Dog Bites a Problem in County
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www.tooeletranscript.com TUESDAY Elementary students learn dance is BEST See B1 TOOELETRANSCRIPT BULLETIN April 12, 2005 SERVING TOOELE COUNTY SINCE 1894 VOL. 111 NO. 92 50 cents A remodel Tooele keeps charter in place By Mark Watson STAFF WRITER Tooele’s City Charter will continue to live, but with Developers breathe changes. City Council members tabled a resolution to repeal new life into school the charter at last week’s meet- ing. In the meantime, Council by Mark Watson its doors in 1995 and a few Chairman Mike Johnson is STAFF WRITER years later Arbshay paid using his legal expertise to Although students won’t $100,000 to buy the building amend the charter. Those be running up and down the from Tooele County School amendments will be presented steep ramps at the old Central District. He vowed to restore to the City Council at next Elementary School, the build- it. week’s meeting. ing soon will be inhabited Arbshay said preserving Once the amendments are again. old historical buildings leaves fine-tuned, they will be pre- “We should be finished a tangible piece of the past sented to the public. After the by the end of the year,” said for future generations. public has a chance to inspect Matthew Arbshay, a Tooele “This building will be a liv- the amendments they will developer who is spending ing museum,” he said. be able to approve or reject $3.5 million to convert the In addition to the spa- them at the ballot booth in building at 100 West in Tooele cious and comfortable “Four November. into 24 condominiums. Season”-type condominiums, A committee put together Workers are full-speed- common areas in the building by Mayor Charlie Roberts photography / Troy Boman ahead retrofitting the mas- will be adorned with photo- proposed that the charter be graphs and memorabilia from Matthew Arbshay is developing the three story Central School into luxury condominiums. The school was origi- sive three-story building to nally constructed in 1929 and served around 42,000 students before the final bell rang in 1994. Due to the repealed, but other citizens meet a Jan. 1 deadline. historical value of the building, Arbshay will use elements of the past to complement what will be a very contem- have argued to keep the char- Central Elementary closed SEE CENTRAL ON PAGE A5 porary building. (Above, left) the delapidated building is shown as it is being gutted. ter on the books. “We have received some good comments from the pub- lic and I have been working on several new drafts of the Grantsville charter,” Johnson said. “An Dog bites a problem in county amended version of the char- ter should be available for the subdivision EDITOR’S NOTE: However, the Utah Health is “dangerous” or “potentially public to review within the What happens next few weeks.” This is the first in a series Department reports that to a dog after it bites dangerous.” If this is the case, between 1999 and 2003 over the animal is euthanized. If it City Attorney Roger Baker of articles about pet The consequences to a dog will boast 9,500 Utahns, were attacked by is not, the pet is released back will review the charter before issues in Tooele County. for biting a human vary from dogs and hurt seriously enough to its owner and certain condi- presenting it to the council at state to state as well as across to need emergency room care tions may apply. (See Tooele the next meeting. by Karen Lee Scott the county. 5-acre lots — 303 of those offenses were City Code Title 6). Baker said the revised char- STAFF WRITER In Tooele City, if your dog in Tooele County. In Grantsville City, the “three- ter includes one change which by Mary Ruth Hammond Bark, bark, bite. bites a person, the animal is The state health department strikes your out” rule applies. might be debated. He said the STAFF WRITER According to the U.S. automatically quarantined for recently ranked Tooele County If a dog bites a human but new charter gives power to the With a population that has Humane Society, every year an 10 days. Impoundment typical- as the sixth highest in the state has a current rabies shot, the council to override an execu- recently topped the 7,000 resi- estimated 4.7 million people are ly occurs at the animal shelter when it comes to injuries from dog is not impounded. But if tive decision by the mayor if dents mark, it looks as if plenty bitten by dogs, ranging from on the northern edge of the dog bites (some 13 bites for shots are not up to date, then the council votes unanimously of growth is still being planned for minor nips to major attacks, city, but sometimes the animal every 10,000 persons in the the dog is confined at the city on the matter. Grantsville City. but the vast majority of interac- can be confined by its owner. population). The statewide animal shelter for 10 days for Another change is that Joe Cange, developer of tions between people and dogs At the end of the 10 days, average is eight bites per 10,000 council members can vote on Palomino Ranch on North Cooley occur without incident. it is determined if the animal people. SEE BITES ON PAGE A2 a motion at a meeting via tele- Street, received the go-ahead from phone. the city council last week to forego The city attorney said sever- placing a ribbon curve (a type of al antiquated issues have been sidewalk) on 80 new lots he plans scratched from the document. to develop. If all goes as antici- Dispatch leads state in tracing cell calls “It’s just not necessary to pated, the new subdivision called have some of those things in Village Green will be housed on by Mary Ruth Hammond While only Verizon cell there,” Baker said. The old 384 acres of land beginning on STAFF WRITER phones can currently be traced charter stated that Tooele City Nygreen Street and continuing While it was once impossible by Tooele County dispatchers, Police officers were required south to the Tooele Army Depot for emergency dispatchers to by the end of summer all cell to live within city limits. That (TEAD) fence line. determine the exact location of phones will be traceable. item will be deleted from the Another development that will a 911 call made from a cell Alex Reyes, a county worker document. run west of Cange’s new subdivi- phone, Tooele County dispatch- classified as a global informa- After analyzing the pros sion will be phases five and six ers have become the first in the tion systems (GIS) specialist, and cons of having a charter, of South Willow Estates. The first state to change that situation. has spent hundreds of hours city leaders agree that a city four phases of that subdivsion Sheriff Frank Park and Lt. mapping all of Tooele County charter’s value and strength were developed by John Laing Regina Dekanich, head of the so that cell phone calls can be depends largely upon two fun- Homes. However, Laing Homes dispatch department, know the traced. Of course, Reyes is quick damental factors: failed to purchase additional land new technology at the Tooele to point out that he didn’t accom- 1. The collective personal- from Alan Johnson for phases five County Dispatch Center will plish that feat on his own. ity of the community and its and six. save lives. “My entire staff helped,” he leaders. Is that personality suf- Johnson has received final “Instead of the helpless feel- said. ficiently independent, strong approval from the city to com- ing dispatchers get when they Dakanich says that without and unified to maximize a plete the last two phases of the can’t trace the origin of an emer- Reyes and his staff’s incredible charter’s advantages? subdivision. Although his devel- gency call, our dispatchers can help, getting emergency per- 2. The charter’s content: Is opment will complement South now determine within seconds sonnel to someone calling from the charter carefully written, Willow Estates, the 42 lots will be the location of a cell phone call,” a cell phone might still be an and does it contain sufficient impossibility in Tooele County. called Heritage Grove and feature Park said. photography / Troy Boman distinctions and powers for it Lt. Dekanich said that in the one-half to one-acre lots. Johnson In fact, the new technology Lt. Regina Dekanich (standing) is department head of the Tooele to be a meaningful break from has obtained final approval from is so good that a 911 phone call past, “It’s been a hopeless feel- County Sheriff’s dispatch center. That center has become the first other cities and the state? Grantsville City for his subdivsion, from a cell phone first shows ing on both sides when a cell in the state to have the capability of tracing the location of a 911 The charter was established with the stipulation that he pave up on a large map displayed in phone 911 call has come in and emergency cell phone call. Other dispatchers pictured include Randi 40 years ago. Voters indicated Quirk Street down to 500 South. the dispatch area of the Tooele neither dispatchers or the caller Gamble and Willard Liddell. they wanted a mayor /coun- Final approval for Cange’s new County Sheriff’s department in know where the person who cil form of government to subdivision could be another the approximate area of the cell needs help is located.” She talk- he was,” Dekanich recalled.