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Show D4 The Salt Lake Tribune UTAH Tuesday, May School Boards Get Voice in Panel’s Siceens As Temperatures Rise, So Do N. Utah’s Graffiti Problems Legislative task force charged with making recommendations for education standards and accountability THE SALT I Leadersofat me members of two BY HILARY GROUTAGE boards. The NE that afteral k forcestudying education stand. and ‘countability will allowstate a ‘al school board mer bers to have a voicein the group’s recommenda tions. Rep. Tammy Rowan, R-Orem of meetin, the group would be excluded from the final decision: out lined a complica n that requires a consensus to be reached ami bers, committee mem accord: they represent. Agreem: wassimply followingtherules set be reached among mem the Hi members of the cedure. She said the committee by otherlegislative interim com mittees in suggesting that oniy lawmakersonthe panel would be able to vote on recommendations targeted for lawmakers. Interim committees meet dur ing the summer and fall and for mulatereports to give to the Leg islature in its next session Oversight it might have been but it rankled other members enough to prompt a letter from the panel's state school board members to Sen. Howard Ste- phenson, R-Draper, the task force chairman The committee also includes Lt. Gov. Olene Walker, wht also sits on task force. might “The realit to get said Phyllis Sorenson, director of the Utah Utah anda former anything done anyway Rowan and Stephenson, known for periodic criti public education, hande both aphie chara¢ 5 may require a differenti. ated funding s to meet the benchmarks stanc ards). Howev stence of those demo: acteri stics is not a for failure to ere going force members a list of ave had before,” on a policy paper prepared by John Bennion, a clinical professor first stated that schools certain dem situation the to have to pretty much come toa consensus Phyllis Sorenson Edueation Association. Rowan based her House Bill 33 standing of things they may not f educationat the Univ lature best: OGDEN — Membersof the Ogden Anti-Graffiti Task Force say when the weather gets warm. their struggle becomes a war. questions and getting an under- st andalso school board representatives before ations could be forw ‘ have summed up the THE ASSOCIATED PRESS riculum coordinator Barbara Lawerence. They are really asking tough “They are really asking tough questions and getting an understanding ofthings they may not have hadbefore. to what group said the omission was not inten. tional, but simply a matter of pro lengthy presentationby state cur- meet standards id the public e second school system should be held aecountable for only t wer igh it reece the gre sup’s second guiding principles from which to work in coming months Monday members toured Edison Elementary School n Salt Lal City and heard a y School District superintendent Bennionstudied the accountabil ity programs of several states in the nation before writing the pa: per that suggests it is lime for Utah to develop a programof ac ountability The taskforce has 13 members. Fight of themarestate represen. tatives andsenators, Walker represents the governor's office, Jill Kennedy and Kim Burningham represent the state school board and Ila Rose Fife of Salt Lake City and Linda B. Ogden of Roosevelt represent local school boards ‘The group meets again June7 8 Utah Radio Stations to Carry Call-In Show on Salt Lake’s Vinter Olympics THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Mitt Romney thepresident of the Salt LakeOr anizing Committee, will be ta to the airwaves once a month to ep Utahres dents informed about the 2002 Winter Games. The Utah Broadcasters Associ ation and SLOC announcedplans for a monthly radio call-in show RMUEMU| oie$445 som 8245 raer on Monday It will originate at KSL Radio's studio andother stations will re ceive it by satellite for broadeas continue 1 the end of the Games in ¥ Stations earr include KS ¢ the program 570 K-News in Salt Lake City in Logan KVEL in Vernal, KSVC in Rich field, KMI in Manti, KOAL in Price and KUTA inBlanding “SAFETY” grates for your window wells. a Le Ogden police have caught some suspects in highly targeted areas, but Korgenski said sheis afraid to areas, and we w said Julie Smith, a task-force coordinator. graffiti task force in the face of think of Ogden without the anti- Whethertheypaintover the top the “newspaper ofthestreet.” Removing graffiti immediately pressurized, chemically treated tool for reducingit, she said. As of graffiti, or blast it with highly water, the task force has removed the painted remnants of taggers and gangs from Weber County's walls for morethanfour years ‘Theproblem has expandedinto Davis County, and buildings in Layton and Kaysville regularly have to be cleaned. Layton City probably has the most [graffiti], she said of the cities in Davis County. Thetask force receives funding fromKaysville, Layton and Boun- tiful to helpwithgraffiti removal Smithsaid But Ogdenis northern Utah's mostinfectedcity Police Lt. Marcy Korgenski said graffiti cases are difficult to is a community's most effective with manycities, much of Ogden’s graffiti problemis gang-related. What often appearsas scribbles may actually be a complex ex- changeof threats and challenges. shesaid “Whengang membersseegraf- fiti, it can create warfare,” Korgenski said. “Having it removed quickly is a really good bonus.’ Joan Liquin, coordinator for the Logan-Cache Gang Project said when graffiti started appearing in Cache County in the late ’80s, local law enforcement began tracking theactivity. 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