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Show But County In Red - Salt Palace Yields 'Big' For Salt Lake City, State Of Utah MURRAY. Theres much inequity in financial operations of the Salt Palace That, in fact, is a decided understatement, Rotarians here agreed Monday after a talk by Ken- neth Knight, chairman of the Salt Palace Ad v.soiy Board. The facility which like virtually all such complexes in this country operates in a sea of red ink will cost Salt Lake County taxpayers more than $27 million in the nine-yea- i span from 1982 through 1990, knight said a recent study indicated In the same time period, however, $70 it will yield approximately million to the Salt Lake City Redevelopment Agency, which benefits from the tax increase on property as it existed before the Palace was created and what those taxes generate today. The Marriott Hotel, for example, will produce upwards of a million dollars in taxes for the nine-yea- r study period, whereas a comparative pittance was realized from the near fxU.n buildings on that site prior ) the hotel's construcion. Significantly, Kinglit udueri, me Redevelopment Agency must spend its annual income or lose it. Consequently, more than 90 percent of those funds are reinvested in the downtown area embraced by the agency. It has been primarily responsible for such structures as the Marriott, Sheraton, Howard Johnson, Holiday Inn and Shilo hotels, as well as a variety of other businesses surrounding the Salt Palace facility. In addition, the speaker emphasized, the State of Utah will receive a nine-yea- r windfall of $7 million out of Salt Palace operations, primarily in sales tax revenues And Salt Lake City will be the recipient of $2.1 million from sales taxes and its share of the transient room tax assessed local hotels. Even the Utah Transit Authority will benefit in the amount of approximately $400,000. All this, Knight pointed out, plus a calculated $50 million accruing to Salt Lake City business firms which benefit from an average $62 per day m room rentals and $83 per day spent by each individual visitor attending conventions at the Salt Palace. Let me see now, if you get the Knight reiterated. Salt picture, Lake County provides the facility, takes care of its maintenance costs and funds out of general revenues the deficits which accumulate. But it realized not one cent of taxable or fringe financial benefit. All those funds go to the aforementioned governmental subdivisions. Its simply an unfair situation that must be corrected and we hope to have a bill introduced in the upcoming legislative session to accomplish that. Knight is completing his second r term as chairman of the Salt Palace Advisory Board created five years ago by the County Commission. Its roster includes business and professional people, both men and women, who are residents of all sectors of Salt Lake County. He clarified negotiations conducted with the Utah Jazz professional basketball team last year, about which he said some incorrect reporting by the media created Continued on page 4 one-yea- Name Change Plea Rejected For New Hunter High School by Ralph H. Goff Green Sheet Staff Writer GRANITE PARK. Hunter is our past. Its a great heritage and we can be proud of it, West Valley City Councilman Janice Fisher told members of the Granite Board of Education here Tuesday night. But the new' high school is our future and were asking you to take a giant step toward the future and change the name to West Valley high, she added. Mrs. Fisher, along with Councilman Claude Jones, addressed the board Tuesday concerning the name chosen for the new high school to be built on the southwest corner of 5600 West and 4100 South. On Dec. 16 the board voted unanimously to name the new struc - a name ture Hunter High School which the West Valley City Council felt was inappropriate for the new structure. I was disturbed to read in The Green Sheet that you had chosen the name Hunter high, Mrs Fisher told the board. Were asking you to change your minds and reconsider the name for the new high school. If the name is not changed, she observed, "there will be an elementary, a junior high and a high school with the same name within a area. In addition to the three school facilities, there is already a Hunter stake, a Hunter East stake, a Hunter West stake and 36 Hunter wards in the area - all named after Bishop Edward Hunter, she pointed out. Bishop Hunter was a great man -- and its only right that churches be named after him, but West Valley City has been working very hard to create an image and an identity of its own and naming the school Hunter high is counterproductive to that effort. In the past six years that Ive served on the council there has been a great deal of change in West Valley City, Councilman Jones added. West Valley is now the second largest city in the state, we have 94,000 people living within our borders and are an important part of the Granite district. Our point of view deserves some consideration in this matter, he added. Newly-electe- Judy d Larson, Continued on page board member who represents 4 Holt Infant Makes Debut 9 Minutes Into New Year MURRAY. The new year was barely nine minutes old when the winner of the Green Sheet's 32nd an- nual Diaper Derby was born to a West Jordan couple at a hospital here Thursday. Weighing in at 8 lbs., 8 oz., Wacey J. Holt was born to Shelly and Jolene Holt, who reside at 7240 So. 2200 West. Welcoming a younger brother in the family were Justin and 41 Lindsey. The parents are both graduates of Bingham high; the father in 1972 and Mrs. Holt in 75. Mr. Holt is employed at Rocky Mountain Mechanical. Grandparents of the Derby winner are Melvin and Helen Jones of West Jordan and Wayne and Naola Holt of Riverton. Della Holt of South Jordan is a r. Inspiration for the infants first name stems from an experience of more than a year ago. Mrs. Holt said she was watching the televised National Finals Rodeo when the announcer called attention to a bullrider whose first name was Wacey. The Holts exchanged comments and agreed that would be the name of their next child. Several New Years Day births were recorded in other Green Sheet area hospitals, including one at Pioneer Valley, where West Valley City's firstborn of '87 was born to Janet Lindsay of Hunter. Selanie Lindsay clocked in shortly after noon. . . . Jolene ond Shelly Holt of West Jordan proudly .K top honors In the annual Green off son new show Wacey, v Sheet New Year's Baby Con.est by checking In at 12:09 o.m. at Cottonwood Hospial on Jan. 1. EARLY ARRIVAL -- 4 The years first day found two babies born at St. Marks hospital. A girl was born to John R. and Cynthia Priet of Taylorsville at 2:24 a.m., while a boy was born to Hilary Keate of Midvale at 5: 15 p.m. In addition to the years firstborn, Cottonwood hospital recorded three other births on New Year's Day, all during the daytime. Welcoming new babies on Thursday were Mr. and Mrs. Brinton T. Butler of Murray, Mr. and Mrs. Joel M. Johnson of West Jordan and Mr. and Mrs. David S. Nelson of Sandy. No births were reported on New Years Day at Alta View hospital in Sandy and Holy Cross Jordan Valley hospital in West Jordan. Prizes from area merchants that will go to the Diaper Derby winner include: Continued on page 5 u. 'Well, It's About Time' skiing and winter sports enthusiasts, olong with those concerned about the water supply. But several inches of snow on the ground had a special meaning for this young cavorting canine named Snowball. RIGHT AT HOME . . . Experiencing its first winter, this puppy was, like many residents of the valley, beginning to wonder if THE REAL Old Man Winter would every show up. When the season's first major snowstorm finally arrived early this week, there was much rejoicing among the d Swensen - President Of Board Is Named GRANITE PARK. Gary Swensen. superintendent of the County Parks and Recreation Division, was named president of the Granite Board of Education here Tuesday night ceremonies following swearing-ifor board members elected in November. n board member Judy Larson, who replaced Miriam Farnsworth in Precinct 4, and J Dale Christensen, who was reterm in elected to a four-yea- r November representing Precinct 5, took the oath of office prior to the reorganization of the board. Newly-electe- d The transition was not without its expression of emotion, however. Board members expressed their feelings openly to Mrs. Farnsworth, who has served on the board the past eight years. Youre a lady with a lot of common sense, Swensen observed, and Im going to miss you a lot. Every board member leaves their mark, and I w'ant you to know your mark is there and it will be there for a long, long time, Superintendent John Reed Call noted. Im leaving with mixed emotions, but Im leaving the board m good hands, Mrs. Farnsworth said of her replacement. Its sort of like attending your - hearing all this and hoping that its all true. I must say, however, the past eight years have been a labor of love or I wouldnt have done it. I can assure you, though, that if I see something that needs attention, youll get a call, she said. I care about the district and expecially about the 72,000 kids in the Granite district. You've all taught me a lot. In addition to Swensens selection as board president, board member Continued on page 4 own funeral -- Magna Board Session Set MAGNA. The board of trustees of the Magna Water and Sewer Improvement District will meet at 7 p.m. Wednesday in the Magna water office, 8940 W. 2700 South The agenda for the meeting will include a report on the districts treatment plant, awarding of bids on a centrifugal pump and an election for a new chairman among the three trustees. The meeting is open to the public. g Patrons Clamoring For More Schools As Numbers Climb In Ralph II (i evn sheet st.iti liter GRANITE PARK "The level of the Fox Hills flood has been increasing steadily since the school opened Dale Evans told five years ago, members of the Granite Board of Education here Tuesday. II d "We opened m 1979 with a population of about 700. If next year's pro25 jections are correct, we will need relocatables to handle the overflow and well have a student population larger than every junior high in the district and larger than Skyline, Olvmpus. Granite, Cyprus and almost equal to that of Cottonwood high g " Evans. representing a Fox Hills committee studying alternatives for housing students in overcrowded elementary schools on the west side of the valley, was among three committees to address the board concerning possible changes in student housing - changes which may come school year. as early as the 1987-8While the Fox Hills committee was the most vocal in demanding new schools be built to house the burgeoning student population, the schooling also option of year-rounsurfaced as a positive recommendation from that committee. The three reports - the second installment of the six schools facing critical housing problems because of 8 d growing populations - were community-base- developed committees from the Fox Hills, Hillside and Calvin Smith attendance areas. Committees representing elementary in Granger, Jim Bridger elementary in the Oquirrh by Farn-sw'ort- Of City Planners Hills area and Copper Hills elementary in Magna were heard by the board on Dec. 16. The six schools were singled out for the alternative housing study based on statistics in a report on stuprodent enrollment, move-aheajections for the next four years, available classrooms and both the current and projected use of relocatable classrooms for all elementary schools in the district which the board received in October. Those six schools, however, are only the beginning of what could become an problem tor Granite administrators. Some of the areas we thought were declining are back on the inarea director Darrell crease, Johnson told the board at an earlier meeting. Evans, representing the Fox Hills neighborhood in the Kearns area, told the board members of his committee felt the district should move immediately to construct new schools on the west side of the valley. While opposing both long distance busing and double sessions, the committee aldo recommended that boundary changes should be made with neighboring schools to accommodate students while new facilities are constructed Those relocatable classrooms currently in the Fox Hills "satellite across the street from the school should be retained, they recom- h mended, but the movable classrooms currently installed on the parking lot should be removed to the surrounding schools to support larger student bodies created by the Continued on page 4 - Subdivisions On Agenda WEST VALLEY. Consideration of plans for two subdivisions will be on the agenda when the City Council meets here tonight (Thursday). Several ordinances dealing with the Chantilly subdivision at about 6300 West and 3400 South will be addressed A change m access and easements suggested by the City Planning Commissim requires the council vacate previous easements in fa or of a plan w hic. ,h'' commission fee's I? morewoikable. plans loi addntonal phases of the Sunset Hills subdivision will also be sci ut.mmi That development, at about 4to0 (south and 5600 West, is an extension of phases approved earlier. The council is expected to require developers to construct a stub street through part of the Utah Power and Light corridor as a condition for approval. Also on tonight's agenda will be the presentation of the annual audit of city funds. Following the regular council session, council members will change hats to meet both as the City Redevelopment Agency and Housing Authority. The 6 p.m. meeting will take place in the council chambers at City Hall, 2470 So. Redwood Road. |