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Show WEEKLY REFLEX-DA- NEWS JOURNAL, NORTH DAVIS LEADER, MAY 27, 1982 VIS 9 By MARK D. MICKELSEN IN SECURING approval, the county had to: Appoint a qualified personnel adminstrator. Establish model personnel rules and regulations consistent with the County Personnel Management Act. Develop and show support for a consistent, equitable pay plan. Improve fair employment practices and follow the affirmative action program. FARMINGTON Davis Countys new merit system re- ceived the states seal of last week, nearly approval two years after county officials and personnel workers began revamping their employee management program. THE UTAH Division of Personnel Management approved the program after Davis Coun- ty Commissioners complied with a series of conditions aimed at bringing the merit Generally support the personnel function in Davis County. In accepting responsibility for the new merit system, Mr. Johnson points out that the county agrees to maintain the system in conformance to the federal standards and to allow the Division of Personnel Management to conduct periodic evaluations of the personnel program. system into conformance with state law. Marvin Johnson, bureau manager for the states personnel division, complimented the conmission on their commitment to sound personnel administration in a letter addressed to Com. Chairman Ernest Eberhard Jr. The letter states that the county is now in conformance with Utah Code and, therefore, meets all the requirements needed for state approval. Have you been wondering if the road to your favorite summer recreation area will be open for the upcoming Memorial Day weekend? Maintenance personnel from the Utah Department of Transportation have been working for several weeks trying to open Utahs most popular high country roads. crews are uncertain whether the following road will be open for the holiday weekend. Call the UDOT Road Condition Re- on Friday, May 28 for updated informaMonte Cristo tion on: SR-3- 9 532-600- 0 Road. TRAFFIC IS expected to be weekend. Routes to popular vacation spots will be congested during the peak travel to times beginning Friday night and Saturday, and again on Monday afternoon. Motorists should plan a little extra travel time to offset time lost on roads; and long- Fish Lake, SR-14- SR-2- 5 3 Cedar Breaks (Parowan Canyon). Because of heavy snow accumulation and equipment breakdowns, the following roads will not be open this weekend. UDOT crews anticipate it will be several more weks before they complete snow removal at these loca- con-gest- distance travelers should tions: SR-15- Lake Guardsmans MIRROR 0 Road, SR-15- 2 Park City to Guardsmans Pass and on to Wasatch Mountain State Park. 0 Midway to Wasatch Mountain State Park, SR-9- 2 Alpine Loop in American Fork 3 Beaver Ca- Canyon, Pass, SR-22- 4 SR-22- SR-15- The ;r make use of the rest areas along our highways. Although most road construction projects on state highways will be shut down during the Memorial Day weekend, warning signs in the construction zones must be heeded to assure safe travel. We particularly ask Utahns to be alert, slow down and make allowance for changed conditions at points where freeway lanes have ended and revert traffic. back to two-wa- y Reflex-Journ- al -- Leader-Bulletin ; FARMINGTON To keep the wheels of the Davis County School District in operation, a $12 million tax anticipation note sale has been called. EBERHARD, pay-bac- BURROWS, SMITH and Co. of Salt Lake City is handling the sale. pictures or manuscripts. Thank you By DONETA GATHERUM CLEARFIELD On May 18 a group of 25 citizens living in the North part of Davis County met in the Wasatch Elementary School in Clearfield to hear information and ask questions about a proposed initiative petition that is being circulated throughout the state. THE PETITION would give voters the opportunity to change Title 4, Chapter 13 of the Utah Code Anotated 1953 so it would read as follows: Location of state owned or state operated penal or correctional facilities no person over the age of 18 years who is convicted of a felony of a Class A misdemeanor shall be housed or incarcerated within a state-owne- d or penal or Correctional facility located within the geographical limits of any incorporated city, unincorporated town or within an unincorporated community of the state state-operat- of Utah. Use of the present state prison and present community correctional centers nothing in the proceeding section shall (a) preclude or prohibit the continued use and maintance of the present state prison located at Draper, Utah or preclude or prohibit the improvement or expansion of the present state prison facility into contigious geographical areas or (b) preclude or prohibit the continued use and maintenance of presently established community correctional centers under Chapter 9a of this title. Chapter 9a-- 2 would be amended to read as follows: 13-7- .2 Community correctional centers maintained rules and regulations by director ( 1 ) the division may continue to maintain all presently established facilities known as community correctional centers for work and day release programs for cess than to our current By TOM BUSSELBERG office, Mr. Bailey says, noting the office is fourth largest while it serves the states third largest county. Ground CLEARFIELD is set to be broken by the end of the week for construction of the new Davis County Job Service at 1575 Main in Clearfield, LOOKING AT just north of the Layton growth-relate- d ITLL MEAN nearly triple the space for the office, curE. Gen- Two homes constructed by the building-trade- s of Bountiful High, Viewmont High and Woods Cross High Schools are now completed. An open Con- struction with Mathewson & Sanders of Ogden acting as architects. Staff is hoping to move in by Christmas, he says. WELL FINALLY be able to serve the public like weve wanted to, he says, noting the 20 employees will have more room to provide for ade- quate interviewing as well as a large conference room that can serve for testing and for emplo- yer-interviews. Calling that an important addition, Mr. Bailey says currently he must vacate his office when an employer wishes to interview at Job Service. And general interviews can be completed with a greater feeling of confidentiality because desks wont be so close together. y in its design, he notes further that restrooms will meet standards for serving handicapped along with large parking lot. And enough land is available to provide for an addition that could double the buildings size to about 16,000 square feet. Because of the new freeway interchange at Antelope Drive there will be better ac county jobs provided, the county added nine percent of the states new jobs during the 1970s, with 90 percent of those provided in the private sector. With a staff a little less than half Ogden's, as we have jobs for our area people, Job Service will continue to house will be held May 28 from 7 p.m. and Saturday, May 29, from 6 p.m. Information for bidding on the homes can be obtained at the open house. 4-- grow, Mr. Baily added, noting the county has surpassed Weber County in population, claiming the third place position in the state. THE OFFICE will continue its current hours of 8 a.m.-- 5 p.m. offering the full slate of services from unemployment insurance to other job-relat- programs and computer access to the state's job bank. , ,, House descriptions are as lows. fol- 12-- Gets Degree Richard T. Bowman will receive his M.D. degree June 11 from UCLA Medical School where he attended on a Regents scholarship. VIEWMONT-Wood- s Cross home: 1293 N. 725 W., West Bountiful, 1351 square feet, appraisial price, $73,500. It has three bedrooms, bay window, part basement with garage under house, a fireplace Call Floyd Trimble, for more information. BOUNTIFUL HOME: 136 South Davis Blvd., Bountiful, 295-948- 6, 1500 square feet, apprasial price $88,900. It has three bedrooms, two dioxide monitoring. baths, combination kitchen-famil- y room, fireplace with sachusetts General Hospital, heatalator, roughed in for stove in basement, garage Harvard Medical School. It is under house, hot water heat,-carpone of the premier programs in . the country. He will be one of throughout, stove, disfew doctors from Utah to have RICHARD BOWMAN, M.D. posal, dishwasher. Maintenance free brick and aluminum trained there. DR. BOWMAN is the son of outside. Call Richard Nielson, He graduated from Davis for more informaHigh School, fulfilled an LDS Mr. and Mrs. Richard C. Bowtion. mission in Siagon, Vietnam man of Kaysville. He married BIDS ARE to be submitted and graduated in chemistry Shellie Whitman of Layton. to the Davis County School Magna cum laude from the They are parents of a daughter District office in Farmington. and two sons. University of Utah. DR. BOWMAN will start a residency in surgery at Mas- (2) THE director shall make rules and regulations deemed necessary for the management and governance of such community correctional centers. In order for this initiative question to be placed on the ballot in November, a majority of registered voters living in 15 of Utahs 29 counties must sign the petitions. June 4 is the deadline for filing the petition with the secretary of states office. PROPONENTS of the initiative petition are canvassing shopping areas and other busy spots to se- cure signatures. Anyone wanting to know more about the petition or anyone who has not signed a petition and wants to, can contact Debbie Bowles in Clearfield, If the question is placed on the November ballot and if the initiative receives a majority of votes in the general election, then it becomes state law. 773-963- 8. TUESDAY EVENING, five speakers were invited to talk about this petition and the concept of regional prisons. All speeches were short. Questions from the audience were then answered. STEVEN LQVE, assistant corrections director for Utah, presented the regional prison concept. He stressed that 95 percent of all convicted felons would be returned to society. He believed it better to prepare these people with work experiences and other socializing programs before they are released than to dump them back into society. This attempt to allow the felon to adjust to normal life styles outside the prison can be done through minimum security regional prisons and through halfway houses. THE HALFWAY houses are a real testing period to see if a person can make it outside the prison. Mr. Love stated a halfway house was far less expensive to maintain than a prison because the prisoners were THE REPORT, presented by the Salt Lake firm of Tanner, Brunson, Pickett and Company, says general fund expenditures which make up the largest portion of the annual budget totalled nearly $12.3 million, while revenues collected for the same period totalled close to $13.1 million. But, the Board of Davis County Commissioners and Auditor Ludeen Gibbons challenged the figures, saying the actual surplus is closer to $500,000. Mrs. Gibbons explained that the auditors mistakenly lumped all of the countys expenditures and revenues together. At least $500,000 included in the audit report is interest money and cannot be collected until 1983, she said. ' UTAH LAW dictates that all cities and counties have a balanced budget. Com. Chairman Ernest Eberhard said the county feels that the fiscal 1981 budget is in balance. Auditor Steve Crane of Tanner, Brunson, Pickett and Co. told the commission that the county now has over $2.1 million dollars in assets. A comprehensive review of the countys holdings was included in the audit. Each asset has now been fixed with a specific price, Mr. Crane said. MR. CRANE complimented county officials on their money management techniques and pointed out that the county is currently collecting more interest money than they are paying out. He said the county has at least $3.5 million dollars available in the debt service fund. The audit report also details changes in tax revenues from 1972 through Dec, 31, 1981. The average assessed valuation for the county over a ten year period totalled $258,256,568. Property owners paid a total of $1.48 million taxes in 1972, $2.35 million in 1976, and $5.47 million in 1981. with heatalator up stairs, roughed in for stove in basement, a hot water heat, double car garage, maintenance free brick and aluminium outside, carpeted throughout. Lots of storage cupboards, stove, disposal, dishwater included. HE WAS selected to AO A Honor Society and received the Longmire Surgery Medal given each year to the outstanding senior student in surgery at UCLA. While in medical school he published papers in transcutaneous oxygen and carbon ment with Hanson and Thompson Construction for construction of a new weed department building in west Kaysville. FARMINGTON A comprehensive audit report of Davis Countys fiscal 1981 budget shows that the county collected slightly more revenues during the year than they paid out for services. Trade Homes For Sale brick-exteri- energy-efficienc- sta- falst-growi- tile, says Manager Jack Bailey, who notes land was purchased several years ago but construction has been delayed due to binding problems. Its now full speed ahead for the $488,000 facility to be built by Farming-to- n contractor J.H.S. d tistics, he notes the attitude of Job Service to provide adequate facilities for the county, where as many people as lived in south boundary. 195 recently-compile- Davis in 1970 were added to the county in the following decade. With more than 55,000 in- tment's Layton office; approved a contract agree- By MARK D. MICKELSEN roken For round To and supplies for the depar- Fiscal 81 In The Black ger Glines says, with the notes bought each year to pay bills incurred before the arrival of tax monies later in the year. He notes the borrowing is a good business practice, allowing the district to invest k those funds for more than the price. THE BOARD of education has set the sale for June at 11:30 a.m. in the district administration building. Last year, $11 million were sold, Board Clerk Ro ments and thanked the personnel department for bringing the program together. In other business, the commission: authorized the use of $1,065 in Mental Health budget funds for equipment County Ends 10 INCORPORATING is not responsible for return of parolees or probationers. the Good Housekeeping Seal COM. however, said the commission couldnt take full credit because of Mr. Miles hard work on implementing the system. The commissioners complimented Miles' achieve- - Tax Anticipation Note heavy during this holiday rently located at THE FOLLOWING roads will be open Memorial Day weekend: SR-6- 5 East Canyon, SR-7- 2 from at Fremont Junction to Fremont, Davis County joins Salt and thanked the commission for their help. ' You (commission) should take most of the credit for this achievement," Mr. Miles said, "for making the tough decisions that had to be made. of Approval Now Job nyon. At the present time, UDOT port at COUNTY PERSONNEL Director Mel Miles, the architect of the new system, likened the states decision to Lake and Weber counties in THE DAVIS County Commission last year voted overwhelmingly to adopt the merit Roads Open For Memoria Weekend securing state approval for the program. system which insures fair employment and regulates wage and benefit packages from department to deoartment. THE AVERAGE mill levy during the last ten years was 12.54. There was some concern by the commission over the countys liability for damages in a civil rights suit filed by Davis Library Director Jeanne Layton. The suit, aimed at the Davis County Commission and Library Board, claims that Ms. Laytons civil rights were violated when the county approved a new merit system ordinance exempting department heads from merit protection. et 292-554- 4, generally working, paying their own keep and paying taxes. A regional prison is different than a halfway house. This is a minimum security building that would house about 288 inmates. The rooms would be secured with doors, screens, etc. The yard would have a doublesecurity fence. Prisoners whose records were good and who had three years or less of a sentence to serve, would be housed in these regional prisons. About 60 of the inmates would be involved in school release and work release programs. MR. LOVE stated, the corrections people have never said these smaller prisons could not be built at the Point of the Mountain. The corrections people believe it would be better to build the minimum security prisons at other locations in the state. One site at Willard Bay in Box Elder County is being considered for a regional prison. Another is 600 N. Redwood Road, NSL. THE SECOND participant on the program was to be Davis County Com. Ernest Eberhard Jr. When Mrs. Bowles contacted Com. Eberhard about speaki- ng to the group, he stated he favored regional pris- ons. Mrs. Bowles said that was fine, she wanted both sides represented at the meeting so people would understand the issues. However, after waiting 20 minutes for Com. Eberhard at the meeting, he failed to appearand Mrs. Bowles called the commissioner. In response to the question, Do you intend to come to this meeting? Mr. Eberhard replied, No, I am not. He was asked why he would not keep his committment. Mr. Eberhard said he was not a member of the legislature and not a member of the corrections board. He further said, They already know how I stand on the subject. I dont have anything constructive to say about the subject. DAVIS COUNTY Sheriff Brandt Johnson told the COM. EBERHARD told a small gathering of reporters that the suit does not fall under the liability of the county. Despite some question over total revenues verses expenditures, the commission unanimously endorsed the audit report. audience at a convention of Utah sheriffs, 25 sheriffs opposed the regional prison concept; 25 sheriffs was the total number attending the convention. Sheriff Johnson explained that the sheriff department was not concerned with correction. Their job was to stop crime, solve crime and house offenders for a short period of time only. The county jail is a very different situation than a prison setting. Tim Bovee and Dixie Minson represented the Concerned Citizens Committee that has drawn up the initiative petition and is circulating the copies. The philosophy of this group is that rehabilitation is needed. Work programs are needed. However, the concerned citizens believe rehabilitation can be carried out in the main prison, in smaller minimum security prisons located at the Draper prison site and in exhisting halfway houses. THE CORRECTIONS department owns 1100 acres at Draper 350 of these acres could be used for the small 288 inmate prisons. It takes about 40 acres for a prison using the floor plan that the corrections people have now. Locating all correctional facilities at Draper would save money. Fewer people would be needed for management jobs. Some of the staff at the main prison could also work at the smaller minimum security prisons. The administrative staff could be the same. THE PURCHASE price of land would be saved if all facilities were kept at Draper. Even though land may be already owned by the state, the ownership would have to be transferred from one department to another within the state government in order to build a prison. This would be an expensive task in many cases. . Finally, the concerned citizens want to industrialize the prisons. Rather than take prisoners to the jobs, in many cases, the concerned citizens believe the jobs can be taken to the prison. t M A r.f! |