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Show Financially Sound Lakeside Review North, Wednesday, July 18, 1984 3C 3 Layton Students Grows Roys Complex Survives, Get Scholarships SHELLEY KANCITIS Review Correspondent As it celebrates its ROY 10th anniversary, the Roy Recreation Complex is no longer the new kid on the block facing an uncertain future. Financially sound with steady attendance figures, it has successfully survived a tumultuous birth and awkward adolescence. When we first started thinking about building the complex there was hot and furious debate, said Dennis Chugg, a former Roy City Council member. The quote of the time was that wed put the city in financial bondage. After several years of debate, residents were asked to vote on the issue. The councils position was to try to be neutral and provide voters with as much information about the proposal as we couldj said Chugg. By a healthy margin, construction of the complex was ap- proved. To finance it, the city sold some land, used revenue sharing funds and floated a 20 year, $700,000 bond. Cost overruns pushed the final price tag to approximately $850,000. The original design included a senior citizens center, youth LAYTON Matt Austad, working in Hawaii and will atKaren Graham, and Robert tend Weber State College this Harper, all of Layton, have been fall. named the recipients of 1984 Harper will also attend Weber State this fall, majoring in marMervin G. Morris Scholarships. Austad is the son of Robert G. keting and business manageAustad, Miss Graham is the ment. He has been an officer in the grandaughter of Sylvia Hansen, and Harper is the son of Evelyn Layton High Deca Club and Harper, all of whom are employ- placed First and second in disees of Mervyns. All three are trict Deca competition for two graduates of Layton High this years running. He also placed in the top eight of the state in that year. . The $500 scholarships, named competition. ' He was a member of the to honor the founder of high are given to the children school investment club, a memor grandchildren of Mervyns ber of the a coppella choir and employees. The scholarships are belonged the the house of representatives for the school. He also possible through voluntary confrom tributions employees played on the school soccer the team. company. throughout Miss Graham will be attendAustad was involved in sports as well as scholastic achieveing Weber State this fall. While at Layton High she was an offiin football both ment, lettering and track while at Layton High. cer of the National Honor SociWhile at a summer football ety for two years and was the president of the a coppella. camp at Brigham Young University he was named best overall While Future Homemakers of linebacker. America president she repreHe was of the sented Layton High at the FHA International Guild and a state national convention. She served representative to that guild. He on the LDS Seminary Council attended Boys State and played during her senior year. in the Laytones band. She has been active in volunWhile involved in drama at teer work with the Muscular the school he traveled to Indiana Distrophy Association during to the International Thespiaii her high school years. Following Festival where he participated in a year at Weber she plans to atg the production of tend Brigham Young University and the Joseph Amazing Techni- where she will major in home color Dreamcoat. He is currently economics education. Mer-vyn- s, vice-preside- nt center and public meeting rooms. Financial restraints resulted in a more modest facility geared to athletic activities. The 35.000 square foot complex has an Olympic-siz- e pool, weight room and exercise areas, an indoor track, two racquet ball ' courts, a basketball floor and saunas. Our first summer of operation was a real rat. race, said Virgil Howe, the complexs first and only director. Interest was high and our facilities were overtaxed for a few months. A factor in continuing heavy, usage was a contractual arrangement with the Weber School District allowing students to use the complex during school hours. Attendance, not including stuVIRGIL HOWE, director of Roy City ebrating its 10th year of operations in, dent participation, dropped from what officials say, financially sound Recreational the water tests Complex, 2.000 the first year to 98,000 at the pool. The recreation center is cel the second year. Howe said the decline resulted from decreasing than opening year figures if programming. Eighty percent of cording to Howe. Over the last public interest and crowded conschool use is not included. They the complexs clientele are young four years our bills have gone up ditions. When a money c'runch forced have steadily increased for the people and they are heavy users only 10 percent. Normally you the school district to stop using last seven years except for a de- of two of the most popular pro- would expect about a 75 percent cline in 1983 due to the opening grams, swimming lessons and increase. , the complex in 1980, there was a To cut utility costs, the city - gradual increase in adult attenof Roys new senior citizen cen- gymnastics. Use of the facility by young has spent $ 5,000 implementing dance that Howe believes was a ter. During the previous year, seniors had used the complex as a people makes long time support- conservation measures including direct result of the districts acers especially happy. One of the a pool blanket, a computerized tion. Once we stopped being so meeting place. crowded during the day, adults Howe believes the increase has main reasons for having a recre- load programmer and automatic ational complex was to prevent shower started coming back. primarily resulted from promo. Although the complex is generAttendance figures for 1983-8- 4 tional ideas such as day passes juvenile delinquency. We wanted the kids to have wholesome 15 at 131,000 are ally supported by city officials, percent higher for adults and more effective activities available in the comone critic expressed concern munity so trouble was prevented about whether the city should before it started, said Chugg. compete with private industry in A actor that pleases almost providing facilities similar to health clubs: Howes answer is everyone is the complexs financial status. Although the 1983-8- 4 that the complex is a community budget of $304,000 is almost tri- facility primarily serving people Two county officials were apAssociation from 1963 to 1973. ple the opening year budget, the who would not join private He was a member of the percentage of public subsidy has clubs such as children. pointed by the Davis County Commissioners last week. Despite occasional criticism, Board of Review of the Cedar remained approximately 25 per. cent. the complex is generally viewed of Chairman and Council City D. Douglas Russell was apa very efficient recovery as a community asset even by Its Council. Cedar the Safety City pointed to serve a three-yethose who were lukewarm about A resident of Fruit Heights, rate, said Roy City Manager term to the Career Service Russell has been a resident of Richard Kirkwood. Its not un- its construction. I had some Council when the opening common for subsidies to be at reservations about it because Davis County since 1963. after the chairman retired. Sam Bloxam was reappointed the 50 percent level. quite a bit of money was inThe council studies personnel-reAdmission fees, memberships cost overvolved and four-yeterm to the County the lated issues, such as a and retail sales provide revenue, runs. But I think its a real asset Board of Adjustments. personnel system. This will be Bloxams fourth but they are not the only reason to the community and provides much needed services to the a former teacher at term. He has served on the for the low subsidy. Energy conRussell, ' servation measures have kept young and the elderly, said for-Cedar City High School, Davis board for the past 15 years. There are no legal restrictions utility costs to a minimum ac- - mer mayor Joe Dawson. High School and Farmington Jr. High, served as first Executive on the number of terms ah indiSecretary of the Davis Education vidual can serve on the board. award-winnin- -- 1 1 lime and again, 1L I youve heard it said, To make money, you have to have money? The truth is, you have to know how to save money before you can think about 1 . making more. Thats shut-off- s. why more and more people are joining the Payroll Savings Plan to buy U.S. Savings Bonds. That way, a little is taken out Davis Commissioners Make Appointments of each paycheck automatically. 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