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Show , 4 .W, AJ. '1. V School Board may scrap buildings by Jody Bailey A proposal to dispose of Blanding Elementary School and San Juan High School building A was discussed in a specially convened board meeting of the San Juan School District last Monday. Ih a study commissioned by the board to gain insight into critical decisions that must be made now to properly prepare for San Juans future in educating children, a Salt Lake Firm De La Mare, Woodruff, Stephan made and Associates, Ihc. these recommendations: Priority 1: Design and construct a middle school in Blanding. , Design and conPriority struct an addition to Albert R. Lyman Elementary School. Priority 3: Design and con2: '.' first load of wheat in Wilbur Laws of Blanding (left) delivered the the county to J. B. Grain on Tuesday, July 10. Bill Dunow weighed John Noxon photo the grain in at a little over 3 tons .' ; ' .! f- HOMETOWN NEWSPAPER FOR SAN JUAN COUNTY, UTAH Vol. 66 No. 22 cents 25 July 18, 1984 wmmmmmmmmaaam Kids, cows, dons and water on agenda at commission meeting Sr';; -- by Carl Eisemann V r Carl Barton of Monticello met with county com missioners Monday to discuss alternatives and problems with constructing a bypass road at the Monticello reservoir project. The commissions agreed with Barton that the city and the water conservancy district should consider fencing the area so as to prevent -- pollution and cattle intrusion.' The county will build a modified version of the shorter road bypass! which meets with Forest Service approval. A request by Suzanne Anderson for county assistance in filling a section of Abajo Drive so that sidewalks for school children can be built was referred to the county engineer Commissioner Ken Bailey pointed out that fill on Abajo Drive will create serious maintenance problems Don Raisor, coordinator for Project Goodwork (the summer work program for high school yoiih) reported that theprogram provided an opportunity ibr oyer 70 youth from low income homes to find summer jobs and receive workskillstraining. Ih addition, said Raisor, some 30 students received job seeking skill training. Job placements are as follows: 13 in Monticello; 15 in Montezuma Creek; 18 in M onum ent V alley and Students attend 18 in Blanding. to nine in the seven school from morning four days per week and work 32 hours. The commission congratulated the project workers for running an excellent program. Bruce Shumway, Social Service director, received approval for two contracts. One with the Federal Social Service Agency will grant $30,000 for senior citizen transportation. The other with Mental Health Service requires the county to pay $17,700 as their share of a $242,424 mental health area. budget in the Commissioner Bob Low advised Shumwaythathewouldmeet with the Monticello senior citizens to discuss their preferences in the remodeling of the library basement into a senior center. At the request of County Clerk Dalton, the commission. executed the necessary docum ents to allow Dalton to close the $1.7 million! general revenue bond sale agreement. The 'commission advised Dalton that the bond sale receipts will go to the county and the county; will allocate funds to the Health Board as construction progress warrants. Commissioner Bailey reported that the poles and wire fence at the Bluff dump were stolen soon after installation. Bailey got ap 4-co- Dam groundbreaking The San Juan Water Conservancy District . will host a ceremony on b Thursday, August 2 for the Monticello dam and reservoir project. The program will begin at 1 p.m. at the site near Monti-cell- o. Lunch will be served alter the program. The dam will be constructed Tectonic Construction, a by Denver based operation, through a funding grant from the Utah Water Resources Board. The Monticello Project will store up to 2,000 acre feet of water which will serve Monticello city as well as local agriculture and ranching. round-breaki- ng . proval to request that the state place a number of county roads on the state system since they meet state standards and are connecting links to other state roads. The roads are in the Oljato, Aneth, Bluff, La Sal and Montezuma Creek areas. Commissioner Low reported that he had attended several seminars onHealth Care at the Seattle conference of county officials. Low said that all areas of the country are experiencing problems similar to the health service problems in San Juan County and that the future for county operated health care services appears dim. Low advised the commission to reconsider their in the State Indigent Health Care insurance program. Low also asked that the county health administrator meet with the commission once each month. The commission asked that the County Extension Service report on their prairie dog control experiment and that the weed control officer take steps to clean up the fairgrounds. Commissioners feel the fairgrounds is a sad example of county weed control. A1 Haskins, administrative assistant, reported that a survey of medical services and the acceptance of medicare assigned payments showed Dr. Goon accepting 20 to 30 percent of his cases for assignment; the Monument Valley Clinic accepting 80 percent; and the San Juan Hospital accepting zero to 10 percent of allowed medicare maximum payments. Where assignments are not accepted, the patient, or in some cases, the secondary insurer, non-involvm- ent covers the costs. classroom additions to San Juan High School building B. Priority 4: Declare as surplus and dispose of Blanding Elementary School and San Juan struct 12 High School building A. Priority 5: Design and construct a practice gym and classroom additions to Monticello High School. 6: Design and con. Priority struct an addition to the Mexican Hat School. Alter reviewing these recommendations, Superintendent Donald Jack stated that, although he did not necessarily agree with the firms ; priority , order., ha feels the plan needs to be adopted. Cost of implementing the program in todays dollars and at todays interest rates is esti- mated at $8 million. Financing would require a bond election. Board Preston President Nielson broached the feasibility of remodeling the San Juan High BLM building A and consolidating all school district offices under one roof. He requested that the Board address the following questions before the A building is demolished or sold. (A) Can school district offices be effectively administered from Monticello with the center of population shifting south? (B) Is it administratively efficient to have offices in both Monticello and Blanding? At present, all school district offices except the Title 1, Indian School Education, and district main- tenance offices, are in the administrative building in Mon- ticello. In other matters, the board concern over the expressed teachers who sign contracts and then ask to be released. Board members consider such action highly unprofessional and the feeling was expressed that a signed contract should be considered more binding on both, parties. However, a motion was passed to release those teachers who had requested release with a suggestion that a letter of disapproval be sent to each teacher. Gaylen Schaugaard of Monticello was selected by the board to fill the position of residential maintenance specialist. His responsibility will be the upkeep of 54 homes owned by the district Plans for additions to the principals home and three teachers homes in Montezuma Creek were reviewed and approved by the board. ' These will accommodate additions families with a large number of The bid opening for children. the additions will be held July 23. calls for advisory council nominations Roland G. Robinson, state director for the Bureau of Land Management in Utah, today announced a call for public nominations for membership on the five district advisory councils in the state. The districts are: Moab, Salt Lake, Richfield, Vernal, and Cedar City. The announcement asks that members of the public forward to BLM district managers by July 31 their suggestions for persons to fill three positions in specific categories of interest for each The categories will council. differ for each council. Terms are for three years, beginning January 1, 1985. Current council members maybe renominated for additional terms, but not to exceed six total years. The councils and the categories of interest are: Moab District - elected e. official, recreation, Policy and Management Act of 1976, as amended. Council members advise the Bureaus district on programs and managers policies concerning management of the public lands within the respective districts. All appointments are made by the Secretary of the interior with recommendations appropriate from Bureau district managers and state directors. Questions concerning specific nominations should be directed to Gene Nodine in Moab. . 10-me- public-at-larg- Nominations should include the! name and address, telephone, biographical sketch, and category of interest in which the nominee appears best qualified to offer advice and should be sent to: Gene Nodine, 82 East Dogwood, Moab, Utah 84532. District Advisory Councils are required under the Federal Land Voter registration Deadline for voter registration for the Primary Election is July 30. Persons can register at the county clerks office duringoffice hours at the courthouse in Mon- ticello. Registration agents can regis- ter in their homes after this time on specified days set by state law. These days are August 14, 15, and 16. The primary election is August 21, 1984. Persons who have moved from one voting precinct to another, even within the same community, should in order to maintain their voting record within the precinct in which they re-regi- ster reside. t ;i |