Romney Group Asking Too Much from Schools? Utah Taxpayers Association Says Proposed 80/20 Property Tax Split Would Be Double of What Salt Lake City Would Give
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THS swimmers receive awards See A8 TOOELETRANSCRIPT S T C BULLETIN S TUESDAY March 10, 2020 www.TooeleOnline.com Vol. 126 No. 81 $1.00 Romney Group asking too much from schools? Utah Taxpayers Association says proposed 80/20 property tax split would be double of what Salt Lake City would give TIM GILLIE age that would return 80% of park builds out. $146.3 million, if the split is of Salt Lake City is asking too student ranks it as the fourth EDITOR the future increase in property At the current tax rates the 80/20. much.” lowest value per student in A developer has asked the tax for the next twenty years school district would realize “That’s twice what the Stephenson pointed out the state — just behind Nebo, Tooele County School District from the 1,300-acre proposed $2,708 from the property over Romney Group would receive Tooele County School District’s South Sanpete and Cache to give up more property tax Lakeview Business Park. 20 years because the property if they built their business low property tax base requires School districts. than it should to finance a pro- According to a study pre- is either tax-exempt — owned park in Salt Lake City’s north- a higher tax rate to produce At the other end of the scale posed business park, according pared for the Romney Group by the Grantsville Soil and west quadrant,” said Howard the same amount of revenue as sits Park City School District to a statewide taxpayers group. by Zions Public Finance, the Water Conservation District — Stephenson, president of the other school districts. with $3 million in assessed Last month, Josh Romney, Romney Group’s 80/20 split or in greenbelt. Utah Taxpayers Association. According to a Utah value per student. Salt Lake president and founder of the with the school district could If the school district would “Tooele County School District Taxpayers Association 2019 School District has $1 million Romney Group, asked the yield the school district $36.6 keep $36.6 million in property is one of the poorest school School Spending Report, in assessed value per student, school district to consider a million in revenue over the tax over the next 20 years, the districts in the state. To ask Tooele County School District’s tax incentive financing pack- next 20 years as the business Romney Group would keep them to give up twice the rate $261,690 assessed value per SEE SCHOOLS PAGE A10 ® Carter sentenced to prison for causing death of her toddler CEILLY SUTTON STAFF WRITER A Wendover woman was sentenced to prison on Feb. 26 for her toddler’s death two and a half years ago. April Carter, 30, was sentenced to 1-15 years at the Utah State Prison by 3rd District Judge Dianna Gibson at the Gordon R. Hall Courthouse. The sentence was to start immediately, according to April Carter Chief Deputy Tooele County Attorney Gary Searle. The ted to prison,” Searle said. court strongly recommended On Sept. 27, 2017, that she serve the whole Wendover police were dis- sentence but that is just a rec- patched to a cardiac arrest at ommendation, according to Carter’s residence, according Searle. to a probable cause statement. “The Utah Board of Pardons Officers performed CPR on and Parole has sole jurisdiction the victim but were unable to over Ms. Carter and decides revive the child. the actual time she will serve now that she has been commit- SEE CARTER PAGE A10 ® TIM GILLIE/TTB PHOTO Kael Weston, Democratic candidate for the 2nd congressional district, speaks to a group of Tooele County citizens at Bonneville Brewery on Friday night. Democrat candidate for Congress Nelson announces re-election bid for makes campaign stop in Tooele House District 68 Weston says he’d never put ‘party over country’ TIM GILLIE Test: America at War in Iraq and EDITOR Afghanistan,” a New York Times Rep. Merrill Nelson, A Democrat whose great-great- Editors’ Choice and the Military R-Grantsville, has announced grandparents help settle Milford Times’ Best Book of the Year. that he will seek one more Valley in Beaver County thinks He writes monthly for the Salt two-year term representing Utah’s 2nd congressional district Lake Tribune and has contrib- House District 68 in the Utah needs better representation and uted to NPR, New York Times, Legislature. he’s the man for the job. Washington Post, The Hill, Wall The district includes Millard Kael Weston, who is seeking the Street Journal, Foreign Affairs, County and parts of Tooele, Democratic Party’s nomination to Daily Beast, and other publications. Juab, Utah and Beaver coun- run against Republican Rep. Chris Weston has taught at the col- ties. Nelson has served in the Stewart, made a campaign stop at lege level in Utah and in Quantico, position since elected in 2012. the Bonneville Brewery in Tooele Virginia, at Marine Corps He served previously from City on Friday night. University. He has also led semi- 1991 to 1992. Around 20 people showed up to nars at the U.S. Naval Academy in Nelson works in constitu- hear Weston and to ask him ques- Annapolis, Maryland. tional law at the Salt Lake law Rep. Merrill Nelson tions during the two-hour gather- Weston described himself as “not firm Kirton McConkie. ing. a hard left liberal Democrat.” “I grew up in a large family Economics before attending A native Utahn, Weston served Compromise would be his hall- in Grantsville, learned to work the BYU Law School,” Nelson for over 10 years in the U.S. State mark, he said, using public lands doing the daily farm chores said in a press release. Department, including seven years policy as an example. and paper routes, served a Nelson and his wife of 40 in Iraq and Afghanistan. Spanish mission in California, Like Stewart, Weston is an and graduated in Agricultural SEE NELSON PAGE A10 ® Kael Weston author. He wrote “The Mirror SEE CANDIDATE PAGE A10 ® INSIDE BULLETIN BOARD B4 CLASSIFIEDS B6 Grantsville Basketball NASCAR HOMETOWN B1 couple season end returns to UMC OBITUARIES A6 engraves in old photos See A8 OPEN FORUM A4 barbershop See B1 SPORTS A8 See A3 A2 TOOELE TRANSCRIPT BULLETIN TUESDAY March 10, 2020 Grantsville’s $5.5M sewer project Local opioid crisis honored by state’s water division will be subject of March 18 USU MARK WATSON city’s support of Utah’s clean improvements. Program for $3.5 million at CORRESPONDENT water program for its wastewa- Last summer crews worked 1.5% interest for 20 years. Officials from the Utah ter collection facility construc- simultaneously on the water- Grantsville paid the remaining Division of Water Quality tion. sewer projects to have them amount. Extension forum honored Grantsville City “A project this size is a big completed in time for the “We’re sorry for the citizens Wednesday for completion of a endeavor for any city and I repaving of Main Street before for the hassle you had to put CEILLY SUTTON $5.5 million sewer project dur- know that you had roads torn colder temperatures arrived. up with the roads, but it is STAFF WRITER ing 2019. up and the hardest part of Grantsville City Finance really nice to do these proj- Utah State University Extension will host a free commu- Last year, construction these projects is the impact Director Sherrie Broadbent ects all at once,” Mackey said. nity conversation this month in Tooele City called “Stories crews upgraded sewer and they have on the commu- said the sewer project cost the “Grantsville now has a good of Utah’s Opioid Crisis.” water lines underneath Main nity while they are going on,” city $5,494,000. Grantsville solid amount of infrastructure The event will be held on March 18 from 6-8 p.m. in Street and other streets in the Mackey said. “But you were received a loan with the help to protect water quality.” room B-126 at the Tooele County Health Department. It city at a cost of just over $10 really smart how you did it. of the Utah Water Quality He thanked Broadbent and is geared toward individuals who have had an issue with million. You took a proactive approach Board for $4,880,000 at a the mayor for their work in opioid dependency or family members of those with opioid “We want to thank you for in that you recognized that you 1.75% interest rate for 30 helping to complete all the issues. But anyone 18 or older is invited to attend. the project you built; we’re had a highway project coming years. Grantsville paid the financial paperwork needed A community discussion will take place during the class really happy to be able to be a through and you got in front remaining amount. for the project. that may contain sensitive and disturbing materials such part of it,” said John Mackey, of it.” The cost for new culinary “One of the most difficult as: substance abuse, suicide, addiction, sexual assault, and engineering section man- Grantsville Mayor Brent water lines and redrilling things is getting through all the domestic violence, according to a press release from USU. ager for the Division of Water Marshall indicated the City the city’s north well cost paperwork. It’s government According to USU, opioid overdoses in Utah outpaced Quality. had attempted three times $5,135,000. Grantsville money, so dare I say there is a deaths from firearms, falls and motor vehicle accidents He presented a plaque to to get financing in place for received a loan with the help lot of red tape,” Mackey said.