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Show 4 v Utah State Press Assn. 467 E. 3rd S. Salt Lake City Ut. 84111 ; J7 2 V MJB.ND4 Ameimdmnieimft 's ffawotrs t' rrNKT- - An amendment to H. B. 104 ? . passed during the special legislative session last week interprets to $1.2 million in 1981 tax revenue for San Juan County. w f esm$ ; C&5 s V- J :Dox fr - V cents November 5, 1981 Commissioner Bailey said he has asked the County Road De-- z partment to draw up a list of the number of men needed to perform road work and snow removal during winter months. If more men are needed than are currently employed, applications will be reviewed. Ralph Dunn, of Moab asked the Commissioners for assistance in improving roads to a newly-open- , . day-roo- ed mine near LaSal. Dunn said mining at the S & S Mine is expected to span a period of two to nty ; v , four years. Bruce Shumway presented an amended contract with the Utah Divison of Alcohol and Drugs for an additional $9,000. Shumway also presented a contract from the State Department of Highway Safety for $7,334 to be used for alcohol abuse education in with the courts and schools. con-junti- Public meetings on the progress of studies to possibly establish a disposal facility for high level nuclear waste in southeastern Utah will be held in Monticello next Tuesday, November 10 and in Blanding on Wednesday, November 11. The Monticello meeting is scheduled for 7 p.m. in the courtroom at the county courthouse. The Blanding meeting will be at Edge of the Cedars Museum , also at 7 p.m. The focus of each meeting is to review the process for narrowing four Paradox Basin study areas to Gibson Dome near the entrance to Canyonlands National Park. At the meetings, the Department of Energy (DOE) will outline the schedule of activities in Utah for 1982 and 1983, discuss its National Environmental Policy Act implementation plan and ic concerns. address Following the DOE presentation, the meeting will be opened for questions from the audience. All comments will be limited to five minutes and to the discussion of Gibson Dome considersocio-econom- ations. Bob Furlow, director, of the Southeastern Utah Health District and a member of the governors Nuclear Waste Task Force, will speak on nuclear terminal repositories at the Tuesday luncheon meeting of the Monticello Chamber of Commerce. The meeting, which is at noon at Hogies Restaurant, is open to the public. Articles relating to a possible nuclear repository in San Juan begin on page 14, on 132,000 people in South Salt Lake County. Blanding fire chief, expressed a need for a building in Blanding to house a State Representative C. Hardy Redd said the division puts the heavy mineral and ore producing counties into one district, which he favors. However, he worked for a southern Utah congressional Lynn Wright, equip- truck, Sheriffs ambulance, Search and Rescue equipment and police equipment. Wright says he conceives of a building that could possibly house city offices and also be used for training and communications. The commissioners stated they feel the idea is good but should be pursued on a city level. Commissioner Low reported on the Commissioners Workshop in Logan last week. He said a new formula based on populafire-fighti- ng ment, fire-fighti- ng and land area is tion, road-mil- es Band C roads. for being computed The new formula, he said, is to Juans advantage. Ed Scherick, Diana Webb and Henry Bisson of the Bureau of Land Management met with the to discuss an commissioners Issues 104. Legislation enacted by the Utah legislature last week in a special reapportionment session is the signature of Governor Scott Matheson. ents. San frain from mailing tax notices pending an interpretation of H. B. San JuanGrand new District 7 4 The funds will be used to pay for for a a coordinator part-tim- e youth alcohol education program. Fines collected in the courts for driving under the influence of alcohol are channeled back into the prevention of alcohol-relat- ed crimes. The coordinator will work with juveniles who have been cited for drinking and their par- fire Identification Process that will begin in January prior to the development of a Resource Area Management Plan for San Juan. Commission input will be requested first followed by a request for public input, Scherick New phone at Nursing Home The San Juan Nursing Home has expanded its telephone system to serve you better. New number is 51. San Juan commissioners notified the State Tax Commission of their objections to subjecting the regrowth of sources to a taxing limit, noting that locally-assess- ed values had and declined that H.B. 104 actually invoked the six percent limitation only by an increase in values due to a ble reassessment state-order- ed in which the county had no input. The October 6 letter included a paragraph in which the State Tax Commission instructed the county attorney to immediately bring suit in a court of proper juris- diction against each governing body of any district whos, levy produces an anticipated tax revenue yield in excess of the 106 percent of the property tax revenues for the previous fiscal year. Barring a gubernatorial veto, the state will essentially be split ' " ' The Utah Tax Payer Associain half east and west with San Juan tion noted on October 19 that being include in Congressional levies imposed by Blanding City, District 3 along with Grand, Blanding Cemetery district and Carbon, Emery, Duchesne, the San Juan County Water ConUintah, Daggett, Wasatch, Sumservancy district were excessive mit and Utah counties, along with according to the State Tax Com- missions interpretation of H. B. UTA also noted excessive 104. county and county school levies, as interpreted by the State Tax Commission. At that time, UTA advised their San Juan County members to pay their 1981 property taxes under protest. district. Utah senatorial district 29 remains essentially the same and includes San Juan, Grand, Emery and approximately the east two-thir- ds of Carbon County. In a realignment of voting dis- tricts for representation in the Utah House, San Juan and the southern half of Grand County became District 74, the boundary line for which is the Colorado River as it flows through south- eastern Utah. Action on the part of the county commissioners, the county at- torney, Jack Tanner executive director of the Utah Association of Counties and Dave Duncan resulted in amendment of H. B. 104 in both the senate and house. Passage in the senate was by 20 votes, the exact number required for a majority. Commissioner Ken Bailey noted Monday the amendment will allow the county to proceed under the county budget as previously approved. Municipal Election Results Mayor Blanding Monticello Clea I Bradford 401 Keith Redd 348 (Unopposed) Bill said. 678-22- ble County Clerk Clytie Barber re- Under date of October 6, in a letter addressed to San Juan County Attorney Bruce Halliday, the Utah State Tax Commission, stated that San Juan County levies Remodeling instead of addition at Nursing Home ' The San Juan Nursing Home administration has requested .that any additions to the facility be foregone for the present. Instead, the commission will advertise for bids for inside improvements based on a remodeling plan provided by Commissioner Bob Low. m If the plan is executed, the will be converted into two offices allowing the present office, to be used for two to three beds. Commissioner Low reported patients at the eight He that estimated Nursing Home. since a cut in State funding, the county pays approximately $20 per day per patient. He said he would verify the figure. If such is the case, San Juan may need assistance from Grand County for patient care costs. Low said the county may. soon begin to utilize empty beds in the San Juan Hoscare. pital for long-ter- m non-renewa- non-renewa- HOMETOWN NEWSPAPER FOR SAN JUAN COUNTY, UTAH 20 reassessed that sources, requested County Treasurer Marian Bayles and ed as a result of indexing in any county where valuations increase more than 10 percent. Fa patterns by Alvin Reiner Vol . 64 No. 40 Juan commissioners, believing that a 42 percent increase in total county valuation was solely due to growth in state San H. B. 104, passed by the 1981 legislature, provided for an extension of the 106 percent limitation on property tax increases impos- CJ had been fixed in excess of the maximum amount permitted by law. Much of the credit for passage of the amendment is being assigned to Commissioner Calvin Black by Commissioners Bailey and Low. 4$v out-of-cou- aim JJtmaim Council Don Smith Lynn Laws . Carl Osborn LaRell Van Dyke , 344 253 Francom 192 Ron Sharp 303 Kirk Helquist 288 231 Mark Leavitt 240 199 Dan Shoemaker 225 |