Show rprv c - ' v lOen— 4 V f r tt ' i r " f ' ' " - t r r ’ - fc ' - ' V t 4 ' if? - moHoim completed by June By JAMES THALMAN Standard Examiner staff 15 but the State Weber High School several energy conservation projects and a new school building in Ogden Valley The salary portion of the budget includes the addition of faculty for two new elementary schools and $876000 for a career ladder program Teachers will likely receive a salary increase of at least 4 percent Salary negotiations are currently under way between the administration and teacher association District clerk Dale Schimmelpfennig said the budget represents a change he has wanted to make in the budgeting Tax Commission has been slowed by a The Weber County Board of Educa- Utah Supreme Court decision that tion Wednesday tentatively adopted a made a 1981 tax assessment rollback $632 million 1984-8- 5 budget The fig- unconstitutional ures show a $10 million increase over A public hearing on the budget is this year’s budget with about half of scheduled June 6 that increase going for teacher salaries The major source of the increase is $7 million in bonds the district sold earlier and half for building projects this month The bonds are the basis of the district’s The mill levy will decrease 174 mills building program or completed in started be to but a tax increase is possible because Projects assessed valuation of property will not the new budget year include new kitchens at North Ogden Elementary and be finally determined until July 6 Final budget decisions arc normally Ogden Valley School 12 classrooms at I I 10-ye- ar took under advisement aspecial report on junior high school girls basketball It recommends that it not be made part of the regular curriculum A group of parents has asked the district’s junior high athletics committee to expand the girls’ program to include basketball The parents say federal law requires the program to be equivalent with the boys’ program which includes credit for basketball The district administration feels it should not be included The board deferred discussion of the report until its meeting in June process for the past 20 years All of the departments started at or near a zero budget “We asked the departments to figure out their requests from scratch and on student needs rather than what they thought they might be able to get” he said The requests had to be trimmed back some he said but the overall result is a budget that has student needs as the top priority “It also promises to achieve the most value per dollar than any previous budget” In other business the school board O Ogden Utah Thursday May 24 1984 Tribe’s case under way in US court By SCOTT LLOYD Standard Examiner staff SALT LAKE CITY — The Ute Indi- an tribe of Ft Duchesne today opened its case in US District Court seeking an injunction to prevent the closure of Intermountain Inter-tribSchool in al ‘ Brigham City on June 30 “Our position is that the Bureau of Indian Affairs is expending funds not appropriated for the purpose of closure of Intermountain” said Martin Seneca general counsel for the tribe The tribe hopes to force the Bureau into seeking a congressional appropria- - would transfer school to Brigham City — 3B Bill tion for the closure giving the school’s backers more time to try and convince Congress to keep the facility open Seneca also argued that the BIA has not advanced a plan for transfer of the school’s special social and academic programs to other bureau schools In rebuttal William Ryan attorney for the Department of the Interior said the tribe’s case does not have the legal dements required for a preliminary in- junction “The Bureau of Indian Affairs is attempting to follow what Congress told them to do” Ryan said adding that the current federal appropriations bill calls for closure of the school Ryan said Congress has allocated $822 million to the department this year and authorized the interior Secretary to allocate the money “the way he Steve Fire destroys boat Ogden firefighters douse a boat owned by Todd Dominguez of 1036 24th St The boat caught fire Wednesday when the battery leased a spark to the fuel tank Fire officials 52 percent of the students at Inter- mountain are in a “high risk” category and need Intermountain’s special programs to have a chance at living a nor--m-al life Dr Carolyn Barcus former director of the Indian Health Service at the school testified that Intermountain offered a “therapeutic community” for treating students with problems of drug and alcohol abuse and emotional difficulties The hearing before Judge David K Winder was to continue today saying the boat was practically destroyed by the 3:48 pm fire placed the loss at $3500 s©m§ under arffioism wants” Ryan said the tribes have not suffered irreparable injury from the pending closure while the possibility of the federal agency suffering damages is great because many teachers at the school have already found other jobs and many students have made arrangements to transfer to other schools Seneca submitted a report prepared by Dr Glen Lapham education professor at Utah State University indicating re- - JonesStandard-Examine- r By JAMES THALMAN does not want to violate a teacher’s right to due process by acting too The superintendent of the Utah quickly School for the Deaf has asked police to “These could be fabricated stories” investigate a complaint that a teacher he said “I need to give him the benefit sexually molested students but he says of the doubt right now” he has no reason to believe the investiHe said he wanted the police to look gation will turn up anything into the charges in order to get an unbiGeorge Howell said today that he has ased report on the allegations W David Mortensen president of the asked for the investigation in response to criticism by the Utah Association for Utah Association for the Deaf said he the Deaf that the school was ignoring or has made several similar complaints trying to cover up sexual molestation of since 1968 students and illegal drug usage Mortensen who is deaf said during a telephone interview through an interHe said he has met with governor’s aides parents and members of the deaf preter: “They act shocked promise to take care of the situation then nothing community to discuss the allegations The parents are also accusing the school happens” of physical abuse and discrimination In an April 2 letter to Gov Scott use students who Mortensen asked the governor sign against language He said he is waiting for the associato set up a special task force to investition to make specific charges and for gate the school He was told the school the police to finish their investigation falls under the jurisdiction of the state before he takes any action He said he school board Standard Examiner staff - Ma-thes- on “I think there has been a lot of over this” said Anna Marie Dunlap a governor’s aide “It was out of hand before the two groups even talked to each other” Mortensen sent a copy of the letter to state school board members The board discussed it at its April 20 meeting There were three specific incidents reported to the board In one incident a professional at the school discovered a deaf child had been molested at home not at the school In another two students sneaked into a locked school building to be alone Both were suspended for a the problems have been addressed in a professional and responsible manner But Mortensen charges the school is glossing over the problems and telling the school board that everything is fine when in fact things aren’t He said the state school board has wanted little to do with the school “We asked for input in appointment of the newly designated institutional council for the deaf school that two deaf people should be hired because they know what is really going on at the schools and know how to improve them” he said “They weren’t ed” week In a third incident two girls and one boy were suspended from school and social activities after marijuana was discovered in a school dormitory Like any other school Howell said Daryl McCarty assistant su- perintendent for the State Office of Ed- ucation said the deaf were not intentionally excluded from the new council He said he is open to changes on the council if the existing board proves inadequate isolated sex and drug problems have occurred among students But he said Veteran county commissioner ’ ‘with much happiness leaves By WENDY OGATA Standard Examiner staff “I leave with much happiness” Boyd Storey said simply as he cleaned out his desk this week The veteran county commissioner — who has served in office close to 12 years over a span beginning in 1968 — is leaving his Eden “I want to make one thing clear” he said “One individual in this office doesn’t do it all by himself Government is an accomplishment of many I’m just pleased to have been a part of all these things” Prior to the start of his 16-ye- ar commission employ- 16-ye- ar home at the end of this month to Steve JonesStandard-Examine- r Departing Commissioner Boyd Storey (right) and newly appointed Commissioner William Bailey at Wednesday’s commission meeting serve a mission for the LDS Church As he cleaned out his desk amid office decorations that include a collage of family pictures Storey reviewed some of his achievements while in office — completion of the new county jail resolving of the Ben Lomond Hotel’s fate establishment and success of the Weber County Industrial Park and the list goes on He lives up to his colleagues’ assessment of him as a public official whose primary theme has been one of service and humility when he quickly emphasizes that those accomplishments were made possible by various county employees for elected officials to not make snap judgments “Take time to listen Accept people around you in trust and not mistrust And make decisions first and consider the political aftermath of it later” he said Monday his last official day as a commissioner Storey a staunch Republican has often frustrated party leaders in his refusal to play party politics in making decisions such as political appointments At a farewell dinner Wednesday night for Storey and his wife Yvonne former state senator Ronald Halvorsen recalled what the stubborn commissioner would often tell party leaders pressuring him on one ap- ment Storey’s public service was limited to soil conservation committees He also ran once for the Weber School District Board of Education and lost Storey leaped into the public limelight in 1968 when he won his first ’two-yeterm on the county commission Two years later he failed in a bid and then in 1973 beterm that once again gan a four-yeended in an unsuccessful ar ar pointment or another “You men just don’t understand” re-elect- attempt Halvorsen quoted Storey as saying “I have to be responsible first to see that the county is run by capable people regardless of partisan politics” Two years later he once again joined the commission ranks and has been there until now He has been a man who people will readily admit follows his own advice ‘ See STOREY on 2B i j i $ MA xx t —r 1 A - 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