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Show 4 THE GREEN SHEET Thursday, February 28, 1985 In Granite District - Priority Rating Is Needed For 'Big Ticket' School Categories GRANITE PARK. Calling the big ticket pro-posa- ls items," Superintendent John Reed Call last week presented the Granite Board of Education three of six ministrative reports which will adre- quire prioritization before adoption districts 1985-8- 6 budget. The capital budget simply will not support the current building construction program and all of the added requests, Dr. Call noted, so some hard decisions will have to be made concerning which programs will be implemented. One report concerned future of the status of the districts 16mm projec- s inch tors, films and video tape equipment. the district shared In 1962-6ownership and management of 16mm films with the University of Utah. During that stage, the district owned 500 films, which it placed in the UofU film library. This procedure made films belonging to both the district and the university available to teachers to rent, but the cost of film rental exceeded $24,000 per year, so the district purchased and maintained a three-fourth- County Planning Commission SINGLED OUT . . . Bob Barton, with wifo Sandra, was namad Businessman of tha Month by Wost Valloy Area Chamber of Business Award - Bob Barton Is Cited By CofC TAYLORSVILLE. The general manager of a business that has operated in the Granger area for more than two decades was singled out for recognition here Thursday. Accepting the Businessman of the Month award from the West Valley Area Chamber of Commerce was Bob Barton. Along with his mother and brother Bill, he operates Bartons Builders Mart, 3555 W. 3500 will bring. Holzworth called the breach of the causeway in the Great Salt Lake a but thought litgood investment, tle of a proposal to pump lake water westward into the desert. What a terrible thing to be thinking about, he commented, acknowledging that it did represent the next least expensive means of dealing with rising waters of the lake. As Employer Oxbow Development, however, was denied its request to change 20 acres on the northeast corner of 8000 W. 3100 South from 7 to Larger lot development will work in the Magna area, Commissioner Sam Rex commented. Several hearings were also held. The LDS church requested rezoning from A-- 2 (agricultural) to 6 (single family residential) on 4.59 acres at 3275 W. 5600 South for a future church site and some single family homes. S. J. Speck Construction, Inc. asked the commission to change about two acres at 6410 So. 4100 West from 7 to 5 to allow for construction of larger homes on smaller lots. The firm already has the required 1942, 1956 and 1972 W. 5400 South on an adjoining five acres 8 to zoning from (residential) to and plans to develop the entire seven build two professional office acres in tandem. buildings. Dixie Six Corp. submitted two ap- one for 12 plications for acres at 5535 W. 6700 South and the other for six acres at 4910 W. 6540 South. Both requested changes from R-(multiple family) to (single family detached). We intended to build apartMAGNA. Preliminary plans are a spokesman said, but being made here for the annual Miss ments, Magna Pageant which will be held in multiple family just wont work in the area. June. Vicki Christison, director, said the The corporation also submitted a pageant committee is looking for regular subdivision application for contestants, as well as contacting an extension of its Oquirrh Shadows area businesses for support in cash development. Property at 4925 W. and prizes. The committee hopes to 6250 South, zoned was approvraise enough money for a scholar- ed for construction of 46 new single ship fund. family homes. The commission will visit sites Working with Mrs. Christison will be LeJune Neilson, hostess commit- discussed Tuesday and will render a tee; Susan Broadbent and Heidi decision when it meets again March Whitman, program committee; 12. Lyndee White, chairman of the judges committee; Christy Zambos, ' production committee. Penny Neilson, the 1984 Miss Magna, will compete for state 2 at the Mountain honors June View high in Orem. This years Miss Magna winner will compete for the Miss Utah title a year later. Interested 1985 graduating senior a girls at Cyprus and others up to age 24, are being encouraged to contact Mrs. Christison before May 1 so that rehearsals can begin. R-l-- R-l-- R-l-- R-l-- R-l-- R-l-- South. In announcing the recipient of the award, Chamber director George Floor noted that Barton has been active in the community, having served as president of the Granger Jaycees and vice president of the Utah Jaycees. He has also served as a volunteer with the County Fire Department the past 12 years. Barton and his wife Sandra, the parents of three, reside in the Academy Park area. During Thursdays luncheon session, Chamber members were given a cautionsly optimistic outlook on the valleys flood picture for the coming months. Addressing the group was Terry Holzworth, director of the County Flood Control Department. His major challenges were outlined as the May-Jun- e snowmelt period; the Great Salt Lake; and the relationship between Utah Lake, the Jordan River and the Great Salt Lake. Due to flood control work with funding authorized by county voters, Holzworth noted, We handled 50 percent more water on peak days last year than in 1983. Comparing this year to the last couple of years, Holzworth said, Were a lot better off, but . . . lets not be swayed by that perspective; let's talk about it May 15. Noting that he and his staff members are faced with making decisions that will apply to conditions two years from now, Holzworth We cant wait until emphasized, March or April to decide what June Continued from page 1 another conditional use petition for a home occupancy gunsmith operation, submitted by Monica Bellm, on property located at 4117 W. 5950 South. A decision on a zoning amendment application by Masato Namba on 10 2 acres at 2620 W. 5400 South was also postponed. The request was to prochange the A-- l and perty (agricultural) to R-(residential, multiple family). The decision was continued four weeks Approval was given to a petition by Jodie Louise Stumph to change 15,000 square feet at 4770 So. 1950 West from A-- l to R-for office construction and for a petition by Byron DeVries for 24,012 square feet at - Hercules Vaults To Top BACCHUS. Increased hiring in recent months has elevated Hercules to the top among private industrial employers in the valley and second largest in the state. Total employment at the Bacchus Works of Hercules Aerospace Division grew by 1,500 during 1984, according to Gary Muir, general manager. 100 hired in An additional January, along with 225 contract employees, has placed the total job figure at 5,325 and company officials anticipate no letup in 1985. The increased has pushed Hercules past Sperry for the top volume employer in the valley and moved the Bacchus firm into the number two spot statewide behind Morton Thiokol. Employment rolls at Sperry list 5,000, while Morton Thiokol has 6,400, according to Utah Job Service. Several new aerospace programs are in the offing, indicating continued growth during the coming year, but at a bit lower rate than during 1984, according to Muir. Plans Made For Magna Pageant 5 R-l-- private film library of 4,600 films with federal funds. This phase lasted about 20 years, but In 1972 the district also began inch video purchasing three-fourttapes, which it operated concurrently with the film library. These technologies provided teachers adequate media support for their classrooms, but two forces are operating which make our delivery system inadequate," Don Hess, staff associate for the districts Library Services, Media Circulation and Television Department, told the board. He cited the age and condition of both films and equipment and advances in video technology as reasons to update the district's current media delivery system. His proposal was for a three-yea- r video cassette of half-incphase-i- n equipment, currently available on the market for substantially less than the original video equipment purchased by the district a decade h ago. During each of these phases, the equipment in approximately 29 schools should be replaced, he said - 21 elementary schools, five junior highs and three senior highs per year. A second report concerning maps, globes and equipment for the districts foreign languages program was presented by Carl Crowther, a French teacher at Taylorsville high. He pointed out that interest in foreign languages has increased dramatically to 29 percent. Junior high school foreign language enrollments were also up significantly, he reported, with several junior highs involving more than half their students in foreign language studies. Crowther also pointed out while interest in the program had experienced a dramatic rise, expenses for maps, globes, equipment and other necessities integral to teaching languages had virtually disappeared. He requested a series of expenditures to beef up the language program, including dubbing equipment, videotape machines and software, plus maps and globes in foreign languages. A third report concerning the districts security systems was also presented. Jerry Nielsen of the security staff told the board because of the use of relocatables and emergency retrofitting modifications to bring buildings into conformance with state and federal regulations, security personnel had been siphoned off into other electronically-relate- areas. d ' To me the problem seems clear -you cannot do six mens work with two men, he told the board. Weve been working hard to keep up, but weve also been lucky real lucky. Since 1980, when six men were spending virtually full time on security, he noted, four of those men are currently spending most of their - throughout the district, backing up his claims with statistics. According to Crowthers information, in the past five years the percentage of students attending Cottonwood high who are studying a foreign language has jumped from to 57 percent 19 percent in 1980-8this year. Taylorsville opened its doors in school year with 18 perthe 1981-8cent of its students studying foreign languages, while a whopping 55 percent do so today. Other district high schools have also shown a dramatic rise in foreign language study: Olympus has jumped from 15 percent in 1980-8- 1 to 42 percent in 1984-8Granger from 10 percent to 41 percent; Cyprus from 8 to 41 percent, Skyline from 16 to 35 percent; Granite from 17 to 33 percent; and Kearns from 8 1 2 5; time with computers, telephone audio-visusystems, intercoms, equipment and other electronic equipment, with security taking a back seat. Why have we allowed our security system to be pilfered?, board member Lynn Davidson asked. because of Primarily Bill Leiter, assistant pressures, superintendent for administrative services, explained. "The things most pressing and most urgent got the response. Nielsen requested that the board appropriate funds to hire three additional employees in electronics so that five employees could be assigned full time to security. The board took no action on these areas. Three additional reports will be presented when the board meets again Tuesday on increasing the districts school bus fleet, purchasing copy machines and a major investment in computer equipment, Dr. Call said. 4. ) , 4 LAST WEEKS WINNER: 17-2- LORRAINE LEATHERBURV off Sandy Scout Breakfast Scheduled Sunday KEARNS. A scout breakfast will be held Sunday at St. Francis Catholic church here. The meal will be served from 8 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. and feature three pancakes, two sausages, scrambled eggs, hot chocolate, juice or coffee. The charge for adults will be $2.50. Those dont wants around your house may be do wants for someone else. You can turn them into ready cash by putting them in the area market place - the Green Sheet classified ad columns. 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