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Show SOUTHERN UTAH NEWS WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 23, 2002 Sports We need your support at the Hospital! Help us serve you better. Please vote YES on 5th to support Kane County Hospital. Please vote to reauthorize the sale tax to support the Hospital November The citizens of Kane County supported Kane County Hospital with property taxes from 1958 until July 1993. From July 1993 thru June 2003 a 1 sales tax is in place that replaced the property tax. The Kane County Hospital Board is requesting to continue the 1 sales tax for an additional ten years, starting July 2003 and continuing until June 2013. The Kane County Hospital Board does not want to return to property tax support. Please vote to approve continuing the 1 sales tax. 75 of the 1 sales tax collected between 1993 and 2003 is spent to pay for the new hospital. The bonds used to pay for the new hospital will be paid off in 2003. The remaining 25 of the sales tax was used to subsidize the daily operation. during last Fridays match against Valley. . . Kanab volleyball gets a big win over Valley The Cowgirls started out a little slow but finally got rolling, They passed at 59 and had 16 kills. Serving is what pushed Kanab to victory. The team had missed serves, but that is a tradeoff when you are making hard, tough serves. With those serves came 17 aces. Every girl who served had at least one ace. Heather Narramore had seven The goals for the continued sales tax are: Goal I: of the sales tax to be used in the operation. Charity Care, Bad Debt, Medicare Medicaid and other allowances. 25 County Hospital had $6,631 ,862 in gross revenue. Write-off- s were: Medicare $1 ,058,378 AHCCCS $ 152,467 Medicaid $ 144,008 Charity Careother $ 234,548 Bad Debt . $ 377,138 In 2001 , Kane - on her own. Amber Madrill served up four and Stephanie Brinkerhoff added three, This win should get the girls rolling to more victories. Thurs-mor- e day they face Millard (Varsity only) at 5:00 pm. Kanab will host the Region tournament on Friday the 25th. The girls first game is at 10:00 am. Good luck girls, go to state! . . Goal II: of the sales tax to purchase currently identified equipment needs. It includes Ambulance, CT Scan, Radiology, Computer upgrades and clinical software applications. Goal III: 35 of the sales tax for additionsrenovations includinjg upgrades and new medical technologies. ER waiting room, Obstetrics, Recovery room, Nursing Home and future capital needs. 1 3 27 of the sales tax for reservefunded depreciation and future physician recruitment. This will only be enough to fund five years of accumulated depreciation, 1997 through the end of 2001. None will be available for future deprecation. The fund would .also.be available for cash flow poor times such as we are experiencing now. Board of Trustees, elected by the public, recognized the The seven-membneeds of the hospital (increasing liability insurance, increasing utility costs, and increasing equipment preventive maintenance contracts, increasing write-offvoted unanimously to continue the 1 sales tax for an additional ten years. If the sales tax fails to receive voter approval, the only option is to raise property taxes. Please vote your support FOR the following ballot question. Goal (V: er s) Shall the Board of County Commissioners of Kane County reauthorize on all taxable sales in imposition of a sales and use tax of the county to fund the operation, expansion and maintenance of the Kane et. Seq.; the County Hospital as allowed by Utah Code Annotated tax shall become effective on July 1, 2003 and remain in effect for 10 years one-perce- nt (1) 59-12-8- 01 Football contest winner week 3 3 in the SUN Pigskin Predictions football contest. Rhees (I) received congratulations and a $50 gift certificate from JayMickelson of Glaziers FoodTown. He picked nine of 10 correct, only missing the Beaver Kanab yatne: .dphri Livingston iSStffl. the overall leader for the grand prize weekend getaway to Mesquite. Matt Rhees won week and be distributed to the Kane County Human Resources Special Service District to be expended for hospital purposes? For reauthorized imposition of the Tax |