capacity. But that was the end of 1985. The population at the State Prison is steadily increasing with the number of inmates per 1,000 selected offenses has increased by 167 percent, compared to 56 percent nationwide, between 1980 and -- 1 1984. This indicates a stricter enforcement (and punishment) of the laws but also puts a heavier burden on the prison and county jails, it was explained. A recent emergency early re- lease program was carried out at the prison during the holidays to keep the population as close to maximum as possible until a new facility adding 522 cells can be completed later this year. In 1983, a 288-be- d male prison womens facilfacility and a d ity were completed by the state. But this was only a temporary relief. 60-be- ex-han- COG undecided about 911 plan By CHERIE HUBER The meeting of the COG Public Safety Committee which included mayors, police chiefs and fire chiefs did not produce clearcut support for a combined 911 county communication system. The existing communications centers in the county each gave a brief report on their status. The sheriffs department, Bounti24-ho- ur j 1 i i : i ! : : i : j j j i 1 $140,356 which must be paid at the time the service is requested. The system would be operating in 18 to 24 months after the contract is signed. There is also a $13,580 monthly charge for software maintenance. In addition, each Public Safety Answer-- i ing Point would cost an additional $80,000 for computer screens and other equipment. Four Answering Points are being consi-- i dered in the initial plans. Equipment maintenance would run another $7,000 per month. There are about 62,000 lines in Davis County. The 50 cents per line charge would generate $30,000 a month to pay for the System. This group of jailmates huddled around a single TV set is not an uncommon site. er animals at the Fruit Heights 24-ho- ur ) rs missioners, and unanimously year. group. About a year ago the legislater passed a bill allowing up to 50 cents per month to be added to the bill for each phone line in a county to pay for an enhanced 91 system for any county that wanted to set one up. The enhanced 91 shows the number and address of a call on a computer screen as soon as the telephone is answered. The initial payment to Mountain Bell to start the system is closed-circu- floor-office- approved by them as a very positive step in the right direction for the improved welfare of adopted animals from the shelter. The shelter looks forward with great excitement to the implementation of the program requiring that all animals adopted from the shelter be altered upon maturity, hoping that, this, combined with good pet ownership education, might eventually slow down the number of unwanted full-tim- ' adoptive parents a final propwriting and osal was made to the county com- full-tim- Kaysville dispatches eight hours a day at the present time but center with five dispatchers. will eventually have a Sheriff Brant Johnson said that his overall position is that he would support anything that would increase service and save money. However, consolidation of communication centers is a very controversial area because everyone is possessive of what they have. A group from COG went to Adams County, Colorado to combined communications system that observe a county-wid- e works well there. A video of that operation was shown to the looking for good spay-neut- ful Police Department, Layton Police Department, Clearfield centers. Kaysville operPolice Department each have ates a communication center eight hours a day., The sheriffs department has ten dispatchers. They handle some 251,000 calls a year on a budget of $288,914. The department serves all of the county not served by the other systems. In addition they dispatch for county agencies and public works. e Bountiful has six dispatchers and a supervisor. Bountiful handles 911 calls for Bountifol, Centerville and the surrounding areas. They process 22,000 calls a year for police, fire and medical help. The Bountiful dispatchers are all trained and can give CPR, Heimlich and other essential instructions over the phone while rescue units are en route. In addition, during the flooding of 1983 Bountiful directed and coordinated disaster procedures from their communication center and set up a second site to hande the overload of calls. e dispatchers and handles 15,000 calls Layton has five for service a year. Layton installed a new radio system just two years ago. Clearfield has five dispatchers who handle over 9,000 calls a . Animal shelter , shelter. The excitement turned to disappointment when it was realized that there just wasnt enough budget to extent to another position to handle the adoption program, and that the work load on present shelter staff was at a level that could not absorb the additional paper work and responsibility of the new program. It was feared that the new adoption program may just have to be put on the back burner, until such time as budget and staff would allow for its implementation. Then we met Betty! Betty Davis had been a visitor at the shelter periodically for a few months during late summer, and had become very involved in personal way of trying to place good her-ow-n adoptable pets in responsible homes. She worked quietly, and patiently from her own home to try to match lost and found ads from local newspapers, with animals that she had observed at the shelter on her many visits. To all of the employees and animals housed at Davis County Animal Care and Control, Betty has brought a breath of fresh air and sunshine. Davis County Jail trustees help to prepare and serve more than 300 meals per on daily basis and or more day. The Farmington facility is nearly capacity weekends. on often exceeds maximum capacity |