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Show The Salt LakeTribune SLTION, WEDNESDAY MFOR THE RECORD, B-2 MAY3, 2000 Anderson Cuts Budget ROLLY & WELLS Mayorwants Salt Lake’s spending reduced by 20 percent BY REBECCA WALSH three. And the mayor has committed nearly 10 percentof general fund revenuesto payfor capital THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE ‘The good timesareoverin Salt LakeCity. Actually, yearsof flush budgets andspiking tax revenue were over a few years ago. Budgets were PAUL ROLLY and JOANN JACOBSEN-WELLS © 2000,The Salt Lake Tribune’ leaner and meaner. Everybody knewit. Prison Outfit Nota Big Hit With S.L. Cops For a recent performance,a Salt Lake City rock band purchased orange jumpsuits on which it had printed “Property of CountyJail.” After the gig, band member John Bean spentthe night at the house of a fellow band member. The next morning,on the way to his day job at Wild Oats(at 812 E. 200 South), he caught a UTA bus while still wearing the jumpsuit. When he returned from the back room after clocking in, he was met by several Salt LakeCity police officers, guns drawn: Within minutes,theofficers had Bean face down onthefloor. As a heavy boot was pushed againsthis neck, he said he was handcuffed and carried by the cuffs into the store office, That’s when other employees explained that Bean wasreally in costumeand had not escaped from the county jail as suspected. After showing .D., he was released andis back in orangeperformingwith his band, “Erosion.” Q | In millions of dollars 05 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45 50 55 60 65 70 75 80 | ee 33,128,891 larly when the demands are great and the rebudget. “Our chargeis to provide the peopleofSalt Lake City with the best return fortheir taxes. sources are limited,” Anderson said ofhis first With his commitmentto capital improvements and willingness to cut, Anderson may have Andersonhas proposed cutting city expenses by avoided a showdownwith council members. Last 20 percent — from $625 millionthis fiscal year to year, the council wrangled with Mayor Deedee $502 million for next, No item is sacred. He suggests the city drop its $80,000 membership in the Corradini for months, trying to squeeze more moneyout of the budget to chip away at a $150 LeagueofCities and Towns.Andheis downsizing. It’s only 13 jobs, most of them vacant.Still, this is million backlog of infrastructure projects and make dent in a $630 million bill during the next 20 years. FY 0-00 (Projected) TST 37,711,021 15,700,608 Andersonpredicted a tight year — i $8 million shortfall — in his State of the City aa dress in January. That revenue picture improved, retirement payouts, picked up expiring federal however,after the 2000 legislative session. State grants that pay for additional police officers and staffed fire engineswith four firefighters instead of See BUDGET,Page B-2 Source: Salt LakeCi ManagementServices Steve Baker The Salt Lake Tribune Conference Uninvites WHIZ KIDS Gay Group Teacher meeting to focus on equity in the classroom Working Too Much? BY KATHERINE KAPOS Workaholic Rocky Anderson may haveto take a break from his Salt THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE Lake City mayoral schedule before he The Gay Lesbian Straight Education Network (GLSEN)of Utah says it was invited in March to give a workshop at a two-day Equity in Opportunity conference. A few weekslater, the group was politely uninvited. gets a ticket for having an expired registration on his Suburban. Folks monitoring the highly visible mayor tell us the registration on his vehicle expired in March. Although Andersonsays the check is in the mail, he admits to mailing it late, quipping: “I’m afraid many “It’s bizarre,” said Network member Linda Chamberlain.“It’s like having a multicultural conference and only inviting white people.” Two hundred Utahteachers will at- things in my personal life are run- ning bit behind right now.” a Speaking of Rocky tend the conference today and Thursday at Salt Lake Community College to learn how to create equity in their classroo ins. But they will haveto listen Workers at Mountain Dell Golf Course helped The Salt Lake Tribune solve a 40-year-old mystery Friday when they dug up a vault buried in 1960 containing the namesof young readers whoentered a contest sponsored by the newspaperto win $2,000 in the year 2000. The Tribune offered to pay the workers fortheir services, but grounds supervisor MarkRuff said it wasall part of community service closely to get information that will help their gay students. Advocates wondered if it was the workshop’s Steve Griffin/TheSalt Lake Tribune Sam Parker,left, Adam Mielke and Tony Chen horse aroundwith the trophies they wonata national chess toumament. sinee manypinetreesthat dot the golfcourse were donated by The Tribuneas seedlings. When Tribune Community Relations Director Carol Van. Wagoneroffered soft drinks, the workers turned the offer down,citing the mayor’s “nogifts” policy. Q S.L. First-Graders Are U.S. Chess Champs They defeated teamsfrom 16 states. “You think they’re cute little kids but they’re very good’ BY HEATHER MAY Saintly Gesture was 9 monthsold, worked with Mother Theresa caring for poor, sick streét dwellers in that crowded Indian city. Long has donated to the Madeleine Choir School a rosary medal andholy card givento her by the late Nobel Peace Prizerecipient. Those,plus less saintly packages, will be auctioned off Saturdayat the school's dinner-danceat5:30 p.m,at Salt Lake City's Hellenic Memorial Cultural Center, Adam Mielke took time to get philo- sophical about the meaning of chess Tuesday and whyhepractices the highbrow game enough to come away a na- tional champion. “It’s life,” he said simply. Thenhe snatched thefirst-place trophy he helped win this week and pretended it was a gun. His two teammates grabbed their own “weaponry”andshot back. That makes sense. The boys,afterall, are onlyfirst-graders. Adam, Tony Chen and Sam Parker competéd as a team in a seven-round Chess Education Association's National Next Time, Not So Much Flour 20th practices chess about an hour a day. He They brought home $800 to share and started winning national tournaments before he was in kindergarten. His win Lake City, respectively. ‘THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE Bonnie Long, whose missionary parents moved to Calcutta when she Scholastic Chess Championship in San took ninth and three trophies that, at 60 inchestall, tower this week makes him an All-American overtheir little bodies. So what'stheir secret to success? chessplayer,an elite national standing. His dad, Zhidong Chen, encourages “You just say ‘checkmate’ and the game's over,” Adam said. If it only were that simple. “It takes concentration. You gotta adults around the country have rallied around the game. Chess teaches children think,” Sam said. son. It also helps with math and reading. To be honest, they don’t really remember their winning moves. But when they face their opponents over a chess board, something clicks. This is one game their gamesdon’t like Nintendo,” said Lowell Principal Liz Grant. parents don’t haveto let them win. “They've beaten me andI'm nationally ranked,” said Michael Mielke, Adam's fa- Jose, Calif., this week and tookfirst place. They beat out otherfirst-graders andkin- ther. “You think they're cute little kids underscrutiny this week for running dergartners from 16 states. advertisements for hard liquor, a violation ofstate law which prohibits They also placed individually. Tony, who attends Lowell Elementary in Salt LakeCity, placed second. Adam and Sam, both from Rowland Hall-St. Mark’sin Salt The boys moved on to the national tournamentafter winning the Utah State While The Salt Lake Tribune came the promotionofalcohol use, appar- any unnoticed by the Keystone in Utah’s Departmentof Alcohohe Beverage Control was a recipe for Triple Turf Pie run in the Mormon Church-owned Deseret News on Tuesday. According to the printed word,thepiefilling calls for — you got it — bourbon whiskey. Thestory said the recipe was courtesy of Early Times Whiskey. Paige Marriott, a candidate for the Republican National Committee Womenfrom Utah, was the concluding speaker at the Cache County GOP intion last weekend. As shefinished her rousing speech, she excitedly said, “In the nameof Jesus . .” She stopped,realizing her faux pas, but county party leader Clair Ellis got up and concluded the convention by saying “Amen!” » ‘\ . but they're very good.” Chess Championships last month. Tony started playing at age 4 whenhis older sisters got into the game. He Tony to play for the same reasons other discipline, concentration and how to rea“It's an ancient game.It takesan intellectual focus and attention that other You can’t be that abstract with little boys, though, noted parent Charles Parker. “It's also very much a fun game. Sixyear-olds can’t be that serious for that long.” No need totell that to the boys, who have comeup with their own reasons for playing. “Toget concentration,” said Sam. “No,” said Tony. “Just to win. To win!” title that caused orga: nizers anxiety: (ETAT “Homophobia 101: @ Web Links @ PastStories Teaching Respect for All.” An offer to ee was,rejected. Robert Brems, associate superintendentof the state’s Applied Technology Educationdivision,said he wasnot worried about the name, butfelt the change the name workshop was unnecessary. The division co-sponsors the conference with Equity in Opportunity centers at Salt Lake Community College, Utah Valley State College, Weber State University and Dixie College. The keynote speaker and two other workshops will deal with sexual harassment and gender behaviors, he said. “I know GLSEN would liketo see the issue addressed in a different way, but See EQUITY MEETING,Page B-3 CORRECTIONS & CLARIFICATIONS The winners of the Huntsman Award for Excellence in Education wereselected from field of 150 final: ists; several hundred teachers were nominated for the awards. A story in Sunday's Tribunestated otherwise. S.L. Mayor, Council Poised to Scrap Library Block Plan for Open Space BY REBECCA WALSH place for concerts, plays, personal reading and family picnics,” Anderson says. “Everybody coming to Salt Lake City will THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE Q FreudianSlip (Z Property Tax BD Sales Tax {BB Franchise Tax Fiacne) aa unpopular — choices have to be made, particu- cal year 2000-01. “I knew very significant cuts would be required,” he said Tuesday,after presenting the inch-thick document to City Council members. Atthe sametime, Andersonhas covered depreciation costs for the city’s fleet, paid forfirefighter | | nextfiscal year. improvements such as new sidewalks on Hayes Avenue (940 South), a bike lane up Emigration Canyonand improvements at Liberty Park. “Difficult — even controversial and, perhaps, Faced with even worsefinancial times, Mayor Rocky Andersonsliced through his budgetforfis- the first time in recent memory a mayorhas suggested wiping outjobs. hae Or estan maiee) Irs budgettime in Salt Lake City. Hereis a look atthecity's general fund revenue sourcesthepastfive years, including projections for the What a difference a year — a new Salt Lake City mayor and an internationally prominentarchitect makes. Despite spending $231,570 for a master plan of the block east of City Hall and years of work on the project, city leaders are poised to scrap the document. That's because Mayor Rocky Anderson and library archivect Moshe Safilie say they havea better idéa for the block: open space. “We're going to design this in such a way thatit will be a wonderful gathering 4 * visit this block.” In 1998, the Salt Lake City firm Ed: wards & Daniels Architects (EDA) unveiled a much-anticipated proposalfor the block. It suggested leaving the existing Main Library alone, Crews would tear down two courts buildings and the Met. ropolitan Hall of Justice (MHJ). If voters approved, a new library would be built on the northwest corner, Apartments, shops andoffices would-form the eastern edge of a central plaza. The plan called it an “Urban Room.” at least in review EDA's block proposal. Meantime, Anderson was elected. He And theydid: Residents voted to raise and Safdie got together for dinner one night last winter and sketched an Last year, city leaders still planned to follow that document concept. property taxes, The courts are. in rubble. Construction of an ethereal, $60 million libraryis scheduled to start this fall. Buttherestof the expensive guidebook for the MHJ block has been abandoned. City Council members put off adopting the plan until Saftie had drafted his li brary designs. Then, acting as the Redevelopment Agency board, they scraped together $30,000 andlibrary official’ siphoned some money from the new build- ing’s budget to pay Boston-based Saftlie to q alternative. Saftlie's draft is different from Edwards & Daniels’. He proposes an amphitheater, reading garden and children’s play area, The configuration of Saftlie’s triangular library at the corner of 400 South and 200 East wouldnot change. Safdie’s partner, Isaac Franco,calls ita “mini-Central Park.” The new library's sweeping glass wall with reading rooms Sce OPEN SPACE,Page B-5 4 N t |
