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Show r1 m am -- I- W0 nm fc J WEEKLY REFLEX DAVIS NEWS JOURNAL, APRIL 26. 1979 Hearings End Qn Davis EAS Calling Continued From Front - similar service," said Bruce Knight, trict manager Mountain Bell. of dis- rates and tariffs for It could also mean increased telephone bills for all cus- tomers if the telephone company should adopt and have approved a systemwide rate plan of telephone billing whereby EAS costs would be shared by all Mountain Bell customers. HE EXPLAINED the telephone companys "gross understating of estimated capital improvements costs for EAS this way. "We figured our projected costs on data available at the time of the original hear- ings which were 1976 costs, he said. Since then, new information from a 1978 study have been completed and we have found that we grossly underestimated the trunk lines necessary to serve Davis County with EAS. ASKED ABOUT the time schedule if EAS is approved, Mr. Knight said that Farmington could "cut into the system of calling Salt Lake and Murray by the last quarter of 1980, but that it would be about 30 months, or late 1981, before county wide to either Salt Lake and or Ogden service could be completed. Commissioner Olof Zundel challenged Mr. Knight's estimated revenue figures should the commission allow tollfree calling as requested by the Committee for Consumer Services. Layton-Kaysvil- In support of EAS to Davis County, however, Paul Nelson, representing the customers than any other area in the Committee for Consumer Services, used system, he said. "But Mountain Bell charts to show the economic and social cannot offer optional service to Salt Lake tie between Davis County and Salt Lake City or Ogden in any way shape or form. and Ogden. This decision for directional calling must DAVIS COUNTY customers rely be determined by the commission. heavily on business affiliations to both EXTENDED AREA Service (EAS) is cities, he said. The Wasatch Front expected to cost Davis County residents 50 from Salt Lake to Ogden is one mecents for countywide calling. However, tropolitan area and is by far the fastest increased rate classification could add growing area in the Mountain Bell another 77 cents for this service. The proposal before the commission allows for more service to Davis County ' le MR. KNIGHT said EAS costs amortized over five years at 12 percent return would amount to $2,724,634 and that annual revenue for that period would be a deficit of $576,597. But Commissioner Zundel argued that $2, 148,037-leav- ing growth figures which would put Davis County into a higher rate classification were not included and that if these figures, based on Mountain Bell estimates, were included, there would be $2.6 million more in total revenue than is shown by Mountain Bell officials. . ' Kaysville-Layto- with residents n private, residential service should expect to pay $2.61 additional for extended calling into Ogden and Salt Lake City if that is approved. Farmington would also be assessed $2.61 for EAS, according to the Mountain Bell revised proposal. He emphasized that Davis County merchants and professional people lose a lot of business because of telephone service. PEOPLE WILL simply not call long' distance for service that they can get locally," he said. THESE FIGURES, however, are based on new 1980 rate group estimates and could change by the time EAS is implemented, it was explained. Final rates are approved by the PSC after rate hearings are held. Mountain Bell began extended area service in August 1950 when Bountiful, Midvale, Holladay and Murray were added to the metropolitan Salt Lake City exchange. Kearns was added to this system in 1959, Magna was included the following year, and Bingham Canyon was cut into the system in a part of the metropolitan Salt Lake City exchange last. August. FREDERICK W. Foley, representing the Division of Public Utilities in protest to the proposed EAS in Davis County, said this proposal should be delayed indefinitely and put into priority with other Mountain Bell services. He explained that there are still areas in the state without any telephone service and that there are 3,480 requests before the telephone company requesting improved telephone service. WE SHOULD get back to MR. KNIGHT also explained that if POTS-pla- in take things in electronic switchover for calls south into old telephone service-a- nd Salt Lake City went through the Bountiful priority, said Mr. Foley. "Its not right to give Davis County EAS now and office that it would vastly reduce construction costs, perhaps as much as $3 prolong these services to unimproved areas. millfon. the limited Attorney Salisbury argued that the reverse can be just as true. If 5 person can call Ogden or Salt Lake City tollfree, as is proposed, these same customers may just as well call a metropolitan city for these same services. ' DR. JOSEPH Ingles, administrative secretary for the Committee of Consumer Services, also cited some figures in support of countywide and EAS telephone calling for Davis County customers. He stated that 14,177 Ogden customers call Kaysville at least once a month and that 7,220 Kaysville customers call Ogden at least once a month-a- nd together these customers now spend a total of $704,550 annually to call each other. TOLLFREE calling to Kaysville, Ogden customers will pay only $3 annually (not including a proposed rate change) compared to $6.98 per phone customer annually to make the same calls WITH to Kaysville. Ogden telephone customers last year paid $309,420 to call Kaysville, but with tollfree calling between the two cities there would have been a savings of 121 percent, according to Dr. Ingles report. Clinton Council Gives Okay To Investigate By TOM BUSSELBERG al - CLINTON The Clinton City Council has told its, mayor to investigate obtaining planning assistance to aid in giving direction for future growth. MAYOR KEITH Cisney received that word after the council continued study of the previous week focusing on growth and how to deal with it. This small northern Davis city has seen dramatic growth in the last several years with several more large sub- divisions in the works. PLANNERS WOULD be utilized to determine the amount of growth the city can handle and help outline goals for future development. In a joint meeting last week of planning commission and council members, those on both sides said they weren't sure the city could continue its present growth. ALONG WITH seeking planning assistance, the council okayed immediate enforcement of an ordinance stipulating one subdivision must be 70 percent complete before the same developer can request approval of another phase, Mayor Cisney said. While that move doesn't mean a stop to new subdivisions, he said any future requests to the planning commission would be put on the back burner for the present. WE MAY not have the ability to provide the services (in the future), the mayor of eight months said, prompting a need to plan some kind of a to Due strategy. preponderance of residential development and little com- mercial and industrial tax base, the city must move carefully, not having extra tax dollars to squander. And some areas zoned commercial In a plan prepared several years ago, but presently in residential use, have followed expecta- tions because property owners wont sell. But the mayor said he doesnt have any preconceived notions where it should be. But commercial development would logically go into the city center near the city hall, he said. AS A MOVE to facilitate more expertise in handling growth, a reflecting changing emphasis from hiring a to a specially officials are presently looking to hiring a new building inspector. And according to the mayor, applicants are are progressing trained inspection on the part of city officials. Coincidentally, negotiations in hiring a new police chief to head the n force. five-ma- Scouts Learn From Fruit Heights Council By NORMA PREECE At the regular Fruit Heights City Council meeting on Tuesday, April 17, 15 scouts from Troop 442 and their scoutmaster, Mike Goodsell met with Mayor Neil Noorda and the council members. THEY WERE there to learn about local government operations, as a requirement for their "Citizenship in the merit badge, Community The scouts asked questions and were given information on the incorporation of the city in 1939 and its growth since that time as well as the financing of the city operations. Two ordinances were on the agenda for consideration. One was to rezone properties to commercial zoning following public hearings on March 20. SINCE THE public hear letter accompanying the petitions, that it was felt by some that the 24 citizens favoring the rezoning and the. six opposed at the public hearing did not truly indicate the feelings of the majority of the citizens. Mr. and Mrs. Dale Jost, owners of the Rockloft expressed their objections to ings, the council has met in master plan working meetings and in review of the existing commercial zoning regulations concluded that the ordinances should be revised to more clearly define the permitted uses in each zone and perhaps increase the number of zones which would enable the permitted uses to be more restrictive in each scare tactics reportedly used in obtaining petition signatures through insinua- zone. A group of citizens or- tions that undesirable activities would be allowed at the property, if commercial zoning was permitted. ganized. in opposition to the proposed commercial areas appeared before the council and presented petitions with 115 signatures against the proposed rezoning to Highway commercial of property at the northwest corner of Green Road and U.S. Highway 89, and 152 signatures opposing a commercial area at the Rockloft. BOB TEMPLETON, spokesman of the organized opposition, stated in his cover was taken pending revision of the commercial zoning ordinances and a public hearing at some time in the future on the revised ordinances. Mayor Neil Noorda conducted the meeting with Alan B. Manning as city recorder, NO ACTION np Historic Preservation Programs Scheduled The Utah State Historical Society and the Historic Preservation Office will again commemorate May as historic preservation month with several special programs. ON SATURDAY, May 12, the Davis County Heritage house tour will begin at 11 a.m. and continue until 6 p.m. at the Kaysville Tabernacle, 198 W. Center St., Kaysville. Tickets for the tour will cost $2 for the general public and $1 for Utah Heritage Foundation members. More information about the itinerary for this tour will be published later. MAY 17 through 20, the program will be entitled Old Buildings - Presents from the Past, A Renovation and Preservation Idea Market., This is the first time in the intermountain region that such a complete collection of products, services and ideas for old home and building restoration will be offered during four days of activities for the public. Outstanding national and local craftsmen and experts on nearly every aspect of old home and building restoration and renovation will participate in over 0 workshops and almost 100 product and service displays. ACTIVITIES will be centered at the historic Denver and Rio Grande Depot in Salt Lake City. - . Thursday, May 17 exhibits will be opened from 6 until 9 p.m. 18, FRIDAY, May conference sessions and workshops will be held from 9 p.m. The exhibits will be open from 9 a.m. until 9 p.m. 19, May Saturday, a.m. until be open from 9 a.m. until 9 p.m. An old house street sale will run from 9 a.m. until 5 p.m. and a historic sites fun run will begin at 9 a.m. and continue until noon. 5 conference sessions and workshops will be held from 9 a.m. until 5 p.m. Exhibits will SUNDAY, May 20 exhibits will be open from 9 a.m. until 9 p.m. If you are interested or involved in building restoration or renovation, the old build- ings, presents from the past exhibition and conference wiTT put you in direct contact with the information, products and services you have been W Fmnnnj LD 633-601- Clinton Girl - '. There are many things abolit this annexation that give the people along 4th North and in the area around 4th North cause for concern. Some of these are: L THE HEAVY the street. traffic on It has been projected that around 1440 additional cars will be added daily to the heavy traffic we already have on the street. FOURTH NORTH is not the kind of road to carry any more traffic. It is narrow, rough, steep and crooked. In some places it is a 19 percent grade. Fourth North is the only access road for this entire corner of town. All cars must come and go on this street. FOURTH NORTH is the access road to Bountiful Canyon and hundreds of cars use it for this purpose. Fourth North is the access road to the Bountiful Lions Club gun range and many cars use it for this purpose. across 4h East and into the apartment building on the other side. (2 yrs. ago). MAIL BOXES go flying as . cars spin out of control. Our mail box has been knocked down sq many times we cannot keep track. After work in the evenings when the road is slick, it is a solid line of stuck cars from 4th East to 13th East. ILL BET that there isnt one person anywhere who wouldnt be appalled if someone suddenly decided to send even 100 extra cars down their residential street, (per day). We hate it and cannot see why we must stand for it. THE WORK done at Main Street and 4th North is very much appreciated, but has been needed with present traffic patterns for a long time. The intersection at 4th East and 4th North has been in terrible shape for years. It needs to be redone just to handle the traffic that is here now. A NEW LDS Church is being built in the vicinity of 12th East and 5th North and a large number of membership will have to use 4th North to get to church. In winter the traffic is just a joke on 4th North. With all those 1440 more cars, the street would be one solid accident from 4th East to 13th East. THIS WINTER one of the buses slid off the road going down the street and climbed a large pine tree at the Cowan residence. It finally came to a stop standing on its end almost in .a vertical position. A large truck lost its brakes and roared down 4th North, UTA (. j - My name is John R. Lemke. I am a resident of an unin- mud and water and sand ooz- ing down our' once clean walked south along street. Why should we have to " as she Road was Terri Fairfield with this? put up Monroe, daughter of Lynn 4 Property values always Mr. and Mrs. Jerry L. where heavy drastically drop Monroe, of 667 West 2200 traffic problems exist. It is Clinton. North, to get almost impossible decent price for a home on a ALSO INJURED in the heavily traveled street. Why were Chrisshould we along 4th North be .freak mishap 5, and his Barber, topher subjected to this? brother, Zachery Barber, 22 & AN ARTICLE written by months, who were with Miss Gary Blodgett in the last Monroe when hit by a car weeks paper stated that this Lisa Cunningham, driven burby a could annexation put den on the citys present : 17, of 731 East 900 North, Layton, according to police power supply. It could mean that everyones power bill reports. - The boys are the children of may increase to compensate Scott and Mary Barber, of 253 for the power needed for these South 975 East, Layton. new Bountiful areas. ZACHERY IS listed in 1 do not believe that long"stable and improved conditime residents of Bountiful tion at Primary Childrens should have to pay for costs incurred by these new Hospital, Salt Lake City, where he was flown by Life residential areas. Flight helicopter. Christopher 4 THE DANGER of floodwas less seriously injured and ing will become another facwas treated and released tor, When they finish digging from Davis North Medical up the rest of the hill up there, there will he nothing to Center. They were treated at the stop, water (in a heavy storm) scene by North Davis County from pouring down 4th North paramedics. bringing with it mud, sand, LAYTON POLICE Officer. rocks, etc. Heinz Schuessler said no citations have been issued and 7. Irrigation water just two investigation is continuing, years ago was in so short a grb supply that everyone was, asked to almost let their lawns, shrubs etc., die. What will we do in a short year with literally hundreds of new homes and yards to take care THERE MUST be something better than just these two improvements to make 4th North capable of handling 1440 more cars a day. Just common sense shows one that this is not a sufficient reason to put so much more traffic on this street. 2. A serious traffic related problem is that dozens of little children have to cross 4th North to go to school at the Hannah Holbrook School. Their lives would be in con- -' stant danger and the loss of even one childs life is something no one wants to even think about. adequately be dealt with, I do not believe the proposed annexation in this area should take place. 1 ALREADY THIS spring; with extra run off from struction now going on in the Louise S. Tuft Bountiful, Utah corporated area in the western portion of Morgan County called Mt. Green. In my testimony I represent myself as an individual and also the Mtn. Green Home Owners Association. MTN. GREEN is a relatively new residential area of Morgan County, located less than 15 miles from downtown Ogden. Most of the residents ties do not have long-terwith Morgan County, but rather have their major economic and employment interests in Weber County or in north Davis County. With this substantial interest and contact with the greater Ogden area, residents of the Mtn. Green area are very concerned about the telephone service to and from Mtn. Green. At the present time calls can be made from Mtn. Green to Ogden and Davis County through the Metro Pac option. Calls from Ogden or Davis County are, however, long distance toll m calls. I THINK it is interesting to compare the geographical and economic proximity of Mtn. Green to Ogden with that of Huntsville to Ogden. Both are basically rural areas with new influxes of suburban dwellers and both are about equal distance from Ogden. Huntsville, however, is in Weber County and within the local calling radius of Ogden, while Mtn. Green is not. My previous involvement with the telephone rate structure relating to the Mtn. Green area arose when I noticed, approximately a year ago, that residents of Davis County were attempting to extend their local calling area. At that time I wrote Mountain Bell about the concerns of Mtn. Green residents and I also met with Mountain Bell personnel to express my concerns. , SUBSEQUENTLY I have a substantially noticed greater impact and success of the Davis County residents, which I feel is to some extent attributable to the political pressures, as distinguished from economic factors, which have been exerted on their behalf. Unfortunately, political factors such as I pointed out with respect to Huntsville and political influence appear to have a great deal to do with telephone rates in Utah. to and from their areas of and economic major interests. employment Although Metro Pac is available for calls from Mtn. Green, the cost of that service is substantially in excess of the extended-are- a services granted to Davis County residents and there is no economical way for most of us to call home from work. MTN. GREEN residents are concerned about this disparity with Davis County and we are also concerned about subsidizing the residents of Davis County and their extended area service. We in Mtn. Green believe that if Davis County is to receive extended area service, we should also receive it. Whatever arguments Davis County may have for extended area service, our arguments at least are as good, if not substantially better. THE CALLING distances involving Mtn. Green are substantially less and our economic interests with the extended area are more substantial. It is unfair for the commission to require extended area service for some residents of this state and not require it for all other residents of the state. In considering any rate structure, think the fun1 damental concept should be that the user pays for his service and that the more service used, the more one pays. In summary, rates should follow o Layton, according to Layton police who investigated. Killed when she was struck by a car coming from behind School Board To Meet . of? THESE ARE all valid and reasonable concerns. Until they can properly and . Naming of the new Shepard Lane School in Farmington will be among items to be discussed by the Davis Board of Education during its regular meeting May 1 at 7 p.m. OTHER items will include of bids for 13 por- table classrooms and the i. a i costs and use should be . measured. Kaysville, Book EVERYT1ME ONE picks up the telephone to place a call, it should cost something more and the longer one talks the more it should cost. . board will review suggested ; drawings for a new meeting ; ,'n place. The meetings are held in ', the third floor board room In"; the District Administration, ' Building in Farmington and a? the public Is invited.? - s- LAYTON Investigation is continuing into the death last Wednesday of a Clinton Girl. same accident were-twyoung brothers from area, we have had streams of Testimony Off John R. Lem ke - J INJURED IN the Annexation Concerns looking for. COST OF the conference will be $15 for both days, $8 for one day and $5 for a halfday. As I stated before, the More information including ' residents of the Mtn. Green a full agenda of the area are justifiably concerned workshops can be obtained by about the high cost of calling calling the Preservation Office of the Historical Society at dmg Investigation j Continues In .j 'Death Of ir r Selections I firmly believe that the goal of this commission should be to establish measured rates. I do however recognize that measured rates are difficult to achieve and that substantial equipment expenditures will have to be made before such rates can be imposed. In the meantime, the commission should now align rates as close as possible to user costs and allow each user to deter-- , mine the extent of service he wants. Kaysville City Library new book selections: ' HUMANKIND, Peter Farb; The Return," Evelyn,; Anthony; Good As Gold,;.--' Joseph Heller; 'The Texans? -(old west series), Time-LifThe Teamsters, (story of Unions), Steven Brill; The ? Raptors (a western), Ray .: Hogan; The Gentle Touch, ; Ardeth Greene Kapp. np e. ,1 i i i i i iT OLIVERS STORY IT IS patently unfair to have one group subsidize another without that groups consent. And it is patently unfair for the commission to order Mountain Bell to provide extended area service to some residents without requiring it for all residents in the state. I request that the commission reconsider its previous decision about extended area service and require Mountain Bell to go back to the drawing boards to present a rate April 1 Wk Night N H May Show Times Fri ft 7 30 Only Sat. 7 30 A 9 05 Sat Mil Tim Adults 1 15 Only 2.25 1.75 Students Children i.oo Tues. Special: Adults & Students . 1.25 KAYSVILLE THEATRE structure encompassing extended area service for all residents and then give all residents the opportunity to accept or reject this service. 376-527- 2 Hill I X C Disco Dance The Utah Division of the American Cancer Society announces that eight American Cancer Societies are sponsoring disco dances to be held on Saturday, May Wat 7:30p.m. THEY ARE scheduled in Logan, Brigham City, Layton, Bountiful, Cedar City, Salt Lake City, Tooele and Provo with special music being I f provided. Admission is $3 per person or $5 per couple, and prizes will be given for Best Dressed" and Best Dancers." ALSO ON the Utah Cancer agenda is a "Business Men Walk for Cancer scheduled for Monday, June 4. One hundred Utah businessmen will take a giant step. Each giant in the community will obtain in advance pledges of $500 and on June 4 they will walk from the is This the Place Monument to the Salt Lake 'Country Club. 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