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Show A ? Serving East Juab County -- A Nice Place Volume 102 No 25 www.nephitimesnews.com To . ' Live! Single Copy Price June 23.2001 Countys funding package Independent audit presented to Juab County Commissioners application moves to priority list By By Myrna Trauntvein Corresponden t Times-New- s Myrna Trauntvein Ti mes Neu s A ad- vanced to the prioritization list. Keith J Burnett, representing the state, said the Permanent Community Impact Fund Board (CIB) had placed the request on the boards priority list. Note that he (Burnett) makes it clear that being placed on the prioritization list does not in and of itself constitute formal approval or commitment to finance the application, said Wm. Boyd Howarth, commission chair. County commissioners applied for a funding package totaling $G06,491 to help finance the construction of a new 8,467-squarfoot building to house Juab countys emergency medical operation. The application is for a r loan at zero percent interest. However, the commission will soon know if the project will be funded by CIB. The prioritized list will be considered at the Aug. 5, 2004 CIB board meeting. The size, nature and timing requirements of all applications advanced to the Prioritization List, as well as the actual availability of funds may require the CIB to alter or reduce its participation from the amounts of terms requested for this project, said Burnett, Fund Manager for the Permanent Community Impact Fund. Commissioners will receive copies of the agenda ten to 14 days before the meeting confirming a slot on the agenda. While no formal presentations will be heard from the various applicants, you or your representative should plan on attending this meeting to answer any questions raised by the individual CIB members, said Burnett. Neil Cook, county commissioner, said he would attend Nephi City Council meeting with an agreement between the two entities once Jared Eldridge has the document prepared. Cook met with the council in closed sessions, allowed by law, fis- Property taxes were higher than w hat had been anticipated, said Denton Alexander, independent auditor with Hawkins Howard and Sinnster, Certified Public Accounts, LC. He and Angie Anderson, soon to be a partner in the firm, were on hand to present the independent audit of the countys assets and liabilities to Juab County Commissioners. "Overall, the countys revenues were higher than projected, he said. It was projected that the county would receive $1,852,002 In property tax and, in fact, $1,988,743 was collected for a favorable variance of $136,711. In addition to high collections, e 20-yea- See Funding on page 2 strong advantage to the cal soundness of the county is the amount of property tax actually paid and collected. Juab County's application for a funding package has been Cor re spun den t NOT WHAT YOU WOULD CALL A BARN BURNER Aim e elections judges, Ann Deneee Robinson, doAnn Tolly and Arlene Griffith had a lot of time for snacks and paper work Tuesday. Our photographer was tt29 and went at 10:15 a.m. Election results will be printed next week and are available note at http: JHS student wants to establish concerts in have, by law. the park Rice will be a senior at Juab High School next year. She would like to be the music sterling scholar and will apply for that honor said Rice. Some nights may already be taken, said Randy McKnight, If a Nephi teen can put it all city administrator. Some families be school schedule family reunions well in when school will music next there year together, advance of the event. However, concerts in the city park this sum- begins. mer. Meanwhile, her interest in some of those ho have scheduled Kayla Rice attended Nephi music led her to determine that the park may think a concert is an City Council to ask for permission a summer music program would added bonus and may not object to use the park for band concerts be a benefit to the community and to having both events going on the same day. could be a success. this summer. Rice could contact those who made some sign-uhas a summer had She concert Payson in the park program, she said, sheets and 21 people had indihave already scheduled the a which she has attended and encated, on those sheets, that they bowery on one of the Saturdays joyed. She said Nephi could have would like to participate in the being requested for a concert. If there is no objection from those a similar program. program by performing. The stage is probably the best Both adults and teens had who are renting the facility, the concert may go on. spot, she said. Rice said she was signed up, said Rice. If there is a conflict, said Rice plans to start out small talking about the stage which McKnight, then we would faces the park and not the one with hour-lonconcerts. I was not sure parents would located under a bowery. The stage has no seating but want their children playing on See Concerts on page 2 people could bring blankets and Sunday, so I chose Saturday as lawn chairs to sit on. the best time for the concerts, By Myrna Trauntvein Times-New- s the county has also accumulated respectable fund balance. What this translates to is that the commission has been very conservative and responsible so that the county has nearly the maximum fund balance it can a p g The county is collecting the fines and forfeitures due and, this year, $513,174 came to the county because of those who paid their obligations. Licenses and permits brought in $38,338; intergovernmental revenue was $2,395,376, charges for sendees amounted to $788,863 and the miscellaneous category had $3 15,067 in it. Total revenues amounted to $6,069,561. Alexander said the 71 page report submitted this year was smaller than what the commissioners could expect to see next year when the new Gatsby laws governing financial records and audit practices goes into effect. The state holds budgetary' feet to the fire on a department by department basis, said Alexander. One such spot where the feet were being toasted, he said, was the fact that, even though the money was being held in a special fund to cover the renovation of the courthouse auditorium, its spending was not then planned into the budget. Commissioners thought the money, earmarked and in an account, could be spent for the project because it was being held for that purpose. We needed a journal entry so that the funds could be spent for the purpose for which they had been set aside, he said. Voting results... Because of our printing schedule, election results for the primary election held yesterday will not be printed until next week. Elections results are available now at our web site: The auditorium became a capital outlay of the county, he said. Alexander said that an audit was a snapshot in time to show the county what was happening in the various funds in the bud- http:nephitimesnews.com UDOT issues road advisory: The Utah Department of Transportation (UDOT) advises motorists of the following roadwork. 26. A four-milJune segment of interstate 15 will be restricted to one lane in alternating directions from the north Nephi interchange (exit 228) to the Mona interchange (exit 236) for paving operations. Restrictions will be in effect between 6 a.m. and 6 p.m., Monday through Saturday. Motorists should expect moderate delays. UDOT encourages motorists to use caution and travel at the posted speed limits while driving through work zones. Schedules are subject to change due to inclement weather, equipment problems or emergency situations. 21-Jul- y get. We should have written it into the budget, said Neil Cook, commissioner. If that is the worst thing you can find with our budget, thats not very bad. e In addition, Anderson said, there were only three findings in the audit this year which was excellent. The findings from last year had been dealt with and CONCERTS IN THE PARK Kayla Rice attended Nephi City Council to ask for permission to use the park for band concerts this summer. 1 1 'fe See Audit on page 2 |