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Show r r,R I IT PfU-SORT -AV UTAH P RESS ASSOi'I T. A I' I ON E 300 S SIX, UT ft 4 1. 1.1. -2606 Inside WEDNESDAY, August 121992 Vernal. Utah 84078 100th Year No. 33 24 Pages Single Copy 50 Derby ends with crash. Page 20 Drowning victim found. Page 3 Dinosaur Day. Page 3, 8 y v. . 1. ? --v I .. . 1 '-'"'"""ft JF inn nmJrST' County rejects Food Pantry proposals The Ashley Valley Food Pantry is too full to be opened and volunteers will have to wait at least three weeks before they begin moving into a new facility. The Uintah County Commission Tuesday rejected three proposals for a new facility and will advertise for new proposals during the next three weeks. The county has a $57,000 Community Development Block Grant to provide a new facility for the food pantry. The present location loca-tion at 48 North 500 East is too small and the floor of the building is sinking. Of primary concern for a new facility fa-cility was location, between 500 East and 500 West and 250 North and 250 South; size, 2,000 square feet and cost, not to exceed $57,000. Three proposals were received before be-fore the deadline by the county and have been evaluated by the county commissioners. The proposal included: in-cluded: purchase and remodel a house at 229 North Vernal Avenue, $42,000; purchase a commercial property at 450 East 1200 South, $57,000 or build a new building at 455 West 100 North, 2,500 square feet, $57,000. County purchasing agent Dale Cameron recommended to the county, Tuesday, to accept the proposal pro-posal to build a new facility because of the drawbacks of the other proposals propos-als would push the cost over the $57,000 limit. Cameron said the house proposal would not bear the weight requirement require-ment for the storage of large quantities quanti-ties of food. The commercial property, prop-erty, the former Rattler Rope building, build-ing, would require about $15,000 to Boartil sets Dneainiinig four tiax DuSCce for qdD rebates In an emergency board meeting Thursday, the Uintah School Board voted to increase its property tax rate for 1992-1993 to .0077024. The increase is the result of an unanimous vote of the Board to increase in-crease the special transportation fund to .000122 taxing rate. Last year's special transportation tax rate was .00003. The special transportation transporta-tion fund is for transportation of students involved in extra-curricular activities. A home valued at $75,000 in the Uintah School District which based on last year property tax rate and budget paid $353.24 in property taxes would pay $378.29 if the district dis-trict docs not budget an increase in property tax and $386.88 if the proposed pro-posed increase in property tax revenues rev-enues is adopted. The board was going to wait until a public hearing Sept. 1 to approve BDadi bear sfluoti affieir we eh i r BLACK BEAR at Bassett Springs wrecked tents and tore up air mattresses after the campers left the site Thursday night when the bear made his first appearance. The bear was not intimidated by humans. COUNTY IS seeking a replacement for the grown its present Ashley Valley Food Pantry facility Ft A. .2 SIGN ON door advises that the Food Pantry is closed. be adequately insulated and provide electrical requirements. Commissioner Lorin Merrell said the county has informally been considering con-sidering a fourth proposal. The owner own-er of the Sather's Building, 62 East Main, missed the deadline for the proposal, but requested that the the special transportation fund budget, bud-get, but the Utah Tax Commission required approval of the budget by last week, said Richard Tolley, Uintah School District Business Manager. At the Sept. 1 public hearing, the district will take input on a proposal to increase its property tax revenue above last year's certified tax rate, from $8,831,981 to $9,032,521, a 2.3 percent increase. The $200,540 tax increase for the Uintah School District and $75,000 from existing programs, will be used to refund s property taxes to oil and gas producers pro-ducers and Descret Generation and Transmission, Tolley said. The oil and gas refunds are a result re-sult of the AMAX lawsuit. The DG&T refund is a result of any order by the Utah State Tax Commission. The school district actual property tax revenues will decrease from ft t M 7U i r f. J v, 2 &Bzm that has out ty is temporarily room. county consider their proposal. The building would provide 3,000 square feet on the main floor. Owners of the building said they would negotiate the price to allow for improvements to the facility to meet the requirements require-ments of the Food Pantry. Initial concerns con-cerns were about the Food Pantry being be-ing located on Main Street because of the amount of waste. About a third of the food the Pantry receives is spoiled and has to be thrown out. To formally consider the Sather's building, the county would be required re-quired to reject all bids and advertise adver-tise for three weeks for proposals. Commissioner Lorin Merrell said that county money is being spent on the project and every option should be considered to wisely use taxpayer's taxpay-er's money. Merrell made the motion mo-tion to reject the bids and allow other oth-er proposals. Velma Phillips, Food Pantry president, presi-dent, said she expected to move into 2.51 budget change $9,573,436 collected in 1991 to $9,032,521 projected in 1992. The school district's total budget will decrease from $26,543,313 to $25,877,892, a change of 2.51 percent. per-cent. The Uintah School Board has requested re-quested budgets from principals for this year's use of the special transportation trans-portation funds. The total increase for the special transportation fund, for negotiations and decreased valuation is .0006454 taxing rate or 3.227 mills. In 19921993 one mill represented $260,000. The total adjustment to the county in assessed value because be-cause of oil and gas adjustments is $143,118,036. The public hearing will begin at 7 p.m.at635 W.200S. by Steven Wallis Express Editor A 250-pound black bear, believed to have several encounters with humans hu-mans in the East McKee area, was shot Friday night by a camper concerned con-cerned for the safety of his family. Mike Robinson of Vernal shot the bear shortly after he and his family began locating a campsite in the East McKee area, near the Slringham Historical Cabin. Within IS minutes of getting out of their vehicle, the bear came down the road. "It didn't take us long to get back into the truck," said Jodi Robinson. The bear stayed around the truck and would not leave until the engine was revved up several times. "It went a short distance away, but came back as soon as the noise died building on 500 East. The facili- closed because of lack enough the Rattler Rope Building this week. Because of the delay in securing se-curing a new building, she said there is some uncertainly as to when the Food Pantry will reopen. The pantry has been closed for a week because there is no room in the pantry to operate. "We need volunteers to help move the food to another location that we will have to rent," Phillips said. "Presently volunteers are frustrated by the delay in securing a new building." Commission Chairman Max Adams said he could appreciate the situation of the Food Pantry volunteers, volun-teers, "but there is nothing I can do about it." Commissioner Glen McKee seconded sec-onded the McrreH's motion and the motion passed. New times set for The first day of school in the Uintah School District will be Aug. 31, and officials are expecting much the same as last year. Presently bus routes will remain the same as last year. Students not eligible for busing under state guidelines will be transported as long as there is available room on the bus. Students in hazardous areas will be picked up as they have been in the past. Secondary school buses will be running at approximately the same time as last year. Due to changes in school starting time and reduction in bus personnel, elementary school bus pickup-times will change. The time change can be discussed at school registration Aug. 19 and 20 with the transportation officials. There will be maps, approximate limes for pickup, and answers to questions at registration. No kindergarten students will be bused to and from school for the first three days in order to allow for bus routing adjustments. Check at registration to determine kindergarten kinder-garten school hours. Students new off moDesftoong cammpeErs down," Mrs. Robinson said. Mike Robinson retrieved a rifle from the camper on the pickup and exited the vehicle to scare the bear away. When the bear would not scare, Robinson shot it with a 7mm rifle and killed it at about 8:15 p.m. The Robinsons returned to Vernal and reported the incident at about 11 p.m. Keith Day, DWR non-game officer, said the shooting of the bear was justified. Robinson was not cited. cit-ed. "We were just one step behind him," said Day. A bear sighting in the area was first reported in the Deer Lodge Cabin area west of SR 191. July 26, near midnight, the residents at the Batty cabin were awakened by a bear that was going through their garbage cans. Monday evening the bear went north to Lodgcpolc campground camp-ground where he dug up some water Jurisdiction IHlDjiDfiGir To avoid jurisdictional confusion, the Federal District Court granted the Ute Tribe an injunction against a ruling by the Utah Supreme Court which would allow the state control inside the reservation. The Utah 'Sunreme Court ruled two weeks ago that the state had jurisdiction ju-risdiction in the Myton area where Clinton Perank was found guilty of burglary. In 1985 the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the Ute Tribe had jurisdiction over the original boundaries bound-aries of the Ouray, Uintah and Uncompahgre reservations, land which was opened to homesteaders in 1905. The ruling last month by the state court conflicts with the Federal 10th Circuit Court. The injunction is effective until Nov. 6 when the court has scheduled sched-uled a hearing on the Tribe's motion to permanently enjoin the state and its political subdivisions from interfering inter-fering with the tribe's exercise of jurisdiction ju-risdiction within the reservation boundaries. The 1985 10th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the tribe's reservation reser-vation was comprised of approximately approxi-mately 4.4 million acres of Indian and non-Indian owned land in the Uintah Basin. July 17, the Utah Supreme Court issued a conflicting decision in State v. Perank. In that decision, the state court ruled that the reservation had been diminished to include only 1.1 million acres of land held in trust by the United Uintah School District Starting Times 1992-93 School Year School Start Time Let-Out Time Ashley 9:15 a.m 3:35 p.m. Central 8:05 a.m 2:15 p.m. Davis 9:15 a.m 3:35 p.m. Discovery 9:15 a.m 3:35 p.m. Lapoint 8:30 a.m 2:45 p.m. Maeser : 9:15 a.m 3:35 p.m. Naples 9:15 a.m 3:35 p.m. Todd 8:20 a.m 2:35 p.m. Learning Center 9:15 a.m 3:15 p.m. Vernal Middle School 8 a.m 2:25 p.m. West Middle 8:20 a.m 3:15 p.m. Vernal Junior High 8 a.m 2:35 p.m. Uintah High 7:55 a.m 2:45 p.m. AVHS 7:30 a.m 10 p.m. Union (Duchesne County) 8:30 a.m 3 p.m. to the Uintah School District need immunization records during registration. regis-tration. New students to the district at Uintah High School will register from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Aug. 19 and 20. All other students at UHS will drain lines, pushed over some tents and got into some coolers, Officer Day said. A bear trap was set up at the Lodgcpolc Campground, but the bear never relumed. Thursday night, the bear came into in-to a camp near Bassett Springs. "Before we went to bed we heard noises and some cookies were missing, miss-ing, but we did not think anything about it," said Kenny Wochrmann of Vernal. The Wochrmanns along with the Brcnda Jorgcnscn family were camped in the same area. "At about 11:30 I went to bed," said Wochrmann. "I heard noises outside the tent at about 12 midnight, mid-night, and spotted the bears eating a watermelon out of our cooler on the picnic tabic." Jorgcnscn said she got in a vehicle and honked the horn and flashed the (Doacrft dh)aias Slates for the benefit of the Ute Indian Tribe. "The importance of this case is of prime concern to tribal members," said Larry Ccsspooch, Director Ute Tribe Public Relations Department. Members of the Ute Indian Tribe who live, work and make purchases off trust land would be subject to state sales and income taxes under the Utah Supreme Court's ruling. The 10th Circuit Court ruling exempts ex-empts tribal members from paying taxes in the expanded boundaries of the reservation. Also merchants in Roosevelt, Duchesne and Myton would have been in violation of state law if they failed to collect sales taxes on purchases pur-chases made by tribal members, but in violation of federal law if they collect state sales taxes. In an unprecedented move, the Utah Supreme Court Tuesday, Aug. 4, issued an order postponing the entry of final judgment in the Perank case until the federal district court rules on the Tribe's motion for a permanent injunction against the state. The federal district court is expected to make a final ruling on the tribe's request for a permanent injunction by early December. Chief Justice Gordon Hall and Justice Zimmerman agreed that postponing entry of final judgment in the Perank decision meant that no lower state court could rely on that decision as a basis for exercising jurisdiction ju-risdiction over Indians, said tribal attorney Richard Thompson of Boulder, Colo. schools register from 12 noon to 7 p.m. Aug. 19 and 20. Registration packets pack-ets will be mailed out this week to UHS students. The registration forms for UHS students should be completed and returned during registration. reg-istration. lights to scare the bear away, but he did not go very far. Because the bear did not leave the area, the two families gathered up the food, while Mr. Wochrmann keep an eye on the bear, and they left the area. They left their tents with the door open hoping the bear would leave them alone. When they returned, the bear had pushed over the tents, tore several sever-al of the tents, and ripped up air mattresses mat-tresses inside the tents. "I think the bear had been there for some time, because we kept hearing noises," Wochrmann said. Camping with Wochrmann was his daughter Laci. With Jorgcnscn were daughters, Megan, Jessica, Robyn; her son, Justin and her niece Morisa. The Division of Wildlife Resources was in the process of Continued on page 8 |