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Show I E ; 4B Lakeside Review North, Wednesday, August 8, 1984 Clinton Residents Mill Levy Reducecg Agates, Coral Rock Collector Finds Fun, Profit A rock is not just a rock to Robert Bone of Kaysville. About five years ago he joined the Frances Peak Rock Club and began collecting rocks for fun and profit. Rows of filing bins line a wall of Bones workshop. Here he sorts rocks according to their type. He has agates, coral, petrified woods and even some opals from Idaho. Some rocks are more valuable than others, with Montana agate selling for approximately $16 a pound. slab saw is used to A cut the rocks into slabs. The slabs are then marked and cut on a trim saw to a size to be i placed on dop sticks with a special lapidary wax. Once on the sticks, they are ready to grind. You can spray them with water to see what color they will be when finished, said 10-in- ch ' Bone. After Bone grinds 7 v , 4 and ' will get a property tax break from thp city for the second consecutive year. $ m , The Clinton City Council last week approved a 14.9 mill levy or $14.94 for each $1,000 proper5 ty valuation for the from last years fiscal 1984-198- m': YX year-do- wn V.,, ' 'pySy Among the petrified woods collected by Bone is the iron wood form the Arizona desert. Iron wood raises the devil with a saw, said Bone. Iron wood, a desert tree, is hard and heavy and usually found f 17.36 mill levy. The cut in the mill levy can be attributed to two events, accord- f I, ' ing to City Manager Nolan Young. The first was a Utah State Supreme Court ruling increasing the valuation of residen-ta- l property and a ceiling of 106 percent increase cities could have over property taxes collected last year. A 2.5 percent increase in valuation caused by new s;i ; v. standing. The Bones have collected of the western tofo'. y' rocks from most states. have probably walked over as many pretty rocks as I have collected, said Bone. He said that by joining a rock club he has learned to identify the many differenct rocks he colI . y Review Staff A 16.51 mill levy LAYTON set by Layton been has assesment for the 1984-8- 5 budget year. The mill levy was not set when the city budget was adopted because the county had not set its library mill levy. lects. STONE TURNS into beautiful jewelry in hands of Robert Bone of Kaysville. If a third it should. We are trying to decrease the response time, or the amount of time it takes us to get to a call. Salt Lake Citys paramedic units can reach any resident within four minutes. Davis Countys north units response time is about seven minutes, and the south units is over five minutes, Simpson said. In 1977, the units received 1,500 medical and law enforcement calls, he said. In 1983, the number of calls had increased to FARMINGTON county paramedic unit isnt in use by 1986, medical and law enforcement calls are really going to swamp us, said Capt. K.D. Simpson of the sheriffs department. The two county paramedic vehicles already have a full load handling all the medical and law enforcement calls, which have almost doubled in the past seven years, he told the county Emergency Medical Services Council. 2,236. At the same time, the ratio beSimpson is head of the departthe medical and law entween division. ments paramedics The council unanimously forcement calls has radically passed a motion to support a changed. In 1977, 90 percent of third vehicle. One unit presently the time was spent on law encovers the north end of the coun- forcement calls, and 10 percent ty and one vehicle covers the on medical calls. In 1983, only 27 percent of the south end. With the number of calls on the vehicles time was spent on law increase, there has been a slight enforcement calls. So far this decrease in the level and delivery year, only 17 percent of the time of service, he said. Right now, it has been spent on these calls. The time required on the takes longer to get to a call than said. When the medical calls back up on us, we get an increased sponse time, he added. re- The recommended population-paramedi- c vehicle ratio is one unit for every 50,000 people. Davis Countys figure is one truck for about 83,000 people, he said. The countys population is approximately 165,000. This is the highest ratio in the state between population and county paramedic units, Simpson said. We dont have enough paramedic units to go around. The north end of the county also needs to be cut down. Obtaining the third unit needs since to be carefully 10 additional people need to be hired to operate the vehicle. There are only two more personnel training sessions before 1986, so answers need to be pre-plann- Due to a SOUTH WEBER decrease in city revenue from personal property assessments, residents will now pay a 10.26 mill levy over last years 9.33. The less than one mill increase will cost $18 more a year on an $80,000 residence. According to county assessment figures, personal property tax last year brought in $315,296 to city revenue income. This years figures showed a decrease to $157,840. Mayor Rex Bouchard told property taxpayers in the city are no longer paying taxes in this Seating will be in the grassy ar- eas surrounding the plaza and campus security said that parts of the peripheral road wil be closed for additional seating. There will be a carillon bell concert from the Stewart Bell According to Daniel L. 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A SENSATIONAL NEW TEEN (Jr. High i Utahs Largest and Finest Tanning Studio According to Martino the symphony program will include works by Gershwin, Bizet, Shostakovich, selections from West Side Story by Bernstein, a piece by Sousa and the 1812 Overture by Tchaikovsky. The Mountain Men organization and 12 cannons will join the symphony for the 1812 Overture. Campus security suggests that people come as early as possible to avoid traffic problems and that they use Skyline Drive, the access road east of campus, to get to the concert. GALAXY Aug. 15th, 1984 irttm Reid Stark said We will never gain back the revenue we have already lost but we Pon-chiel- Expif !3 NOW OPEN should try to discourage any further losses. city. Council members agreed that it A big part of this is due to the be neccessary to arrange a would large personal property owners with the board of direcmeeting moving their equipment to other tors of the South Weber Water cities to avoid paying the 15 mills set by the South Weber Water Improvement District to discuss Improvement District, said Bou- other means of collecting their chard, It has ended up costing, revenue that will not interfere the city several thousands of dol- - with the citys income. Cultural Affairs, the Utah Symphony will be located just south of the Miller Administration Building and loudspeakers will be set up around the plaza and towards the Stewart Bell Tower. 51 Coupon L cost-effectiv- e, Concert Rescheduled at WSC The annual Pops concert and fireworks display at Weber State College has been rescheduled for Aug. 16 in an evening that features an outdoor concert by the Utah Symphony. The concert, sponsored by Weber State, Mr. and Mrs. John A. Lindquist of Ogden and the Ogden Symphony Ballet Association, was originally scheduled for July 22, but was postponed because of bad weather. wards the general funds pf' the city, down from 15.0 last; "year. The city library mill levy will be 2.05 down from 2.10 last year. With Coupon the other session is in September of 1985. That session would hot end until March of 1986, but the unit should be in operation by January of 1986. County Commissioner Harry Gerlach, a member of the EMS council, agreed that the project would take planning efforts. The money to purchase the unit is not there right now, he said. This is due to the taxing limitation imposed this year by the state legislature, which also applies to the county paramedic mill levy, he explained. But the present system is Simpson said. Having one unit devoted entirely to medical calls would not correct the response time. County Sheriff Brant Johnson remarked that county residents are overwhelmingly in support of acquiring a third paramedic unit. We are serious in increasing our service." lars in income revenue. Councilman Layton wanted to set the same amount for the citys library "mill ' levy. will go toSome 14.46 mills Ipm South Weber Mill Levy Up council members, As we went back through and checked we found that all of our big personal TrottaJ valuablecoupon mm $100 Off $$$ $$$ !i !3 Wth. $ jl (H)00 PURCHASE 4 found, he said. One of the sessions is in January of 1985 and medical calls is increasing, but the time we are able to spend on them are decreasing, Simpson to-g- ur Layton Sets City Mill Levy w. ir He has a box of speciman rocks that he loans to high school geology students. contruction in Clinton prodgCgd the tax cut. Secondly, the council decidecHo freeze the budget at $224,00CMhe amount of property tax revenues received last fiscal year. We set the revenues and Backed into the mill levy, 2S3td Young, I feel that the coWJP has done an excellent job of jott- . ing taxes without reducinger-vicesI feel we are increasingtfie level of services rendered residents," he said. The franchise tax was retfBOJd 10 percent or $24,000 this2pr. While other cities have opposed the franchise tax, it has actually helped our residents, said Councilman E.R. Duke The total tax cut Clinto53ty residents received this yeaESYhs 8.5 percent or $29,600. Murw $ y,f Need Paramedic Unit, Council Told APRIL ADAMS Clinton residents CLINTON C jty ft' tomers. . CHERILYN KAWA Review Correspondent polishes the stones, his wife Alice mounts them in the settings. Rings, necklaces, bolos and belt buckles are among the finished items the Bones make. They have made matched sets of buckles and bolos for cus- RUTH MALAN Review Correspondent KAYSVILLE ' jnts irui 3 r' 1,1111 Guest Book Garters Albums Guest Favors - , 1 |