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Show tfGQE Section "B November 3, 1983 Page 9 Commissioners consider deputies policies by y needed during their back up another deputy. Pat Mellor off-dut- The Sanpete County Commission discussed policies with members of the Sheriff s Department during the time normally set aside for county employees to meet with the Commission at Tuesdays commission meeting. Initial discussion centered around the Countys policy of providing only five working days as a weeks time to If the rest of the employees get holidays off and we work, why shouldnt we get compensated?" Deputy Tidwell asked. Commission Chairman Ned Madsen asked why the sheriff and Deputy Ross Nordell could not fill in for the other deputies. It was pointed out that Deputy Nordells function is to serve civil papers, which he does eight hours a day, five days a week. Nordell is also a Class II officer and is therefore limited in his role. vacation. "It works for the other county employees, but it doesnt work for us, because the other employees get Saturday and Sunday off, too, during their vacations, but we work Saturdays and Sundays, and they dont, Deputy Bruce Tidwell explained. The deputies are presently given five days off as a weeks vacation and then apparently scheduled immediately to return to work when the five days are up. The commissioners offered no solution and the meeting was mainly informational from the commissioners standpoint, as they to be unaware of appeared scheduling policies within the department and requirements for Gass 1 and Class II officers in the State of Utah. Commissioner Donaldson asked why Nordell was only a Class II officer and was advised by the County Attorney that a Gass I officer was not needed to serve papers. In order to be a Class II officer, Nordell underwent 200 hours training at the Police Academy in Salt Lake, the part ot the buildings construction as Bradley had been advised earlier. County Clerk W ay ne Beck said the 5175,000 county is presently behind in revenues which is the reason no additional personnel can be hired. Deputy Ross Nordell requested the county participate in the purchase of extrication equipment for Rescue One, an extrication crash truck outfitted by Search and Rescue and various agencies throughout the county. The commissioners took the request under advisement. No new radio equipment? The commissioners said that the information for the grant hopefully to be provided by Emergency Services for the purchase of new radio equipment had been given to the architect and to Wallace Buchanan, Emergency Services Director for the county. Road needs repairs ' Wayne Olsen and Kelly Cutler advised the commission that the Johnson Spring Road west of Ephraim had been in need of promised repairs for two years, and the Commission had several times Communications chief Barry Bradley said he had been advised by the contractor that the overall price for the equipment in the planned communications center was not part of his fees, but was listed under and the radio furnishings, equipment was not to be provided as as.ured landowners the county road would be repaired, but according to Mr. Olsen, a crew sent to effect repairs 'only worked about ten minutes out of every hour" and succeeded in getting the loaded sheriff added. How long do you have to work for us before you will be a Gass I officer? Donaldson asked Nordell. The Commissioner was informed that a Gass I officer must complete 400 hours' training at the Academy. The consideration of this expense was one of the reasons the county agreed to make Nordells position a Class II. Commissioner Donaldson was a commissioner at the time that decision was made. You only work 40 hours a week. That's what's considered a week by Commissioner private industry, "We are in a position budget-wis- e Newt Donaldson told the officers, who had just explained that with only where we can't justify hiring three deputies to cover the county, someone else in the Sheriffs Commissioner Madsen they are presently scheduled for 12 office, The money hours on duty, 12 hours on standby, advised the deputies. six days in a row, because there is just isnt there. only one officer to cover the county at If you exceed your budget, you any time. Later Donaldson reiterknow who pays it back," Donaldson ated, You only get paid for 40 hours warned the sheriff. a week; you cant expect more for It comes out of my back pocket," your vacation. the sheriff conceded. If the county were to make special No additional staff for Jail? allowances for the deputies, the I hope you realize we havent got commissioners averred, they would be expected to do so for the other enough personnel to run the new jail, and we cant use dispatchers as county departments. Sheriff Anderson told the jailors," All county offices allow five Commission. days, and then you have Saturday Commissioner Donaldson said and Sunday off,-- Donaldson stated, after the officers had explained the other counties use dispatchers as I've visited them all. departmental schedule necessitated jailors: However, when pressed, Donaldson by the lack of deputies. declined to specify which counties We can't work with yo,u guys and were using dispatchers as jailors. not with everyone else, Donaldson he said "three or four" Later, added. Commission Chairman Ned counties were doing so, apparently Madsen agreed, adding, We'd in violation of the Utah jail have to give everyone 2'j weeks standards. Jailors must be Gass II vacation." police officers by state law. Mr. Donaldson reiterated that it "Its a chance the counties are was the countys policy to provide If a lawsuit is filed, they'll two weeks pay and taking. employees have to answer for it," warned a Saturdays and Sundays off." deputy. At present the Sanpete Maybe you shouldnt have that County Jail operates without a kind of schedule, Commissioner certified jailor. Willis Candland told the deputies Deputy Curt Lund asked if the regarding their present coverage Commission had any plans to train system. the dispatchers and get them The deputies pointed out that certified prior to the opening of the when one of them takes off for new jail. vacation, the others must work I guess were going to have to double shifts. Then later the look into it, Madsen said. vacationing deputy must compenLife support system sate his fellow deputies for the extra time they worked: "a vacation is no County Communications Director vacation at all that way. Barry Bradley took exception to the commissions apparent plan to use The deputies also stated that with dispatchers as jailors. only three men on duty, there is no "The dispatchers are capable of time for opportunity compensatory for overtime worked or holidays some monitoring activities, but we because there are no other personnel provide a communications system for ten agencies, and a life support to fill in. for 20,000 people. Youre I understood a deputy had to system to run into some trouble. We make up any time off." Donaldson going have problems now with dispatchers stated, adding that if deputies are leaving their post to do secretarial presently scheduling their vacations work or settle fights in the (present) to fall between their regularly jail. scheduled days off, That's Commissioner Willis Candland manipulation. That's manipulation, to take six (vacation) days between said after the new jail is installed and three-da- y breaks. When you take completed, perhaps the county this type of job, you ought to realize should make some kind of a survey the problems you run into, the of what we've got there, and decide what we need, and budget for it." commissioner told the deputies. Commissioner Madsen told the The deputies said most of the time shifts run into deputies he realized the sheriff's their eight-hour- " ten or eleven hours on duty. 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DWR land exchange Don Christensen of the Division of Wildlife Resources appeared before the commission to explain a land exchange between the Division and Avard Ottosen. The land lies east of Highway 89 and south of the Palisade area and the exchange provides a plot of arable land owned by DWR in trade for cedar foothill land owned by Mr. Ottosen. Eugene Jensen. Centerfield, asked the countys cooperation in moving a county road which presently bisects a large field which he is leasing. The County commission concurred with the moving of the road is cooperation could be obtained from the railroad in that area. Tim Jones and Tristan DeMille of Jones Engineering advised the commission that FF.MA (Federal Emergency Management Agency) had questioned some of the claims made for rebuilding flood damage, but nothing appeared to have arisen Exclusively at Mailt Home Supply for Quality 70 West Union and Value Street. Phone Manti. 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