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Show . By NANCY LYNN KRZTON circulated which will be submitted to a district or whatever. I dont know if the council feels that Laytons City Council if dissolution is approved by East Layton voters. way. I think East Layton citizens should know that if thats how you The annexation matter was raised at feel. the last council meeting by Shields, who Wood responded, They just need to said, My concern is that we do not understand we wont accept a lot of leave any impression with the voters as burdens on the city. I think we are going they go to the polls that it is automatic to annex them with that condition. that they will be annexed. Shields said he thought votes on Noting annexation of East Layton would affect every city department of dissolution would be affected by the Layton, Shields said, My feeling. is knowledge that East Layton residents that should annexation come about, would have to pay an extra tax. that we not put a burden on our people, I think its not necessary that we and that if there as an indebtedness, should say they will have to pay an that it be on those people, in the form of extra tax, Harris replied, saying he Staff Writer The City Council has t LAYTON indicated it favors annexation of East Layton should East Laytons voters decide to dissolve their city. ' I think the intent to annex is unanimous, Mayor Lewis Shields said at the councils most recent meeting Oct. 2. The council did not contradict his statement and Councilmen Lynn Wood and Randy Harris said they want to annex East Layton. The East Layton dissolution question has been placed on the Nov., 4 ballot. An annexation petition currently, is being thought East Layton could be annexed without putting a burden on Layton or East Layton residents. I feel there is a rational solution a result of a merger, adding, We would hope to have East Layton represented in the next council. arising as Shields had requested a special council meeting be held to hear reports from city department heads on the expected impact of a merger but was unable to find a day when all the council members could be present. to the problems, Harris said. He indicated that the sale of East Layton Citys assets could bring in enough money to cover the costs of running East Layton and of paying its debts, Woods said the annexation must be fair and equitable to both Layton and East Layton. I just think they need to understand were not big brother to go in and solve all their problems." He stated that the two areas could work together to handle any dilemmas He said he would personally pass the information to East Laytons government for dispersal to East Layton citizens because he feels the facts should be made known. Meanwhile, a group is trying to get 51 percent of all East r, Layton landowners to sign a petition requesting annexation into Layton. The landowners properties must constitute d of the total land value in East for the petition to be valid. Layton The merger proponents would like to have the annexation petition ready by Nov. 4, so that if East Layton is dissolved, the time between dissolution and annexation will be as short as possible. Some delay is inevitable, however, according to Layton City Planner Scott Carter, since the city must give 20 d3ys notice of the public hearing from the day the annexation petition is presented to the council. one-thir- Index Business 1CB-11- B 12B-13- B 8B Church Classified 1 1 8 10A Economy Review Editorial . Home Living Obituaries . Centerville Clearfield. Clinton, East Layton, Farmington; Fruit Heights, Kuysville, LdytbrRoy; South Weber Vol. 1 unsfet.SytgcVse.TVesfPdint'.5' Serving 29,000 Families From Roy Through Centerville No. 7 1 128 4B-7- Sports Thursday, October 9, 1 980 B-- B Smith's , Bond Ife'.'itV V "r, 4 fret Approved The City Council has LAYTON approved a By MARILYN KARRAS Staff Writer ROY The Roy Redevelopment' Agency approved the expenditure of $7,000 for a market survey and analysis and heard a report Tuesday from a representative of the company it will be paying for the service. .. A contract with the firm of Larry Smith and Company Ltd. of Palo Alto, Calif., was approved by the agency. The company will provide the agency with information on the best routes for redevelopment of the citys business district after conducting a survey of existing businesses and the market area. ;The agency, whose board is comprised at the city council members, received a loan of $15,000 from Roy City several weeks ago to be used for the market study and other expenditures necessary to get the redevelopment project under way. Everett Steiken, a consultant with the Palo Alto company, told the council he will be visiting each existing business in the city and talking with individual to analyze the potential , businessmen impact of redevelopment on owners of i , existing businesses. He said the survey will not involve a massive statistical study, but would be based largely on his own experience and expertise. He said he expects to complete the study in about 60 days. He said he ordinarily would have several assistants to help with the analysis but said Roy City would be filling the functions of the assistants in this study. I want you to think of me as a member of your team, not as an outsider, he said. He told councilmen the $7,000 fee is a total sum and includes all personal expenses. Agency board member Wayne Kimber asked if Steiken would be looking at all businesses in Roy or doing , a random sampling. I will look at all businesses within the city and some outside the city limits, Steiken said, But I will talk with a sampling of individual people. He said the analysis will include some statistical data, such as an analysis of "The Weber School District has formed a safety committee to coordinate safety efforts throughout the district. The committee, to be composed of parents, school administrators, and area law enforcement officers, will meet the first Wednesday of every month to discuss safety problems and seek possible solutions. The decision to form the committee was made at a special meeting Wednesday. The meeting was called by the school district to see" if selected representatives supported such a move. I think there is a definite need for a safety council, said Bob Hadley of the Harrisville Police Department, noting that Harrisville already has formed one. School district representative Ron Stephens, who conducted the meeting. - He also said if results of the study indicate redevelopment would not be in the citys best interests, he would recommend against it. He said work I will begin immediately because realize the city is in a hurry to get on with this. Were not in a hurry, acting chairman Earl Morris said. But we do want to move. In related business, the City Council the same evening hired Gary Jones as a consultant to help the city write an application for a federal grant to be used for redevelopment, The council also set Nov, 4 for a public hearing on the grant application. The grant is a commercial development block grant administered by the Department of Housing and Urban Development. Under the contract, Jones will be paid $35 per hour to help the city gather necessary information for a Councilman Lynn Wood asked if all the money borrowed through the revenue bond will be spent on construction and not on setting up an inventory for the stores. Welch assured him the money will only be used to finance construction. A number of Layton merchants were upset with the councils plan to approve the revenue bond, claiming the bond will give Smiths an unfair advantage over existing retail stores in the area. However, councilmen said they felt they had to approve the bond request, since they already had approved bonds for and LaBelles, two other competing retail stores. The bond resolution passed with only Councilman John Baker votang against it. In other business, the council accepted J.L. Ormand and Sons low bid of $22,098 for extension of a storm sewer along 700 North at the recommendation of the citys engineering firm, Templeton, Link, Alsup. The council also voted to waive a rt 4-- pre- The News Mark Hill said he CLEARFIELD could hear the snorting and bugeling of a big bull elk, so he perched in a tree for three hours before he saw the stipulation . 750-pou- He cocked his bow for two full minutes before he got a shot. The and search started the next morning he found the animal a hundred yards GRIF JENSEN gets a big kick out of this mannequin, part includes an antique fire truck and Smokey the Bear, will of the Layton Fire Departments fire prevention display continue through Saturday, at the Layton Hills Mall this week. The exhibit, which from his campsite. Sports Editor Phil Kirkwood talked to Hill. His report and a picture appear on 7B. said the district had had a safety committee once, but that the committee had been dissolved. Safety for school children has become of increasing concern to parents since the school district stopped paying for the busing of students who live between one and Vfc miles from school. Roy City Manager Richard Kirkwood has recommended to the Roy City Council that a school traffic safety committee be established to develop a school route plan, study hazardous school crossings, select control measures for crossings. That city has been studying requests from parents for additional crossing guards in the city. A group of parents has been particularly concerned about children crossing South. 1900 West at 4400 protection. Hampton estimated it will cost him between $10,000 and $30,000 to build the observatory, which he plans to use for astrophotography and research. , He said the observatory, if constructed, would be open to the public, and that he would consider giving tours .... , , . Continued on Page Registration is also being held in each of the county offices on days other than these until 10 days prior to the election. The offices are located in the Weber County Courthouse, 25th Street and Washington Boulevard, and the Davis County Courthouse, Room 116, Far; mington. t ' - The Davis County Clerks office said that people who have moved from one district to another, never have registered, and are over register. of Kaysville owns nearly 2,000 land in the area for watershed there. : People who have not yet registered to vote in the November election can still do so. Weber and Davis county clerks said that registration will be held in the individual districts on Oct. 11,14 and 28. 2A 18 need to New residents of the area need to have lived in the state for 30 days before they can register. Clerks in both offices said they would be glad to answer any questions. They also said someone who does not know whaf district he resides in can call and the clerk will be able to help. In additional to choosing a president and other national officers, voters will pick state, county and school board representatives on Nov. 4. Local officials residents who and vote. have urged all are eligible to register By LUCINDA M. SCHUFT Staff Writer FARMINGTON Davis County residents passed the voted leeway last Thursday by 236 votes. The hotly debated issue stirred 23, 790 voters to the polls with 12,013 votes for and 11,777 votes against. School Board President Lucille Reading expressed pleasure with the results. Im glad it passed, she said, it benefits the people of Davis County. Mrs. Reading said the passage of the leeway will make it possible to have funds available for the budget next year. voted leeway in place. Sub- rights. The developer had requested the waiver, saying he could not afford the cost of installing' a secondary water system now. Davis Leeway Gets Approval - Registration Set 3 Days This Month that Tangelwood division, a planned development east of Highway 89 off Oak Hills Drive, be required to install a secondary water system. The waiver was granted on the condition that the developer give Layton City first consideration should he decide to sell his secondary water animal. Computer Engineer Wants on Francis Peak Observatoryresident acres ; KAYSVILLE A Midvale wants to build an observatory near Francis Peak. Computer engineer John Hampton; approached the Kaysville City Council with the request Tuesday, asking the ' council to lease a small area of Kaysville property by the Federal Aviation Administrations radar and radio facility so that he and his father can construct an observatory to study the stars and planets. - ticipated. application which is due Oct. 17. page million industrial revenue bond requested by Smiths Food King Properties, Inc. The bond will finance construction of a supermarket and drug store on the southwest corner of Gentile Street and Fairfield Road. Issuance of the bond will allow Smiths to borrow money at an interest rate lower than that which could be obtained without the bond. Attorney Tom Welch, representing Smiths, noted the company had increased the amount of its bond request from $2.5 million to $3 million because the new supermarket and drug store will probably cost more than was an- population, income levels, expenditure levels and a .forecast of trends in populatipn and buying. He said the study would establish a trading area and would include an inventory of competing facilities. He said that quantitative data would be analyzed according to the citys objectives of upgrading its commercial area. $3 Davis, Weber and Tooele did not need a leeway with the federal impact funds they received, he said. The passage of the leeway for Davis County will raise approximately 1 million directly in revenues and will also bring matching funds from the state of nearly that amount. Its passage will cost an owner of a $60,000 home approximately $21 a year in increased taxes. I know its Mrs. Reading said, passage will help to maintain the but we dont programs we now have know how much. in order to stay in its . The district, budget this year, had to cut a number of Lawrence district programs. That caused concern over Welling, superintendent, said it will give the the quality of the educational programs school board a continuing base it can being provided. A parents group incount on in view of the fluctuating vestigated the cuts and reported that in federal funds. some areas their findings showed that The leeway issue was brought to the there would be some negative effects voters attention when the amount of felt. federal impact funds the district would Areas felt to be hurt by the cuts were be receiving seemed to be in jeopardy. the teacher-pupi- l ratio, the senior high The federal funds supplemented the athletic programs, the library aides district for families that livee in the programs, and the elementary string district but work on federal in- program. stallations. The campaign for the passage of the The Weber County District adleeway took on some differing colors ministrative assistant to the superinas the day of the election drew close. tendent, Ronald Stephens, said that The Utah Taxpayers Association fought some of the school districts were imhard to defeat the issue. Mrs. Reading, commenting on the pacted by the reductions in those federal 874 funds. campaign, said, 1 regret the rather Stephens also stated that most of the unsavory tone that it took on in some districts in the state already had the areas. $-- . Redevelopment Agency OKd For Kaysville - an KAYSVILLE The City Council has ordinance unanimously adopted creating a redevelopment agency for Kaysville. The City Council constitutes the redevelopment agency under the terms of the ordinance , passed Tuesday in accordance with the Utah Neighborhood Development Act. The council, as the redevelopment agency, now has the power to accept money and other assistance from any public or private sources for agency activities. It is authorized to buy bonds property and issue for redevelopment, and the city will not be liable for debts of the agency. Adoption of the neighborhood development ordinance does not comit the city to any specific development plan or site but simply is a first step in preparing to redevelop Kaysvilles downtown area, according to the council. It gives us a vehicle to set things in motion should we want to, explained Councilman Glade Nelson after Tuesdays council meeting. The council hired consultant Thomas Kenster in January to make an study of Kaysvilles potential for redevelopment. Continued on Page 2A |