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Show a ee i ee ge a 8 er ears wen 3 ; 5 j : j , APRIL 25, 2001 ; 1 | ; ; aon © ef ca | s el— Be eFacise ‘Ce Pe)| - Midway May Have City, County Continue to Over Dispatch Fees To Shuffle ads et | Wrangle Each side says it’s case of double taxation however, the replaced its longtime engineer - with Horrocks Engineering Inc., which reportedly charges a higher retainer than their predecessor. In _ ones that The Midway The county charges a $4, 809 per unit dispatch charge for 12 units or $57,709 a . year to use the county’s dispatch center. The city also now pays $43.07 per day per go _ over,” Baum added. cover the ones that go over.” 2 City Council is wrapping up. ‘its tentative budged, which must be completed by May 3. The council then has until June ELVA BAUM M idway City Recorder 20, when | fund budget is $886,000. The | department amounts for engineering and legal aare 7 simnla, at $28, 000 prisoner, up from a flat yearly fee of $3,000. Sheriff Mike Spanos explained that the state charges local law enforcement offices © a percentage equal to the amount of time the final budg- CHARLESTON . etis due, to make adjustments. , oe If fees for engineering and legal do exceed the budgeted amounts Baum said impact monies from the 200 West project, which were ini- Town Hall the county’s general fund. Spanos countered that the profit off the jail was so negligible still have to pay the same amount,” said council member Terry Lange. Commissioner Jerry Duke said little ‘has been resolved in the last year. “I don’t think you'd be fighting this if we were the state. I think your fighting us ca we re the county.” a tim@wasatchcountycourier.com 654-7177 : A " = Some council members also suggested that the dispatch would have the same costs even if the city weren’t part of it. “Tf we went. away, the county would (er that it would not make a difference. | Hiagion the double taxation is on the other side. You're part of the general fund is only 24 percent,” said Provost. | | “Hopefully there will be enough to cover the will be enough to addition, the city was not paying its fair share. “I think Se “Hopefully there Midway recently named Joe Tesch as City Attorney. Tesch beat out four others for the position. His _ fees were the second highest of the. ‘group. Currently, Midway S general tially unaccounted for, could be used to compensate. Email: derek@wasatchcountycourier.com Wants Overseas Amecrass Counted Equitably— tices now. since the 1930. are considering Congressional action — to require that the Bureau come up — - with a plan to ensure that we include. every American possible in our overseas LDS missionaries from the Cannon indicated that one of the methods of persuasion being considered is to place the equivalent of a freeze on future Census Bureau spending — in the form of an appro_ priations bill amendment — until the’ Bureau provides Congress with a plan to include all Americans stationed overseas in future counts. “The Census Bureau performs periodic updates, such as the. American Community Survey,” Cannon added. “I see no reason to allow the Bureau to continue count- 2000 census count, Utah narrowly lost an opportunity to gain a fourth ingly excludes some American citi- Bureau is to enumerate the populations of American communities,” Cannon said. “That charge demands that all Americans be counted to the very best of our abilities, using all available resources and technologies.” Partly due to the exclusion of ing people when their system know- — congressional seat. The seat was awarded to North Carolina. zens. We will consider freezing such -“How to count religious mission- confident that the Census Bureau will treat all overseas Americans aries who are temporarily stationed overseas has been an issue for the expenditures until Congress can be equitably.” ait Cannon, who sits on the House 2 1 { national census.” Subcommittee on the-Census, said that there are fundamental changes in store for the Census Bureau. “The primary responsibility of the Census st | come up with a solution. To help focus attention on these matters, we na regardless of the outcome of the appeal to the Supreme Court, the Bureau must start poets its prac- Bureau penne put the Census Bureau on notice that Census count,” he continued: “You would think by now the Bureau would have ann In reaction to last weeks unfavorable ruling onthe Census lawsuit filed by the state of Utah and Utah’s congressional delegation, Congressman. Chris Cannon (R-UT) nt is rrr er = pe paneer Pircetbepet tai er, money must be stripped from some departments to compensate for others that may go over budg- questioned whether the over $400,000 the city pays into the county’s general fund shouldn’t cover the tab. Mayor Adams also questioned why Stat its from the jail weren’t usedto pay down the public debt on the jail instead of going into | year, town This i “pemmnare every year. marked for the specific work. With regard to the general fund, howev- et. argued opens that are over budget City Council members were willing to pay their fair share, but that the fees amounted to double taxation. “We all live here and we all need to pay our fair share,” said Council member David Phillips. we | “To-me, it’s a matter of double taxation,” said Mayor Lynn Adams. County Commissioner LaRen Provost took issue with that however, implying that. = ments that are under and others mering dispute over how much the county. charges the city for these services was once again left unresolved, with each side grumbling it was getting the raw end of the deal. : re - shee SS 2 © ze ee RRS, US *; o 3 \ oe Ce a raat According to City Beer der Elva Baum, Midway has some depart- tentious meeting last week. But the sim- officers use the state’s regional dispatch centers. If the county used a similar formula, said Spanos, Heber would be responsible for 54 percent of the dispatch’s $222,000 yearly budget since that is how much Heber police officers tie up county dispatchers. “If we charged the way the state : charges for its dispatch centers:..your rate would be higher,” said Spanos. The sheriff said Tooele County uses a similar method for figuring fees. . Heber City Manager Mark Anderson ieee aRMEnER EE end of March, according to Baum, engineering figures had already reached $26,000. That amount s city officials hunker could skyrocket if Horrocks holds the _ city down iron to out — Engineering __ accountable for me spent in meet_Midway’s annual budget, the ings. “Tm not sure a they’re billing us process includes a fair degree of for coming to meetings or not,” said Baum who explained that guesswork. | Increasingly, ‘it Horrocks’ monthly retainer is appears however, the tentative $500, while other charges will have to be approved by the City Council. budget does not allocate enough Baum said individual engineering projects such as Burgi Lane to cover the escalating costs in come out of separate budgets earEDITOR departments. STAFF The Wasatch County Commission and _ Heber City Council tried once again to settle a nearly yearlong debate over jail and dispatch fees during a sometimes con- and $30,000 respectively. 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