OCR Text |
Show 4 , ft r ii niiac F?iK , Hearing Is At 5:00 Today J--J- - xj&XJl CZTY v. UT 111 r Budget Of City Up For Public Review I I 4 property tax assessment of about mills, in addition to a six percent utility tax. Revised valuation figures probably will cause the mill levy to increase, although residents will not pay more because their property will be assessed at a lower level, the auditor pointed out. As tentatively approved, the budget reflects a six percent pay increase for city employes. Employe benefits and wages account for 39 percent of the total. The remaining 61 percent is budgeted for operational expenses. Virtually no money is set aside for WEST VALLEY. Public comment on a tentatively approved $9.6 million budget for fiscal year 1982 will be heard today (Thursday) by the City Commission. The hearing is part of the regular commission meeting which begins at 5 p.m. in the upstairs conference 0 room in City Hall, 2470 So. Redwood Road. The City Commission is not expected to adopt the final budget (which covers July 1, 1981 to June 30, 1982) until later in the month, possibly on June 30, the final date allowed by law, City Auditor Russ Sanderson said last week. In the meantime, commission members and city financial officers will refine revenue projections, evaluate the impact of considerably lower property valuations, review public comment and attempt to work out significant differences which have split the commission, city officials said. capital improvements, Sanderson IVe&tVaMey -- and firefighters, policemen Sanderson said. Rather than receiving overtime pay, the officers probably will obtain a compensatory amount of time off, he added. As tentatively approved, budget appropriations for departments are as follows (current year figures are in parentheses) - Legislative, $107,979 ($66,416); : City Court, $236,791 ($152,092) ; Executive, $103,260 ($94,548); Purchasing, $95,864 ($52,945); Person- - That amount could be Three Sections Commissioners Renee Mackay and Jerry Wagstaff support the $9.6 million budget. They contend thats necessary to provide the current level of services in the area. Mayor Henry (Hank) Price abstained from a previous vote which tentatively approved the $9.6 million budget. He contends the city can operate on a smaller budget, having said previously the size of several departments principally police and fire - could be reduced and that some jobs could be consolidated. Sanderson has estimated that a $9.6 million budget would require a significantly lower, however, because most of the expense is related to overtime pay for city said. The budget also includes what city officials expect will be about a $477,000 revenue shortfall from the current fiscal year. In addition, the expenses of dealing with a lengthy gasoline leakage problem along 3500 South between 3200 and 4000 West will have to be attached to next years budget, Sanderson said. Following a meeting with Governor Scott Matheson last week, Mayor Price said the problem has cost the city more than $60,000. 36 Pages - nel, $72,128 ($40,494); Service, -- - Merit-Civi- Auditor 656-38- ($260,862); ($31,184); l costs), $361,615 Treasurer, $40,506 Attorney, $133,020 Government-Buildings- , - Law Enforcement, $2,479,209 ($1,866,683); Civil Defense, $5,000 ($0); Public Works, $1,840,614 ($608,702); Fuel, $20, 0(H) ($16,909); -- Parks and Recreation, $0 ($860); Debt Service, $180,000 $93,750 ); Miscellaneous and deficit appropriation, $521,000 ($1,345) - Fire, $1,553,499 ($627,446); Planning and Zoning, $225,438 ($99,196); Building Inspection. i ; r ( Jan. - All Volume 27, Number 24 departments J 262 6682 A limit on WEST VALLEY. employe merit pay increases and several other personnel policy changes were approved here day by the City Commission. Tues- - WEST VALLEY. Plans for a day care center at 3450 So. 3600 West encountered resistance from local residents here Thursday before the City Planning Commission. Connie Millecam is seeking a (single zoning change from family homes on 8,000 square foot to accommodate the lots) to center for children. But residents in the vicinity of the proposed center reacted strongly against the zone change. Several persons suggested the opposition was not directed against the center itself but against the R-l-- 8 R-- pre-scho- ol proposed zoning, which would allow numerous uses other than a day care facility. Im afraid theyll get a toe in Bus Service Is CofC Topic Expenditures $138 Million Addressing the Chamber Hearing Tuesday On Granite Budget GRANITE PARK. A public hearing will be held here Tuesday on Granite School Districts proposed $138.8 million budget for 1981-8- Copies of the bulky document are on hand at the district's main office for public scrutiny. The hearing will get under way at about 8 p.m. as a portion of the districts regular agenda. Of that budget, $109 million is for maintenance and operations. Built into it is a 5.5 percent salary increase for all contract employes, plus a two percent raise for those who experience-steContract talks in the qualify. district are stalemated, with the current agreement scheduled to expire on June 30. across-the-boar- d p Granites budget, while representing an increase in both total dollars to be spent and mill levy, if adopted as proposed, will actually cost homeowners slightly less than last year, based on where the countys assessed valuation figure is expected to fall, pending a legislative adjustment of valuations. The district is also not proposing to increase class size during the coming year. The budget is built around some optimistic projections in enrollment, Superintendent John Reed Call admits. Granite district has reached the limits of its bonding power with the completion of Taylorsville high. Some money to continue construction of elementary schools is being made available through sale of surplus properties. here's a point It all began when, in a chance conversation, we discovered a man who years ago had considered going into newspapering. Hed grown up in a small town and as a young man had flirted with the idea of making journalism a way of life. Probably to his better- ment, someone interested him in a and real estate. He felt it was a less demanding way of life and found he had an affinity for it. Three decades later hes a real estate developer rather than a guy sketching an advertising layout or cutting up pieces of paper His views echoed those of War3357 So. 36(H) West, who noted that residents had no ren Curless, assurance the property, if rezon- ed, would always remain a day care center. A zoning change, he said, w'ould be the first step toward intrusion on the investments of Sold In An Hour! I sold everything in just one hour the morning the ad came out. Im real pleased with Green Sheet APACHE lent trailer. folding Motorcycle trailer. New 60 Coleman font trailer, Rebel. (Thursday). will be zone encourage developers to uses promote other in the area. would William Cook, 3010 llomecrest, TAYLORSVILLE. The future of bus transportation in the valley will be the focal point of a talk before West Valley Area Chamber of Commerce members here today Is said Russell Jemison, that ap- 3449 So. 3690 West, arguing proval of the requested R-- results! At Meet Today . . . Melissa Barton waits for ball to come down while practicing tennis serves. See related story on summer school classes In this issue. the door, JohnPin-gree- relating what happened when he used a classified ad in Utahs most widely circulated weekly newspapers to find a buyer for assorted recreation equipment. to place your ad. Dial Save $1 by paying before it runs. 262-668- 2 , general manager of the Utah Transit Authority, according to Virginia Wasescha, Chamber president. The luncheon session, starting at 12:15 p.m., will be held at the Chuck-A-Ram- a in Carriage Square, 4150 So. Redwood Road. Pingree, in his fourth year with the UTA, is expected to address the question of where the UTA, now at a crossroads, will go from here, assessing needs and demands of the public, as well as means of financing services. He is also expected to deal with possible changes tailored to needs in west valley communities. A graduate of the University of Utah, where he was student body president, Pingree holds a masters degree in business administration from Harvard. In i espouse to financial problems which West Valley has encountered this year, the commission approved a policy limiting merit increases to 2 5 percent next fiscal year, which begins July 1. Previously employe.-- , whose performances were rated above average were eligible to receive merit increases of more than one grade on the salary schedule. , Care Center Zoning Opposed ANTICIPATION LIMITS . . . Personnel Director Jock McIntosh explains city hiring freeie and policy regarding employe salaries. Commission Adopts Freeze On Salaries Residents Oppose Zone Change ... Up There Somewhere - $660,529 ($244,092). half-vea- Published weekly at 1S5 E. 4905 South, Salt Lake City, UT 64107. Second class postage paid at Salt Lake City, UT 64119 Subscription rate. $12.50 per year. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to West Valley View, Box 7187, Salt Lake City, UT 64107. 18, 1981 A j $ ($113,539); Elections, $36,750 $()), General 0 Thursday, June Ml- K 4? Recorder (including and computer THE VOICE OF WEST VALLEY CITY UTAH USPS 2f vvv-'- ' , " V'ri-- i $8,000 ($8,317). For City Employes - t? $108,961 ($42,034); Animal Control, $117,580 ($45,317); Sanitation, $676,357 ($279,616). Figures in parentheses for the last section represent budgets for a . , ' a: y Court Case Is Postponed: City Answering Writ WEST VALLEY. A court case involving this city and a mining equipment company still looms following postponement of action scheduled for Friday. City attorneys are preparing a written response to a petition for a hearing by Machinery Center, which claims the West Valley City Commission and Planning Commission denied the company its proper right to use property at 1559 W. 3860 South for ouside storage of mining and milling equipment. City Attorney Ron Greenhaigh had expected to defend the citys-positioin court last Friday, but lawyers for the company withdrew their original writ of mandamus seeking an immediate hearing. An amended writ was submitted to Greenhaigh on Tuesday. The new policy limits the homeowners. Rapid growth in the West Valley City area was one of the reasons cited by Mrs. Millecam as a good reason to establish a day care center at that location. She said a planned educational program would be stressed at the center, which would be capable of handling about 100 children. The applicant noted that her educational background was in early childhood development and that she had practical experience operating day care facilities in Clearfield and California. To support her claims, she profrom duced recommendations several departments of state government as well as from Clear- field officials. Letters of recommendation did not impress Jemison. Those letters from Clearfield and California are all well and good, hut theyre not concerned with West Valley City. Im an adjoining resident, he said He suggested that a day care center, if needed, should be placed on 35(H) South where commercial zoning already exists. Other residents objected on grounds that 3600 West could not handle the traffic generated by the center, particularly at rush hour. While the day care center aroused considerable public opposition, there were no objections to a plan submitted by Kenneth Warner to downzone 117 acres around Academy Park elementary to prevent development of more multiple unit dwellings there. News that Granite School District was interested in selling three acres between Academy park elementary and Kennedy junior high prompted residents to petition for the downzoning from (duplexes on 6,5000 square foot lots) to Warner said. We feel any additional multiple family units will be a burden on the area, he noted, adding that local schools are overcrowded and that traffic is a problem in the vicinity. Granite School District official Jay Child said the district did not object to the change. Money from the sale of the surplus property will go into a school construction fund, policy that all employes hired to fill vacancies be approved by the en- tire commission The commission also voted to set salary levels for election officials and to adopt a salary schedule for all employes In other action, the commission took action to strengthen the citys sex paraphernalia ordinance. City officials replaced advertised to be used for sexual purposes with manufactured or designed for those uses The changes will improve the citys ability to enforce the ordinance, City Attorney Ron Greenhaigh said The commission also granted a waiver of business licenses for booths at West Valleys Fourth of July celebration and approved ordinances dealing with eating and drinking establishments and cycle dealers. R-l-- he noted. Decisions on both rezoning requests are expected at the next commission meeting on June 25. DAY CARE . . . Connie Millecam contended day care center would benefit area along 3600 West. by Jim Cornwell with scissors or an exacto knife. One thing led to another as we talked about what had once been our mutual love and we invited him to drop by the plant if his vacation time permitted. It did. It was an eye opening experience for him. And one that awakened ali sorts of thought processes for us. Perhaps the same thing would be true in many other walks of life. Things have changed over the years. Maybe the carpeting business or or being a police officer isnt the same as it was then. Newspapering has undergone a dramatic alteration. Our visitor could scarcely correlate what we do today with what he did in the 1950s. The first thing he noticed was the noise level. He didnt hear a linotype creaking, missed much of the typewriter racket and the of a methodical truck-drivin- g clank-and-ban- g hand-fe- d printing press. He didnt see make-u- p rules and type sticks or hear the metallic whir of a saw blade slicing through a lead casting. He noted the absence of a rubber mallet and planing block, once used to make certain type locked up in a form was level. Wheres the copy paper? he asked as we passed through the newsroom. We hardly use it anymore, was our reply. Editorial people at the Green Sheet record their stories into a computer, reading them on monitoring screens. What the public sees on TVs Lou Grant is a fact of life. The writers actually command the typesetting computers. Their net output, per reporter, exceeds that of a linotype operator by ap- proximately 3,000. Gone, too, is the editors famous blue pencil, with which he once scratched out, pencilled-i- n or wrote caustic comments on submitted copy. Now he peers into his own monitor and by means of a keyboard makes copy adjustments, corrects spelling errors and punctuation and switches paragraphs for continuity. Eventually he clears the reporters story for typesetting. In the plant, where typographers once made up advertype-writer-li- tisements in pica-measure- d forms surrounded by lead border rules, our visitor saw nimble fingers sticking type down on paper with the aid of adhesive wax, deftly trimming around photographic illustrations and doing with ease overlays and that wouldve challenged the skill of the best practitioners. he rememHoly Moses, chases of bered, those type we used to carry to the press were Now one person could carry a hundred type-distortio- hot-met- hernia-breeder- in- crease to one grade, which is 2.5 percent The merit increase is in addition to a six percent annual increase included in the tentatively approved budget. Also adopted Tuesday was a pages with one hand In the pressroom he gawked. Then, after some mental mathematics he concluded our press was 133 times more productive than the hand fed Campbell on which hed strained years ago. It produces seven times as many pages in a printing function and does it 19 times faster, he explain! ed. I guess, he confessed as we walked toward the front door, if Id had any inkling this would all happen. Id have stuck around to see it. Truth is, most of us whove gone through the revolution in newspaper production had no idea 30 years ago that it would happen. It came upon us with little more warning than a Midwestern tornado. And it swept through our plants with about that same impact - almost instantly relegating to the scrap heap the once- cost ly equipment we used to produce by hot metal methods. Many struggled against it, trying all sorts of just as good schemes. Finally, they conceded the new method is here to stay. Some, in fact, are only now' making the final conversion -mostly large metropolitan daily papers saddled with the astronomical retirement costs of older press equipment. Its been 20 years since the pioneer adapters made the switch to todays system; 17 since we at the Green Sheet bid adieu to the methods that had gone virtually unchanged for more than Newspapering is one area in which you seldom hear people longing for the good old days. More say, with finality, that theyd leave the business if they had to again produce in the way they once did Yours Truly, now 36 years into this work, is one whos made that solemn pledge |