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Show Ne w facility furnishing OK'd FARMINGTON The Davis County Commission Wednesday approved $150,000 for system furnishings fur-nishings for the new county jail complex. The commission voted in favor of the expenditure to ensure an 8 percent discount for the purchase of furnishings to save the county $12,000. The county had only budgeted $150,000 for all interior furnishings for the new facility and will now have to look elsewhere for other furniture funding sources. According to Davis County employee VerNon Griffeth, the three areas needing furnishings include in-clude the sheriffs department, the county attorney's offices and the courts. The courts furnishings are estimated to cost about $150,000 Commission Chairman Gayle A. Stevenson said the taxpayers should be assured that none of the items being be-ing discussed are top of the line. "They are all standard type furnishings fur-nishings not 4Taj Mahal.' It's the same furniture that is now in use by all county departments," he said. The commission decided to allocate the funding to obtain the discounted savings, but will look at ways to hold costs down for the other needed need-ed furnishings. Lawrence asked for a more detailed list from the county attorney's at-torney's office of the estimated $1 17,000 sought for furniture. In other action, Steve Rawlings, Davis County accountant from the auditor's office, asked the commis sion to approve a budget transfer of three items. Some $7,500 was proposed pro-posed to be taken from salaries and transferred for medical supplies for paramedics. Rawlings also suggested taking $25,000 for 911 telephone line expenditures ex-penditures and another $1,500 for ambulance vehicle maintenance, both from salaries. The commission OK'd the transfers. The commission also passed a resolution declaring the month of November as Alzheimer's Disease Awareness Month." Two of the three commissioners related personal experiences of relatives stricken with Alzheimer's and supported sup-ported any action that would increase in-crease greater community awareness of the disease. which will be reimbursed by the state. The county attorney's estimate was for $117,000 and the sheriffs will be $168,854. The total of $286,625 is about $136,000 more than is budgeted for new furniture. The commission also approved the courts share which will be replaced by the state funds. The county officials asked the interior designers of the complex to go back to the drawing board on the other furnishings and be more specific on what is really needed. "The county can't afford first rate color-coordinated furnishings,' fur-nishings,' Commissioner Robert D. Rose said. "We may have to take some of the furniture we already have to the new building." "The system furnishings just cover the essential needs to stock the new building," Griffeth said. Jerry Hess, representing the county attorney's office, added that his department just wants to maximize max-imize the use of the area and vowed to stick to the responsibility to taxpayers tax-payers to keep costs down. Commissioner William (Dub) Lawrence reminded the county officials much of the furniture owned own-ed by the county hasn't been upgraded for several years. He also added that the furniture taken to the new building will need to be replaced replac-ed by other departments moving into the old areas. "I'm frustrated by the dilemma to spend more than we have budgeted, but we are well past the time to hold the line. The county has made the decision to build the new facility, and it must be properly furnished," he said. |