Show Our viov ix Bear Bake landowners wade through sudden enforcement iT fee a bit odd the state’s Why the sudden enforcement? sudden interest in reasserting its Art DuFault director of the Utah Division oTFbieatiy Fire and State rights to state land beneath Bear Lands which is charged with Lakt4 a For decades lakefioot homeowners have been building structures out into the turquoise waters — boat ramps docks and sea walls The' homeowners may not have known it but they were encroach ing onto State property The law says Utah owns the land under the state’s lakes and navigable rivers s enforcing the encroachment rule told our reporter his division was simply too busy to investigate the incidents until now It Menu the division’s attention was absorbed by those hotly contested school trust lands Now that another agency has been created to deal with school trust lands the division do the tot of ttt time “V “ The term for thi waterlogged job acreage is "sovereign land" - A This begs many questions not the If the homeowners didn’t know least of which is What other laws claim can be this as 1 they many forgiven After all decades have gone by without state officials making an issue of it And with a lake that fluctuates in volume as much as Bear Lake which land is underwater varies widely from year to year The state says it owns up to the high water mark 592365 feet above sea level — a little hard for die average homeowner to measure unless he has a an altimeter on his Swiss Army knife This year all of a sudden 121 landowners got letters telling them to remove their encroachments or pay an assessment between $200 and $300 plus a $50 application 9 A Your view The other day when Bill Larson v Many of the landowners have paid up graciously an attitude we applaud Some have called their lawyers and we can’t blame diem either Let’s see $250 apiece times 121 landowners is $30250 That ought to be enough for the division to hire another person Maybe then it could get all its work done 1 v By Biuce Smith Herald Journal pubteher fwouldsomdiow change in the v !year-f2000- opportunity to discuss with him the tremendous increase in costs with law enforcement in Cache Valley We talked a lot about the need and cost of building a new multiinillian dollar jail addle we Mill owe $2 million on die one we just hoik I also talked with Bill about the sheriff’s office's $1 million -- Bill said that if he were elected sheriff he would explore several different costsaving opportunities that he believes are available to taxpayers We discussed the fact that the sheriff’s office has over 65 vehicles in its fleet and that in order to reduce the need for so many Cars Bill said that he would evaluate the possibility of eliminating die current sheriff’s practice of allowing personnel to take home costly police vehicles (Each vehicle costs more than $28000 new) BiU said feat the original justification fta allowing deputies to take cars home dated hack before 1976 when be began his employment wife fee sheriff’s office! At that time deputies were under-Rpre- - tented throughout the county There were few law enforcement officers resid- ing outside of Logan and deputies were often called upon to off-du- ty respond to emergencies Several years ago that practice changed as die courts required counties to pay overtime to all nonsupervisory penoimel The sheriff’s office’s use of nonadministrative personnel far emergencies lessened greatly this despite Cache County not providing police protection to its citizens - -- in March 1998 (after BIU UffOfi brought up fee issue of police coverage) the sheriff police protection farther reducing fee demand far an officer to be called out to an emergency & is Bill’s opinion that our safety and beiner withrthfror- seottity —L level fee continuation of rent manpower coverage and without officers takmghome pohcecars 24-ho- ur 24-ho- ur 24-ho- ur y iie'cro 24-ho- ur He speculated about fee devastate was aho in high gear trying lo solve all ofdwworid’aiKtMemkvlfonuStwhow: ing affect it would have on the earfe He hart I tried I couldn’t go hack to sleep talkedon and on about where he got Ida JLi’i three o’clock in the morning My So skag wife my wife I began listening information and verified his speculation wife Karencan’t sleep She has been and became interested inwbat the horiwith whatseemed to be numerous rep-flipping and flopping in bed for feeptst and some of the callers were talking utablcsourees including fee Bibfa Tifc I hour as she tries to solve all die WoridYf aboutThat night as on most nights sewy thing is thathe was dead serioOa problems Finally she says to me? I need fern wane some pretty strange peopfeV Sometimes! there ate very strange hid thendia' true things feat are discussed calling in wife some real strange com- fee callert One night fee nityect of Instinctively and almost with-oFor example one Caller from SeattfeVbonyenation fas about a man who had any effort my churned feat all people in fee northwest ' nrallowed a naiL CaUen speculated on hand finds the pert of Washington had somehow Iofa rod car about what would happen to both three hburllhe caller didn’t know how fee nail mdtte man Tb prove he was Bill also explained to me the costly button on the radio and I it it happened or where the time wenL All falling the troth fee nail swallower sent practice' within the sheriff’s office of three times1push have : he knew was that all of a sudden eyery an providing corty new police performance picture of his insides to fee talk one realized it was three hours latetwHy’Show host This particular talk show had J vehicles to administrative support per- - learned over the sonnel who are not primary response yema diat pushing whenl'anV and foe picture was Thqe have been ofere tt dnee tunes will — vehicles to and cally only use vehicles to travel to and from their off all by itself in 30 mmutes Hopefully describe fteS Karen’s mirid slow down a mcrng I chodwWferifajifarto ’ homes to the sheriff’s office Bill Larson in 30 theories about sure I wasn’t having some kind of make suspect and she fall will asleep believes that taxpayers’ monies could bit ’ conspiracies to cover up them up Along n weird feeam have one blame no I but far to myself better be used by having deputies begin some UFO the Wife taDc sightings people feow broadcasts in fee t mfio lhe their shifts at fee sheriff's office (not my wife asking me to turn on fee radio even daim they have been captured by middle are fee of in' middle night really strange A For fee fee I of years night iidiens taken aboard their fauwe ddps rod few nunufes of parked in their driveways) and by havtalk radio radio have fee to to listening nighttime gone sleep ing more than one deputy utilize more fee right going to and returning would make aajrone fed like anyprob- mostly talk radio The subject matter of spent than one vehicle from some strange pface inom universe lems or oonceros they may have seem As a recipient of Social Security and radio talk shows is always relatively Another night I listened to listenand found have fe I totally inconsequaitiaL It’s a great way unimportant fixed income live to on I a having supas sum 3 natural far niiaUrn wimi eft my f wwIiUm explanations trivia and me to relax helps quickly port Bill Lanan far Cache County sher- ing earthquakes- - One caller said a recent to sleep go iff as I know BiU will carefully look at If y ffiSyouSSrodiie to go to: and evaluate how his office spends each Karen has picked up my habit except 7 she trouMe doesn’t have to going sleep penny of my tax money she has trouble staying asleep So when claimed fee same earttguake was caused to dio You ero bf is awake in the middle of fee night hy secret government nuclear bomb v ltxxtaiati f she Mary Lou Andrews Solving the world’s problems she has fasts One caller even blamed fee Rus- -so hritrayrnm Logan discovered feat listening to fee talk radio Fascination wife fee year 20Q0 is trivia is a great way fa get her mind do well-used favorite Subject of midcue of the night ' slowdown A few nighU ago when she told me Safari bohawi appeere on fee OpMre T ! : ” ES$m000hJk yariPrtcf ’ rtf-fee-w-all tv tk - af Mountains for benefit of humans : Tb fee editor In his Herald Journal letter (Aug 21) respondingto mine (Aug 11) eoyinm-mentali- st Bill Jensen praised personal garbage recycling and lamented "dese- cration” of the Oquiirrh Mountains to ' itmnligh Impliering and mining Human use of natural resources "desecrates Mother Earth” but so volcanic eruptions earthquakes and grasshopper invasions Oquinh "desecration” is quite acceptable to me Meda Genecri Nowe Bairrioai ‘ ' r- in - j'-- " 1 t i: 'Elect Joe Jones president: he drinks that Trie says wiO be efisto 45 miUion voters this veu your morals stink-f-t That would be a ASHINGTON— Foruorga--' fee coalition will not even fist feet forth a ftOVd fstnptp tsrf y£7My wife and I spent many early yean Bin Bennett fee fanner education see durum and after fee Great Depression nization feat has been pmlrayed as a coming House vote cm authorizing ah has esdiewed presidential ment'inquiiy'£ benefiting from Oquinh desecration? 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Mallard Fillmoro 7® l: ' showed up on my hoot porch campaign ing for Cbche County sheriff I took an off-dut- V-f-1 jwars x-r- lb the editor - are being ignored because our state officials are too busy to do their jdbs? But for die landowners die main question is Why after all these do I suddenly have to pay a ut Larson plans to save taxpayers’ dollars - ' - — jwWtodtoonaputamadito Addraaa ?towwobinawacem fTS&heSd al Quart cow-- v: Ji - |