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Show 7- - 4 expires 651 30 89 HOAG & SONS BOOKBINDERY, INC. R )17 RAILROAD STREET iSPRINSPORT MI 49284 J j WJ Vol. 10, No. 4 Wednesday, Jan. 27, 1988 50 cents a single copy PG will pick up Manila garbage, council works on CDBG wish list The Pleasant Grove City Council approved a proposal last Tuesday night to make garbage pickup service available to all residents of the city, specifically the Manila area. The service had not been provided through the city earlier because an agreement made at the time of the Manila annexation said that the city would not force the people to take garbage service. Recently there has been many requests from residents in that area to have the service made available to them. Those desiring the service need to contact the Pleasant Grove City Hall as soon as possible so that arrangements can be made with the solid waste disposal company that services the area. The rest of the city does not have the same option for the service as does the Manila area, the council noted. The other residents of the city must take the service. Citizens in the Manila area who have signed up for solid waste disposal on their own have to pay a higher rate than those who are billed through the city. The council did not feel that this was fair to the residents there and unanimously agreed to the proposal. The solid waste pickup company cannot bring their truck's up private roads for garbage pickup. People : who live on private lanes will have to bring their garbage containers to a public roadway, the council reminded. In other action, the council heard ideas for possible Community Development Block Grant requests. Mayor David Holdaway said that there would be about $750,000 available through Mountainlands Association of Governments this year for grants to the cities in the three-count- y area. Another public hearing will be held Feb. 2 to gather input from citizens on possible projects. Some of the ideas proposed in-cluded a new fire station, demolition of the old city hall and a mini-par- k put in its place, renovation of the east side of Main Street between Center St. and 100 South, and pur-chase of the school district buildings at 100 S. and 100 East for possible use as a fire station and ambulance quarters. Mayor Holdaway reported that the city had received CDBG's in recent years for extension of the sewer system on two occasions and last year for the senior citizen center construction. The city received $90,000 for this project but only used $30,000 of it and turned the rest back because the Davis-Baco- n Act, which is required on projects when federal money is used, would have cost the city more than the $90,000 it had received. The $30,000 was used for ar-chitectural and engineering costs. The mayor explained that the requests had to meet three requirements. It must benefit primarily the low and moderate income families. The project must be used to eliminate slums and blights. The city has a problem that would create immediate threat to the health and safety of the com-munity. He said that the sewer extension grants were possible because there was an immediate threat to health because of the ground water con-tamination in the area. The senior citizen center grant was possible because senior citizens are automatically considered to be in the low and moderate income group. The council will consider others suggestions from the public at the next meeting. K. A. Driggs, city recorder, said that some questions had arisen regarding the carry over of vacation time from one year to another. The city's policy has been that some leeway is allowed but ter-minating employees can only be paid for vacation in the current year. A maximum of one week is all that can be carried over. The council agreed that they should stick to the policy but some latitude can be given if department heads feel that there is a special situation. The council discussed setting a limit on the date when the carry over vacation must be used. Employee vacation days for 1988 were approved. They are New Years Day, Presidents Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, a floating holiday, Pioneer Day, Labor Day, Columbus Day, Veterans Day, two days at Thanksgiving and Christmas Day. 1 - f rShoveling is nasty job, but someone has to do it... i This snowman sports orange hair and orange nose and ired snow shovel at the Arias home in Pleasant Grove. i Justice and police chief report on 1987 activities in Lindon By KALYN SECRETAN William Keetch, Lindon City Justice of the Peace met with the Lindon City Council Wednesday to report on the 1987 activities. Judge Keetch reported 413 cases were processed in Lindon last year. Three were taken to appeal but all were upheld. A list made up of five pages of current warrants was provided to the council. The judge explained there are two avenues to process the warrants. One is through the police department and the other through a constable. They have seen some people come in. In the past the old records were dismissed after five years. At this point the old warrants will be evaluated as some are collectable. The judge has been available when needed, at times early in the morning and on Sunday. He reported one DUI where the man did not appear and his bail went up. Driving on a suspension fines range from $200 to $300. First offenders spend 48 hours in the County Jail, second offenders, 10 days and third offenders a minimum of 30 days. Judge Keetch paid tribute to the Police Department and thanked ., Chief Mike Ferre for their support. Mike Ferre, Police Chief was on hand to report the police activity and goals for 1988. He reported 2,253 incident reports in Lindon last year. Out of these, 97 percent have been solved. He explained any traffic stop is an incident and it boosts the clearance rate. It was reported 31 cases were unfounded. After investigation, 727 cases were cleared by exception, 417 cases were cleared by arrest. Others are inactive or active. In considering the top ten major crimes, about 78 percent were cleared. The Police Department received five calls concerning rape charges, three were unfounded. Lindon City reported 26 residential burglaries. Other calls concerned business burglaries, impersonating an officer and nine hit and runs, 15 DUI's with 532 traffic stops and 278 citations, 21 vehicle thefts were reported. Most of them were founded, some were not. ' It was reported that 172 citizens requested assistance. Chief Ferre figured about 20 percent of the total calls are from Lindon. Chief Ferre said the Department resolved to the Pleasant Grove area people they will work harder. They will build the image of the Department and offer services to the people. He would like to build up the communication with Lindon. Councilman Cullimore rep6rted they feel really good about the job being done and he has heard a lot of good comments around town. In other council business, Mayor McMillan reported the Forest Service repayment to the city has been paid in full. Recently, they were concerned about the delay in receiving the money. Congressman Howard Neilsen was contacted and discovered it was on its way. He also checked on the sewer grant, to see what the problem was. It is approved, it is just being held up with a backup of paperwork. The Bureau of Reclamation people came in and saw the finished Debris Basin, they could not believe such a good job for the $140,000 cost. . Brent Tuttle and Kenny Sing worked on the project. A meeting was held with the city attorney and engineer on the CBDG grant. The bid date has been delayed for two weeks because of the need to work out some concerns. Details need to be worked out with the landowners, some were unaware of the assessment. Merle Jarvis asked to resign from the Planning Commission. She and her husband will be leaving the area to serve an LDS mission. A replacement will be selected. Nielson visits Grovecrest school By KALYN SECRETAN A Congressman took time out of is busy schedule to spend an with the children at Irovecrest School. The fourth, fifth and sixth grade rtudents had the opportunity of osting Representative Howard C. lJfielson at their annual patriotic ssembly last week. 2ji Nielson informed the children iat Congressmen are available hen they have problems. He told Puie children that we have the best Jbrm of government in the world. Our government gives everyone ie right to serve. It's not erywhere a farm boy from .ichfield can represent his JJkvernment," he said. "The children were told Nielsen's istrict is very big. It covers J everything south of 33rd south in Salt Lake City. A total area bigger than Indiana. Congressman Nielson told the children he had to go to Washington, D.C. to be sworn in following his election. He asked his wife if she was going to go with him. They discussed it and she felt since they had gone in debt for his election and she had just had an eye operation and didn't look her best so she decided to stay home. He and his son drove to the nation's capital in his son's car and at a stop along the way he called his wife and she informed him she was coming back to see him sworn in. . He was puzzled because they had discussed the money situation and she now was planning to come. See Nielson Page 3 i 3PG Jr. High presents productivity plan to school board assembled at the public input meeting, that the seventh grade Career's class will be dropped next year. More science classes will be needed to help with the high school science graduation requirements. He said that they want to have at least 75 per cent of the ninth graders completing one year of science. Rowley stated that the school only had two choices, really: either they took the year-roun- d option or the productivity program. He said that no secondary schools in Utah are on the year-roun- d schedule because of difficulties in scheduling of athletic and social events. The productivity program was approved by the faculty with a vote of 35 in favor and 7 against. Rowley said that no teacher will be forced to go on the program. They will be allowed to transfer to another school without any problem . The principal also explained that the junior high cannot go on the eight period block like the high school because students do not have the range of electives that are needed to make that program work. Seventh and eighth graders only have one elective and ninth graders just have three and one-ha- lf elec tives. The projected growth of Pleasant Grove Junior High shows an enrollment of nearly 1,400 next year and 1,556 by 1993-9- There are 1,300 students this year. Rowley, when questioned, said that he believed that the Alpine School Board would approve the proposal because of the success of the American Fork Junior High program and their desire to find ways to save money in the district. The proposal has received the support of the school's PTSA and the Public Involvement Council, as well as the majority of the faculty. Principal Kent Rowley of Pleasant rove Junior High School was heduled to present a productivity ogram outline to the Alpine School oard last night as a solution to 'ercrowding problems at the :hool. j. Next year it is projected that the ihool enrollment will be nearly 400 ,f 'udents over capacity. In order to this challenge, the school Iministration feels that a Wuctivity program, similar to at which has been used at nerican Fork Junior High School, ipuld be implemented. " In a written statement which Mr. ipwley read at a public input ieeting held last Wednesday, he - id, "With our student enrollment lowing every year beyond the pacity of the building, we feel that is is a necessary step in order to ovide the educational programs our students and patrons without Vditional buildings or portable Jits." The junior high is scheduled to Jve an additional seven classrooms Instructed by next December. Bids ;eived recently for the building re all higher than the estimates , d, Mr. Rowley said that they have sn making alterations to the ' Iginal plans to reduce costs and 11 put the addition up for re-bi- d in I next few days. jVith the new addition, the school ,.1 have 47 teaching stations. They rrently have 46 teachers, resource teachers. Twenty-- r of these faculty members are eady teaching seven periods a i. Vith the projected growth for next ir, they would need to hire four or b more teachers with no rooms to them in and not enough rooms to e them "rove" from room to am. "What's more," he added, ere would not be enough teachers with a prep period to provide enough rooms to house the "rovers." The productivity program would call for each teacher to teach seven periods a day and be paid an extra of their yearly salary for this additional period of teaching. Teachers would be paid their regular contract wage for fifteen additional days of preparation time in the summer prior to the first year of operation. The fifteen days would be spent on.inservice activities on the procedures of Mastery Learning, Precision Teaching, Quality Circles and preparation of lesson plans and teaching materials for the coming year. In the second year of productivity, the teachers would be paid their regular contract wage for an ad-ditional half hour each day to provide more preparation time. An incentive bonus of $500 would be paid to each teacher at the con-clusion of the year if the outlined goals are met for the school. The goals include that the students will continue to produce test scores that are at the same level or higher than they are now. The achievement tests that are currently ad-ministered by the district will be used. The achievement test will be administered to all three grades rather than just grades seven and nine for the next two years to more closely monitor the achievement of all students. Faculty members, students and parents will be surveyed to make judgments about the quality of school life. These judgments shall include student achievement, morale, teacher load, faculty meetings, student activities, parent visiting days, preparation time, stress, discipline, unity, number of teacher preparations and attitudes. The student-teache- r ratio under the productivity . program at Pleasant Grove Junior High would be about At the other junior highs it will be about Forty-on- e teachers will be needed for the next school year if the productivity program is approved, whereas normally the school would need 51. The savings of ten teachers will be about $246,190. Reducing the staff by three teachers will be ac-complished through voluntary transfer and not hiring teachers for growth. Rowley said this savings will fund the program, based upon average salary of teachers in the district, plus benefits. He said that there will be a school-wid- e emphasis on reading, mathematics and writing skills. With the emphasis on writing in the English classes, the classload for English will be held to a ratio of 1 to 30 as far as is possible. He noted that the faculty will be trained in concepts of Mastery Learning and Precision teaching, techniques which will help the teachers to compensate for the larger classes. They will use computers as much as possible for data management and attendance accounting to in-crease the efficiency of teachers and student testing for mastery learning feedback. Because this program necessitates a higher teacher-stude-ratio, Rowley said that they are not proposing this as a better teaching method because it is not. It is a financial need only. Smaller classes are usually better, he said. The only difference between this proposal and the one used at American Fork Junior High is the preparation time for teachers the second year, Rowley explained. The principal told the small crowd : . ' '.' V t Lynn .Mortensen, left, president of the Pleasant drove Junior High Public Involvement Council, talks to Principal Kent Rowley following Wednesday's public input meeting on the proposed Productivity Program. |