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Show County Budget Up $700,000, Includes Substantial Pay Raises The Summit County Commission Commis-sion has approved a 1979 budget which includes a controversial pay raise of up to lO'j percent for some county employees. According to County Clerk Reed Pace, the new budget calls for about $2.26-milIion in expenditures, ex-penditures, about $700,000 more than this year. Despite the increase, much of which is earmarked to pay for the construction of a new courthouse court-house annex, Pace said the county mill levy will remain at 9.5 because of $400,000 in additional addi-tional revenue generated by oil exploration activity in the county. There will also be increased spending by the sheriff's department and the county health services for upgrading the Summit County hospital in Coalville. An additional $80,000 has aiso been budgeted to pay for the county's share of a property reassessment program by the state. Under a program mandated by the Utah legislature, every county in the state is reassessed every five years. One of the first under the program, Summit County was last reassessed in 1974. According to Pace, however, the Governor is asking the legislature legis-lature to take another look at the program and next year's scheduled sched-uled reassessment may be delayed. de-layed. The most controversial part of next year's budget has been two scheduled pay raises for county employees. The new budget will include a 7-percent across the board increase in-crease for county employees in January, with an additional in-crease in-crease in July. The second raise, up to 7 percent per-cent for some workers, sparked criticism at a well attended budget bud-get hearing in which Commissioner Commis-sioner Dale Leavitt said he opposed op-posed the second raise because it was to be based on merit, something he said would be difficult dif-ficult to administer and might become automatic in future years. Under the new plan, passed by the commission last Friday, the second raise will now be based on seniority, not merit. Summit County Planner Stan Strebel has been assigned to develop the formula by which the July raises will be passed out. He told the Record he would be working with department heads and the commission in de- -1 veloping the system. County employees have maintained main-tained that they are underpaid, based on the increasing workload work-load in recent years generated by recreational and mineral development. de-velopment. The following list shows the total mill levy, by area, as assessed as-sessed on property in Summit County in 1978. Included in the total are county, city and school and special district levies. Park City ' 91.00 Coalville 89.62 Kamas 74.90 Oakley 60.90 Francis 66.75 Henefer 76.37 The following list shows the mill levy assessed by each city in Summit County on 1978 property pro-perty tax notices. Over-all County Levy 9.50 Park City Corporation 30.00 Coalville City 31.00 Kamas Town 22.00 Oakley Town . 8.00 Francis Town 13.25 Henefer Town 17.75 The following list shows the mill levy for each school district in Summit County. Park City School Dist. 47.50 South Summit School Dist. 40.40 North Summit School Dist. 46.62 |