Cowboys fall to Spartans See A4 TOOELETRANSCRIPT S T C BULLETIN S THURSDAY July 9, 2020 www.TooeleOnline.com Vol. 127 No. 12 $1.00 Quarantined ballots counted, no change in winner outcome Wardle faces no general election challenger for County Council seat TIM GILLIE an additional 124 votes. Sarah EDITOR Patino, in third place, added Quarantined primary ballots 101 votes. have been counted, leaving the With these votes added, front runners from last week’s Scott Wardle held on to his primary night count unaffect- lead with 48.6% of votes cast. ed, according to Tooele County While Wardle will have to Clerk Marilyn Gillete. wait for the final vote canvass After running the quaran- to be the official winner, he tined ballots through the veri- appears to be the Republican fication and counting machine primary winner as Gillette said on Monday the race for County there aren’t enough uncounted Council District 1 picked up ballots remaining to change 452 more votes cast. the results. First place vote getter in “We have what we call the election night tally, Scott ‘problem children’ (ballots) Wardle, picked up 227 more that have problems such as votes while Shawn Milne, who was in second place, picked up SEE BALLOTS PAGE A7 ® COURTESY TOOELE CITY Leah Cutler’s patriotic front porch was selected by Tooele City’s royalty as one of three winners from over 100 entrants in Tooele City’s first Fourth of July porch decorating contest. 2020 Official Primary Election Results County Council District 1 (Republican) Scott Wardle 733 48.6% Tooele City picks patriotic porch Shawn Milne 427 28.3% Sarah Patino 348 23.1% winner in Fourth of July Contest Tooele County School Board District 1 Robert (Bob) Gowans 706 48.2% CEILLY SUTTON Albert Bottema 453 30.9% STAFF WRITER Tooele City has announced Sandy Critchlow 307 20.9% the winners of their Fourth of July patriotic porch decorating Governor (Republican) contest. Tooele County Statewide This was the first year that the city hosted the contest. It Votes Percent Percent was created to replace normal Greg Hughes 2,030 21.6% 21.0% Fourth of July activities that were cancelled because of the Jon Huntsman Jr. 3,202 34.3% 34.8% pandemic. Individuals who entered the Spencer Cox 3,223 34.1% 36.2% contest decorated their porch- Thomas Wright 935 10.0% 7.9 es, took a picture, and submit- ted it at tooelecity.org. Attorney General (Republican) The contest ran from June 11 to June 28. Tooele County Statewide Members of Tooele City roy- alty chose the winners, which Votes Percent Percent were announced during the David Leavitt 3813 42.3% 42.5% July 1 City Council meeting. Sean Reyes 5163 57.7% 57.5% COURTESY TOOELE CITY SEE CONTEST PAGE A7 ® Berna Sloan’s patriotic porch was another winner of Tooele City’s first Foruth of July porch contest. Late night motorcycle Tooele Police Chief accident on SR-36 answers questions CEILLY SUTTON Stansbury Park. A motorcycle CEILLY SUTTON When asked about his STAFF WRITER that was traveling north on STAFF WRITER department’s policy on A motorcycle accident with SR-36 wasn’t able to stop in Tooele City Police Chief Ron chokeholds and knee holds, a semi-truck on SR-36 caused time. Kirby wants members of the Kirby stated that they are not serious injuries to the rider. The motorcycle skidded on community to know that the allowed and in the 20 years According to Colton its side and the rider made Tooele City police officers are that he has been chief, they Freckleton with the Utah contact with the semi-truck, highly trained and have and have never been used. Highway Patrol, an accident according to Freckleton. will continue to do their best to Officers are trained each occurred Wednesday evening The rider of the motorcycle protect the city. year in how to de-escalate situ- at 10:30 p.m. was flown by helicopter to a The officers under his juris- ations quickly and efficiently, The accident happened nearby hospital with moderate FILE PHOTO diction are “highly trained” in according to Kirby. when a semi-truck made but serious injuries, according Tooele Police Chief Ron Kirby congratulates officer Cami Andersen areas regarding mental health, “We use crisis intervention a U-turn on state Route 36 to Freckleton. as she receives her graduation certificate from the Utah Peace racial profiling, and de-escala- and Village Boulevard in [email protected] Officer Standards and Training commencement exercises at Tooele tion, said Kirby. SEE POLICY PAGE A7 ® Technical College in September 2019. INSIDE BULLETIN BOARD B3 CLASSIFIEDS B4 Erda rezone OBITUARIES A6 CORONAVIRUS TRACKER approved but SPORTS A4 still faces court Data as of July 9, 2020. Source: Utah Department of Health challenge TOOELE COUNTY- Known Cases: 315 UTAH- Known Cases: 27,356 See A3 Hospitalizations: 12 • Deaths: 0 Hospitalizations: 1,700 • Deaths: 205 A2 TOOELE TRANSCRIPT BULLETIN THURSDAY July 9, 2020 County gets clean audit Tooele Army Depot funds to the capital projects more than sufficient to cover General fund fund. the difference. “The capital projects fund Tooele County’s general to virtually celebrate balance grows is where the funds for those fund balance increased by projects should be held and $7.4 million from $27.2 mil- TIM GILLIE the capital projects fund lion to $34.6 million. Part of EDITOR should have very little bal- that increase was from the Tooele County’s external ance, except for those proj- sale of the Utah Motorsports change of command auditors gave the county a ects,” he said. “Even if they are Campus. clean bill of health. three to five years out.” Larson noted there were Jon Haderlie, of Larson & He also noted that two out some issues of budgetary Traditional ceremony can be viewed on Facebook Company, a Spanish Fork- three of the business type compliance, expenses being based CPA firm, told the funds ended the year with a recorded prior to approval, CEILLY SUTTON decorations, including the Defense Superior County Commission that the loss — the Deseret Peak Fund but the amount of the funds STAFF WRITER Service Medal, Bronze Star Medal, and the firm’s report on the county’s and the Airport Fund. involved did not rise to the The Tooele Army Depot will be changing National Defense Service Medal. financial statements for the “As an auditor we like to see level of a material weakness, leadership on July 15 at 9 a.m. during a vir- Colonel Dowgielwixz Jr, who will 2019 year was “unqualified,” that these business-like funds like it did in past years’ audits. tual change of command ceremony. be taking Burnley’s place was commis- or the best report possible. are generally self sustaining, ‘’ “Any time you see a move- Col. Gavin J Gardner will be officiating the sioned as a second Lieutenant in the Army Haderlie presented the he said. ment away from a material ceremony. Outgoing Commander, Col. Todd Transportation Corps in 1997 from Clarkson annual audit findings during Deseret Peak had revenues weakness it is a significant W Burnley will be transitioning command to University. He graduated with a bachelor of the County Commission’s July totaling $436,425, an increase accomplishment,” Larson said. Col. Steven Dowgielewicz. science in biology. 7 meeting. of $7,702 over the previous He said some of those issues Burnley has been commander of Tooele He also has a master of arts in national Larson noted that no “mate- year. Expenses for Deseret have already been corrected Army Depot since June 27, 2018. security and strategic studies from The Navel rial weaknesses” were found Peak, including depreciation and he doesn’t think it will be He was commissioned as a second lieu- War College, along with a master’s degree and all funds ended the year of $705,738, totaled $2.0 mil- an issue next year. tenant in 1993 upon graduating from the in health sciences from Trident University, with positive fund balance. lion. The audit also concluded University of Florida where he earned a according to the bio. But he did have a few sug- Airport revenues and that the County was in compli- bachelor’s of science in business administra- Dowgielwixz’s military education includes: gestions. grants totaled $6.2 million, ance with state code and all tion. Transportation Officer Basic Course, the Larson said that the county an increase of $1.7 million. material requirements that Burnely also earned a master of science Combined Logistics Officer Advanced should identify all future Airport expenses totaled $6.3 the state auditor requested to in business administration from Webster Course, and the Combined Arms Service potential capital projects that million, including depre- be checked for the audit year, University, according to a bio released by the Staff School, among others. fund balance is being reserved ciation of $1.7 million. The Larson said. depot. He was deployed to Iraq in 2003, 2009, for and then transfer those Airport Fund has a balance [email protected] Burnley has served at the Schoolfield and 2019. Barracks in Hawaii, Fort Sill, Oklahoma, and Dowgielwixz has been awarded and in Afganistan. decorated with the Bronze Star Metal, Army Burnley’s military education and training Commendation Metal, and the Joint Service includes: the Senior Service College, U.S Metal, among others. Army Command, and General Staff College. Married, Dowgielwixz has two children He has also trained at the Support and two grandsons. BLM: Utah West Desert seeing Operations Course, the Combined Arms and The virtual change of command ceremony Services Staff School, the Field Artillery will be available to watch on the Tooele Army Officer Advanced Course, and the Field Depot’s Facebook page at facebook.com/ increase in man-made fires Artillery Officer Basic Course.