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Show ... (I Jr Js w V" t r 4 - J v, -- r' : - H Decide Voters Mewesfi May City? uiratyg VAL VERDA If a petition drive proves successful, Val Ver-d- a residents may vote in No vember whether their community should become Da vis Countys newest city. Ralph Fisher, chairman of the Val Verda Citizens Council, said members of the council are circulating petitions to get the issue before voters in Val Verda. Also the Davis County Commission has asked University of Utah student Wayne Davis to do a study on whether Val Verda should be incorporated into a city, be annexed to Bountiful or to North Salt Lake. Davis will attempt to determine the cost to run a city for 6400 people, also the expected tax base and revenues the city can hope to receive. Petitions must be in to the county by Sept. 15. Fisher said. Because Val Verda is an unin- Fisher said the Val Verda Citizens Council has not yet taken a stand on whether Val Verda should become a city. The council, however, does want the issue to appear on the ballot. He said the council is awaiting the outcome of Davis study. Davis, who is a political science major, is doing the study as part of an internship requirement through the political science department at the University of Utah. slated for Val Verda for November. Thus, the county would need to hold a special election and circulate ballots in Val Verda. Fisher said. Fisher said the Val Verda Citizens Council was formed two years ago by -- the county. The council has since drawn up a master plan for the area. Also the council was expanded from its original seven members to eleven members. corporated area of the county and docs not have city officials yet, no elections were originally Fisher said Val Verda residents have become increasing concerned because of annual annexations of the area each year by neighboring communities. "We lose an average of 90 people each year to city annexations. Fisher said. We resent being nibbled away at all the time." He said some of the residents in the Bona Vista subdivision have become disenchanted following a recent annexation by Bountiful. The council wants to gel information to Val Verda residents on their options so those residents will not be unhappy after wards with the fate of their residential area, Fisher said. The council is also looking for ways to keep tax money raised in Val Verda here and to have government be responsive to the needs of the people. Fisher added. He said sometimes Val Verda residents feel a little distant to our leaders in Farmington. If the University of Utah study shows it is better for the area to remain unincorporated, then Fisher said the council would be making all kinds of noise for people to vote no against the proposed incorporated of Val Verda as a city." He said it is likely there will be additional costs for Val Verda to become a city, however. But the area already has some Fisher said the council completed a master plan of the Val Verda area in November. The master plan includes planning for both commercial and residential areas as well for parks, school, traffic the patterns, recreation and livwhole spectrum of planned ing for the area." Fisher said. as-pl- niGD Ci-mtit- QgJlb Wednesday, September 7, 1983 Vol. 3 No. 53 Woods Cross Airport Plan Is Heated Issue RON KNOWLTON Review Staff WOODS CROSS Woods' Cross City officials are considering purchase of the Skypark Airport in the near future. But that prospect has drawn criticism from many city residents. Many who own property near the airport fear the value of their property will decrease. Others fear taxes will go up. Still others charge the city is trying to railroad purchase of the airport through the city council. They point to a citizens committee organized by the mayor. The committee, they note, is composed of only those who favor city ownership of the airport. The committee has urged the city to purchase the airport and has released reports that the city would realize a significant profit from ownership of the airport. The issue has drawn heated debate at recent council meetings. And even the council appears split on the issue, The citys mayor, Lawrence Urry, however, admits he likes the idea of city control of the airport. By the spring of next year the city will likely have enough facts to make a decision whether the city should become involved with operation of the airport, Urry said. He sees two main advantages to the city becoming involved. First, he believes the airport will provide a profit to the in the same way as the Bountiful power department is profitable to that city. The airport will bring in revenues which Urry believes will supplement the citys sales and property tax revenues, which will help' keep property taxes low. Secondly, the airport will attract industry to the city, helping expand the citys commercial tax city-m- uch base. Urry said that when the idea of purchasing the airport first came up, he asked a group of enthu- siasts to make a study on that possibility. He said the burden of proof was placed on their shoulders. For the city to take over the airport, the group would need to show that it would not be a strain on city funds and that the airport would be self sustaining, Urry said. The committee brought back a fairly decent study which showed that the airport would be financially profitable for the city. The city council then wanted a financial audit to show if the committees figures were correct or very liberal, Urry said. Also F.C. Stangl, a Murray LU C Q0 fejf After the council studies the "master plan, it will then be presented to the Wasatch Front Regional Council, which will also study the master plan, Urry said. Urry said the ideal would be for city and private industry to assume ownership of the airport. He said there are many prob-lem- s that private industry cant solve that are better solved by the city and vise versa. A problem at the airport at present is that there are many de- " ' '' 'tAM'fct ' i. 'i'C Ptfpy v ;; & 'i v 4. : - , V"". s k ' I s',f different agreements down there that have happened over the years. The situation needs to be straightened out, Urry said. He said if the airport is allowed to continue on its present course, it will probably die out there. I'rry said the city has no plans to expand the airport to handle commercial airline flights. The airport at present is the only airport in the country. There are a few small private landing strips in the northern end of the county however, but they are not open to public use. For those near the airport worried their property values would decrease, Urry said probably the opposite would occur. Property values would increase as the air- port was improved. Property values may even take giant leaps in value as has occured around other airports, he said. Since the airport is the only public airport in the county, it would serve the entire county, Urry said. In an agreement with a private owner, the city would want to retain administrative control over the airport. Photo by Robert Regan SEEMS that rain has been in season all year and Utahns are learning to get used to certain items such as umbrellas to keep dry. This woman walking on IT Main Street in Bountiful uses a backup system of Lakewoods Furnitures overhanging to be assured a dry walk. Bountiful To Ask Power Pact Delay BOUNTIFUL Bountiful Mayor Dean Stahle said he will ask Utah Power and Light Company for a time extension on a contract for Bountiful to purchase power from UP&Ls Hunter I power plant in Emery County. That request, Stahle said will come during a meeting with UP&L officials. Bountiful officials agreed to terms on the Hunter I contract and returned it to UP&L last week. Some Bountiful officials, how- ever, expressed surprise that UP&L after a three year delay, suddenly gave Bountiful an Aug. 31 deadline to sign the Hunter contract. Ron Heyns, representing Magna Fuel and Energy Inc., Salt Lake City, said he felt the action by UP&L may have been an effort to deny Bountiful officials an opportunity to study a resource recovery project proposed by his firm over a longer period of time so the city could gauge his proposal against the UP&L Hunter I proposal. The Magna Fuel $19 million resource recovery project could have supplied 13 megawatts of electricity to the city, while also 1 providing a means to dispose of the citys burnable refuse. Heyns claimed that Bountiful is not a big customer to UP&L but they damn well dont want this thing to come in and provide competition to UP&L. He said that if a Magna Fuel plant were built in Bountiful it could provide a showplace for the company where others interested in a similar plant Could come to view how the plant operates. He said UP&L may be concerned because some large companies have been looking at plants similar to the proposed Bountiful Magna Fuel plant for a source of electricity which would allow them to break away from UP&L as their source of such electricity. But Darcy White, vice president of public and corporate relations for UP&L, called Heyns allegation absurd. White said the UP&L deadline came as a result of UP&Ls negotiations with Bountiful on the Intermountain Power Project in April. At that time both sides agreed to resolve the Hunter power contract situation by the 1 Continued on 2A One Year Later Runyans Victims Other Comfort Kidnapping Runyans Featured On TV Since that time, the Runyans have tried to live a normal We try to do life, without hiding the fact that SUNSET what we can, because of what we once had a little girl. We talk about her; rememwe know Jeff and I know too ber her in our prayers, and we be involved. much not to Even over the telephone, one try to reach out to others. can feel the determined set of Elaine explains. Part of that reaching out Elaine Runyans jaw as she disa direct result of the Runcusses convictions that in some ways have helped restore yans involvement in Child equilibrium to her life in the 12 Find. a New York based orgamonths since the Runyans tiny nization that helps parents find daughter, Rachael, disappeared their missing children. The vole from a park adjacent to their unteer group maintains a hot line, while conducting home. Witnesses to the August 26, public awareness seminars on 1982 kidnapping, that drew na- the protection of children and tion wide attention to the in- distributing flyers, with pictures creasing problems of child of missing children, throughout the United States. The hotline abduction, reported that Rachael was pulled in- alone costs Child Find over g supto a car by a tall black male. $50,000 in Although the kidnapper has port, but as Elaine puts it, never been apprehended, the What is that in comparison childs body was later recovered with the value of one child's from a remote area of Morgan life? Since 1980, Child Find has County. SHARON STEELE Roview Correspondent has-bee- toll-fre- three-year-o- ld fund-raisin- velopment firm, was hired to draw up a master plan for the airport to present to the coucil. CG ans Q-hi- m Bounti m ser- vices available to help with such a transition. He said Val Verda has sewer, water, and telephone services in place. reunited some 325 children with their families. Besides their efforts as Child Find volunteers, Jeff and Elaine Runyan appeared on programs Prime Time Access, and Extra, while working with Neighborhood Watch, the PTA, and numerous other organizations to remind people not to let their guard down in safeguarding their children. For the Runyans, such involvement is not easy. In Elaine's words, its a constant reminder of a very sad thing. Every day I look out at that park and think, oh, if only Id suspected. But, at least, I can feel that my little girl didn't die for nothing. Following the recent kidnapping of Tasha Bevan from a Kearns theater, Elaine paid a personal visit to the child's parlike ents. It was hard for me, she When I walked into their says. Starved Demos The Democratic Party in Davis County has been through some, leans years. But food on the table for the Donkey still may be in the distant future. 4A 7B 3A Classified Editorial Sports 1B-3- through, because reached our depth. youve on Happily the Bevan family was reunited with their daughter two days later when Tasha was found alive in an abandoned schoolhouse near Tremonton. But not many days passed before Elaine was again called upon to help comfort the families of five murdered kidnap victims in Salt Lake. As emotionally that experience The story of the Rachel draining as proved for Elaine, she says she will contin- ue to reach out wherever she can, concentrating on helping others avoid the tragedy that she has endured. B B Run- yan kidnapping and its impact Utahs child abduc-tionmolestati- laws will be aired tonight during the Real People broadcast, beginning at 7 p.m;, on Channel 2. Hopefully the program will perk interest and remind people to remain involved. commented Elaine Runyan, mother of the tiny blonde-haire- d child who was taken from a Sunset park on Aug. 26. 1983. According to Mrs. Runyan, the program centers around the community involvement and support that drew nationwide attention to efforts to locate the child. Flooded Friday Index Home Living. 4B-6- home, 1 felt the same terror. It was like regressing-relivi- ng what wed been through with Rachael. But I was glad I went. I could almost feel them saying. You know what we're going Area high schools played in a downpour of rain last Friday. Three area schools remained undefeated. IB 1 |