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Show By ROSELYN KIRK FARMINGTON Davis County's withdrawal from the Wasatch Front North Manpower Man-power Consortium became official Tuesday when the county commission authorized Commissioner C. E. Moss to sign an interim agreement after County Attorney At-torney Milton J. Hess verifies that he had okayed the document. THE agreement will set up the provisions for the withdrawal, which will become effective on Oct. 1. Art Martinez, director of Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) Wasatch Front District, presented the contract for the signatures. Mr. Martinez said the withdrawal contract had been okayed by Mr. Hess and by Richard Nelson, county CETA director. The contract identifies iden-tifies the policy board and advisory committee, sets up the administrative agency and explains the fiscal procedure for withdrawal, Mr. Martinez said. COUNTY Commissioners had questioned the procedure should the county want to terminate the new agreement. Modifications introduced in-troduced in the contract specify that either party may withdraw after a 30 day termination ter-mination notice. The temporary tem-porary agreement sets up the conditions under which the county will operate until Oct. 1978 when the withdrawal will be completed. Mr. Martinez said the agreement, which covers the period from Oct. 1977 to Oct. 1978, had not been signed previously since the agency was waiting to see whether Davis County elected to withdraw from the tri-county consortium agreement with Weber and Morgan Counties. ALSO IN connection with the plan to withdraw, commissioners com-missioners received a letter from Governor Scott Matheson indicating that the state had approved the withdrawal plans. The county will set up their independent planning agency for the delivery of CETA programs to county residents, all within the statewide CETA organization. or-ganization. According to the letter. Ron Spindler has been designated as (he labor and training representative responsible (or coordinating the withdrawal. Governor Matheson "has directed the Office of Labor and Training to provide whatever what-ever assistance may be necessary to effect this change," the letter said. IN OTHER matters, the commission appointed Wesley Jarvis, Syracuse, to the Davis County Sheriff's Board to replace Glen Cundall who has resigned. In two additional matters of business, the commission approved three travel requests from Community Action Program (CAP) employees to attend conferences in three different locations. JANET Johnson will attend a weathenzation conference in Louisville, Ky.; Lydia Durazo, the gerontology convention con-vention in Tucson, Ariz, and Lynda Bowns an emergency food seminar in New Albany. Ind. CAP employees said the travel expenditures will be paid for through CAP funds. FOUR Davis County Family and Community Mental Men-tal Health officials were also approved for travel. Dr. Lyman Condie will aitend a convention on psychiatry m Atlanta. Ga. while Jack Russell Rus-sell and Millie Pope, mental health board member, will travel to Denver for a primary prevent nui conference. Kerry Davis, psychiatric social worker, will also attend the gerontology geron-tology conference in Tucson April 7-11. |
