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Show County Commissioners Address Variety Of Issues PANGUITCH Garfield County Commissioners Louise Liston, Clare Ramsay and Maloy Dodds along with County Attorney Wal-ace Wal-ace Lee, County Engineer Brian Bremner and ClerkAuditor Camille Moore met for the final commission commis-sion meeting in March on Monday, Mar. 25. The commission commended the Garfield County News for the accuracy accu-racy of its article on the Boulder-to-Ticaboo road controversy. They said that articles in other newspapers newspa-pers had implied the county had done a full mile of work rather than the actual 180 feet being challenged. chal-lenged. Commissioner Liston informed in-formed Bremner that she authorized Escalante-Boulder Road Sheds Foreman Fore-man Dean Gledhill to place additional ad-ditional construction signs on the road because of the increase in traffic traf-fic due to the recent publicity. County Engineer Brian Bremner told the commission that the county had received an agreement from Kane County for upgrading and maintenance of the Hole-in-the-Rock road. The agreement sent by Kane County was for 100 percent of funding to come from Kane County the first year, reducing to 75 percent each year thereafter, with funds to be paid at least annually. The commissioners said that they had remembered the agreement differently, dif-ferently, believing that funding by Kane County would be 100 percent until problems on the road were corrected. Bremner said Class B and C road funds are received quarterly and he would prefer that Kane forward for-ward amounts quarterly as received, making it easier for accounting purposes. The commissioners directed di-rected Bremner to discuss the situation situa-tion further with Kane County If Garfield County will be bringing the road up to standard 100 percent of funds would be required for however how-ever long it might take to do so. Then Garfield County would assume as-sume responsibility. This road is difficult to maintain and Garfield County is taking it over only as a service to people traveling it. It will not be a money-making propo sition but should serve to alleviate complaints from users on the road. Its main access is in Garfield County. Bremner will represent the county in discussing with Kane County that the commissioners had understood the terms of maintenance mainte-nance differently. Bremner said Tropic Town had submitted a request to purchase the county's Tropic road shed at $70,000. The town would like to get into the north bay of the shed to do some remodeling during the summer. The county received a lease pack from the Bureau of Land Management last week and as soon as the county completes its new road shed on the BLM property, the BLM will convert the lease pack to sale pack. The county is on five-year five-year plan for improvement. Bremner Brem-ner mentioned to Tropic Mayor Jean Seiler that it would be good to have an earnest money agreement in place. As soon as that has been paid, construction will begin on the county's new shed. Bremner to explained the BLM grant process by saying that a five-year five-year plan of development is required to be submitted with the RP&P grant application. At that point, the BLM leases the land for a nominal nom-inal annual fee and when the county completes its plan of development the BLM can see that the county was serious about the project and will then actually sell the county the land. Completion of the plan of development shows good faith and is a safeguard to the BLM that the purchaser won't sell land to an entity for perhaps $10 an acre for a 1,000 acres and that entity sell in turn to a development for $3 million. mil-lion. Bremner said the county has a lease on new BLM land and its plan of development includes fencing the yards and building a shed. As soon as a $40,000 down payment on the old shed at Tropic is transferred to the county, the county can then begin be-gin construction on its new shed at the BLM site. Bremner said he expects ex-pects the county to complete its new shed by year's end. Bremner said the county would continue to use the old Tropic shed except for its north end which Tropic will work on remodeling and utilize the space until the county moves out. Only in the late fall will things get a little crowded, he said. Bremner does not want to vacate va-cate old shed until new one is completed. com-pleted. In response to Commissioner Ramsay's question, Bremner explained ex-plained that $17 million from the Joint Highways Commission would be going into the counties. Bremner said that Class B & C road moneys would probably provide for a $200,000 increase for Garfield County in 1998. Bremner said the county asked for $800,000 and got $650,000 for improvements on the John's Valley road. He said we have the match for it right now, but the question is do we want to use that match to improve it as much as we can and take the $650,000 for surfacing and improvements on the top with some match coming later or do we want to hold that match out. Turning to the recent advertisement advertise-ment for bids for county equipment and materials. Bremner passed out information sheets saying they received re-ceived only one bid for the Four-Wheel Four-Wheel Drive Articulated Grader. Cost of the grader was $135,090., trade-in for present grader was $55,200, leaving a remaining balance bal-ance of $79,890. Bremner reminded commissioners he had budgeted $80,000 this year for new grader. He said they had put grader out to county for bids but received none, probably because its trade-in value so good. He asked for authorization to buy the grader which was granted. The county received two bids for a Self-Propelled Broom one from Cate Equipment for a new Rosco RB48 for $26,887 and one from Rasmussen Equipment for a new Waldon Sweepmaster II for $27,858. Bremner tthe county had (See County Commission Addresses Addres-ses Variety Of Issues On Page 4A) Co. Commission Addresses Many Vital Issues From Page 1A also stipulated that alternate bids which would the needs of the county would be considered. An alternative al-ternative bid was also submitted from Cate Equipment for a used '95 Rosco, RB48 (with 151 hours of use), for $20,261. Garfield County is very familiar with that piece of equipment, having rented it one year ago and put 120 of those 151 hours on it. Bremner asked for authorization au-thorization to purchase alternate bid for the used broom. He said he had also budgeted $20,000 this year for a broom. Authorization was granted. Bids were also received from Jerry's Red-E-Mix, Hales Sand and Gravel and Cox Rock Products, Inc. for aggregate supply materials for the county for 1996. Basically the local supplier Jerry's Red-E-Mix was low bidder for cover material, type B & C on schedule A. He was also low bidder on hauling material to Panguitch Lake on schedule B.. This material is what is scheduled for chipping projects this year Bremner explained. What is scheduled sched-uled to be chipped is Panguitch Lake and the Panguitch area.' Mosdell did not bid on materials to be hauled to the Bullfrog area, as Cox Rock Products did not bid on material to be hauled to Panguitch Lake. Hales Sand and Gravel was low bidder on schedule C to haul to Bullfrog. Bremner wanted to accept those low bidders but subject to review re-view so he can check what funds are still in place for these projects. Commission accepted subject to review re-view of funds available. Bremner has copy of 10-year schedule for chipping. Commissioners asked for a copy Brian said they stick with this schedule barring bad winters, etc. He said roads were not up to par to be able to schedule chipping on them prior to recent years. Commissioners and Bremner reviewed re-viewed the bids for county chemicals chemi-cals for weed spray and vegetation management. Bremner said they split the bid process up by individual individ-ual chemicals, so they could go after af-ter best price on each. County budgeted about $12,000 for this purpose and authorized Bremner to purchase what was needed. |