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Show : THURSDAY, MAY 28 Pages 3,197- 9- -- VOLUME NUMBER SEVEN EIGHTY-ON- E 0 0 inability to deal effectively and appropriately with various government entities and with the citizenry of Clinton city and a lack of confidence in the city manager as it relates to his general managerial style. BUSSELBERG By TOM CLINTON Help Wanted: new city manager needed to run affairs of fastgrowing city of about 5,000. day-to-da- y THAT WANT ad, although actually written, is a reality for Clinton city officials who fired their city not of manager of 4l2 years Tuesday morning. His official resignation will be accepted Thursday at 6:30 p.m. in a special meeting at city hall. Smith, who has headed administrative functions in Clinton since January of 1975 was asked to resign by the city council for failure to memo from Mayor Keith Cisney to city personnel three reasons for dismissal A were given, including, failure on the part of the city manager to provide timely LAKE SALT CITY ac- IN AN interview Tuesday afternoon, the mayor declined to name specific problems prompting the move but said that would be discussed Thursday night. We will probably talk about some problems with personalities and may talk about salary adequately fill the post. IN A fiscal integrity and countability being made upon municipalities by taxpayers require elected officials be much more aware and involved in city management. The council has displayed their concern by this most recent action. V. Larry The demands It continued, financial status reports to the mayor and citv council; -- Theres no answer yet regarding Davis Countys for extended request telephone service. MOUNTAIN Bell and the State Division of Public Utilities then filed for a rehearing and the additional public meetings followed. If the previous PSC ruling stands, extended telephone service for Far- Murray could be completed in about 18 to mington A SPOKESPERSON for the Public Service Commission said no decision has been handed down by the three-memberPS- as upwards of 50 individual testimonies - as they traveled throughout Davis County, Ogden and Salt Lake conducting pubi c hearings. and other water users throughout the year. ACCORDING to the snow survey conducted bv Sherm Lewis of the Soil Conservation Service, the water supply outlook is good. The snow courses were read the last week of April, via helicopter. Data ranges from 74 percent of average at Chalk Creek (above Echo Reservoir) to 139 percent of average on Kilfoil Creek (above Lost Creek Reservoir). Upper has 105 percent of average, with 79 inches of snow containing 35.1 inches of water, and Farmington Lower has 63 inches of snow containing 29. 7 FARMINGTON inches of water, giving it one of the highest readings, 132 percent of average. The other surveyed areas are Horse Ridge which is close to average (96 percent), and Smith and Morehouse on the Weber River with only 71 percent of average. - Wasatch Front Regional Council planning five-count- y agency, that includes Davis County, as they met in a special session late last week. Under federal guidelines, a state implementation plan covering a vehicle emission inspection program must be in force, or, WFRC members hope, a reasonable attempt to that end, by June 30. If not, sanctions could be levied against those counties affected, including Davis, Weber, Salt Lake and Utah. FEDERAL MONIES could be cut to projects including a sewage treatment plants and freeways proposed for Salt Lake County. Other counties, including Davis, would not suffer serious cutbacks, at least immediately, members were told. But it isnt as though the state has been dragging its feet, on the matter, either. WFRC Executive Director Wijbur Jeffries said, The state implementation plan provides that it will be required in Salt Lake, Utah, Davis and Weber counties and be implemented would through the legislature. SUCH A measure was proposed in the last legislature, passed the Senate but never made it to the House floor, he continued. The law states an implementation program must be implemented within two years (by 1982). If that deadline cant be met, then sanctions could be taken. We could implement it in two years, he said, assuming the measure could be taken before the next legislature, a budget session that could include other matters at the governors discretion. AT PRESENT, indications point to the ability to meet carbon monoxide levels in all but Salt Lake County by 1982 and ozone levels in all but Davis and Salt Lake counties, Mr. Jeffries said. "If the state continues work for implementation, will that be sufficient to avoid sanctions? He said some officials have talked of allowing local of- ficials (county commissioners) the option of implementing a local inspection program. I dont know if we could make it or not. What if one county does and others dont (pass such a system into law)? 1 SUGGEST local officials get together and decide if they want to get behind the he state and legislature, said. I think time is of the essence. A decision has to get to EPA (Federal Environmental Protection Agency) so they can say if it (implementation plan) is acceptable arid avoid sanctions. But the best way to solve the problem is through state action, he said. At the same time, other officials urged working through state channels first before acting by individual counties. IT WAS the wish of Transcom (WFRC transportation subcommittee) to refer-thiback to the governor and see if he can get a special session or work with EPA, said Bountiful Mayor Elmer THE COMMISSION earlier had ruled in favor of toll free calling throughout Davis County, from Farmington south to include the Murray exchange, and from the Kaysville-Laytoarea north n to include Ogden. But before the ruling could be made official, in writing, state legislators from Davis PSC County met with members and the verbal order was extended to include Ogden and Salt Lake City. As last resort we Barlow. can come back to the counties but I think EPA will give us more time if we come back that way. tb By TOM BUSSELBERG - If BOUNTIFUL something isnt done to conserve agricultural land in Davis County and along the Wasatch Front, farming-relateactivities could become past history for the region, a newly released study says. d THAT WORD was given to members of the regional planning agency, Wasatch durFront Regional Council, ing a special session, recently. Crop land has decreased from 1.25 million acres in 1950 to just over one million acres and with the rapid growth, that land is being quickly eaten up, the group was told. In Salt Lake County, 93,000 the acres, or about receipts increased by 23.8 percent in Layton last year, according to an analysis just completed by Utah Foundation, the private tax research organization. Gross business volume throughout the state rose by 16.3 percent in 1978. THE STUDY shows that gross sales in Layton last year totaled $75, 476, 000. This compares with $60,972,000 in 1977 $45,283,000 in 1975, $23,8460M in 1970 and $16 122,000 in 1965. Foundation analysts point out that inflation has been a major factor in the increased dollar sales volume during recent When allowances are made for the years. reduced purchasing power of the dollar, the effective net gain in sales volume throughout the state last year was 61 percent. THIS COMPARES with adjusted effective gains of 9.9 percent in 1977, 7.8 percent in 1976 2.6 percent in 1975, and only .7, percent during the recession-plague- year of d 1974. Utahs economy has been performing much better than that of the nation as a whole during recent years. The adjusted sales gain of 8.1 percent recorded Utah last as great as the in year was twice adjusted personal consumption increase of 4.0 percent throughout the U.S. in 1978. UTAHS average increase of 7.4 percent per year in adjusted sales volume since 1970 also was double the average annual rise of 3.7 percent in adjusted personal consumption expenditures throughout the nation during this same eight-yea- r period. The report observes that the strong showing of the Utah economy during the past eight years is a reversal of the experience in the 1960s, when business activity in Utah was growing at a much slower pace than that of the nation as a whole. BETWEEN 1960 and 1970, the average growth rate in Utahs adjusted sales volume - The United LAYTON Way of Davis County has announced it has tupped $200,000 in contributions and pledges for 1979. year totaling $209,293, this years total was 109 percent of its D. goal, according to Lorenand Martin, local attorney county campaign chairman. He also noted that the Combined Federal Campaign at Hill Air Force Base raised period. Despite the generally strong economic picture in Utah during the past few years, the Foundation study notes that there was a hint of a business slowdown in Utah toward the end of 1978. sales r throughout the state were up only 10.1 percent from the fourth levels. recorded gains ranging 20 quarter-197- 7 The three previous quarters in 1978 year-to-ye- between calendar 18 and percent. these percentages are adjusted for inflation, it is found that the effective gains averaged about 10.8 percent during the first three quarters of the year, but When year-to-ye- dropped way off to 0.9 ar percent in the fourth quarter. Ordinarily, the fourth quarter, .strengthened by Christmas sales, is the strong quarter of the year. agriculturalbe land could swallowed up in new subdivisions and other urban-relate- d growth by the year 2000. Utah already ranks among the top 10 urban states with nearly one million people theoretically concentrated Wasatch Front. along the But growth can be accommodated if cities would minimize scattered, low density housing development that is becoming a losing proposition for cities to bear, financially. It should be altered in favor of more cluster, higher density housing, the WFRC was told. $435,870 in con- tributions. SINCE UNITED Way administrative costs are less than ten percent, more than 90 percent of all monies collected will be used for services to Davis County citizens, he said. He noted that the Davis County United Way agency was organized in 1974 and that more than 40 of the 79 agencies along the Wasatch Front being funded by contributions provide services to county residents, grb n could not be expected until the fall of 1981, according to Mountain Bell officials, grb FARMINGTON Davis Authority Countys Housing an has received allotment for rent subsidy of 91 more units. THAT ACTION, giving Davis County the largest bite out of the federal subsidy pie of any county in the state, should shorten a waiting list of applicants. Under the program, residents find their own private housing and pay rent not to exceed 25 percent their remainder of income. The is paid to landlords out of federal funds. In commenting on the approval. Housing Authority Executive Director Rosemary Davis said, We can use them. We have a waiting list. We didnt get any approved at LAND alone, however, isn't going to necessarily solve the Its not the problem. quantity but quality of green space that counts. Plans must be laid to maintain agricultural use in the most productive areas. Preservation methods could be incorporated to insure land is still available for local food all last year. were told. One method would see land-owne- paid the rs difference between what land is valued for agriculture and building development. It would be purchased by a political body, and leased back to the farmer for agricultural use. ANOTHER method would allow for development of a portion of agricultural land in residential or other use by a group of property owners under agreement with government bodies. Still another avenue encouraging agriculture gives farmers tax relief, the WFRC was told. Mayor James Davis of South Salt Lake, who spearheads the agriculture committee, said, I think each county needs to decide its particular fate. At the same time, he offered a motion, approved by the body, submitting the WFRC agriculture study to state officials for their review. DAVIS NEWS JOURNAL B North Main SL, Layton PHONE 376-91- 33 Published Weekly by CUPPER PUBLISHING CO. John Stahle, Jr., Publisher Second Class Postage Paid At Layton, Utah SUBSCRIPTION APPLICANTS must meet certain income and family size guidelines and further information is available by or 82S2124. tb calling 867-542- 2 the members production, 197 County Gets Mousing Funds consumption expenditures throughout the U.S. in this FOURTH-quarte- 29 increase over last percent and with contributions was 2.8 percent per year. This was well below the average increase of 4.0 percent per year in adjusted personal land area of Davis County, was devoted to agriculture in 1950. But by 1974, that had been sliced to 57,000 acres, or a loss of about 40 percent in less than 25 years. AND AT present rates, all United Way In Davis County Topsan$200,000 additional THE AGENCY had a Business Activity: Up 23.8 In Layton Business as volume, measured by local sales tax months. However, extended service to accommodate Kaysville-Laytoresidents anti one-ha- lf Some BOUNTIFUL Wasatch Front Counties, notably Salt Lake, could stand to lose a lot of federal aid money if vehicle pollution inspect-- ' tion guidelines arent quickly established. THAT DISCOURAGING word came to members of the IN LOOKING for a new city manager, the city may have to raise the salary level, he said. "I'm inclined to agree that we need to pay more. I think to get what I perceive as adequate we will have to pay more but it must be based on what they (the council) say. He did not indicate Mr. Smiths current salary. Mr. Smith could not be reached for comment Tuesday or Wednesday morning. a -- Most of the crops in Davis County are already planted, but the water supply forecast is of importance to farmers Acceptance of the resignation, whether in formal written form from Mr. Smith or by a verbal statement from the mayor will take place in public meeting, lasting five or ten minutes, Mayor Cisney said. It will be followed by a closed session allowed under Utahs Sunshine Law to discuss personnel matters. O The commission heard six full days of hearings ITS STILL WINTER Its n Tuesday and it was not known when a ruling on the rehearings will be reached. Things may be on the dry side down in the valleys but it still seems like winter up in them there hills. Checking precipitation levels from the Davis County Soil Conservation Service are Yash Miya, left, and Sherm Lewis. levels, but Im not sure. up to the council. $4.50 per year Out of State Subscription S5.50 Overseas Subscription SI5.00 (Payable in Advance) Deadlines Effective immediately the following deadlines will appiy to : Society pictures and articles Baby pictures All other pictures and news rticles . Monday Noon Monday Noon Monday Noon |