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Show 2A Lakeside Review North, Wednesday, Jan. 25, 1984 2 Officers Davis COG May Face BARRY KAWA , Review Staff FARMINGTON The Davis County Council of Governments has endorsed a letter written by North Salt Lake Mayor Robert Palmquist urging the state to make a decision on controls for a proposed plant. Palmquist, chairman of the Davis Solid Waste Management Project Board, told COG members last week the proposed county project in Clearfield is being held up by the state air quality director's reluctance to make a decision. City Suit SUNSET City officials say they may take legal action against two police officers for repayment of their academy training costs because the city claims the two violated a contract and resigned from the force within a period. Sunset Mayor Norm Sant said officers Greg Ridler and Bob Johnson have resigned their positions as Sunset police officers to take positions with other agencies. Sant said the two signed a mandatory contract promising to serve the entity that pays for their police academy training for at least a period. Sunset City paid about $2700 in salary to each officer for the State Police Academy training, he said. I have asked them to pay back on an easy payment plan or whatevers comfortable for them over a year or two, said Sant. But the agreement says they will have 8 months to pay the sum back. Sant said one of the officers has contacted an attorney about the legality of the contract. He said the city will file litigation against the two if they refuse to pay back the amount. Sunset Police Chief Archie Searle says Ridler was hired by the city in June, 1983, and Johnson in August of 1983. He said the contract signed by all his officers protects the city because they make a considerable investment in paying for the police academy training. Ridler said he has consulted ' an attorney but hasnt decided if he will take legal action against repaying the $2700. He said he earned his salary at the academy ahd the cost of his actual training was paid by the State of Utah which finances the police academy. We dont want to pay the amount back but still dont know what were going to do at this point," he said. one-ye- one-ye- waste-recove- ar The council voted to endorse the letter addressed to either Air Quality Director Brent Bradford or Air Quality Committee Chairman Ralph MacFarlane. Layton Mayor Lewis Shields abstained from the vote and said he would ar 10-we- ek 1 ry Waste Plant ...UrgQS-:AcSionvon- : have to get his city councils position before endorsing the letter. Bradford is considering a county appeal on an Air Quality Committee September ruling requiring the plant be built with best available control technology for its emissions. Air quality officials contend this ruling would require the plant be built with an expensive acid gas scrubbing device to control acid levels emitted from the plant. County officials and Incino Systems Inc., the company contracted to build the plant, claim the scrubber is unproven and could make the project economically unfeasible. Palmquist said he hasnt decided whether to address the letter to Bradford or MacFarlane, but said copies would be sent to Utah congressmen, Utah legislators, Davis County elected officials and the media. are surely aware publicity stemming from the problem. You of our landfills, condition the of not the does suggestion project meet air quality standards has the problems being experienced also led many local officials to at the abandoned landfills on Hill Air Force Base, and the rebelieve the project is said Palmquist. ality that if flood forecasts are issuance accurate, the BARD landfill will He urged the prompt of the permit to solve the cou- be under water Before this plant waste disposal could be in existence, he said. ntys long-ter- Palmquist said in the letter lofrustrated and incensed at Bradfords suggestion that stringent emission control measures.be required. He claims the suggested measures have no proven record, relate to a acid rain problem in Utah and will, in essence, kill the project. Palmquist said the delay in support of the issuance of a permit has increased the project to a point that we must now consider a 20 percent reduction in the capability of the facility and the elimination of capability. These changes would reduce the capability of processing waste in Davis County from 500 tons per day to 400 tons and jeopardize potential revenue by eliminating the ability to generate electricity for sale. Negative cal officials are non-existe- nt m lOMUl Grant Funds Set for Loans system of COG members. The merits of both programs were debated at a November COG meeting. A special executive committee was formed at that time to study both systems and report on a solution to distribute the federal dollars. The committee made the split funding proposal recommendation at last weeks meeting but some COG members objected to the loan program. Sunset Mayor Norm Sant said the proposal dilutes the overall block grant and will not benefit small cities like Sunset because businesses usually locate in larger cities with malls. BARRY KAWA Review Staff FARMINGTON Private and public sector entities will be eligible to apply for a share of '$850,000 in federal Community Development Block Grant funds to Davis County this year. The Davis County Council of Governments agreed to a compromise in the distribution system of the grant last week. Some $400,000 will be earmarked for a special revolving loan fund" targeted at small businesses in the county. The other $450,000 will go for selected city and county projects as designated by a criteria ballot five-memb- er r unBanGnns Ij &U3K2I i Bountiful Mayor Dean Stahle said the executive committee felt the philosophy of the CDBG funds were to build communities and provide more jobs. He said helping businesses would boost the overall tax base in the county and interest from the loan fund would build the fund up and grants could also be made . for specific projects'. Small businesses with fewer than 100 employees would be emphasized in the program. 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