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Show Routine' election draws voters to polls this Tuesday By GARY R. BLODGETT ; South Davis County voters will go to the polls Tuesday to cast their ballots for three city council candidates. can-didates. But because of the lack of interest inter-est on major issues, it will be a "routine election" in at least four of the six south Davis County communities. com-munities. The exception, of course, will be Bountiful where a hot issue over city redevelopment is brewing and possibly Farmington, depending depend-ing on the outcome of the proposal for a $18 JS million jail bond. ) Voting booths will be open in all cities from 7 a.m. until 8 p.m. Voting sites will be posted at each city hall or information may be obtained ob-tained from city offices during regular hours. In addition to ballots for election of candidates to city council posts, there will be a separate Proposition ballot for or against the issuance of $18.5 million for the purpose of paying "all or part of the costs of acquiring, improving or extending public buildings and facilities for use of a county jail, offices, courthouse and other releated public buldings and facilities for. the administration of justice and law enforcement activities." The money is to be repaid through general obligation taxes not to exceed 25 years. To do this, property taxes would have to be increased in-creased slightly. For example, a home assessed at $70,000 would be taxed about $10 per year or less than 85 cents per month beginning in 1988. This would be increased $9 per year (an additional 75 cents per month) in 1989; there would be no increase in 1990; and in 1991 the amount would be increased by $15 per year i (or $1.25 per month) until the bonds are paid, according to the Davis County Commission. In Bountiful, the accidental death of DeMonte Washburn as a council candidate leaves the city with only five remaining candidates for the three vacant seats. Atty. Layne B. Forbes ruled that the city would not replace Mr. Washburn's name with the next-high vote-getter. Mr. Washburn was a nominee running with two other candidates on a platform to abolish Bountiful Redevelopment along with Barbara Bar-bara Holt and Dee Tingey. Other candidates are incumbents C. Harold Shafter, who was top vote-getter in the Primary Election, Jerry K. Lawrence and newcomer Robert Gramoll. Centerville will have Michael B. Barton, Bruce E. Erickson, Nancy W. Gibbs, Wesley Joel Gold, Dub Lawrence and Douglas R. Smith. In Farmington it will be Pat Ach-ter, Ach-ter, Tom Brant, Frankie Lynn Cutler, Cut-ler, Marda Dillree, Art V. Maxwell and Paul Elmer White. North Salt Lake will have only five candidates. They are Byron Berven, Stuart Hatch, Duane Larson, Lar-son, Lawrence J. Scadden and Voters will cast their ballots for three candidates, and the top three vote-getters will be elected and begin serving a 4-year term in January. In Woods Cross it will be Steven J. Davis, Neal F. Heweltt, R. Bruce Kjar, Jerry Larrabee, Lynn Thomas and David H. Wright, Jr. Shanna Schaefermeyer. West Bountiful candidates are Brock L. Ary, Colina Lee Gadd, Steve Henderson, Russell L. Hen-roid, Hen-roid, Gary T. Spilman, Bruce A. Talbot, Claude E Vaughn and Wendell Walter Wild. ZZZ3 |