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Show page A2 Friday, December 27, 1996 Davis County Clipper United Way nears United Way of Davis County has raised nearly $587,000 and is well on its way to meeting the million dollar 1996-9- 7 campaign goal, according to Steve Davis, Manager of JC Penney Telemarketing and this years United Way Campaign Chairman. This year, with 58.6 percent of the total already raised and unprecedented community support, Davis is optimistic that the million dollar mark will be achieved. At this time last year, the United Way campaign had reached only 34.5 percent of the million dollar goal and the 1995 campaign total was $896,892. We've succeeded in getting more response than ever before, Davis said. Relative to prior years, this campaign has had the best start ever. More than 300 volunteers are FIREFIGHTERS continued from front would be approximately $100,000 per year, which includes overtime, standby, sick leave, vacation, training, uniforms and regular employee benefits," Hardy said. 2 would add six Alternative more firefighters, which would provide a new shift for the headquarters station. This would eliminate both daytime and evening use of Station 2 personnel for ambulance calls, including the second ambulance call, and would allow training, maintenance, and fire protection to occur without having to call Station 2 personnel down to headquarters. In addition, the city would have more manpower on duty for major incidents, both medical and fire, during any one time. The cost of this alternative would be approximately $300,000 per year, covering all of the Hardy employee expenses, added. "It should he pointed out that it will be increasingly difficult to find personnel to fill in the additional leave that will be generated by six additional firefighters, but it will also provide a significantly enhanced service to the citizens. According to Hardy, in order to fund the proposed alternatives ambulance fees could be increased to $212 from the current rate of maxid $150 to the mum for ambulance operations. This would result in an increased cost to Medicaid, Medicare, and private insurance companies, as well as some citizens who do not have insurance, and would generate approximately $50,000 a year, he said. The balance of the revenue would have to come from a property tax increase. An increase of $50,000 in property tax w'ould require a 3.7 percent increase in the city's portion of the property state-allowe- tax. If a homeowner had a property tax bill of $1,000, the city would receive percent or $110 of the tax paid, for a 3.7 percent increase that w'ould be $4.07 per year, Hardy added. "The city would have to hold a Truth in Taxation hearing in order to increase the property tax on existing citizens, and this would have to be done for the 1997-9- 8 fiscal year, which begins on July , 1997." Among the 60 residents at the meeting (almost all from the Station 2 area) most wanted one of the two alternatives. Some of the residents said they werent being represented fairly without e firefighters at Station 2. Other charges included that the city was waiting for a disaster to happened instead of planning for the future, and waiting for an Oakland-typ- e tragedy where 500 were lost and 23 lives taken. "No one could have stopped the full-tim- 1996-9- 7 helping United Way raise cam- paign donations to support some 60 agencies that provide services to Davis County residents, according to Larry Burden, President of United Way of Davis County. A volunteer committee reviews the needs in the county to allocate the funds, however, United Way allows donors to choose to funds to specific agencies if they wish. Twelve Pacesetter companies, JC Penney including Telemarketing, SPS Payment Systems, Associates Financial Service, Advanced Drainage Systems, Talbert Medical, Sams JC Club, CT Film, Wal-Mar- t, Penney Layton Hills Mall, Utah Power & Light and Super Target, kicked off the campaign by raising more than $170,000 in September. The Davis School District, Davis Oakland fires because of the wind and weather conditions, Hardy said. Oakland's fire department is one of the best in the nation. Mayor John Cushing told the audience that "local government and local citizens need to share fire in equally protection. foothills need to take more safety precautions. Cushing listed as potential fire hazards wood piles underneath wooden balconies, not enough sprinking systems in large houses, and too much vegetation closer than 30 feet to the home. Resident Amos Jordan suggested that either alternative would help as it would make a difference in response time. One resident asked City Attorney Russell Mahan what was Bountiful's legal liability with Homeowners in the fires. The city has no liability for fires at a private residence," he said. Its about the same as a bur- house within the city limits. Its not the citys fault. Assistant Fire Chief Ron Hatch was asked by Cushing to give a recommendation from the fire department's vantage point. Ive maintained all along that e firefighters are eight needed to provide total coverage, he said. He added he was also worried about the safety of firefighters when selecting a shift of eight. Manning is important but safefor firemen should concerns ty also be a top priority, Hatch said. Resident A1 Hess suggested that the city man the Station 2 glary in a full-tim- with more and have the firefight- ers go downhill to a fire" as a solution. Hardy was asked how soon a plan could be implemented and he said if the city took money from the operating contingency fund perhaps six months could be handled on an emergency basis. That could hold until the budgetary process next June. Councilman Harold Shafter asked the residents to look within themselves for the answers. Maybe you should take a chain saw and clear the foliage from around your homes. He added that when Bountiful suggested an ordinance that required homeowners to clear up to 30 feet from the home you thought we were crazy" at the time. Perhaps you feel differently about it now, I dont know. But look towards yourselves and your neighbors for a solution, Shafter said. In order to generate an additional $250,000 in property tax revenues (to make alternative 2 work), a 19 percent increase in the city's portion of the property tax would be required. For a home with a $1,000 property tax bill, now paying $1 10 of that to the city, the increase would $21 per year, according to Hardys calcu- goal County Employees and the employees of cities in Davis County followed suit by increasing their donations by 13 percent. Additional company and individual pledges are expected before the end of the year. The United Way office has relo- cated to the First National Bank building in Layton after 10 years in Bountiful. "The First National Bank provided lease space at a reduced rate and our rent has been decreased by $4,000, Burdett said. Moving has also allowed us to be in the center of the county. To find out how to donate or for more information about United Way of Davis County, contact the new location in the First National Bank Building at 12 South Main, Suite 208, Layton, Utah, 84041, phone 497-9- 1 11, fax, 497-090- ROADS continued from front Dillree seeks roads action not just talk THE SIGNS ARE UP! There roads. If that continues, well have as big a problem as we presently have. "Growth isnt going away. It may slow, but it's Cancer clinics expanding is no loner a Bountiful Boulevard to be found in North Salt Lake. Citing possible confusion about the potential for an idetical street address in Bountiful and North Salt Lake, the city council voted to rename the section of boulevard passing through North Salt Lake, "Eagle Ridge Boulevard." preservation issue. She's Contributing Writer We are excited about the upcoming changes that will be taking place with the FARMINGTON Utah Cancer Control Program (UCCP) in Davis County for 1997, said Alison Garlick, Community Health Educator. We wanted to increase our services to the women in Davis County and make the cancer screening clinics con- cerned landowners in areas which have been designated for future like the Western roads Transportation Corridor, have their land protected from the increased building taking place. Shed like to see a source of funding designated to allow the state to protect those lands. Dillree, whose name is almost synonymous with transportation issues said when she ran for office five years ago, no one was addressing transportation as it related to Davis County. She was dissatisfied with the slow progress being made on Highway 89. Also, at that time, area legislators were focusing on areas near and dear to them, like education, but no one had taken up the transportation cause. They were challenging issues which I didn't see being addressed by anyone. Then, in the second year of her first session, Dillree began to see real bottlenecks developing on Shes delighted to head the subcommittee and views it as an extension of her previous w'ork with transportation. She headed a Davis County Transportation Task Force and had good support from the county. She said as head of the I appropriations subcommittee, hope to be an influence for good, not only in Davis County, but statewide. Other Davis County legislators named to key committee positions include: Rep. Nora Stephens, from vice chair of the Human Services Committee to chair of the new Health and Human Services Committee. Rep. Don Bush, will head the Transportation Committee. Rep. Blake Chard, will chair the Executive Offices, Criminal Justices and the Legislature appropriations eral funds from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention to Susan Tanner Holmes not going to stop. She believes if the state doesn't do something now, the opportunity will be gone. Over the next decade, the state will spend about $3.6 billion on transportation construction. Another area she would like to see addressed is the corridor more accessible for all women. Clinics will now be available every day of the week at the Davis County Health Department clinics, she said. Our purpose is to bring health care to women all year round, said Viki Williams, RN and clinic coordinator. These clinics still provide the same friendly service, with female staff, that women found in the past and we hope these clinics will be more convenient. The UCCP recently received fed Paul Challis News Editor BOUNTIFUL Major projects started by the City of Bountiful during the fiscal year of 1995-9- 6 included a $7 million public safety com- plex, revamping the municipal power system, construction of new parks, a new reservoir, and the annexation of a parcel of property. This (public safety) building will serve the needs of our police department and the second district court for many years to come, said City Manager Tom Hardy. Located on the campus of the civic center complex, it will be convenient to both the employees and the citizens. Construction of the public safety building is on schedule and expected to be completed by February of 1997. Bountiful paid $3.6 million in cash for the construction of the building and the city council authoe rized $3.3 million in bonds, which the slate will pay back in a lease payment agreement. The state is scheduled to pay $340.(XX) per year in lease payments over a period. Bountiful and the state will renegotiate the lease after the 20 years for future payments or rent. The 51,000 square-fobuilding will be over three times larger than the city's current facility. The cur lease-revenu- 20-ye- ot sub- committee. HIUSISXS GflfiSXSNS GIFTS & NURSERY money on decorations, floral arraignments and craft items for her daughters marker. Fortin said after the thefts began, she and several other women who had children buried in the cemetery began going to the cemetery in shifts in hopes of catching the thief in the act. Fortin also spent many evenings at the cemetery watching over her daughters grave site. At one point, she and her husband stopped decorating the grave site due to the high cost both finanYou do not cially and emotionally. go and take things that people own and think that people wont care. She went up there and stole our children's things, she said. It (the thefts) kept us from being able to go and do the one thing we DU INVCNTORV Off thing that helps us deal with this loss. I wish she could feel for just one second what I felt when I went there (the rent building is 14.500 square-fee- t with courtrooms, police offices, evidence room, lockers. 911 facilities and holding cells all crammed together. Future plans for the old facility include making it the home the Bountiful-Davi- Center Arts s (BDAC). The city is currently negotiating with the Bountiful Davis Arts Board to allow the move to the new location. The BDACs current location is at 2175 South Main and will move to the old police building at 745 South Main. According to Hardy, electric utility deregulation has caused the city to rethink its municipal power supply mix, and is wmrking with the California participants in the Intermountain Power Agency to restructure the debt and the cost of power supply. The city is also working with other joint action agencies, including the Utah Associated Municipal Power Systems (UAMPS). to pur- chase both spot and long-terpower on a competitive basis in order to bring Bountifuls cost tor power generation down to as low a point as possible, Hardy said. In addition, the environmental 9 impact statement for the use of the Glen Canyon Dam and the Colorado River Storage Project, the major source of power for Bountiful, was finally accepted by the federal post-198- Bountiful Tuesday, entrance on the Mall w Clinic, est side of 5 Points Wednesday, Farmington Clinic, 50 E. State St. Thursday, Bountiful government. This contract extends through the year 2004, and the city is already meeting with the Western Area Power Administration in an attempt to stabilize a renewal for the year 2004. A large new reservoir to serve new development in the southeast area of town is being designed, along with water transmission lines to service the new reservoir. When it is completed, water pressure problems and supply problems in the southeast area (foothills) should be alleviated on a permanent basis, Hardy added. Bountiful received an annexation petition for one of two remaining islands of unincorporated county area which it wishes to annex into the city. This annexation includes nearly 50 acres of vacant land, formerly used as a gravel pit, which can be utilized for both new residential construction and potential park open space. The city is in the process of working with the owner of the property to develop both the transportation and open space requirements for that ground, Hardy said. Bountiful has also completed several small parks and parking areas which will significantly increase the capacity of citizens to have "passive open spaces where they can picnic, walk, and enjoy the open spaces of the city. 295-005- 5 Everyday low low price I Party Poppers 7 (box of 72) New Years Party Pack for 24 $16.98 I Spray String 2.49 per can I Party Ware 10 OFF (with ad) FREE Mylar 18 Balloon (with purchase ol I doz, latex, and ad) Serpentine mwi 00MB (Sale Ends Jan. 6th) 10 A.M. - 7 P.M. OPEN MON.-SAT. .4081 S. Hwy 89, Bountiful 295-433- Clinic (entrance on the west side of 5 Points Mall) Thursday, Clearfield Clinic, 290 S. State Street Friday, Clearfield Clinic, 290 S. State Street Farmington Clinic, 50 E. State Street Appointments can be made by 10. calling 45 563 W. 2600 S. Colonial Sq., Bountiful cemetery) and saw what she had Fortin said she hopes the arrest will send a message to anyone else who is taking decorations from grave sites and that no other family will have to suffer through the pain this-'- , type of crime brings. Fortin added that she is currently approaching local businesses to raise $350 to purchase an electronic tracking device for the Kaysville Police Department. annually, clinical breast exam annually, pap test annually and breast self exam monthly. The clinic schedule is as follows: Monday: Farmington Clinic, 50 E. State Street, annex building Balloons $3.50 doz. VAR ND could do for our child, Fortin explained. She did more than just rob graves, she robbed us of some- done. detect cancer early: mammogram HAPPY NEW YEAR THEFT Centerville woman charged in cemetery thefts provide free and low cost services for the early detection of breast and cervical cancers. For 18 years the UCCP has provided the women of Utah with free and low cost clinical breast exams, pap tests, pelvis exams and mammography vouchers. Early detection is a woman's best defense against this dreadful disease, said Garlick. By increasing the number of women getting exams, death and illness from breast and cervical cancer can be reduced. The mammography voucher is free for women who qualify and an appointment for the mammogram, at a local hospital of your choice, is made at the time of your visit, said Garlick. There may be a small fee charged for clinic services. The fee is based on total family annual income and the size of the family. The fee ranging is free to a maximum fee of $25. The American Cancer Society recommends the following methods to Police ready for new complex lations. continued from front j 4 (2 blocks north Center Street, North Salt Lake) 7?1 t3nnEQJE0S0S3 KtHDGEH 4mSHS56S |