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Show j u The Beaver County Commission Com-mission "got both barrels : on wilderness proposals last Thursday as Stan Elmer, Utah State Dept. of Natural resources met with the board and requested their position on wilderness. Then Floyd Bartlett, local ranger from the Beaver District Dis-trict office stopped by with maps, and urged their input. He stated that since most of the wilderness in the Fish-lake Fish-lake National Forest was in the Six County area, that Beaver County had had little The Commission was em -Dhatic in Drocosine no wild- erness at all (alternate B) as they andtheAssociationof Counties had voted at their recent confab in Salt Lake City. Bartlett was quizzed extensively ex-tensively as' to "what measures mea-sures were being taken, and the Forest Service policy of holding open houses instead of public hearings was chall- . enged. Bartlett said he had conducted con-ducted a public meeting in Beaver County and no one showed up. He said he had written 100 letters to individuals indiv-iduals and organizations, and received only one reply. The Commission expressed ex-pressed the opinion that people peo-ple were tired of public pub-lic meetings, where it seemed as if the agencies 'had already made up their minds, and weren't concern -with local imput, no transcripts trans-cripts taken or changes made in the proposal. " Bartlett explained the three wilderness areas which are all or partially in Beaver County are Cir-cleville Cir-cleville Mountain 16,520 acres; Bullion - Delano, 12,600 acres; and Tushar Mountain which has 37,820 acres. The Forest Service has proposed 130 wilderness areas. Editor Wilson asked Bartlett Bar-tlett if in fact, he himself, one of the most knowledgeable knowledge-able people on the proposed wilderness, had added his own personal opinions, or made individual comment. Bartlett admitted he hadn't and that he wouldn't. He indicated that selection of wilderness areas had been done according to criteria cri-teria set fQrth by bureaucratic bureau-cratic regulations, and that no other imput was made by -the district, or himself. He did not feel free to add his own feelings. Lee Pettey and Marion Walker, representing Milford Mil-ford City, requested the (Continued on page 2) 1 in Fvf"hPrt f 1 Ttn ?r I I VJ ft ''IN b 1TMI4 U'jm, I tsvLlAI u ) - 1 p"turV ' ! L- jpa 1 I "jvj L V-p '. 1-. 4 1 f jb-$ :? j 1 fy&y' Ujjv I I A-'f 'Pe"h Vl122 r (' 1 ; v-' Xf, ' V", Lake Cr..k V ' --Tvl-j v k si I v . . if -j I : ,-L-aKe-X.Jisnls H 1 - - fi wr-rrr-'-vM"-! r1 1 ?F'. LTTt' ff a T S 1 trt' 1 Cr J I -s Vmo" . vv ', StdardlS i I'lUTlE COU,NTY " Tft T- "T 1 r" N (6RFIELjD COUNTY I - V v 11 I I three months ago. In a letter from the State Tax Commission, the Commission Com-mission was informed that Hospital Service District II was not acceptable and that when the next mill levy is set, it would not be allowed to include Milford and Minersville. The district was originally set up under an old law that was declared unconstitutional, unconstit-utional, and later a new law was passed. The case was taken to the Supreme Court and the district was allowed to stand. Now the state wants the Commission to change it to conform with present laws which would bring it under direct control con-trol of the County Commission Com-mission instead of the Board of Trustees. The Commission referred to the Attorney to see if the previous pre-vious Supreme Court decision de-cision would still hold up. They also will contact the Board of Trustees to see what their feelings are in the matter. Larsen met with the board to discuss a model agreement agree-ment on City -County Health Dept. Milford and Minersville Miners-ville have agreed to participate parti-cipate fully with the county, but Beaver City agreed only to allow the sanitarian to involve in-volve himself in food services. ser-vices. He is limited to food handling inspections no more than once every six months and food handling classes. Wally Gregersen requested request-ed permission for the trap club to place a trailer on their site for a clubhouse. He was referred to the zoning zon-ing administrator for approval. ap-proval. Johnson moved to reopen negotiations on fencing U-21 with District 5 Highway Engineer En-gineer and BLM as soon as possible. The Commission accepted accept-ed the recommendations of the Planning Commission to approve two petitions for re -zoning. The Planning Com -mission had also recommended recom-mended denying a plat from u.l.h'.i''. tor a ary subdivision subdi-vision in South Creek. Buhannan and Kiaoa, two of the developers representing G.I.F.F., were present to argue ar-gue their case for the dry subdivision, and said they had people wanting to build now. The Commissioners took the matter under advisement, and tabled a decision de-cision on it until the next meeting on October 5th. Senior Citizens represented repre-sented by Hyrum Tolley, Warren Atkin, Freida Wood, and Theo Marshall said that they needed a contract agreement on use of the County Fair Building to get approval for funding for equipment. The Senior Citizens in the county will use the fair building for many of their functions. George Rich, Beaver Precinct Pre-cinct JP requested more part-time help to help him catch up the work in his office. of-fice. The Commission agreed to allow one person half-time through September. Septem-ber. Clair Lee requested the County pay the dues to the Five County Advertising Council of $3004.00. He said this years budget was $60,-000.00. $60,-000.00. He asked that the Commission appoint two members to the Advertising Council, and said he'd continue con-tinue to serve. He said Craig Davis had been appointed chairman of the county committee, and they needed members from Milford and Minersville. Scott Bulloch met with the board and said the environmental environ-mental impact statement needs to be updated for the Minersville -"Mil'ford road project. He expects the project pro-ject to be ready to go by Februray 1979. Johnson moved, and the board instructed, Atty. Christensen to prepare the maximum mill levy referendum referen-dum for Fire District II for the general election. They agreed to participate in the cloud seeding program another year at a cost of $3477. They also approved $722 for the 208 water quality qual-ity planning, and said application appli-cation for a grant from the FCRC (Four Corners Regional Re-gional Commission) for a feasibility study of geother-mal geother-mal power, had been made. FOREST SERVICE WILDERNESS AREAS HERE'S MORE ABOUT COMMISSIONERS Commission form a recreation recrea-tion district along the lines of Fire District II boundaries, boundar-ies, to purchase the golf tourse at Milford and to pro -vide for other recreational needs of Western Beaver County. After consideration, the request was tabled. Only one person was present to speak at the public pub-lic hearing to extend Fire District boundaries. Tom Dover, Beaver fire chiefand a member of the District I Advisory Board said that while they hated to lose the valuation, that they supported support-ed the change in the boundaries bound-aries so they were more conducive con-ducive to Service by Fire District II. The board then approved the change which will put the boundary as near as possible along the top of the Mineral Range. Fire District I will cover the east side of the range and District Dis-trict II the west. Dr. Isaacson or the State Health Dept. presented a letter let-ter he had written, stating that the state required the Sanitarian to be on the merit system. However, he said this was only for the county's protection to 'establish the sanitarian as a qualifiedper-son qualifiedper-son and did not bind them on wages or in any other way. Mervin Reed, state Sanitarian Sanit-arian and O. Drew Larsen, County Sanitarian also met with the board to discuss the duties of the sanitarian and areas in which Reed felt were often neglected. Larsen was hired as Sanitarian, San-itarian, building inspector, and zoning administrator |