Show Council Settles on Asking Mayor For Say in Some Appointments By Russell Weeks Tribune Staff Writer Irked over Mayor Palmer Defaults' appointment in September of a financial adviser for the city Salt Lake City Council Vice Chairman W M "Willie" Stoler proposed Thursday to seek legislation to give the council advice and consent power over future selections of that kind Despite arguments by Mr Stoler and Councilwoman Florence Bittner in favor of the proposal the council opted at its committee of the whole meeting to send the mayor a letter seeking a voice in the mayor's appointments of financial advisers Councilman Alan Hardman suggested the letter as a compromise after it became clear that stances over Mr Stoler's proposal had reached an impasse Mr Stoler initially raised objections to the mayor's appointment in early September after the mayor r awarded a contract to Erlich Bober & Co Inc to advise the city on financial matters such as bond issues The councilman s objections included the position that former city treasurer Cheryl Cook held with the firm's local office Mr Stoler said two-yea- —Trtone $io Pvo tv Pout ffougwoo Veterans Day patriotic concert at Univer sity of Utah’s Huntsman Center Friday crowd of about 5000 people listens to the 23rd Army Band during 33rd annual A Patriotic Concert Caps Tribute to Veterans About 5 000 people capped their Veterans Day celebration Friday with a rousing musical celebration in the University of Utah s Huntsman Center 23rd Members of the Army Band under the direction of Chief Warrant Officer Norman Wendel and the combined Granite School District high school choruses provided a full program of patriotic music The large center was decorated with the flags of all 50 states and a giant American flag that stretched across two sections of seats The popular 33rd annual free concert was sponsored by The Salt Luke Tnbune the Honorary Colonels Corps of Utah and the Utah National Guapd Many people in the large crowd were dressed in uniform and many others stood proudly as the band played the theme of their branch of the service The choir supervised by Dr Ellis C Worthen began its presentation with a narrated song titled The Miracle of America " Our forefathers fought for a nation that would not fall" said Staff Sgt Larry J Wadsworth during his narration "It's been 200 years and we still stand united the in liberty our Constitution rock of prosperity " During a special presentation of the song "In This Very Boom ' the choir members sang the lyrics using sign language Mike Farley of West Valley City said he's been attending the Veterans Day concerts for the past four years "I had an uncle killed in Korea" he said "I was never in the service myself but this is a good reminder of what this day is all about Plus I like the music" Since 1954 Veterans Day has been set aside to honor the nation's more than 38 million soldiers sailors and airmen who have fought for their country in the U S Armed Forces since the Revolutionary War More than 15 million of those serving were wounded and nearly 600000 were killed The concert ended with a medley of patriotic John Philip Sousa marches then that the contract award smacked of the "good ol' boy syndrome" because Ms Cook served in the Ted Wilson and DePaulis administrations He also contended that when Ms Cook was treasurer she led a group of officials that advised the council to go along with a December 1986 agreement between the city and the Housing Development Corp that lent the city's credit rating to a project to build 330 units of elderly housing The project failed threatening the city's credit rating Mayor DePaulis termed Mr Stoler's assertions as unfounded and ridiculous and speculated that they were the product of "political weird- ness" Nevertheless Mr Stoler sought a legal opinion from City Attorney Roger Cutler on whether the appointment of a financial adviser was subject to council review advice and consent i’akf Sribnnr (The Jiyalt Suturduv Morning: — November 12 Section K Mr Cutler advised him the council had no authority to do that but the council could seek to amend state law to obtain advice and consent power over the appointment Thursday Mr Stoler proposed that the council do exactly that but ran into immediate opposition Council Chairman Tom Godfrey called the issue "picayune" and said it had more to do with whom the mayor had appointed than the appointment process I'd just as soon not waste time on it" he said Councilwomen Sydney Fonnex-beeand Roselyn Kirk were less blunt in their analysis of Mr Stoler's proposal but agreed with Mr Godfrey They contended that seeking legislation to extend the council s power of review could hold up more important measures before the Legisla‘ k ture The proposal also probably would receive little support from the Utah League of Cities & Towns the main legislative lobbyist for cities because of its potential to pit city councils against mayors and city managers they said Mayor DePaulis chief of staff Mike Zuhl told the council that the mayor saw appointing a financial adviser as a function of the executive branch of city government and said the mayor would organize mayors against the proposed measure if it got to the Legislature Councilwoman Bittner acknowledged that promoting Mr Stoler's proposal in the Legislature would be unrealistic without support from other cities I Page Nevertheless she strongly argued in favor of it Telling Mr Godfrey "you're making an assumption I resent" she con tended that the council's power of the purse and the smallness of its staff made council review of ap pointments of financial advisers es sential "We have to rely on the mayor s selections We have to vote on bond issues but we have nothing to say about who he selects to advise us" Mrs Bittner said Noting that the council was a coequal branch of city government Mrs Bittner said Mayor DePaulis opposition to Mr Stoler s proposal showed he was reluctant to share power with the council If the mayors saying ‘no’ lie s got a reason and that's my reason for saying vex ' she said Mr Godfrey argued that financial advice over matters such as bonding was so complex and the council's understanding of it so limited that it would be better to leave selecting financial advisers to the mayor and committees made up of men such as finance director Lance Bateman treasurer Buzz Hunt and airport director Louis Miller "I’m sorry folks you don't have the background for it It would almost be an embarrassment to the council if we turned down a financial adviser for the wrong reason" he said "Politicians are always embarrassing themselves" Mr Stoler replied The debate finally led to an informal vote on Mr Stoler s proposal in which Mr Stoler and Mrs Bittner found themselves on the losing end bv a margin 5-- 2 Utah ’98 Olympic Bid? Mayor’s Chief of Staff Visits Minnesota By Russell Weeks Tribune Staff Writer A Salt Lake City official fW to Minneapolis Friday to assess the city 's chances of bidding for the 998 Winter Olympic Games Mayoral chief of staff Mike Zuhl left Friday morning to attend a two-dameeting of the U S Olympic Committee He is scheduled to return Sunday Mayor Palmer DePaulis said he dispatched Mr Zuhl to the meeting merelyas an observer The move is part of a larger strategy to have the city ready to make a bid for the Winter Olympics should the Olympic Committee decide to reopen competition among cities in the nation to bid to be host of the 1998 Games The city's chances hinge solely on a decision by the committee on whether to stay with an earlier choice of Anchorage Alaska as the nation's representative for bidding on the event If the committee decides to stick with Anchorage that city would prepare a bid to take before the Interna 1 tional Olympic Committee in 1992 for the 1998 Games and preliminary preparations by city officials would be shelved If the committee decides to reopen Anchorage's position to further competition Salt Lake City would submit a bid probably within six to eight months Although some have said Anchorage's position as the U S bidder has weakened since it originally was selected Mayor DePaulis has publicly declined to promote Salt Lake City as an alternative He told reporters Nov 3 that he would honor an earlier resolution and public statements by Salt Lake City officials that congratulated and backed Anchorage as the bidder for the 1998 Games Nevertheless the mayor has sent It tiers to about 20 people requesting them to serve on an Olympic organizing committee Those people haven not replied yet so the makeup of the panel remains uncertain the mayor said Three confirmed members of the committee are Citv Council Vice Chairman "Willie" WM Stoler: Councilman Alan Hardman and Councilwoman Roselyn N Kirk Council Chairman Tom Godfrey appointed the three as the council's representatives Thursday night Mayor DePaulis said the rest of the committee would be a mixture of businessmen and representatives of other sections of the community Despite his public reticence about the city's chances to bid for the games the mayor said Salt Lake City would be a good site for the games Should the city ultimately win the international bidding holding the 1998 Winter Games could change the city's image forever he said Although confident that the city could easily answer economic and environmental concerns that holding a Winter Olympics would raise the mayor said the city would proceed cautiously If the U S Olympic Committee selected Salt Lake City as its representative to submit a bid to the International Olympic Committee the city would hold a referendum on whether residents would support the 1998 Winter Games The referendum like- ly would be held during the 1989 general elections he said The mayor's decision to form a new committee if the US Olympic Committee reopens competition stems from two things: — Cities are the only entities that can submit bids as sites of Olympic Games — The recent flap caused by a city audit of Better Utah Inc a corporation formed to promote amateur sporting events in Utah including attracting Olympic events After the city audit of Better Utah Inc the mayor emphasized the city's position as the sole entity to submit a bid for holding Olympic Games and the city's distance from Better Utah Inc Better Utah Inc is connected to the Utah Sports Foundation Inc another corporation with the same function as Better Utah Inc David R Johnson is the executive director of both organizations A city audit of Better Utah Inc found among other things that the non-prof- non-prof- organization kept few financial records or other methods of accounting for money the city had granted it Moreover the audit questioned about $20 000 worth of expenses Better Utah Inc had billed the city and that the city had paid The audit also found apparent double-billing- s in which Better Utah Inc had billed the city for expenses that the state of Utah already had paid In addition it found instances where the organizatiqn allegedly billed the city for airline tickets that were complimentary The city began the audit because the State Legislative Auditor General's Office notified officials that it was auditing the Utah Sports Foundation That audit is scheduled to be released Wednesday The state awarded the foundation a contract in 1986 to promote amateur sports after officials decided to privatize the Utah Sports Office Mr Johnson directed the Utah Sports Office After the city audit s release Mr Johnson denied that any double-bil- l ing of city revenues had occurred He also showed city officials that although Better Utah Inc had spent city money on items and events that didn't promote amateur sports it had spent an equal amount of other revenue on events that did promote amateur sports Nevertheless Mayor DePaulis called Better Utah Inc's expenses a "breach of trust" with the city "His Mr Johnson's) bookkeeping was sloppy messy and he gave us bad figures That's why I called it a breach of trust and that's why I don’t want to do business with him the mayor said That extends to Mr Johnsons presence in Minneapolis this weekend He and David Adams executive director of the state Department of Community and Economic Develop ment also are attending the US Olympic Committee meeting Mayor DePaulis said The mayor said he instructed Mr Zubl to make it clearly know n that he was the city's only representative at the meeting Developer: Grand County Had Its Chance A Waste Burner MOAB (API — A Denver developer whose plan to locate a hazardous-wastincinerator at Cisco was rejected by Grand County voters says he will try Green River Dean Norris president of CoWest Incineration Corp said in a telephone interview that voters in the Moab area made a mistake voting to hazardous-wast- incinerators keep out of Grand County Norris said be intends to take his multi million dollar pi oject to Green River Emery County where he san' i ttv officials repeatedly have indicat e Jim Kent Utah School Board OKs Budget Plan for Green River? To Increase State Local Spending ed interest in the development "We are looking at Green River We have been for about a year That ground is zoned and it's ready to go so we re going to proceed with it" Norris said CoWest first proposed building a commercial hazardous-wastincinerator 30 miles northeast of Moab and 18 miles west of the Colorado border on 80 acres in Cisco the company bought from the county CoWest now has its eye on a 200 acre parrel in eastern Green River e Dies Ex-Newspaper- Funeral services will be held Monday for James E Kent former employee of TheSalt Lake Tribune and Newspaper Agency Corporation who ded Thursday in a Salt Lake City hospital He was 67 Mr Kent was born Feb 10 1921 m Stanley N M He grew up in Santa l e N M and Duchesne Ilegraduat ed from Duchesne High School and later worked for TheSalt Lake Tnb mie from 1944 to 1952 He then worked for the Newspaper Agency Corporation until his retirement in March 1986 He later married Barrett Ainot on Aug 24 1963 in Salt Lake City He was a member and served on the board of the Newspaper Emplov Geor-giann- e ees Credit Union and was active in the leadership of the International Typographer's Union Survivors include his wife three sons Larry Kent Dale Kent and C raig Kent two daughters Jtl Waite and Susan Hoffman 12 grandchildren two great grandchildren Iwo brothers and two sisters Funeral services will be begin at 2 pm at the Christ United Methodist Church 2375 E 3300 South Burial services will be held at the Wasatch Law n Memorial Park 3401 S Highland Dr The familv requests contributioriv in Mr Kent s name be made to the Christ United Methodist Memorial Foundation Driver Falls Asleep Crashes on Spi ciai to The Tnbune SOUTH k LT LAKE — A 31-ar old Boiin'iful man escaped in iurv I t id iv rimming afn i he fill isb ep at tin nec and lolled hi- ve bide on Intel stall 15 mat 3200 - v south 'tic I Patrol tab lligbwav said ( is on i ginnva'd stud i — in w tin I’mui m k' a — wav at 8 a in w llio treewav whin t itii'ue inenauie him and he hoc I! dl d ill’ id f the loll vide ot the r M ii in I oi nil load iirt noi n (1 mi I 15 When Mr Ferrers vehicle left the roadway he awoke He sending the vehicle skidding sideways m the median until it struck a guardrail and flippi d onto Os top Trooper Turn r said I i net who wav wearing i ''idi w :iv fit i flit dl iv mg a' a t vpeed greater than leasonable ding to Speed statutes vim tan cm drive as fast as mu are aide — and lie was asleep Troopei Mar tin ed 51 ar 1-- - 0 ( v ' v about 47 miles northwest of Moab and about 60 miles west of the Colorado border Norris said During the past year a New York energy company joined CoWest in the venture and an engineering firm in Salt Lake City designed plans for the proposed four-uni- t incinerator of New Catalyst York and El Dorado Engineering of Salt Lake are still involved in the project Norris said The company has yet to file applications for construction permits from the state Air Quality and Solid & Hazardous Waste bureaus Application had been delayed while CoWest waited for Grand County to zone the area for heavy industry On Tuesday voters rejected the zoning change and ousted tw o county commissioners who had supported the project Norris said the company did not make any concerted effort to influence tlu election He said he was disturbed by the defeat of the commissioners and contended his project was forced out by lies innuendoes and misinformation I think the people of Moab made a big mistake when they removed two very good commissioners and commissioners from office who had nothing but the best interest of Grand County at heart" he said He said CoWest has no immediate plans for developing its Cisco property but is continuing to work with other companies on an industrial park concept I have no idea if we 11 dispose of the property " he said We intend to do something with it not that I want to discuss " Green River appears to be a good ptnsped toi the incinerator because No the city is all behind it and the gtound is remote and its on mancos shale it s right on a rail on a m qot highwav has water and we Norris suul van g' t to it Waste-to-Energ- y ' ' ' 1 By Peter Scarlet Tribune Education Editor The Utah State Board of Education Friday approved a budget recommendation for the state's basic program but only after the board's vice chairwoman suggested a change in wording But even the wording change wasn't enough to avoid a split vote Two members Margaret Nelson and M Richard Maxfield voted against it and two others public-educatio- n Valerie Kelson and Darlene The reHutchison abstained maining five members' a bare majority approved it Built on the current 1988-8budget the recommendation calls for $80 6 million or a 9 1 percent overall increase of local and state spending or a $74 9 million or 114 percent increase in state spending if local revenues are parted out With both state and local revenues figured in the recommendation calls for a 5 percent rise in the weighted pupil unit tWPUi The WI’U is the principal feature in the formula used by the state to subsidize the state's 40 local school districts It is distributed on the basis of student enrollment The increase is built in the form of six prioritized building blocks in a form Gov Norm Bangerter asked for from education and other state agencies after he took office four years ago This way if only enough revenues are available to fund a portion of the re quest the highest priority items will have the most likely chance of being funded Prompting the division among boatd members was the wav the building blocks were prioritized Ms Nelson and Dr Maxfield took exception to listing $1 3 mil lion for state srhool board re forms as the fourth priority — hind program be- funding restorations student enrollmen' growth and money for rising health insurance and salary schedule maintenance for teachers "I don't like this reformsl as item four If we wait until we have a surplus to fund reform we'll never see a change in education said Dr Maxfield The reforms are for programs aimed at drop students testing and technology "I have heard nothing to indicate that local school districts are leading the way to reform While reform ideas may germinate at the local level we re the prodding factor I remember when reform " preceded the WPU and growth Ms Nelson said Her comment referred to the board's decision several years ago to place its reforms m first place among its budget recommendaout-pron- e tions Board members later barked away from the position the governor when legislators and other facets of Utah s education community questioned the idea of spending limited dollais for slate board reform programs before allocating the money to pay for schooling additional students enrolling in public schools "Too much emphasis has been placed on consensus You do what you feel the public wants and what's best" Ms Nelson said Alignment with the rest of the education community shouldn t take precedence she added Keith Uherketts the board thairnian said the board should be concerned about an altitude of the clops fall letting ' wlo-i- Kiev lllliv Tlie common theme among citi zenx concerned about tax limit i lion initiatives defeated m tlu Nm H elei lion was that people didn t want public schooling or teachers hurt Reform dollars don t always get spent in the classroom People want reform but not at the expense of the basic educational program Dr Checketts said "To me program restoration is a lower priority than reform said Dr Maxfield The common theme I detected in the campaign was that education was not efficient but wasteful The public desperately wants reform and new and innovative systems Citizens opposed the initiatives because radical funding cuts would have rendered reform impossible" said Ms Nelson Ruth Hardy Funk the boards vice chairwoman broke the impasse by suggesting the first three priorities — program restoration funding the 4 80U additional expected to enroll next fall and funding health insmame and salary schedules — he lumped to form a categorv she called the foundation — the base upon who h she said the edui aboil svstem was built After this she said refoims the fourth priority could be lenum-tiereas one with the fifth and sixth priorities following as two and three We 11 still never get to reform if it tlu state appropriation hm public schooling is less than million Reform is minimal enough at $1 3 million It should be I used a few notches said Ms ' e s I Nelson Wind oil! call foundation p I o grams an the stutfv busincs- Horn:' Refoi ni is finding new road added I’ shill oat d nieiubei to d gi Mis a t t in focus appi ecomnic nd a Find s suggt stint o e ou she t In with wilding |