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Show County Commissioners Adjust 1999 Budget In December Meet In their December commission meeting, Garfield County Commissioners Commis-sioners reopened the 1999 county budget for year-end adjustments. The county's approved budget of $5.2 million was adjusted upwards to $10 million for the year. Total additional unexpected revenues reve-nues generated were $5.2 million with decreases of almost $400,000. Revenue increases came from property taxes (up $30,000 to total $300,000), sales taxes (up $75,000 to total $450,000), restaurant taxes (up $20,000 to total $110,000), business licenses (up $1,000 to total $3,000), building permits (up $25,000 to total $45,000), Payment Pay-ment in Lieu of Taxes (up $6,146 to total $209,702), class B allotment allot-ment (up $64,425 to total $1,224,425), state grants (up $6,917 to total $20,000), recorder's fees (up $8,000 to total $38,000), road contracts (up $46,000 to total $46,000), motor vehicle fees (up $3,000 to total $15,000), outcount (up $15,000 to total $125,000), ambulance fees (up $65,000 to total $175,000), miscellaneous revenue (up $6,000 to total $6,000), E-911 collections (up $5,500 to total $19,500), court expense reimbursement reimburse-ment (up $9,100 to total $9,100), justice court fines (up $55,000 to total $145,000, district court fines (up $64,000 to total $90,000), interest in-terest income (up $100,000 to total $160,000), saledisposal of assets (up $219,000 to total $219,000), bond proceeds (up $4,390,000 to total $4,390,000), and other revenues reve-nues ($1,395,844 unchanged to total $1,395,844). Revenues that were down included inclu-ded transient room taxes (down $10,000 to $460,000), forest reserve re-serve (down $75,000 to total $200,000), mineral lease funds (down $41,215 to total $132,005), clerk's fees (down $1,000 to total $1,000), cardboard recycling (down $5,000 to total, zero), airport office rent (down $7,200 to total $12,000), and surplus (down $256,638 to total zero). (See BUDGET on page 4-A) BUDGET From Front Page Expenditures were listed as follows: District court (up $50,687 to total $150,000), justice court (up $3,000 to total $80,785), public defender (up $2,200 to total $15,4000), treasurer (up $2,500 to total $70,645), non-departmental (up $30,000 to total $184,950), sheriffs department (up $25,000 to mm mm mm mm mm mm mm mm mm mm mm mm mm total $465,403), forestry and fire (up $13,000 to total $54,600), corrections (up $15,000 to total $254,196), public safety facility (up $4,400,000 to total $4,400,000), building inspector (up $6,000 to total $69,367), ambulance ambu-lance (up $46,000 to total $207,989), care and share (up $1,300 to total $10,500), aging (up $8,000 to total $125,951), library (up $7,000 to total $45,000), extension (up $1,500 to total $35,746), travel council (up ! $15,000 to total $485,000), transfer to surplus (up $159,348 to total ' $159,348), transfer to capital (up 1 $70,000 to total $70,000), other I expense $3,015,696 unchanged. I The garbage truck (IMPR) is I listed under expenditures with no amounts, and it is not listed under revenues. The revised 1999 budget was, by motion and unanimous appro-' val, opened and a final budget . amount of $10,000,576 agreed upon. 1 The commission adopted the ' proposed 2000 budget at I $6,781,643. I In other business, Beth Cottam, I Five County Association of Gov- ernments, presented an overview of the Home Health Services in the county fund by Five County AOG. She was assisted by Carrie Dennis, . Five County AOG and Deon Al- vey, Aging Director. The program, 1 provided in the past by Intermoun-' Intermoun-' tain Health Care had been substantially sub-stantially cut over the past year. The Council on Aging had been trying to organize volunteers to make up the difference. The three women had met with Eric Packer at Garfield Memorial Hospital to work out a cooperative agreement to provide homemaker services in conjunction with Home Health Care. The funding would come directly to the county and the (See BUDGET on page 5-A) BUDGET From Page 4-A program would be administered by the Garfield County Council on Aging. A business license would be required from the county. The commission motioned to enter a contract with the Five County Association of Governments Govern-ments to provide homemaker services ser-vices and authorized the clerk to issue a business license to the Garfield County Council on Aging. Cottam also presented an overview of the Welfare to Work Program, with one person in the county currently eligible. All wages and transportation costs will be paid by Five County AOG with the individual to be utilized in the Aging or Care and Share Program if possible. Jim Guyman, Bruce Bonebrake, Derris Jones, Norm McKee, Stan Beckstrom, Division of Wildlife Resources, presented information on the DWR's Critical Wildlife Habitat Areas. The commission motioned and approved to commit $75,000 in the year 2000 for salary and benefits for a physician to replace Dr. E. Terry Henrie who was retiring. The commission motioned and approved a donation of $1,250 for the Discovery on Wheels Program at Escalante High School. The request for funds was submitted by the Escalante Center. The commission motioned and approved to retain Connie Brooks and Thompson and Urquhardt as consulting firms in the anticipated Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument lawsuit, and to accept Barbara Hjelle's proposed budget for their services. At a public hearing on a road abandonment with Tom Higbee, Guy Nelson and Brian Bremner, County Engineer, present, the commissioners denied Nelson's request to abandon. Bremner explained that Nelson proposed abandoning 81 feet of Meadow Drive at Panguitch Lake Estates. The proposal also included a cul-de-sac. Bremner voiced concern that it would eliminate access to adjacent Forest Service property, providing no benefit to the county. An adjacent private property owner, represented by Higbee, also opposed the abandonment. When Nelson asked if the county had talked with the Forest Service, Bremner said the county is not required to. While Nelson said he private property owner he represented would actually benefit from the abandonment, he 1 and others used the road to access the public lands. |