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Show Gounfy sots up health plan, adopts $201,144 general fund budget two districts and hiring a county building inspector, but were hesitant about get ting into the ambulance business. busi-ness. (Continued on Page 2) Costs are expected to be much less than under theSW Health District. During the discussion, there was a heated exchange between Comm. Harris and Editor Wilson when Wilson recommended the Commission Commis-sion sever all ties with the FCAG, which is under the spell of executive director Neil Christensen. Harris, who expects to be the next chairman of the FCAG Steering Committee, accused Wilson of trying to defeat him in the 1976 elec-tio. elec-tio. Wilson replied that their differences were idealogical, and that while Harris was a supporter of the FCAG, he (Wilson) believed that it could not work in its present pres-ent form and that the members mem-bers of the Steering Committee Com-mittee were puppets to Neil Christensen and his bureaucratic bureau-cratic machine. As for the election, Wilson said that the candidates were not even chosen yet. Harris said a Wilson editorial edi-torial had indicated he opposed op-posed two fire districts in the county. Wilson pointed out there had been no editorial, edi-torial, and that the story had merely reported Harris had proposed a single district plan, to help pay off the Beaver City fire truck, and then after it was paid off, to help out the other fire departments. de-partments. The story re-ported re-ported that Commissioners Eyre and Roberts proposed and favored two districts. It was reported that the meeting of the Mayors and Commissioners on Nov. 20th had decided in favor of the Main item , of business at the Beaver County Commission Commis-sion meeting last Thursday, Dec. 4, was finalizing the County Health Plan, which is the final step towards an independent in-dependent county health district. dis-trict. The Commissioners voted last June to go it alone and withdraw from the Southwestern South-western Utah Health District, Dis-trict, at that time still associated as-sociated with the FCAG. The purpose for withdrawing withdraw-ing from the SW Health District Dis-trict was cost to the county and lack of service. The legislature, leg-islature, however, threw a curve when they passed the Comprehensive Health Bill last February and forced the County and anyone else affiliated af-filiated with the AOG Health Districts to continue until Dec. 31st of 1975. During the interim period, the SW Health District has had difficulty getting and keeping competent personnel and services were drastically drasti-cally curtailed. Beaver County had only half-time service from the county health nurse and for some time has had no sanitarian service at all. The new health plan will be similar to that in force before Beaver County join-, ed the FCAG Health District - in 1972. Dr. Symond wlirbe the County Health Officer, with Dr. Henrie as assistant, assist-ant, and Linley Jefferson is the County Health Nurse. The program is slightly expanded mainly in the field of immunization but presents no radical change over the plan the county has used for many years before the FCAG came along. Basically, the costs are provided one -third by the school district, one -third by the county, and one -third by the state. The county has been assured as-sured that they will be eligible eli-gible for all state benefits, with a base of $3,350.00, plus 19.22 cents per capita. This figures out to approximately approxi-mately $4156.00 per year. The only catch is that the county health plan meet certain cer-tain state criteria and be approved by the Southwestern Southwest-ern District Health Dept., according to a letter from Lila Jameson, coordinator community Health Services. entanglements. They agreed to endorse the Tree Cutters efforts to work out an equitable equit-able policy. They appointed Clarence Hutchingson as assistant Civil Defense Director. The DUP, with Alta Hickman Hick-man as spokesman and eight others in attendance, asked money 1 budgeted for painting paint-ing the trim and cornices of the old courthouse. They have len working hard inside in-side painting and fixing. Comm. Harris told them that the county had just learned that the rest of the Title X funds had teen cut off and that the $19,000 already al-ready received used on the new courthouse grounds was all they were going to get of the $135,000 promises. prom-ises. This includes the$G5,-000 the$G5,-000 allocated for County Fair buildings, roofing and repairing the old courthouse, and other work on the new courthouse. They agreed to come up with money for paint at least. The Nancy Kay Camp of the DUP asked permission to plant a tree on the new courthouse lawn and were told to consult the landscape map in the Clerk's office. HERE'S MORE ABOUT , . COMMISSIONERS The group also decided at the Nov. 20th meeting to have an 'alunite council' meeting and scheduled one for Thursday Thurs-day (tonight), Dec. 11, at the Minersville School- at 7:00 p.m. Neil Christensen met with the Commission at 10:00 a.m. to confirm all arrangements arrange-ments for the meeting. if they have to provide the service themselves. The Clerk was instructed to check into this possibility. The Comm issioners adopted adop-ted a general fund budget of $281,144.00, up from $232,-419.00 $232,-419.00 last year. The Commissioners cut the cloud seedingfrom $5000 to $2500, which will not actually ac-tually be a cut since the difference dif-ference will te paid out of this year's budget. They allowed al-lowed for a new sheriff's car, bicentennial celebration, celebra-tion, and the increased the county health budget, though part will be reimbursed from state and school funds, and raised the matching funds for the senior citizen program pro-gram to $1500.00. Special funds include revenue rev-enue sharing, $36,500; special spe-cial road, $114,000; collector collect-or road fund, $120,587.78; transient room tax, $7,724.-80; $7,724.-80; capital improvement, $78,791.03. Del Hollingshead met with the Commission representing represent-ing the newly-formed Tree Cutters Ass'n. The association associ-ation plans to present their grievances against the BLM and Forest Service tree cutting cut-ting policies which led to the arrest and conviction of several sev-eral Beaver County men. He said they hoped to create a model tree cutting policy and asked a letter of endorsement en-dorsement from the Commission. Com-mission. The Commissioners Commis-sioners were emphatic in stating their neutrality in the past action, but aknow-ledged aknow-ledged the need of the industry in-dustry in Beaver County and the need for a reasonable Christmas tree and post cutting cut-ting policy to avoid future Phyllis Symond, county social worker, met with the Comm ission about the lack of a sanitarian. Comm. Roberts said that Dr.Traftonhadmet with him and said the SW District Health could only afford to hire sanitarians for Washington and Iron counties and recommended that the three small counties, coun-ties, Beaver, Kane and Garfield, Gar-field, go together to hire their own. Wilson said that the state had always provided sanitarians sanitar-ians before the Health District Dis-trict got into the act and that if the SW District couldn't provide a sanitarian, the county should be eligible for their share of state funds |