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TCFD marks 100 years of service See B1 TOOELETRANSCRIPT S T C BULLETIN S THURSDAY July 11, 2019 www.TooeleOnline.com Vol. 126 No. 12 $1.00 Voters will be asked to back tax hike for new schools If OK’d by voters, average homeowner will pay $128 more in property taxes TIM GILLIE meeting, school board mem- EDITOR bers reviewed six different The Tooele County School strategies for issuing the $190 Board will ask voters this fall million in bonds. Each strategy to support a net property tax involved a different scenario increase for the school district for when the bonds would be of $128 per year on the aver- issued and staggering principal age $250,000 home. payments around current debt The school board selected that will fall off or making a finance strategy for its pro- equal yearly payments. Construction crews work on Grantsville’s Main Street on Wednesday afternoon to complete work below the street before repaving begins. posed $190 million bond dur- Board member Alan ing its meeting Tuesday night Mouritsen made a motion for at the school district office. the board to adopt the scenario If approved by voters in with the least net tax impact Crews work on sewer, water lines November, proceeds of the on residential property — bonds will be used to build a $72.75 on a $250,000 home. new high school in Overlake, a Mouritsen’s motion was defeat- new junior high in Stansbury ed with a 1-6 vote. on Main Street in Grantsville Park, a new elementary school Board member Melissa Rich in Grantsville, expansion of the proposed adopting the scenar- PHOTOS FRANCIE AUFDEMORTE Stansbury High School lunch- io with a $128.41 net impact room, and security upgrades on a $250,000 home. for existing schools. “The difference between MARK WATSON The school board deter- $128 and $72 might look like CORRESPONDENT mined the projects to be a lot,” she said. “But when you Crews are working to com- included in the bond and the break it down, it’s $4 a month. plete water and sewer lines bond amount during its June With that $4 a month, we save on Grantsville’s Main Street to 11 meeting. allow for repaving of the street During their Tuesday night SEE SCHOOLS PAGE A9 ® by the end of September. “We’re trying to get every- thing finished up on Main Street so it can be repaved before the temperatures fall,” said Grantsville Mayor Brent Marshall. He said crews from the Utah Department of Transportation are now working on sidewalk School District and gutter issues along Main Street prior to repaving the road from state Route 112 on the east to Clark Street on the west. ACT scores saw “UDOT will work through the summer on some of their sidewalk and curb and gutter issues,” Marshall said. “They ‘uptick’ in 2019 also will work on flood issues along Main Street.” SEE LINES PAGE A9 ® But Tooele County students still An excavator sits on the sidewalk along Main Street as it maneuvers equipment into place. lag behind state average on ACT TIM GILLIE juniors increased from 18.8 in EDITOR 2018 to 19.1 in 2019. ACT scores for Tooele The ACT test is designed to County School District measure academic develop- increased slightly in 2019 com- ment in English, math, reading pared to 2018, but still remain and science. Test scores are below the state average. reported on a scale of one to The Tooele County School 36, and the four test scores are Board of Education heard a averaged to reach a composite report from school district staff score. on the results of the ACT tests ACT has established bench- administered to high school mark scores for each subject juniors in 2019 during its test that correspond to a pre- meeting on Tuesday night at diction of success in college the school district office. coursework. “This year’s data indicates A benchmark score is the that the percentage of students minimum score needed on an in the district overall meeting ACT test that indicates a 50 college readiness benchmarks percent chance of obtaining a has increased from last year,” “B” or higher, or a 75 percent said Debra Bushek, the school chance of obtaining a “C” or district’s director of assess- higher in the corresponding ment, accountability, and college credit courses. research. A minimum score of 18 on The average composite ACT score for the school district’s SEE ACT PAGE A9 ® Lanes of Main Street are closed to traffic while crews work on water and sewer lines near Grantsville Elementary School. INSIDE BULLETIN BOARD B5 CLASSIFIEDS B8 Erda Celebrates Breinholt Stansbury HOMETOWN B1 See A2 returns to makes Legion OBITUARIES A8 Fridays on Vine playoffs SPORTS A10 stage See A10 See A4 A2 TOOELE TRANSCRIPT BULLETIN THURSDAY July 11, 2019 Are these your ancestors? The Tooele County should not be lost forever,” Daughters of Utah Pioneers are said Patricia Holden, Tooele still seeking the identity of a County DUP historian. “This young girl photographed in a lady lived in pioneer days and pioneer cabin that was printed should be recognized and in the June 27 edition of the remembered and her story Tooele Transcript Bulletin. told, if only through her pos- The photo is reprinted in terity.” today’s edition in hopes a read- The Tooele County DUP, er or readers can identify her. which operates a museum at A note attached to it simply 92 E. Vine Street in Tooele reads “Aunt Mary.” City, has several photos in their In addition to the child’s unidentified file, according to photo, the Tooele DUP is also Holden. seeking the identity of a por- “We are striving to identify trait of a woman sitting in a the people in these photos so chair. they can be remembered and “This unidentified pioneer their stories told,” Holden said. woman reminds us that in a Anyone with information on way people are not made of the people in either photo may COURTESY OF PATRICIA E. HOLDEN COURTESY OF PATRICIA E. HOLDEN skin and bone as much as they contact Holden at 435-839- If anyone can identify the woman in this photo please call Patricia E. An unidentified photo from the Tooele County Daughters of Utah Pioneers are made from stories, which 3464. Holden, Historian for Tooele County Daughters of Utah Pioneers, at 435- Museum. 839-3464. City planning commission approves Semi catches fire first phase of 113 homes in Overlake parked along I-80 STEVE HOWE Wednesday night. some corner lots of .18 acres have 6-foot-tall solid vinyl STEVE HOWE and the male driver was using STAFF WRITER The first phase of the and other various sizes. The fencing along the frontage STAFF WRITER the sleeper berth when the fire The Tooele City Planning development, located at Lexington Greens project with 400 West and Franks A semitrailer driver suffered started, according to UHP. He Commission forwarded a approximately 600 W. will feature a second and Drive to be consistent with substantial injuries after his had to maneuver through the positive recommendation for 1200 North, includes 113 final phase, which requires adjacent developments. vehicle caught fire on an exit flaming vehicle to escape to a final plat subdivision of the single-family lots on 86.3 separate approval. Planning commission to Interstate 80 near Aragonite. safety. first phase of the Lexington acres, according to the staff The planning commission member Bucky Whitehouse The semitrailer fire was The driver was the sole Greens development in report. The development approved a conditional use motioned to forward a posi- first reported at 11:12 p.m. on occupant of the vehicle, Overlake during its meeting is on property zoned R1-7 permit for a 3.9-acre park tive recommendation to the Tuesday evening, when units according to UHP. The cause of residential, which permits within the development at City Council, which was were dispatched to a vehicle the fire is still under investiga- up to five units per acre, its May 8 meeting. All open seconded by commission fire at exit 56. Utah Highway tion. and is surrounded by other space in the development, member Shauna Bevan. Patrol troopers responded Utah Department of properties zoned R1-7 and including the park and a .77- The vote passed 4-0, with to the scene and the driver Transportation did not men- with the specific Overlake acre stormwater detention a unanimous vote required was flown to a Salt Lake-area tion any traffic delays or lane designation. basin, will be maintained due to the low turnout of the hospital with life-threatening closures as a result of the acci- A majority of the resi- by the developer through a seven-member commission. burns, according to UHP. dent, which occurred at the dential lots in the develop- homeowners’ association. [email protected] The driver of the semi had exit and not on the interstate. ment are .16 acres, with The development will also pulled over onto the I-80 exit [email protected] A Full-Color Activity Page Just for Kids! 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