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Show 2 LAKESIDE Tnuisday, Apnl23, 1998 Legacy Highway Lakeside Review Davis lawmaker wants to cut the pork Beattie teaming up with Brown to oppose bills for pet projects The Associated Press In an effort to reduce spending, Davis Countys top lawmaker is teaming up with other Republican legislative leaders in proposing a ban on bills appork-proje- ct propriating money for pet projects. Critics say the proposal may only consolidate more power in the hands of the leadership. The change proposed by Senate President Lane Beattie and House Speaker Mel Brown would funnel all spending measures through the Legislatures appropriations subcommittees and the five major budget bills. Lawmakers no longer would be able to push projects of special interest to their constituents in separate single-issspending bills. ue We dont need bills that essentially do said nothing but appropriate money, Brown. To a great extent they are used for political purposes. Legislative research director Richard Strong says there were 39 bills in the 1998 session with the sole purpose of committing money to special projects. Twenty-si- x passed. There was a whole bunch of stuff we did for fluff - it really didnt mean anyBountiful. thing, says Beattie, The plan to restrict spending bills will be considered next week during interim meetings of the Legislature. It is the latest Beattie-Brow- n initiative to bring greater order to the process of lawmaking. In the past couple of years they have early deadlines for major budget bills to prevent the usual political circus on the last night of the 45-dlegislative session. They also have boosted discipline by requiring state agencies to file bills ay weeks before the session begins and by allotting each lawmaker three priority bills. Some lawmakers vow to fight the new spending-measur- e prohibition, saying legislative leaders have no authority to exclude an entire class of bills. My concern is that in our zeal for efficiency, we may be losing some of the access and representation of our system, said House Minority Leader Dave Jones. Democracy was never meant to be efficient, it was meant to be fair, he said. Jones worries the proposed restriction could further consolidate power in the hands of a few top Republicans. A spending measure debated on the floor to pass or die in the spotlight of public attention is not as easily subject to politics, Jones said. Some Republicans also worry about too n much control. If you restrict (filing of special-projefunding bills), many times the decisions behin- d-the-scenes top-dow- ct will be dictated by committee chairs and leadership. And thats not the way its supposed to work, said Rep. Gerry Adaif, y. They cannot stifle me, Adair said.,l am elected by 30,000 people in Weber County and Roy. For the past two years, Adair has fifed more bills than any other House member - 17 in the most recent session. , The raft of bills included a number of spending measures: from one seeking $150,000 for the Roy City Museum to one requesting $6.7 million to hire 80 new Utah Highway Patrol troopers Adairs trooper bill was trimmed to $841,400 - enough to hire an additional 10 officers. Gov. Mike Leavitt sees some benefits f in the proposed change. It sounds responsible, said Leavitt spokeswoman Vicki Varela. Almost ready for Little Leaguers itit Sierra Club faunches anti-Lega- cy campaign "tile Associated Press The Sierra Clubs Utah (Chapter has launched an advertising campaign against the prbposed Legacy Highway, f The push part of a two-ea- r, $40,000 effort - relies on bumper stickers lamenting tjie loss of Great Salt Lake wetlands and farms, yard placards showing a bulldozer and radio spots in which a grandmother responds to a childs question: Could we ever build enough roads to keep up with Utahs population growth? - your way out of doesnt work, said Building congestion Ivina Dougherty, chapter chairwoman. It simply encourages more drivers and urban tjprawl, she said Monday. Sierra Club activists want t5fc state to scrap plans for the $284 million highway from Salt Lake City to Farmington and instead promote car pooling, buses and commuter rail. . However, the Utah Department of Transportation predicts mass transit, at best, will handle only 10 percent of Davis Countys commuter traffic by 2015. Buses now transport 4 percent of commuters in the corridor. UDOT said Legacys four lanes are expected to handle 1 8 percent of traffic - even if is expanded from six to 10 lanes in Davis County, with two lanes reserved for car poolers. 15 believes Dougherty UDOTs figures reflect current behavior, not the future. The state is assuming that Davis County will conUnue to sprawl in ways that complicate access to mass transit, she said, and that commuters will continue to prefer their own cars. Letter carriers plan food drive By SUSAN TANNER HOLMES Standard Examiner correspondent FARMINGTON - The Farmington City Council was encouraged to join with residents throughout Utah to declare May 9 Letter Carriers Food Drive Day. lelp is needed to fill empty food bank shelves. During a time when food band shelves are traditionally bare, letter carriers throughout Utah will be picking up nonpcrishable food, said Olivia Anderson, Labor Liaison Assistant for 1 AFL-CI- O vices. Community Ser- Ve need energy and supas letter earners will be port looking for a handout from their customers on Saturday, May 9, she said. The potential of this food drive is very exciting, but its success would be impossible without every- one. Food donated during the drive will go to local food banks to be given to children, seniors and working poor who are in need of emergency foot! supplies. Letter carriers will pick up nonperishable food donations left by postal customers as they deliver the mail, said Anderson, s Water runoff causing concerns in Clinton Council tables decision on subdivision until problems worked out By JUNE-LEStandard-Examine- E r CLINTON HERNANDEZ correspondent - Concerns about water runoff have caused the Clinton City Council to put off a decision on a subdivision. After a series of several requests Kali Estates subdivision phase IV was again tabled for a later date. Home owner Ron To-- of Clinton asked to go on record opposing the final approval of Kali Estates due to problems of flooding that have occurred on his lot and that of neighbor John Griess. Both residents currently live in Kali Estates subdivision phase II and with this years exceptional rainfall have experienced runoff and flooding. pik My idea is that the property needs to be leveled off. They need to change the slope of the land, Topik said. Library plans Celebration of Picture Books May 2 - CLEARFIELD The Davis County Library will sponsor Duct for Words and Pictures: A Celebration of Picture Books. The event will be held from 9 a.m. to noon May 2 at the North Branch Library, 562 S. 1000 East Mark and Caralyn Buehncr, nationally acclaimed authors and illustrators of numerous picture books including Fannys Dream, The Escape Of Marvin The Ape, A Job For Wittilda, and Its A Spoon Not A Shovel, will discuss their lives and work an childrens literature and the business of writing and illustrating picture books. Survey From 1 County Commissioner Gale Stevenson said he subscribes to the concept of getting input from the public, and is looking forward to the results. I ny, welcome that kind of scrutihe said. Pokral said a similar study was conducted about two years ago, but it wasnt detailed enough to v Addressing the city council last week Vinzant said, I believe the new phase will help stop this runoff problem. I have made Mark Higley aware of this problem, but with the natural course of the trains there will always be some runoff. This phase will help more than it will hinder. Topik also cited that there is a Horses the use of picture books as entertainment and as a teaching medium. From 1 Shea explained that two months ago a memorandum of understanding had be made with the government and the slaugh- The program will conclude with 50 Books in 50 Minutes, a preview by the Davis County Librarys childrens librarians of and new picture books. that buy the horses for slaughter must report the purchases. He also told the students that there are countries such as France, where people eat horse Children ages 6 and older and adults are invited to attend. We think we have the improper disposal under control, Shea said. There is another type of operating plant that uses the carcasses of animals that die, such as deer and horses. Sometimes they draw chemicals from them. The government is invest! gating the rendering plant, Shea said. ter houses. Those businesses Light refreshments will be and books by the Bueh-newill be available for purchase and to be signed by the authors. served rs Accommodations may be made for patrons with special a needs by contacting Pete J. at Gia-com- 451-232- Following the keynote presentation, educators Mary Ann Bundy and Kathy Bundy, will discuss According to City Planner Lynn Vinzant, Kali Estates had met code requirements for grading. 2. For more information call Deanna Zaugg at 451-232- 2. give agencies the information they needed. Pokral said she is hoping a printed report of the survey results will be available by fall of 1998, with those results then to be shared amongst the different county agencies. We dont want this study to sit on a shelf and get dusty, she said. meat Another student suggested that dog food companies label the dog food telling what is in it because some horse meat goes into dog food. Shea agreed that labeling might be a good idea. He than said, we are trying to diminish the chances of that happening, about dog food being made of horse mcaL He suggested the students find which dog food companies arc using horse meat, in their products, and write them letters asking where they get the horses. Another student voiced concern about rounding up horses with motoncd vehicles, because they chase the horses to exhaustion. It might be a good idea to c hole 12 feet long, 6 feet wide and 7 feet deep where US West has a telephone box which has been acting as a catchall for the lots runoff. Topik said he and his wife d the hole of approximately 350 gallons of water. He and Griess are both concerned for their children and the potential for harm. hand-draine- Clinton resident Evelyn Win- ter questioned the citys policy about building. I thought the problems that these people are review that, Shea said. According to Shea, horses multiply rapidly with a 20 to 30 percent reproduction rate and that the horses have no natural predators. The horses ruin the landscape and use a lot of water, he said. We do have an advisory group to get adoptions up and to work with fertility control," Shea said. While some students think the wild mustangs might become extinct. Shea assured them it wouldnt happen. They arc not a native species and they are competing with the natural species, the deer and the antelope. We need a better balance, Shea said. We need to relocate the horses to better protected areas. We are trying to identify areas in Wyoming and Nevada so we don't create an imbalance, he added. Another student suggested a hunting season for sitk or older horses, to keep the population down. But Shea said that wouldnt work because it is illegal to hunt horses since they are a protected species. In Utah hunting is part of the culture, but people who love the horses would be upset. We do need to make it so they die better," Shea said. He told the story of his family dog that got sick and was suffering from a tumor. They took the dog to the vet to be put to sleep so he wouldnt suffer. We need to identify horses in the last stages of life who have lost their teeth and arc left on the range to die. It would be better to put them to sleep like we do our own pets but that having should have been takefi care of before people moved it a Mitchell suggested that parties concerned along with the council needed to take a look"af 11 the property and come to a consensus about what could be done. Vinzant agreed as did the residents. Vinzant also promised to contact US West to see what could be done about the exposed hole on Topiks lot could be abused, Shea explained. At The suggestion of sanctuaries was also made by a student But Shea told them that the government already has two sanctuaries for horses and it costs them $3 a day to take care of the horses there. It costs $1,000 a year to keep a horse there and a horse has an average life span of 25 years. It costs $400,000 to feed horses in a sanctuary. I am not convinced that more sanctuaries are a good use of our money," Shea said. He said there are three thing? the government is working on t? help the horses - adoption, fertility control, and what to do with those that are not adopted. Glade Anderson, Utah State Wild Horse Manager, told the students that most people didn't realize that a two-hodrive from here is a herd of 3,000 horses. There arc 22 herd areas or horses of all sizes and colons. Do mustangs get in fighuTi a student asked. They do fight a lot, Antler-soanswered. Stallions fight over mares. Groups of horses are called bands. Each band has two or three mares, one stallion and some colts. The stallion runs aiound the group which is his family. The band of horses is lead by the mare and the large stalhoq stays in the rear of the group. t In 1971, the horses became protected because people were catching them on the range and poisoning the water holes. This law was passed because of kids like you," he said. U ur T n V POOR |