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Show r: LYNDIA GRAHAM Layton agreed not to annex ground in the area without permission from the other city. Lakeside Review correspondent LAYTON How can they annex us if we dont want them to? was a ques- -' tion raised by property owners west of Layton and south of Clearfield. The property owners told members of the Layton City Council they want to be a part of Layton but are afraid Clearfield will annex their property. The ground falls into an area covered by an agreement signed between the cities several years ago when Clearfield and Blake Hazen and Ed Green approached Layton for annexation of 73 acres in the area covered by the agreement so they could develop a subdivision. They need utilities particularly culinary water, in order to develop lots. The developers and the city feel Lay-to- n is best able to provide water to the area. Residents there say they feel they are a part of Layton and use Layton volume 8 Number 19 schools, churches, and Layton mailing address. Layton extending a public hearing on the annexation three weeks ago to allow time for Clearfield to respond to the issue. Following that, the Clearfield City Council agreed not to give Layton permission to annex because they want the 73 acres and additional surrounding area to become a part of their city. Sam Chelemes owns land there and said the property owners were never made aware of the agreement before it was signed and that the property owners should have some say-s- o where we are annexed. Clearfield could not service the area with water because of the ground flow, he said. Layton Mayor Richard McKenzie asked that the hearing be extended a second time to give the Layton council members and the Clearfield City Council a chance to have a better meeting of k The Layton hearing will be continued the minds. The issue is not a conflict between the Serving Roy andnorthemDavis County cities, he said, but has a whole host of problems that are almost erresolvable from the Clearfield side, he said. The only ones Ive talked to that lean towards Clearfield is the Clearfield City Council, he said. If a meeting between the councils does not allow the ground to be annexed to Layton the city will take steps to void the agreement, McKenzie said, so the ground can be annexed to Layton. on May 19 at 7:35. Wednesday.Mayl 1,19881 Ruling fews against store District changes textbook fees JO-AN- briefs CALLAHAN Lakeside Review correspondent In a totally FARMINGTON silent council chamber, the audience listened to the proposal of Councilman Don Redd to deny the development of a convenience store on the corner of Burke Lane and Main Street in Farmington. Not a paper stirred among the more than 100 citizens who crammed in the city office on May 4 to hear the verdict of the council. When the council voted to uphold the planning commissions decision to keep the store out of town, loud cheering broke out in the group. The proposed store and office complex had come under fire from residents from the beginning.-- -- ninth-grader- - Floodzilla, a plastic catch basin which controls drips from the Davis County Courthouses leaky roof, is in- - Both the planning commission .! i and the City Council had held public hearings to listen to the opinions of the neighborhood residents and each time the room was packed, mostly with people who opposed the development Steve Glezos, the developer, brought the matter to the City Council and requested they override the negative decision of the planning commission. Members of the community opposed the store on the grounds it would create a danger at an already hazardous intersection. Councilman Don Redd, in one of the longest proposals in City Council history, said after extensive evidence and personal site review and with consideration to legal aspects I propose that we uphold the decision of the planning commission. The proposed development would not be consistent with the area and it has always been the policy of the city to keep Main Street a residential street. its inventor, Barry Burton, a county planner he who says grown attached to it. spected by 'Floodzilla' keeping 'em dry ROBERT REGAN Lakeside Review staff FARMINGTON Its not a must see for tourists yet, but the latest county flood control project is working perfectly. When most people think of flood control, the massive Rudd Creek debris basin or the annual dredging of Farmington Pond comes to mind. Few people know there is a black plastic catch basin suspended from the ceiling inside the county courthouse. Called Floodzilla by emumployees, the upside-dow- n brella of black polyethylene is of Barry Burton, the. brain-chil- d a county planner. Ive grown attached to it, he sheet. said of the Its been up since last fall," he added, so far its proven to rain-catchi- be real reliable. The reason Floodzilla, and later The Son of Floodzilla, were installed is that the roof is leaking' in several places. The most severe leaks occur in the back room and the storage room for the county planning department where files, maps, blueprints and graphics are stored. All I was trying to do was save the carpets, Burton said. We had so many buckets we when it isnt raining you dont need it fixed. He said the county will try to fix the leak by replacing the 65,000 square foot roof. As yet he has no estimate to replace the floating insulation roof but the deciding factor will be how much it will cost to remove the old material. The floating insulation roof design was fashionable several years ago but in most cases it has been replaced with a more conventional design. A floating insulation roof is one where insulation is put on top of the tar and gravel built-u- p roof and then covered with rocks to keep it in place. couldnt walk around them. According to Jeff Hewitt, assistant building engineer, The roofs been leaking as long as Ive been here and thats been seven years. The fact the roof leaks is common knowledge to the county employees who work there: In several offices buckets catch the drips coming from each storm. During a hard rain, Floodzilla will drain out a pencil-widt- h stream of water .that fills a five gallon bucket every half hour. VerNon Griffeth said in jest about fixing the roof, This is the kind of problem that when it rains you cant fix it and (aysville mayor takes hard line on rocks RUTH MAUN 'I'll help raise the Lakeside Review correspondent KAYSVILLE Mayor Gerald money to make it all Purdy may soon be out helping rocks.' raise funds for the construction of a new senior citizen center to be Mayor Gerald Purdy built in Kaysville. In last weeks City Council meeting, Steve Crane, architect County Council on Aging has a for the center, showed two prorock and stucco exterior, said posed elevations for the building. Crane. But the mayor prefers an The one preferred by the Davis exterior. all-ro- ck It will give it its own identity if its half stucco and half rock. It will have its own special look and it will save the county $12,000, said Crane. Ill help raise the money to make it all rock, said Purdy. Both proposals feature a roof in the style of the new city building. Personally, Im not opposed to the stucco, said Councilman ing area Britt Howard. Britt is young and inexperienced, said Purdy. A soil analysis and surveying have been done on the property, which is located on the southeast corner of the block that houses the new city building, library, police station and fire station. The drawings of the proposed senior center show a special seat by sky lights. The entry is pulled out so you well-light- cant miss the front door, said Crane. Some $50 million LAYTON to $75 million could find its way back to wallets of taxpyers, Utah Gov. Norman Bangerter told members of the Layton Rotary Club. But, Bangerter said, his suggestion of a special legislative session to bring the money back is not politically motivated. The. states leader said a special session could be called for June to reduce taxes, which would, in effect, return the extra tax dollars unexpectedly collected in huge tax increases this year. He said he did not want the money left in state coffers where it could be whittled away by special interest groups. There are plenty of people w ho will want to spend it, he said. Utahs economy, according to Bangerter, is on the rise. He said when he was installed as governor years ago his administration inherited some difficult situations that were events beyond the control of either political partys leadership at the time. Kennecot closed, international oil prices fell, Geneva Steel shut down, and the space shuttle disaster hit Utah firms. But Bangerter said his programs are beginning to pay off with a marked increase in interest shown by national companies who are looking at Utah as a site to settle businesses, and with an increase in the number of three-and-a-ha- lf te Those new jobs have tripled under his administration, he said. Unemployment has dropped from 6.8 percent a year ago to 5.5 percent reported in April 1988 figures. ' Utah is one of the few intermountain states with a positive job growth rate, he said. He said the state is operating at a more efficient level, since he was elected. The state operates on $100 less in real dollars for every man, woman, and child at the current time than it did previous to his administration, Bangerter said. Bangerter compared the decrease in spending to what he said were increases in the Salt Lake City budget by his demo cratic oppoflent. Salt Lake Mayor Ted Wilson. Increases of 8.5 percent per year in real dollars were made for each man, woman, and child, Bangerter claimed, for each of the ten years .Wilson has served. He said Wilson raised the Salt Lake City franchise tax from two to six percent. The pumping of the Great Salt Lake was defended by Bangerter. He said, despite critics, he still feels it was the right thing to xlo. The pumps will last from 30 to 50 years, he said, although they may only be used a portion of that time. We wont have to suffer from the lake again, Bangerter said. He said the decision to put the pumps in the lake was made s. 'School time use changes okayed - FARMINGTON The Davis Board of Education has approved recommendations made by a task force committee studying the use of school time. Andy Odoardi, chairman of the committee to study time use, last month presented to the Davis Board about a dozen recommendations he believes will enhance the student learning process right up through the last day of school. Recommendations listed by the committee included coordinating jLDS Church release time graduation with the high school graduation preventing students from having an open hour, and minimizing school assemblies and programs which disrupt normal routine. Odoardi, who serves as BountiHighs assistant principal, said the committee believes there are two major areas of concern, one being the impact of activities disrupting the school day by requesting that students excused from class. ful extra-curricul- ar ' Im with the mayor. The reason we donated the land was to get the building built of rock, said Councilman Reed Adams. The Council wants the building to blend with the other rock structures on the block. Bangerter says taxpayers should get money LYNDIA GRAHAM Lakeside Review correspondent FARMINGTON The Davis Board of Education has approved an activity and textbook fee adjustment that will increase the cost of going to school for seventh and eighth graders. The board last Tuesday unanimously approved a change that will adjust textbook fees in ninth grade from $27 to $20, while a $20 fee wil be implemented for both seventh and eighth graders. Davis Superintendent Richard Kendell said the fee adjustments were made based on input from the principals and the superintendents coordinating council. Kendell said the change was made after the state passed a law allowing fees to be charged in the lower junior high grades. Other fee changes will include charging a $5 activity fee to all junior high students , instead of only The price of memory books has also been increased from $4 to $5. Kendell said district officials will also consider increasing athletic fees from $15 to $25 in cross country, tennis and golf. when Davis County sewage plants were threatened, travel was freethreatened on the way, and even the airport was in danger of the rising lake. Over $350 million would have been needed just to reroute the freeway if the lake had immersed east-we- st it, he said. It was our only alternative, he said, if we want to control the lake. I te said he realized it was a politically risky decision but that he has not been a governor to avoid being in the forefront of political issues. The other is classroom practices which reflect low academic expectations and poor teaching efforts...especially during the critical times of the year. On the agenda The Roy City Council will interview the five remaining applicants for the Roy City attorney position. The position has been vacant since the promotion o.f former attorney Roger Dutson to a judge-ship. Best quote 'I'm rather old.' Davis School Board member Raymond Briscoe explaining why he couldn't be heard when asked Tax increases were among the least popular of his decisions, Bangerter said. to speak up. i r con- duct a special closed meeting Wednesday, May 1 1, at 5 p.m. to i |