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Show TUESDAY, SEPT. 15, VOLUME 197- 7- By ROSELYN KIRK , The 2.2 million, being held in escrow to repay hospital bonds, cannot be used for the construction of a public safety complex, according to County Attorney Milton Hess. But 9 county commissioners talked about an alternate proposal, for a new jail. INSTEAD OF exploring additional avenues for the funding of a $3.5 million public a- -. safety complex being proposed by Sheriff William Dub Lawrence, they said they will investigate the pos- sibility of remodeling the present Sheriffs Office and jail. Commissioner C.E. Moss said the commission will get an architect to design a plan so that the old facility can be remodeled to provide the additional cells. Commissioner Glen Flint projected that 40 By ROSELYN KIRK The Davis County budget was opened late last week to increase departmental budgets for the 1977 fiscal year a total of $238,934. The move to cells could be added to the portion of the building that presently houses the ministrative offices. He suggested that new administrative offices be added to the east side of the building. COMMISSIONERS estimated the cost of the remodeling project at about $500,000 and talked about the possibility of raising that amount through additional one mill levy a year over a two year period. The levy of one mill increase in property taxes would raise $262,000. When that amount is extended for a two $530,000 said. ALTHOUGH they discussed the matter, no official commitments were made and commissioners did not say a $6,515,720 budget. The additional expenditures will cover commission approved unanticipated expenditures. Budget openings are a usual practice. largest budget increase of ing, including insurance, donation, ambulance and forest fire protection. Another increase was $71,684 which been COMMISSIONERS said this the first time this year that the budget has been opened. Funds for the departmental increases will come from anticipated surplus revenues, they said. Commissioner Glen is Flint said the county has reached the spending limit with these increases. There is no more money to spend," he said. In January, the county when or if an architect would be named. Sheriff Lawrence was not present during the discussion. Last week Sheriff Lawrence had proposed that the money available to purchase back the hospital bonds, now being held in escrow in banks, be used for the construction of a public safety complex. Sheriff Lawrence is proposing that the public safety building be built near the Burkes Lane and U.S. interchange with in Farmington. 89-9- AT THE time the proposal was made to use the money available in the hospital bonds, commissioners were not sure about the legality of using that money. Late last week. Commissioner Flint, after a conversation with the county attorney, said, There is no way to use the bonds unless $93,000 was for back to the we go additions are: buildings and grounds, $3,000; building inspection, $2,000; emergency services, $4,000; poor and indigent legal services for prior years, OTHER $12,000; THE made when no protests were registered at the public hear- which had previously advertised. FALL LIGHT year period, would be available for the remodeling, commissioners approve the increases was For many people, fall is the most beautiful season of all. Even the weeds slow down and display the fruits of their summers work. It may be a prickly, unpleasant thing, or it may be a glimmering, sparkling whisp of light. Fall sunlight brings them to life in all cases. ad- NUMBER SEVENTY-NIN- E Title 20, $17, 55a and Comprehensive Health Building Mental $14,500. expenses was added to the Sheriffs Office budget for the initiation the paramedics, polygraph training and overtime. Other budget increases are: District Court. $8,000; of Precinct Court, $2,700; Attorneys Office, $2,000; County Clerks office, $3,000; County Treasurers County Office, $3,500; and County Assessors office, $2,000. The increased costs for the mental health building will be paid by federal funding and will be returned to the county, Dr. Russell Williams, adthe of ministrator Comprehensive Family and Community Mental Health had told commissioners earlier. Will Speak At Davis On IWY Activities (SooatrftDTKDon of interest to the will be held at Davis High School Tuesday, Sept. 20 A meeting putlic Construction of a was passed unanimously. The resolution was written by County Attorney Milton Hess The resolution states that a portion of the county mill levy will be used to pay for the building project. Commissioner C. E. Moss said the county earmarks l'2 mills a period year over a three-yea- r to raise the money required for the construction. revenue sharing funds, which commissioners had anticipated using for the funding of the courthouse, will instead be placed in the budget. Commissioners decided to go route in the another courthouse funding to eliminate federal guidelines that they feared would be at-- ' tached to the use of the federal and used for other courthouse By ROSELYN KIRK $1.2 million courthouse in Davis County will be financed through a funding system which Davis County Commis- sioners approved Tuesday resolution for the creation of a cumulative reserve fund A for the purpose of financing the cost of planning, constructing and remodeling the THE $1.2 million, !o( Boil MBm By GARY R. BLODGETT Whatever (or whoever) Big Foot is, hes an elusive crea- ture. FOR THE past three weeks, scores of persons have scoured the high Uintas looking for the human like but none has monster reported sighting him, let alone capturing the beast. An official search party from Weber County scoured the Cuberant area of the Uinta Mountains for the legendary Big Foot, but reported finding nothing conclusive. JERRY Dahlberg, conservation officer for the Utah money. The revenue sharing money will be placed in the general-budge- t cumulative reserve fund. The tax will be levied accordingly. THIS SAME procedure will be followed to provide the money until funds necessary are accumulated. After passing the resolution, commissioners said that Architect Richard Stringham in!! mcllMw Wildlife Resources, said his party covered some ten square of Division miles without a trace. He said some of the area was so primitive it looked like it had never before been by man. We penetrated covered the entire Cuberant Basin area one day and the following day searched the Bear River side of the area OFFICER Dahlberg said that although they failed to turn up any concrete evidence that the purposes. The resolution specifies that in preparing the annual 1978 budget, an estimate of funds will be included to set up the ape-lik- e creature tabbed Big Foot existed, we ate not going to just write the whole thing off "If such a creature is in the area, he would be constantly on the move, but we should be able to find some evidence of existence, such as animal carcasses, torn tree bark, a form of shelter, etc. But we found none. OFFICER Dahlberg said he plans to take a look at the area later, probably in the area of Holiday Park on the Upper Weber River. There are miles and miles of rugged terrain up there, he said. The two areas of sightings are very primitive, very rugged. Few people have visited the areas. IN FACT, the two areas where Big Foot was sighted are some 17 miles (direct line) apart but descriptions by the two parties, eight in one group and four in some bear another, resemblance. The smaller group of two couples reported middle-age- d and viewing sighting clearly for more than ten minutes not one but three beast-lik- e creatures which they said were eight to ten feet tall with human like fea- tures but animal-lik- e characteristics. THE GROUP of eight persons, including two adults and six youngsters, reported see- - had suggested that the county wait until Jan. 1 to let bids. This would mean that con- struction on the building would begin in March, Commissioner Glen Flint said. EARLIER Commissioners had planned for a bidding date, but indicated Tuesday that this plan had changed. Mr. Stringham estimated that the first floor addition and remodeling, which would include county commission chambers, would cost about $850,000. He predicted that an additional $200,000 would be needed to complete the basement area and another the to complete $200,000 second floor area. ALTHOUGH commissioners have considered only shelling in the second floors. ing one such creature. All are reputable persons. Elk season, which opens the latter part of September, should draw scores of hunters into all parts of the Uinta Range. But after that, snow should begin to fly and it probably will be next spring if ever that there will be more Big Foot sightings. PERSONS camping or hiking in the Uinta Mountains are urged to take their cameras, not only for the beautiful scenery but just in case. Neither party reporting the first sightings had cameras with them. it appears that now their plan is to go with the complete project. Commissioner Flint said late last week that the county is hopeful the bid will be lower if all three floors are bid at once. Earlier the inclusion of the juvenile court facilities in the northwest section of the building was under consideration, but Tuesday Com mtssioner Flint said that instead the county plans to use that portion ot the building for the Utah State Extension Services and for the Community Action Program, (CAP). IT WILL be cheaper not to remodel the area to house the court, he said. In another matter pertaining to the remodeling, talked to Dr. Richard Johns, administrator of the Davis County Board of Health late last week. Plans call for a 3,000 square foot extension of the basement facilities, planned to be added to provide additional space needed by the board of health. AT PRESENT the Family Planning Clinic and the Infants and Women, Childrens (WIC) program is housed in a building outside the courthouse. Dr. Johns said he approved of the present plan for the health department, but said he is hopeful that in the future a separate administrative building to house the health department will come under consideration. at 8 p.m. Dorothy Littrell of Ogden and Doris Wilson of Centerville will be the speakers. Dorothy, who was on the executive committee of Utah International Womens Year and director of finance, publicly spoke out her disapproval of some of the things she saw happening in for the Utah conference. She also introduced a preparation resolution in the planning session of the conference against appropriating federal funds for IWY. Since she was the fiscal officer handling those funds, the IWY com- this claimed mittee represented a conflict of interest. THE IWY committee censured Dorothy for her activities, stating as another reason that she failed to provide the committee with adequate fiscal reports. Doris Wilson served as chairman of the Credentials Committee for the Utah IWY. Doris has been to Houston since the state conference and this week she went to Washington, D.C. along with Ruth Gulbransen of Bountiful to testify before the Senate Ad Hoc Committee investigating TWENTY-SI- X people for a County Clerk e. Rodney Walker said the money to repay the bonds was placed in escrow and cannot be used for any other purpose. The money is not even included in the budget. THE BOND election to allow the county to sell bonds for the construction of the two hospitals was passed by Davis County citizens in June 1968. The county sold the first million in bonds in October of that year to buy the land for the hospitals and pay the architects fee. In 1973 an additional $4.75 million in bonds were sold to pay for the hospitals. After that bond sale, an agreement was made with a private corporation to build the the and hospitals, county began a process to buy back the bonds. Ken Newman, a representative of Burroughs and Smith Bonding agency, was hired by the county to repurchase whatever bonds he could trace. At the present time $12 million is still not redeemed and the money to repurchase is being held in escrow. COMMISSIONER Flint said the county "will have to leave the bonds alone" and go for another funding measure to expand the jail facilities. He said at the time the jail was constructed 15 years ago, it was considered one of the best jails available. But he admitted that since that time the county has doubled in population and the facility is inadequate. have Commissioners agreed that an expanded jail facility and sheriff's office is a necessity, but have Sheriff with disagreed Lawrence on the necessity of a new building. He continues to point out that the public safety complex would provide the best option for the future. As proposed, the public safety complex would house some state and federal agencies and could provide money to the county through rentals to such state departments as the Utah Highway Patrol. have . COMMISSIONERS said that the county cant afford the builamg unless a bond election is held. Commissioner Flint said that the 7.6 acres of land will cost about $170,000. The Utah Department of Transportation (UDOT), which owns the land, has agreed to sell the property for that amount. Commissioners say the county cant afford that much money. Instead, commissioners said they anticipate purchasofing land near the sheriffs fice and the courthouse from two property owners for extra parking and a possible extension of the sheriffs office. SHERIFF Lawrence in the has opposed tins proposal since he feels that the remodeling of the present site will add to the congestion of the area and will not meet future needs. 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