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Show Fire prevention week proclaimed for Oct. 3-8 Paul Sjoblom, State Forester, Forest-er, would liketo remind all citizens that National Fire IVevention Wwik is from October Oct-ober 3 8. School teachers are urged to present fire prevention programs in their classrooms during the week. The programs pro-grams should deal with both structural and wildland fires. All citizens are urged to gain as much knowledge as possible in how to prevent wildfires from starting. Mr. Sjoblom would like to encourage all people to be careful when using fire during this year's deer hunting season. sea-son. He would also like to emphasize that even though next summer is a long way off, every person should strive to practice safety all year round both while enjoying the out-of out-of doors and also in the home. Commissioners in some counties hasve talked about using the money on new projects. However, the Taxpayers Tax-payers Association says that in keeping with the spirit of the legislation, the payments should he used to reduce property taxes. The Association's Associa-tion's letter continued, "We urge all county commissions to use this money to reduce property tax mill levies rather than to use it for new or previously unbudgeted projects." pro-jects." The plea came too late in Grand County, however. On Monday, Commissioners voted vot-ed to spend SIM.OOO of their new-found money to extend a sewer line from South Main in Moab southward to a point in the vicinity of Moab Lanes. If used to reduce prdperty taxes as the Taxpayers As- sociation recommended, the Grand County federal payment 1 of $340,574 would have provided pro-vided a mill levy reduction of approximately 8.4 mills. This would have saved the average homeowner about J67.49 per year, Utah Taxpayers Association Associa-tion analysts said. |