Cowboys ready to roam See A10 TOOELETRANSCRIPT S T C BULLETIN S TUESDAY August 11, 2020 www.TooeleOnline.com Vol. 127 No. 21 $1.00 Annexation approved for more land in area of Sheep Lane, Erda Way MARK WATSON Conservation. CORRESPONDENT Also at Wednesday’s meet- Grantsville City Council ing, the Council approved a approved an ordinance planned unit development Wednesday night to annex agreement and preliminary CLAYTON DUNN/TTB PHOTO 548.85 acres of land on its plan for the creation of 296 Left to right Shawn Milne, Aaron Spilker, Kim Clausing, Kendall Thomas, Jared Hamner, Gary Jensen (with the scissors) Glen Oscarson, Brenda eastern boundary located in units on 200 acres located Spearman, Randall Hinton (behind Spearman) and Michael Griffeth. the area of Sheep Lane and south of the intersection of Erda Way after receiving a Worthington and Nygreen request from the property own- streets. The area would even- ers The Church of Jesus Christ tually include an elementary of Latter-day Saints. school, park and 46 townhouse The ordinance also places units available for people 55 Underpass ribbon cutting the property in a manufactur- and older. ing zone. The development would Back in May, the Council include an extensive system of approved an ordinance to sidewalks and pathways that annex 900 acres of land east interconnect the entire devel- held in Stansbury Park of Deseret Peak Complex and opment. It includes a mixture the Utah Motorsports Park into of single-family homes, town- City limits at the request of The homes, open space areas and a New pedestrian underpass connects two halves of Stansbury divided by SR-138 Romney Group as part of its neighborhood commercial area Lakeview Business Park devel- to help create a complete com- opment. munity. CEILLY SUTTON On Wednesday, the Council In other business, the City STAFF WRITER also approved an ordinance approved a contract with An underpass in Stansbury Park, which to annex 21.55 acres adjacent Morgan Asphalt of Salt Lake has been in the works since 2018, is now to Sheep Lane into City limits City at a cost of $532,720 complete. A private ribbon cutting was held at the request of Lakeview to repave and repair various Saturday. Business Park develop- Funding for the underpass has been in ers and the Gransville Soil SEE ANNEXATION PAGE A12 ® the works since 2018, according to Kimberly Clausing, with the Tooele County Health Department. In April of 2018, the Stansbury Park Service Agency wrote a letter of support for N the Utah Outdoor Recreation Grant, which SR 138 ERDA allowed them to gain $150,000 for the underpass. Sheep Lane In December of 2018, the service agency coordinated funding with Rep. Sager’s and former Toeole County Commissioner Myron Erda Way Bateman, which allotted them $400,000 Proposed to put towards the project, according to Grantsville Clausing. Annexation The Tooele County Health Department also received a grant of $100,000 to put towards the project, along with impact fees GRANTSVILLE from builders. CLAYTON DUNN/TTB PHOTO With the ribbon officially cut, families take the first trip through the underpass. SEE UNDERPASS PAGE A12 ® 2020 TOOELE COUNTY LIVESTOCK AUCTION COVID19 UPDATE CLAYTON DUNN/ Statewide 7-day average TTB PHOTO Grantsville Mayor Brent Marshall of new COVID cases drops with a pig and a student at the Junior Livestock State distributing PPE to schools auction on Saturday at the Deseret Peak CEILLY SUTTON with the health department. Complex. STAFF WRITER The report showed that there have Local health officials have updated been no deaths because of the virus in news related to the virus, with cases Tooele County. continuing to rise. According to the report, 574,560 indi- Tooele County has seen 583 positive viduals living in Utah have been tested cases of the virus throughout the pan- for the virus with 44,390 COVID-19 demic, according to a report released cases of the virus reported, or 7.7% of bi-weekly by the Tooele County Health people tested. Department, A total of 2,642 Utahns have been The state Coronavirus website shows hospitalized with COVID-19 with 193 450 of those cases were in Tooele Valley COVID-19 patients currently in Utah and 133 were in the rest of Tooele hospitals. County. Hospitals in Utah report that 45% of There have been 30 hospitalizations, their non-ICU beds were occupied and but only one individual is currently 60% of their ICU beds were occupied. being treated at a hospital outside of Tooele County, according to Amy Bate, SEE CASES PAGE A12 ® BULLETIN BOARD A6 CLASSIFIEDS A7 Vandals strike OBITUARIES A9 CORONAVIRUS TRACKER Tooele City OPEN FORUM A4 See A2 SPORTS A10 Data as of August 10, 2020. Source: Utah Department of Health TOOELE COUNTY- Known Cases: 584 UTAH- Known Cases: 44, 752 Hospitalizations: 30 • Deaths: 0 Hospitalizations: 2,677 • Deaths: 349 A2 TOOELE TRANSCRIPT BULLETIN TUESDAY August 11, 2020 Wave of vandalism in Tooele City parks Mayor asks for public’s help to deter and catch vandals CEILLY SUTTON One of the biggest issues is Cook. STAFF WRITER broken door handles and doors “We have five bathrooms An increase of vandalism at the Dow James Building, in the city that don’t have in Tooele City has caused the according to Cook. sinks, because the vandals mayor to offer a reward to The city has had to use tax- have destroyed them,” he said. anyone with information lead- payer money to replace all five “When they were destroyed, ing up to the arrest of vandals doors in the bathrooms at the the city did not have the budget who have hit the city parks and building. money to fix them, but now we facilities, according to Darwin “The vandals are breaking are working on bids to be able Cook, Tooele City Parks and washing stations, faucets, and to fix them.” Recreation director. soap dispensers,” Cook said. Cook also said that vandals Vandalism has always been “We think they are climbing have been breaking into the present in the city parks and on the toilet paper dispensers bathrooms and clogging the facilities but Cook said that it or kicking them off the walls. toilets with garbage and toilet has become worse lately with We have had to go to hardened paper, along with destroying children being out of school. toilet paper dispensers, so they sprinkler heads and cutting “I think it has a lot to do with can’t break them but the cost is wires in the control boxes for school being out right now,” he high.” the sprinklers at city parks. said. “Right now, the vandalism It cost $5,000 of city taxpay- “We have noticed that most has escalated dramatically com- ers money to replace the dis- of this vandalism is taking place pared to before.” pensers. in the middle of the night,” Cook said that graffiti has “Someone also climbed up Cook said. “We would love to been an issue, but it’s not the on the roof of the Dow James not have to lock the bathrooms biggest vandalism issue they building and drove golf tees in at night during the season, but are facing. the roof and they have been the problem is if they are left “We have been receiving a hitting golf balls off of the open, it gets worse.” lot of graffiti on buildings and roof,” stated Cook. “It may cost The mayor is offering a $250 on the concrete at the skate- $1,000 to repair the roof. reward to anyone with informa- park,” he said. “This isn’t even And it’s not just the Dow tion leading to the arrest of the our biggest issue though.” James Building, according to vandals. COURTESY TOOELE CITY Examples of recent vandalism at Parker’s Park (top), Rancho Park (above left), Dow James Park (above right), Elton Park (far left), and England Acres Park (left). People with information someone vandalizing some- other responsibilities they have. about vandalism in Tooele City thing at the park, they need Everyone just needs to come can call 435-843-2100. to call the police,” said Cook. and use the parks respectfully, “We need the public to be “I hope as a community we so that other people can use vigilant and if they see some- can start respecting property them.” thing not quite right or see more, so our staff can focus on [email protected] Average Monthly Wage State and Tooele County by Quarter Average worker in Tooele $4,250 State Tooele County County earns less than state $4,000 Gap between county and state wages continues to grow $3,750 $3,500 TIM GILLIE the Department of Workforce “Overall average monthly EDITOR Services. wage in the [Tooele] county The average pay for a job The average monthly pay remained below the statewide $3,250 in Tooele County continues to for a worker in Tooele County average since 2015. This can fall short of the dstat average during the ofrts quarter of be traced to the close of the $3,000 and the difference is widnen- 2020 was $3,483, which is chemical weapons stockpile ing, according to a report from $704 x short of the state aver- destruction,” reads a DWS 2008 Q1 2008 Q2 2008 Q3 2008 Q4 2009 Q1 2009 Q2 2009 Q3 2009 Q4 2010 Q1 2010 Q2 2010 Q3 2010 Q4 2011 Q1 2011 Q2 2011 Q3 2011 Q4 2012 Q1 2012 Q2 2012 Q3 2012 Q4 2013 Q1 2013 Q2 2013 Q3 2013 Q4 2014 Q1 2014 Q2 2014 Q3 2014 Q4 2015 Q1 2015 Q2 2015 Q3 2015 Q4 2016 Q1 2016 Q2 2016 Q3 2016 Q4 2017 Q1 2017 Q2 2017 Q3 2017 Q4 2018 Q1 2018 Q2 2018 Q3 2018 Q4 2019 Q1 2019 Q2 2019 Q3 2019 Q4 2020 Q1 age of $4,186, or a 16.8% gap, report on Tooele County.