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Show snd County, Moab CHy May Gain Rod Funds ' iv :-ked "o oon- , i V i-i'i whU-h WiniM ' ' '.tor f'1' 0110 ivnt ; jfilllOU fo" l't i 'U to t1'1 iKtnvlm--f 'l'uti of : lonj;- 1 ' !.jVV of I'lUil OOil.; in by Wilbur rtj Associates, eon-',iij:iiiooi-s of Now ; iVnn. Tho survev i ' Wl bv tho Utah ' n of Counties. "jtimioipal I.oa.u'uo, .',v Ko.-ul Comnus-V. Comnus-V. S. Popart-f Popart-f " fommoivc and .' t,f TuWic Roads, .'l voar survey pro- Iwe start lins facts .'.-.. tho funding of y;s'.iKng projects. A vrtion" of tho dolim-sjrgod dolim-sjrgod to tho larsjo (V-vnditure required ....-miction f ':lt : -;crstatP and Po- lV"':, "i':l'v,ays. lTainte. ''uuv (Vs' Increase- Wiil, -.'" into.-s.tat,. highway m,U complete,!, a I'o-a.lt funds Tor matohin- ';'U'r;11 ami stato tm- "U('l o.mstniotio,, si,rink ''tntimo. a backloe (1f ,uv's is buildine- up Some Funtls Available As intorstnto oonsfruo. ",n '''''''vases and n0rm-""'''oasos n0rm-""'''oasos omir in KI-H-uay-usor revenues. funds Nu 1 b''''onio available to reduce ,lus backlog of cri-t'-oal needs, nut those monk's mon-k's will not bo significant tmttl after 1970, 'ami bv tbat time the backlog will nave increased. Kor this reason, the planum;: plan-um;: firm proposed as a solution a state e;as tax increase of one cent per prallon. to be reserved for road construction only. The additional tax would produce nearly $5 million in a 1T year period to un-ll;,t( un-ll;,t( Vtah roads and streets. Only approved arterial rondi; ami streets would be approved for construction with the p,as tax Tumi. Tt is esitijiiatej Moab City's annual take would be bp-tween bp-tween s and $20 tbous-" and; Ovaml county's alio-' cation would amount to an est inn tod ,7,50 thousand per annum. Suggested Moab Roads Suggested arterial roads in Moab City would bo 'Third South street from 'be 4th Kast intersection, to Highway 1G0;' Fourth East street south to Highway High-way 1(50; and Mill Crook;; Drive, from Fourth East south to the county line. The projects would be re-' established on a five year basis. The roads would be built to established spec!-' fixations of high standard; the funds would not be available for maintenance of tho completed projects. Grand county has requested re-quested priority on a Dead Horse Point road; also' Spanish Valley Drive, for-' merly . called the old highway, high-way, from Mill Creek to the county line. To Trade Roads The- engineering firm also included means of exchange ex-change of road responsibil- ilies between counties and state. It lvaN been propos-e.l propos-e.l that Cran.l county be igiven resiionsHiility for the road to old Sego town-site town-site (now on the Stale's system, but sorely neglected neglect-ed in malntnance). More if Needed 1. The survey firm calculated calcu-lated ovr the ntxt 15 yrs. an average of $-1.88 million mil-lion in additional revenues reven-ues would be produced annually an-nually by a one cent per gallon, tax. If additional funds were desired to accelerate ac-celerate 1lie highway improvement im-provement program, an increase in-crease in the automobile registration fee of ?5 would be tlie second most logical additional tax. Combined, Com-bined, the two sources of new , revenue would produce pro-duce $7.23 million per year for Utah mad building projects. The tax recommendation was based on the theory that the future economic development of Utah de-ponds de-ponds in large part on the development of a system of roads to promote commercial com-mercial and recreational travel. It was estimated Utah'1: state, county and city road costs for a 20 yen period totaled $G3,771,0uO. Of this amount, $36,194,000 is delegated as motor user responsibility; the remaining remain-ing $27,577,000 as genera! public responsibility. . The gas tax, the engineering engin-eering firm indicates, places pla-ces the responsibility for road building in the proper user category. locking for appropriate filming background for the picture. He plans to return re-turn next week with the director and producer for another look at 1he Lone Rock area southwest of Blue IIMI. Mr. Vallen said the picture pic-ture is .scheduled for filming film-ing late this month or early Nov. It is a picture of coimpara lively small scope, he noted, involving only some 50 Hollywood filming personnel. In addition, ad-dition, a few extras might be employed locally. Tlie company would be in Moab Mo-ab two or three weeks. Moab Movie Commit le': members, Norman Boyd, Manly Lincoln, and George White presented the country coun-try to the Universal scout. |
