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Show J2A Teachers retiring en masse Lakeside Review, Wednesday, May 20, 1987 BRYON SAXTON Lakeside Review staff An early FARMINGTON retirement plan passed during this years session of the Utah Legislature has been credited with a mass exodus of educators and administrators leaving the Davis School District this month. Bonnie Durrance-Doylpublic relations officer for the Davis District, announced last week more than 140 teachers are retiring under the new program, along with 23 principals and district Superintendent Lawrence Welling. Those eligible for the early re- tirement plan are educators with 25 years of service, regardless of age; those with 20 years or more who are between the ages of 60 and 61; those with 10 years of service between the ages of 62 and 64, and anyone 65 or older with four or more years of sere, PARTICIPATING in the Fat Fighter 5K race last Saturday in Layton was great fun for 3- - Loni Williams who started out smiling, holding hand of her mom Carol Williams (left). year-ol- d ( most of the three-mil- e course, but for the home stretch (right). Loni walked got a lift et contains 'no tax boost BRYON SAXTON Lakeside Review staff The Roy City Council ROY has tentatively approved a $6.5 million balanced budget for the - .citys fiscal year 1987-8- 8. The council, who reviewed the proposed budget with City Manager Richard Kirkwood, will now discuss several line items in the next several weeks and submit a final budget in a public meeting To be held June 9 at the city hall. Items to be further discussed include a proposed $1 million city shop facility to be constructed hear the city center, and an exception request for two more .Tice officers and a police dispatcher. Other items requested on the city budgets exception list by department heads included one additional firefighter and one additional mechanic to service .the citys growing vehicle fleet. : Kirkwood, who pointed out ac However, Roy Police Department officials have requested two e new officers, in addition to a records clerkdispatcher at a cost of $70,000 that had yet to be figured in the budget Kirkwood said the two additional officers would be hired in order to reduce part one or more serious crimes, which the council indicated is among their major priorities. But, according to Chief Junior Hammon, even with two more officers Roy City would still be under the 1 per 1,000 ratio as recommended by the Roy City mas- tual operating costs are up in Roy by $83,196, or 2.4 percent, said he took pride in offering the council a balanced budget for the coming year, which includes no tax increase of any kind. During the past 10 years Roy City has consistently balanced the budget with minimal or no tax increase while serving an increasing population and maintaining a positive fund balance and a philosophy without increasing debt, he said. Kirkwood said typical cities Roys size provide essentially the same services, but with a much larger general fund. Kirkwood credited Roys budgeting success to the citys 78 e employees who man the citys 12 departments. The budget breakdown for 1988 will have approximately 25 percent of the citys monies being spent in the area of law enforcement to maintain the force as is. full-tim- ter plan. Roy City continues to be one of the fastest growing cities in Hammon said. We are expanding to the west Utah, full-tim- with homes and continue to develop more commercial areas, he told the council. With this growth we have an increased demand for municipal services. Taylors High has f standards. Other proposed items discussed at the budget hearing included the decision of what to pay city employees. Kirkwood had budgeted a 2 increase for percent each city employee, however, public employee representative Susan Kuziak suggested each employee receive a 3.5 increase, in addition to better insurance coverage. Kuziak, who said she was representing the 20 public employees who had attended the meeting, said city employees are requesting a 3.5 percent pay increase, as well as a request for reducing the time in the steps of the citys set salary schedule. The city employee pay increase would change the figure budgeted from $55,000 for city pay increase to nearly $100,000. The council made no comment to Kuziaks request. cost-of-livi- cost-of-livi- - LAYTON Look up ca, or at least all of you Layton :High sports fans. Look up and : see a new scoreboard installed at Ihe Lancer football field. Some time ago the Coca Cola Company told Layton High they would like to buy the world a Coke and Layton High a new scoreboard to replace the old one, but the Davis County School District originally said no to the .logo. Co. volunteered The Coca-Col- a to install a $15,000 solid state circuit scoreboard but required the board to have a Coke logo in plain view as it is on several other school scoreboards in the state donated by Coke. After several attempts by LHS 'officials, the schools Booster .Club president Bob Bennett made one final appeal for the real thing. . He reminded the school board d tin a letter that Laytons was the oldest in the dis score--boar- Bindley s .From 1A not present much longer. He said before most of the games the school district had to send repairmen out to fix the sign in order for it to be functional and even then lights were nearly always missing or burnt out. The need for a new scoreboard came at a time when the district was hit with financial cutbacks and Bennett said the acceptance of a scoreboard would not only eliminate the cost of purchasing a new one, but that Coca-Col- a would continue to maintain the board as long as it was in place, with the logo intact. Its the real thing, when it comes to getting a new d without using tax dollars, Bennett said. score-boar- In addition to the logo, Coke Is It, the company agreed to install the Layton High logo on the new scoreboard at no cost. After further consideration of the letter sent by the Booster Club members, the school board approved the project. Johnson said at that time he revealed to Bindley the findings of the board, which Johnson said had substantiated his earlier conclusions. It is not appropriate for me to respond to the facts regarding this case, Johnson said, which he said may be appealed by Bindley to the merit hearing commission. Johnson said if the case is to go any further he believes the evidence is substantial in terms of a defense for Bindleys termination. Johnson declined any further comment about the matter and referred all questions to County Attorney Mel Wilson, who will be representing the county in the gt the termination reading Friday, referred to the earlier suspension as a criminal conspiracy and Isaid he intends to pursue both criminal and civil action against Johnson and the department for rjhe treatment of Bindley prior to :and after his reinstatement to the force. Johnson said he met with Bindley and his legal counsel Scott ;Reed Friday as part of the proc- case. Wilson was unavailable for edure the county must follow for comment. an officer termination. But new Superintendent Richard Kendell said he is not alarmed by the situation because the Davis School District has an advantage over the other districts who are competing for the same available personnel. Our number one priority is to get staffed and get the best staff we can, he said, adding, Im a little concerned about that much turnover in a one year period, but I am not alarmed. Kendell, who will replace Welling at the first of July, said he feels one of the fortunate things about the turnover is that district officials anticipated the problem and started searching immediatere- changes. We received 185 applications for 23 principal positions, so were prepared for the turnover rate in the area of principals, he said, and were well along in the search for teachers. The district got an early jump on this. And as a just in case, Kendell said, if the district cannot find suitable replacements for the positions that need to be filled, the state has provided a provision in the law which allows officials to extend the same retirement offer to teachers and administrators for one more year, beginning next year, to keep some teachers on staff. Doyle said approximately 40 teachers and adminstrators have agreed to stay one more year if their positions cannot be filled. , Admiring new scoreboard at Layton High football field are (from left) Coca-Col- a area sales manager Ed Wells, coach Joe Wood, The board can be used for football, baseball and track and is easily viewed from all of the football stadium seating. It will be a refreshing new feeling to look up and see a properly posed score of the games and to always have the board in good Bob Bennett of the Booster Club and Principal Paul Smith. The Coca-Col- a company do- nated the sign to the school. running condition, Bennett said. LHS students and fans may or may, not have a smile and a Coke at each game but will undoubtedly have a smile and a good reading of the score. The scoreboards donated by the Co Do you have Company have become a symbol of friendship between the company and the communities where they have placed the boards and the one at Layton High will undoubtedly become a classic sight on the LHS ca-Co- la a CALL YOUR Lakeside Review AREA CORRESPONDENT Phone From page 1A If you receive a threatening phone call, you should immediately hang up and note the date and time of the call, as well as any background noises and speech patterns...of the caller, and immediately contact the police. 1 LakesideSt., Review NEWS TIP? 2146 North Main Layton, Utah The Lakeside Review is published weekly and distributed FREE by carrier Wednesday afternoon from Roy through Farmington. The Lakeside Review is a subsidiary of the Standard Corp. 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Doyle said before it is official the school district will be looking at replacing nearly 350 of their 1,900 teachers during the next ly. Kendell said the district has mmmaiw new scoreboard courtesy of Coke ; DeLand, who was Last year the demand for services increased by 4 percent, which is consistent with the citys growth, he said. Hammon said one additional officer will fill out the shifts, while the other officer would be placed in criminal investigation. The razing of the old city shops at 5700 South and 2200 West and the construction of new ones in the area of 2650 West and 5650 South was also a priority item the council seemed to be agreement on. The new shop facility, which would offer more storage space for city vehicles and three bays for both washing and maintenance, would come at a cost of $1 million. The council bases its support for the new shops on an engineering study conducted in October. 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