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Show Revenue Sharing Calls Officials for Seminar New members of the County Commission and County Clerk Barbara Domenick attended a workshop on revenue sharing held in Logan last weekend in conjunction conjunc-tion with annual Com-, Com-, missioners Workshops. At the revenue sharing portion of the meet, Mrs. Domenick reported that the group was told that funds derived from revenue re-venue sharing may be used for all County functions func-tions which are not already al-ready receiving Federal monies. This would exclude ex-clude such matching fund projects as reconstruction reconstruc-tion work on Canyonlands Field. In addition the money mo-ney may not be used for support of public schools. The County will be receiving re-ceiving its payment for the first half of 1972 during dur-ing the first week of Dec. They will receive payment pay-ment for the second half of 1972 during the first part of January. Thereafter, There-after, payment will be made quarterly. Monies derived by the County must be set for projects within 24 months after they are received. re-ceived. Even though the money is not used during the 24 month period, it must be appropriated to some project. Mrs. Domenick reported re-ported that officials at the meeting indicated that although the monies received from revenue sharing could be used for lowering taxes, that is not the primary purpose pur-pose of the funds and in most cases using the money for this purpose will result in a lower appropriation ap-propriation the following year. Any monies, Mrs. Domenick said, used for a project which is exempt ex-empt from use of revenue reve-nue sharing funds must be repaid to the federal government in full plus 10 per cent. On Nov. 30, Grand County officials will have a chance to ask questions concerning the new money mo-ney program to federal personnel in Washington. The meeting will be held via closed circuit television tele-vision and Moab has been selected as the site for the viewing in southeastern southeas-tern Utah. It is expected that officials from neighboring neigh-boring counties will also be on hand for the question ques-tion and answer period. |