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Show expires tl3'2S6 INC. R V 50rDNS BOOKBINDERY, IHBP0RT ., I ; Teachers sign salary pact i t Members of the Alpine School District Board of Education were expected to accept a contract agreement between the district and the teachers last evening at their regular monthly business held at meeting district offices in American r Fork. Teachers in the district voted to ratify the contract for the 1985-8- 6 school year Nov. 7 with results of the balloting released Nov. 8. A spokesman at Bonneville Uniserve, which serves the teachers, said there were 805 yes votes for acceptance of the contract and 44 no votes. This was a 94 percent vote for the contract by those who voted on the issue, it was noted. Only teachers who are members of the Alpine Education Association could vote on the action. Under the agreement, the teachers will receive a 4.8 percent base salary increase, retroactive to July 1, 1985, with teachers to be reimbursed for their having taught during the first quarter of this school T iM In .nil IF'i inllllTI- - IM year. Nick Franklin, immediate past president of the AEA and spokesman during the six month negotiations period, said the teachers feel like the negotiating team did the best they could under the circumstances. He said, "This doesn't mean they're happy with the increase," adding, "I feel like the teachers understood what the situation was." Negotiations for the next school year will begin in six months, Ardy Greening, AEA president pointed out. Mrs. Greening said the negotiating team for the contract negotiations will be basically the same one that negotiated the current contract. She said one of the items to be discussed in weeks will be the possibility of a multi-yea- r contract. This, she and Franklin said, could only be a possibility if teacher rights are protected. PItmuui mm M,mlm Vol. 7, No. 46 Wednesday, November 13, 1985 50 cents a single copy CUP fate in hands ff voters Teesdlav Ballot asks for decision on contract to pay for growing cost of water Droiect But the complete project is not the issue Tuesday. What voters will essentially be deciding in the election is construction of the Reservoir, a key part of the CUP's Bonneville Unit designed to deliver water to the Wasatch Front. The dam is planned to be built about eight miles north of Heber City on the Provo River. The Bureau of Reclamation, wnich is building the project, has recently given assurances they will build the Jordanelle if the contract is approved. But the BOR has stopped all planning on the controversial reservoir until after the election. A vote against the contract will kill the Jordanelle project. The dam is planned to store water from the Provo River's spring run-off - and. supporters claim the Jordanelle will ensure a dependable water supply for north Utah County. "When voters go to the polls Nov. 19 to vote on the approval of the supplemental repayment contract with the Federal Government, they will decide the fate of the heart of the unit that will bring water to the Wasatch Front area," said Don Christiansen, general manager of the CUWCD, referring to the Jor-danelle. ; Prior s to the election, several groups and individual have lined up in favor of the contract. One of the most recent is the Timpanogos Planning and Water Management Agency, a group formed by the cities in North Utah County several years ago to fight the CUWCD's plan to build two pipelines through the northern part of the county. Despite past animosity, the group approved a resolution last week urging voters to support the sup-plemental repayment contract. The resolution says local cities cannot receive their share of CUP water unless the contract is approved. Several local communities have approved similar resolutions, in-cluding Pleasant Grove, Alpine and Highland. Supporters of the contract include a group headed by former Governor Scott M. Matheson called Water for Utah's Future Committee which includes several prominent Utahns. Also, the state's congressional delegation, Governor Norman Bangerter, the Utah Board of Water Resources, the Utah Farm Bureau Federation and the Utah State Economic Development Board have endorsed the repayment contract. Matheson pointed out that support for the CUP had been given by every governor and every member of the state's Congressional delegation since the project's inception in the 1940s and 1950s. "I cannot think of any other issue that has received the unanimous support of all these elected of-ficials," Matheson said. "The support has come from members of both political parties and from elected officials in every part of the state." Other groups, however, has been just as vocal in their opposition to the repayment contract. Both Salt Lake City and Provo City governments have passed resolutions urging residents to vote against the project. Provo has taken the CUWCD and the BOR to court claiming that the Jordanelle would appropriate 50,000 acre feet of water each year that belong to Provo City. Other groups say a vote against the contract would force the federal government to adopt a scaled down model of the CUP which would be less costly and allow other water sources to be tapped. Christiansen counters that eventually, all of these other sources as well as the CUP will be needed to provide water for the Wasatch Front's growing population. Opponents also claim the CUP is detrimental to the environment, because it destroys natural habitat. I By MARC HADDOCK Voters in 12 Utah counties, in- - ciuding Utah County, will go to the polls Tuesday, Nov. 19, to determine Oie future of the yet uncompleted Bonneville Unit of the Central Utah Project. At issue will be a supplemental repayment contract for voters in the Central Utah Water Conservancy District (CUWCD) to pay back the federal government for an add-itional $335 million to complete the 1 project. When the CUP was approved by voters 20 years, they agreed to pay back $130 million to the federal government. ' CUWCD officials say the new contract is needed because cost 2 overruns, construction delays and 1 inflation have increased the cost of the massive CUP up to six times the original $324 million voters were told the project would cost when they approved the original contract in 1965. Itis now estimated the project will $2.1 billion before it is (cost For Tuesday's special election, Pleasant Grove has been divided into two consolidated voting districts., -- Voting Districts 1, 2, 3, 11, 12, 13 and 14 will all vote at Grovecrest Elementary. -- Voting Districts 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10 will vote at Valley View Elementary. --All Lindon voting districts will vote at the Lindon Elementary. Polls will be open from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. Supporters of the CUP claim the residents of the 12 counties that make up the CUWCD are getting a bargain in the government's repayment contract, since it calls for local residents to pay around 30 percent of the cost of the con-struction. Federal government money, along with anticipated electric power revenues, will make up the other 70 percent of construction costs. The contract also allows Utah to borrow its share of the CUP payback funds at a low 3.2 percent interest rate. - And voters won't be increasing annual taxes if they approve the measure, since the CUP is limited by law to only 2 mills of property tax - $2 for every $1,000 of assessed property valuation. That means the average home-owner is paying about $18 a year towards repayment of the CUP's initial contract - payments that will last another 40 years whether Tuesday's vote is for or against the new contract. Approval of the new contract will add up to 10 years to the payback time for the project. Tuesday's election has become a rallying point for opponents to the Central Utah Project, who say the CUP is out of control and un-necessary. Costs for the project have skyrocketed - and will make water from the project too expensive when other sources of water, such as the Bear River and ground water, could be developed more cheaply, they argue. i Canyon accident takes life of teenager I A Lindon teenager was killed !j instantly Wednesday night when the wr in which she was a passenger I ent out of control in American I fork Canyon and rolled into the 1 river. I Trooper Doug Rawlinson of the Utah Highway Patrol said that Kimberlee McDonald, 17, died in the mishap which occurred about one-ha- lf mile above the Timpanogos Cave Visitors Center at ap-proximately 11 p.m. The officer said that four people "ere in the car which was driven by Andrew Hays, 20, of Provo. He is feted in very critical condition at Utah Valley Regional Medical Center in Provo. I Allen Hunsaker, 18, Orem, sustained minor injuries and has tan Hospital. released from American Fork The other passenger was Korrina while traveling at high speed, skidded on its side and then rolled into the river. The officer also noted that Hun-saker was wearing a seat belt at the time- of the accident. As far as he was able to determine, no one else in the car was using seat belts. The injured were transported to the American Fork Hospital by Pleasant Grove and American Fork Ambulances. Hayes and Miss Gentry were then taken to UVRMC and Life Flight took Miss Gentry to the University Medical Center. The Pleasant Grove Rescue Truck provided the lighting for the ex-trication of Miss Gentry from the car which rested upside down in the river. EMT's Dave Vickers and Gary Norton were assisted by Pleasant Grove Police Chief Mike Ferre and others at the scene in the extrication process. Kimberlee McDonald Gentry, 18, Pleasant Grove. She is listed in critical condition at the University Medical Center in Salt Lake City. Trooper Rawlinson said that the car apparently went out" of control St - 1 ? i 1 f t '" ' - V ; : Lyle Swaney, right, manager at the Lindon Landfill holds chart as Steve Smith, con-sultant, offers a plan for future expansion. Expansion planned for landfill By KALYN SECRETAN A debate is on in Lindon City concerning the proposed expansion of the Lindon Landfill. A public hearing was well at-tended on Nov. 6 when a report was given by Steve Smith, a consultant representing E.T. Technologies. Representatives of CH2 M Hill were also present to propose a visual plan and options for beautifying the landfill area. The purpose of the meeting was not to make any decisions but to gain input from the consultants, neighbors and the North Utah County Landfill Committee made up of City Council members in the communities involved. The Landfill committee would like to influence the neighbors and council members to reconsider the plan presented by the consultants. A zone change is necessary at the landfill site before expansion can take place. An earlier zone change request was denied because of many ob-jections from neighboring families. Families are not in favor of ex-pansion in the area, they are already tired of the blowing debris, the drainage problems. They feel it is visually unpleasant and question the promises for long term use. The Landfill Committee, con-cerned about the rising cost of transponing elsewhere, feel its the best way to go. The present site is centrally located to the District. The landfill disposes of 57,000 ton of refuse a year, 156 ton of material each day. At this rate, there is only two years remaining at the present site. The State Has projected an in-crease in population of one percent per year. At this rate, by the year 2,000, it will be necessary to dispose of 68,000 ton of refuse a year. One other option would be to haul the waste 30 miles south of Utah Lake at a $10 a ton additional cost. Current costs involved with garbage disposal are $7.50 a ton. If the alternate site was selected the charge would rise to $17 a ton. The current rate was compared with Provo at $7 a ton and Spanish Fork at $8.50 with the possibility of rising costs reaching $14. The committee is aware of the blowing debris, drainage and visual problems with the area and a future plan was presented by Tom Krumsick from CH2 M Hill. As a visual impact he proposed a 30 foot berm on the north and the east side of the landfill made from Russian Olive trees. It would provide a screening area with a working place behind the berm. Portable fences would be used in other areas to stop the blowing debris. As far as the drainage problem, it was suggested the ditches be cut off to isolate run-of- f on the property and artesian wells would be capped. Dirt would be forced to the edge to make the berm and clay brought in to serve as a bed for the landfill. Margaret Johnson assisted Krumsick with suggestions for the landfill area. Ideas offered include a golf course, a tubing area, cross country skiing, tree farm, equestrian trails, campground, fitness course, archery or shooting range. Residents unsure of turning their farmland in for recreational pur-suits were not impressed. Some questioned, "How would you like to be surrounded by a dump?" The properties of Smith, Chipman and Walker would be completely surrounded by the landfill and Utah Lake. They had a concern about "How they are going to get to their property". They were shown where a deeded right of way would go through the existing landfill. Property owners felt if the plan went into effect, the landfill should also buy out their property at a fair market value. Their property would be devalued if it was surrounded by a dump. The land has a wetlands 404 designation and a change would have to be made through the state. Neighbors were asked, "Suppose the landfill stops where it is, how much is your property worth now?" Lyle Swaney, manager of the landfill, has put a lot into clean-u- p at the site the past three years, and he was complimented on his efforts. Questions arose about "Who pays for the development of the Landfill. It comes back to Lindon City to determine what it can be used for, what grants are available and the maintenance cost involved. A campground was looked on favorably. Front footage fee set for Special Improvement District recommendation was to charge $14 ' where someone other per foot except than the city installed the sewer line. Then the reimbursement rate will be at the rate set at the time it was installed. The Pleasant Grove City Council Wednesday approved a $14 front lootage fee for all those who join the Wial Improvement District to nook onto the sewer. A special committee had made a of all the factors and costs lnvolved, subtracted the grants 'arded to the city, and then came UP with the $14 front footage fee. The Special Improvement District s been set up to give residents of citv who are not now hooked up J 'he sewer but who live within 200 eet of a sewer line to hook on and pay the costs over a 10 year period. .The City Council has stated that ginning next July the ordinance nquiring residents to hook on to the ieer when it is within 200 feet of I !!eir property will be enforced, inose who desire to pay for the work "ugh the SID were invited to do The mayor set up a committee to J a fair Price per linear foot, fents must only pay for up to 150 al tage-Th- city Pavs for any UQ'tional. The commiUee's We're looking for Turkey of the Year Despite popular demand, this newspaper will hold its second annual Turkey of the Year contest -- and the best entry will win a Thanksgiving turkey. To enter, submit an entry of 25 describing an in-dividual words or less or organization you think should be named the Turkey of the turkeys can come Year Prospective from all walks of life - public or Entries should be typewritten and must include the name of the en- - trDeadline for the contest is Nov. 22. The winner will be announced in the Nov. 25 newspaper. The newspaper will present the turkey with a suitable memento of the honor of being named Turkey of the Year. Entries will be judged on originality, style and ap-propriateness of entry. The best entries will be printed in the newspaper. If this contest is as big a turkey this year as it was last year, all entries will be printed in the newspaper. Send entries to this newspaper, P.O. 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