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Show "W200SSTE0. SATlAEClTr lT Serving East Juab County Volume 102 Xo 8 -- A Nice Place Live! To Single Copy Price February 25, 2001 www.nephitimesnews.com MJOI12;; Old Juab County Hospital will have new owner, but Head Start will retain its lease By Myrna Times-New- A bid w Trauntvein Correspondent s as awarded for the once Juab County Hospital buildings. The highest bidder, at $122,000, exercising the option to forfeit in full or to his, oppay up portunity, determined to contact commissioners that he was not able to firm up the expected funding. Kay Huffman, who had the v inning bid, will bow out and allow the t bidder, the David Leavitt Firm, the option of purchasing the building. Each bidder was given two options, said Mike Seely, county administrator. Option A was for the hospital building with the former clinic attached and Option B was for the hospital with the county retaining the clinic w hich is now under lease by Mountain-lanHead Start. Juab County Commissioners have accepted a bul made by Dai id Leai itt for the old hospital. The winning bid came in at Huffman, who preferred and, OLD HOSPITAL SOLD Photo by Hebei ca Dopp. A. article (See for more information). Plans for the building are not known at this time. at the bid opening, selected Op- $81,257 for Option tion A, had bid $92,000 on Option B. needs expand, to offer two sesJared Fldndge, county attor- for payment of $1 to be paid each with the continuance of a longDavid Leavitt, former county term lease which will allow use sions each day at the facility. At ney, was instructed to write a month with the accumulated lease agreement with amount being $12 per year. attorney, who was not present at of the once medical clinic as a that time, further remodeling w ill long-terthe bid opening, bid $81,257 for preschool. The return on ow nership of the be do np. Head Start that would preserve commission's We the lease the Head want Start portion of the buildintention Start Option A and $51,155 for Option preschool county (Head program) They B. have taken good care of the buildprotected for as long as they want to allow the preschool to continue ing, unless it could be used as a It is unclear which option he ing and have remodeled it at their to occupy the building, aid I low-ar- t at the location for as long as de- tax write-off- , is negligible. and sired. h. prefers. That determination will own expense, said William Boyd They pay all the be discussed and then disclosed Howarth, commission chair. We w ill take care of the lease have done all the remodeling at Robert Steele, comim-.sioneat the next commission meeting In fact, said Neil Cook, comtheir own expense, said Howagreed that Head Start was a so they are protected," said to be held March 1 at 3 p.m. of for the of the arth. Head the good program missioner, youth operators Leavitt has not proposed demoAt present, the lease held by Start, on a local level, have in- area. "We hope it w ill stay around lition ofthe facility but rehabilitaMountainland Head Start calls dicated they hope, as funds and forever. tion and reuse of the former hospital campus for an undisclosed purpose. A bid was also entered by Grant Loader who bid $5,000 on cation to build a power generation interest as both a bidder and bid supplies, while imperfect, was By Myrna Trauntvein Times-Newnonetheless fair. each option. Correspondent plant near Mona that would be selector. In response to a question from of The be No matter which option is se2005. can summer the asked, ready by question RFP for Was Constance White, the Commissioner lected by the bidder, in concert as a of Utah the third was pro(request day PacifiCorp operates Friday Power in Utah and Idaho and offwith the commission, Mountain-lanUtah Public Service Commission posals) process perfect? Ill tell Larson said in the future bid Head Start wall be protected hearing on the PacifiCorps appli- - icials ofthe company have claimed you right now it wasnt, testified processes could have better comthe plant is needed to help meet Doug Larson, PacifiCorp vice munication elements. In a series of questions from president of regulatory affairs. escalating power needs. The Steve Creek Called the Currant Creek projCurrant Mecham, an attorney for to bidder million cost will the $315 ect, losing Spring Canyon Enplant plant has come up against a hard wall construct as planned with the ergy LLC, Larson acknowledged in dealing with losing bidders for bid used which was accepted. that he had no detailed involveOfficials testified they think that ment in the bidding process the project. Those bidders have charged figure is $320 million less expenbut said that those interested the utilitys decision sive, over the life of the plant, in bidding were made aware of bid. was made before the company than the next-bes- t A PacifiCorp official testified completed a review of more than 100 power-supplbids, and that Friday that the bidding process See Plant on page 3 the company had a conflict of to get proposals on future power 1 second-highes- d up-dee- p r, Pacificorp defends bidding process in public hearings s d gas-fire- mega-generatio- d n self-buil- d y MARIJUANA BUST A traffic stop last Saturday, nets 285 pounds of Marijuana in the back of a pickup. Sgt. Paul Mangelson made the bust. Public hearings planned to discuss roadside billboards Traffic stop on nets 285 pounds of marijuana 1- was released to the DEA and will be transported to their crime lab for processing. Following the traffic stop on for a traffic violation. Further Sgt. Mangelson noticed that investigation revealed 285 lbs. of the driver wras acting suspiciously marijuana in the bed of the truck and a heavy odor of vanilla air covered with a tonneau cover. The freshener was noticed. The driver driver was arrested and booked at seemed confused and nervous and Juab S.O. Later in the day he was could give the officer no concrete transported to Salt Lake City by answers to any of the questions agents of the DEA. He will be ar- that he asked. A search of the raigned in U.S. Federal Court on truck revealed the hidden drugs. Monday morning. The marijuana On Saturday, February 21, d p ' it i " Jf ft ? I Correspondent a -15 2004 UHP Sgt. Paul Mangelson pick-ustopped a north-bounin the Nephi area truck on Federal law does state that all billboards must be in either By Myrna Trauntvein Times-New- s Juab 12 miles of an interchange along the interstate scene of roadside billboards if the public agrees with the planning commission that such advertising should be an allowed use. March 11, at 6:30 p.m., the Juab County Commission will hold a public hearing to determine what the residents of the county think about the ordinance change. Greg Ingram, Nephi, has been seeking a change in the county ordinance which, at present, prohibits billboards. You cant zone for billboards, said Ingram, you have to do that as part of a comprehensive plan. ft ; 1 W i $ commercialindustrial zone or within County may become the 1 freeway. Spot zoning to allow billboards is against the law, said Ingram. He said federal and state law set the standards for billboards and their placement. For example, he said, usage t of an must be within industrial property. Ingram said that his interest is in erecting a few billboards within the allowed 1 12 mile space near a freeway interchange. 600-fee- Glenn Greenhalgh, county planning commission director, said the planning commission discussed the proposal and recom- I I I I 8 i i ' 1 i mended to the commission that the prohibition be removed from the county zoning ordinance. As long as we follow state law, said Robert Steele, commissioner, I have no problem with that. Greenhalgh said the commission would need to advertise the public hearing in the newspaper and would need to remove the prohibition concerning billboards from the zoning ordinance. All you have to do is remove one sentence, he said. The zoning ordinance does not have to be Following that process, the commission will have to look at the general plan for the county See Billboards on page 3 $ i H 1 t |