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Show ffhr Pago A2 (Titms-3)nbfprubr- Thursday, February 17, 2000 nt Search is on for funds to remodel old middle school Franklin Seal staff writer by When Moab City partnered with Grand County and the (irand County Public l.ibrary to take over the old noddle sthool they building on Center Strx-t, knew they would have to raise a lot of money to fund the needed renovatioriN That amount is currently estimated to lie alxiut $2 7 million that the deal to acquire the property from the (irand Now County Scluxil I list rut has lieen agreed to in principle, the search lor renovation money is gather mg moment uni The tilt's first move was to hire .Janet I.owe, hairja rsoii of the library Isiard Her duties for the city include several other tasks in the citys planning and omng department, hut one of her primary jolx- - for the working as past moot) has a grant writer raising funds for the middle si Iiiki! project ( )n Keh she submitted her first two grants The grants ask for a little more than $ ,000 to pay for two studio one, a structural arid engineering analysis, the other, an architect ural study A lot of people have said this hoildmg has problems, hut so far, nolxxiy has sjx.nt the money to find out," Ixiwe said "All signs are the building is built like a " ship I .owe estimates the full cost of the studies will run about $15, 500 The plan is to have the library make up tin remainder of the cost from a $1 0,000 anonymous donation received last fall. That is. if the city gets the grants Hut it will lie months .owe learns whether those funds will lie awarded The library also has about $81,000 in a special account set up to fund its building renovation costs, and library Ixiard mcmlx-rhave previously said that money will he user! in preparing the librarys space in the old middle M bool building i 1 , 1 1 le-for- e I Meanwhile, lowe is hunting fur other sources of funding to help pay for the full cost of the Im walking down renovation every single path in search of money," she said That search in dudes private foundations, historic preservation societies, and gm-budding" grants for improvements that make public buildings more energy efficient Hut the citys funding strategy for the projc-c- t relies largely The on one entity, I .owe says Permanent Community Impact fund, also known as the CIH," the state-ru- Under terms of the Memorandum, the Interlocal Agency will owe the city $700,000, and will pay it off $700,000 ated within three months of the gradually by leasing the old signing of the memorandum. middle school property from the That event w ill le followed by the transfer of ownership from the schcxil district to the city through a separate purchase agreement Of the three partners, the city is the only one paying anything to the school district to acquire the property It is giving the district a parcel of land it ow ns in Spanish Valley valued at city. turn, each of the three partners will owe rent to the In many of Moab's major civic improvements CIHn latest contribution to Moah was helping to at renovations fund Canyonlands Field airport Imwe says she has talked with CIH members about the old middle adiool renovation project - most recently, during a CIH meeting here in Moab two weeks ago So far, their message has been keep us informed," she says. I sjxike with them whi n they were here and they said theyd like to come hack around the end of March or the first of Apnl to take a look at the building " Memorandum of understanding City Manager Donna Met.ler has also lieen busy on the project. She has ben drafting the Memorandum of Understanding that will dot the is and cross the ts" on the agreement Ix'tween the partners and the school district. The draft Memorandum had yet to be distributed to the school district at press time, as the three partners were still working on approving its details and the city's attorney had yet to supply critical legal language. Hut an early copy of the draft obtained by The Times Independent showed the city will hold title to the entire property and will lease it to the Interlocal Page A I ally overturn tlx- electorate. The voters in ( band ( ounty voted them in, and the voU'rs can vote them (Hit," he stated. It shouldnt tie up U) seven council people to make decisions LiV- - that " As far as leavirg it up to the voters, Ix avitt is not sure that is necessary There are things we as a council can do to get us in line," he said. The 1992 vote to alter the form of government in Grand County came after a aeries of conflicts between some residents and the county commission, including commission support for the Hook Cliffs 1 igh way, arid changes at the - 1 hospital where the commission dismissed the existing hospital board, fired Lutheran I feaith Services as a hospital management firm and brought in an administrator. Scxn after that the commission turned down the recommendation of the Grand County Travel Council for a new travel council director, choosing instead their own candidate with limited travel industry experience. leavitt remembers the time well. After growing up in Moab and moving away, he came back and was chosen by the Republican Party to serve out the last two months offormer commissioner David Knutson's term. Knutson resigned the day after voters approved the change of government proposal. People were upset at the com an environmental surcharge added onto the price of each new tire sold originally between $1 and $2 per tire depending on the size, .several reyears later that surcharge was duced to 50 cents per tire for all tire missioners at the ume, and I can understand that," Leavitt said But I don't think that was the way to get nd of the commissioners." McLeod said he had not given it much thought, but tlie idea of putting the question to the voters at Novembers " general election is a possibility And Schappert added her view will be based on what she hears from residents. I think were going to wait to hear what the public says and then make that decision." But if tiie issue is put to the voters in November, it will mean that Ken Ballantyne run cannot again Rallantyne was elected in 1993, then reelected without ballot opposition in 1996. I lis term expires at the end of this year, and under current rules he is not eligible to run again. If the council wants to allow Ballantyne to run this year, it has to change the law soon. The filing period for this years council election is March 1 7, one month away. The recall provision was used once: In late 1993, opponents of the change of government, alarmed at what they saw as a bent of the new council, organized a petition campaign and placed on the ballot the recall of six of the seven original council members. All the council members withstood the recall effort. The one council member who did not face recall was Ballantyne. Agency have been completed. Recycling funding restored and that percentage will be determined by how much space each takes up in the building and the surrounding property. The city will occupy 37 percent, the the tire dealers. ping fee it charges The dealers, ia turn, have passed those costs along to their customers. One Moab tire dealer estimated the real cost to his customers has increased from $1.50 to $2.10 per tire for combined state and local recycling related charges. Despite the rising fees, throughout this winter the district has investigated alternative methods of disposing of the tires in order to decrease the cost of recycling One method would involve purchasing a $2 i 0,000 tire shredder. The idea was to sec if three neighboring counties would join with Grand County to sizes. Then last year, the Waste Tire Act was amended State regulators reported that the on final w aste tire fund was depleted, so reimbursements to county landfills for recycling the old tires left from years before were stopped, as were the payments for hauling away each months new supply of waste tires. In addition, the state environmen tal fee assessed on new tire sales was increased from 50 to 85 cents split the expensive purchase and share the use of the machine. A sec- ond idea involved a less expensive machine that would cut tires in half. Both scenarios ended with the sliced and diced tires going into the county landfill. Now, with waste tire funding per tire. In Grand County, those changes of tires left oer from 1997, 1998 and 1999 sat at the old Moab landfill on Sand Flats Road, and since June 1999 there has been no money to haul it away. It also meant the Grand County Solid Waste District has had to pay $400 load every time per semi-trailUtah Tire Recyclers drove down from West Valley City to haul away the monthly collection of tires. To make up for the loss of state reimbursements and to solve the problem of the legacy tire pile, the district last year increased the tip meant that a pile apparently restored, those ideas may be set aside. Utah Tire Recyclers said they will resume hauling trailers full of tires from Grand County to their West Valley facility where they are shredded and sold to cement companies who burn the chips with coal as fuel for manufacturing cement. The larger truck tires are shipped to California where they are turned into other rubber products such as industrial floor mats and asphalt additives. violations Tailings Continued from Page A1 that paves the way for DOE to take title to the pile. The DOE has said it will move the pile away from the river, instead of capping it in place. like this happen in the future." He said they would have a backhoe on the site in a week or ten days" to place some more dirt on the pile where it has eroded. And we have instructed the lab to o those particular samples and in the future to use a different standard." Eastin was interviewed by phone while on a visit to Denver, where he said he was currently m the process of selecting the contractors who will begin the initial d capphases of the will entail work That ping plan. testing to assist in analyzing the Richardson has also said en- - Abuso? Violencia de familia? SttASTIANJp&tySlMAG March Special!! Haircuts half off NRC-approve- Otras problemas? Quiermos ayudarte. Uame per telefono: Seekhaven: El Centro de crisis famia y recursos. Confianza. with highlights. HUR ground wafer problems, design work, and eventually, earth moving. Meanwhile, at a ceremony in California Friday, the Department of Energys Bill Richardson signed a Memorandum of Understanding 259-222- 9. 5AF71RY 259-16855-1- 2 detailing the landmark agreement is lioslinit llii; Moab City Men's Tournament Inis weekend, Ieb. 19 & 20 beginning at 10 amuai li day ' ) iii . - Devils tourney bound . Cash Come and Watch! Trophies Awarded! Snack bar open apply at or send resume to Moab, UT 84532 . . Moabs top scoring basketball player Ktint York tries for a in an overtime held in Price Tuesday Grand High defeated Millard evening. Dusty Steele scored 9 points in that game. The Devils, now 1 5 overall for the season, will play in the region tournament in Cedar City beginning Thursday. The State 2A finals will also be held in Cedar a week later. Photo by Jeff Richards Sales Person new and used vehicles Selling Experience preferred 49-4- 5 1 5-- Annexation 1076 Mill Creek Drive. Moab 2594748 Continued from Page A 1 zens in Emery County. But not the citizens in the rest of Grand County. Grand County Chairperson Kim Schappert said she was frustrated that the bill was resurrected at all. She said So. 481 So. Main, three-pointe- r. and 9 E. 100 CASTLE ROCK CHEVROLET 2 POSITIONS A VAIL ABLE IHMEDIATEL Y v ' . that once the DOE gets approval from Congress to take over the site, PwC and the NRC w ill no longer be involved in the tailings cleanup. re-d- ve the new county 27 percent of the property, which means the library will effectively owe $252,000 and the county, $ 1 89,000 toward payof the ing off the initial purchase Continued from Page A 1 may change rules County Continued from property. The memorandum doesnt specify the rate at which those amounts would be paid back, nor does it say who owns the building after the payments library 36 percent and the agency. Their rent will be based on a percent age of the $700,000, mineral-lease-funde- giant that has financed Other funding source f tity, comprised of the three partners that will manage the property. The memorandum calls for the Interlocal Agency to be cre- last year Emery County commissioners assured Grand County council members the issue would be put aside. They in fact told us that they were not going to pursue this annexation thing," she said. The fact that its liappened has made us trust our neighbors less. . .The whole thing seems ridiculous. Its like the bill that keeps coming back." ,2 yrs- - Bookkeeper Position experience preferred familiar with auto accounting industry preferred or General Motors. 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