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Show f ms COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY Lakeside TUESDAY, APRIL 10, 1990 VOLUME 10, NUMBER 15 COMMUNITY NEWS FOR ROY AND NORTH DAVIS COUNTY HEADLINES Stopping to smell the flowers summary of the weeks news stories from the A Standard-Examine- r, Farmington names new police chief ' FARMINGTON Farmingtons new police chief says he doesnt have to apologize to anyone for being second choice. Jeff Jacobson was appointed chief on Saturday morning, after the councils first pick, West Jordan police officer Randy Johnson, turned down the job. With the talent and experience that applied for the job I feel very honored just being ip the top three, Jacobson said. I dont think I should apologize to anybody for being number two. Jacobson, 34, had been acting as in tenm chief since Val Morton resigned Feb. 5 to take a job at Davis Countys new jail. He has been a detective sergeant with the Farmington Police Department for four years, and was a patrolman in Centerville. , Hearing set to meet budget concerns Robert ReganLakeside Review Taking time to smell the flowers at West Point city hail is Cierra Phelps, 4, daughter of Kelsey and Debra Phelps. FARMINGTON Facing unexpected budget demands, the Davis County Commission will host a public hearing April 16 to consider providing more money for the new county fairgrounds, the 91 1 emergency communications system, the health department and the Council on Aging. But commissioners wont be pleading poverty they learned last Thursday the county currently has about $2.2 million in unbudgeted reserves available to meet those unforeseen needs. County fire districts to get more funds By MARGE SILVESTER Lakeside Review LAYTON Water, the liquid gold of the West. And, if it is used wisely, residents in Davis and Weber counties will have all they need this summer. In a recent report to the Layton Chamber of Commerce, Ivan Flint, general manager pf Weber Basin Water Conservancy District, said because of a 70 percent snowpack in the mountains, a full water allotment can be supplied. We ask people to conserve, he said. Its better to conserve than ration. People use twice as much during periods of rationing because they are afraid they Wont have enough to water lawns and take care of everything, so they use more than they otherwise would. He said the basins seven reservoirs are 50 to 60 percent full. We would they were at 70 percent, but that isnt too bad. Its not an unusual situa Flint said that the bottom half of the reservoirs are controlled by Ogden water companies and the top half by tion. Weber Basin. We have no problem in drought years like the last several. We just close the gates and collect all we can, Flint said. It is years like 1986 when everything seemed to be fine, with the snow pack just the way it should have been, when an unusual amount of rain fell, creating flooding problems. Hint said 1984 was a beautiful year and reservoirs didnt have to be tapped until August. The water district has obtained a $32 million rehabilitation and betterment loan from the Bureau of Reclamation to rebuild, restore, replace and add on to the current facilities, most of which are over 30 years old. Efforts to meet the needs of the future are also being addressed. e The dam is 83 feet high and of water. An holds 8,350 acre-feacre-foof water will cover one acre of land, one foot deep, and contains about 360,000 gallons of water. Its very expensive now to develop water, Hint said. To build dams now, a lot of people have to be satisfied. To build this dam cost about $12 million. In order to build the dam, we had to build recreation facilities which includes a campground with 104 spots. The East Canyon Dam is the only concrete dam in the state. Hint said all others are earth fill. The engineers tell us we have enough water, with the new things we are doing, to last until the year 2006 and Salt Lake A until 2004. Flint said Salt Lake City has used all its ground water and no more wells can be dug. A proposal has been made to half-mil- et ot build five dams on the Bear River to store water for the Wasatch Front to Salt Lake City. Hint said Gov. Norman Bangerter has selected a task force of 22 to study the possibilities of bringing the Bear River to these areas to meet future needs of the areas. Finding good sites for new dams is a growing problem, as Flint pointed out dam in Sumwith the mit County which was dedicated last Smith-Morehou- se year. ' All the good, economic sites are gone, and we must built where we can, now. The dam is the third one to be built in the canyon. The first was constructed by settlers; the second about 1870, and the third about 1960. This one doubles the size of the reservoirs, Hint said. See WATER on page 2 soon wor Only minor traffic interference involved By BRYON SAXTON Lakeside Review Traffic will be slowed somewhat throughout north Davis County as road repairs take place in various cities over the next two months. The Utah Department of Transportation recently approved $250,000 in road repairs to take place in Davis, Weber and Cache counties. Shirley Iverson, public information officer for UDOT, said bids were recently opened on a project to widen the pavement on short sections of various highways in Northern Utah. Iverson said the road work will cause mostly minor traffic interference along the shoulders of the roads, and the work at each location will be of short duration. The road work will not begin until at least April 15, and maybe as late as May 1, but Iverson said the contract does stipulate all work must be completed by June 15. Those areas in Davis County and Roy where roads will be paved include 1800 North at 1800 West, 1900 West, 2227 West, from 2700 to 2800 West and from 2900 to 3000 West in Clinton. In West Point paving will take place at 300 North at 2250 West and at 2000 West from 150 to 250 North. Other locations to be paved in Davis County include Syracuse Road from 1450 to 1700 South in Syracuse, Syracuse Road at 930 West m Layton and on Syracuse Road from 1235 to 1340 South in Farmington, In Weber County the roads to be paved include 5500 South at 3850 West in Roy and State Route 126 from 2700 to 2100 North in Farr West. This project will involve extending pavement from the existing edge of the road back to meet the new curb and gutter. This is fairly routine, Iverson said of the paving project. Funds from UDOTs maintenance budget are being used for this project, she said. The paving will take place where jiew curb and gutter have been put in, she said. Iverson said roads will be widen to the meet the new installed curb and gutter. The following projects Involve extending pavement from the existing edge of the road back to meet new curb and gutter sections. The paving work will be done at the following locations: Cache County: from 540 South to 200 North in Providence SR-- 1 65 at 9000 South in - SR-23- 8 Paradise Davls County: ' at 1800 West, at 1900 West, at 2227 West, at 2700 West to 2800 West, and at 2900 West to 3000 r( hf. ) VW SR-3- 7 West in SR-9- 8 in SR-- 1 26 from 2700 North to 21 00 North in Farr West Source Utah Department of Transportation dise, Iverson said. UDOT officials also announced East Canyon road over Big Mountain has been open for the summer season. road is open several roads in the Northern Utah area remain closed at - ' this time. , f roads closed inThose recreation clude Monte Cristo road, SR-3and from Wasatch Mountain State Park to junction with SR-- 1 90, Guardsmans Pass, and on to Park City. One other road still closed is Alpine Loop road from Mutual Dell to Aspen Grove', between American Fork and Provo Canyons. 9, Iverson said East Canyon road, SR-6and other summer recreation area roads are routinely closed each winter season when traffic volumes decline and do not meet warrants for snow removal. 5, Other roads to be paved during the summer work include two projects in Cache County. They are State Route 238 from 540 South to 200 North in Providence and State Route 165 at 9000 South in Para- - However, even though East Canyon W Poll: Majority favor bond for high school ' FARMINGTON Results of a poll released last week indicate a ma- jority of Davis County residents sur- veyed support issuance of $40 million in bonds for construction of a new high school. Davis School Board members paid Dan Jones & Associates $5,000 to con- ' duct the poll. Results made public in a school board meeting last Tuesday night indi- cate that if the bond election were held today, 63 percent of the 603 resi- dents polled would vote favorably while 29 percent would oppose it. The remaining 8 percent was unde- cided. ' j t ; : r t ! es Roy date. f FARMINGTON Davis School Board members are worried about the stretch limousines and other extravagant expenditures of money by students wooing their sweethearts at prom time. Board member Bob Thurgood introduced the idea of forming a committee, with student representation, to discuss development of possible guide-linencouraging moderation in the high cost of dating. The issue came to his attention, Thurgood said, when an acquaintance told him it had cost a grandson $150 t attend the junior prom held at some fancy place in Salt Lake City. SR-- 1 Weber County: at 3850 West 1 Board concerned about prom costs Clinton 07 at 2250 West in West Point SR-- 1 08 from 1 50 North to 250 North in West Point SR-- 1 08 from 1450 South to 1700 South in Syracuse SR-- 1 08 at 930 West in Layton SR-- 1 06 from 1235 South to 1340 South in Farmington Of the four bids received for the summer maintenance project, Iverson said Staker Paving of Salt Lake City had the apparent low bid of $248,923, more than $50,000 lower than UDOT ' engineers estimated bid. However, UDOT will not award the project to the Salt Lake firm until all bids are reviewed to make certain no errors were made and that all requirements were met, she said. Dave Kenmson, district engineer for the state, said the most of the locations where the paving is taking place is in areas where development has occured. This is pretty routine stuff, he said. Its not a super big deal. j Kennison said the major projects in Davis County slated for this summer include widening both Antelope Drive in Layton and State Route 193 from two lanes to four lanes. , ' Kennison said details on both those projects would be announced at a later FARMINGTON The South Davis Fire District and seven north Da- -, vis cities will soon receive an 80 percent increase in the county money they receive to provide fire protection , in unincorporated areas. County commissioners learned last Wednesday that a revamping of the figures used to calculate the cost of fire protection will mean the county . must pay those eight entities $50,000 . more during fiscal 1991. Of that amount, about $35,000 will be going to the South Davis Fire Dis- trict and the remaining $14,000 to $ 5,000 will go to the cities that con- - ; tract to serve unincorporated areas. ; Commission Chairman Bill Peters broke the news when he urged the ' commission to endorse the $658,994 ; budget adopted Wednesday by the South Davis Fire District board. r SR-22- 4, T Best quote m wm 'I say when Fruit Heights cancels on the 24th let's have a work session councilman Craig council set the fifth the when Taylor date to meet with the neighboring city council, each of the previous ones being canceled. Kaysville city ; ; : |