Show Serving Utah’s Great Pahvant Valley Cody 50c USES 17 compete for Miss Millard Co The Mis Millard County Pageant is once again here The 1990 Scholarship Pageant will be held Saturday August 4 1990 in the Millard High School Auditorium at 7:30 pm The 18 contestants for this year are Christine Bloomfield Holly Byrd Jennifer Dearden Hollie Dutson Valeric Ekins Sandi Ferguson Michelle Danielle Henri Marla Kennedy Ann Marie Lake Tercssa Nickle Katrina Oliver Annette Peterson Kelly Chantellc Scottom Nikki Phillips White Alisa Wright and Jennifer Wright Mark Van Wagoner from KMGR Magic 1075 Radio will be the pageant Master of Ceremonies Mr Van Wagoner has been the host of several radio shows in Hawaii and Salt Lake City He has also hosted a variety of television shows as well as being in numerous radio and television commercials Mark has served as master of ceremonies for several pageants Boy Scouts of America and award banquets He has performed in theatre and television movies r His other talents include and guitar player comic and some consider him the“Best Reader and Narrator" in the West! Along with Mr Van Wagoner Jeff Olson also from Magic 1075 will be fcaiured doing celebrity impersonations Mr Olson was named the funniest person in Utah 3 years in a row by Showtime The Movie Channel and he has performed at the Comedy Store and the Ice House in LA He has played for hundreds of conventions You may have seen his face in some 50 TV commercials He hash ad majorsupporijiij foies' in 14 movies To guarantee your seat tickets can be acquired from: Boutique 40 N Main Fillmore or Sandra Dutson Tickets cost $4 for adults and S3 for students The night promises to be fun and entertaining See you there! IPA - $ $ 351 5' oo v f ¥ I1 'A ug V4 w day July 11 IPA operates the Intermountain Power Plant near Delta The plant counts for about 85 percent of the county’s tax base The IPA suit is the latest volley in a long complex legal battle over IPA taxes On May 12 1988 IPA appealed its sales and use tax assessment to the Tax “Informal conferences" Commission were held with the Auditing Division of the T ax Commission to “come to a final determination of taxes interest and penalties due" Exact figures involved are not available because state law provides that tax audits and other matters related to taxation are usually not made public In this case Millard County officials found out about the IPA appeal through unofficial Teressa Ekins Oliver ' Marla Kennedy Katrina Hollie Jennifer Wright Alisa 2 July 26 1990 -- area we've lowered the lax The Millard County Commission levy by 2 milh" has incorporated both east and west Styler said the county had planned on county hospital districts into the general a tax hike of about (KK)15 the equivafund without raising taxes lent of about three quarters of a mill The decision to keep the mill levy But he said an increase in down in the November property tax billcounty propvalue 'and we have in came the erty commission at think been ing meeting careful with our tax dollars” Fillmore Tuesday July 17 "For genprompted the decision to manage the budget witheral fund purposes" County Assessor John Hansen said "the mill levy will be out the hike Hansen said new 002004 Last year the lax rate was growth in the 002040" county s taxable value comes mostly from The hospital districts were mainly property like the Intermountain Power Plant for "That gave services the to responsible county's us enough other income to partially elderly When the county decided last year to absorb the two districts into the offset" the hospital district merger he general fund separate taxation to fund said Under the current mill levy on the districts combined $300000 budgets was dropped It was expxctcd (hat a which November tax bills dl be based like amount would have to be added to the county will have a $50000 deficit "We fell like we could make up that the general fund through a general crease in taxes to pay for the same difference” Stylcr said "We're just going to have to conservices serve in all budgets the rest of this year But that won’t happen and squeeze it out" Stylcr explained "It’s a tax decrease" Commissioner that it's the expenses that the county has Mike Stylcr said what "Basically been operating on this year for which we've done is on the East Millard hospital district we’ve lowered the mill levy taxes will be collected in November to by about 5 mills and here in the Delta pay Removal of asbestos at Delta High on schedule Valerie Nickle Dutson: front row Lake Ann Marie Sandy Wright Ferguson Nikki White Annette L Peterson Jennifer Dearden Holly Byrd Christine Bloomfield and Michelle Francom Van Wagoner Right: Jeff Olson Left: Mark sources a month later and filed a petition to intervene On February 17 1989 the Tax Commission denied the Millard County petition to intervene in the IPA appeal A month later the county appealed the commission’s denial of the petition to intervene The Supreme Court has not yet set a dale to hear arguments on the intervention appeal For purposes of the appeal county officials were given access to the Tax Commission confidential file on the IPA tax audit It was apparently through that access that county officials discovered that on August 15 1938 the Tax Commission had entered a "Tax Liability Order" fixing the amount of sales and use tax owed by IPA for the period at issue The action in which the county sought to intervene they discovered had already taken place (County officials are under court order to keep information discovered in the Tax Commission file confidential which would include knowledge of the lax liability order But on June 5 1990 when the county filed a separate petition Searle says statement incorrect In our July 19 issue in the article tax "Public meet held cm settlement" it was reported: "(IPA General Manager Reed) Searle said IPA could not finance any future plant expansion if denied a favorable ruling (by the Tax Commission)" Searle said die statement was not correct Searle said in a phone conversation Friday July 20: "Dale Hatch (Director of the Office of Planning and Budget) argued that IPA if we were given a municipal tax exemption could have the Utah municipalities sign up for all the entithat is all of the tlement shares power from the project And then that IPA could through those cities lay off 100 pjercent of the plant's capacity to the California cities thereby exempting the California cities from the payment of the property tax "And my response to that allegation was that if IPA could finance a where project under that scenario all of the credit obligation and all of iV- -t r C - 1990 Miss Millard County contestants are: back row left to right Danielle Henri Chantelle asks Supreme Court to dismiss by Ken Rand The Intermountain Power Agency has asked the Utah Supreme Court to dismiss Millard County’s request for a review of a tax deal between IPA and the State Tax Commission The Salt Lake City law firm of Holme Roberts and Owen representing IPA filed the suit to dismiss Wednes- L V 81 No Read their lips ' No new taxes’ v:v t Vol the pxiwer was being sold to the Utah cities then and only then would Dale’s allegation be correct But that in fact it would be impossible for Utah cities alone because they have no additional demand for power nor do they have the credit strength - to on their own build a billion dollar project "It would be impossible for us to finance an expansion under that scenario "That has nothing to do with any decisions to be made by the Tax Commission It has to do with the issue of whose credit the In term oun Lain Power Agency uses to finance “I personally can’t go out and get a million dollar loan Murray city personally can’t get a billion dollar loan That’s the point It’s impossible for Murray city to go out and finance an expansion of this unit on its own We have to use the LA the Riverside the Anaheim credit It’s impossible without using their credit to build another plant" Millard lawsuit before the Supreme Court seeking view of the tax liability order the August 1988 order became a matter of public knowledge through the Court document Both the appeal and the IPA motion to dismiss it are public records) The recent motion filed by IPA seeks to dismiss the county’s “Tax Liability Appeal" It cites three reasons the court should dismiss the appeal: “(1) the issues raised by Millard County are unrelated to the Tax Liability Order and are already before the Court in the Intervention Appeal (2) an appeal of the issues raised by Millard County is untimely and the Court lacks and (3) Millard County jurisdiction lacks appellate standing to bring the T ax Liability Appeal" IPA attorney Richie Haddock said the intervention appeal and the lax liability appeal contain “the exact same wording I thought we were already fighting this battle Why are we fighting it again?" “The wording is not the same" Millard County Attorney Warren Peterson said "It wasn't until we were allowed access to the files that we even knew that there was a determination That’s why we filed the separate piroceeding - to piosition We protect the county's wanted to make sure we did file an appeal within 30 days from the time we found out about the determination or- der" “8 a profit for dairy producers Dairymen bankers hold ag finance workshop by Ken Rand West Millard County dairy producers and local bankers attended an agriculture finance workshop in Delta Wednesday July 18 The seminar focused on the needs of dairy producers and agriculture lenders It was hosted by the Utah Stale University Extension Service in cooperation with the Millard County Rural Economic Development Board The County Commission Farms Delta Valley Cheese Co and Magic Valley (of Idaho) also he! pied About 40 pieople attended Several local dairymen want to double their herds Extension Agent Larry Campbell said but are having difficulty finding a line of credit It’s not because local bankers don’t want to help he said Instead it may be because the banks are not structured to handle dairy loans or lenders may not understand fanner's needs At the same time Campbell said See Rumors to the contrary asbestos will be removed from Delta High School as planned and students will begin classes on schedule this year Millard School District Business Administrator Keith Griffiths said he has heard rumors that the start of school will be delayed until October or that high school classes will be held at the nearby middle school “There are a lot of rumors flying" he said “We get three or four phone calls a day" He said there is no truth to the rumors “Right now we’re planning on having it ready to go" he said Classes are scheduled to begin at DHS Wednesday August 22 The asbestos removal project contracted to an Ogden company is scheduled to be completed Friday August 3 Subcontractors will then be called in to reinstall insulation lights floor coverings and ceilings Custodians from throughout the district 3 die in 3 "V More of these in Millard County could mean and other county residents expea these seals on the doors at DHS for school to start Officials DAIRY Page 2 will be removed in time are preparing “so that if we have to in the middle part of August we can pul all the custodians on down there and get it cleaned up and put back together" Griffiths said “If for some unforscen reason we can’t get in there" he said "we have a couple of alternatives that we'd have to look at" Those alternatives include delaying the start of school or holding classes in the middle school "We're optimistic we’re going to make it" Griffiths said Asbestos is being removed from schools because of health concerns The state legislature recently appropriated about S3 million statewide for asbestos removal The Millard School District got $12566 of that appropriation A small amount of asbestos at Delta North Elementary School was removed two summers ago The other schools in the district have no asbestos separate accidents by Ken Rand Three pieople died in three separate accidents last weekend on Interstate-1near Fillmore Utah Highway Patrol troopxr Dean Shields was investigating officer in all three accidents Shields said the first accident occurred at about 1:35 am Saturday July 2 when Gerold J Webb 67 of Pay son was struck in the righihand lane of the northbound freeway just west of Fillmore Webb was dead at the scene The victim was struck by a 1979 Chrysler Cordova driven by Arthur Traylor 37 of Las Vegas Nevada Webb had apparently hitchhiked from Paysou to Fillmore earlier in the day Shields said he had been in a Fillmore bar from lOpre until am when he walked to the freeway where he was hit The second accident happened at about 5:15 pm Saturday about 5 miles north of Fillmore It involved two vehicles The first vehicle driven by Craig Brown 27 of Salt Lake City was northbound on when the vehicle “drifted into the emergency lane" Shields said and struck a 1985 Chevrolet El Camcno parked in the emergency land barely missing the driver Brown’s car then crossed the median skidded rolled five times and came to rest in the southbound fast land Maximo Davila One passenger Cardenas in his middle 20s of Lomitas Calif was ejected from the car Brown and another passenger Evan Alfredo Beltran in his early 20s also of Lomitas Calif were wearing shoulder and lap bells They were not ejected They sustained head and arm injuries and were extricated by emergency Cardenas and Beltran were hitchhikers Brown had picked up five or 10 miles earlier Shields said All three were stabilized at Fillmore Community Medical Center before being to Salt Lake City hospitals Brown was flown by helicopter to University of Utah Medical Center where Shields said he was in a coma as of See ACCIDENTS Pg3 |