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Show THE SAN JUAN RECORD Wednesday, November 17, 1999 - Page 2 Monday Friday Saturday 192022 November gil RANDOM HEARTS COLUMBIA 5L 7:00 pm See it at the MOVIES! MOrfFAMiDTNiTrsia Monticello 696 E'Central lll!l.5jr www.sony.comrandomhearts To all those who Supported Us in our iRecent Campaign and Section. We will do our (Best Letters To The Editor The Record welcomes letters from its readers on any subject of public interest. Letters must be no more than 300 words in length. The publishers reserve the right to edit, condense, or reject any Letters must be contributions. signed and include an address and telephone number. Bluff will take a new Yet, I continue to need health care and I have to look to the countys mandate from the state to provide it. Bluff is so small that we are used to getting leftovers, and a leftover clinic would be nice. No one is knocking at our door promising us a big city hospital on a small town economy. Lyman Grover Bluff, Utah medical center Dear Editor: If Blanding rejects a new county medical center for its own reasons, Bluff could sure use one. Not knowing how takesuccessful the over of Montezuma Creek Beware, property tax Clinic will be, I am concerned payers about continued quality health care for my neighbors and me. Dear Editor: I am writing this letter in We would be grateful if the county clinic was here, and the hopes of helping some other people of Blanding could use citizen in San Juan County it if their new hospital complex avoid paying hundreds of dollars to the county in property doesnt come through. I support the countys health taxes that they dont owe. In 1994, we purchased some services board because I realproperty north of town from a ize that rural health systems are heavily dependent on the friend. We knew the land had payment policies of the federal been in green belt. We undergovernment and HMOs. The stood that there was a requirecurrent financial difficulties of ment at the time that in order our county health system seem to qualify for that status you to stem from drastic changes had to have at least six acres in the percentages and the of land. Our purchase was lateness of payments from over the required acreage, these entities in recent years, therefore, we naturally asas much as from the prior sumed that it would remain in management companys prac- greenbelt. It was not until 1998, after purchasing antices. other piece of property that we Indian Health Services, which grants the contract that inadvertently found out that have to reapply for green pays the bills for almost all of you the patients in Montezuma belt status each time the propCreek, is one of the worst of- erty changes hands. I immediately went to the fenders. I think it may conoffice to get the necAssessors tribute to the quick demise of a new entity that is struggling essary paperwork and made to help its federally funded sure the property met all other community realize its dream of conditions. At that time I asked the staff in both the local control. Our health systems board Assessors office and the Rehas no control over such out- corders office if there wasnt side decisions, but they get our some way to inform people of criticism because they are here the necessity of reapplying for with names and faces we green belt status on property know. Its kind of like the they purchased which was in school system being criticized that category with the previfor state, federal, and court ous owner. I think probably I mandates. Thats just how the am not the only citizen who is uneducated in these kinds of system works. non-prof- it matters, but who would occasionally like to buy real estate. Doesnt the County owe its citizens at least the courtesy to post this information in both County offices that deal with i to Represent the Dnterests of Our Community. ! 77W land ownership? I even suggested they might possibly ask anyone who comes into their offices if they knew the laws governing their purchase and what they needed to do to comply with the law. I also suggested that the County could include a statement concerning these matters on the tax evaluation they send out in the fall. As far as I know, no one has followed up on these suggestions or implemented these ideas. I would certainly have ap- Sam Cantrell, jKathu Carson and CReed Sampson Monticello City Recreation Department will sponsor preciated such information because learning the hard way cost me $734.06 in taxes over a period of five years which I didnt owe. When I talked to the County Commissioners about how much I had actually over paid in taxes due to lack of information, one of them just laughed and said, THIS FALL AND WINTER If you are interested in being involved in either basketball or volleyball, please come to the Thanks! Buyers Beware! Are you subsidizing the County with your hard earned money? Sincerely, Marilyn Lyman Blanding organizational meeting November 17 7 pm Monticello City Office Or call the Recreational Office at for more information 435-587-20- 29 SANt)UAHJH Eater 435:678:2653 November 8 movies will be The San Juan Record 17-1- Elmo In Grouchland Superstar (pg-13- HOMETOWN (G) ) 5 November movie will be The World Is Not Enough James Bond NEWSPAPER FOR SAN JUAN COUNTY, UTAH SINCE 1915 Copyright, The San Juan Record, 1998. All rights reserved. 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