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Show a f Sun Advocate Price, Utah Tuesday September 10, 2002 5A Carbon County commissioners discuss - - T . '': : tor slumped long before any longer period of time. ' The bottom line is there are other industrial sector and designated mark for the last still more economic pressures had more time to weed out several months. After showing signs in J to take capacity out of the sys- its level of overcapacity. June and July of possibly sta- tem than there is the need to Lately, several national inbilizing or bottoming out, the expand and develop more ca- - dicators have started to sugUtah economic slide grew pacity. So the Utah economic gest that the industiy is start-in- g ' downturn will to witness improvement, probably con- deeper in August. Year-ovtinue throughout the rest of the butitistooearlytopronounce losses dropped 1.9 percent ; V an end to fof 20,400 fewer jobs. manufacturing's year. One factor supporting the longstanding malaise. The economic excesses of' The industry conglom- -, the late 1990s produced a conjecture is that the services division, Utahs largest indus-- v eration of transportation large amount of overcapaccommunicationsutilities try sector that will eventu ity or too much supply statelead an economic tu remains on a weak footing wide. The amount of oversupply has become better has slid onto the negative side In Utah, with employment understood as financial state-- 1 of the ledger. The division still levels down 4,4. percent .' ments and employs employs more than The industry provided have come to light ,.316,000 Utahns, but the Businesses had utilized sectors 0.2 percent decline in 58,200 jobs in Utah in Aucheap financing to expand August means a loss of 600 po- gust, but trucking and communications are scaling capacity in anticipation of sitions statewide. the continued high expan-- . Hotels, computer and busi- back in response to oversupsion rates of the 1990s. The ness services along with auto re- -. ply in fhe sectors. ' .The trade industry re- -, growth has not materialized, . pair are all declining employFor-' across the areas ment mains flat statewide, with state. but the expanded, capacity has become reality. The ex- tunately, the health care indus- year-ovemployment foilcess capacity must be ab- try remains strong. ing by 5,000 workersor 2.0 Construction continued the percent. Trade provides sorbed or eliminated, apftH g slide. Em- -. 247,700 positions and is indicess that takes-timeindustrys cated workforce services. ploying around 69,700 Utahns, Utahs second largest emThe amount of pvercapac- - construction had 6,600 fewer ployment division. Food stores, restaurants, ity during this late 1990s is workers than measured in Ausignificant Large reductions gust 2001. The constriction department stores and building-garden in a short period of time marks construction as the instores all rewould be one way the mar- -. dustry with the largest year- - ported fewer employees in ket could eliminate the ex-- ', over decline in employment in cess supply, but the actions Utah. it continued of the U.S. government Manufacturing followed to stand as the only industry, lowering the federal funds with a decrease of 6, 400 jobs, in the state adding employrate and taxes while increas- - but the size of the sectors year- -, ment opportunities, with ing spending - have fore- over loss is actually a might gains ol2,700 workers. The federal and local subdivistalled that option, pointed improvement compared to reout workforce services. . cent months, according to' sions represented the points The federal actions are' workforce services. of increased job opportuniNationally, the manufacture ties, while state government making the economys needed cuts less severe, but ing industry dipped into a de-- employment decreased in wilt drag the cuts oVer a . clrne three years ago. The sec- - (Continued from pege 1A) 1 Continued from page 1A) meeting's agenda, the county lawmakers: The commission opened bidsTrom & roads. The bids induaed: Inteistate Barricades $29,500, Feck Striping $36,000; Premier Striping $37,500, Don Wright Lines $3200 and Mountain West Striping $40,000. The commission decided to pass the bids onto Ray Hanson, county road supervisor for examination before approval The commission looked at the Caibonville Road reconstruction project they are planning. The total project will cost $2J million dollars. Right now the county has received grants of 400,000 for utility relocation that will be needed as well as a grant for a survey and design for $150,000. They approved a contract for Creamer and Noble the design phase of the project. Krompel also mentioned that he had recently had a meeting with Price Gty officials on the repair work that has been and is being done on the road because of the pipeline project the city is working on. Many residents and officials have complained about the asphalt overlay job that has been done. Krompel explained that the company is committed to putting two more inches of overlay on the pavement already put down and to feather it out more so the road wfil be smoother. At the last meeting of the commissions small piece of land was awarded to one of two known bidders, after (me of those bidden dropped out However, a mistake was made and apparently a third bid was missed, but had been submitted m time. , I am wondering what the commission would like to do about this, asked county clerk Robert Pero. u Do we want to open this bid or do we want to readvertise it?" Discussion centered around the fact that the bid had already been awarded. County attorney Gene Strate said the county may be in a no win situation no matter whether they stand by the award or rebid it. Pfcro also brought up the feet that the legal notice that appeared had a discrepancy in it The date of the opening of the bids was actually before the bid deadline. The commission decided to leave the award of the property as it stood after the last meeting. The commission also examined the bids for the new airport improvement project, that is primarily being funded by the federal government Local bidder Nelson Construction received the contract for $1,591,000. Staker Construction, from Salt Lake was the other bidder, but their bid was a half a million dollars higher. s A discussion ensued about the fencing regulations in the county A number of people have talked to me about the fencing situation in the county, stated commissioner Ibm Mathews. "111610 is a lot of discussion about whether people need to fence out their land or owners of livestock need to fence in theirs. The problem that exists, as the commission went (Mi to explain, is that people will often buy property in the undeveloped part of the county, property that has had cattle grazing on it for years. Some of the people that purchase that land get upset when cattle come on their land and make a mess or get into things. ' I think we need to look at some kind of ordinance on this, said Mathews. Maybe something like Grand Countys ordinance of fencing out Building and zoning official Daw Levanger pointed but that his department is in the middle of rewriting zoning and building ordinances : We have been working on this issue fo (very since Icame to work for the county. Ibelieved at one time state law said that we areafence out state, but after some research I am not sure now. However the ordinance as we are putting it together will make Carbon a fence out entity. Levanger went on to explain that he believed that since Utah is a buyer beware state that the fence out concept was probably the right one in the absence of an exact ordinance. : The commission decided to wait to look at any kind of ordinance on the subject until building and zoning were through with their rewrite. In an informational session, Kimball Johnson, whd attended the last meeting of the commission would be interested inhelping out on a public survey concerning the radio translators the county owns. I talked with Dave Casudy and he thought it might make agood project for the students as ayear end Marketing study, explained Johnson. But it would have to wait until near the end of the school year. The commission took the information under advisement and said they were interested in having the students do such a study and would work with the college when the time comes. . er - year-over- . . . - er - , year-lon- . . . f . : . . Did You Know? WATER P SOFTENER SAIiT- - Internet users visit newspaper Web sites more frequently during the month than any other media category, except Portal sites. Internet users spend more time on online newspaper sites than any other media categoiy, except cable Cr DeUveted to your door on a regular basis Wo will put It directly Into your tank . 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