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Show UTAH STATE PRESS A2SS. 467 EAST 300 SO. SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH 01111 f Rrvtort Cri tRout RwUgr U I K PAID t( PtRMit NO UkTfON $ UTAH (USPS - 544-913- 3 NUMBER TVVENTY-NIN- E ) 546-473- 5 Voice Of Dctvis County 25t VOLUME EIGHTY 1492-6000- WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1984 i Heres Salaries Of aytom Employees By DONETA GATHERUM LAYTON -- For the past several months at - nearly every Layton City council meeting someone has asked for information about the salaries of elected officials and employees in Layton. Last week the paper published the salaries and expense accounts for the council members and the mayor. This week the salaries of the department heads and some comparisons between their salaries and the salaries of employees with comparable responsibilities in other cifies will be given. Constructions been slowed about CENTER GROWING e months behind schedule on the newest addition to the Davis Area Vocational Center, due primarily to bad weather, but crews are trying to get the 30,000-plu- s facility under cover before winter weather strikes. Director Jack Shell says. The multimillion dollar building on the Kaysville campus will house a new welding shop, student services area including a small cafeteria and electronics section. Completion is hoped by late spring of next year. Suiniset Takes two-thre- Fire r Prevention Seriously ment. plimented the organization on their efforts and stated the education program was paying off in fewer fires and better awareness of weed spots and other potential hazard areas. gave presentations to students at Elementary. In addition to the educational programs given through the school system. Fire Prevention Week was a time for public inspection of Sunsets Fire fighting equipment and fire station. Many people took the opportunity to visit the fire station and pick up information about fire control and prevention. Elementary and Fremont Elementary Schools. Fire fighters from OVER 2,000 handouts were distributed by the Sunset Fire Depart - SUNSET Nearly 2,000 Sunset residents were contacted in the five day period officially designated as Fire Prevention Week, Sunset City Fire Chief Arley Wallace reported last Tuesday evening at the Sunset City council meeting. FIRE department employees Sunset Junior High, Sunset Mayor Norman Sant com- IN OTHER council business, approval was given to raise the wages of several employees who were recently hired and have com- pleted successfully their probationary period of service. The Mayor indicated Southland Corporation, the owners of stores, were presenting plans fora new Sunset store to the Planning Commission. The new store will be located where the old Sunset LDS Church is on Main Street (Parker Dance Palace) if the plans are approved. 7-- Back To School Slated At CHS 1 CLEARFIELD - Its Clearfield High Schools School" night coming Nov. 14 from p.m. Back to TO BE held in the new gym, teachers, counselors and adminis- trators will set up tables in the gym, ready to respond to parents questions. A progress report will be provided parents outlining their students progress in each class. In addition, parents may obtain a disclosure statement, ex- plaining each class' philosophy, objectives, rationale and grading procedures. STUDENTS will be released at noon on both the 14th and 15th. Administrators, including Principal David Lawrence Cook and vice principals Tamara Lowe and Floyd Wilcox will be there. By NORMA PREECE KAYSVILLE - Marilyn Coleman, director of the Bountiful Art Center met with Kaysville -- City Council Tuesday evening with a proposal for the council to consider having Kaysville City support them with funds for their center. SHE STATED the center was built in 1974 as a Cooperation Program by the University of Utah and Bountiful City for the prupose as a visual arts and cultural center. In 1979 they completed a remodeling project with $100,000 of donated funds by the county residents. The University of Utah has withdrawn their support of the center. This amounts to $33,000 yearly. ? - t ' GRAPHS prepared by Mr. Swallow indicated that Layton starts employees out at a higher salary than is offered by many employers. The philosophy is to attract people who have had education and experience on the jo'br The pay is competitive all along the scale from the bottom to the top so that employees will want to stay on the Layton City payroll. in Layton is not very high. Employee turn-ovThe wages, working conditions and job benefits seem to be good enough to keep the employees within the system. While it is impossible to give a starting pay figure, a medium range salary amount and a top salary within a department for employees of Layton, the figures supplied for a secretary are fairly representative of the salaries and the range of pay within any department of city government.. A secretary with five years employment with Layton City earns $15,948. This increases to $17,800 for a person who has worked for the city 3 years and to $ 9,740 for a person who has been employed by Layton City for 17 years. THE TRAINING, experience and responsibilities needed for the job are included in the job description and the salary scale along with the number of years of employment. The department heads in Layton City have been on the job for many years. The newest department heads in terms of years of service are the Parks and Recreation head and the city planner. Both were hired in 1979. The Parks and Recreation department head earns $33,480 per year. A monthly car allowance of $192.20 is given to this person to cover the expenses incurred with the on the job travel. The city planner earns $32,480 per year and has a $70 per month car allowance. er Hill Air Force Base presented a program to the students at Doxey By DQNETA GATHERUM IN JULY of 1984 the Layton City council received a report prepared by Mike Swallow of the Utah Division of Personnel Management, a state agency. Two significant comments were made in the report. 1. "The citys internal classification system is accurate and 2. the market place is in agreement with the class relationships. This means that the salary structure in Layton City is competitive with salaries offered in other cities and in the private marketplace. SOUTHLAND will operate two stores in Sunset if both show profits. Several budget items were approved by the council including insulation for the city half, a' new door for the city shops and a video camera for the police department. JERRY Ellsworth, Public Works Director, reported the parks were prepared for winter and that city crews were flushing the fire hydrants and sanitary sewers, patching roads and trimming trees and bushes near intersections in preparation for winter, dmg SHE MET with the Kaysville council to consider an annual amount of funds for their center. She stated they need to continue their classes, exhibits and projects for Davis County students and are exploring all avenues for funds and want to keep it functioning as in the past. She said she is making similar proposals to other cities in the county. Kaysville citizens participate more than others at the center and that Kaysville is a fine cultural oriented community. THE MAYOR stated they would consider the proposal. Maureen Laser met with the council to ask if it were possible to have the city hire a crossing guard for school children at the intersection of Crestwood and Fairfield Rd. (100 E.). She 1 1 BOTH OF these department heads come to Layton City well qualified with both college training and previous job experience. Other Layton City department heads have been working for Layton many years. The city attorney was hired in 1975. He earns $41,352 per year and has a $264.60 per month car allowance. THE ADMINISTRATIVE assistant to the Mayor is the highest paid indix idual in a ion City. This individual has worked for ti e ui since February of 1966. The earl salary lor this position is $46,548 plus a $232.36 per month car allowance. Laytons Fire Chief was also hired in 1966. He earns $37,680. The FireChiefisoneof three city employees that drives a city car for official business. I THE PUBLIC w'orks director has access to a city car. He has worked for I. avion since TEN and earns a yearly salary of $31,560. In terms of years of service to Lav ton Citv the Police Chief has seniority. He has cen an anno d employee of Layton since 1964 salary is $45,192. The Police Chief has i u 1 1 provided. ; BECAUSE OF new IRS law's and repoitiii!. procedures, the Layton City council has been considering a different method of calculating the amount given for a monthly It is possible that the amount will be paid on a fixed cents per mile figure to conform to the . -- income tax reporting forms. All Layton City employees have a retirement and insurance plan. The benefits and costs vary from department to department. THE PERSONNEL Management salary survey compared 10 to 15 salaries from each position. There w'as a tremendous range in all categories. The police chief salary midpoint range was from $2475 to $3448 with $2941 being the midpoint average. The range for a fire chief was between $20,620 and $34,480 with the midpoint average at $28,400. Public works directors were paid a midpoint average salary of $30,910. The midpoint ranges for a city attorney went from $27,210 to $36,560 with a midpoint average of $31,950. Parks and recreation directors averaged a salary of $27,710. OTHER department heads mentioned in the survey were not directly comparable with Layton City positions and job descriptions. It is very difficult to 'draw any conclusions from a statement of salaries and from comparisons made between the salary structures in different city governments and private industry. ALL CITIES are unique. Positions, education, experience and responsibilities are all factors that must be considered when a person's salary is determined. mid-poi- nt Subdivision Law Reviewed The main topic of interest at the last Syracuse City Council meeting was the reviewing of the Subdivision ordinance for the adopting and passing of the Security Bondage for off-sit- e improvements. It was concluded that the present amount was too large and that it should be reduced from the present 1.5 percent to percent of the estimated cost for the immediate future. ALL COUNCIL members were 1 . 1 d stated that approximately of the children attending Kaysville Elementary School walk from that area and cross at that intersection. Although it is a four-wa-y stop, it is dangerous. She also asked if warning signs could be installed on the streets surrounding the Kaysville Elementary School. At the present time there are no signs indicating it is a school zone, to warn motorists to slow down. one-thir- THE MAYOR and council will take these suggestions into consideration and thanked Mrs. Laser for her concern. Max Fraughton met with the council with his preliminary Plat for the Brookhaven Cove condominiums. The council approved the tentative plan. unanimous in their vote for the adopting and change of this. All council members were present and gave complete reports of their various assignments, vsb DON AND Jim Cottrell met w ith the council to seek approval of their Cameron Estates Plan E, preliminary plan. This was approx ed by the council. Mr. and Mrs. Lowell Taylor and Mrs. Betty Bishop met with the council to discuss their final plan of the King Farm Estates Plat A. After discussion, the council give approval subject to deferring of two items, street improvements and water. MAYOR PURDY announced that the Kaysville Planning Commission is holding a public hearing on Nov. 8 at 7 p.m. on the Kaysville Farms Mobile Home Park that is being considered to be built west of the LDS Flour Mills on Center Street, np |
