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Show WEEKLY REFLEX DAVIS NEWS JOURNAL. NORTH DAVIS LEADER. JANUARY 8. 1981 unset Fire Department One Of Continually Ranked Among Top By MARK D. MICKELSEN Underwriters of the Pacific Satterlee, a veteran of the deSunset partment and resident. came sneaking into the Sunset Fire Department for a routine inspection in 1978 they found a well kept fire station, an excellent water supply, impressive fire safety control methods and an applaudable communication system. THE LITTLE North Davis community scoied a five in their I9',8 inspection, the highest rating a volunteer department can have. To go below a live. Chief Satterlee said "you have to have some full-tim- e SUNSET When the Fire rant every 5(H) feet. Ho meet the requirements for a higher score on the inspection!. said Sunset Fire Chief Arnold long-tim- e FIRE TRl CKS and pumpers must be current models with capabilities. Manpower wasn't too unusual. The Sunset Fire Department has continually been ranked among the state's top volunteer fire departments since its formation 25 years ago. The Underwriters have a habit of surprising fire stations about once everv three years. Each fire department in the state is bound to eertain procedures and legal requirements which must be met during the inspection, he explained. Methods of fire training and instruction are ev aluated. MEN ARE checked on how well they react and hov. quickly they respond to fire FIRE hydrants and water calls. The department's communication capabilities are carefully examined. mains have to meet set water pressure tests. There has to be a fire cheeked, EIRE hydrants and trucks must be pumping to capacity. people." WHAT THEY found C based on the number of volunteers av ailable at any one time, and those available on call. hvd- - CHIEF SATTERLEE said Layton Needs success as one of the areas superior ranked Boasting their volunteer fire departments are left to right, Sunset fireman Jerry Jernigan, Chief Arnold Satterlee, and Assistant Chief Lawrence Byington. daring an emergency. While Own Computer By MARK D. MICKELSEN Cut 3.5 Percent chools Pencil Reductions By GARY R. BLODGETT BOUNTIFUL -- Davis School District Supt. Lawrence Welling has announced a proposed program whereby the district will attempt to cutback spending by 3.5 percent as requested by Gov. Scott Matheson. THE GOVERNOR has asked all agencies to help balance the state budget by cutting back spend d ing a minimum of 3.5 percent. The school district's prop- osal calls for a reduction of $511,000, the superintendent told a group of state legislators at a Monday morning meeting at Servus Drug. THE CUTACK is in addition to a $1.6 million fatt- reduction that the rimming district took upon itself earlier in 1980 when requesting a mill levy for new school construction. a cutback in the summer program and equipment replacement will net a savingsof $84,000. A summer program will save an n dollar cutThe back outlined by the superintendent will require a reduce tion in some full and personnel, a reduction of some services, and transfer or adjustment in other programs. part-tim- additional $60,000. EMERGENCY items costing about $40,000 w ill be trimmed from instructional media and staff reduction at the district's Development Center has already saved $39,000. the superintendent noted. THE LARGEST proposed cutback will be in custodial services which will amount to several custodial employees being dismissed for a savings of $93,000. A reduction of services. aryJ Special Education aides are to be eliminated except at Monte Vista School in Farmthus creating a savington Clinton Youth Pleads ings of $30,000. Another $35,000 is expected to be saved by reducing by half the compensatory items in the district. Not Guilty On Counts slashed by $45,000. from a budget of $145,000. and field trips among the secondary - A plea FARMINGTON of innocent was entered in Second District Court. Farmington. last week by a Clinton youth charged with three felony counts in the death of a neighbor girl last Aug. 5. also filed motions with the court and asked that the judge appoint independent psychiatrists to conduct psychiatric analysis. Names of psychiatrists w ill be given to the judge by Atty. Jones and the Davis County Attorney's Office. THE YOUNG defendant, who is standing trial as an adult, entered the plea through his attorney Tom Jones before District Judge Thornley K. Swan. He is charged with the strangulation murder, kidnap- THE DEFENSE attorney also filed motions with the court alleging that the state's law of the capital homicide e murder) is charge ping and forcible sexual assault of Anne Hoskisson. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Hoskisson of Clinton. Atty. Jones told the court that he would defend the youth on the basis of insanity. He (first-degre- unconstitutional and in- and the second motion seeks elimination of all alleged confessions made by the youth. Meanwhile, County Atty. Rodney Page argued that since the youth is being tried as an adult, he should be treated as valid Sponsors In Santa Help Are Thanked The Christmas trees are now lining the streets after having given their holiday cheer inside many a living room, the wrapping that adorned many a gift is now throw n aw ay and the calendar of another year placed on the wall. CHRISTMAS 1980 is now but a memory, but for 315 Davis County families and more than .000 youngsters it will be a 1 brighter remembrance thanks to the efforts of scores of volunteers. "Sponsors for Santa" De- coordinator, Roselyn chart. says sponsors came from every walk of life to give a hand at a better Christmas for those a little down-and-ou- THE BUDGET of instructional media is expected to be t. A yearly project of the Davis Area Community Action Agency, sponsors included individuals, families, civic organizations, businesses, church groups, military personnel. Scout groups and students of every age, she recalls, noting the need was greater than ever for such support. WE HAD A big increase in the number of families who signed up (for assist- ance) and had about as many sponsors but more people were feeling the pinch. Our agency did more than we had in the past." She emphasized the big thank you the agency wants to extend to all for making the Yule holiday more memorable for so many area residents, tb schools are expected to be reduced proportionately for a savings of $40,000 from a budget of $68,(88), according to the proposal. an adult and incarcerated in the Davis County Jail rather than at Moweda (juvenile detention center) where the boy has been staying, grb Jail Open House FARMINGTON Friday and Saturday afternoon will be probably the last time the public can voluntarily visit the new Davis County Jail. SHERIFF Brant Johnson says an open house has been set for both days p.m. with refreshments to be served Fri day. Tours will include not only a look at the electronic jail, a facility he billed as the best in the state, but will show off the crime lab and communications center. The $1.6 million structure was started in March 1979 and prisoners were moved in last month, tb LAYTON The annexation of East Layton is being blamed this w eek as one of the reasons Lay ton city officials have decided against sharing computer hardware in a now defunct multi-citcomputer merger with Clearfield and Sunset. y Also, the summer driver education program will be' eliminated with all students qualify ing for driver education taking the course during the regular school year. This would prov ide a savings o.f about $10.(88). IE WE DON'T get at least part of these funds, we're going to be left with quite a deficit, perhaps as much as $9(8),(8)0." the superintendent told the legislators. However, we re hoping to get about S8(8).(88) from funds and the remaining S 00.000 would have to be made up from district funds, probably coming from the capital outlay interest-reserv- e fund. HB-87- 4 Etiquette Mother (to small boy who is going to a party) - "Now , dear, w hat are you going to do w hen you've had enough to eat?" Little Tommy - Come home. keeping the idea of sharing the system w ith surrounding smaller cities in mind. But, he said none of the surrounding communities have approached the city for computer service as yet. I P UNTIL about the first WE FELT, and Clearfield agreed, that we should be on part of December, Layton officials were still toying with the our own," City Manager Randall Heaps said. He said the growing population of Layton is substantial enough to justify a single-citcomputer, but admitted that the city would like to share the technological aspects of the merger with Clearfield. merger plan, but found, according to Mr. THE CITY manager said Layton wants to buy the same merger was the elected annexation of East y SUPT. WELLING said the proposed reductions include 12 categories, hoping that no single program would be too seriously affected, but noting that some pretty drastic adjustments would have to be made. He emphasized to the state legislators that the school district is reducing its budget by more than $2 million without knowing if there will be continued federal aid through House Bill 874. The city manager revealed that Layton decided to break away from a combined merger, equipment as Clearfield, adding that officials there are quite impressed now with a system from Corporation. No limit has yet been set on the price of the computer, but Mr. Heaps said he will suggest the city council lease, rather than purchase the equipment, and spread the costs out over a five to seven year basis. Uni-Va- c HE SAID it is currently better to lease because the technology computer people are learning now, and it might be totally different in five years, leaving the system obsolete before it is ever fully paid for. An estimate he gave of the total cost of the system is be()()() depending tween $60-9on how many video display terminals and graphic printers are needed. THE CITY council is requiring the purchase of a system with a word processing unit to take care of personnel information and handle a myriad of paperwork, which most cities must battle with, Mr. Heaps explained. multi-cit- y Heaps, that their share of the cost of the program would have been higher than a y plan to buy a single-cit- y system. One of the problems leading up to the eventual veto of the multi-cit- a handful of the volunteers rush to the rescue of some tragedy, officials check their timing, attitude and how they react to each situation. 25-ye- SUPERIOR FIRE TEAM ii is not uncommon for one of the Underwriter officials to call a phony lire drill just to evaluate how the city's volunteers act y Layton. CITY MANAGER Heaps said, "It's possible that we could have worked this (multicity plan) out had it not been for the East Layton annexation." "The thing we're doing now is getting the groundwork done." he said, adding that funding for the computers will not be available until July. "Legally, we cant buy it until the budget is done, he added. MR. HEAPS said, however, that he would like to see the system installed before July, with pay ment available shortly thereafter. He explained that Layton's plan not to share hardware w ith Clearfield came about because city officials in both communities felt it would be better to have separate systems. "but share technology." THIS WAY, both Layton and Clearfield can cut back their own costs for computer programming and maintenance by sharing the service mutually. AFTER THE inspection and subsequent drill, a form is sent to the fire department, outlining their good and bad points of conduct. The men are checked on every phase of the chief said. And. he said. "We're high." The chief attributed the department's high success rate in 1978 to a new radio communications system and the fact that the city had obtained a fairly new fire pumper. HE SAID he is able to talk to the men while they are at the scene of a fire. And he said, the men are better trained now than ever before. Some of the volunteers, he explained, have been in the fire department for almost all of its existence. THE DEPARTMENT is not without its problems, however. Chief Satterlee is worried that unless the city builds them a new firehouse their ratings are going to begin to drop. "We're pretty well crowded for a place to put equipment." he said. We've outgrown this (station). It's just not adequthe ate for a fire department, chief continued. WHEN A city gets a new firehouse, he said, they are at an advantage all around. And while the new men are not as well trained as the old veterans. the new equipment makes up for it. Sunset started its fire service in 1956. serving not only their city, but Clinton and South Weber to the east. CHIEF SATTERLEE said there were so few fire departments, Sunset had to accommodate most of the cities in the northern part of Davis County He concluded with the fact that Sunset residents are the ones w ho benefit from high fire ratings from the Underwriters He said the people have to pay less fire protection insurance premiums as a result of the department's success. . chool Board Delays Computer Purchase By TOM BlSSELBERG With only three of Five board FARMINGTON members in attendance, Tuesday night, the Davis School Board delayed action on requests for expansion of the districts computer system. ld JAY STEPHENS, former board member w ho now oversees computer activities, presented a three year data processing plan that would include expenditure of about $150,000 for added equipment. But with only Board Pres. Lucile Reading, Vice Pres. Dee Forbes and new member Dr. Ray Briscoe in attendance, the decision was tabled until the next meeting set for Jan. 20. Board member, Sheryl Allen was out of town and Bruce G. Perry, elected but still now sworn into office, was ill. THE PROPOSAL would see $58,300 spent during the current fiscal year, $60,000 in '81-'8and $33,000 for '82-'8That total would include six new terminals and three printers along with memory exMr. Stephens explained. pansion in 1982-8While he stressed the monetary savings, estimated at upwards of $50,000 in three months through efficiency and times savings for district office oper 3, ations, Dr. Briscoe questioned computer use more extensively throughout the district. WHAT ARE the alternatives? he asked. Certainly one can save salaries in all kinds of ways not just in the central office but in the schools, etc." He said registration could be largely done by com- puter rather than utilizing teachers and others and attendance procedures handled in such a way could save time for assistant principals. BOARD CLERK Roger Glines said initial plans has called for use in such areas as attendance but noted the State Board of Education provides some services in that area through its data processing. "Show us w hat we can save. Let's save all we can afford to save, Dr. Briscoe said. Id like to expand it into the school system. MR. GLINES emphasized funding has already been budgeted, adding it would come from the capital outlay budget, not maintenance and operation funds.. The M&O budget has raised concern for district officials in the past year but is handled separately. In other action Mrs Rearlino was pWtpr) to sph p a third term as board president. She has held that post since January of 1977. Each term is for two years. DEE FORBES was as vice president and Mr. Glines as board clerk. He also serves as district business manager. The board also approved implementation of planning time for teachers at Cook Elementary School in Syracuse. That marks the second school this year and the ninth in the system to adopt such a plan. Asst. Supt. Gayle Stevenson noted. A PARENT survey showed 75 percent favorable. Of the 25 percent opposed the largest concern was that teachers wouldnt use planning time "wisely while others would have difficulty obtaining a babysitter on Monday afternoons (when school would be out early). School w ill be dismissed 90 minutes early on Monwith the schedule that day of 8:30 day for grades a. p.m. Other days it will run 8:30 a.m. 3 p.m. -- IN OTHER action the board okayed a bid of $36,570 for reroofing of the central administration building submitted by Glenn's Roofing Inc. of Oeden. That compared with a hioh Fi.t nf 1S7 non |