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Show f DAVIS NEWS JOURNAL JULY 17, WEEKLY REFLEX NORTH DAVIS LEADER, JULY 17, 1980 1980 Clinton Residents Want New School rowtfr For The rew GroweS c Meeting (Continued From Page 1) months lor about seen hours or about a third of the day. We're using the schools about 18 pet cent of the time available. The nine month school tradition was from an agricultural area. I don't think we can consider that is such now. think niost teachers consider the three months vacation as unemployment. 1 WE'RE attempting to solve the problem with more schools but I think we could more adequately live them," he said, urging youngsters not be required to attend school until they 're ready. We start a kid at five or six and maybe c hes not ready so for years we teach the kid to fail. He pays for that. If I wete a private businessman and used my employees for only nine months and buildings seven hours I would fail go broke. Our schools can be better used, Mrs. Cox said to an applauding audience. two-thre- ADDRESSING the need for better mobile home park facilities was Lucille Fry of North, Salt Lake. We need to have some ordinance changes. W'e need to have property subdivisions instead of enclosed walls to keep us from the rest of the community. "We need density cut down so children can have a home to live in," she said, adding that park areas are needed for the senior citizen residents and money should be made available for such property acquisition. A 5,400 square foot minimum (eighth of an acre) would give us a chance to have a part and not hinder children. IKE YOUNG people need a chance to have a home. Let's plan for mobile homes and giv e a boost and let people start a real community instead of a concentration camp." Introducing the public facilities segment Mayor Sant said, We went crazy in Davis in the County (census-wis1970's). Cities need to look at merging, they can't afford to provide the services. Were a corridor for Hill AFB, Salt Lake and Ogden and primarily residential and rural. e ITS wonderful place to live. Some of the small cities are residential and they cant pay for themselves. Most sales tax goes to Ogden or Salt Lake City. So either they raise the taxes, put a franchise tax on A (CONTINUED addi- tion. people in Clinton feel they want their kids bused. Theyd much rather keep them in their IN THE eight years I've lived there I'm seriously considering a private school. My child has great potential in certain areas but when see w hat other children are getting and what my child is getting. I get resentful. Asst. Supt. Gayle Stevenson said it s not by design its by circumstance" that Clinton has such facilities and added two teachers had transferred from Clinto while six had left West Point, for ex- own community. 1 SHE ADDED, however, that she understood, after talking to Dr. White, that an addition onto an existing school can be far more economical in keeping down administrative costs. Noting a lack of community Winter-bottoidentity was Geraldine I feel that in our community there is no unity. You have people across the field who go to West Point and on the other end they go to Sunset (to school), and now Holt (new Clearfield school to open this fall). utilities or raise the w ater rates and no one likes that. How do we pay for fire and police protection? Were all competing for the same dollars. How are we going to accommodate the tremendous growth? People are saying they want more swimming pools, parks, etc., while federal officials have cut back revenue sharing funds for cities and some school funds. DENSITY can affect our fire ratings, etc., the mayor said, noting residents must ask, Weve now lost that farm land. Do we subsidize to maintain the rural atmosphere or do we allow high density zoning for senior citizens who can't take care of such large pieces of property? Were now at the time we have to Hook at waste water recycling and water availability, he added. One resident said private enterprise should operate mass transit. Why should we pay for buses to Salt Lake City, Ogden and Bountiful. They run through here w ith no one in ample. SUPT. LAWRENCE Welling said it is hard to set school boundaries to coincide with communities. For years, students had to be transported elsewhere. Sunset grew rapidly and we built Fremont, Sunset earlier and then I)oey It would be unw ise for this board to say to Clinton that we'll move all the students out of classrooms being used in OUR COMMUNITY is completely divided. We have no unity. Its very hard when you go to another community to work with the recreation program, etc. The kids living on the same block can't play in the same leagues, etc. It causes internal problems in the city, she said. . surrounding schools where they're not too far from your community," he added. I think there West Point has no growth. SPEAKS OUT Another man asked about a university for Davis County. I'm concerned about higher education and whether we should have a university in Davis County. Im concerned come a second a third or fourth (Clinton) school in your lifetimes. IT WILL probably be several months before information The only subdivision they have is on our border so our police can handle it. Weve Issues from need for new highways to making large families foot more of the bill for educating their children were w ill and maybe even Speaking of West Point, Mrs. Winterbottom added. it. ANOTHER resident said local officials should be able to address their problems instead of having to turn to federal sources. 'growth yet they get the FROM PAGE 1) will be available from lost teachers to West Point because of extremely better conditions (there). Here's a com- architects studies. Dr. White said, but the board said it will munity that doesnt want formed of developments. keep Clinton residents in- r-- ill J I V f , about what's happening in vocational education and should we make that (vocational center) a junior college SI EdtlcatOP or not." While supporting higher education Vocational Center Director Jack Shell said, By 1990, 70 percent of the jobs will be the type that require skills and only 30 percent the type from higher education. Theres noting wrong with Utahns working with their (Continued From Page 1) live and working very hard to c j . maintain at least this year's (projected allocation)." District officials have said they anticipate final word on the aid by August and Supt. Welling said after confering with officials in the nation's capital his best guess is (we won't know ) until after the Re publican Convention (con- vened early this week) or the Democratic in August." THERE W ASN'T a lot of hope right now, he added. Speaking in like terms Mr. You can Glines commented, hope, but you better not plan for it. If its not passed we ll have to do what we have to do." DAVIS delegates to the con- vention included: Richard Cook, DEA president; Earl Mrs. Spencer, president-elect- ; Leatham; Elida Romero, Bob Fisher, Dave King, Teri Jack-soRob Bramhall, Luann Banta, Marion Henrie and Pat Riley, all DEA area representa- Daphne Aller. Association tives-and Utah Education board trustee. Discussion To Bogin With State On taster Of County Processing j (Continued From Page 1) it." The county has processed own books, from ordering ' to receiving, cataloging and preparing the book for shelvsince its inception in ing 1946. Meanwhile, all but a handful of larger library systems, such as Salt Lake City and Weber County have contracted with the state to provide that service. THE DAMS County School ; z its District formerly shared coun- ty processing facilities in Farmington but opted to join the state in the summer of 1977, claiming substantial sums of money could be saved. Some library board members felt such savings could be incurred for the public library , as well. Dr. Merle Lamson of the School of Library Science at BYU, spearheaded a study comparing the state and county processing. While he was not eager to recommend one over the over, he finally recommended joining the state. SO FAR, it appears the savings may amount to only one or two salaried positions for the county, plus use of tax dollars the county has previously forfeited for the state library without gaining any return. The matter will probably be a discussion item at the library board's next regular meeting July 28. tb hands. Many industries have to bring people in from outside. We need to plan so we Utahns can get the jobs. COUNTY PTA official Toss Pluim said more volunteers should be utilized while Davis High School instructor David King said a "tremendous need to develop parks and recreation programs exists that could be partially solved by obtaining aid from private in- dustry. Theres no more free lunch," said Terrell Burton of Woods Cross. THE ONLY way we can pay our way is to invite clean industry. Were hiding our head in the sand (with development on the mountainsides, for instance). Where we don't pay any attention it won't get any better." Comm. Eberhard termed blood control the major problem in his area of natural resources. Instead of try ing to correct for flooding in the lower areas, such as West Bountiful, it should be corrected on the mountainsides. SPEAKING of the tax base he said, We have very limited industry. Theres a concern that is willing to come in but AGENDA FOR THE Davis County residents joined their counterparts from around the state in looking at the coming decade in terms of problems and areas of concern they feel must be dealt with. Leading discussion theyre not willing to pay $25,000 an acre. One grocery store had to pay $50,000 an acre. This (commercial-industrial- ) encourages tax base. Multiple use recreation areas are needed and efforts have to be continued to clean the air, he said. We have they eight refinery plants pollute the air but we dont know how to get them out. Theyre a problem. WITH CONTINUED growth a West Valley highway 0 w ill be needed at a cost of million. This is a big problem. Its expensive when people live together. Were $50-$8- very hard put to find the answers. A man who said he's lived in Los Angeles, Denver and on the East Coast suggested building bicycle routes between Salt Lake City and Davis County. the countys meeting last week were Sunset Mayor Norm Sant, left, School Board Pres. Lucile Reading, chairman and County Commissioner Ernest Eberhard. at SCHOOL BOARD Member Sheryl Allen suggested, 1 would implore we look at natu- ral resources as a way (to obtain funding) perhaps a coal severence tax would be a partial solution. Utah has a strong committment to support quality education but may lose funding through federal revenue cuts and a possible sales tax food million. cut of $30-$6- 0 CAUTIONING against 80S let- ting "those Eastern boys rape the state of its mineral resources was State Senator Jack Bangerter of Bountiful. Those Eastern boys are dictating policy. They raped Montana of coal and Colorado. We havent tapped ours yet. Were going to have growth in energy. Lets not let them rape us and Utah has got to get the money to help pay (for expanded related needs). He was the only legislator in attendance. IN THE taxation area, moderated by Supt. Welling due to Mr. Clarks illness, brought a e variety of comments. Mrs. said, 1 feel we need to look at alternatives on educating the people. We ourselves are not educated enough to make proper judgments. We want tax cuts but dont want to suffer. After high school we dont know how to apply what weve learned. We become Dil-lre- apprehensive of govern- ment. She proposed holding taxation classes to inform the public, possibly offering a tax break for those attending. PUSHING MORE efficient government operation was Richard Harvey, the countys environmental health director. The idea of operating government in Davis County in an efficient manner us having 16 cities are all of them viable, governable units, noting such combined entities as city-coun- health departments and sewage treatment districts. Several residents recommended a tax task force, including former Davis Education Association president We do Mary Ellen Leatham. indeed need some tax reform. We have the greatest birth rate and cant expect to educate all these wonderful kids with lower taxes. ONLY TWO percent of ms Fufiur By TOM BLSSELBERG As a reporter, I have the whichevchance or the duty er way you look at it to attend a lot of meetings over the average month. AND OVER the tears, you get a little apprehensive about some of the new or unusual ones that pop up. Such was the case for me with the Agenda for the 80's meeting held on growth July 9 in Farmington. J was afraid that possibly the only people showing up would be government officials, wanting to make sure their voices were heard, affecting their turf, or special interest groups, with what might be a lot of whacky ideas. I MAS very pleasantly sur- prised that while a lot of government people were there they were far from the only ones in attendance. In fact, most of the more than 100 there were residents who could live on your street and own the shop downtown. And the meeting fortunately wasnt dominated by any special interest group as was the case re pc rtedly in some other areas. The comments were varied, with a heavy smattering towards education, and they were well thought out, presented in an way and kept to the time frame for the most part. The meeting even seemed to go on schedule all and adjuourn as planned too much of a rarity. even-hande- d SOME residents expressed concern the meeting would only be another glorious sounding forum where ideas would be tabulated, given to committees and forgotten. That thought did cross my mind, too, I must admit. Hopefully, this one will be different. Reed Searle, director of the state department of community and economiude-velopmen- t, busily took notes during the session and said he intended to get more than w rhour iters cramp out of the meeting. l'i 5 19-2- 0 steering committee members." And he invited participation by those attending. "Im sure that if some of you are interested in serving on committees, leave your name. From some of the issues, hopefully the solutions will be created. This is an effort to involve people who are not generally involved in solving the problems. WE WILL take people who are willing to take an unconventional look at finding answers and are willing to break tradition and do some of the things we havent done before. Thats the governors objective. He said individual communities could form their own Agenda for the 80's" committees. The four making up the Davis meeting chaired by Lucile Reading, also in- cluded Lawrence Welling, Ernest Eberhard and Norm Sant (Ezra Clark was absent due to illness). They compiled a list of the concerns that night and mailed it to Salt Lake City. THOSE CONCERNS, along with those from the 34 other where to be remeetings viewed by state officials and a special meeting held with all committee members July 29. Concerns were to be cen- tered around natural re- sources, public facilities, human resources and taxation that about covers it all, doesnt it? MRS. READING was optimistic in looking back at the session. I was pleased with as many as there were participating. There were quite a large number of concerns made on paper (as well as verbally). They were all very enthusiastic at the opportunity to ex Auditions Planned Auditions for Layton Community Theatres production of the musical Stranger w ill be held at the Studio of the Arts located at 1387 West 1800 North in Clinton on Tuesday, July 22 from 6 to 10 p.m. THOSE auditioning will be expected to read from the script nd perform a previously prepared song. For directions or questions call Cindy at 376-328- New Screens Made Old THERE ARE 29 issues youve identified and 34 other meetings being held (at least one in each county). The governor will decide which are the biggest concerns and he will task forces includset up ing all 100 commissioners plus our kids (in the state) go to private schools and they stay in school longer. We can't think about cutting (taxes), we may have to think about raising them. Ann Harris, Layton Chamber of Commerce president, called for retaining the food sales tax. That's the most equitable tax we have. People with large families and transients thats the only way we can get tax from them. RESULTS FROM the confab were tabulated by the submitted to the governors office in Salt Lake City. Results from around the state will be used to determine what committees should be set up with a general meeting of all committee members July 29. press their concerns, she said, noting concerns included feeling by some for better highway access from Davis to Salt Lake and Weber counties, pointing to a West Valley Highway; pollution; mobile homes and opportunities for the aging, for instance. I THOUGHT on the whole the comments were good. I sensed the same concern (as some attending) that nothing will be done about these things. I wrote this concern to the committee. I've seen so many committees come and go and asked that there be a con-tinui- opportunity for people. She indicated about 15 people listed interest in serving on a future committee. When you think about it, thats not too bad for a group of about 125. IT WAS an opportune time to get everybodys concerns out in the open. I hope some of the communities will do the same thing on a smaller scale. Some elected officials I know have said its awfully hard for them to know what to do when they dont know the feeling of their constituents. Rather than just blame your leaders after its over, why not give them a hand in making the future. After all, theyre your leaders and if this is a free republic, why not prove it by pitching some of your thoughts into the pot, IT WILL be interesting to see what does come of all that effort expended last week. If nothing else, it got a lot of people thinking. And once theres some thinking maybe therell be just a little action. Thats more than we so frequently get. I take my hat off to those who participated and directed Davis Countys meeting. May we really go somewhere that's up from there. If you didnt get a chance to voice your concerns in that meeting, why not give your elected officials a call. Let them know you are thinking and want a voice in your future. Screens Repaired Specializing in: Windshields Broken Windows Storm Doors & Windows Awnings Mirrors Table Tops -- I i ' DAVIS COUNTY GLASS CO. "PHONE US YOUR CLASS TROUBLES |