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Bidding for contract in each construction the county has become more intense as the economy lightens c Sleepy Hollows Seek Tax Reforms Bx Stexe Saunders Tribune Staff Writer For xears. Utah's residential communities and commemal centers haxe been slugging it out over xv ho should get the biggest slice of the sales tax rev enue pie Bedroom communities such as Bountiful dubbed Sleepx Hollow cities" last year bv Salt Lake Maxor Ted Wilson - haxe complained thex haven't been getting their fail shore of sales taxes when their residents huv something m another city Bountiful city government doesn't get a nickel in east sales taxes, for instance, when a bene h homeowner goes to the Crossroads Mall in Salt Lake Citx to buy a new color television for his familx oi a diamond ring for his w ite on their annix ersarv Cities Penalized Hollow cities are penalized, officials Sleepx maintain, because they don't haxe a strong cominer hut fhex still need money to provide the rial base city seixiees icsidents demand Stuck with loxx sales tax revenues, thev are forced to raise property taxes to oxei their costs To get what then feel is their fair share of lexenues. those officials haxe lobbied heavily to haxe sale's taxes distributed ac cording to population rather than at the point where goods are sold They would like to see the state collect sales taxes front merchants and parcel those lexenues out according to the number of people who live in each citx tegaidless of where those people choose to spend their ntonex Such pioisals haxe in the past, drawn howls of piotesl from officials ul Utah's laiger cities Those commeicial centers need a biggei share of sales tax revenues officials maintain in older to provide police protection roads public transportation and othei essential services foi the thousands of comimileis who dnxe back and forth each dax from w'ell-to-d- Distributed Local option by state c Sleepv Hollow To disti ibute sales taxes according to where people live instead of wheie they do their shopping would haxe a devastating effect on the ability of the state's metiopohtan areas to provide those services, officials say And it could force some cities to consider establishing some kind of "counter tax" to make up the revenues they would lose Sales tax distribution by population would also hit the states icscnt centers, where it would hurt the most since they iclx heaxilx on sales taxes for their l ex enue Some of the,'ll most bittei aiguments in the Distribution of sales ta among Utahs cities may change if the Legislature approves a plan submitted by a group of long standing battle took place m the 1181 Legisla tuie. wheie lawmakers debated a x ariety of formulas foi sales tax redistribution only to come up empty handed They finally passed legislation to (list i ibute in pei cent of the stales sales tax revenue imputation, but that was vetoed by Gov Scott M Matheson based on an opinion front the attorney general that the law was unconstitutional To avoid a lepeat of those arguments, the state s maxoi s met this summer in hopes of finding common gionnd Working through the Utah League of Cities and Towns and drawing on the expertise of the Utah Citx Managers Association, they came up with a plan that they hope will satisfy nearly everybody Have and Have Not to Bountiful City Manager Thomas R According Ilaidy. the underlying cause of the earlier conflicts has been that the have" and "have not' cities were fighting oxer the same lex enue Any plan that called foi the ' have not" cities to get a bigger slice of the have" cities would go lev enue pie meant the hungiy The solution Bake a higger pie The pioposal di afted by the mayoi s whu h will be ! Utah's mayors If approved, bedroom communities such as Bountiful, would immediately leeeive more sales tax revenues submitted to the Legi-latuin January would allow local governments to add an additional quartet cent to their local ale s tax w ith the appi ox al of otei The ptnposdl includes a foi mu! i to giadmllx phase in a plan to distnhute sales tax lexenues b population It would alloc t onlx the local gov el nnient portion ol the sales t i and not the foil cent M (ii sales tax oi the one quai toi out Ii an-- it tax In 12 the first eai the new disti ibution plan would go into eftect one halt cent ot the tax would automatically become the state s responsibility The revenues would lie divided with one quarto' coni dixtiibuted b population and one quarter cent denuding to the point of sale Giaduallx the portion distributed bx population would me lease and the point of sale' imrtion would dimmish until by Pth7 the sate was disti ibutirig the full oik half cent acc ending to pupul dion Lex al Option Mmthei half cent ot t h - tic's t . wont I cunt mu to he ,i local option smnl.ii to the existing thiee quai ter cent local t ix It w mil lie d, ti dinted ac oi 'ling to point ot s.dc md md1 tu.d itu s c on Id See Page ND 2 ie -- c ! c i -- , gt undei v'ote i lot hettn off 'hm Despite the economic situation Mnngs also aligned fm Hot m Hughes & Sons a geneial mntiactni In adqu ii tei ed in W'est Bountiful Million m Jobs Ue le actually lnvohcd with moie work now than m the histmv of the companx " said Glenn E We haxe .ilmut S21 Hughes companx picsident million undei conti act The film was established in lrHT b Mi Hughes f ithei and woiked most lx in home building Since p,4 howexei the focus has shifted to rommeiciul pi (!(( ts Mr Hughes said most of the companx s xxmk in Dax i - ( ountx mx olx ps sc hool ronsti notion Wexe piobablx built a large portion ot the sc hools m the countx Them doesn seem to he anx See Page VD-- 7 x21 1 Face Tax Hike For 1 982 Budget 1987 and beyond o tie general icontrac tor has one ot two choices He can eithei bankrupt the man m a'-Imn What the gineuuls ate doing is tima to outguess this situation Mr Law i one e addl'd Time is a good (fiance a gtncual conti ac lor m i mi into oli thes, daxs he sjtd pi ohloms on an But c" en w it'n these pi of, lenis Ml Lu'xicniesnd his In ni is doing fic'Mei than othei s So Property Owners PROPOSED 1982 c some othei people -- Hammer works on a build- in the Rolling Hills subdivi- ing c it It pc'icent Two Parts siihc onti a tm s M Bill -- ddticull foi matenal siipphets and mi ate going In nkc Mi Lawrence said this is bad news fm general conti m toi , bee ausc alter suppliers and uln onti ac tms the general contractors are next in the chain He said thc weaker general contractors follow the suhe onti ac tors into financ lal obhv ion Firms Bid Too f ow cm lent pioblem m pel haps an alfhction foi fn ms like Lawienc c Construe tion is the pi open Ox of snbe ontac tms to bid hvi low Mi Lawrence srt'cl Bid- - lend to be low hr cause of the lack of wmk a ailahie People are so desuous of getting wor k that thc will hid fm less than what thee can actually doit he said fm Ml ' i m pl of the pi ei al lou- - limes I pi ov ide d hx a cih tec cuillv bid b the 0 ix is ( oiintv Sc hool District it I Tough Situation 2W Fewer Projects lawienie of iwieme e'onstiuction (lilloid ( o i Salt l.akc ( Ox based gcneial eemliactot who olten luds feu Hums ( cuiiitv piiqcuts sani laige pioiects undei w i aie alxun 2i pen cult less than 111 I instance school disti ic t offu uK r cv the uiuni tm hid openings tm then occ ts Thisohisuiv xeix tight Ml Lnwiein c s ticl of the w alehouse pi meet When ou bid foi a ioh using suhe onti ac tm s that aie exMemelv low ivim max liave a dnwail that s St 000 low or an elect ic d that's MO 000 tow coil have the potentnl tm piohlems Low Ind , In suhe onti ac tm s do not ause pi oblems m and of tin msehes II the can do the ioh foi the price thr hid c t thing s line But in the real wmld. with 12 subs oil the ofi von will ha e one or tw o th it can t do the loll fill the quoted pi K e ' he said No isol ited - b cn onsti in lion pi thi- - lit- Bx Slex e Sanndei s Tubune Stall Muter FVRMINGTON - Davis Countx icsidents aie facing cutbacks in some countx seixiees. and thev will haxe to pa shghtlx higher property taxes to fund what s left ac cm ding to tile' countx s piojxised 1182operat mg budget The' Countx Commission will hold i public healing Tuesday cm the which calls foi a tax in budget mill foi most ciease of just undei The healing is county residents sc heduled toi ?pm m commission ch.miheis at the courthouse' in F ai mmgton Residents of unincorpm ated areas fac e i larger tax meiease than other tc'sidenls since they will again pay an additional special set vice district tax to fund fire piotection and gaihage collection services fffi nils levied a 4 2 null special set vice district tax two years ago hut eliminated it last yeai because that fund had a smplus denuding to Countx uditoi I iiileen Gibbons rii.il smplus was used up last xi'ai Imcmg otlicials to icimposc the spec ml sei u e tax this year, she With the addition of the said one mill countx wide increase, residents of the county uninccu pen ated aiea face a total meiease of about 2 mills undei the budget pioposal Howexei then taxes would he "inx u i,i nulls higliei than thex weie m psi) the last tune the spue ml m iui e tux w as imposed Mu-- t itsidtnts would see then i opc nntx taxes me l ease fiom P ini'l . to lli to mills The owni'l c . " of a $20 non home could expcc t to Mil p.jx The to 40 total bleaks clow n into 12 1 mill-lo- i mills tm the geneial hind the countx lihiaix system 2 nulls fm Hood conti ol and it 5 null-lo- i 1 djntdl pi ole t bind Residents of the inline oi pointed neas ol the countx would see their taxes me lease to 20 to mills oi $102 foi the ownei of a $7) 000 home meanwhile County employees aie scheduled tor a 2 percent ui.t of living i aise nuclei the prop used budget Mis Gibbons said a 1 c he budget also c ontinues a tieeze on lining new employees Thefieeze was imposed this summer when ulticidls weie piojecting a substanx enue shortfall tial HIM Most ot the countx s departments aie included m the general fund is slated fm $0 7 million m expemhtme- - an me lease of almost which $'100 000 oxer estimated PM spend mg levels The combined budgets of the and the countx iail will of that ac eount tot about increase The sheuft w ho ox hugest and most expensive will see his county department budget meiease about $171000 to lust oxei $1 0 million Meanwhile the recently expanded jail winch has neailx doubled in population in the hist yeai becomes the second most expensive departmental item m the budget The jail will itceixe $274 000 in 11S2 about sU)0 ooo mote than it did in thi 2 he ouu'x w ill al-- n hax e to spend See Page NIL 2 shentl MMiiiViyywvwvmiw one-thir- d in 1 |
