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Show County Commissioners Discuss Future $750,000 Antimony Road Improvements PANGUITCH Garfield County Commissioners Clare Ramsay and Maloy Dodds met Mar. 9 in a day-long commission session. Commission Chairman Louise Liston was excused for health reasons from being present but monitored the proceedings, giving her input by speaker phone from her Escalante residence. Liston asked County Engineer Brian Bremner about the future of the Utah Department of Transportation Transpor-tation project and where funds had been set aside. Bremner said there is a project lined up on Johns Valley road with 93 percent federal funding and a 7 percent match, like previously accomplished accom-plished on 14 miles of the same road. The approximately $750,000 project may be two years away, he said, with 5-6 miles heading down in Black Canyon. He said they are hoping to come close to tying the two paved portions of road together conditional upon priorities of projects with UDOT. Commissioner Maloy Dodds motioned to change the administration admini-stration of the Building Inspection Department. Jim Johnson will serve as the building inspector and the commission will take a look at adjusting his salary at a later date due to his new responsibilities. respon-sibilities. Les Barker will still assist with commercial inspections inspec-tions and planning and zoning. Escalante City, in preparing to research mandatory curbside garbage gar-bage pick-up door-to-door versus countywide garbage pickup, asked ClerkAuditor Moore for some specifics regarding the costs of the county garbage collection operation. According to Moore, apparently appar-ently the ball was dropped on following up to collect moneys owed the county from Escalante City. Escalante City had contracted con-tracted to make four payments when garbage pick-up was begun by the county back in 1993. They have paid only 25 percent and owe a little more than $20,000 Moore indicated. Liston introduced a letter she had received from U.S. Mutual discussing the first evaluation of Utah Association of Counties Risk Management project. The letter is about five pages and notes a number of items they feel the county is not in compliance with. Camille Moore and Brian Bremner have looked into this on several occasions with their representatives rep-resentatives and feel the gain to the county versus the financial outlay required is extremely disproportionate. dis-proportionate. Liston will forward the letter to Moore and Bremner. A short discussion of the proposed pro-posed budget for Special Service District 1 was held. The budget was left open to accommodate anticipated and unanticipated projects. The cemetery district funds were provided because a number of communities expressed interest in having assistance from the county at their local cemeter- ies. So funds were earmarked in reserve for that. Les Barker also was in attendance atten-dance to bring commissioners up-to-date on efforts to replace carpeting car-peting in the courthouse and law enforcement offices. Barker stated sta-ted they had basically budgeted for carpet replacement and had advertised for bids, receiving only a single bid back. Barker stated the county had a piece of carpet remaining after last year's project which might possibly work over in the common area of the jail office. They discussed colors and texture (See COMMISSION Page 3A) Commission From Front Page of carpeting for the commission chambers. Camille Moore suggested that commissioners take an on-site trip to the jail as the carpeting was "atrocious." Moore said she talked to Rob Veater and to jail personnel as well. She said there is enough carpeting to do the (See COMMISSION Page 5A) County Commission Meeting Report From Page 3A main part but not the two offices. She said Panguitch City has committed to pay for one of the offices so that leaves one office remaining. Carpeting the front entryway, the central area and two offices will probably be $1200 to $1500. Barker said that will put' the courthouse in pretty good shape, except for Bremner's office, the extension office and downstairs. Barker said they had only budgeted budg-eted $2,000 so it will probably go a little over that. They will use the blocks of carpeting in the entryway en-tryway of the jail so damaged carpet can be replaced. Barker reminded thecommis-sion thecommis-sion that the county was looking at getting the rear courthouse parking lot finished by July or August. However, the Panguitch City Redevelopment Committee had proposed projects that might possibly change entry and exit ways. Elaine Baldwin and Janet Oldham were on hand to explain the various proposals. Baldwin said they had worked with Dave Bell from Utah State University to come up with conceptual drawings. draw-ings. There was ubstantial discussion dis-cussion about whether to keep the throughway from Zions Bank to Jhe courthouse. |
