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Show » SUNDAY/August 3, 1997 ° OBITUARIES Section B VEATHER Page B-6 Page B-8 Alliance Director McCotter Is Gone B ut Stull Fights for Downtown Gets State Pay BY REBECCA WALSH THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE Bob Farrington has a daunting list of clients: 3,000 businesses and about 500 property owners. BY DAN HARRIE and JUDY FAHYS THESALT LAKE TRIBUNE The director of Salt Lake City’s Downtown Alliance represents every office, bagel shop, clothing store and bank between North Temple and 400 South and 400 West and 300 Hast This month, Farrington will face a m Besieged O. Lane McCotter stepped downas director of the Utah Corrections Department last month and took ajobin the private sector. But hestill works for the state. McCotter continues drawing evaluation of sorts, weeklypayof$1,609.20 aspart of The 6-year-old, publicly funded Downtown Alliance will disband a five-week consulting contract in November unless the member with the Corrections Department. businesses approve a three-year extension of the special-improvement district That means Farrington has to cy and its new leader are posed to have 24-hour-a-d access to McCotter to pick his conyinee most of those property brain on outstanding issues and taphis institutional knowledge Tell that to Corrections Dire tor-designate Pete Haun. Nobody owners of the alliance's benefits paying a special tax. Hetries to sell the alliance to anyone who madeit clear to him that taxpay- will listen. ers were footing thebill to give “Property owners and businesses get a good value for their dollar,” he says. The alliance pays for things such as tulip bulbs, colorful banners promoting events and conventions, farmers’ andartisans’ the Corrections Department unlimited access to McCotter. Asit turnsout, similar consulting arrangements also have been grantedto five other department directors who haveleft state governmentin the past eight months markets, outdoor concerts, Part severance pay, part departmental support, the so-called “phantom galleries” in vacant storefronts, Christmas lights, automated trolleys and First ‘transitional contracts” apparently wereinstitutedlatelast year Night celebrations on New Year's by Goy. Eve. Other, less-visible efforts — such as the alliance’s fight to keep the Wallace F. Bennett Federal Mike Leavitt in a little- noticed policy move Building and a new courts com- In fact, the change was implemented so quietly that several plex downtown — also benefit new department directors, like businesses, Haun, were unaware of consult- ing contracts intended to ease Farringtonsays. All aredesigned to draw people to downtown Salt LakeCity, en- their entranceinto newstate jobs. ‘Thelittle-knownpolicy is being courage them to walk around spend alittle money and come questioned by somestatelegislators who hadnot heardof the contracts until contacted by The Salt Lake Tribune back It is harder than it sounds. Oth- er cities along the Wasatch Front See DIRECTOR, Page B-6 Every department director who Rick Egun/The Salt ke Tribune Andrea Mounteer buys potatoes from Delwin Mills of Corinne at Pioneer Park on Saturday. The Farmers’ Marketis one ofthe activities funded by Salt Lake City's Downtown Alliance. BY JUDY FAHYS Don't let the faux Chanel suits fool you. Or that ele: phant-shaped jewelry, The women assembled in a Salt Lake City hotel Saturday morning were plotting government overthrow As members of the National Federation of Republican Women (NFRW), they want more Republicanselected to public office, everywhere from rural townhalls to the White House. BY SHAWN FOSTER THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE women who makethe difference," said Pauline Riel, an Ohio member who shared fund-raising tips. Missouri member Joanne Breckenridge talked about generating lots of money for the cause by designating a fund-raiser in each county, getting $100 contributions from each of them and then urging each to raise $100 apiece from 10 contributors. “You can have a lot of fun doing this,” said Brecken- And they want Democrats out See GOP, Page B-6 It will be the Republican WEST VALLEYCITY — The young people at the Intermountain General Baptist Association’s youth conference studied the Bi- ble, ate barbecue andplayedbasketball. And heard about how to pre vent the spread of AIDS. The AIDSeducation program is part of the Faith Initiative — a national, faith-based proje sponsored by the Centers for Dis- ease Controlin Atlanta — that enlists the nation’s black churchesin nor’s office and approved bythe state purchasingdivision. Leavitt spokeswoman Vicki Varela said theyare awarded ona case-by-case basis, not automatically. The Tribune obtained contracts for four retired executive directors, including McCotter, amounting to $28,533. They included McCotter’s, plus those for former Community and Economic Development Director Joe Jenkins, $8,000; former Pub lic Safety Commissioner Doug Bo- drero, $6,300; and former state Insurance Commissioner Robert Wilcox, $6,187 Additional contracts were granted to former Industrial Commissioners Colleen Colton and Tom Carlson, but details were notavailable, said Varela. Leavitt's spokeswoman could not rule out the possibility similar deals wentto lower-levelstate officials, such as division directors, but she said that was “unlike Varela said the practice h dual purpose: assisting state agencies through transition peri See MCCOTTER,Page B-4 “Jesus had comps in," Cren: shaw told the teen-agers “Not he hav compassion, he it. It wi tangible loye."’ She cited the Biblical story of Christ's healing victims of lepro: sy, the AIDS of his day. Whenthe leper came to Jesus and begged for healing, ‘Jesus, moved with compassion, put forth his hand and touched him." The AIDS problem, especially for African-Americans, is grave. Althoughblacks make up about 11 percent of the population in the fight against AIDS. The messageis not about hellfire and damnation, or a curse of African Americans areless than 1 God on humanity, Instead, said program coordinator, AIDScasesin the nation. In Utah, percentof the population, but ac- Terrlynn See PROGRAM, PageB-6 BY STEPHEN HUNT THE SALT LAKETRIBUNE Since 1847, 52 Utah law-enforcement officers have been murderedin the line of duty. All but one of the killers has been identified. Due to an editing er ror, a story appearing in today’s Danny La/The Salt Lake Tribune JimmySurrell, center, prays with Isadore Morris, Jimmy Surrell Jr., far left, and JimmySorella, right, at youth conference. wonders if his life could havebeen different if but he ran away from themall — certain his During 10 years on deathrow at Utah State Prison, he received many letters from people offering aid “But whenI was a kid, and when I got out of need someone to care for them and love them,” Hollandinsists, was 8 years old prison — well, where were those people Holland said from the Summit County Jail “My world fell apart.” then?" asked Holland Summit County Attorney Robert Adkins said conditions that created a killer like Hol thereto prison. As an adult, Hollandhadonly James Louis Holland's evolution from an average American boy to serial killer began with the sudden death of his mother when he “When I lost my mom, I lost everything,” Sunday Magazine, whichis print ed in advance of the rest of the Sunday newspaper, states other Holland became asocial and emotional mis: fit who killed three menin three states for trivial reasons Last week, Holland, 57, was tried and sentencedto life in prison without parolefor the wise. 1986 shooting death of a Florida man near Wyoming, Utah and Nevada rank third, fifth and sixth in the Saturday's 7yibuneimplied an in correct ranking The “sole source’ agreements were recommended by the gover- Killer Says ‘When I Lost My Mom,I Lost Everything’ CORRECTIONS & CLARIFICATIONS nation, respectively, for the high: est 1995-96 percentage increases has left state government since Leavitt's 1996re-election has re ceived a consulting contract worth roughly a month's salary. The contracts did not go through the competitive bidding process usually requiredforser- vices valued at more than $500. only did acted on the United States, they account for 33 percent of the the total Crenshaw, it is about love. in tuberculosis cases, A story in Sen. Howard Stephenson, R-Draper AIDS Education Program Emphasizes ‘Love’ GOP Women Gear Up For 1998 Showdown THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE appropriate — ifit’s statutorily appropriate, first of all.” In exchangeforthe $8,046tax- payer-funded contract, the agen- before they will agree to keep are competing with Utah's capital for those pedestrians, Friday "T intend to look more closelyat it to see ifit’s Echo Junction in Summit County, Utah. The term is consecutive to a similar life sentence Steven McCaughey Serialkiller James Holland will spend the restof his life in prison — and that’s all right by him. for an Idaho murder. Previously, he served 22 years for killing an lowa man “I don't feel bad, 8 Holland, “I've never felt emotions towards other peop'e — other thanchildren introuble." The graying, balding Tennessee native now someonehad helpedalong the way land no longer exist. Reform schools are a thing of the past. Anda convictedkiller would not be released from prison today without su pervision. Still, Holland presents a lesson, Adkins said ‘It’s important that parents spend moretime with their children, Andif you don't do it, no oneelsewill.” When Holland's mother died in a car crash in 1948, his alcoholic father abandoned his family. Holland's three older siblings went to live ona relative's farm, but Holland was too young to work. foster parents cared nothing for him. “Kids Deemedan incorrigible runaway by age 9 — but with no criminal record — Holland landed ina reformatory. At 17, he went directly from 18 months of freedom. Despitehis virtual absence of coping skills. Holland was released from prison three times. I was just dumped outthere," hesaid. ‘The whole outside world was strange to me,” he added. "I didn't know how totalk to people. Communicating with people and pris oners aretwo different things I wasn't used to having a job without a guard standing over me with a gun He became a vagabond, crisscrossing the country and oftenliving in the woods. “I just couldn't stay put nowhere," Hollandsaid. “I'd He was placedin series of foster homes, See KILLER, Page B-5 UTAH QUOTES T want to be helpful, not an imposi- “This company would have never made “She's either the greatest thing since tion My job is to be supportive. | buttered bread or nobody wants to have Maybe in 2002 I'l park cars or serve48 anything to do with her.” an usher, | just hope in Olympic history that the Welches, all of them, will be it through the expletive) ‘80s, if fexpletive — Attorney Roger Hoole on represent- ing Crelley Mackoy who is seeking meatie violence | field coordinator ‘It sucks but what can you do? They re grabbing you by the gonads. 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