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Show SERIAL ORDER DIVISION HARRIOTT LIBRARY U OF U SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH 8U13 Corrtf Rout Prwort U S Poitoo BULK RATE PAID PwmNNo. 4 to Utah 84081 ouma Davis Comei route Pietort u S Potfoge 10 LX RATI PAX) Permit no 6 lotion. Utrih 84041 544-915- 3 By - TUESDAY, MARCH 10, 1987 435-007- 6 Utility ordinance ok5d in Kaysville TOM BUSSELBERG KAYSVILLE After months e of review and landlord protest, Kaysvilles utility application and billing procedures ordinance was quietly passed into existence last week. Amid no protest and with ho apparent interested onlookers, the city council enacted the ordinance that gives landlords the option of making renters responsible for utility payments. If a renter skips town without coming clean on his utility bills, the city now has recourse according to the ordinance that takes affect April 1 . Owners may require tenants to sign a utility service application and make a deposit payment equal to the two highest bills over the last year. If thats not feasible the city can set the fee based on an one-tim- As City Manager John Thacker stressed, the ordinance will only seek such deposits for separately metered utilities. The city bills for water and electric service. The deposit fee would be taken by the city and applied to delinquent payments by a tenant. Previous protest questioned asking landlords to have responsibility for their tenants utility payments. In other action, the council approved another item that has been in the works for well over a year. Electrical facilities belonging to Utah Power and Light will be transferred to Kaysville City Power in the Shepard Lane area. Mr. Thacker said the transfer is costing more than $87,000 with those funds already paid to UP&L. There will be some residual y costs as part of the for transfer and we isolate our make-read- lines - ie said Walter Meacham, Kaysville City Power superinten- dent. He called the cost much more expensive than if we did it and said the fees went for UP&Ls manpower and related costs. Our line will go down Sunset about to the sewer treatment plant. The transfer currently affects only 22 connections, Mr. Thacker said, although the area covered includes about 200 acres. Admitting its a big guess he said eventually upwards of 200 customers could be involved. The transfer will involve 8,600 feet of line, or about 1 Vi miles-worth. Although he had no information about a specific date for the transfer, Mr. Thacker indicated it would be soon. Work on the transfer has been under way for about 1 Vi years, Mr. Meacham told the city council. Agency aids business, chamber members told Business peoKAYSVILLE ple are caught in a vicious cycle. They often cant find employees properly trained in the necessary skills and yet as busy business people dont have time to spend for proper training. Thats where the Davis County Private Industry Council may be of assistance, Fran Brown, a council member and Kaysville businesswoman, told the citys chamber of commerce Wednesday. A qualifying business can have half the salary of a new employee paid for up to 400 hours as part of training, she said. Not only is it hard for a business to take time out for training but that means money expended, as well. The PIC can also tailor a training program to meet the needs of a particular business, big or small, the owner of Fran Brown and Company Hair Styling and College of Beauty continued. She cited the example of All American Gourmet at the Freeport Center where several hundred employees were trained in food preparation and related areas. That not. only proved invaluable in paving the way for a faster assembly line start-u- p but has fueled expansion that will mean another 100 employees, she told the chamber. Employee growth can more often than not come through business growth. A capital forma- tion program through PIC can provide financial assistance, Mrs. Brown emphasized. PIC was instrumental in formation of the Council of Governments Revolving Loan Fund that offers financial incentives to expanding businesses, for instance. Other funds are currently awaiting federal release that would be targeted for small business assistance, she added. The small businessman is a major thrust when it comes to educational seminars sponsored by PIC and other government agencies, she continued. We dont all have to the wheel, she stressed. Noting a problem that often ex- ists with potential employees not even being literate in reading and math skills,, she spoke of the youth summer employment and training program. Operated in conjunction with Clearfield Job Corps, mathit provideds a half-da- y reading instruction coupled with nt another half-da- of y work experience. The PIC Council includes 17 members with nine drawn from the private, business sector and the remainder from various government agencies that work in job creation-training. Members include Mrs. Brown, CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO Layton rezone approved LAYTON The Thursday meeting of the Layton City Council was very short. The Council considered only three items of business. Two of them dealt with potential annexations and rezones. A proposal to rezone property north of Gordon Avenue and east of the old Doman Road from A to 4 was approved at a public hearing held in conjunction with the council meeting. The strip of land is 130 feet wide and 1300 feet long. It was recently purchased by R-l-- Glenn Ravenberg from Evan Whitesides. The plans are to extend the Summerfield subdivision onto the east side of the Doman Lane and to develop this road to a width of 60 feet. The lot sizes will be about 6,000 square feet which is zone. This was closer to an 6 done because the city plans to zone. abandon the 4 Flint Richards, his son Neal and dog Shorty inspect some of the young registered Jerseys on his Farmington dairy farm. Farmington dairyman does things right5 Richards By CHERIE HUBER FARMINGTON great-grandfath- er started the farm when he returned Flint Richards, a Farmington dairy man, is a runner-u- p in the Young Farmer of Utah competition. Entrants are judged on the basis of improvements in their farm, management and community involvement. Richards said he thought that their use of a computer to maintain careful records and the fact that the farm has raised its production level rather than just getting bigger was of special interest to the team of judges. The production level of the Richards dairy herd is the third in the nation for herds the size of Jersey cows. Their stock are all registered Jerseys. Milk from the herd is sold through Gosners of Logan for cheese,- butter and nonrefrigerated milk. Flint Richards is the fourth generation of Richards to be a dairy farmer. He worked with his father, Franklin, and is looking forward to the day when one of his sons becomes the fifth generation dairy farmer. to Utah from an LDS mission to New Zealand about 1900. At that time the farm was at 4th North and First East in Farmington. Eventually the area became residential and the dairy moved to its present location west of the freeway right after World War II. The original dairy was built for 18 cows. At that time 18 cows meant a living for a family, Richards says. "Now the dairy has 100 milk cows which produce about the same standard of living as the 18 cows did in the early 1900s. Richards says, I dont look for it to get a lot better so it has to get more efficient. Farmers will have to become better businessmen. The farmer who stays in business is not necessarily the one who gets the most milk but the manager who is most efficient with what he has. Some of the most valuable classes in college were in the business end of farming such as classes in computers and business management, he says. Richards uses the computer to maintain production records on each individual cow. All the financial records for the farm are also on the computer. He uses the computer to decide if it is feasible to invest in new equipment. His goal is for the farm to grow slowly without losing efficiency. The cows are milked twice a day once between 4 and 7:30 a.m. and again between 3:30 and 6:30 p.m. They buy most of the feed for the cows although some of the food is raised on the farm during the summer. Richards prefers to spend his time with the cows and instead of the ground. About 6,000 pounds of milk are produced by the 100 cows every two days. Besides the 100 milking cows there are also about 100 head of young stock. Some of the Jerseys are marketed to other dairy farmers. Many of the cows are the of one cow purchased in 1934. He is also active in Young Farmers and Ranchers, secretary of the Western Jersey Association and on the board of directors for the Utah Jersey Board. R-l-- R-l-- A public hearing was set for April 2 at 7:15 p.m. to consider annexing 300 acres of property at 3200 West between Gordon Avenue and Gentile Street into Layton City. This includes property owned by the Bill Corbridge family and property owned by about 26 different people. The other item of business on the council agenda was the adoption of five sections of the 1985 Life Safety Code. The Council adopted these sections which deal with health care centers, day care facilities, jails, institutions and educational occupancies. The Code was prepared by the National Fire Protection Association and has the approval of the Utah State Fire Prevention Board. City Attorney Mark Arnold ex-- . plained these codes are more specific than the general building code. Kaysvillcs downtown is looking newer and livelier from the wider and smoother streets to new library to this bright new sign advertising the weeks specials at Bowman's Market. The newly adopted ordinances give more specific definitions in high risk fire areas such as hallways, the use of fire safety equipment and the use of the buildings. School board studies further budget cuts By DONETA GATHERUM Once again FARMINGTON the main item of business discussed at the meeting of the Davis County Board of Education was more budget cuts that will have to be made this school year during the remaining four months of school. Last Tuesday evening, Supt. Lawrence Welling told members of the Board of Education, "Another shortfall must be made up before the end of the school year. The superintendent noted the District is short $739,875 because of a one percent shortfall in anticipated revenue and an additional $351,600 because of a new state retirement program. This makes a total of $1 .1 million over and above what has already been trimmed from an unusually lean budget. Supt. Welling noted, I am not prepared at this time to make recommendations. I have told our administrative department heads to make adjustments wherever they can and as quickly as they can. Dee Burningham, Executive Director for the DEA, stated the DEAs position regarding the suggestion made by the State Superintendent of Schools to close school of two or more days in order to make up the revenue shortfall. Mr. Burningham said, "This is just about the last thing that should be done. It would directly affect the education of students. Mr. Burningham also pointed out, "There is a sacred obligation to observe employee contracts. He advised that if the District decided to close schools, We feel this concept would have to be tested legally. We would intend to do so. He also cautioned the closing of schools cost-savin- ? r would set a precedent for future years. Mr. Burningham said the DEA would make suggestions about money saving to the Board of Education for their consideration. Board Member, Bob Thurgood supported Mr. Buminghams position by saying, closing schools will be one of our last solutions. Another Board member, Dr. Ray Briscoe said he felt 1987 was the start of a precipitious slide in the quality of education in Utah that has not been equalled since the early 1950s." He noted that any cuts that are made now should make the public realize what the situation is with public education in Utah. The Administration will probably have some recommendations ready for consideration at the next Board meeting scheduled for March 17. |