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Show Nolle of Intention to Establish Grand County Special Service Water District NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN GIV-EN THAT ON June 20, 1977, the Board of County Commissioners Com-missioners of Grand County, Utah, adopted a Resolution declaring that the public health, convenience and necessity require the establishment estab-lishment of a Special Service District In said County, to be called "Grand County Special Service Water District" for the purpose of providing a water works collection, retention and wholesale delivery system within the boundaries of said Service District. Said Resolution Resolu-tion also provides for a public hearing on the establishment of said Special Service Distrct In the County Building In Moab, Utah at 10:00 a.m. on July 18, 1977. Description of Proposed District The boundaries proposed for said Special Service District Dis-trict would be the same as those of Grand County and would include all area within Grand County both incorporated incorporat-ed and unincorporated, except for lands lying within the existing boundaries as of the date hereof of the Thompson Improvement District and the Elgin Water and Sewer Improvement Im-provement District, which areas are expressly excepted from inclusion therein. The District would be located entirely within Grand County. Proposed Services The Grand County Special Service Water District shall provide water collection, retention re-tention and wholesale delivery through the construction of a water collection, retention and delivery system with necessary neces-sary appurtenances and equipment equip-ment therefor. Method of Financing Pursuant to the provisions of the Utah Special Service District Act, Utah Code Annotated, Sections 11-23-1 to -29, as amended, and Article XIV, Section 9 of the Utah Constitution, the Grand County Coun-ty Special Service Water District may annually impose fees and charges to pay for all or a part of the water services to be provided by said District. It may also annually levy taxes upon all taxable property within said District, to provide the proposed services, and may issue bonds for the acquisition and construction of ' said services, provided, however, how-ever, that said tax levy to provide said services, or to repay said bonds, must be authorized and approved by a majority of the qualified electors of the Special Service District at an election for that purpose. Public Hearing on Proposed Establishment of Special Service District The Board of County Commissioners Com-missioners will hold a public hearing on the establishment of the proposed Special Service Serv-ice District and the furnishing of the water services therein at 10:00 a.m. on Monday, the 18th day of July, 1977. Any Interested person may protest the establishment of the proposed Grand County Special Spe-cial Service Water District or the furnishing of water services ser-vices therein either orally at the hearing or in writing, at or . at any time prior to the hearing. Written protests must be filed with the County Clerk, and may be withdrawn by the protestant at any time before the Board of County Commissioners establishes or abandons the Special Service District. Any protest signed on behalf of a corporation owning property In the proposed Special Service District shall be sufficient If It is signed by the president, vice president, or any duly authorized agent of the corporation. Where title to any property Is held In the name of more than one person, all of the persons holding title to the property must Join In the signing of the protest. At said public hearing, the County Commissioners will give full consideration to all protests which shall have been filed and will hear and consider all Interested persons desiring to be heard. The Commission may continue the hearing from time to time. After conclusion of the hearing, hear-ing, the Commission shall adopt a resolution either establishing the Grand County 8pclal Service Water District Or determining th;jt the nil.ntj- lishment of said District should be abandoned, or may, in its discretion, reduce the boundaries of the proposed District and establish said District by resolution, as modified. If, within fifteen (15) days after the conclusion of the hearing, over fifty percent (50) of the qualified voters of the territory proposed to be included within the Special Service District file written protests against the establishment establish-ment of the proposed District with the County Clerk, the County Commission is required requir-ed by law to abandon the proposed establishment of said District. Any person who shall, at or any time prior to the date and time above-specified for the hearing, file a written protest with the County Clerk against the establishment of the Grand County Special Service Water Distrct and whose property has been included within the boundaries of the proposed District notwithstanding such protest, may, within thirty (30) days after the adoption of the Resolution establishing the District, apply to the District Court of the Seventh Judicial District for a writ of review of the actions of the Board of County Commissioners in establishing es-tablishing the Grand County Special Service Water District, only upon the grounds, however, how-ever, that his property will not be benefited by the water services authorized to be furnished by said District or that the proceedings taken in the establishment of the District have not been in compliance with law. A FAILURE TO APPLY FOR SUCH WRIT OF REVIEW RE-VIEW WITHIN THE PRESCRIBED PRE-SCRIBED TIME SHALL FORECLOSE ALL OWNERS OF PROPERTY WITHIN THE PROPOSED SPECIAL SERVICE SER-VICE DISTRICT SO ESTABLISHED ESTAB-LISHED FROM THE RIGHT FURTHER TO OBJECT THERETO. GIVEN by order of the Board of County Commissioners Commission-ers of Grand County, Utah, this 20th day of June, 1977. Leo L. Burr Commission Chairman ATTEST: Barbara Domenick County Clerk Published in The Times-Independent Times-Independent June 23 and 30, July 7 and 14, 1977. |