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Show !4A The Salt Lake Tribune, Friday, February 7, 1986 'Don't Be Too Discouraged,' Governor Tells Her Coretta Scott King Gets Utah Cheers, But No Holiday coatinued From A-- 1 411.on a 4 vote, clearing the required 38 votes needed for passage. .And at least one representative to stand and clap when Mrs. King was introduced to the House. '!. But Mrs. King was undaunted. And llier visit, and the reaction to it, seemed to symbolize Sen. Williams' ;mutter pronouncement that the issue of a Martin Luther King holiday is the type of issue "that brings out the best lin us, and brings out the worst in us." , 42-2- "He became the conscience of the nation during his time," Mrs. King said of her husband, who is credited with guiding the unprecedented civil-righmovement of the 1950s and '60s that led to the Civil Rights Act of 1964. "It is important we keep that conscience alive and well and not let it go to sleep," she told the Senate in her morning address. Mrs. King said her husband "spoke for the defenseless, the voiceless and the downtrodden. I dream of the day ts when all Americans can look at this Martin Luther King day as truly an American day and feel good about it." Sen. Dona Wayment, praised Mrs. King's late husband for bringing about change through nonviolent means. "I lived in California and saw some of the violent parts of the civil-righrevolution," she said. "It was a welcome change when Martin Luther King Jr. was marching for revolution." a Sen. Wayment said she felt a bond ts non-viole- :Tarents Make Pleas Tor the Disabled At the First Baptist Church, Mrs. King, president of the Atlanta-baseMartin Luther King Center for Nonviolent Social Change, reminded her audience the third Monday in January is already a federal holiday honoring Dr. King, and 47 other states have ratified the notion by passing June Park represented 50 parents with adult handicapped offspring enrolled at South Valley Training Co. All desperately need transportation funding, she said, since many of the parents are too old and disabled to transport them themselves. non-viole- "George Washington presided over the violent revolution in America," she said. "Martin Luther King Jr. prerevolusided over the non-viole- egies. "It is important we teach our children how to love, rather than how to hate," she added. non-viole- tion." She said it is not her husband a :-- , ... that it q , s; ... .., , rp,,,,,,, , .. '.... .,.,, :e.,, .,, .....,.. 34 ,N- . , , , ,s, Leslie Siemer wanted help for her brother John Berry, 22, who suffered head injuries when his bicycle was hit by a car. a No services are available for victims like John, she said. 1 head-traum- ' lis P "He is one of 500 persons a year leas. 'There is a great need for all voices representing the handicapped and retarded to be united," Mrs. Miles said. "As community programs progress so should growth and development at the institution." Mrs. Miles was one of nine people testifying on behalf of the Legislative Coalition for People with Handicaps which represents 50 advocacy organizations. The federal government is pressing states to provide its handicapped citizens with better active treatment programs and more community residential care, fiscal analyst J. Winslow said. But he said there also "is a real crisis" in funding day treatment programs and transportation services. 'While populations and waiting lists are growing, Mr. Winslow said neither his budget recommendations nor Gov. Norm Bangerter's offer any increases for inflation or utilization for contracted services purchased by the Division of Services to the Handicapped. 'This represents a very probable reduction in programs," he cautioned legislators. Mr. Winslow recommends funding the division at $35,581,000 next year, 8201,500 more than the governor suggests. The analyst's recommendation is $233,800 higher than the present 'budget. His figures also don't account for the at least $900,000 needed for Utah State Training School to meet federal guidelines so that it won't be decertified and lose its Medicaid budget, Mr. Winslow said. if legislators wish to meet the active treatment standards, it will probably cost them $55,000 annually per training school client, he said. Present cost is $32,000. The median cost nationwide is $40,150 per client in institutions, Mr. Winslow added. One of the school's main failings is that employees "tend to do things for people rather than teaching them how to do things for themselves," he said. If the school really plans to reduce its population by 300 clients to approximately 400 residents, the state mUst decide how much of the campus is needed, the analyst said. Since 1975, Utah's institutionalized handicapped population has decreased from 1,350 to 689 people, DSH employee Susan Behle told legislators, while group-hom- e population has increased from 30 individuals to more than 300. The state which had less than 200 sheltered workshops has 1,100 now and has increased its preschool services from 100 children to 1,425. In accordance with its master plan, the division moved 60 people from the training school to community residential programs last year, Ms. Behle said, but 120 people actually were moved to settings. Individuals testifying for the Legislative Coalition included Trisha Beck Downs syndrome whose son wasn't expected to live. Not only did doctors tell Mrs. Beck that Richard wouldn't live, they told her he'd never drink from a bottle or a cup, be able to eat with a spoon, crawl or walk. He does all those things now but probably couldn't have without early intervention programs, she said. Sue Ann Cotonuts brought her 15- month-ol- d daughter up from the Uintah Basin. Lena is in a coma suffered In a car accident. Doctors have told Mrs. Cotonuts that Lena will need therapy when she wakes up, but no services are available. She urged passage of Senate Bill 50 which mandates preschool ser- injured," she said. "After all the efforts we've made and all he's done, it's a shame that he might not recover as fully as he can because there is no help." Debra Mair, Utah Independent Living Center director, supported the assistance program personal-car- e that hires attendants for physically handicapped people. Kevin Likes explained how he became independent last year via the program. He said he would have been in a nursing home without it because his parents are too old to care for Kris Fawson of Mapleton introduced her son, Shane. Shane is in a workshop program and said his favorite day is the 15th of each month when he gets a paycheck. His mother urged funding for more workshops and more community residential programs. ,I 1 ca.....). 0 ,,, 0 ,,,,, Qt,....-.,..,:,,,,,, Cami Juretich, 3, gets a little antsy as the adults, including Nakao of Handicapped Services, discuss how to pro- - Lawmakers Warned to Weigh that the Senate sponsor "prepared in a couple of days." Sen. Warren E. Pugh, Lake, took no issue with the governor's posture or set of facts surrounding his measure. "I didn't come here to sell you on the bill. I've come to alert you to the problem," the senator told the House GOP wing Thursday. The "problem," he said, is a property-e tax burden on low- - or residents, such as the elderly and widows, whose incomes are failing to keep pace with home values. His solution is shifting the burden to those "best able to pay." to study the proposal lt fixed-incom- Bills Introduced HB307 (Cromar) Provide on optional semi- oLEGISLATIVE1 i3in uoy HOUSE Bills Passed HB122 (Christensen) Amend law requiring the furnishing of proof of automobile insurance by motorists. By House 589 (Carling) Clarify the jurisdiction of circuit courts to determine foreclosure actions. By House 57-SB15 (Coning) Provide criminal penalties for unauthorized acts involving computers. By House 62-5B17 (Williams) Declare state holiday to honor Martin Luther King Jr. on the third Monday in January. By House SB55 (Money) Add the state health department director to the Soil Conservation Commission. By House 58-SB77 (HI Ilyard) Provide that fees collected for motor vehicle license plates be dedicated costs. By House 57-to plate-relate- d SB108 (Carling) Clarify penalties for certain offenses involving driving under the Influence of alcohol and drugs. By House 57-- annual payment of property taxes. HB308 (Adams) Allow counties to keep excess amounts in a county property tax trust fund that result from a decrease in total assessed valuation in that county. HB309 (Dmitrich) Require automobile insurance premiums to be discounted for person meeting certain qualifications. HB310 (Stephens) Require a local school board to certify its proposed tax rate to the Board of County Commissioners. H8311 (Brown) Provide election or 0PPointment of commissioners of cemetery mointenance districts. HB312 (Selleneit) Prohibit a government entity from paying damages, and allowing the government to recover attorney's fees and court cost in cases arising from an employees bad faith acts. HB313 (Bradford) Amend the powers counties and cities have to control the addressing and naming of public and private streets and improvements within their respective lurisdictions. HB314 (White) Before child adoption, provide a period of time to establish paternity by alleged father after the child's birth. HB315 (Pace, Burningham, Bishop) Establish evaluation procedures and criteria for educators In public schools. HB316 (Yardley) Provide retention elections for lustices of the peace. Resolutions Introduced HCR 15 (Karras, et al.) Honor Jim McMahon for being a Utahn and quarterbacking the Chicago Bears tn victory In Super Bowl X X. HCR 16 (Christensen, et al.) Pledge that the Legislature, governor and state agencies continue to adopt polices enhancing economic development; and encourage the expansion and development of Utah's natural , resources. SENATE Bills In 20-- 5B119 (Carling) Amendments to the probate code. By Senate 23-HB13 (Walker) Create a budget reserve account for any revenue surplus. By Senate , 22-- , , 1 t - Rep. Stephen J. Rees -- The Tribune inadvertently ran the wrong photograph in its Thursday editions. The picture intended to be that of Rep. Stephen J. Rees was in actuality a photo of Rep. Brent Goodfellow. The Tribune regrets the error. c HB43 (White) Add parttime members to the Board of Pardons. By Senate 24-HB80 (Bradford) Revamp statutes related to the structures of state and local school boards. By Senate 23-HB82 (Bradford) Revamp statutes related to state textbook commission and other public education facilities and functions. By Son. . ate HB84 (Walker) Coordinate ludicial proceedings in child abuse, neglect and depen. dency cases. By Senate HB110 (White) Establish a program for displaced homemakers. By Senate 17-HB149 (E. Knowlton) Require certain information In redevelopment agency budgets and audits flied with the state auditor. By . Senate Bills Introduced SB213 (Rogers) Change the conditions upon which the Utah Housing Finance Agencv shall repay a 1981 mar opriation. and asSB214 (Cornaby) Corporations sumed name amendments. 58215 (Carling) increase the amount of service charge which may be imposed by the holder of a fraudulent check, 'Senate Bill The Pugh proposal due for its first committee hearing next week would totally eliminate the state's school fund levy, which now generates from WO million to $200 million a year. To make up that revenue, Sen. Pugh advocates eliminating the federal-income tax payment Utahns deduct on their state returns (worth about $127 million), raising the state's corporate franchise tax from 5 percent to 6.25 percent (worth about $15 million) and hike Utah's personal income tax rates, including the top bracket from 7.75 percent to 9 percent (worth sorae $62 million). Mr. Memmott said preliminary. 75, I Tribune Staff Photo by Don Miller vide services for Utah's handicapped children and grown-Gar- y ups under the tight budget constraints facing the state. Relief Property-Ta- x ing an "economic development" concern, he noted that Utah businesses are already paying the lowest general tax rates in the western United figures suggest that dumping the school levy would state's 21.28-mistill create an overall POO, or 12 percent, increase in other taxes for the typical Salt Lake County family that earns $30,000 a year and lives in a ll States. Sen. Pugh conceded the shift would mean Utah households collectively would pay some $42 million more in state taxes, while businesses and other payers would pay about PI million less. "Our big problem in balancing our budget this year, next year and the year following is the school system," the senator stressed. He told representatives they could rationalize the tax shift by pointing out that "businesses don't have kids. It's people who have them." RAO home. "It could be perceived as a tax increase without any increases in benefits or services," he advised. If lawmakers later decided that education warranted a significant tax hike, property taxes may be the only option they could consider, he said. "I think the governor believes we must protect the tax base for education," Mr. Memmott said. In address Legislator In The Spotlight Tax Exemption Panel OKs Bill to Entice Foreign Corporations By Dan Bates Tribune Staff Writer A Utah House panel approved another "economic-developmenbill Thursday, this one geared to pychologically raise the state's appeal with corporations. House Bill 178 would exempt foreign-based companies from paying Utah's "unitary tax" on their non-Uearnings. The measure also would apply the tax on only half of the incomes American companies net in other countries. T9 the state, the net effect would be a $21million to $6 million annual loss in Utah's uniform school fund. Advocates claim attracting new businesses, in theory, would offset that in time by generating more revenue from other tax sources, such as property, sales and personal income. t" multi-nation- As Passed SB118 (Carling) Clarify offenses included one element of second degree murder. By Senate - , 0 "I'm employed full time and have accomplished my goals and desires in life," he said, "of being an individual and being independent." By Dan Bates Tribune Staff Writer Gov. Norm Bangerter's chief of staff warned state lawmakers Thursday to weigh the gravity of what a radical property-ta- x relief measure could spell overall for Utah's tax base and taxpayers. Jon Memmott, the Legislature's former chief counsel, told House Republicans convened in caucus that his new boss fears a $200 million tax shift as proposed in a Senate bill may be too much too fast. Conveying the governor's "concerns," Mr. Memmott urged legislators to take "tax equity and an ability to pay" into account, along with time ''' 1 ' 5 him. -- vices. o--- "He taught what could be done with the strategies of bringing about social means," change through she said. "And it is important we teach our children how to solve constratflicts by using those ington. d )(7,A By Carol Sisco Tribune Staff Writer No matter where handicapped people are served, their parents want them to be "loved and nurtured and Ind in an atmosphere of growth and development." Those feelings are universal, testified Claudia Miles on Thursday before the Health and Social Services Appropriations Subcommittee. The mother of a Utah State Training School resident said the state should assure all parents no is important to remember as much as what he symbolized. their own state holidays in honor of her late husband. She noted that only two people are honored by name with federal holiDr. King and George Washdays with Mrs. King because they were both widows. The two women later embraced outside the Senate sponsoring Rep. Franklin Knowlton. admonished House Revenue and Taxation Committee members: "This bill is very complicated. Sometimes you feel you understand part of it but not all of it." He conceded "very few do understand it," whether lawmakers or not. But the committee heard endorsements for the bill from spokesmen for Utah's mining and manufacturing sectors, the Greater Salt Lake Area Chamber of Commerce, the Utah State Tax Commission and others. That was good enough for most committee members, who cleared the bill for full House action later. Only Rep. Lloyd Frandsen, Jordan, had questions. If the state's economic development competitiveness is not enhanced by modifying the tax, "then all we do is lose $4 million for the uniform school fund," he surmised. Mark Buchi, the tax commission's chairman, said the measure is designed to to lay to rest concerns of many foreign industries, such as in Japan and Great Britain, that Utah is cool to their expansion or relocation here. Elimination of the unitary tax from the foreign earnings of foreign. based companies would indicate Utah was "not trying to touch their parents' income," said Mr. Buchi. The tax money itself amounts to "peanuts" to most corporate giants, Mr. Buchi said, estimating the tax raises overall from $8 million to $12 million for the state each year. One industry spokesman said Utah is among other unitary-ta- x states that foreign ventures see as "the dirty dozen." Modifying Utah's tax would at least temper the state to "the half-dirt- y dozen." By retaining the tax on 50 percent of what American companies make elsewhere, the proposal "minimizes the revenue loss" and fails to "leave the small businessman holding the bag" for lost revenue, Mr. Buchi said. Taken out of its global context, the unitary tax is really Utah's 5 percent corporate franchise tax, which all companies would still pay in full for activities based here. But the problem is some companies could protect their Utah earnings from the tax by shifting income reporting to states with low or no corporate taxes. The Utah Legislature ordered the State Tax Commission to moderate the tax administratively last year. But Rep. Knowlton said many companies prefer the policy be set by statute "so they know where they stand with our tax law." 13:: - 4'...A -. ) Al.' ) , 1114N irl 7 it Iv ;;;:''''';:4;:,6.,,:4 ,,,, , ',:7;;', ,,,,,,- -, y Rep. Lee Allen Rep. Lee Allen, represents one of the largest and most geographically strange districts in the Utah House of Representatives District 1 which ranges from irrigated farms in Box Elder County to the desert military installations of Tooele County. Rep. Allen farms in unincorpo- rated East Garland and runs a real estate business in Tremonton in Box Elder County. To travel to the extremes in his district, say Wendover or lbapah in Tooele County, he either has to go through Nevada on a bleak state highway in northwestern Box Elder, or drive the freeway through four other counties. or as he says "paddle a canoe across the Great Salt Lake." He is one who wishes to preserve temporarily a state flood control fund for the lake, and, when it is to be tapped, putting the money into upstream Bear River water reclamation '1 |
