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Show iTt f.fv r:c si? f t Bv TOM BISNELBFRG FARMING ION lhe Davis Counlv Commis'ion has endorsed construction ol a Lavton branch hbrarv as soon av .ouiiiv growth reaches the 10 percent level IN A FORMAL statement picsuitcd Tuesday afternoon by C'om (den Sunn ders, a library board member, and comnus approved by the sion, four major points were outlined The commission reaffirms its commitu ment to the regional libtary concept furnishing libiarv service Shook1 tt e Lavton Citv louncil rc'und its act i n ' withdraw fiom the county hbraiv vvum the nest bunch libiary will be tu '' n Lavton it It said such a library will be bculi county growth has been 10 percent or above up to the time the 1982 mill lew is formally adopted next fall when the commission will include one null (about $300,000 a year) for library construction THE STATEMENT noted support for a proposal made several davs previous by the library board for a 15,000 square foot facility on two levels that can be expanded and will initially cost about $1 million, including equipment and book collection Com Saunders and Com Harry Gerlach Sr also voiced individual support tor the one mill lev if growth ieaches 10 percent Growth cunentlv is indexed at about four percent Com Chairman Ernest FPernard. does not plan to seek another term, said it would be useless for him to make such a statement 1 HE ACTION came alter a Dec 4 meeting where the county hbrarv board met with Com Saunders and Lberhard Com Gerlach was ill At that time, the commission agreed to prepare a statement of intention that could be used bv the L avion Library Board in their future recommendations to the citv council The city council set a Dec 17. meeting the last regular meeting of the year, where anv action could be taken either reaffirming its stand to withdraw from the county svs tern taken several months ago or to reverse that and rejoin the system before Jan After that date the citv will be on its own unless a change of mind takes place BESIDES THE press. Lavton Library Board Chairperson Oma Wilcox was the only v isitor at the commission meeting and said of the commission statement. It sort of suggests well get one (library some time If we have four percent growth now it's unlikely it will be 10 (soon) three-memb- I Youngsters hud to wait a bit longer foi Santa's annul in ( leai field hut tome he did, Satuidav, m a flounsh that only he can pioduce, with transposition caie of l he (deal field hue Department In addiI tion, a ping-pon- g gilt fioni eaten In ought goodies i t the hundreds who jammed into the lakeside Square parking lot foi the e annual celebration SANTA COMES TO CLEARFIELD pre-Yul- Council By NORMA PRLECE FRUIT HEIGHTS -- General Manager Clair Empey from Delaware OrCal Utah Inc . met with the Fruit Heights City Council on request from council members to provide them with a lease agreement for the city property which will be used for the Head Fnd sight and the property is to be fenced and maintained by his company The agreement and cable programming was discussed A MR. EMPEY stated. representative from his company, George McLean told him that a Walt Disney program would be available m 1982 in addition to the 19 basic package offered by their com" pany The council also discussed Movie Channel. HTN (Home Theater Network). HBO (Home Box Office), and Show time and additional pay channels A RESIDENT of Fruit Heights. Russ Christian stated that Movie Channel and Showtime show "R" rated films anytime, whereas HBO will show "R" only after 9pm and HTN is on the air six hours only and that it is proposed to increase to eight hours He stated that HBO has been buying some of the big sports events ihat other channels are not showing COST OF the television channels was given by Mr Empey Movie Channel $ 10. HTN $4. or total of Movie Channel and HTN or HBO DAVIS NEWS HBO would cost $10 He had no prices on Show Time Mayor Neil Noorda suggested that HTN and HBO be offered to the residents as a movie package with the people given the opportunity of making their own choice COLNCILMAN Jay Fisher asked if the council could S13 change programing later, adding or deleting and Mr Empey said yes Mr Fisher said he would vote for the basic package plus HTN but would not vote to bring in HBO COLNCILMAN Wayne Ballantyne stated he was not against R" rated, but felt a community should have the TV Info right to establish contemporary community standards" if a vote were given the people and the people (residents of Fruit Heights) wanted R" programs, he would vote for it Councilman Dean Wade stated that where Delaware OrCal Utah Inc. was not going on line for possiblv eight months and Mr Empev said they would only need two months before going ''online to inform the residents of what is being olfered when their representatives sell subscriptions Mr Wade said rather than the five people on the city council making the decision and assuming what the contemporary community standards of Fruit Heights City Clinton Awaits Santa Saturday Santa will CLINTON make his annual visit to Clinton Saturday, riding atop the citys fire truck. He will begin his tour of the city at 9 30 a m. in the citys northeast sector THE FIRE department will attempt to carry Santa to every street in the city, with emphstreets. asis on the north-sout- h in the more populated subdivisions. He will toss candy to the Phone Published Weekly by 451-295- 1 CLIPPER PUBLISHING CO. JOHN STAHLE, JR. PUBLISHER Second Class Postage Paid at Layton, Utah SUBSCRIPTION $4 50 per year Out Of State $5.50 per year Overseas Subscnpbon $15 00 Payable In Advance right by voting on the issue COLNCILMAN Lynn Benson moved that the basic package HTN be adopted by Fruit Heights City at present, with the intention to hold a vote for the people with a public hearing to be held prior to an election on March 2, 1982 This wasapprovedby council members Councilman Wade questioned Mr Empev if they weie in the process of completing procedures as indicated in the franchise agreement Mr Empev said pole agreements were being sought from utilitv companies. RAY PHILLIPS. Citv inspector gave a report on the progress of the Protective Bridge work ov er Weber Basin Project under construction bv Knudsen Contractors The work has been slow but backfilling is going ahead the hazardous area should be corrected youngsters and wish all residents a happy holiday The fire department remind residents to exercise extreme care with Christmas trees and to use only serviceable lights, both inside and outside their homes Santa Ready For LAYTON GATHtRIM The Layton City Council has set a public hearing for Jan 21 at 7 30 p m at the city hall to consider the Visit To Kaysville rezone of property located on the southeast corner of Hill Tteld Road and Antelope Drive Old Saint Nick will arrive in Kaysville Dec. 11 from the North Pole, but since the snow is scarce this season he will be ushered in riding on a big red fire truck with huge bags of goodies for the children. EIGHTEEN months ago the council approved a rezone request on this property changing the zone from R1 B to CP3 The intention at the time was to allow a developer to build a medical center on the site Citizens were promised by that council, when this rezone was made, that the lot would return to an RIB zone if the medical center .as not built. Store RECENTLY, a representative contacted the citv about building on the site This establishment would not fit into a RIB zone In other business at the Dec meetingthe council set a public hearing to consider a rezone CHILDREN CAN visit with Santa at the city hall at 6.30 p.m. and order their gifts for Christmas. They can sit on his lap and place their order, he is anxious to meet all the little ones. Santa will ride throughout Kaysville on the fire to his stop at city hall to alert all the truck prior children that he has arrived. ear under the direction of ruce McGraw, chairman. That same evening the traditional star on the mountain east of the city will be lite for the holiday THE J AY CEES w ill sponsor Santa this y within a week Water lines have been frozen twice during the project The council discussed the cost of lowering the vent pipe BF LV A Probst repoi ted that Fruit Heights City has granted 33 business licenses during the 1981 year Mayor Neil Noorda announced the newlv elected citv officials will be sworn in office during the January N 1982 city council meeting A SANTA aid program was discussed as the Davis Countv Community Action Program had contacted the citv The council authorized Mrs Probst. city recorder to inquire if there are anv needv families MAYOR-ELEC- T Dean Brand was asked to give a report on the Utah I eague of Cities and Towns meeting he attended with regard to the state sales tax plan np I I ig Yk s lid h ion had iinui tii'ii ol a I a li i f m p a i on i 4 ' i pi I iu , on , nl to mi' n i 'Ik I C n ns i 1st! I I. H Vl " - Cl Ilk !. pkt Ol Mil" ' i v MU I 'ii Ik'd n , IW UK , 'llUilK IV ' abnlll till . - i m i liltk th d would .nci. c s'ai il v tk lunding on a tu turc commission Indie ding a Jesiu. lor L m ion lo tern., u in tnc svstem Mis Wilcox said iiul v I lac 'V av ion L 1 11 ' I' ol' a i ' Sli' .."0 E have to cpi nj iiioiu " o Oil Mil it Ik 'co i II I! in V d the I ' i . ip K A l a I I I . pc d ole n ai ni iv mile ill ,,t ' ink! In u r v v V and colli cth'llx 0 on a site near the citv hall that had been planned as the system s headquaiters and still can be expanded lo fill that rule in the future as funds are av ailable although the branch will come fust The citv has donated about two acres, piovided utiliv access moved a small utilitv building from the site and has said it will prov ide lighting and other amenities when the building is completed Previously, the county library board was proposing a 30, (HM) square foot facility about half again as huge as cithci Bountiful or Cleaneld libraries to serve as the headquarters ( ost was estimated at $2 million The pared down vcisnm was pic.cnicJ sort of compionuse to hopefully pi.niii. Lavton with facilities in the loicsecal lc in ture at a more economical cost to the conn ty under the cuirent crunch IF I AVION opts to stav out ol the svs tern the county would lose $130 turn m tax levenue lhe council will pmbiblv ad boaio s uk largely on what its libr.u although the boaid had set no n mu: a' piess time Layton's tax shaie has piovided about 20 percent for lihiarv operations Library Director Jeanne lavton has said that lavton s staving out could mean cutting staff by a couple full time positions and eliminating one bookmobile, a popular library service It would also mean Lay tori would have to contiact foi bookmobile service probably from the county and set up its own library a t v . AND BASF I) on the budget of $750,000 incurred bv the county to operate its three libraries, that could mean a quarter million dollar expense for I avion to piovide comparable service, county commissioners have theorized Theater To Reopen - KAYSV1LLE With re- gard to the closure of the Kay Theater recently due to problems between the theater management. CtaJ Nielsen of Kaysville and MBCH Inc of Ogden, owner of the building a tentative agreement has been reached and a suitable lease is being drawn up. according to Atty Jean Babilis of MBCH Inc when reached by phone on Friday AFTFR contacting Mr Nielsen, he said the theater on Wedneswill be day. Nov 9 with the same hours Mr Nielsen said 'hcv v ill be giving the annual free ehil-dre- n Christmas matinee show on Wednesday and s Thursday. Dec 23 and i FIF IS looking forward 'o continuing to serve the communities and run desirable films as in the pa' np Layton Sets Zone Hearing By DONETA JOURNAL 197 B North Main St., Layton, Utah 84041 is" that the residents have the a 1 fv ik I'M $ sb 7-- 1 request for property located approximately south of North Layton Jr High School on Antelope Drive Originally, the developers hoped to build 82 rental units on this site ACCORDING to Larry Collier, representative for Jalco Company, the plans are now for 30 twin houses This would be 60 individually owned dwelling units. The change in plans means the property must be rezoned from R2 to R14 There are 2 8 acres in the land parcel By a vote of 3 to 1, the Layton City Council granted a lien waiver to the Faith Baptist Church located on Fairfield Rd. at 2430 North In a previous council meeting the lien waiver was tabled until more information was gained about the situation on Fairfield Rd in this area 1 AT THLRSDAYS meeting Ladd ScofTield informed the council that Fairfield Rd. was 75 percent developed and the city held Lein waivers on 14 property owners living near the church Curb and guttering has been installed along part of the road This was done when Fairfield Rd was constructed The stretches that have curb and guttering belonged to the countv when the development took place Since then the property has been annexed into Layton city COLNCILMAN Lynn Wood made a motion to call in the lien waivers The motion died for want of a second A second motion to grant the lien waiver passed The present economic conditionn was the main reason given by council members for granting the waiver Councilman W ood reminded the council that Layton city has not called in one lien waiver tn the 12 years he has been on the conn!' THE LIEN waiverextcnsinn Air Estates granted bv the council some months ago was brought up agdin Idst Thursday Several weeks dgo two property owners living in Mt Air Estates dsked the council for some help in solv ing drainage problems they are having SamChelemes thede veloper promised the proper ty owners he would hdve some dirt hauled in to temporarily correct the situation This has not been done Public works people contacted Mr Chelemes and re ceived the promise that he would immediately haul in a load of sand and compact it on Mt AFTER INSPECTING the site, Counctlmen Trujillo and Sill, questioned the value of putting fill at the location The two counctlmen believe the only way to solve drainage problems along Antelope Drive near the Mt Air Estates is to move the water into the r, I J- - p , might mean th it turb and wuulJ have to be installed along the south portions of Antelope Dr from Fort Lane to Fairfield Moie dtseusMon on this subject will take place at the neyt 'Ouncil meeting g THF t OL NC II ablcd on a redeve'opmcnt agen cv ordinance until Bruce Bar- ton citv attorney, gathers more information about what creating a redevelopment agenev would involve Lnder the Ltah Neighor-hooDevelopment Act the mayor and civ council mem- d bers take the responsibility of being the redevelopment agency. In this capacity plans are made to redevelop an area like portions of downtown Layton Needs are identified and wdys of fi Dancing are proposed LADD SCOFFIELD sug gested there may be eight set tions of Layton thJ 0u q t f for s |