Show H cinr cj j Volume 76 Number 46 Gunnison Utah 84634 Wednesday 50 November 19 1997 cents The Bad News Robert Judd Deputy Warden named Earle Hobby Central Utah Correctional Facility announced that Robert Judd had been appointed Deputy Warden over security and support services Judd has been with the CUCF staff for the past eight years He started as Captain over Housing and Security In 1994 he was promoted to Administrative Executive Officer for Warden Fred Van der Vuer Judd has been instrumental in developing various programs at CUCF as the chairman of the Employee Enhancement Committee This committee in addition to honoring employees weekly and monthly has been instrumental in building a Snow College Endowment Fund This fund allows employees or their children Jo attend Snow College Judd has been involved in the community as a member of the Gunnison LDS Stake Presidency where he serves as second counselor an assistant football coach at Gunnison High School for five years and as the coach of the little league football team for the past two years He came to CUCF after four years as the Sheriff in Garfield County He is manried to Cindy JuddThey have seven children and two grandchildren School District may downsize Grnmisom Middle School plans by Anita Lyons The bad news is the estimated cost for a the district's budget Business Administrator middle school in Gunnison is one million dolPaul Gottfredson commented “We’ve been In lars more than the school board budgeted spending right and left” and listed the allottheirmeeting November 2 the South Sanpete ments for track equipment and for new tennis School Board stood surrounding and staring at courts He insisted however "We are in great the architect’s 55 million dollar plan Then shape as long as things come in on schedule the conversation turned towards what could be the district is still waiting to receive 11 milcut to bring the plan into budget lion promised by the state But when we jump Last month in a three to two vote the board a million over budget that’s hard to palate” voted to add a new Two reasons the middle school wrestling room to the "No matter what you Manti High building project is over budproject Since the bidget were given: the on what you’ve ding for the project original estimate of to Manti people was competitive and square footage was will be ended up at $83 per the actual 51000 is nearly plan square foot instead of the architect’s esti60000 and conmate of $87 per square foot three members of struction prices have gone up since the original the board felt comfortable adding to the Manti $46 million estimate was given at $83 per project It had been formerly decided by the square foot board that wrestling room additions would The architects expect the bids to fall wait until money was available In reviewing tween dollars per square foot At $87 per square foot the school will cost 5 2 million at $92 the estimate is 55 million There is no question the district has the money to build the middle school hut there may not be $26 million left over to build a competition gym at Gunnison Valley High The easiest items to cut from the plan classrooms at $40000 each make the smallest impact in bringing the budget down 1 he board wondered about cutting out a set of $ 2 5 per squat e foot to save Also it the hoard chose to place money heating cooling units on the roof instead of installing a boiler they could save $300000 1 he architect adv ised the board to choose the boiler because roof systems cost so much Board more to run and wear out sooner Membei Inouye suggested cutting the kitchen facility in the new school resttooms- (See Bad News on Page 7) cut out based added mad" 'We need police force1 says The Good News: CTC council by Anita Lyons “1 think it’s a mistake once the tax is in place to repeal it when this town needs a police force” Mayor Kim Lund told the Centerfield town council Monday November 10 Though the vote in favor of repealing the tax won the majority “it’s not a vast majority” Lund noted about the 80 to 53 vote Council Member Perry Sorensen agreed “Knowing what I know about this town I’d hate to see it repealed” he said Council Member Bruce Hone cast his vote “I say leave it” “A little police exposure would make a lot of difference” continued Lund Speaking of the speeding four wheeler problem in town he commented “We’ve got to do something or somebody is going to get killed” Mayor Elect Roland Beck was also at the meeting He told the council “Leave it like it is and let us the new council worry about it” ‘Also at the meeting the council discussed amendments to the zoning ordinance concerning frontage and minimum size of lot amendments to the ordinance concerning size of home and the creation of a water impact fee Town members may participate in the discussion at a public meeting at 7:00 pm on Monday December 15 candidates make by Anita Lyons Write-ifever was in the air as Gunnison Valley voters went to the polls November 4 s made a statement in several Though town elections the only town they made a difference in was Fayette After an apathetic beginning 72 percent of the registered voters in Fayette came to the Candidates: polls and elected three write-iWayne Gilbert won the Mayor’s seat with 37 votes Luann Sorensen with 37 write- - (See Election 7T 'k’V'Ttr-Uo"T -- Page 7) 46 turnout Buchanan “Fhrotenson hm r ‘tv HI Y - v r‘ 4 Elizabeth Jensen 247 Karen f 23 turnout it' 108 17 Councilmember-Sherm- Cornell Leslie Bogh ne rjlCick112 f: r- icTWriben- ii 95 75 Bjerregaard Year Four - Counctirrwnber H Mayfield - Doug Mayor ilivia Cornell - 174 Good News on Page 7) sewer system The first survey had a poor the second survey has return of about 20 been done and Sunrise Engineering will now analyze it Sunrise Engineering wants to know what the desire of the council is and the needs of the community More than $ 2000 in grant memmoney has been obtained to help offset the cost Doug Bjerregaardand upcomingcounci! ber Grant Hanson were also in the audience of the study to the town of Mayfield and the town has paid their $3000 portion Val Cofer and Toni Fuller of Sunrise EngiMayor AC Robertson felt that “as a council neering gave a brief report and clarified the goals of Mayfield Val Cofer “wanted to make we could be either for or against the sewer sure that before the present council goes out system but in the long run it has to be up to the and the new council comes into office that they town to decide whether they want it or not If were all on the same page” When Sunrise the town is really for it the planning process Engineering started they had three contracts has to get as far as to determine the cost to the Water Impact Fee Study Mayfield residents with Mayfield The Mayor and the council confirmed their Analysis - which has been acted on and has been adopted Engineering Firm interest in proceeding with the study The firm had been hopeful that Water Feasibility Study - for a posengineering sible sewer system The first step was a survey Mayfield being a small community they could to determine if the town wanted or needed a get resident participation in the study At this -- V2TT&)uncilrnember- (See Sunrise Engineering reviews surveys with Mayfield Council Aren Election Totals j nzrTy'4 It ihw on made progress and we still have a good We’ll build for building” Hill reported what need we have now “Some teachers may have to share clavrooms until the growth is there” he admitted But things that have been cut from the plan won’t be difficult to add onto the school as the funds become available The group is hopeful that bidding will remain competitive keeping cost per square foot down Plans are to have the middle school ready to bid by the first of February The arch itect estimates a 4 mon th bu Id ing time which sets the opening date for the new school in August 1999 “All we can by Olivia Cornell Meeting Wes' called to order with Mayor AC Robertson council members Kirk Anderson John Hutchinson Van Malmgren: town employee Garth Vest and Catherine Bartholomew in attendance Future Mayor Write-i- n Jr ‘"l ' There's always hope! by Anita Lyons Staff writer The good news is there’s still a chance that Gunnison will get a middle school and a new high school gym In a conversation with Principal Hill Monday November 17 he spoke positively about the project He as well as Alan Peterson Superintendent Mullins and Dwight Inouye met with the Architect in a phone conversation and whittled $300000 off of the middle school plans “We’re trying to scale down the plans to get a middle school as well as a gym” Hill explained Tilings such as the number of shower heads in the locker rooms and the total number of classrooms were reduced “We Fayrtte Gilbert 27 37 Scott Bartholomew -Four Year Councilmember Luann Sorensen 37 Gerald Mellor 43 Alan King 31 Keith Bartholomew 23 an Grant Hansen 64 Kirk Anderson 18 point they have not gotten a good response back The engineering firm will pick up the balance of the surveys from Catherine tabulate them and get into the actual layout and estimated cost of the sewer plan to the residents Council member Van Malmgren said “The whole idea of the study is whether we go with the sewer now or sometime in the next ten years It still has to be done” Sunrise Engineering will rededicate themselves to following thru on the sewer plan to provide information to the town so that they can make the decision in the future regarding the sewer plan One thing to consider for the future of the sewer plant would be the location of the ponds It would be to the town’s advantage to consider what property could be used for the sewer ponds If the property for the (See Mayfield Notes on Page and administrative Construction has begun on the Manti High School gymnasium wings The South Sanpete School Board approved the addition of a wrestling room during recent meetings Timber sale reversal will affect local logger A United States Forest Service regional “1 want to commend the forest for continuofficial has reversed a decision affecting a ing to aggressively respond to the spreading timber salvage sale planned on the spruce beetle epidemic even though faced National Forest with changing and evolving direction and poliThis reversal adversely affects Satterwhite cies regarding timber salvage projects” stated Log Homes in Gunnison said Sam Satterwh ite Troyer in announcing the latest decision The south Manti sale would have harvested “However based on the full scope of objecboard feet of timber that has been tions raised in the appeals it is not possible for effected by a spruce beetle epidemic me to conclude that this project may not have Jack Troyer deputy intermountain region significant effects which requires an forester has reversed a decision by Enviorment Impact Study (EIS) to approprisupervisor Janette Kaiser directing the ately document and disclose the effects of a forest to reanalyze the proposed sale through project of this magnitude” he continued the development of environmental impact stateTroyer indicated that there was new informent rather than basing the decision on an mation in the decision notice that creates a need to prov ide for addition public review and assessment developed in 1996 Kaiser’s decision had been appealed by the comment South west Center for Biological Diversity the “The existing south Manti timber salvage Wild Utah Forest CampaignWestem Ancient sale analysis provides a good foundation for Forest Campaign and by an individual Dick preparation of the EIS and the forest should Carter utilize this existing analysis and take this opPlanning for the sale originally began in portunity to update the proposed action to 1993 through the development of an environreflect the current conditions update the analymental impact statement Work on the EIS was sis based on the new information and seek halted after President Bill Clinton signed Pubpublic comment” Troyer concluded lic Law which contained provisions Troyer’s decision constituted the final for expediting the sale of dead and dying ve determination of the US Departtimber on national forests commonly known ment of Agriculture on the appeals pursuant to as “salvage rider” the administrative appeal process Forest officials initially determined the south However Satterwhite stated that the ruling met the criteria of the rider and could affect the new facility in Gunnison developed an environmental assessment for "That parcel was part of the reason we the sale and issued a decision to proceed in located here" he said "We are lucky that we June 1996 Further clarification and direction still have three years of harvesting on our relating to the salvage rider from the US current contract" He added that normal EIS Secretary of Agriculture prompted the forest efforts take up to two years He is hoping that to withdraw the decision the current EAS will help move it along quicker Modifications were made to the sale and than that Kaiser reissued her decision in August 997 "We rely on the dry timber We don’t do based on the Environmental Assessment Study anything but salvage the dry timber We are (EAS) that was completed in 1996 watching this decision very carefully" he said The Salina Sun and Gunnison Valley News office will close for Thanksgiving at 12 noon on Wednesday November 26 The Gunnison office will be open on Friday from 9 am until pm Deadlines for advertising news weddings and obituaries will be extended until Monday Dec at 10 am 7) J |