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Show rw r f From page one PRICES Juab County office, making the total rent for the building $1000. However, the commissioners said the mental health agency had at one time agreed to pay $100 a month to rent the office space in the medical clinic and that if this figure could be collected, it would reduce the AHS share to $710. Commissioner Johnson said the basics of the arrangement had been agreed to earlier by AHS officials and Birch. Birch will continue to provide janitorial service for the building. Well pay him the $190 and hell clean the place up, Johnson said. County Attorney Donald J. Eyre, Jr. was asked to write contracts to formalize the agreement. In other major action, the commission: Decided to hold a public hearing on the repeal of a section of the county zoning ordinance in an attempt to tighten up the law. The county attorney set the date of the hearing for July 9. Rescinded an earlier action to raise the transient room tax charged by local motels and certain trailer parks to the original level of IV2 percent. The figure had been raised to 2 percent. Discussed a state plan for Leon Winter to assume status in his civil defense work. State and federal funds are available to pay for full-tim- e the increased time Winter would spend in the job. In the zoning matter, the commission discussed a problem of persons seeking building permits for dwellings to be built on land which does not conform with one-famil- y the present ordinance but which conformed with the law as it was when the decision to build was made. of the Section 4-- 5 cur- rent ordinance provides for building permits to be issued under these cir- cumstances, but the the return to the 1 Vi per- cent level. In explaining the civil defense plan, Commissioner Roscoe Garrrett said the state of Utah has offered to provide $8,000 of the state and federal funds plus some help with Winters office space. Garrett said he . r. UPA CHOI c r rr eimrjr. iraejanmjfKmCTfjwn VII understood that Winter could continue with the weed spraying duties he now performs for the county. I think our relwith him ationship would be just the same, Garrett said. Other matters coming before the included: commission Therald Werz, direcof the tor of District Department of Family 4-- 1 Services and the Assistance Payments Administration, asked the commission to appoint a man and a woman from the county to serve on the Depart- v. . gVlSgPAV : 4 ment of Social Services Advisory Board for the district. The board will advise the two agencies, both of which recently have been placed under Wernz direction. The district includes six counties in and southcentral southern Utah. move, cor The commission signed a contract with Dell Ashworth & Associates of Salt Lake City to make a study which could lead to the renovation of the main Juab High School building for county office space. c, Randy Blackett told the commission his and drug alcohol caseload stood at 46 on June 1. As an example of his succcess, he told of two heavy drug users who are now drug-frebecause of the program. A cost of $19.12 per day was set for keeping J-.- ) : - s ' , e another TtsS wmOZ-TK6- : 11 countys prisoner in the county A jail. Commissioner Garrett wondered about the possibility of some inmates at the jail being released to work at the fairgrounds and perhaps other locations with the same supervisor as several county youth who will be working this summer under a federal jobs program. The new hospital administrator was asked to attempt to collect money from families of persons describing themselves as indigents who incur medical expenses while in Juab County custody. The county is obligated to pay if theres nothing else, but we feel like the family has some obligation, Johnson said. It was decided that bids on county insurance packages would be callconed, with a pre-biference to be scheduled. The commissioners agreed to contract with the U.S. Department of commissioners were worried that the section was being abused by people who really did not intend to build before the current law came into effect. Concern also was voiced about the possibility some persons would be willing to start construction in order to gain a building permit without intending to finish the job in a reasonable time. If you pour a baseto some people ment that might be a cheap way to tie up a permanent building permit, Commissioner Max Williams said. Eyre told the commission the way to avoid the problem totally would be to repeal the entire section. The main body of the current resolution states that a person may not build a residence unless the dollar value of the land is assessed at and $3,000 or more or is at Transportation States Coastal Energy least 160 acres in size. of Houston, Texas, Commissioner Co. a coal loading to develop Williams said he held a Levan. The near road meeting with six motel receive will up to operators and Evan county conunder the Hansen, director of $342,300 Panoramaland promo- tract. It was agreed, for tions. Williams said the such as group "went round and purposes that insurance, round for a couple of employee county hours" without anyones any must work be employee to any position changing least 32 hours extent- But he said the working at week. majority of the group per was opposed to an inThe Times-New- s crease in the transient Nephi, Utah room tax. June 7, 1979 said opthe Williams him they ponents told felt revenue going to onci A VI AH Panoramaland has been SAVINGS ON t steadily increasing and $08 0 Interim so the tax boost was unf.t PH mn - leoli (Jim t Mirl Phjrmect Nephi necessary. Eyre was dmtled to inform the Telephone Order! Accepted State Tax Commission of . otui 1 MEAT 0 ff$ZN d 'f M (o 02' -- 4 full-tim- e - 11 y |