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Show Fee Increased The cost of architectural plans for the il. 2 million addition addi-tion to the Davis County courthouse has increased about $5,000. In an action taken Thursday, Davis County Commissioners Com-missioners said the additional fee would be based on six and one-half percent of the cost of construction rather than six percent which had been agreed on earlier. w COUNTY Commissioners had been considering the request for several weeks. Earlier both Commissioner Wendell Zaugg and Commissioner Commis-sioner Glen Flint said that Mr. Strlngham had contacted them separately to request the increase. On Tuesday Commissioner C.E. Moss explained that commissioners had agreed to the hike because supervision for the remodeling would be more time consuming than supervising the construction of a new facility. MR. STRINGHAM said although Lawrence Construction Construc-tion Company may complete the construction in one year, the contract specifies 14 months. The time table calls for the addition on the east side of the building to be completed in eight months, with the inside in-side remodeling being estimated es-timated to take four months. In other matters, the commission com-mission signed a document releasing the $2 million bond signed by Hospital Corporation Corpora-tion of America prior to the construction of Lakevlew Hospital Hos-pital in Bountiful. THE agreement had been to release the bond after October 1977. County Attorney Milton J. Hess had approved the signing, rk |