Show Duchesne Count County withholds withholds' withholds u it r I CUP conservancy district payment Duchesne County Commissioners Commissioners Commissioners Com Com- missioners upset with the management of the Central Utah Project have decided to withhold the county's annual tax payment to the Central Utah Water District The commissioners acknowledged last week they had hall ordered the county treasurer not to pay the district approximately collected from a special two mill tax Commission Chairman Loryn Ross said the felt the tax taxis taxis taxis is illegal since conservancy district board members are appointed by judges on the Wasatch Front not by the taxpayers of Duchesne County TilE THE said they felt the system amounts to taxation without representation since the people being taxed have no voice in the selection of those levying the tax Three of the 19 conservancy district board members are from Duchesne County but they are appointed by the judges A two-mill two tax is assessed by bythe bythe bythe the conservancy district in the 12 counties participating in the CUP with the collections going to district headquarters in Orem The Duchesne commissions commission's action came after Salt Lake County Attorney Paul Van Dam issued an an opinion that the conservancy district tax is unconstitutional because the board members are are appointed rather than elected But Commissioners Ross Rulon Anderton and Ray Thomas indicated the move is also an expression of dissatisfaction with the management of the CUP Weve been in the conservancy conservancy conservancy con con- district 15 years and we have paid in more than 1 million said Ross but the conservancy district hasn't really put very much back into this area He said the district has been pushing for completion of the Bonneville Unit of the CUP which will divert Duchesne County water to the Wasatch Front Anderton aid said the Upalco unit which would use some of the county's water for for the benefit of Duchesne residents is the one that should be built A Ake Akey Akey ke key part of that project is the Reservoir which I hasn't yet been funded he said Ross Hoss said the people of Duchesne County pay more per capita than the people of Salt Lake County for the CUP Clip 27 each per year compared to 5 |