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Show JAZS 0ClA?r2 Following Annual COG Breakfast em, LMZ T - BAlll TJT Alcohol Tax Plans Altered For State Solons SALT LAKE. Two legislative proposals to tax alcoholic beverages on a statewide basis - were revised and sponsored following a meeting between legislators and - local government officials here Tuesday. The breakfast meeting was hosted at the Ambassador Club by the County Council of Govern -- ments to discuss priority issues with the state lawmakers. Prior to the revisions, however, some skepticism was expressed by legislators. One legislator asked, for instance, if they would be considered scapegoats for passing the proposed taxes - one on beer and the other on other alcoholic beverages to raise an additional $6.4 million in revenues each year. That, along with the $1 million cities presently receive from the state liquor taxes, would amount to $7 million that can be used for law enforcement purposes. The concept of both bills was originally endorsed by COG at its monthly meeting Friday. Funds from the bills would be used exclusively for better enforcement crimes and against the creation of several drunk work farms The first bill would add an additional $4 12 tax per barrel of beer to raise $3.2 million in -- - 28 Pages Two Sections UfafUoHeu 1 alcohol-relate- voice OF TH WEST VALLEY CITY UTAH USPS 656 revenue The second would raise the markup of distilled beverages sold in state liquor stores by an estimated 8.5 percent, for another $3 2 million in revenues, according to West Valley City Mayor Jerry Maloney. During the COG meeting Friday, however, Maloney had suggested that liquor be marked up from the present 59 5 percent to 80.25 percent - an increase of 20.75 percent. 380 Published weeklv at 155 E 4905 South, Salt Lake City, UT 84)07 Second class postage paid at Salt Lake City, UT 84119 Subscrip lion ra'e SIO 00 per year. POSTMASTER Send address changes to West Valley View, Box 7187, Salt Lake City, UT 84107 Volume 28, Number Thursday, Dec. 47 For Another Hearing Case 9, 1982 All - Is Back In meat cutting WEST VALLEY. Doug Jackson will be back before the City Planning Commission today (Thursday) in his quest to legalize an existing meat cutting business at his Redwood residence. Three weeks ago, the Jackson case was returned to the Planning Commission by the City Council, which determined that new information had been presented during an appeal hearing. Jackson had appealed the Planning Commissions denial (by a 2 vote) of his request to obtain legal status for his part-tim- e service was 'Messiah' To Be Performed Twice TAYLORSVILLE. George Frederic Handels Messiah will be per- formed tomorrow (Friday) and Saturday nights by the West Valley Chorale and chamber orchestra. The 8 p.m. performances will be held at Eisenhower junior high, 4315 So. Redwood Road. Tickets are available from chorale members and at Harmons in Granger. Suggested donations are $2 per single ticket and $5 per family. John Prather will conduct the performance. Soloists will include Boise soprano Karma Echols; Kimberlee Hess, contralto, Salt Lake; George Behunin, Bountiful, tenor and Don Watts, bass, who resides in West Valley. A smaller orchestra is being used for the performance, as was used in the 1734 performance. Members of the Musicians Union, Local 104, will be participating in the unique performance. Fran-cin- e Potter is concertmistress for the new West Valley Chamber Orchestra. meat cutting business at 2545 Chatham Road. The operation has existed there for more than five years. No formal complaints were lodged against it during that time. It is illegal, however, because meat cutting businesses are not allowed in residential zones. Jacksons property is zoned (allowing duplexes on 8,000 square foot lots After a lengthy hearing, the council decided (by a vote) that enough new information had been 8 ) . 4-- 3 represented tothewarrant Com- examination by Planning mission. In returning the matter to the Commission, City Manager, John NewmaH said he had no idea what the new information was. Jacksons attorney, Dale Gardiner, had argued at the appeal hearing that the Planning Commission misunderstood and misapplied the ordinance and that the looking Far Ahead Planners' Lap beneficial to the community. Reading from the minutes of the last Planning Commission meeting dealing with the case, Assistant City Attorney Paul Morris cited statements which indicated that 3-- 1 here's a point all of us. As youngsters studying world history in a classroom, its likely virtually everyone mar- - wfc at the veiled motives sent that Colum- bus, Magellan, Cook, Cortez, DeSoto others into and un- charted seas or wilderness areas in search of what lay beyond the horizon. Confronted with an opportunity to emulate them, its unlikely more than a handful wouldve done so. But through each of our minds probably flashed the thought that it wouldve been thrilling to land on a strange District Negotiators Tough Times Seen In District Tuesday. for-- 1 $7 Million Bond Vote Set Friday Council. The manager said he would prefer to see appeals eliminated altogether. Appeals, he said, should be made directly to the TAYLORSVILLE. If the interest at public hearings is any indicator, voter turnout will be small tomorrow Friday) for a bond election set by the Taylorsville-Bennio- n show n courts. A compromise option suggested at last weeks meeting would be to treat appeals of use decisions similar to conditional use application appeals - the council can affirm the Planning Commissions decision without a hearing, or it could hear the app- al. -- - Breeze Return' To Trustee Post ?. GRANGER. Resident of the Granger-Hunte- r Impro oment District chose to return a man to . Improvement District. The district is seeking voter approval to issue $7 million in bonds to paj, its share of constructing the Centra! Valley Water Reclamation Facility a regional sewage treatment plant. Tolls w ill be open at two schools - Calvin Smith elementary and Eisenhower junior high and at he Improvement District office, 1800 W 4700 South, from 7 a. m. to 8 p.m (Polling places by voting (list' .ct may be found inside). Taviirsville-Benmois one of five improvement districts and two n cities participating in the $100 million enture. Its share of construction costs is estimated at $6 25 GRANITE PARK. There were hints Tuesday night that this will be a tough negotiating year between Granite School District and its teachers. The board in its regular session ratified appointment of the district negotiating team, heard a report from the Granite Education Assn concerning the legislative program the UEA will support and learned that some legislators have gone on record as indicating there may be Puppies Get Homes What do you do when you have puppies that need a home? If youre Mrs. George E. Jones, 5967 Sanford Dr., you place a Green Sheet classified ad - and reap the results in a hurry. We found good homes for all the puppies, Mrs. Jones reports, and were very pleased with the ad. -- FREE cut little puppies, eight weeks old. Short hoir, small breed. million Because of recent drops in the interest rate, the districts board of trustees have opted to use bonding to pay Taylorsville-Bennionpor- v s tion. j District Manager Floyd Nielsen said last week that approval of the bond issuance would add three to five mills to residents property tax to the bimill levies plus monthly fee The bond must be paid off in 20 years, the board noted. ( $1-- 2 - little ads do big things in circulated weekly newspapers. They reach homes over 56,000 where more than 212,000 potential readers reside. Theyre surrounded by news and pictures about you and your neighbors. Theyre - and they deliver results to place your ad. Dial Save $1 by paying before it runs. The Utahs most widely mid-valle- y well-rea- d ! -- 262-668- 2 Ask us how. increases to education no funding this year Appointed to the district negotiating team were Kent Gardner, chairman; John Allen, Keith Bergstrom and Mildred Martin. Superintendent John Reed Call told the board that indications from key legislators are that this will be a very lean year financially for school funding Call said at least two legislators have indicated "there may be no increase in the value of the weighted pupil unit (WPU). GEA president Eldon Tolman said UEA will be pushing for a 10 percent increase in the WPU and for an increase in the number of WPUs to accommodate a realistic projection of student growth There will also be a push for a handicapped program, a five percent increase in the multiplying factor for staff costs, increased dollars in optional programs, increased funding for class load reduction, funding for the state's share of retirement and social security; costs and changes m computation of WPU value. Tolman said the teachers organization recognizes that there are economic issues facing the legislature but that the requests fully-funde- i d See Page 8. Col 4 if you fail to receive your Green Sheet on Thursday morning, please call the Circulation 262 66S2, Department, before 10:30 a m. County Budget Hearing Set V ; tet;; ,K'n Tax Hike Foreseen By Auditor E. Verne Breeze office last Wednesday who was appointed to fill a vacancy two .ears ago. E. Vern Breeze, 3555 So. 5450 West, handily defeated two position challengers for a six-yeon the board of trustees, tallying 397 votes. Challenger Terry J. Wirth tallied 57 and Kelly A. Mahaffey received 11 votes. Other postions on the board are held by O. Carl Andra and Calvin E. Anderson. three-memb- SALT LAKE. Tentative figures on how much taxes are likely to increase for property owners in Salt Lake County next year were released this week by County Auditor Craig Sorenson. A public hearing on the 1983 budget is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. tomorrow (Friday) in the Salt Lake City Council Chambers on the third floor of the Building. Sorenson projects a mill levy increase from 12.05 last year to 13.39 will be levied countywide if ten City-Coun- ty tative expenditures totaling $107.6 million for the countys general fund are adopted. That means the owner of a $60,000 home would pay about more for countywide services. Residents of unincorporated Salt $14-1- 6 Lake County would - in addition a mill levy increase from last years 8.22 to 9.14 if tentative ex-- penditures are adopted. Tentative expenditures for municipal services would increase from $9 million last year to more than $9.9 million in 1983, he said. means the owner of a pay about more for municipal services. Currently the tax is about $90 per year. The commission, however, has That $60,000 home would discussed $10-1- 1 eliminating the municipal services property tax and replacing it with a 3.5 to 4 percent franchise tax on electric, natural gas and telephone bills. The tentative budgets all include a 2.5 percent cost of living increase for most county employes. six-mon- th by Jim Cornwell shore and claim it. The horizon today has climbed. With most of Mother Earth Probably, if one conducted a survey, hed find theres a certain amount of "explorer in By For District Last week, Newman recommended the ordinance be reworded to eliminate direct appeals of use denials to the City , cost-of-livi- the revenues Maloney said a distribution Sec Page 8. Col 2) cess. ; head will be expected to define the service level offered by his department and at what cost. It also includes guidelines which will help department heads be specific and, it is hoped, accurate when computing wages, supply needs and capital project expenses, the finance director added. A memo from Newman to department heads stressed that budgets were to be prepared on a zero based budgeting concept. Department heads were instructed adnot to make justments in employe salary levels. At Tuesdays session, Newman said he hasnt even gotten close to salary negotiations and we wont until we get closer to budget preparation. A clearer picture of how current economic conditions are affecting the citys financial standing is necessary before that can take place, he said. sion -- - Coun-i- l of -- x was informed Tuesday that its ime to start thinking about the 983 budget already. City Manager John Newman said that while intense work on the judget will not begin for another jouple of months, he wants council nembers to prioritize projects which they feel are necessary. That will allow the manager to have an idea of council sentiment when Newman begins a lengthy series of meetings with individual department heads on their budget requests. ; City Finance Director Russ Sanderson outlined the components of a budget packet which he distributed to department heads last week. You should have heard the groans when Russ passed these 'out last week, Newman noted. The packet emphasizes cost per service units, Sanderson said, meaning that each department Distribution ALCOHOL TAX . . . West Valley Mayor Jerry Maloney explains recommendation to "temporarily postpone" countywide beer tax, pending passage of legislation thot would tax alcoholic beveroges statewide to help fund enforcement of alcohol-relatecrimes. would be based 20 percent on population and 80 percent on costs associated with arrests and convictions of alcohol-relate- d crimes, Maloney said after further discus- the ordinance was understood and that the majority of the board felt the meat cutting business was not beneficial. As a corollary to the case, the Planning Commission will review the ordinance which allows illegal uses that exist for more than five years - such as the Jackson operation - to apply for status. Board members also will consider changes in the appeal pro- Officials Already Thinking City Budget WEST VALLEY. The City J 262 6682 departments d charted, modern explorers are looking into the unknown reaches of outer space for new sights to view and new lands to claim. But while the mode of travel has changed, the motivation of the who men - and, yes, women will sooner or later voyage into deep space is the same as that which spurred those of centuries - -- ago. For the most part, men who sailed unknown seas to lands never before seen by whites, did so with the backing of a nation or its ruler. That wasnt always the case, we mused not long ago, while perusing explorations which expanded mans knowledge of two n to natural wonders well-know- our area. One is Grand Canyon. A party of nine men floated down its craggy canyons, spurred on by an unlettered but determined Civil War officer who largely financed the trip himself. The other is Yellowstone Park, which was explored in depth for the first time by an unlikely group of nine ordinary citizens from Montana. John Wesley Powell, once a major in the Union arniv, had emerged from the Battle of Shiloh minus his right arm. But it didnt stem his interest in geology. He never acquired a degree in the subject, but he was that he sufficiently well-rea- d eventually taught geology in an Illinois college. In August, 1868, Powell viewed the' Colorado River gorges from atop Longs Peak and determined to probe into them. The following year found him seeking funds from the Smithsonian and Congress. All he was given was authority to draw on Army stores for supplies. Undaunted, Powell gathered a party of nine men who had little scientific training, built three boats of oak and one of pine and on May 24, 1869, launched them in the Green River. History has recorded the story. The party was out of touch with civilization at one time for 37 days. It lost a boat, much of its supplies and the lives of some members. Three abandoned the voyage, climbed out of the canyon and, mistaken for whites who had slain a squaw, were killed by Indians. Ironically, a day after that trio left, convinced the expedition was doomed, Powells group emerged from the rapids and completed its travels in comparative calm. On Aug. 30th, they sighted a Mormon settler fishing near the juncture of the Colorado and Virgin Rivers. Yellowstones first white visitors were French trappers, who told stories of a land theyd named Roche Jaune, w hich meant yellow rock. In the 1830s, mountain men Jim Bridger and Joe Meek substantiated the tale. For 40 years thereafter, in spite of additional reports, no one ventured into what is now northwest Wyoming to learn the truth of the legendary mud pots and geysers. Then, in August, 1870, nine men gathered in Helena, Mont., determined to create their own expedition to Roche Jaune. Among them were two merchants, a bank president, a lawyer, an assessor, a collector of internal revenue and Montanas surveyor-generaHenry D. Washburn, who was named their leader. l, There was more than a trace of skepticism among them. They really didn't expect to find the stories were true. The hostile Crow Indians were a hazard and the party crossed uncharted 7,000-ftridges and struggled through dense forests on the way. But they returned to report such an area did exist. Because the nine had made the torturous journey, Congress appropriated funds for an expedition under Dr. Ferdinand Hayden. Based on his reports, President Ulysses S. Grant created Yellowstone Park less than two years after the initial explora., snow-covere- d tion. On the face of it, its rather remarkable that Powells and Washburns parties - all men simply acting on their own volition - accomplished what in an earlier time nations had urged, with appropriate financing, that their venturesome men strive to achieve. On our frontier, instead, it remained for individual initiative and bold curiosity to find out what lay beyond the next mountain range. -- V |