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Show Sheriff Nelson reported to the Commissioners last Thursday, that Beaver County could possibly hook up with Richfield for 24 hour dispatching service by purchasing pur-chasing pagers, and hooking up to a watts line to the Sevier County Sheriff's Department. Cost of the pagers would be approximately $2,600, and the watts line would cost $450 plus $55.00 per month. He thought grants would be available for approximately $1300 for the pagers. He suggested the Com -mission provide funds for one more deputy to start with, and with staggered shifts, they could cover the jail from 6:00 a.m. to 2:00 a.m. This would still leave a gap of four hours when the jail would be unattended probably the worst four hours in so far as the possibility pos-sibility of a jail break or other prisoner-related liabilities. lia-bilities. County Attorney, John Christiansen, related that an escape was not as big a problem to him, as the possibility pos-sibility of something happening happen-ing to a prisoner while the jail was unattended. County ClerkDotson asked about transferring all prisoners to a regional jail. Nelson said it would cost $18 per day. Dotson suggested sug-gested that could be cheaper than running our own jail. Joe Benson and Lt. Rynearson, of the Highway Patrol, also talked to the Commission about 24 hour coverage, andhow valuable it was to have someone on duty at night to accept bail. They 1 felt the worst hours were from 8:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m., when coverage was needed most. ' Rynearson noted that with no deputy on duty, and if the JP was not available, they just issued a ticket, with a mail -in form. In the past, , they have had about 93 percent per-cent collection, but in doubtful doubt-ful cases, they tried to take the individual in to post bail. They noted no bail had been collected by the sheriff's office of-fice in January. Dotson reported that the number of cases was down over the previous year. Last year the Beaver Precinct had a total of 380 cases, compared to abut 340 this year in January. This was attributed to the unusually severe winter driving conditions. con-ditions. The Commissioners said they recognized the situation, situ-ation, but there was no money available to do anything now. They said they'd look at the situation in the next budget. Drew Larson, county sanitarian, sani-tarian, reported on the Board of Health meeting, and humorously reported that they had suggested that a sign be posted in the jail stating, "being in this jail could be Injurious to your health." They also set inspection in-spection fees for septic tanks and drainfields at $10.00 per inspection. Several other items were discussed. Phyllis Symond, county social worker, discussed public assistance for stepchildren, step-children, and reported on her office functions. A bill before be-fore the Utah legislature, if passed, would eliminate public pub-lic assistance to dependent children, and place the burden bur-den on natural and stepparents. step-parents. She said a closer check will be made on transient tran-sient assistance. Ron Larson met with the board about who will be the new fire warden. Deputy Fotheringham will not serve in this capacity again this year. The Commission, on a motion by Johnson, instructed in-structed the Sheriff to use one of his personnel to fill this position. It was decided to use available avail-able funds to fence U-21 for about five miles from Minersville to the reservoir, as far as it will go. It was felt that though more car-cow car-cow accidents are on the road from Minersville to Milford, that there was not enough money to be effective effect-ive in that area, and that it would just trap animals on the road. They will proceed with that portion as monies become available. Blake Sm 1th outlined a plan for the Forest Service to work out an agreement with BLM to manage about 10,000 acres in a reseeding program, contiguous to Forest Service land. The Forest Service can start this year, and BLM has all their funds tied up, (Continued on Page 4) River at Minersville. The project will be ready if funds become available. Appointments were made to the MVM Hospital Board of Trustees, Weed Board, Planning Commission, Board of Adjustment, Advertising Ad-vertising Committee, Library, Li-brary, Council on Aging, Fire Districts Advisory Boards I and II. The JP precincts were discussed, including case loads and salaries, and cost per case. In 1978 the Milford Mil-ford precinct handled 123 cases at a cost of $9.76 per case; Minersville 37 cases at a cost of $24.32 per case, and the Beaver precinct 3980 cases at a cost of $4.20 per case. Fines and forfeitures were Milford, $2,890; Minersville, $689; and Beaver $95,840. HERE'S MORE ABOUT Commissione rs and could not begin planning plan-ning until about 1985. The project would include approximately ap-proximately 2300 acres of Forest Service land and 10,-000 10,-000 of BLM land. He asked the Commission for support of the project as he felt the project could gain approximately approxi-mately 4200 AUM's and greatly assist cattlemen permittees in the area. The Commissioners signed a petition supporting the agreement between the two agencies. As a result of a transportation trans-portation meeting, Bullock Engineering has been hired ' to do the engineering on a new bridge over the Beaver |
