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Show County looks at '82 budget Sheriff justifies Nip-tuc- k fiscal year predicted expenses Utah A By SCOTT LLOYD Staff Writer A tentative budget of $5,222 million in expenditures and $4,787 million in revenue for 1982 has been recommended to the Carbon County Commission by Norman Prichard. The budget, reflecting an increase of $1,569 million in expenditures over the current-yea- r estimate, was presented Tuesday at a public hearing. The commission now faces the task of balancing the budget by either cutting the expenditure side or finding an additional source of revenue, Prichard said. The budget is to be formally approved at the regular commission meeting Dec. 15, Prichard said. The mill levy will be set in June. Currently set at 16 mills, it is the highest alltwed by state law. Chairman Lee Semken said the commission had met with county department heads and told them spending will be closely monitored next year. Semken said there is a strong possibility they can not approve all expenditures, even though money is budgeted for them. He said the county faces a 12 Clerk-Audit- percent Now, what did Virginia want? Santa Claus had helicopter at the anxious children For more photos Bazaar section. reduction or federal in revenue sharing money because of Reagan administration budget cuts. A 10 percent salary increase was approved for county employees. A notable appropriation in the budget is $140,000 for the Carbon County Nursing Home, compared with $27,000 budgeted for this year. The apparent disparity is misleading, however. Prichard said the nursing home had incurred a deficit of $110,000 as of to hold onto his cap as he stepped from his Carbon County Airport Saturday. About 200 with their parents were there to greet him. of Santa's visit to Price, see today's Market We will not spend more than The nursing home fund photo by Aman grants from federal and state agencies; fees and charges for services such as courf, recorder, and zoning; miscellaneous income such as coal leases; contributions from class B and collector road funds; fines and forfeitures; and licenses and permits. will be in the hole that far, he said. The assets outweigh the amount by which its in the hole, however, so it is still not Prichard technically insolvent, added. The clerk said he doubts even the $140,000 will be enough to cover costs this year. Were hoping for a rate increase (in Medicaid reimbursements) but thats about as temperature likely as an today, he said. In September, voters rejected a proposed $1,175 million bond issue which would have funded the ee Price purchase of the Care Center and the closure of the nursing home. Referring to the countys tax levy of 16 mills, Jack Olson of the Utah Taxpayers Association said he hopes it can be reduced. Referring to the recent rejection by Carbon Courty voters of a y levy for schools, Olson said it shows they do not want higher taxes. When youre preparing your budget I would hope you would look to the plight of the taxpayer and that you dont think the 16 mills is he told the set in concrete, now-defun- ct ill voted-leewa- (Continued on Page Carbon County 1982 tentative budget (Allocations by percentage) Helper warns restaurants to dean up or pay penalty penalites, Mayor Charles Ghirardelli said Nov. 25. Ghirardelli issued the warning at the regular city council meeting after Gerald Story, chief sanitarian for the Southeastern Utah Health District, said a number of restaurants and homes in the city have been identified as violators. We have inspected a number of restaurants in town and found they were not what they should be for safety, Story told the council. He said recommendations for clean-u- p and compliance were issued to the restaurant owners but subsequent showed inspections very little change. We may find it necessary to take legal action, Story said. If so, we hope to get help from Helper City. He said if it becomes necessary to close a restaurant, he hopes the city would cooperate by placing the establishments business license on probation. Story said the health district intends to work closely with the city Health Board in dealing with the violators and would only consider ordering a business to close as a last resort. There is mainly one restaurant on which we have received a number of complaints. The rest 2 Price policemen to leave department are in fairly good shape, Story said later. He declined to specify which restaurants are in violation. He said one homeowner has been illegally discharging waste water onto streets and adjoining property and four others have excessive trash on their property. We have contacted owners, but up to now there has been no correction, he said. The penalty for such violations is a $299 fine on the first offense and a $1,000 fine and a jail term for the second offense. Becky Bragdon of the city Health Board said that body held its first meeting the previous week and had determined conditions warranted issuing warnings to the businesses rather than ordering them to close. Ghirardelli said the city Health Board was reinstituted earlier this year because many property owners were violating city sanitation standards. He said Story has been working with the Health Board as a followup to the city's cleanup campaign of last spring. City Attorney Bryce Bryner said as a result of the investigations begun in May, violators were given a period of time in which to clean one-ye- Highway is $514,000. Citing a theory that there should be a ratio of one police officer for every 1,000 citizens in a given area, d War Thomas said in the pre-Worl- II years, there were more people in Carbon County but fewer officers. Thomas said there are 58 policemen in Carbon County, considering all the city police forces and the Utah Highway Patrol. He added that most major crimes are committed within the city limits of East Carbon, Price and Helper. The theory of one policeman fcr every thousand citizens is an old philosophy that went down the river a long time before you left the police force, Horsley responded. Never in the 22 years I've worked has any police department come close to this. 2A) $27,000. Chronic violators of HELPER had better ordinances health city clean up or they will face tough former Patrolman and the Carbon County Sheriff squared off Tuesday over the Sheriffs Departments budget. Nick Thomas, Spring Glen, made a statement before the Carbon County Commission at a public hearing concerning the countys tentative 1982 budget. Thomas statement prompted a detailed response from Sheriff A. Ross Horsley concerning department workload and effectiveness. The budget item that perturbs me the most is the Sheriffs Ofsaid Thomas, who has fice, frequently spoken out in public against high taxes. Thomas said the department budget in 1978 was $197,000 and has steadily increased to $497,000 in 1981. The tentative figure for 1982 Horsley said the national average in 1979 was 2.1 officers per thousand citizens. In Utah, it was 1.68 officers and in Carbon County it is 1.67 officers. He cited figures showing a substantial increase in major crimes throughout the nation and in Utah. Horsley said the Utah Highway Patrol does not work during the early morning hours after 12 midnight, making it necessary for the Sheriffs Department to handle all crimes and accidents in county areas during that time period. The sheriff said in 1980 there was a combined total of 357 adults arrested by city police departments in Helper, East Carbon and Price, compared with 472 adults arrested by the Sheriffs Department alone. The city departments arrested 162 juveniles in 1980, compared with 210 arrested by the Sheriffs (Continued on Page 2A) ar V t Price City police officers department secretary Pat citing as Colosimo. career in Cartwrights motivating factors the pending retirement of Chief Art Poloni and law enforcement includes five the surrounding controversy. years with Price City and five Poloni said Tuesday that officers years with the Cache County David Cartwright and Jeff Adams Sheriffs Department. up. have both tendered their Adams was employed for two Bryner said he issues a followup resignations, Cartwrights ef- years by the Orem City Police letter to those who do not comply, fective Friday and Adams ef- Department and about four warning them of legal action. Two have resigned, 10-ye-ar fective Monday. In a formal letter to Poloni, Adams said it is very difficult" for him to leave, but all the problems that have arisen, your retirement and other officers leaving the department have made the decision much easier." Cartwright gave similar reasons for resigning, according to police t months with the Price City Police Department. Poloni expressed regret at losing two good officers. The Price City Council formally accepted Polonis letter retirement Nov. 18. The chief's retirement is fective Jan. 31. of This spring, we will get tuugher with our cleanup campaign. Hopefully we can keep tightening the noose until we get Helper the way it should be, Ghirardelli said. In other business: The council approved installation of a water connection at ef- (Continued on Page 2A i Winter panorama The coming of December is marked by a light covering of snow on the ground near Carbon County Airport. Cold temperatures and icy roads foreshadow the beginning of winter, less than three weeks from now. 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