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Show fccddtKlayrJanuary - PROVO Honk honk, quack quack, plink plink, OH OH! That was the fragile sound of legalized hunting Provo style when municipal officials allowed goose and duck hunting on East Bay Golf Course in December. ' Some people cried foul as geese and ducks began falling from the sky and area businesses had their windows shot out by errant shotgun pellets. Maybe looking more like a snafu than a brilliant idea, open season on geese, ducks and windows came to a close faster than you can say ready, aim, fire, ah shoot. Statewide .fowl season was already under way when the city allowed hunters on the golf course that's closed for golfing for the season. Hunting was opened at East Bay Dec. 1. Shortly thereafter, at least two reports of two businesses being hij, by gunfire were reported to Provo Police. Hunters were stopped from shooting on the golf course, confirmed Bob Stockwell, Provo's chief admin. . istrative officer. Geese had been a big, honking problem, course and city officials said. But apparently so were, the hunters. The goose problem wasn't pretty, city golf course officials Mike Lewis and Troy Watkins said last week," U seemed the birds were "messing" all over the course until golfers' pretty spiked shoes weren't so pretty anymore, . And just try putting your Ping on a green, around or between those lofig obstacles coming from the southern extremity of a northbound goose, "We probably had nearly 4,000 of them last year before the dog," Watkins said. The goose dog, a kind of a specialty bird dog, was brought in early last year. It was trained to chase but not devour the geese. The goose dog worked OK, but not perfectly. The dog cut our goose By JOSEPHINE ZIMMERMAN The Daily Herald Utah County commissioners have continued for one week to get approval of a contract to sell the old Utah County Jail andL Alcohol Recovery Center property at Ironton to Provo City for $1,3 PROVO - Police Chief PAYSON Michael Openshaw has promised to review memos with the city manager to avoid the rniscommu-ninitiothat resulted in his two-weesuspension in I M ember. n k lation about 75 percent," Watkins said. Stockwell estimated that there remained a core problem ofjtbout 400 geese. authorized City officials on the golf course as hunting were careful hunters as long and stayed far enough away from buildings to prevent them from being hit. A hunting license and adherence to Openshaw also assured the that his department would balance its budget, he would follow all orders from the City Council and city manager without complaint and let the animal control officer finish his remaining DARK classes on city time. Those points were among the policies Openshaw listed in a Dec. II) memo to the City Council addressing 12 concerns the city had wit h the chief. city Division of Wildlife Resources regulations were required. During the Christmas weekend, some hunters were hiding in the trees on a tiny island in a pond too near businesses on the east side of the golf course. That's when windows at a software company were shat- "I do understand the nature these directives and the purpose behind them. I appreciate the opportunity to have contin- of tered.. ued employment with Payson City and have committed myself to follow and uphold them while working with the city council," Openshaw said in the memo released to The Daily Herald on Monday. As far as city officials are concerned, the memo closes the case to their satisfaction. -- "We came to work early Monday (Dec. 27) and found our windows said shattered," of Warren Royall, multimedia Crystal Canyon, a software company located at 867 E. 2260 South, Provo, There were multiple-impac- t BB holes and fractures on the outside pane of a double-paner HMAS HWif HAI.IKIbt- Owly Herald Collateral damage: Shotgun pellet holes mark the windows of Crystal Canyon Interactive Information Architects in Provo's East Bay, The holes reportedly came from goose hunters at East Bay Golf Course, - e window, Royall said about four phone calls to the golf course still have not brought assurance that the city will pay for damages, Stockwell said that while the golf course is a municipal golf course, a contractor, Golf Links, is actually running the course and will be responsible for addressing any damage claims. Jerry Preisendorf at Golf Links said he had been on vacation. He said he is scheduled to contact people at the damaged businesses today to find out the "We haven't received the signed documents from Provo City." - MHV1RS The Daily Herald popu- County commissioners delay jail sale to Provo Jerry D. Grover. Commission Chairman million, JWe haven't received the may decide to turn the propersigned documents from Provo ty over to developers, to build said Commission to accommodate the Recovery City," Chairman Jerry D.'G rover. He Center, or to relocate it. It will said the Provo City Council be up to the city," While the sale contract may apparently has approved the be signed next week, actual sale, but the signed documents haven't yet been sent to the closing on the property will not county. The matter will be on take place until Dec. 31, 2000, This will allow the county to the commission's agenda Jan. of continue a.m. the in room 9 1400 It at operating Foothill Administration Center the County (an substance treatment facility), Building. Alcohol The Recovery until construction of a new, Center, operated by the Utah larger Foothill Center, adjaAlcoholism Foundation, leases cent to the new Utah County facilities at Ironton from the Security Center in Spanish county, Grover said the center Fork, is completed , That facilhai a lease, with ity is expected to be completed about 24 years still remaining in October, on the lease. When the sale On Dec, 31, 2000, Provo City contract is signed, the center will pay the county $260,000, facilities, the old jail and a the first of five payments due contract. the $1.3 parcel of vacant property will on ali, be transferred to Provo Equivalent amounts will be. Cjty intact, paid annually for the next four Commissioner Gary R, years. The sale will include Herbert said Provo City will nearly 16 acres at Ironton, take the county's place where including the old jail, the ARC the Alcohol Recovery Center and a parcel of vacant proper-ty- . (ARC) is concerned. They will take over the contract," "Essentially that will take .Whatever happens to the us out of Ironton, except for Ironton property will be up to the Animal Shelter, which is Provo City, Grover said. They not contiguous," Grover said. 50-ye- By DONALD W. we got The Daily Hcrld heniWcxtra torn). Provo, Utah details and assess exactly how much damage was done by hunters and who might ultimately have to pay for them, "I don't know. I mean, Links Management manages the course, but it was the city who opened it to a hunt," Preisendorf said. After the1 weekend incident, more gunfire erupted around 11:30 a.m. Dec. 27, Five HHs pocked four windows at Capsoft, a software company next door. Brad Capsoft employee Halverseh wild, "It sounded like a bunch. of gravel had been thrown against our windows. It made me mad someone was ho stupid to sh(xt in our direction from so close." Ilalversen phoned the; police. That Monday, city officials stopped the hunt. Asked if the city will allow goose hunting on the course again, St(x:kwell said that next hunting season, the city will reexamine its goose problem and determine if hunt ing can be part of the 'solution. "I assumed that he has continued to do what he was supposed to do, and if he hasn't, why then of course he knows, as in the old game of baseball, it's three strikes and you're out," Mayor Gordon Taylor said. Openshaw was suspended for two weeks in December for violating two of the 12 directives. The council found that he failed to balance the police budget after a grant didn't produce the funding expected, and he misled the council as to whether animal control officer Gary Thatcher was teaching DARK classes on his own time. He was reinstated after giving the council a memo addressing the 12 points. The Daily Herald obtained a copy of the memo after filing a request under the Records state Government Access and Management Act. Openshaw, in an earlier memo to the council, Thatcher anti-dru- g was teaching the abuse classes on his time off. However, City Manager Andy Hall said Thatcher was receiving compensatory time in return for his class work, which has to be accounted on the books as overtime pay. Taylor said the council had the impression that Thatcher was doing the classes as a volunteer while devoting full time duties. to his animal-contro- l The mayor said he didn't know how the department would handle the anti-druclasses in the future, but said it was something the council will look at this year. closed the Openshaw $70,000 police budget gap, created when a federal grant failed to generate projected revenue, by shaving one hour off each officer's pay each time period for the next six months and not replacing an officer who is retiring. "We all realize at the police department that this adjustment has cut us very thin for the rest of the year," Openshaw wrote in his memo. 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