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Show . V i THE SAN JUAN RECORD Wednesday January 25, 1984 PTA wants 8point traffic control by Carl Eisemann June Brown, Monlicello PTA president, met with the Monlicello City Council to present an eight point program for regulating traffic and protecting children in the school area The eight point program is: 1 Paint center lines on the road fronting the school. 2. Establish four designated crosswalk areas. 3. Educate parents astoproper parking areas. 4. Post school zone and speed zones. 5. Have the police department take each elementary school class on a field trip tour of proper pedestrian lanes. 6. Install a sidewalk. 7. Provide police or paid adult patrol for morning and evening traffic. 8. Have Ulegally parked cars fowed away so the county canplow a wider traffic lane. When the Council questioned Brown about the use of sixth graders for patrol duty. She stated that at this time the administration opposed the idea. The Council indicated that they would begin the road marking when the snow is gone and that the county is now plowing a wider traffic lane. Three proposals for community block funds were made to the Council. John Himmelberger requested that the city apply for funds for the new firehouse and or fire engine. Rick Terry, city adminstrator, stated that a second grant request for the firehouse would not be accepted but that a fire engine grant could be considered and other funds might be n available for firehouse construction. Bruce Adams requested that the city consider building restrooms at the ball park. Sue Halliday presented a plan for enclosing and enlarging the city park pavillion and refurbishing the restrooms. Halliday feels that the pavillion could then serve as a visitor center and bad weather shelter. The Council agreed to consider all of the requests and asked that cost estimates be presented for each project. Councilman Bill Christensen informed the Council that the county commission is agreeable to the changes in the city management contract, for the county airport and that a final document would be prepared. Christensen stated that he had met with the new manager and had reached an agreement for the city to provide housing and to share profits on gasoline sales, 80 percent manager, 20 percent city. The Council wUl make an effort to obtain a 10,000 gallon fuel storage tank. According to Coincilman Ron the. Bureau of Land Sharp, Management has a welcome sign to be used at the south end oftown. Installation will be completed in the spring. Jack Young, council member, requested that the Council give some consideration to allocating funds for the development of a to secure new program businesses for MonticeUo. Young feels that the city has been falling behind neighboring towns who HAVE YOU READ A GOOD BOOK LATELY? 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Nielson drew a favorable reaction when he stated that the Utah congressional delegation favors a wilderness bill that will place 700,000 acres into wilder- Urban road funding formula change denied less than half the 1.6 million acres sought by environNielson said it is mentalists. ness, incumbent upon him to remind by Carl Eisemann Commissioner Calvin Black said Monday that the Joint HighCommittee of the Utah way League of Cities and Towns and the Association of County Gov- his colleagues that few areas have 20 percent of their land in restricted use designation, a sit- uation which exists in San Juan County. We need to act now while we have a unified delegation, Nielson said. He then told about the time Congressman Sieberling of Ohio took him on a helicopter trip to a mountain in south central Utah. ernments turned down a request by urban counties to increase funding for. urban roads. Urban communities had asked that the funding formula be changed to put greater emphasis on population and square footage of roads rather than on lineal miles. According to Black, the urban areas intend to oppose the three cents gas tax increase unless the funding is changed. Black stated he is not sure that this is a real threat in light of the many other tax increases contemplatedby the state, adding that if the urban areas achieve their goal of less funds to rural areas, San Juan County wiU have a real problem maintaining its roads. a capacity, a counselors a room, day room, and would 10-b- include the present detoxifica- non-Indi- ans Approved hiring Kermit Blake as a computor specialist for 40 percent of his time at per hour. - Appointed Howard Valle and Baum of Mexican Hat to the San Juan Area Service Number L Approved a building permit for the San Juan Inn at Mexican Hat. Tabled voting on a request by Bill Jenkins of Bluff for county approval to apply for a state liquor store outlet for Bluff until the State Liquor Control Board holds public hearings on the Dis-tria- ve ed issue. Announced plans to hold a public hearing on February 6 for the purpose of approving a 5 salary increase for elected officials. county Factories need enormous of water to produce some For instance, it takes goods. 60,000 gallons of water to make a ton of steel. percent unts CC31CI ON ALL FULLER OBRIEN PAINT Get a headstart on your Spring Painting at s5 MonticeUo - grams. advantages of having a treatment center were delocal fined as (1) the abiUty to help the family of the patient as weU as the patient and (2) keeping treatment doUars in the county. Commissioner Bob Low, whose area of responsibility includes county health care, said, While I think we may have a problem in getting the community to accept chemical abuse as one of its problems, we already have a good start with out hospital detox unit. .It is our problem and we wont know if it (recovery colter) is going to work unless we try it. The leak sparks shooting incident Oil near Aneth was the apparent trigger for a incident on Friday, shooting An oil leak January 13. Two Superior Oil Company employees reported that they had been fired upon about 9 a.m. They said they pursued a brown GMC pickup without success, Ed Butch Boggio, Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) investigator, said the oil leak apparently had upset Indian property owners who demanded payment for damage to their land. No one was injured in the incident. Investigating were the San Juan Sheriffs Office, the County Navajo Police and the Shiprock office of the BIA. SSta&S 7 p.m. Sunohinc N Ohuttcr 6 Days a Week! jf x 4 x 8 Sheet Rock only and Drug Division said the state would help with training pro- 2 Horseheod Lumber and Hardware Open 8 a.m. ed tion unit. Norma Nielson, hospital A 1982 administrator, said, county substance use survey shows that 51 percent of use alcohol or other drugs 52 and percent of the Indian population does the same. Out of those, four percent of the Anglos have problems, as do ninepercent of the Indians. Dr. CarroU Goon noted, One in the health care field cannot help but be aware of our alcoholism problems. Many of my patients have alcohol-basor related problems. I wish we had the facilities to carry through with our beginning work. Fred Ochoa, director of Emergency Medical Services, reported that he had applied for a major grant from the Department of Transportation. and recovery A treatment center in MonticeUo would probably be modeled after the Indian Recovery Center in Salt Lake City. Dennis Taylor, director, has offered his program as a model and the services of his staff to train local nurses, Earl Remington of the State Alcohol commissioners, Jerry Nielson will be guest speaker at Lincoln Day Republican dinner to be held in Monticello February 15. the Sentiment ran in favor of opening an alcohol and drug treal-me- nt and recovery center in Monticello at an open meeting held last Tuesday to explore the feasibility of such a move. The proposed center would occupy an unused west wing of the San Juan Hospital. It would have On Monday, January 16, the -- says Nielsan Sentiment favors county recovery center Commission briefs $16 $4.29 each , stockl Prices limited to quantities In )) 587-207- 4 I of film Bring In your roll for processing and get film! $1 off new roll of 317 E. Hwy. 666 Monticello ; j 587-282- 2 j NEW & 11 6 So. Main 3 Nielson said Sieberling told him that he would put . . . everything you can see into wilderness. Nielson stated that he needed to investigate before he couldprop-erl- y answer a question about the Practice of banks making SBA loans with variable interest rates when the banks obtain federal money at low fixed rates. He noted that declining interest rates would favor the borrower. Nielson said he opposes energy resource severance taxes as such taxes would be devastating to several counties in his district. Nielson was asked to assist in the development of a road from Blue Mountain to Canyonlands Park as a mean of increasing the utilization of the park. Congressman Howard Nielson answered a number of specific questions during a dinner held in to publicize their towns. Young suggested that the city ought to allocate funds to pay the expenses for the volunteers who are trying to promote MonticeUo at their own expense. The Council asked Young to meet with the Chamber of Commerce MITE to Committee explore the concept. staff - Page OWNERS-Gre- g Leora Balrd |