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Show W FIFTY CENTS DAVIS COUNTY U tt a iAn f"r sivm nnrr-t- Awv. V 707 v ti tfif) C - w S.LC. VT VOL 103 NUMBER 41 August 22, 1995 Cities spend millions, are we getting our moneys worth? I r I ft 1 t f I I I I I ( ft I i Melinda Williams Staff Writer South Davis County is looked on as a nice place to live, from North Salt Lake to Layton and as long as nothing extreme happens in local government, most people dont pay much attention to the differences in how the nine cities manage their money. But with budgets ranging from close to $1 million to over $12 in million, there are differences population, taxes, water rates and pay scales for city employees. With greater population, comes more of everything. Layton and Bountiful have more than cities like West Bountiful more money, Cross staffs and more problems. the smaller and Woods bigger city Towns like Kaysville and Farmington fall somewhere according to Steven M. Ashby, the finance director. Its budget is $12,062,155. Compare that to Fruit Heights, the countys smallest city, where the budget is $895,105. Of course, Fruit Heights population is about 4,700. Bountiful, with a population of 40.000 has a budget of $8,730,800. Kaysville has 17,000 people and a budget of $3,991,269. Centervilles population of 14,802 is served by a $3,560,804 budget. North Salt Lakes 7.000 people are served by a $2,821,710 budget. With a population of 11,000, Farmington's budget is $2,603,313. Woods Crosss budget is $ 1 ,884,3 11, to serve a population of 5,600. West Bountiful has a population of 4,950 and a budget of $1,385,609. Elected city officials in the nine e cities are considered and are paid accordingly, although some officials put in almost as many hours as their big-cicounterparts who are e basis. paid on a citys in all areas. Layton, Davis Countys largest city, is also the eighth largest in the state with a population of 51,950, part-tim- ty full-tim- Bountifuls elected officials are the highest paid. Mayor John Cushing receives $1,200 monthly and council members each receive $600. But the salaries of elected officials sometimes barely cover the costs connected to the job, as in the case of Fruit Heights, where Mayor Richard L. Harvey receives $400 monthly and council members receive $125 per month. City managers salaries to some degree again coincide with the size of the community. Bountifuls city manager is paid the most of the nine city managers at $74,000 annually and Laytons earns $73,524. West Bountifuls city manager is the lowest paid at $45,409.68 annually. Most fall between $48,000 and $60,000. The amount of a citys tax rate isnt dependent on its size. While West Bountiful has the lowest tax rate of cities in south Davis County at see BUDGET pg. A3 Customer finds tortilla chip surprise hard to swallow time, Lance suffered intense pain in Jeff Haney Contributing Writer Dustin Lance BOUNTIFUL is finding the 100 percent satisfaction guaranteed promise on Country Crisp snack-foo- d product labels hard to swallow. The Bountiful man claims he ate almost an entire bag of Country Crisp Mamacita tortilla chips before finding at the bottom of the bag a long tile made ld his kidneys and stomach, and severe nausea. He also was taken to the emergency room because he thought his appendix bad ruptured. Medical examinations yielded no results. Lance said he was once diagnosed with kidney stones. help to cover the trips to the hospital, Lance said the snack-foo- d company was not cooperative. Walker said he attempts to solve such complaints personally, but Lance wouldn't talk to us. All he did was write a letter to complain. Company executives say the company wanted to for medical pony-u- p expenses and $2,500 These people are using humans as a testing device from asbestos-lik- e material. Lance says he was poisoned by fibers from Sexual harassment policy OKd FARMINGTON The Davis Board of Education gave final approval to two policies prohibiting sexual harassment among employees and students Tuesday night, but Superintendent Richard Kendell said the message the policies were to convey got lost in the examples used. The policies were given preliminary approval two weeks ago. Since then some refinement and clarifications were made to the policies, but overall they were changed very little. Both ensure district employees and students a safe environment, free from sexual harassment and outline measures to be taken should such harassment occur. Under the student policy, sexual harassment is defined as unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, other physical or verbal conduct or communications of a sexual nature, and any other gender-base- d whether initiated by students, school employees or visitors. It was the verbal part which raised the most questions. Kendell told board members hes received a good bit of feedback on the policy. I think Ive been contacted by every talk show host in the state harassment, and their opening line is always Well, we see the Davis County School District is banning certain words. But Kendell said the intent of the policy was not to restrict language, but prohibit sexual harassment. Thats an important point, fundamental to the policy. Board Member Kathi Dalton questioned if the district was letting itself in for a first amendment violation by restricting students speech. She said shed been contacted by a teacher who was concerned kids mouthing off could be construed as sexual harassment. She said the teacher see HARASS the tile, which was determined to be wollastonite, a heat-resista- for when they have to repair their machinery -- nt reportedly used to line baking ovens at the Kaysville snack-foo- d factory, owned by Clover Club. David Walker, company executive, said the company is now investigating the claims. We are now researching the matter and we will have the results soon. If we are in the wrong, then we will make steps to rectify the problem, he said. According to a $20,000 suit filed in 3rd District Court, Lance ate tortilla chips from the same bag for more than a month. During that I was really sick for a month, he said. I was sick almost every night because I ate the chips at lunch or I ate them at night. It felt like a severe, constant case of food poisoning. After finding the tile, Lance called Clover Club customer service department. A representative took his complaint, and the company sent him a reimbursement check for $3.30 the cost of the bag of chips. When he pushed for financial refused the offer. When I tried to deal with their insurance agency, they told me theyd just give me some money and pay for the medical Attorney Jeff Clark material cash, but Lance costs, he said. I was in extreme pain for a month, not to mention what may happen to me in 20 years. Down the road I may end up with colon cancer because I ate these chips. Lance said $20,000 will suffice for pain and damages. He is also asking for money to pay over $1,200 in medical expenses. Jeff Clark, Lances legal counsel, said the company was derelict in the repair of their baking ovens, which Clark said may be tiled with wollastonite. These things are in disrepair see CHIPS pg.A2 pg. A2 Veterans remember Korea Jeff Richards Staff Writer Forty-tw- o WASHINGTON, D.C. years to the day after the Korean War ended, its veterans were finally honored with a new national memorial. The Korean War Veterans Memorial was dedicated July 27 by Pres. Bill Clinton and South Korean President Kim Young Sam, ) as thousands of Korean War veterans, their families, friends and many others looked on. Reaction among Utah veterans was generally positive, with many calling the memorial long overdue. Charlie Pharr, 65, of Layton didnt attend the dedication, but said, I think its about time we had (a memorial). Im glad they finally got some recognition. Pharr, who served in the Fourth Signal Battalion, 10th Corps (attached to the 1st Marine Division), was wounded Dec. 7, 1950 at Chosin (also known as Changjin) Reservoir. Pharr, who later joined the Air Force and served there for 20 years, said he has flown back to Korea a couple of times. We really helped the people of South Korea, and I think they really appreciate what we did for their country, he said. John Cole, 68, of Roy, served in the Marines 1st Division and was also at Chosin Reservoir. He serves as president of the Utah Chapter of the Chosin Few, which has 4,000 members worldwide, including nearly 40 in Utah. The battle at Chosin Reservoir, near the Manchurian border during November and December of 1950, is considered one of the most battles of vicious and the Korean War, Cole noted. Cole said he plans to go back there and take my time at the new memorial. Talking about the war is always kind of emotional for me. One of my best buddies was killed in the Korean War, Cole said. Cole had previously served in World War II, and was just 18 years old when Japan surrendered 50 years ago this week. Sanford Rosenthal, of Murray, another Korean War veteran, is the current state commander of the Veterans of Foreign Wars. He also plans to visit the memorial in hard-foug- ht Washington, although he noted Utah has some great memorials of its own, notably the Veterans Memorial Park at Camp Williams. Like so many other memorials, (the new Korean memorial) is telling people something, Rosenthal said. It says we did our job, and we served our country with honor. It says freedom doesnt come easy and it sure doesnt come cheap. In fact, the lone inscription on the new memorials black granite wall reads, Freedom is not free. The highly reflective wall is also etched with thousands of faces and images taken from photographs of those who served in the war. Visitors can make impressions of the anonymous pictures by rubbing a pencil or crayon over a piece of paper on top of the sandblasted images. The wall of faces looks across the reflecting pool at the nearby Vietnam Veterans Memorial, whose wall is inscribed with the 57,000 names of those who died in that war. About 1.5 million Americans see KOREA pg.A5 Photo by Jeff Richards A NEW NATIONAL MEMORIAL Clad in ram ponchos and marching as if in a soggy marsh, the 19 metal statues of the new Korean War Veterans Memorial are a tribute to those who served in the war. The statues, each over seven feet high, stand alongside a black granite wall etched with thousands of faces. The memorial was dedicated in Washington D.C., exactly 42 years after an armistice ended the war on July 27, 1953. I |