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Show fl S 28" 84111 J THURSDAY, JANUARY 10, J 7 198- 0- 7 TWENTY-TW- VOLUME FIFTY NUMBER PAGES O By NORMA PREECE Jan. 2, 1980 the Fruit Heights City Council met for their first meeting of the new year. MAYOR NEIL Noorda reported contact with Mayor Gar Elison of Kaysville regarding the invoice from Dun Milligan for engineering services on the Kaysville-Frui- t Heights storm drain project. The billing includes work done on the first engineering proposal which was not used. The council agreed the amount was legally owed and should be part of the agreed split of engineering fees between Fruit Heights and Kaysville. The council instructed the billing be paid when received from Kaysville City. full house during each day of the Jeanne Layton reinstatement hearing, which went on all day Friday, Sa- were summarized Tuesday mornturday and Monday. end. for decision weeks with a by hoped ing It HEARING DRAWS CROWD By TOM BUSSELBERG FARMINGTON i - Jeanne the.f rrTByWsT9tiggSSOies.ln hands of the merit council. all the testimony is in and evidence filed, that body must rule on whether the former Davis County Library director should be reinstated. They listened to three days of testimony presented Friday, Saturday and Monday. Final arguments were aired by attorNOW THAT three-memb- neys Tuesday morning. The council was expected to rule on the reinstatement by weeks end. By federal court action, it must render a decision before Monday. If no word has been received by that time, Miss Layton must be reinstated according to a decision given by Federal District Court Judge Bruce Jenkins last month. THE GROUP, that includes Chairman Robert Duffin of Bountiful; Ernest Little of Kaysville and Mary Ellen Leatham of Sunset, was called to meet after ruling Miss Layton was entitled to ' merit coverage at the time of her firing in September by Judge Jenkins. In his ruling he said the council also had to conduct a hearing as man- dated by the county and state merit ordinances and determine whether she should be allowed to return to her job. The three-da- y hearing brought testimony from a variety of individuals, some intimately involved with the librarys operation while others had only participated to a relatively minor degree. Those called to the .wide stand included Jeanne Layton herself, Library Board Chairman Evan Whitesides, Episcopal Father. Richard Thieme and Interim Library Director Sarah Beth Galloway. f some testimony brought out things that could be considered AND WHILE damaging to Miss Layton, other testimony tended to balance the scales, lending to direction and no clear-cu- t meaning the merit council will have no easy task. The hearing was initially delayed, Friday, as television crews demanded right to film the proceedings. The merit council had previously ruled against live camera coverage, but after about an hours delay, allowed their presence throughout the hearing (see related story in todays newspaper). THE HEARING was divided into two sections, the first dealing with presentation of testimony aimed at aiding the council in determining if proper procedures had been followed in her firing. The was essentially a Library forth. This was seconded by Councilman Jack Palmer and passed unanimously by the council. required to keep open the Little Canyon Channel when Weber Basin Water Conser- and engineer for Mountain Terrace subdivision seeking final approval of the first vancy District personnel pumped water into the chan- - con- inclusive. The developers explained their proposal to pipe surface waters across Haven Barlow property to the south side of 400 North. This to empty into Haights Creek (PLEASE TURN TO PAGE 2 THE KAYSVILLE REFLEX 197 B North Matn St., , i Leyton PHONE 376-913- 3 Published Weekly by cmu&srm John Stahle Jr., Publisher Second Class Postage Irrigation Reservoir located in the natural channel between Grand Oaks "A subdivision and North. JAMES BROUGH reported he has met with Mr. Barlow 200-40- Paid At Layton, Utah SUBSCRIPTION $4.50 per year Out f Slate SutecripttM (farms Stfacriptoft $5.50 SI&00 (Payabte In Advanc) Board; With 'Added Attractions secret Proceedings Move evidence withheld by Comm. Swapp was presented early in the hearing. Evidence included a cassette tape recorded from another tape of a talk given by Miss Layton to the Without Major Incident Utah Library Association Executive Board early last By GARY R. BLODGETT year. Comm. Swapp .charged, acd atcording to torney, George Fadel, Miss FARMINGTON Television cameras were ready but a Davis County Merit Commission hearing mi behalf of Ms. Jeanne Layton, county librarian who was tired on Sept. 18, was delayed more than one hour Friday. county-retaine- inLayton had exhibited subordination with "apparent solicitation of countefrom the ULS rsupport Board. SUCH COUNTER support was said to include statements that Davis County was supposed to be a paradise between two dens of iniquity (Ogden and Salt Lake City) and referred to Comm. Swapps efforts at Planned keeping Parenthood out of BounJiful. Claiming that she had no intention of belittling Comm. Swapp, Miss Layton said, No, it certainly was not my intention, adding that she had been invited to speak to the group because they were concerned about censorship after reading of the issue surrounding Americana in the newspapers early in February 1979. TESTIFYING THAT Miss Layton apparently was. not trying to get library board - City council-me- n have postponed a decision on the hiring of a director for the Layton Museum until they have had a chance to confer with the museums board of directors and city department heads. the ALTHOUGH COUNSEL for both sides admitted that the delay was caused while Merit Commission members and legal advisors debated whether or not to allow television cameras in the courthouse commission chambers, there was never any uflicial announcement made to the public or press. trom the Instead, a "change of venue" commission chambers upstairs to the combined Justice ol the Courtroom downstairs, was ordered by the commission. - Principal players in the Jeanne Layton reinstatement hearing seem to be conferring during the three days of testimony. They include Morris Swapp, left, Evan Whitesides and George Fadel. LDS Church, inferred as troyed. the hearings, however. PRINCIPALS CONFER policy changed or refute sta-- . tements by Comm. Swapp was Salt Lake City Library Director Dennis Day. "She , did not want the ULA to get only to directly involved the extent they could possibly reaffirm the statement of in- tellectual freedom or the Library Bill of Rights. He said that basically reaffirms-thright of individuals to read different points of view. The secret evidence did not play a large role in Much time was devoted to a of adequate question inclusion of religious books, the value of Americana, a contemporary novel by Don DeLillo that was questioned by a Bountiful patron and reviewed twice by the library professional staff. Detailed testimony was also received concerning a collection of Hardy Boys books donated to the Crestview Elementary School and supposedly des- - MILDRED C. Olson of Farmington, a library employee for about ten years said many times the staff was subject to" meetings where topics including the Womens Equal Rights Amendment were raised. Sometimes I felt we were a captive audience and had no choice. She said the staff was asked to read Patriarchs and Politics, a book by Marilyn museum board, Don Evans met with the council Jan. 3, requesting that they appoint Kirt C. Day, former Layton resident, as director. He suggested that Mr. Day be named as a department head, to report directly to the mayor, but that liaison would be through City Councilman Lynn Wood. He also presented a check for $6,000 to the mayor to repay funds advanced to the museum by the city. ment heads to discuss the matter further. City Councilman John Baker said he had not read the resumes of the other two candidates for the SHIELDS recommended that the council meet at 6 p.m. on Jan. 17 with the Councilmen approved his MAYOR museum board and depart by some who tesShe (Miss Layton) thought it was good. Its very biased. tified. Mrs. Olson added that Miss Layton advised the staff to read and become aware of things. Asked by County Attorney Rodney Page, who also acted in defense of the library PLEASE TURN TO PAGE 2 Warenski about women in the Decision Delayed On Hiring Director For Layton Museum REPRESENTING COUNCILMAN LaMar Green moved the developer of Oak East subdivision, Vaughn Fowler, be billed for the cost of backhoe work Meeting with council members were BenOrlo Brough, James H. Brough concrete lined ditch at the inclusion of some books that might not be "optimum in the collection; banning bookmobiles from within one mile of libraries. LAYTON runoff being generated by the highway for that area. Directors of the Haight Creek Irrigation Co. have indicated a willingness to accept the water into the reservoir. exempt local governments from the provisions of revenue limitations as set former ditch through the Smith and Robert Arbuckle. Those charges" included failure to include sufficient cultural and religious books; waste of taxpayers money by continuing book processing locally rather than with the an unspecified percentage according to their calculations as to the amount of taken by Orem City and adopt Resolution No. 80-- 1 recommending to the state legislature that the Revenue Limitation Law be amended to U.S. Highway 89 through the existing, but presently abandoned pipe formerly used by Haights Creek Irrigation Co. for the open ditch irrigation water to cross Highway 89 and then following the route of the board members and later used as reasons supporting the firing. Those members included Comm. Morris Swapp, Sharon Shumway onto his land. U TOD (Utah Department of Transportation) expressed a willingness to participate to Gene Raymond moved that the council support the stand COUNCILMAN phase of the subdivision sisting of 19 lots, lots passed through his property since it will alleviate a problem of the water now being discharged passed previously. by the last legislature, and suggesting a resolution be adopted and forwarded to state legislators 303, council ruled that evidence could be presented and testimony given relating only to seveiT "charges' leveled" against Miss Layton in a July 23 letter prepared by three State ment from the limitation provisions of the bill as and Don Cottrell Developers E and Mr. Thompson of the Utah Department of Transportation. Haven Barlow is agreeable to the project recommending the law be amended by the 1980 budget session of the Legislature to exempt local units of govern- Mayor Noorda read a letter from Mayor James E. Man-guof Orem discussing Revenue Limitation Law, HB THIRTY-FIV- position and wished to do so. motion to withhold a decision about the appointment until the Jan. 17 meeting, wwl Correction On Location Of LCIA Meeting The Jan. 15 LCIA meeting that was to be held at the home of Sharon Slatore, 683 has been West Gentile changed to the home of Done-t- a Gatherum, 1697 North Fort Lane. Peace-Distri- ROBERT DUFFIN, Merit Commission chairman, told spectators and witnesses that the hearing site had been changed, by mutual agreement of all parties concerned, to the makeshill courtroom downstairs. Ihe crowd surged down the hall and raced for the limited seating available. Television and radio crews quickly set up their equipment in anticipation of the hearing. Ihe overflow crowd of more than 100 THERE WAS no announcement of any kind about whether or not live coverage of the hearing would So television cameras began to roll. There was some concern among the electronic media because an earlier statement from the Merit Commission was that there would not be any television cafneras allowed in the commission chambers during the hearing. BUT THE bank of cameras with every major television station represented were set up in the "jury box" on one side of the courtroom. Radio microphones were allowed in strategic places and news photographers were allowed to take whatever pictures they desired. But even with all the "added attractions" the proceedings appeared to move without major incident. KUTV TELEVISION Station in Salt Lake City had its attorney at the hearing. He reportedly talked to Merit Commissioners prior to the hearing Friday morning. Mr. Duffin said the delay was also due, in part, because attorneys for both sides met in a "logistics meeting pertaining to the pending hearing. one-ho- |