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Show —Llll ve ie vat ete ee eel oon thei del ence ene eneee oll ballnddl hep cats 5 + WASATCH COUNTY VoL. 1 ISSUE 4 Wasatch County’s Source for News a JULY 27, 1999 False Alarm Triggers Action By JEAN CROASMUN_ LIFESTYLE EDITOR a "HEBER - five with light subitie assault Se —— rifles, agencies, armed descended upon Community First Bank in Heber on Tuesday, July 20 after receiving an alert from an alarm company of a manually-triggered silent alarm in the bank. Hundreds of residents turned out to watch as -members of Heber City Police, Wasatch County: Sheriffs Department, the Utah H ighway Patrol, Parks and Recreation, and Fish and Game sought to determine the cause of the alarm. At first believing it to be a bank robbery, armed A manual alarm, like oo one that was activated in Community First Bank, must be manually triggered by pushing a button; it cannot be triggered by movement, wind, or crawling animals like a motion-sensitive alarm. However no one in the bank building recalls having oe triggered the alarm’s sensor. _ “It was a good practical exercise,” said erebi City Chief of Police Rhodes. “We got a lot of coop- eration from the City, Parks and Rec, the Sheriff’s department, Natural Resources and the wy Patrol.” | Area Agencies Putto Test officers scaled the roof of the neighboring Swiss Alps Inn and positioned themselves behind trees At the same time as the false alarm at trying to determine if there might be a hostage situ- Community First Bank on Tuesday night, July 20, | ation unfolding inside. Portions of Main Street and — emergency crews were also detached to Deer Creek 100 South were closed briefly. 3 Reservoir where an eight-year old girl had fallen Although two people were found irin the closed into the path of a boat. propeller. | ff bank building, neither turned out to bea perpetra- _, Crews were able to quickly transport ‘ifie girl tor; just the bank: ‘manager and a tenaint of the buildfrom Deer Creek to Wasatch County Hospital ~ ing. Neither was aware that the allarm had been where she was life-flighted to Primary Children’s Sah eile Jeff Winterton’ peers over on ook of the6 Saris ss hts Inn during” Tuesday’s false alarm. Public safety agencies from around the come were.onES ager FAG a, Hospital in Salt Lake for work on her leg. duty to ensure there was no foul play. Firehouse Contract Illegal? By SAM ALrEN BebaoRChave admitted that the architectural contract for the fire station was never put INVESTIGATIVE REPORTER | |. out for competitive bid. The reason given ]- FREE WEEKLY NEWSPAPER — ‘Heber City, UT Permit No. 32005. . ame sg deetrensethenarreacthomrareetien t aman : Standard — U.S. Postage Paid eS 525 SOUTH MAIN STREET Heser City, UT 84032 WASATCH COUNTY'S — lie en aN _Presorted ae: WASATCH COUNTY COURIER te e ica ee. and Commissioner ee Both Dan Matthews ee legal notice.” ric See deneeen When Commissioner Provost tried to explain his actions last week, he said that he signed the contract on behalf of the Jordanelle Special Service District (SSD). that, “total fee for basic design: shall not The contract clearly states that. the agreement was exceed the design fee factor times the conbetween the Wasatch County Fire Protection District and struction cost....” It also states that ,”the Architectural Design West. Some. have wondered whether Construction ee shall include the sist at. a sewer and water district like the JSSD has the authority current market rates of labor and materials to build a fire station. It does not appear that any individBlake Allen and Zach Hicken work well together as rodeo ..plus a reasonable allowance for the uals who were members of the Fire Board at the time were clowns at the Wallsburg 24th of July Rodeo held Saturday. Contractor’s overhead and profit.” aware that an agreement had been signed. For a detailed look at the festivities, turn to pages 14 and 15. Assuming that the cost of the fire staDan Matthews, the: former County Attorney who tion is about $2.27 million which is the latresigned last February, negotiated the contract. It appears est estimate, the architect will receive about signed their management contract with Wasatch County that all planning for the contract took place in closed’ $256,737 for designing and supervising the construction -instead of with Wasatch County Fire Protection District meetings since other members of the Fire Board were not of the fire station. Utah Home Builders, Inc. who also has like Design West did. The total cost for design and superaware of them. a construction management contract for the fire station vision of the construction project could be as high as Wasatch County’ s Purchasing Policy clearly states, will receive between $45,000 and $244,519 depending on “Any procurement in excess of $25,000 shall require a see CONTRACT on page 2 how you interpret their contract.. Utah Home. Builders Nee : ik Teale the 9 SSD, from ¥ removed ‘was that the fire station in Pine Brook was identical to what they wanted and using the same architectural. firm would décrease costs and time needed to complete. | In addition, Wasatch County’s Purchasing Policy states that, “cost-plus-apercentage-of cost contracts [are] prohibitetl. 5 Ane architectural contract mandates . eS a Le fh) SA Sint Red HEBER - On April 6, 1998 Commissioner LaRen - Provost signed the architectural contract for the new $2.27 million Jordanelle fire station without the authority to do so. Commissioner Provost had been |Fire Board on March 11, 1998. July 24th Celebration |