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Show Volume Eighty Eureka, Utah IU)Dilnn pD71nnllnl,l According to a newsletter issued by the UtahDepartment of Employment Security, Juab Countys rate is still the unemployment : in the central planning highest district. This, despite the fact that the ; countys unemployment rate dropped from 16.8 percent to 13.9 percent at the end of the third quarter of 1983, says the newsletter, Juab has the highest rate of jobless out of the six counties making up the district. Sanpete, the 84(i2N March 1, 1981 Number 9 InlDgjIn) iilnl JtUKailb next highest, checks in at 12.2 percent. Wayne County has 7.1 percent; Millard, 6.9 percent; Sevier, 6.0 percent; and Piute, 5.9 percent. While unemployment rates continued high, the amount of gross taxable sales in Juab decreased 7.2 percent from 1982 to 1983. In 1982 that figure was $6.9038 million. In 1983 it dropped to $6,405 million, In addition, gross taxable sales in Nephi, the largest of the com munities in the county, were down one-tenof a percent from 1982. In Mona the figure was down 36.9 percent. Levan had an increase with its gross taxable sales up 17.5 percent. The small community increased from $597,000 in 1982 to $701,700 in th 1983. It was noted, however, that the unemployment picutre is improving. Three hundred and three Juab County workers were out of jobs at the end of the third quarter ac- cording to the seasonally adjusted That figure is down 17.4 percent from last years figure of 367 Mining was the hardest hit. The industry lost five more employees in 1983 and the work force was down from 85 in 1982 to 70 which represented a 17.6 percent loss. Eureka, the countys mining center, has suffered big losses in the mining industry over the years. jobs in the increased county by only 1.1 percent the during year. Government was the only job category in the county with an increase of any significance. That increase, however, was only 5.3 percent. The road closure through Spanish Fork Canyon caused by the Thistle mudslide last spring helped Juab County by increasing traffic through the area. Traffic was up at least 60 percent, according to law en- forcement officials. Those increases were reflected by the figures in the employment report. Tourist room sales were up 47.9 percent from 1982 to 1983 from $155,000 to $230,000. New vehicle sales increased 45.5 percent. Non-agricultu- County tax assessments in Juab county on par with state After all property tax adjustments were made last year, Utah came very close to meeting the 15 percent assessment objective prescribed for residential property and the 20 there was some variation among the counties. Residential assessments ranged from alow of 12.45 percent in Rich County to a high of 18.75 per- cent in Wayne County. Commercial assessment variations were even for commercial percent goal was This property. reported by Utah greater, ranging from 9.14 percent Foundation, the private tax in Wayne County to 26.64 percent in research orgiuiization in an analysis Piute County. Foundation analysts of the latest Tax Commission sales- - - theorize that the variation may be ratio study and property tax due in part to the small sample of changes made during 1983. properties sold in some of the less-According to the study, the overall populated counties of the state. state average assessment in Utah Property taxes charged in Utah last year was 15.07 percent for last year were raised by $64 million residential property and 19.28 or 13.6 percent. This was the largest property tax increase in percent for commercial property. single-yea- r Utah law provides that residential the states history. This resulted property should be assessed at 15 from higher property assessments percent and other property classes along with increased property tax at 20 percent. These assessment rates. The property tax increase was percentages are based on fair particularly noticeable in the case market value as rolled back to a 1978 of business and other nonresidential level. The sales-rati- o study just com- pleted by the State Tax Commission indicates that residential property in Juab County was being assessed at 13.56 percent, commercial property at 14.44 percent, and unimproved property at 10.81 ratification of Proposition I, the State Tax Commission also ordered assessment changes last year under its biennial factoring program. This factoring program was established in 1981 and is designed to correct assessment inequities that develop among the various counties of the state. These adjustments are needed to facilitate operation of ihe school finance program in Utah, C(Un)fty percent from the 1982 figure. The amount of new residential struction fell 78.3 percent and new dwellings constructed were down 1.5 con-repo- 77.8 rt. percent. However, construction actually non-resident- ial increased 66.8 percent. Residential additions, alterations, and repairs also increased in 1983 from $36,300 to $120,400, a 231.7 percent improvement. ral Tintic High School news Last Friday, the basketball team traveled to Wendover. The varsity The junior lost with a score of to play not was able team varsity to our due late arrival, game On Tuesday, the 28th, there will be a gamp with U.S.D. This will be the very fasj game 0f the season. The Junior Play is Wednesday evening. We would like to wish the Juniors "Good Luck." 91-4- 7. T.H.S. Reporters, Rachel Swenson & Susan Garbett property. The Foundation study indicates that the assessment changes made in Utah last year were the result of (1) the ratification of Proposition I by the Utah voters in 1982, (2) legislation enacted by the Utah percent last year. Legislature to implement this Although the state averages came constitutional amendment, and (3) very close to the prescribed legal the factoring adjustments which are level for these property classes, prescribed by the State Tax Commission in every other year. Proposition I made some rather extensive changes in the tax article of the Utah State Constitution. Among other things, this constitutional amendment authorized the State Legislature to exempt up to 45 percent of the value of residential property from taxation. Do you have your ideas and comLegislation approved by the 1982 ments ready for the March 8 plann-and 1983 sessions of the Utah rSwSicalsocietv to Le8islature implemented this new ited the residential to provision, but y to 25 percent with ideas that will make The Legislature also eliminated a 20 this vea?s celebration areallv nice percent assessment reduction which History group meeting set hirom StSetoe day, Depot. If you have something to suggest, but cannot make it to the meeting in person, feel free to do so ). by mail or phone The society feels that the annual (433-6842- celebration has grown into something that benefits the corn- mimitv nan whole A lot of work and uTidd kiblfSyoS sunomt88 hpln and Please attend and give some need-Blinnftr NOW! Evervone is welcome ' Light refreshments will be gOTed state. The net effect of these changes, according to the Foundation, was to reduce the assessment level on residential property from 16 percent to 15 percent, but to increase assessments on business and other nonresidential properties from 16 to 20 percent. These changes established a classified propoty tax whereby residential favored treatment receives property property classes. the implementation of with Along the changes prompted by the Pent As more people are opening up their hearts and their photo albums, more pictures are coming our way. This picture of the Eureka Fire Dept, came to the Tin- tic Historical Society through G. B. Peterson. Some of the names are missing, but perhaps our readers can mi in the blanks. Front row: Pat Fennell, John Sullivan, Bernard Hall, Lynn Horn, McCrystai. 2nd Row: Wm. Douglass, Mel Shriver, Bill Bacon, Jack Bowden, Claude Dennis. 3rd Row: Baldwin, Rex Carmichael, Rose Ingersall, Jim Diamond. 4th Row: standing; Blight,. Dave Russell. 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