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Show Courthouse Adds To Bulging Switchboard FARMINGTON - The county courthouse switchboard switch-board has reached its capacity. SO SAYS Mountain Bell. In a letter addressed to County Clerk Rodney Walker, the company urged Davis officials to add another 64 station lines to the system. For a one-time installation fee of $255 and a monthly charge of $40. Mountain Moun-tain Bell says the county can again handle all those calls. The switchboard problem, however, came as somewhat of a surprise to county commissioners com-missioners last week. Mr. Walker Wal-ker informed the group about the changes at their Tuesday meeting by reading Mountain Bell's suggestions. W ALKER SAID more and more county departments are "picking up" additional telephones tele-phones without prior authorization. author-ization. Com. Ernest Eberhard reiterated rei-terated an earlier decision by the commission that all departments depart-ments must obtain county authorization au-thorization before phones are ever installed. MR. WALKER explained that he had run across a number num-ber of new phones while look-ipg look-ipg over one of the auditing reports. re-ports. Com. Eberhard asked Mr. Walker to get the word out that phones installed by department depart-ment heads without prior authorization au-thorization will not be paid for. He also asked Walker to contact con-tact Mountain Bell about the procedure. CURRENTLY, EACH county department, and some individuals, have a separate extension line which is transferred trans-ferred through the courthouse switchboard. Mr. Walker said many of the extensions can be combined. That would cut down on the number of needed lines. Meanwhile, the commission did approve the additional 64 station lines. MR. WALKER agreed to check further into the installation installa-tion of department phones where prior authorization was not obtained, mdm |