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Show By LE ANN BLODGETT With the coming of spring and the new fiscal year, the Davis County Correlation of Governments approved about $6.7 million worth of notice of intents, pre-applications and applications for funds. EIGHT NOTICES of intents amounting to about $1.4 million and another $1.7 million in applications were approved without comment. Mayors took the time to discuss Planned Parenthood, juvenile court evaluation, crime report network, senior citizens legal aid and rural fire defense before stamping them with their approvaL THREE MAYORS took exception ex-ception to the Planned Parenthood proposal for a statewide family planning grant of $328,569. It is a continuation con-tinuation grant going into its fifth year. The total funds have been reduced by $82,000 because there was a carry-over from the 1972-73 grant year, the association's representative explained. The amount has : been increased by another $10,000 in added programs. DAVIS COUNTY officials have restricted medical services serv-ices in Davis County and have limited it to education and referral. There is no staff person in Davis County at the present time, but one will be hired soon. The office has been located in the CAP office in Farm-ington Farm-ington but with the expansion expan-sion of CETA, they lost their space and the new staff person per-son will have to locate space, according to the spokesman. LAST YEAR, 175 females were referred to the Davis County Health Department for direct medical service. The salary for a Davis County representative will be $4,500 per year. Throughout the state there will be 25 full time employes, 13 people under contract such . as physicians, nurses and pharmacists. The staff is trained in Denver under a Region 8 program. MAYORS LON N. Christen-sen, Christen-sen, J. Dale Smith and Morris Swapp voted against the grant proposal, but it passed with a majority vote. Mayors approved the juvenile court evaluation proposal but asked that after the $58,724 research project was completed that they receive a report on the findings. find-ings. JIM MARSHALL said the information derived in the evaulation is not published but is available. "If the judge is the only one who finds out, he certainly won't dispense the information if it is derogatory," said a mayor. Judge John McNamara is the administrator and makes changes as he sees fit, according ac-cording to Mr. Marshall. "WE KNOW one of our main problems is space and facilities and we are working on that," said Commissioner Smoot. "However, there are some questions as it relates to local juveniles and we would like to ask Judge McNamara ' ' NO HORSE Vegetable Peddler-"Any horseradish, madam?" Young Bride"No, thank you! We have a car." to come when the report is finished." The "Juvenile Court Research Project" is a five-year five-year continuation program, according to the spokesman. A NETWORK to provide crime information to officers through the dispatch and radio system could be valuable valua-ble but has not been used as much as expected, according to Bradley Brown, explaining a $168,000 two-year continuation continua-tion grant. He was surprised that the mayors didn't know more about the system. He said, "it has been underway for four years and is in the backyard of your jail building." IT AVAILS officers the chance to check information on cars before apprehension. It could save someone from injury if they knew beforehand if a car was stolen or suspect, he explained. It proposes to tie in with the national system to provide criminal history information and coordination betweeen enforcement agencies. "I WON'T soft key the privacy problem," said Mr. Brown. "It is the most difficult dif-ficult problem we face as data processers. We must keep the information general rather than specific." In other action, mayors approved a model project for legal aid for senior citizens. It is a 100 percent funded project, requiring no local match, said Sandra Adamson, explaining the $175,820 program. THERE WILL be two staff attornies in Salt Lake City with hotlines for toll free calls for assistance. Local recruitment will provide advocates to assist the senior citizens. Paralegals Para-legals will be trained in conjunction con-junction with local bar associations, as-sociations, she explained. "MANY SENIOR citizens don't recognize their problems as being of a legal nature," said Mrs. Adamson. If you ask them if they have a legal problem they will say "no," yet they will be having problems with late social security checks, etc. "We have 5,000 people in nursing homes in this state who have no advocates to represent them." said a ' mayor who saw it as an area of concern. THE AGE to become a senior citizen is shifting downward from 60-55. The median income that qualifies a person for government assistance as-sistance is also shifting downward from about $5,800 in 1970 to $7,900 in 1975. Another grant for $146,800 was also approved for senior citizens in the form of a Legal Aid Society of Metropolitan Denver Senior Citizens Law Center. THIS WOULD provide assistance as-sistance for a broader population on such issues as age discrimination, explained Mrs. Adamson. Ron Layton asked mayors to approve a $67,000 notice of intent for "rural fire defense." He explained that it was probably too late for Davis cities to profit from it this year but they should apply ap-ply so they would be eligible for next year's assistance. "CITIES OVER 10,000 are out of luck pn this grant," he explained. It is intended for small cities, eliminating Clearfield, Layton and Bountiful. Syracuse is the only city who has submitted an application. It provides 50-50 funding with the state paying half and the city paying half. |