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Show The Salt LakeTribune UTAH/NATION Wednesday, December 2, 1998 Exxon Agrees to Merger With Mobil Corp. won't be a big deal to drivers. That's becausethere will be virtually no change at the gas pumps “This was an LDS Church announcement. It was friendly,” she said. hoping that rather than go some they'll walk down Main Street and shop.” Church consultants are com- pleting engineering work and designs for the project. The Capitol Hill and Greater Avenues Com- munity Council, the city’s Transportation Advisory Committee, Planning Commission and City Council would have to approve the idea Tuesday night, City Council members beratedcity administrators, and particularly Corradini, for not inviting them to the news conference. Councilwoman Joanne Milner repeatedly demanded Corradini explain why council members were not included nouncement in the an- The mayor said church leaders wantedthat responsibility The administration has a ma- jorrole in deciding the future of thecity. Weplayed our administrativerole in the decision,” Corradini said. “This was an LDS Church announcement. It was ager Dave eter and locked at night. “We Burton said. “But we hope wecan open upthe plaza more than [Temple Square] is today.” Thepropertyis valued at $10 million, but the church would pay the city $8.1 million for it. That price was set by subtracting the cost of underground-property rights the church acquired two years ago after deeding City Park, a former church parking lot on North Temple, to the city. The money probably would be divvied up in thecity’s their minds, and their arguments. Crossroads Plaza General Man- closing Main Street between his For 5th-Graders @ Continued from A-1 ‘If we were fundedfor that we could probably begin to change the cycle,” said Bonnie Morgan, state curriculum director. “It sign awaya critical street before fore the news conference. He would prefer the city in- closure an experiment, just in case traffic patterns and pedestri- knows what will be appropriate doesn’t present itself immediate- Either way, some council mem- bers were furious they were not informed or included. “It's not a bad proposal, but the wayit was done was not right,” said Councilwoman Deeda Seed. ly. You have to havepatience.” StuartReid, a formercity coun- revived the idea in 1996. He sug- 2015 — would work around the Temple. Reid’s proposal disintegrated in two months. Hisplan coincided with the closure of Main Street for work on the church’s Gateway West office building, under- “The good was subverted by the groundparking and light-rail con- feel, struction. Avenues and Capitol Hill resi- process. Regardless of how we this announcement makes theplazaa fait accompli.” City administrators insist coun- cil members will have their say — now If the council approvestheplaza, construction probably would start in March, Burton said. The plaza would openin April 2000, along with the AssemblyBuilding Burtonsaid the plaza would be dents complained aboutdisplaced traffic plowing through their neighborhoods. And downtown retailers and business owners protested, afraid that closing the street to traffic would kill sales andaccess. “Thetiming was a bit wrong,” Reid said. Now, some of those business size significantly, increasing funding for books and research materials in classrooms andlibraries and providing money to train educators in the best reading methods. There also needs to be a focus cial science and thinking skills= In 1990, hoping to make schoels more accountable, lawmaké}s mandated that all students “jn fifth, eighth and 11th grades*be tested and that individual schoels and districts report the results.i) percentile in science, the 51st percentile in social science and the 58rd percentile in thinking skills. Eleventh-graders scored at the 68th percentile in math, the 62nd percentile in science and the 60th This fall, almost 103,000 hi. dents in the three gradestook fhe Stanford. Results are given in s\x areas — reading, math, language, science, social science and thinking skills — and a complete battery. Despite the low reading scores, fifth-graders scored in the 60th the public. ee PLEASE CLIP AND MAIL WITH YOUR GIFTTODAY i 2 2 2 0 So at commer©Christmas Dinner—$1.83 Weneed yourhelp toserve our annual Christmas dinner andprovide hot meals andother essential services to hungry, homeless people in the Salt Lake City area this Christmas season. Forjust $1.83, you can provide a meal andaccess to sate day and emergency shelter, an clothes andspiritual help that can be the start of an life Pleasehelp us feed and care for the hungry, hurting and homeless by mailing yourgift today. MainStreetclosure. AndReid believes the church’s pedestrian plaza would help guar- ($18.30 helps 10 people antee Main Street's vibrancy. 136.60cares for 20people 5] ($54.90cares for 30people $73.20helps 40 people ($183 provides 100 meals oressentialservices COther$ “The thing that makes a city uniqueis a place. That is a won- derful gathering place for people,” he said. ‘The more pedestrianswe canbringtothat part Name of town, the better it will be for MainStreet merchants.” Council Chairman Bryce Jolley agrees. Eighth-grade students scored at the 58th percentile in science,go- will take us three to five years to really begin to see a change.” ing the future.” City Transportation Director ‘Tim Harpstinsists traffic flows — based on projections through blocks — from 100 South to North wouldn't happen in one year. It ation, including lowering class Butit’s surely not worth sacrific- cilman turned community- and economic-development director, gestedclosing MainStreetfor two portanceof readingto their chil- public-school system, educators knowing how the deal would affect traffic. Sittner met with church leaders at a breakfast be- process,” But Milnersaid Burton told her pany. throughthe malls, Neilson said Greater Avenues Community whenit’s time for our grandchil- ministrators promised to notify xon shareholders will own about 70 percent of the combined com- Council Chairman John Sittner, however, fears city leaders will trian traffic on Main Street and “We've had horses on our streets. We've had trolleys on our streets. We've had cars on our streets,”’ Sittner said. ‘‘Who “Sometimes the opportunity 1.3201 shares of Exxon for each share of Mobil held. Current Ex- chemicals, percentile in reading. ing and reconstruction of Main Street. City Planning Director an mall the last unfinished pro- including paraxylene. Raymond said the merger should eliminate about $2.8 bil- polyethylene, polypropylene and the 60th percentile in math and dren to be using the street? This will have enormous impact on traffic. It may be worth trying. the council. Milner accused the mayor of evading her question. “They're shooting at each other,” she said. Exxon Mobil also will be the dren long before they enter the “This isn’t a new idea. It’s been around for a long time,” Wright Tuesday afternoon that city ad- the globe. on training families aboutthe im- an behavior change. farmers’ market, a federal build- savings.” The Exxon-Mobil dealis silb- ject to scrutiny by regulators‘in the United States and other coyntries where the companies operate. Raymond said mid-1999. is the target for closing the deal; Mobil shareholderswill receive Below Average believes shoppers will find other ways to drive to the malls, And the plaza would encourage pedes- along with suggestions for convention and visitors centers, a William Wrightcalls the pedestri- leum PLC and Amoco Corp. will “They will definitely cut their Test Scores mall and the ZCMI Center, now clude an “out” clause in the contract with the church or make the destrian area on Main Street pending mergerofBritish Petro- employees,’’ said Lichtbldu. staff by several thousand. That’s going to be the biggest single cest n, whoprotested 1999-2000 budget. A 1962 Second Century Plan for downtownfirst proposed a pe- said. be vice chairman of the company industrial havesomesecurity and historical Creek concerns, Raymondsaid. Nationally, Exxon Mobil will have “‘on the order of 13 percent” of the market, said Lucio Noto, Mobil’s chief executive, who will the world. Every corner of Exxon and Mobil will be affected.” = “The principal losers willbe Lichtblau, chairmanof the Petro- world’s No. 1 producerofseveral ject from the 1962 plan will go through the normal city leum Industry Research Foundation in New York. Still, the sheer size of this merger is daunting. In 1997, Exxon earned $4.7 billion, Mobil $2.2 billion. The combined company will have wells, gas stations and refineries across continue to use both brands, That means the marketingalli- going to brief the council. The council now has their role. This their press conference. They were which will lead to some divestitures in states where Mobil and Inc. will remain the nation’s largest, with about 14 percent of the market, Noto said. And the im- owners apparently have changed issues to deal with,” Whatthat meansis that no one xon Mobil — will be big enough to ance of Shell Oil Co. and Texaco moreopen than Tempie Square, which is walled around theperim- be cut, Raymond said, although analysts have said the figdre could go ashigh as 20,000. About 40 percent of the total work force is in the U.S., and Raymondsaid job cuts “will be spread around company — not even the huge Ex- control world prices, said John Salt Lake Cit Mayor Initial estimate suggest that 9,000 of the companies’ combined worldwide, It will own only about 1 percent of worldwide oil reserves, the API estimated. Deedee Corradini “We'll have people out of their cars. We're where else, workforce of 123,000 likely will largely through job cuts and amet Address “Everything will be im- dd fe ee oot me ll @ Continued from A-1 The American Petroleum Institute (API), the industry's Washington-based trade group, estimates Exxon Mobil will have less than 12 percent of the U.S. refin- here. The combined companywill Exxon together raise antitrust their press conference. They were going to brief the council. The council nowhastheir role. This will go through the normal cityprocess. divestitures. Apt ee ee Plaza Proposed onStreet In DowntownS.L. lion in costs during three yedrs, its, he said. marketshare likely in double dig- ing capacity and about 7 percent @ Continued from A-1 Courtesy of LDS Church Asketchof the proposed pedestrian mall for Main Street between North and South Temple. create the third largest, with a City/State/Zip Costs are average andinclude the expense of preparing andproviding meals: proved with that plaza,” hesaid ‘It not only improves the land- scape and architecture around there, but it [also] brings more SALT LAKE CITY MISSION 468 W. 200 South, Dept. 1202 Salt LakeCity, UT 84101 Location: 468 W. 200 South www saltlakecitymission.org people to downtown Salt Lake City, building the business com- munity, restaurants, retailers and hotels.” beeeneee COUR STH YEAR OF SERVICE TO SALT LAKE CITY 1 St SE ol Fleece Pullovers and Full Zip Vests by MOCLUReaetber 12. 1998 “7 SL id a Choose from Indigo,Ink Blue, Pine, # ora Center. 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