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Show Jc ' To Own Land Lakeside Review South, Wednesday, Dec. 14, 1983 BABB Need RON KNOWLTON longing to BARD. But to avoid legal challenges, Gerlach also suggested the board ask for a resolution from each city council that would authorize BARD to own property. Last year the BARD board was involved in a dispute after it let bids on the 12 acres used as pasture land. Leland Argyle, who has leased Review Staff Bet Permission So BOUNTIFUL All six south Davis cities may need to approve a resolution to allow the Bay Area Refuse District (BARD) to sublease 12 acres of pasture land located next to the BARD landfill. County Commissioner Harry Gerlach noted that under present law BARD may not be able the property for many years, to own property. challenged the board's right to lease the property. Instead, the county has exercised jurisdiction over property Argyles challenge came after belonging to BARD in the past. BARD let bids on the property Gerlach suggested the BARD to lease the property and agreed of board directors approve an to the highest bidder. amendment to the boards bylaws to allow BARD to own, BARD, however, was unable make and any to lease 1.5 acres of the 12 acre improvements to property be tract. ac-qui- re BARD chairman next year. Robert Palmquist, mayor of North Salt Lake, served as chairman during the past year. Grant Secrist, mayor of West Bountiful, was elected vice chairman. The board also agreed that the vice chairman will automatically assume the role of chairman when the chairmans one year term expires. The board also decided to close the landfill Dec. 24, 25, 31, and Jan. 1 for the holidays. The board also agreed to conThen all cities will have spotinue holding its monthly meetken and we can avoid a chalGerlach ing in the Bountiful City Hall. lenge in the courts, said. BARD meetings at present are In other action, the BARD held on the last Tuesday of each board elected Gerlach to serve as month beginning at 5:30 p.m. Argyle leased that tract through an agreement with Utah Power and Light Co. BARD had earlier given UP&L rights to the 1.5 acre tract. Resolutions by all six city councils will help avoid problems in the future and give BARD authority to lease property belonging to the district, Gerlach said. As bids are received and approved by BARD, Gerlach suggested the bids also be approved by the six city councils. Post Office Takes Season BOUNTIFUL Standing in line at the post office is not an idea of fun. But its better than not having mail delivered at all. The holiday rush of letters and packages has created the annual onslaught for the postal system. Have you ever wondered what happens to a post office in this busy season? The U.S. Post Office in Bountiful had to deal with an increase of 50 percent in collection and delivery this season. Postmaster Nolan Birt said that means post office, which usually handles about 100,000 items of mail per day, will now have to process up to 175,000 letters, cards and packages per day during the Christmas season. Each morning and afternoon, k commutes between a Bountiful and Salt Lake City to handle this extra volume. semi-truc- Even though overseas deadlines for Christmas mail passed in October, the usual latecomers show up late in December, hoping to have their mail reach its destination on time. The post office does its best to accommodate these tardy types. As far as domestic mail is concerned, the deadlines are not as stringent, but Birt advises that sooner is better. Birt said the United States Mail has consciously tried to spread out the volume of Christmas mail over a longer period each year. Consumer education is an important factor in this. Posters, fliers, radio and tv advertisements all help people to become aware of the yearly crunch so they can help the mail service be efficient during the Christmas period. Birt noted some changes in Centerville Approves After nine months the council review the companys operaCENTERVILLE The Cen- tion in the city. terville City Council has given Councilman Dennis Knoles approval to a company that will voted against granting the busiemploy local youth to sell snack ness license. Knoles took issue with the age food items door to door. The company plans to hire group the company will employ. He said the company should be about 20 Centerville youth, Michael Pope, president of Great restricted to youth between the American Naturals, a California-ages of 14 to 17. The company based will hire youth from 12 to 17 the told company, council. years of age, Pope said. At M2 and 13 years of age He told the council that no child hired by the company will Knoles said the youth could be ' be allowed to service an area taken advantage of and enticed that he cant walk to from his to work for badges or patches. home. Mayor Neil Blackburn said he saw a problem with preceThe council granted the company a nine month business li- dence. He said once one group of cense and stipulated that the company can only involve ex- -. youth is allowed to sell door to clusively youth working in their door he wondered how the council could legally stop others. neighborhoods. But Pope noted the council alCouncilman David Klomp, ready allows one group of youth ; who made, the motion to apselling prove the, business license, also to sell door to door-tho- se stipulated that the company newspaper subscriptions. He suggested the city set guidemust provide' the citys chief of police with a list of all of the lines that other groups would have to follow if they wanted the youth involved. He also stipulated that the same privilege. Councilman Norman Wright company can only hire youth be- tween the ages of 12 and 17. The said he believes most in the must have perinission community are against groups , youth from their parents to participate. selling door to door. Wright, RON KNOWLTON Review Staff will in Stride Christmas mail he has observed in his years as head of the Bountiful office. Not as many items are mailed this year as before and not as many cards are mailed, whereas the amount of packages has picked up a bit from previous years. The reasons for these changes, Birt surmises, probably lie in th state of the economy. The prices of cards and stamps have gone up drastically. If one decides to write a card, one might as well send a letter with the card en- Birt notes that Bountiful has, per capita, more missionaries overseas than any other region. The post office is especially aware of these overseas ties during the Christmas season. Is the bountiful post office is caving in under the Christmas pressure? On the contrary, said Birt. We are probably geared up for this onslaught. We start by not taking any vacations at this time of year. We put our most experienced people on the job and we work hard. closed. We tell people to get their items in on time and we try to be as efficient as we can. Bountiful Post Office receives an enormous number of items with foreign destinations. The postal workers dont blink an eye if a package for Tierra del Fuego rolls across their desks. The reason for this phenomenon in the large numbers of LDS Missionaries stationed abroad. David Barclay, Russ Muir and Beth Arbuckle, the experienced faces at the windows, are doing their best to get your mail to where it needs to go. Its their work which helps spread Holiday cheer. Davis Board of Health Looks at New Budget FARMINGTON The Davis County Board of Health approved a $1.3 million tentative budget for 1984. The budget reflects a ten percent increase over last years budget, Dr. Enrico Leopardi, county health director, said. County Commissioner Harry Gerlach said the county has tried to limit all county departments to a five to six percent budget increase. He admitted that some have gone over that figure, however. Others have budgets with less than a five percent increase, he said. Stephen Romney, a member of the board from Kaysville, said that from figures furnished to him the budget appeared to have a 20 percent increase instead of a 10 percent increase. Leopardi, however, said Romney had considered all county health services when coming up with the 20 percent increase. Leopardi said the ten percent increase covers only three areas: environmental health, health administration and health nursing. Other services are funded by non tax revenue, such as through the United Way, Leopardi said. Gerlach noted that an inspection and maintenance program on automobiles mandated by the Environmental Protection Agency will likely be self funded. however, voted in favor of other groups that are also selling items in the community and granting the business license. have them' come before the city He said he feels many compacouncil. nies use the youth to sell products but do not give them fair City Manager Mark Palesh compensation. said the city had received ten to Councilman Lee Duncan, 5 calls opposed to the group sothough, said he was impressed, liciting door to door. that the company hatd apI dont think well be anyproached the city about a business license. He said many more obnoxious or problematigroups bring kids in to sell items cal than the newspaper boy who and never approach the council. asks you if you want to buy his Knoles said the city should call newspaper, Pope said. 1 Other services included on the ; budget are home health, dental health and the W.I.C. (Woman, Infant Children) program. The home health program was discontinued, Leopardi said. But the board has budgeted $6,000 to wrap up the program in the coming year. Last year the program had a $103,000 budget. Leopard also asked the county to consider expanding present facilities for the health department. He said space for the health is extremely crowded at present. Were almost using double decker desks," Leopardi said. Were extremely crowded. We need more space. We really dont care where we go, whether it's a used building or a new Leopardi building or what, department said. Gerlach, however, noted that many county departments are crowded. He said that condition reflects growth in the county. Of the seven health areas funded, the board budgeted the highest amount for health nurs--in$583,000. The amount is $71,000 over last years budget. Leopardi said the reason for that is a request for computer hardware for the countys immunization program. 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