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Show Wednesday. July 15 1981. THE HERALD. Pr Utah—Page Provo SchoolDistrict to Seek Voted Leeway Increase By DOROTHY KNOELL ‘This proposal to increase the voted Herald Staff Writer A 6.7 mill increase in the voted leeway is necessary if students in Provo schools are to be provided with a quality education according to members of the Provo School Board An Oct. 6 election on the proposalto increase the present 1.3 mill voted leeway, which the boardsaid is one of the lowestin the state, to an eight mill leeway was scheduled bythe board at Tuesday night's monthly meeting If passea, tne new leeway would add about $34 per year onto the taxesof a person who presently pays $400 in property taxes; $45 more per year for those paying $500 in property taxes, and about $89 per year more to those who presently pay $1,000 in propertytaxes. according to Provo Supt. John Bennion leeway represents not what weneed to provide the programs wewould like to see, but what we have to havejust to comparableto those in other districts If the new leeway passed the board district would use $350,000 of the additional $1.2 high schools, million generated very penny of the additional revenue could be ‘‘justified and accounted for.” bring Provo maintain a good educational oppor teacher's salaries into line with what tunity in the Provo School District. We other districts areoffering can justify every dollar.” said Board Member Clarence Robison With the recent reductions in the amount of money state and federal governments give to school districts the board said additional revenue from local sourcesis needed to restore some programsthat werecut, and to enable Provoto ‘maintain competitivesalary schedules” for its teachers It looks like our teachers will be taking a beating again this year. and unless there is reasonably hope that we He said Provo teachers nave been “very cooperative’ with the board con cerning wage scales in the past, at one They wouldn't even have to move to get a better job; all they would need to The cut means teachers nolonger get a preparation period and students get one less elective class, Bennion said Thedistrict would also use $200,000 to us.” he said I assure you, there would be open: ings for them. Weneed to show them we are doing something positive to solve this problem bypassing an in- the Provo District could few more English teachers so cl loads in secondary school English classes would be reduced Herald Staff Writer The Orem City Council unanimously refused to grant preliminary approval for a 10-acre 76 unit mobile home park at its Tuesday meeting untii all conditions required by the planning commission are met. “Tam in agreement with the council that the city needs another mobile homepark,” said Councilman Gareth Seastrand. “But I am opposed to bypassing the planning commission. It’s time wedothingsright or notatall.” The planning commission on June 17 recommended approval of developer Ted Garfield's mobile home park to be built at 1400 S. Sandhill Road — immediately south of the Travelodge Motel by 1-15 freeway — subject to six conditions. elementary school building in north Provo. Brownpointed out that the dis: trict needs to build a new elementary school in north Provo and has the ge pad to bond for one, but doesn’t have the money to operate the building once it is constructed Wecan't keep class loads down in crease in the voted leeway mentsincluding landscaping, and the bond should be held for 18 months to makesure the trees grow. — Drainage problems must be resolved with the state. Planning Commission Director Ed Stout told the council 50 residents living near thesite of the mobile home park signed a petition asking the council to deny approval for the park Several residents at Tuesday's meeting said the park will create traffic problems on Sandhill Road. which is already too narrow and dangerous. They also voiced concern that the mobile homepark will not be managed properly and will be an eyesore. “Ted Garfield is two hourslate to this hearing,” said resident Robert Gardner. ‘‘Let us hope this is not indictive of how Garfield is going to run the park.”” Gardnersaid the park will be located at a major — Garfield must provide restrictive covenants for entrance into Orem andthatit will be an eyesore as the commission to review. — One lot near the front of the park must be peopletravelinto the city. He said a fence aroundthe park is to be wooden, whichis difficult to keep in designated for a park manager. — The density must not exceed seven units per good repair. acre. Garfield appealed to the council that the density be increased to 7.5 units per acre but the issue was not addressed. — The pak must havea sight obscuring fence. — A bond mustbe posted to assure all improve- learning environments for students es nts attending the meeting Someof those teachers are facing agreed that Provo needs to generate more revenue for its schools and en: couraged the board to “sell” the proposal to the community at large so 180 students each day. It’s impossible said “We would liketo cut that down to no voted leeway, wnicii has not been changed since the early 1960's, should be increased, but wonder the board shouldn't propose a 10 mill leeway which is the maximum allowed by law insteadof eight mills Board members said they thought they owed something to the residents of the community, also, and didn't want to more than 125 students per day so jeeway and go for Bingham said it will pass in the October election the election becauseit is the same day I've never seen teachers as dis: Provo residents will be going to the couraged as theones in Provo areright polls to vote in Primary elections for said one resident, “These the candidates for the new council/- to improving the student's writing teachers are giving. giving. giving mayor government. assignments morefully About $100,600 of the increased support and appreciation for their tion with the city, and hoped that inwork terest in both elections would increase Another resident agreed that the the turnout at the polls Police Detain Woman Blackens Rangeland In Death of Her Son GOSHUTE,Utah (UPI) — fire that has burned more than 4,400 acresof timber and rangelandin the Deep Creek Mountains and the Goshute Indian Reservation maybe undercontrolafter 6 p.m. today according to Bureau of Land Management firefighters. BLM crews from Richfield, Utah and Ely. Nev have been fighting the blaze since Monday, when it was accidentally started by two youths who were burning weeds about one-tenth of a mile from the tiny western Utah town of Goshute Firefighters thought they had the blaze under control Tuesday but a wind change caused the flames to leapa fireline and spread into Douglas Fir forest in Tom's Creek Canyon northeast of Goshute A BLM spokesmansaid fire crews estimated that the blaze wouldbe undercontrol sometime between 6 p.m. Wednesday and 6 a.m. Thursday A 20-year-old Provo womanhasbeen detained on homicide charges in the death of her 18-month old son after the child died of head injuries at Utah Valley Hospital Monday morning According to Provo Police Chief Swen Nielsen, a complaint has been filed with the county attorney against Sandra Talbot. 20, of 260 E. 600 N., Provo for criminal homicide or manslaughter — a second degree Talbot, The infant was taken to Utah Valley Hospital Monday morning suffering from a head injury. 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Tn southern and eastern Utah, the forecast is for partly cloudy skies Bennion said the skills by giving more writing assign- now we need to comeout with some district could split the costs of the elec- Generally Fair Skies By United Press international Utah’s skies will con tinue to dry out through Thursday, according to the National Weather Service, but thereis still the maximum Bennionsaid the boardrealizes that a lot of work would have to done between now and Oct. 6 to educate residents about the ‘‘real need” for the tax increase The board chosethe Oct. 6 datefor teachers can give increased emphasis now,” ments and being able to critique those Besides increasing teacher salaries the newvoted leeway would aliow tne ing conditions for teachers and “less effective” to give manywriting assignments when Orem Denies Mobile Home Park Deep Creek Blaze By DAWN TRACY revenue would go to maintain a new restore the current averagesize class dois apply a district oneither sideof you havethat many students."’ Bennion balanceits budget Robison said the board was in the same situation this year and would be unable to offer its teachers salaries noting that Provo students would suffer if the best teachersin thedistrict left lag behind other districts for a few years so 3100,000 to vear. used to hire Robison agreed. Glen Brown, a member of the board said teachers in the Provo District have salaries that are below thoseof fered in surrounding districts about which is being cut this elenentary schools unless we can ask for more than the amount they can restore some equity to their load in elementary schools. which will build the schools we need, and we thought was absolutely necessary It won't be easy to get this passed salaries the year following. we will go up this year, and spend about$60,000 can’t build them unless we can main. have an exodus of our highest quality to eliminate the $25 textbook and ac: tain them once they are built,” he said the way it is. but we think that our Bennion noted that overly high class proposal of eight mills shows that some teachers.” said Board Member Ronald tivity fee it will be implementing in the high schools this vear loads in both elementary and secondary care and studv went into our decision. Bingham The additional revenue would also be schools create “less desirable” work We didn't just decide tu increase the time agreeing to alow their salaries to The school district would receive about$1.2 millionin additional revenue through the tax increase, and Bennion and the school board members said to to spend restore the seven-period day in junior AB Bank of American Fork American Fork. Alpine 2 member FDIC (ENDER |