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Show Page 11 GARFIELD SCHOOL BOARD REJECTS PROPOSED TAX INCREASE THE GARFIELD COUNTY INSIDER Time to start thinking about how to heat your home for the coming Winter! The Garfield County School Board has rejected the school administration's If you are using fuels that are oil or gas proposed tax increase of 9.18%. The . based to heat your home this winter, you lh action was taken September 14 at the may want to save by using electricity from Truth in Taxation Hearing held in the Garkane Energy. Our residential rate has not Bryce V alley High School auditorium in increased since 1992. After 1,000 kwh the price Topic. drops to 4.150 per kwh. The School Board acted to accept the Utah State Certified Tax Rate for No Oil or Gas-based 2006. This rate, which is actually lower heating-fuel can compete than the rate set in 2005, is established by The Utah State Tax Commission. with Garkane's The tax rate was set at .007819 in 2005 Electric Rates and will be .007491 in 2006. Individual -tax payers may see a If you currently have an Oil or Fuel based heating source small reduction in the tax bill unless their that is too costly to replace, take a look at the new line of heaters Garkane offers from CONVECTA1R, as an alterproperty was reassessed during the last native heating source for your home. Premium twelve months. etcctoc heaters Garfield School District Business Great for those cool spots in your home, these units mount to warm to a wait and plug into a regular 120 Volt outlet. 240 Volt Manager, Justin Baugh, reported that the any cold room units also available. Contact Marcus Lewis in the Loa District's revenues are not keeping pace Office for further information. with expenses. He quoted a recent study compiled by the U.S. Census Bureau, "Utah's pupil transportation funding is getting close to the crisis stage. State funding has dropped from 85% ten energy years ago to 58%. Utah's school disService, Local Controltricts are having to squeeze funding out 800-747-0403 of their budgets from wherever they can, including funds that could be going Cathy Dix Takes into education, in order to pay the trans- "Oath of Allegiance" portation costs." Cathy Dix, wife of Patrick "Casey" Mr. Baugh gave a powerpoint presentation at the hearing which showed Dix, became a citizen of the USA takthat the District is paying an average ing the Oath of Allegiance Thusrday increase from last year to this year in September 14th, 2006, in Salt Lake City. Cathy arrived here from Glasgow, supplies and materials of 28%. • Price increases for Food Service have risen Scotland, February 1983 ,with children and average of 27%. Paul and Donna. She has resided in the Insurance costs jumped 13.8% from Sates for the past 23 years and has last year to this. Utilities have risen sig- raised her children here in what she nificantly in each of the past two years describes as a better environment and and are expected to rise again this year. life than they would have experienced Garfield School District has added ad- in Great Britain. Her son Paul has ditional bus routes and increased fuel served a two year LDS Mission in South ALL ABOARD! costs have put the District into a finan- Carolina. Our Brace Caboose is now makcial bind. The District also has nine ing life easier for our patients in She is looking forward to the thrill school buildings to maintain. The newoutlying communities: Beaver, and privilege of casting her first vote as est of these is now eight years old. Bicknell, Circleville, Delta, , "The proposed 9.18% tax increase an American citizen.To quote another Ephraim, Fillmore, Gunnison, would have helped us maintain current new citizen at the ceremony, Cathy said, Manti, Milford, Junction, Monroe programs," stated Justin Baugh. "Sev- "I would have done it much sooner if it and Salina. On days we're in the eral of our buses have hfgh mileage and hadn't been so expensive." mobile office, our office phone In attendance at the momentous ocwill need to be replaced in the near fuis forwarded to us, so we can still ture." be reached. casion were Cathy's husband, Casey, All five of Garfield County School her son Paul, grandson Connor, and sis1-888-BRACEME Board members were present for the ter-in-law, Melodie Wood. Family ties vote. The action to reject the tax in- here in Panguitch include Pat and Ileta 150 E 200 N • Richfield, UT crease and accept the certified county Dix, Rick and Robbie Irish, Steven and tax SkyeDix,ahdWahddhl)ix'.A7.Y.\ .V Garkane SEPTEMBER 21,2006 LETTER TO THE EDITOR Dear Editor, The Anti Access Group (S.U.W.A.) is at it again to close Factory Butte to vehicular recreation and access. They have made three attempts to close the area. First was a statewide lawsuit against the B.L.M. to terminate 10 million acres of vehicle access this failed from a decision by the U.S. Supreme Court. Next there was a re-inventory of wilderness by the Clinton Administration to pre-empt what the B.L.M. had spent 15 years to do. The Bush Administration saw through the bogus land garb and repelled it. The third attempt for closure was that vehicle use caused excessive erosion, this petition was denied by the B.L.M. Field Office Manager. The latest try for closure is a re-inventory of endangered species. The B.L.M. has found 4 sub-species of cacti that fit this list. The same four that I have seen grow in the Blue Clay (shale) from the Muddy River to the Henry Mountains makes me wonder how endangered they really are. The B.L.M. has begun discussing a closure of the area (except the area known as Swing Arm) but the other 200,000 acres will be closed or severely restricted to a small amount of established roads and trails. The closures may come as soon as this Fall but will be. implemented by the Spring of 2007. If Factory Butte can be closed no multi-use area trail or road in Utah or the West for that fact is safe from closure. If you love public land and want to continue to enjoy it get involved now. Join a mulit-use club, write your congressmen, state representative or write the B.L.M. If Factory Butte is lost to open use it is gone forever! Charles Chappell P.O. Box 381 Loa, Utah 84747 CLASSIFIEDS IN "THE INSIDER" MAY WIN YOU A WEEKEND OF FUN IN SALT LAKE. All ads placed in October will be placed in a drawing for . a weekend stay & fun in Salt Lalce. Compliments of The INSIDER |