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Show The Times - lndependent, Thursday, March 6, 1980 Goblin Valley area V use closed to ORclosure will be in effect Final grievance meet held by City City stated that the also The group Moab Councilmen ployees Keith Brewer and Dave equipment used in the White met with em city office is outdated and ployees of the citys ad- in poor repair. One ministrative department remarked that it is difto hear complaints and ficult to get service for suggestions Wednesday, the older machines. The Feb. 27. The meeting was question was raised as to the third in a series held when a computer would with employees in recent be purchased for billing weeks. and bookkeeping. of those Several Councilman White said present at the meeting that sufficient funds for a stated that they are hap- computer system had not py with their work, and been budgeted for this had no major complaints. year. He added that the One of the employees Council has not reached a praised the Council for decision on what type of recent efforts to improve computer to buy. He communications with em- stated that from will probably be ployees. One worker suggested included in next years that, the Council in- budget for a computer. $12-$20,00- vestigate the possibility of forming a grievance committee, which would have some members from outside city government. Similar suggestions were made at two prior meetings with the Police and Utilities Departments. Councilman Brewer remarked that such a suggestion had been made to the other Council members, but that it hadnt gotten very far. The comment was made that employees should be able to take pride in working for the city, adding that the situation had improved since the recent pay raise authorized by the Council. One employee commented that Council members should take an interest in the operation of city departments. Brewer stated that the Council has discussed assigning one Councilman as liaison for each department. Councilman Keith Peterson volunteered to act as liaison with the Police Dept, at a Council meeting Feb. 19. No other I 'i i assignments have yet been made. I Several rt- of the em- - 0 discussed having In response to complaints from visitors to Goblin Valley and consultation with the Utah State Division of State Parks and Recreation, the Moab District of the BLM is implementing a temporary off road vehicle closure of 20 acres adjacent to the entrance to Goblin Valley State Reserve. This is located in requests from Council members go through the Mayor or City ministrator, rather than directly to city employees. White commented that this would allow the Mayor to set priorities for work to be Ad- -' done. The employees also discussed vacation and sick leave schedules. The comment was made that until June 1, 1980. Maps showing the closed area are available in the Price Area Office and the Moab District Office. Quilting will be discussed at Mar, 11 meet Utah State University g Service is Extension south-centrEmery a program quilting County. The east slope of on Tuesday, March 11, at Wild Horse Butte and the 7:30 pm at the SUCCE flat area west of the in the Goblin Valley entrance building located Plaza. Desert road will be closed. Video tape programs This emergency closure on such is a result of the area will be presented to How as: design being heavily impacted topics to How a quilt, quilt, from dumpage of human "How to select fabrics for waste, trash, and the a How to and quilt, destruction of vegetation, finish the edges of a quilt along with erosional The Utah State problems. This temporary properly. Extension SerUniversity vice Quilt contest will be MUSEUM EXHIBIT discussed, and there will a The Moab Museum will question-answperiod at continue to exhibit a the close of the program. For additional informadisplay if railroad artifacts collected by Lyle and tion, contact the Utah Lois Jamison through State University ExtenMarch. This exhibit was sion Service office located also featured during Feb- in the basement of the CourtCounty ruary. The exhibit in- Grand or call house, cludes models, old rails, spikes, and photographs ATTENDED WEDDING of trains. The Jamisons Ross Thomson and began their collection daughter Mrs. Vail (Betabout eight years ago. sy) Hatt, returned last week from San Antonio, held concerning the work Texas, where they attendparty on the park project ed the across from the SE 23rd ofwedding on Feb. Kellie Lewis, school. A work party was of daughter Mardy and on hand, Saturday, March William Lewis and K (Bill) be will second 1, and a held on this coming granddaughter of Mr. Saturday, March 8. Thomson, to Stephen Facilities to be provided Zachary Novier. in the park are to be paid for by funds from last TO FRUITA Mrs. Manuel (Rose) years Radio Auction, the spon-serin- an improved schedule might reduce employee al turnover. Leap Year dance held The Fallen Arches An investigation of the Transwestern crash was conducted by the Grand County dance club hosted Sheriffs office, assisted by Highway Patrol troopers. Pilot Thomas Dale Moulton Two employees asquare leap year dance, (second from the right,) told investigators that the right engine lost power shortspecial remarked that they had 29, at ly after takeoff . been hired below the rate Friday, February Southeast Elementary. specified in the citys per- Twenty-fiv- e sonnel manual, adding were in atthat a raise granted by couples tendance. the city to all employees The last year had brought dancers visiting square represented the them only to the level at Circle 8 club of Cortez, the There were no serious pact crumpled the nose of of damage to the plane which they should have Pinwheelers of injuries in the forced land- the plane, collapsed the has been given and the Pinyon been hired. The salary Nucla, the Melon Busters of a Transwestern nose wheel and caused cause of the power loss upgrading was authorized of Green River, Dove ing Airlines Piper Chieftain damage to the wings, has not yet been deterin an executive Council Creek and Grand Juncmined. The crash Friday, Feb. 29, shortly engines and propellers. session July 3. tion. Caller Dee Cox from after None of four the from at 12:18 p.m. takeoff Under the recommen- Cortez, Co. called dances suffered Canyonlands passengers Airport. dations accepted by the that were enjoyed by According to a report serious injury, although Lloyd Pierson Council at the session, afand experi- from the Grand County some received bumps and beginners ter salary adjustments enced dancers alike. spoke Sheriffs office, the plane scrapes. All four, none of are made and budgeted Several were whom from were spectators Moab, Rotary meet lost power in the right for, only those employees the engine, shortly after were taken to Allen present throughout Rotary President Lloyd in the probation period and are always takeoff. Due to power Memorial Hospital by Pierson presented the evening receive raises during the welcome at club dances, lines and hills near the Grand County ambulance program for March 3, year, and only after an held each Friday evening runway, pilot Thomas for checkups. Two of the 1980. It was a tape appraisal has been made at Southeast Elementary Dale Moulton, 28, of passengers complimented recording of a humorous and the raise justified. at 7:30 p.m. Logan, elected to land Moulton on his handling radio broadcast about the The end of the probation the north of the runway, of emergency discoveries in America period does not mean that JUVENILE HELD to rather than situation. made several centuries attempting was will be A Moab juvenile the employee return to the field. An hence by some African was advanced Police Moab investigation automatically picked up by Descending from an conducted by Sheriff Jim anthropologists. One to the next step. An ad- in connection with an ditional recommendation incident Monday, March estimated altitude of 200 Nyland and Chief Deputy discovery that they made the plane touched Lynn Izatt, assisted by was that we called accepted by the Council 4. The youth ft., down Patrol troopers, selves USAns, while they 3 again 729 ft. at the July meeting was stopped by Police states that the City while allegedly riding a beyond the north end of The downed craft was believed that the the runway. The Chieftain Council must approve any Kawasaki by members of minology should have 80, which had continued an additional the Sheriffs Posse, until been WEuns. To be fully forthcoming radio aucand all raises after the been reported stolen by 963 ft. on the ground FAA over is appreciated, the tape tion this year and subprobation period Julie Day of Moab. The before hitting a ditch and arrived investigators after- - must be heard, and the employee is conSaturday sequent fund raising was held, pending coming to a stop. The im-- noon. 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