George Chapman: A 2020 wish list for Salt Lake City - Salt Lake Tribune

The transition team of the new Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall has provided a suggested roadmap for the city to address issues like air quality, affordable housing and homeless. Those are important issues that deserve high priority and attention in the new year.

The air quality in the Wasatch Basin, especially Salt Lake County, is often below healthy limits. Although Utah can focus on idling cars, diesel trucks can pollute over a hundred times more than new cars. One of the major concerns about the inland port is the potential for significantly increasing truck traffic. Salt Lake City should pass an ordinance that limits idling trucks to no more than two minutes. Such a law would limit the environmental impact of the inland port and other warehouse and truck services.

The present idling ordinance has been mainly educational, due to the Utah Legislature requiring anti-idling laws to be mainly educational until the 2019 legislative session. Now is a good time to change the ordinance, but it should focus on the main problem, diesel engines. The city’s contracts for street repair often result in many idling trucks working on street repair, and the only way to stop the resultant pollution is to pass such a law.

Encouraging mass transit use should be a priority. Salt Lake City has almost $1 million from the prison tax increase that has not been spent on transit. The city should negotiate with the Utah Transit Authority (as several universities have) to lower fares in the city to a dollar to increase ridership. A dollar fare for a bus ride should be the priority for Salt Lake City citizens (and for the county’s citizens).

The city recently paid for expanded routes, but weekday ridership increases have been minimal. A dollar fare would be a better encouragement to ride mass transit. A more robust bus system would also increase ridership, but UTA is discussing waiting to expand bus service until 2021. Despite claims that UTA does not have a garage for the buses, UTA is in need of around a hundred drivers. Salt Lake City should push UTA to expand bus services now, as UTA promised if they got the new sales taxes.

The city has expanded its redevelopment areas to include State Street. One of the main reasons for that expansion was it had the best potential to increase housing. RDA staff expected that at least 1,800 new units could be built in the area, but the number could be much higher. The city should implement inclusionary zoning — requiring a portion of apartment buildings to have affordable housing — and form-based zoning for the area to encourage mixed income/mixed use by developers that are often discouraged by the time it takes to get building permits. State Street redevelopment should encourage and help developers to redevelop the area like the Coachman’s owner on 1300 South and State proposal for a five-story mixed use building.

A year ago, the City Council discussed decreasing impact fees for inclusionary zoning. The city should decrease fees for inclusionary zoning now. In addition, the plan to legalize SRO (single room occupancy – like dorms) citywide should be shelved until the city is able to decrease the negative impact of crime-magnet low-cost motels on State Street and North Temple.

Finally, we have been asking the city to provide a safe area to allow the homeless to camp with toilet and washing facilities for years. The transition team’s recommendations includes that and it should be implemented immediately. The city owns seven of 15 acres in the Depot District next to the homeless services providers on Rio Grande, including many vacant buildings, (which encourage criminal behavior). That should provide plenty of potential sites to decrease the constant Salt Lake City Police Department homeless enforcement that is frustrating to both the homeless and the police.

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The Salt Lake City mayor’s oath of office ceremony is Monday at noon at The City-County Building.

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George Chapman is a former candidate for mayor of Salt Lake City and writes a blog at georgechapman.net.

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1. Driver arrested for DUI after fatal crash in South Salt Lake  KUTV 2News
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Utah's education report cards are out. Here's how Salt Lake County high schools fared. - Salt Lake Tribune

Most traditional high schools in Salt Lake County didn’t get better last year — but they didn’t really get worse, either.

The Utah Board of Education released its annual school report cards Thursday, and according to an analysis by The Salt Lake Tribune, most of the scores along the Wasatch Front stayed the same. “We were really static this year,” acknowledged Darin Nielsen, the state’s assistant superintendent of student learning.

The high school assessments do not include a single letter grade — under the new dashboard system started in 2018 — and instead have four rankings based on achievement on standardized tests, growth in proficiency on those, how much English learners improved and how well students are prepared for college.

A school’s performance in each of those categories, in place of grades, is determined to be exemplary, commendable, typical, developing or critical needs. The Utah Legislature defines those terms as essentially equal to A through F grades.

A review of the 22 traditional high schools in Salt Lake County found that most of the scores remained unchanged from 2018 — 54 of the 88 rankings among them (four for each school), or about 61%. That includes both Herriman High and Jordan High, where all four rankings at both stayed the same.

But of the 35 rankings that did change, most declined. And of those that fell, seven dropped back two or more places (such as from commendable to developing).

East High School in Salt Lake City, for example, dipped in growth and achievement, falling from typical in both categories last year to now developing in both. And it also dropped from commendable to typical in postsecondary readiness.

Of the three high schools in Salt Lake City School District, it had the most dips. Highland High and West High each had one, while their other marks mostly remained the same. A district spokeswoman said Thursday that she wasn’t clear on the reasons why the assessments fluctuated the way they did.

Among the high school scores in Salt Lake County, only six of the 84 rankings improved. Highland saw its achievement ranking improve from typical to commendable; Alta High School in Sandy saw the same jump.

Others saw mixed results. Olympus High improved in growth but declined in progress with its English language learners.

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Cyprus High School in Granite School District received grades of C, C, and D in the past few years, ending in 2017. Last year, in the new system, it was ranked as developing in achievement and in the progress of its English learners; typical in growth; and commendable for its students’ postsecondary readiness.

This year, it stayed the same in achievement and growth. But it declined in scores for both English learners — moving down to critical needs — and post secondary readiness — sliding to typical.

Below is a list of the new rankings of all Salt Lake County high schools, with their rankings for 2018 and 2019, followed by their grades for 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2017.

Canyons School District

Alta High • Achievement: Typical in 2018, now commendable. Growth: Typical, unchanged. English learners: Developing, unchanged. Postsecondary readiness: Commendable, unchanged. Past grades: C, B, B, B, B in 2017.

Brighton High • Achievement: Commendable, unchanged in 2019. Growth: Typical, unchanged. English learners: Typical in 2018, now commendable. Postsecondary readiness: Commendable, unchanged. Past grades: C, B, B, B, B in 2017.

Corner Canyon High • Achievement: Exemplary in 2018, now commendable. Growth: Typical, unchanged. English learners: Developing, unchanged. Postsecondary readiness: Commendable, unchanged. Past grades: n/a, n/a, B, B, B in 2017.

Hillcrest High • Achievement: Typical, unchanged in 2019. Growth: Typical, unchanged. English learners: Developing, unchanged. Postsecondary readiness: Commendable in 2018, now typical. Past grades: C, B, C, C, D in 2017.

Jordan High • Achievement: Typical, unchanged in 2019. Growth: Typical, unchanged. English learners: Developing, unchanged. Postsecondary readiness: Typical, unchanged. Past grades: C, C, C, C, D in 2017.

Granite School District

Cottonwood High • Achievement: Typical in 2018, now developing. Growth: Typical, unchanged. English learners: Developing, unchanged. Postsecondary readiness: Typical, unchanged. Past grades: D, D, C, F, F in 2017.

Cyprus High • Achievement: Developing, unchanged in 2019. Growth: Typical, unchanged. English learners: Developing in 2018, now critical needs. Postsecondary readiness: Commendable in 2018, now typical. Past grades: D, F, C, C, D in 2017.

Granger High • Achievement: Developing in 2018, now critical needs. Growth: Typical, unchanged. English learners: Developing, unchanged in 2019. Postsecondary readiness: Commendable in 2018, now developing. Past grades : D, F, D, F, F in 2017.

Hunter High • Achievement: Typical in 2018, now developing. Growth: Commendable in 2018, now typical. English learners: Developing, unchanged. Postsecondary readiness: Typical, unchanged. Past grades: D, F, C, D, C in 2017.

Kearns High • Achievement: Developing in 2018, now critical needs. Growth: Typical in 2018, now developing. English learners: Developing, unchanged. Postsecondary readiness: Commendable in 2018, now typical. Past grades: F, D, F, F, F in 2017.

Olympus High • Achievement: Commendable, unchanged in 2019. Growth: Typical in 2018, now exemplary. English learners: Developing in 2018, now critical needs. Postsecondary readiness: Commendable, unchanged. Past grades: C, D, B, C, B in 2017.

Skyline High • Achievement: Commendable in 2018, now exemplary. Growth: Typical in 2018, now commendable. English learners: Developing, unchanged. Postsecondary readiness: Exemplary, unchanged. Past grades: B, B, A, B, B in 2017.

Taylorsville High • Achievement: Typical in 2018, now developing. Growth: Typical, unchanged. English learners: Developing in 2018, now critical needs. Postsecondary readiness: Typical, unchanged. Past grades: D, D, C, D, C in 2017.

Jordan School District

Bingham High • Achievement: Typical, unchanged in 2019. Growth: Typical, unchanged. English learners: Critical needs, unchanged. Postsecondary readiness: Typical, unchanged. Past grades: C, B, B, C, C in 2017.

Copper Hills High • Achievement: Typical, unchanged in 2019. Growth: Typical in 2018, now developing. English learners: Critical needs, unchanged. Postsecondary readiness: Commendable in 2018, now typical. Past grades: C, B, B, D, D in 2017.

Herriman High • Achievement: Typical, unchanged in 2019. Growth: Developing, unchanged. English learners: Developing, unchanged. Postsecondary readiness: Typical, unchanged. Past grades: C, B, B, D, F in 2017.

Riverton High • Achievement: Typical, unchanged in 2019. Growth: Typical, unchanged. English learners: Typical in 2018, now developing. Postsecondary readiness: Commendable in 2018, now typical. Past grades: C, B, B, B, B in 2017.

West Jordan High • Achievement: Typical in 2018, now developing. Growth: Typical, unchanged. English learners: Critical needs in 2018, now developing. Postsecondary readiness: Typical, unchanged. Past grades: D, C, C, F, F in 2017.

Murray School District

Murray High • Achievement: Commendable in 2018, now typical. Growth: Commendable in 2018, now typical. English learners: Developing, unchanged. Postsecondary readiness: Exemplary in 2018, now typical. Past grades: B, B, B, C, F in 2017.

Salt Lake City School District

East High School • Achievement: Typical in 2018, now developing. Growth: Typical in 2018, now developing. English learners: Developing, unchanged. Postsecondary readiness: Commendable in 2018, now typical. Past grades: D, C, C, C, F in 2017.

Highland High School • Achievement: Typical in 2018, now commendable. Growth: Typical, unchanged. English learners: Developing, unchanged. Postsecondary readiness: Commendable in 2018, now typical. Past grades: D, C, C, C, C in 2017.

West High School • Achievement: Typical, unchanged in 2019. Growth: Typical, unchanged. English learners: Developing, unchanged. Postsecondary readiness: Exemplary in 2018, now typical. Past grades: F, C, D, D, C in 2017.

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This week in Mormon Land: A new way to tithe, Salt Lake Temple closes, and a plea from President Russell Nelson - Salt Lake Tribune

The Mormon Land newsletter is a weekly highlight reel of developments in and about The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, whether heralded in headlines, preached from the pulpit or buzzed about on the back benches. Want this free newsletter in your inbox? Subscribe here.

Money talks

(Francisco Kjolseth | Salt Lake Tribune file photo) The sun rises on the Salt Lake Temple on Oct. 5, 2019.

• Sam Brunson, who teaches tax law at Loyola University in Chicago, offers this revolutionary idea for spreading the wealth — and the love — in a By Common Consent blog post: Have the church tap the annual returns on its $100 billion reserve fund to cover its yearly operating expenses, while faithful members pay their 10% — yes, tithing — to charitable organizations. “I see very little downside to members of the church getting a reputation for being big charitable givers,” Brunson writes. “And giving to charity has the added benefit of helping both our neighbors and our God at the same time.”

• Forbes tax expert Peter J. Reilly examines Mormonism’s place in various tax cases and notes how member tithes all funnel to the church’s Salt Lake City headquarters. “I don’t think any other church operates in such a top-down manner,” he writes. “… The main source of outrage is that [church leaders] seem to have saved up too much money. I think this qualifies as a unique problem for a church.”

This week’s podcast: A Baptist preacher in Mormon land

(Jeremy Harmon | The Salt Lake Tribune) Pastor France Davis on Monday, Dec. 16, 2019.

Nearly 50 years ago, France Davis arrived in Utah, where he became the pastor of the state’s most prominent black congregation.

For 46 years, he led Calvary Baptist Church. But Davis is more than a preacher. He’s an educator, who has taught communication and ethnic studies at the University of Utah; a civic activist, who has served on numerous boards and commissions; and a civil rights icon, who marched for voting rights from Selma to Montgomery.

During his decades in the Beehive State, his words have carried a resounding moral clout and clarity that belie his small stature and soft-spoken nature.

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As Davis retired at year’s end from the pulpit, he joined the podcast to talk about his time leading a Baptist church in the heart of Mormondom.

In other news

(Photo courtesy of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) President Russell M. Nelson greets a member in Jakarta.

• In this bicentennial year of Mormon founder Joseph Smith’s “First Vision,” church President Russell M. Nelson is urging members anew to spread the faith’s gospel.

“God loves all of his children and has a vision for each of us. Just as he listened to Joseph’s prayer in 1820, he listens to you and yearns to speak with you through the Spirit,” Nelson wrote on social media on New Year’s Day. “We invite you to be a major part of sharing the message of the ongoing restoration of the Savior’s gospel. We will share more about this soon, but you can start today by acting on the invitations I extended to you at last General Conference to immerse yourself in the glorious light of the restoration.”

• Natasha Frost of the business news website Quartz explores the intersection of faith, finances and feminism by noting, among other things, the wage gap between men and women who earn degrees at church-owned Brigham Young University.

“Male graduates of BYU earn 90 times more than their female peers, with a median income of $71,900 by the age of 34,” she writes. “Female graduates, on the other hand, earn on average $800 per year. Even the wage gap at other religious universities is not quite so extreme.” A reason, Frost explains, is that many female BYU alumni forgo careers to focus on starting families.

• In a two-part seasonal essay, Times and Seasons blogger Kent Larsen examines Charles Dickens’ holiday classic “A Christmas Carol” and the pieces of Scrooge that exist in all of us.

“Scrooge doesn’t actually commit any act that would violate anyone. He doesn’t attack or hurt anyone,” Larsen writes. “He is rude, but not unusually so, for someone who just wants to be left alone. Yes, he doesn’t give when asked — but who of us has never turned anyone down when they asked for money? Can you really say that, in terms of actions, you haven’t done essentially the same things that Scrooge has done?”

“We can only imagine,” Riess writes, “that 2020 — the 200th anniversary of when founding prophet Joseph Smith is supposed to have experienced his “First Vision” — will also be interesting enough to require steady doses of both vitamins and antacids.”

• A senior missionary from Utah died the day after he and his wife were in a Christmas Day car wreck in Iowa. Craig L. Meyocks, 66, was serving in the Nauvoo Mission in Illinois. His wife, Brenda Meyocks, was injured but is expected to recover.

(Photo courtesy of the Meyocks family and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) Craig L. Meyocks and his wife, Brenda, senior missionaries working at the historic Nauvoo, Ill., site. Craig Meyocks died after an auto accident in Iowa; Brenda Meyocks was injured in the crash.

Temple updates

(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) The Salt Lake Temple, Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2019.

• Two of Utah’s four pioneer-era temples have now closed. The Salt Lake Temple shut down Sunday and will remain shuttered for four years as crews undertake a seismic retrofit and upgrade internal mechanical systems. The surrounding square, one of Utah’s most visited tourist attractions, will remain open but is also being reshaped. About 300 miles to the south, the St. George Temple, Utah’s first, closed in early November to undergo a three-year makeover. Temples in Logan and Manti also are scheduled for renovations. Dates and details of those projects have yet to be announced.

Quote of the week

(Rick Bowmer | The Associated Press) Boy Scouts salute during their meeting, in Kaysville on Thursday, Dec. 12, 2019,

“As this centurylong stage of my church’s life comes to an end [with its official departure from Scouting], I express gratitude to my Dad, and to thousands of other Mormon leaders like him, who put on the cookouts (where everything was fried in bacon grease) and the campouts (where the tent caught fire in the middle of the snowstorm) and the Courts of Honor (where the little brother knocked over the painstakingly constructed Pinewood Derby racetrack). They did so with a humor befitting the inherent goofiness of it all, yet also respecting — sometimes because they believed it (as Dad did), and sometimes just because it was woven into the program itself — a vision that connected and challenged and situated innumerable Mormon-American boys in ways that sometimes actually taught them and inspired them and planted seeds inside their heads that made them, just maybe, a little bit different, a little bit geekier but also a little bit smarter and a little bit more capable than they would have been otherwise.”

Mormon Land is a weekly newsletter written by David Noyce and Peggy Fletcher Stack. Subscribe here.

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Former Utah GOP Chairman Thomas Wright is running for governor - Salt Lake Tribune

Thomas Wright, who led the Utah Republican Party as chairman between 2011 and 2013, has entered the race to be Utah’s next governor.

The state elections office tweeted on Thursday that Wright had filed his intent to gather signatures for the governor’s race, one of two routes under state law for partisan office candidates to qualify for a primary election.

Wright joins an already-crowded field for the Republican gubernatorial nomination (current Utah Gov. Gary Herbert is not seeking reelection), which includes Utah Lt. Gov. Spencer Cox, former Utah Gov. and U.S. Ambassador Jon Huntsman, Salt Lake County Councilwoman Aimee Winder Newton and businessman Jeff Burningham. Former Utah House Speaker Greg Hughes is also expected to enter the race and one Democratic candidate, Zach Moses, has declared his candidacy.

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Yes, that really was Salt-N-Pepa at Columbia's Famously Hot New Year - Charleston Post Courier

Many folks on Twitter seemed puzzled Tuesday night. Salt-N-Pepa, the headlining rap duo at Columbia’s annual Famously Hot New Year block party, was also slated to perform during the West Coast portion of ABC’s exhaustingly titled Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve With Ryan Seacrest. Where was Salt-N-Pepa actually going to be on New Year’s Eve? Would the two rappers on stage in Columbia actually be Salt-N-Pepa?

Yes, the actual Salt-N-Pepa did play in Columbia Tuesday night. And no, they weren’t double-booked.

The Salt-N-Pepa performance at the New Year's Rockin' Eve show was a recording,” reports Mary Kate Korpita, integrated communications manager at Flock and Rally, which handles publicity for the event. “They were live ... at Famously Hot New Year. We saw some confusion on social media during the event and created a post to clarify.”

The confusion leading up to the event was heightened by Salt-N-Pepa’s social media postings, which promoted the television appearance, not Famously Hot New Year. But Columbia revelers can rest assured: If you were there, you saw the real deal.

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