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Show 14 TheSalt Lake Tribune UTAH Thursday, December3, 1998_ rem Council Has a Bright Proposal: Citywide Street Lights The council was mostly supportive of Park’s presentation, with Councilman Steve Heinz not- ing, “We can’t quantify the cost only 12%ofthecity currently lighted, it is a target for car thieves and burglars. Residents are willing to pay to change that sue. Assistant City Manager John BY PHIL MILLER Park told the council Tuesday LAKE TRIBUNE The Dark Ages are to an end in central Utah for only $3 per month. at each Orem house- nly would be charged y Council givesits applan to put lights on y street in town lack ofstreet lights — f Orem is light ig Commercial cor{ one of the darkmt cities — has dents for years, and become asafety is- night that car thieves and burglars target Orem becauseits residential areas are so dark Park's recommendation is toin. stall 3,015 lights throughout the city, about 200 feet apart. The costs — $5.7 million to buy and erect the lights, $1.8 millionto dig trenches for them and $1. 04 per year to power them — could becovered by ach utili ty customer $3 per month. City surveys indicate residents overwhelminglyarewilling to pay it, Park sai “Lighting is a top priority agreed Mayor Joe Nelson. “This is something people have wanted for a long time.” If the City Council goesalong sometimein January, those lights could start going up by next J thoughtheproject would take least threeyears to complete ‘The council decided toschedule anopenhousefor mid-January to gather public input on thecosts isting street lig design, which hang over str fromhigh atoppoles. Park’s ommendation is for Orem in to choose more stylish, and effec- tops to direct light downward. The plan includes creating a special-service district with the ability to issue revenue bonds to cover the costs of installation. Orem would buy the lights and hire a contractor to erect them, then contract with Utah Power for a limited amount of mainte- nance. Thecity's costs wouldtotal around $912,000 a yearfora decade, until the bonds are paid off, thendropbelow $150,000annual- ly for electricity The permanent $3-per-custom- their constitu tional rights Race, color \KE TRIBUNE klus Beauchaine ream ofracial invec Salt Lake County woman frican American, prosey committed a “hate hird-degree felony hable by up to 5 years in defense argues Beau- vine mi at most, aterroristic weat. a hable ay ai ss B misdemeanor by no more than 6 x testimony Tuesary hearing, 3rd pr rict Judge Stephen Henriod ered the 19-year-old man to } trial for the hate crime lenriod said Beauchaine had tener the victim's life with of keeping her from ereising her constitutional ihe shts to live and travel freely judge also doubled Beau- haime’s bail 000. from $10,000 to sexual orien- ear, Bobby Jo Carter, verified Fountain had donenothing Carter told police that Beau chaine was merely in a bad mood disability and tation arenot specifically ee. ' Niklus ace rarely re: ported in Beauchaine Utah, FBI statistics show were victims of theracial epithets hate crimes. Ofthose, 61 percentofthe attacks were race-related, 16per. cent were religion-based and 12 percent hadto do with sexual ori entation Beauchaine was charged with screaming at Tracy Fountain, a Utah's hate-crime statute has trict Attorney chief prosecutor Walter “Bud” Ellett said his office has charged two other cases in six years. It's just not a commonpractice ound here,” Ellett said. “But we want people to knowwe'll vigorously prosecute whenit occurs.” ih’s statute increases a mis- racial epithet, then turnedto see Beauchaineyelling from the passengerseat ofthe car next to hers Beauchaine allegedly screamed: “You should be hung and “We shouldkil! The defendant purportedly said he had Fountain’s license number and he weuld find her andkill her andher family. 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In fact Fountain exer, code enforcement officer for the from a tree,” several million dollars more Fountain her car on July all you n------.” over 20 years, it would cost Orem Defense attorney David Finlay son argued his client had made only “general threats against the black race.” but nothing that could be construed as putting irst Amendment right of free speech by responding to city of Taylorsvi Twoother options also were presented, including paying Utah Power to doail installation and maintenance. That would reduce short-term costs to around $556,000 a year, but Park said center had been damaged. C; ir said she heard Beauchaine utter an alarming numberofhateattacks nationwide. In 1996, 11,039 people park estimated at $3.79 per household, so money from the city’s general fund would be necessaryuntil the bonds were paid because his home-entertainment traffic light at 5600 S. Redwood Road. Fountaintestified she heard a Beauchaine appears next be- ore Judge William Bohling for a Dec. 7 scheduling hearing. Since its enactment in 1992. rarely been used, Salt Lake Dis- off othercar, nor did she have any prior contact with Beau chaine. Thedriver of the other Although such crimes coverthecity’s initial costs, which - questions about tain said she felt nervous, seared and threatened Fountain said she had not cut national ori gin, gender mentioned. But Councilman Bill Peperone wondered how Orem residents would react to a street light charge “if six months later, we're talking about a similar charge for storm sewers and water projects,’ issues the council plans to er charge would not completely tive, lamp posts with reflective 1! 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