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Show Ml ThpSaH lUTrJh... I Granite OKs Matheson Budget Cut Plan By Diane Cole Tribune Education Editor GRANITE PARK Utahs largest school district Tuesday accepted Gov. Scott M. Matheson's request to absorb a 2 5 percent budget cut In other action, the Granite Board of Education set up a committee to review hazardous bus routes. I challenge all boards of education to their budgets and try to meet the governors challenge, board member Dawn Curtis said as part of a motion to curtail district spending by at least $1 55 million this year. Chastize Stand She also chastized the Utah School Boards Association for taking a stand against the 2.5 percent cuts. The governor maintains that all state agencies, including public education, must reduce spending by 2.5 percent to offset a $50 million shortfall in state revenue. He has asked public education to voluntarily cut back, because he hasnt the legal authority to mandate public educations participation. The Granite school board endorsed steps already taken by Superintendent John Reed Call to prepare for budget cuts of up to $3 million. He has told district purchases and personnel to judge all expenditures the replacement of personnel who leave the district according to absolute necessity. The district has little latitude with 82 percent of its $101 million maintenance and operation budget, Dr. Call explained, because that amount is tied to employee contracts and benefits However, he said there is room for savings in funds for hourly workers, and he thinks it's possible to leave some staff positions unfilled when employees leave. Further, some miscellaneous budgets, covering supplies and transportation, for example, could be trimmed, Dr. Call said. Granite must shave $1,552,105 from its current budget to cut 2.5 percent from its share of state funds, according to the Utah Office of Education. But Dr. closer to $3 million Call is aiming at a larger figure because of other budget pressures. For example, he said, the state appropriated money for fewer students than entered the schools this year. The overrun" on the budget could mean a $750,000 loss to Granite. Conservative Expenditures We've taken on an aura of conservatism in all expenditures in the district," Dr. Call told the board. We have a task and a half if were going to recapture $1 5 million, but I think we can do it. After endorsing the superintendents efforts to restrict spending, the school board turned around and approved more than $90,000 worth of purchases. Dr. Call stressed that these items, including a $6,587 stage curtain for Granite High School and $26,004 worth of maintenance vehicles, were found to be absolutely necessary." Regarding hazardous busing, district officials recommended that a committee of transportation experts be formed to see if any new routes should be funded or whether some old ones should be discontinued. The school board agreed some provisions to involve the public should be made in the evaluation. But they also felt unbiased experts should be employed to avoid the pressures of special interest groups. Currently, Granite goes beyond state requirements for busing elementary pupils. The state reimburses districts for busing children who live 1.5 miles or more from school. Granite taxes local property owners to bus all those children living between one mile and 1.5 miles from school. School board members noted that a study of this situation is especially timely, considering economic constraints. Garbage Firm Gets Contract Special to The Tribune WEST VALLEY CITY Ideal Waste Systems Inc will pick up garbage from 15,000 homes here - next year, city commissioners agreed Tuesday The citys general fund will pay $2 92 a month for each house, according to the agreement which will take effect on Jan. 1. Ideal was the lowest of four bids ranging to $3.27 a month. Salt Lake County has been providing the service at $4 a month, a fee it charges across the unincorporated valley. City Treasurer Randy Baker said the agreement covers 1981, 1982 and 1983 and calls for the rate to be negotiated yearly based on inflation, dumping fees at the county landfill and the number of houses to be served. WILDERNESS YOUR OWN BACKYARD 111 BE A PART OF IT! Housing Authority Seeking Funds For 250-Un- it Public Facility The Housing Authority of Salt Lake City is asking the federal government for funds to build a public housing project. It would be the largest such project in the city. David Luscher, director of the housing authority, said the apartment complex would be located in the It would have apartments downtown area near 250-un- it Murray Property Boundary Panel OKs Annexing The Salt Lake County Boundary Commission Tuesday voted 3 to approve without condition the office building proposed annexation of a property at 4500 South and 7th East into Murray City. Approval leaves the Murray City Commission free to annex the property on request of developer, who told the boundary commission two weeks ago he desired lower-coMurray City electrical service. The property is on the southeast comer of the intersection and, if annexed, would represent an extension of Murray City boundaries eastward across 4-- 1.7-ac- re st Jast. 7th It is that fact that brought opposition to the plan from Salt Lake County officials and from citizens living to the south and east, in and around the Green Valley subdivision at about 4700 South. Surrounds Green Valley The annexation would represent a further extension of one of Murray Citys two peninsulas that reach northward to surround Green Valley on both sides one peninsula encompassing a concentration of apartment complexes and the other encompassing the 9th East KMart store and nearby businesses. Green Valley residents attended the Tuesday morning meeting and presented a petition opposing the commissions approval of the request, but were not heard by the commission because testimony concluded at the panels meeting last Sept. 23. Commission member Marthe Dyner, concerned that the commissions tabled motion to approve with conditions was like telling city officials to encourage annexation, proposed the motion to attach no strings. "But unless the evidence is overwhelming in my mind, I wont be inclined to vote for any further extensions of this peninsula, said Ms. Dyner, a legislative analyst for the State Legislature. Consider Relations Commissioners had considered for two weeks a motion that would have required Murray City to launch a public relations effort to encourage the residents within the peninsulas to go along with annexation Murray Citys own officials had not reached a final determination on the annexation proposal; Salt Lake Countys formal opposition had lifted it out of their hands and placed it in the boundary panel's hands. Murray Mayor LaRell Muir told commissioners Tuesday "4500 South probably will not remain residential. It may not go fully commercial, but the prospect of development of professional office buildings and the like is considered real, he indicated. If his prediction comes true, further annexation moves will be seen, he conceded later. Commissioner members voted this way: "Yes, Sandy Mayor Paul Thompson, Ms. Dyner, Salt Lake City Mayor Ted Wilson, and Marvin Hendrickson. "No", Gary Jones, County Attorney Ted Cannon and Salt Lake County Commissioner William E. Dunn. - WORKHOSSiS ttati nth xy hav her' 4 units what a price ot $106 000 enl r drawn ? E STRENGTH PLATE, THERMO PANE AND OTHER Owns, Leases 450 Units The housing authority currently owns or leases 450 persons so an extra 250 housing units for units would have a major effect on the housing low-inco- supply. And were still not anywhere touching the need, said Mr. Luscher. School Board Hikes Food Service Pay A contract giving food service workers pay increases ranging from 12.1 to 30 percent was ratified Tuesday by the Salt Lake City Board of Education. The ratification came after weeks of negotiations between th6 district and food service workers, who d increase of originally asked for an 17 percent. Contract employees, including cooks, bakers and managers, received raises of 12.1 or 13.1 percent. Hourly kitchen employees were given pay increases of between 25 and 30 percent. That means the lowest paid worker will receive $4.73 an hour instead of the $3.15 given under last years contract. across-the-boar- South of Evanston Forest Area Ablaze - e KAMAS (AP) Firefighters battled a fire burning out of control Tuesday in the Wasatch National Forest. Forest Service spokesman Barry Wirth said the fire was about 28 miles south of Evanston, Wyo., and 10 miles south of the border near Whitney Reservoir. The blaze started on private land and then entered the national forest area, he said. 150-acr- Utah-Wyomi- Riverton Seeks Volunteers Special to The Tribune The city council is searching for RIVERTON volunteers to serve on a committee to help decide how to spend a $60,000 Community Development block grant. The city is currently planning to use the money for a senior citizens center, although no plans have been approved. The council will seat the committee in two weeks. In other action, the council approved City Manager Jim Youngs salary at $17,000 per year. care about your community and its future development, come and participate with us in a Transportation Planning Meeting. These are the meetings that help make the decisions affecting transportation for you generations. The meeting for the counties of Garfield, ALL SIZES. SINGLE-DOUBL- area. PEOPLE WHO CARE If WE HAVE LARGE STOCK AND NEARLY low-inco- WANTED! nrt table iow interest rate needed $S70 MRR Another great dea tor you1 INCOME REAiTH MORTGAGE, INC 637 I 400 SOUTH 33 5030 GLASS available for both elderly persons and families. I think we have a good chance of getting it, said Mr. Luscher. He said one of the biggest obstacles was finding a suitable parcel of land for the complex. He site has now been found and said a seven-acr- e negotiations to purchase it are nearing completion. $250,000 for Land Purchase The housing authority will use some $250,000 of its federal Community Development funds to purchase the land. Housing authority board chairman Jennings Phillips Jr. will visit Washington, D.C., next week to seek federal funding for the project. Mr. Luscher said it is hoped the federal government would provide about $6 million to finance the project and also provide subsidized rents" for persons living in the facility. He said the local neighborhood group has voiced support for having the large housing project in the Kane, Piute, Sanpete, Sevier and Wayne, will be held on Friday, October 10, 1980 at 10:00 A.M. in the Bureau of Land Management conference room, 320 North 1st East, Kanab, Utah. ALWAYS QUALITY Highways, rail and air transportation will be the topics under discussion. Long and short range plans for the area will be reviewed. 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