Show Serving Utah’s Great Pahvant Valley Della Utah $20 00 in 00 out ot county 6 months $13 00 (In Advance) Copy 50® Senior Citizens (65 and older) $18 00 in county $20 00 out of USPS County Vol 79 No 30 Jan 26 1989 Waste limit bill proposed by Ken Rand State Representative Joseph Moody Delta plans to introduce a bill that would effectively limit the number of hazardous waste disposal facilities that could be built in Utah “The idea came from a fellow by the name of Alan Miller” Moody said “He got in touch with me and asked if was interested in it and I told him I was think we want to change it a little bit but I think the idea is a good one” Left to right: Jackie Johnson If Sherilyn Lovell HB 46 Rex Butterfield and becomes law it will be largely due to the efforts of these and other students at Delta High School Mouse okays student bill by Ken Rand A bill drafted by the Delta High School Student Council cleared the state House of Representatives Tuesday Jan 17 and is now being considered by the Senate House Bill 46 passed on a vote of The bill introduced by Rep Joseph Moody Delta would repeal a law that became effective last year that earmarked revenue from vending machines in public schools for use in buying textbooks and other supplies DHS students say that revenue belongs to the students not the school system Estimates of revenue from the machines statewide vary from $12 million up to $6 million each year DHS Student Body President Rex Butterfield along with Student Council members Sherilyn Johnson and Jackie Lovell presented the case for passage of the bill to the House Education Standing Committee Monday 16 Council members Bobbie Jan Porter and Laurel Simmons were also of the student delegation present part at the committee hearing After discussing the bill for about an hour the committee voted 9 to 4 to forward it to the House floor “I was really proud of those students” Moody said “They did a super job They were well prepared and the members of the education committee were really impressed with them” Butterfield told committee members current law is unfair “We think we’re being discriminated against” he said “The vending machines for the facul ty aren’t included in the law It’s just the ones from the students The fourteenth Amendment says we all have the right to life Fberty and property and we thought that meant we saw the benefits of what our property was Our vending machines were purchased in the name of the school and we are responsible to keep them filled and for their upkeep Now we get no benefit” Johnson DHS Honor Society President told committee members there is an education value to students spending the money from the machines “1 helped them realize maybe that it isn’t just as if the s'udents are spending it themselves” she said “but that we have advisors and principals we have to go through so they’re not just hanchunk a of money back to us ding big What better way to learn how to spend money than practical use?” sales at high Vending machine schools have traditionally betn used to activities like pay for extracurricular field trips speech and debate tournaments student council activities and dances That was before passage of the law earmarking the revenues for textbooks Lovell DHS President told committee members how the money would likely be used at Delta “1 told them in the past how we had remodeled the commons area and put in a nice tile floor and furnished it with tables and chairs” she said “I told them that this year we put flags in every classroom We also recognize certain students who have been outstanding in the school students who try to better the school with a mug we give them that says ‘Delta High School’ on it It’s really nice” Lovell also said students would like to schedule a field trip at the end of each term for those students who have not missed a day that term “It would be an educational field trip” she said “where we’d go to a news station or to the state prison or something like that" Without the vending machine money Lovell said the activities she described to the committee could not be done Utah Education Association President Jim Campbell said the current law is a hinderance He said students have had to stop participating in some activities because their families are too poor to pay specialty fees State PTA President Darlene Gubler said parents are upset because they now have to pay for activities that once were paid for by the machines Other PTA officials said the vending machines earned as much as $36000 a year at Highland High but Salt Lake City School District Business Manager Gary Harmer said the figure was more like $8000 to $9000 at Highland and East Associate Superintendent Dr Riley O’Neil said Granite District the state’s largest earns about $160000 per year from the machines The vending machines at Delta High School earn $500 to $600 per quarter Butterfield estimated Lovell said the See BILL page 2 County faces ‘complex’ issues by Ken Rand Millard County officials are studying what impact a court decision in favor of Union Pacific's suit against the state tax commission will have on county relations with the Intermountain Power Agency A federal district court late last year ruled in favor of Union Pacific Railroad’s claim that simply put the state was taxing company property too much Like the railraod IPA properby the property ty is tax division of the state tax commission while business and residential prois tax assessed by county perty assessors proBy state law perty is taxed at 100 percent of value other property is taxed at 80 percent UP as well as Southern Pacific and Denver and Rio Grande sought relief under what is called the “Four R ct” a federal law That law provides that railroads may not be taxed more than five percent above the average of all other commercial industrial business and residential property in the state On that claim the court found in favor of the railroad But the court did not specify whether the tax bill for the railroads should be lowered or whether other properties should be raised That is a question for legislators to answer remain to be Other questions answeied “The question is raised if other property should be getting some releif as well” Mike Monson said Monson is director of the property division of the state He met for an hour tax commission with Millard County Commissioners Tursday Jan 10 to discuss the potential impact on the county One impact could be lower county tax revenue “This could mean a 20 percent less value for IPP” Commissioner Mike Styler said “That would be about 16 percent of the county’s total value” By far the largest taxpayer in Millard County is IPA “And it’s such a unique entity” County Attorney Warren Peterson added “It’s not a taxpayer Actually it pays a fee in lieu of tax but a fee in lieu of tax looks like smells like and pays like tax but it doesn’t act like tax Because of that the taxation of IPP poses some special problems” IPA could pursue the same remedy the railroads pursued County Administrator Robyn Pearson said “That would mean that IPP would no longer be taxed at 100 percent of its value but 80 percent of its value or all the residential property is bumped up to 100 percent of its value to meet other state assessed property” The impact is already happening Peterson said “The decision is one of the theories that IPA relied on in protesting a portion of their in lieu of tax fee payment this year” he said Tax payment deadline was Nov 30 The UP See TAX page 2 Hearing closed The preliminary hearing in Justice of the Peace Court in Fillmore of two men charged in connection with the death of Gordon Church was closed to the press and public Tuesday Jan 24 as this issue goes to press Judge Ron Hare is expected to bind the two men over for trial in district court Details in our next issue Hamilton hearing postponed A hearing on a request by convicted murderer George Wesley Hamilton for post conviction relief has been postponed Fourth District Judge George Ballif had set Friday Oct 20 to hear atLast in Provo torneys arguments week his secretary contacted attorney informing them the hearing would be 27 3 Oct to postponed pm Friday Hamilton was convicted in August 1987 of second degree murder in the death of Sharon Sant two years earliet near Cove Fort He was sentenced to serve a term of five years to life in prison with the recommendation he be denied parole During his trial a juror apparently had a newspaper article about the case it to other jurors and showed Hamilton claims that prejudiced the verdict against him He is asking that the verdict be overturned Millaid County Attorney Warren Peterson said he didn’t know why the hearing was postponed Public notices Public notices appearing in this issue include a summons 2 job 2 notice to announcements water users 2 notice to creditors bids accepted for milk delivery by school district a public hearing on the county zoning ordinance manual and a notice of an irrigation district meeting Miller is community resource specialist for the Utah Environment Center a Salt Lake City organization that lobbies on environment issues in Utah Miller said he talked with Moody Dec 17 “1 gave him some information about something thought would be meritorious to put into legislative form and he decided to sponsor it as a bill” Miller said Moody said Miller sought him out “because he knew that we were terested in hazardous waste especially as it might pertain to Millard County ” Services Inc Rollins Environmental had until recently proposed to build a hazardous waste incinerator at l While the company has tabled that plan Rollins officials say they may sites later other Millard look at County in the year The bill was inspired by a meeting on the hazardous waste issue held in Delta last year Miller said “The things picked on were things that had been at the highlighted as concerns September first meeting where you had the 700 people show up at Delta High School” he said “Three questions raised during the meeting were one if Rollins has such a bad track record why can’t you just disapprove their permit or refuse to accept one? Another question was is there a need for these things here? The third question was why don’t you put a limit on how many come? tried to address all three issues in this one piece of material that sent to Joe” The original draft proposal presented to Moody would give certain powers to the Executive Secretary of the Utah Bureau of Solid and Haaidous aste which currently do not exist The tentative draft would amend Section Utah Code Annotate 1953 to read: “The Executive Secretary may suspend acceptance ol further applications for a commercial hazardous waste facility upon a finding that he cannot adequately oversee existing and addi-- t mal facilities for permit compliance and enforcement monitoring upon such suspension the Executive Secretary shall report to the Management Committee of the legislature” The clause would effectively cap the number of sites that can be built "It’s the legislature who determines what that cap could be through budget appropriations” Miller said “And given the sensi ivity of this issue we want to put in a mechanism whereby there’s a means for alerting the legislature that there’s a problem (thought that would be The bill as presented to Moody also suggested a section be added expanding permitting criteria to include: “evidence that the proposed commercial facility has a proven market af hazardous materials including information on the source quantity and price of potential hazardous materials a market analysis of the need for such a commercial lacility given existing of isting and potential generation hazardous materials and a review of ther existing and proposed commercial facilities regionally and nationally Ihat would compete for the disposal of Mhe hazardous materials” It would also require permit applicants to provide: “compliance of owner or operator of a an history proposed commercial hazardous waste jjneinerator such evaluation may be applied by the Executive Secretary in a hazardous waste operation plan decision including anv plan conditions" "What tried to do” Miller said “was introduce a concept that was mean politically acceptable Bv that we wanted to get the Health Department to admit they would support this kind of stufl But they said they would not support a cap on incinerators They just flatly didn't consider that to be a health issue” The bill was not prefiled Moody said because he received it “a little later” He also wanted to be careful with it “I want to make sure this is the way we want it written” he said “I wanted to get it to I egislative Research and make sure that everything was in order as far as the legalities and so on before filed it" Legislative Research and General Counsel is a hired staff consisting of attorneys writers and other experts who help write and review bills and provide other appropriate services to legislators Moody said the original draft would undergo some change befort it was troduced As this is written the revised version has not been returned to Research by Moody Legislative Moody blamed the delay on the glut ol bills in the department He said he pected it to clear this week “It’s just going to be a little slower than thought it would be” he said The Rules Committee will likely send the bill to the House Standing Public ‘Health Committee Moody is chairman of that committee Trust fund A Trust und has been opened at the ion First National Bank in Fillmore for the Ellison family who lost everything in a fire recently Contributions will be greatly appreciated See story on page three Utah Ballet performs at Delta High by Ken Rand The Utah Ballet Company performed at the Delta High Auditorium Thursday Jan 19 Despite competition from a DHS wrestling meet in the gymnasium a few yards down the hall and a swimming competition at the West Millard Pool about 235 people attended the event sponsored by the West Millard Cultural Zions Bank Council with “We felt very good about the turnout” Council President Ron Draper said “We were very pleased with how many people came It exceeded our expectation” Draper said audience reaction was positive “I was out in the hall as people were coming out and only heard positive comments” he said “From what I could see as a whole the community was very pleased with it” was providA ed by the group earlier in the day at DHS The group is one of several listed in the Utah Arts Council touring performers program The program makes performing artists and groups available in rural areas throughout the state Next tour stop for the Utah Ballet w ill be Moab They have already performed in Kanab The company consists of 18 dance students from the University of Utah “This is the top grade at the U” Utah Ballet director Conrad Ludlow said “We have a scholarship program and all these people here are on scholarship They’re the best that we have" Traveling and appearing on small rural stages is hard but rewarding for the company Ludlow said “It’s hard for us because we’re not a touring company and everything is sort of new each year” he said “Each year we get new stage people and things like that But it’s still worfh it for the dancers to get this experience” is The stage at the DHS auditorium among the larger ones on which the “We’re pretty group has appeared said Ludlow with pleased “There's nothing worse than a dancer The dancer doesn’t being cramped look good I’d rather not go to places that are too small That doesn’t serve the art of ballet” Ludlow said the dancers work tremely hard "They have required every day a two hour class of technique a one hour toe class and then we do three and a half hours of rehearsals” he said “And they have to have a 32 grade point average or they lose it” their scholarship But they’re very dedicated” The company performed “Hark” coreographed by David Keener and presented “Carmen” a ballet in two acts coreographed by Ludlow “Hark” is a ballet inspired by 'he musical arrangements of Chip Da is and Mannheim Steamroller Created in traditional the spirit of Christmas caiol music is combined with modern It has no consound and movement nected story line In his program notes on “Carmen" Ludlow wrote: “I have taken my for this ballet from the spiration famous and popular opera Carmen have in the case of Rodion Shchedrin with Georges Bizet’s music freely adapted it to suit the purpose of dance” Ludlow was principle dancer with the San Francisco Ballet Company for six years before going to New York where he was principle dancer for the New York Ballet Company for 13 years Appearance of the Utah Ballet was sponsored by the West Millard Cultural Council with from Zions First National Bank “Zions Bank made a larger contribution to help us bring this group in” Draper said "We appreciate all the businesses who are patrons but we want to thank Zions in particular for helping us to do this” Some of the touring groups cost more than others Draper said the Utah Ballet cost $900 plus expenses “It’s going to cost us maybe SI 100 total” he said “We probable took in about $400 or so in ticket sales then we had the Zions Bank contribution and then think we help from other patrons came out all right on it” The Chronicle Progress is one of dozen business two nearly patrons cluding Zions Bank which support Cultural Council activities Future presentations ol the West Millard Cultural Council include the Duo Thursdav March 9 Missoula Children’s Theater Monand a sumday to Saturday April mer community musical in June |