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Show By MARILYN L. KARRAS e e police officers and four firefighters. Sufficient funds for a fifth fireman have been budgeted, but will be held in and possibly used for a crossabeyance training project being considered by the police An 8 used the police and fire departments. percent salary increase is included for all city employees. An experimental use of volunteer help in the two ' departments is also part of an experimental project for the departments. Both y will be given a trial before either is permanently incorporated. If the projects are rejected, the money will be used to hire a fifth fireman. The total budget figure is an increase of about $300,000 over the citys $2,47,940 budget for the current fiscal year. Much of the increased revenue is projected from property taxes at $1.1 million, an increase over the current year, and in sales tax which is expected to produce $1.1 million, also an infull-tim- Staff Writer LAYTON The City Council has approved a tentative budget of $3,081,983 in the general fund and $1,480,000 n the utility fund and set a public hearing on the budget for June 18 at 7:15 p.m. The City Council agreed the budget will include a boost in public safety personnel. The budget includes no increase in taxes for Because of an increase in city residents. assessed valuation due to property reappraisal by the county, the city mill levy of 5.35 will be decreased to maintain taxes at their current level, according to City Recorder Randall Heps. The only increase in utility fees will be a increase in the charge for collection due to a contract agreement garbage with the citys garbage hauler. The increase will boost monthly garbage fees to $2.75 per household effective July 1. , The budget includes funds to hire four new full-tim- 30-da- crease of $295,000. Other increases are in the areas of business licenses and building permits, each up $5,000, and federal revenue sharing, up from $250,000 to $375,000. Revenues are expected to decrease in state grants, state liquor funds, interest income, and zoning and subdivision fees. Following a public hearing the council also approved expenditures of revenue sharing funds totaling $375,000. Funds will be used primarily for capital expenditures, including $101,875 for a Univac computer, $58,000 for police curs, $10,000 for two inspection cars, $34,000 for a new dump truck, $13,500 for a tractor, $10,000 for a lawn mower, $13,000 for park lightrs and $4,000 for bleachers. Other capital improvements and $117,032 for police salaries will also come from revenue sharing funds. Heaps said no additional personnel or capital improvements were financed with federal revenue sharing funds. The salaries were used for operations expenses and salaries. Also included in the budget is salary for one part-tim- e attorney to assist City Attorney Bruce Barton. The loss of CETA funds for parks department employees will be partially made up with $28,000 budgeted for part-tim- e temporary help for the summer months. Seven e positions were eliminated when CETA funds were cut off. Heaps said the additional police officers were requested by Chief LaMar Chard to provide additional patrol time for the area annexed by Layton that was formerly East Layton City and for the additional commercial areas, including the Layton Hills Mall. The additional fire department personnel will allow the city to be covered by at least two men on duty at the station 24 hours a day, seven days e each week. Currently, firefighters are on duty for day shifts only. shifts with 48 The firemen will work hours off, Heaps said. He said the additional personnel will cut response time to fires in the full-tim- full-tim- city, since those men on duty will be able to respond immediately without waiting for additional men from the city's volunteer force. The 8 percent salary increase will be boosted by a 3 percent merit or step increase for 64 of the citys 84 employees, Heaps said. Fifteen will not be eligible for the step increases because they are already at the top of their salary grade and five others have not been recommended for the increase by their supervisors. No changes are anticipated in the utilities budget, with increased revenue expected from the East Layton area to cover increased expenditures. That budget includes a $50,000 reserve for authorized expenditures which is required by state law for use in emergency situations. Heaps said the utility fund is and revenues pay for all water purchased by the city and pay back all bonds needed for improvements. , Index Business Church Classified Vol. 1 No. 42 Despite Opposition 0 8(S 0 FARMINGTON Mandatory vehicle emission testing in Davis County moved one step closer last week when approval was given by the Davis County Health Board. The board made the decision despite opposition from the Davis County Commissioners and mayors throughout the county. Two weeks ago, the elected officials "went on record opposing the program. Bryant Evenson, of the Davis County Health Department, said the board approved the program contingent on three points and said any one of them could cause the plan to fold before The health department has been wrestling with the vehicle inspection and maintenance program since 1979 when the Enviromental Protection Agency identified Davis County as a nonattainment area for air quality standards, meaning the air needed to be actually beginning. cleaned up. Evenson said last weeks decision has now helped the county meet one part of the EPA requirements, and he expects it to keep the EPA from imposing sanctions on the county, which could Airtisfl o the titles that distinguish this painter, potter, sculptress, muralist, and archeologist, who displays her works at home when they arent being exhibited in galleries as close as Salt Lake or Brigham City, or as far away as the Seattle Worlds Fair. Mrs. Fawsons artistic endeavors are an outgrowth of her lifelong interests: archeology, the scriptures, and family life. A statue of an ancient Judean at a potters wheel rests on her television set in contrast to a nearby sculpture of her husband Paul P. Fawson, and their three children. Both pieces are astoun- - result in a loss of up to $9 million in revenues. However, one of the which could effect the program is enforcement. Evenson said the county attorney is looking into the feasibility of various enforcement approaches at this time. He said unless the plan is found to be enforceable by the attorney its doubtful that the EPA will accept the health boards adoption of an I & M and was the only county in the nation to do so. The health board was under pressure to adopt a workable plan by July 1. The other contingencies the health board noted when the program was adopted were to gain an extension for implementation of the program until January 1983 instead of 1982 as it now stands and to wait for revision of the Clean Air Act. As the plan was adopted the county is looking at a decentralized program with inspections taking place at private A Salt Lake County has garages. adopted a centralized plan wmcn cans for inspections in a county-owne- d facility. A six percent KAYSVILLE revenue increase will be needed to Kaysville City support the 1981-8- 2 budget projected at $1,006,789. The city council adopted a tentative budget which reflects the increase and has scheduled one last work session on the budget before a public hearing on June 30 at 7 p.m. This is the last day before the legislative deadline of July 1 for adoption of the budget in its final form. City Administrator John Thacker said he is not sure at this time what mill levy increase the budget will reflect since the assessment figures have not been made available to the cities from the county as yet. The tentative budget figures an expected increase in revenues from property taxes of $22,292 over last year projected increase in general sales and use taxes for the coming year. $20,200 Interest earnings are projected at $40,000 less than last year, but Thacker i' is conservative. He said B Economy Review. Home Living. . . School J8-6- 8 Sports 2B-4- . 6A 4A B Revenues from Kaysvilles city owned power plant are projected to be $40,000 down from last year due to expenditures for buying into new energy sources necessary for the future growth of the city. The proposed budget also reflects a 20 percent increase in the cities water and sewer rates and a 7 percent increase in garbage fees. If the tentative budget is adopted the sewer fees would go from $1.50 to $1.80 per residential unit and from $3.50 to $4.20 for treatment. The increase would result in $35,000 in additional revenue for this area. aspired by Archeology -- " . dingly lifelike. Much of Mrs. Fawsons pottery reflects her interpretation of ancient Mayan and Peruvian design, while her mosaics and velvet paintings usually depict scriptural scenes and : artifacts. After studying under such professional artists as Dorothy Bearnson and Florence Hanses, Mrs. Fawson has become a teacher. In 1968 she presented her paper on the origin of the potters wheel at the 18th anual Symposium on the Archeology of the Scriptures at BYU. Much of her specialized research on ancient American and Middle Eastern culture has been summarized in Paul R. Cheesemans feir Jymie 3 it is figured on interest earned by money the city has in the bank and is purposely figured low in case funds need to be reduced in a special situation. Theoretically this amount should come in higher than it is estimated at, he said. Thacker said building permits are projected to bring in $2,819 less this year than last. This area he summed up a guess since no one knows what the economy will bring in the way of future construction. I By Sharon Steele Review Correspondent SUNSET Grandmothers hands, the visitor might think, as Lu Clark Fawson of Sunset, bends to dust a finely sculpted statue in her home or reaches to straighten a framed mosaic, mosaic. But grandmother is just one of Water rates inside the city limits would go to 55 cents from 45 cents per thousand gallons for anything over that. Rates for areas outside the city would be double the city rate. The water rate increase is expected to bring an additional $45,000 in revenue to the city. Business licenses are expected to generate an additional $1,346 in revenue during the coming year while animal licenses are expected to bring $600 more than last year. Projected expenditures show a $1,325 increase in the mayor and councils budget with $432 being added to the councils salaries and $893 more for services and supplies. Expenditures for the justice of the peace are projected to be down from $12,832 for 1981 to $11,550 in 1982. The city police department ex- penditures projected for 1982 show an increase to $284,810 from $249,383 with the major increase in the personnel section of this budget area. The fire departments projected are $52,609 up from $44.660 59 in 1981 These Early Americans published by Deseret Book. For 15 years, before moving to Sunset, the artist gave instruction in ceramics and ancient art forms to individuals and groups in her Salt Lake City home. book, Bonds for Layton Hotel . expenditures ARTIST LI! FAWSON displaying Council OKs teysvolle Sf Budgeli HeoirDimg 8A 8B-9- Portrays Scriptures, Family Life Kb W&hlefo and a Wednesday, June 10, 1981 Serving 3 1,500 Families From Hoy Through Centerville ' 6A LAYTON The Layton City Council d approved bonds for the construction of the Hill Regency Hotel last week, and the developer said the project may get under way by late July. Industrial revenue bonds totalling $8.5 million were approved by the council. long-awaite- Bernard Bemey, developer of the hotel, said the facility will be affiliated with the Best Western Hotels. He said his company hopes to sell the bonds about mid-Jul- y and said groundbreaking will begin after the sale is complete. He said engineering has already been done, so that construction can begin when financing is arranged. The site for the hotel is 2200 N. 400 W., north of Layton Hills Mall. Plans presented several years ago 'when the hotel was first proposed inhotel with cluded a restaurants, beauty and barber shops and other facilities normally connected with a larpp h,rl 300-roo- 1 is TheKabal: Ancient Maya at the Wheel. her statue, Born in Grantsville, Mrs. Fawson married to Paul P. Fawson. They have three living children, 32. and 14 greatgrandchildren, grandchildren. Although her dual careers as artist and mother have kept her busy, she has found still other ways to enrich the lives of those around her. An active member of the LDS Church, she prepares an anual turkey dinner for members of many past and present bishopbrics that she has served under. Shields Gets Golf Course Information ; Homework Done ' A recent meeting betLAYTON ween Davis County commissioners, Layton City officials and manager of the Valley View Golf Course yielded "the most financial information about golf course operation received yet by city officials, Mayor Lewis G. Shields said last week. Shields told the City Council the te commissioners had done their homework before the meeting and had the figures requested by the city when Shields criticized management of the golf course several weeks ago. They knew we wanted all the inShields said. He said formation, county figures indicated the golf course is $385,000 in the red and that it will take a year or a year and a half to put the course in a money-makinposition. Shields had accused the county of mismanagement of the golf course. He had said the county was not giving out adequate information on finances of the y course, which was built as a joint project. The city provided land for the course and the county co structed the facility. shiW cbmi u iki i mpnt hoivovpr s g city-count- statement make by County Commissioner Harry Gerlach who said, the doors are always open to the Shields said he county commission. considers the relationship a business partnership and said partners should communicate more openly. Shields told the council the county agreed to reactivate a committee which was originally set up by the city and county to supervise operations at the He said Commissioner golf course. Ernest Eberhard, Layton Councilman Lynn Wood and the golf pro from Valley View would sit on that committee and will meet at least once every 60 days. Shields said he would like the city to check on a health department incourse and spection of the golf restaurant that he "heard had been made recently and would like to make sure any deficiencies had been corrected. If the county had total control they could keep the course in the red forever, but with the committee, the city will be better protected," Shields |