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School District Grant Ted Chidester made a presentation presen-tation concerning a grant he was applying for through the 21st Century Community Learning Center, Cen-ter, a program focused on rural districts and inner city schools. The grant program targets rural school districts to provide funding for after-school and summer programs. pro-grams. Chidester explained that Garfield County is eligible for a number of grants never previously applied for because nearly 95 percent of the land in the county is state or federally owned and thus our tax base is very small. He said he had been working with all schools in the district. He stressed that proposed distribution of funds is not set in stone and entirely dependent depen-dent upon successfully obtaining the grant funds and the amount received. The grant runs over a three-year period and exceeds $3.5 million for after school teaching activities and a summer session for approximately eight weeks to teach math, science, reading, etc., along with some recreational things and field trips. According to Chidester, it would provide parenting assistance, babysitting baby-sitting for parents participating in computer classes at night a great variety of helps, including reading, ESL teacher, library specialist. The city Panguitch will also keep the library open. The grant, if successfully obtained, ob-tained, would provide for a paid recreational person, for example, the Social Hall in Panguitch or old gyms in Escalante and Bryce Valley or for recreational purposes. It would provide computers where take and they were subsequently removed by the GSENM. Honey said the Kane County Commission Com-mission is writing a letter opposing the GSENM management actions. Garfield County commissioners commis-sioners have opposed similar signs designated for Garfield County. needed. Boulder has requested six computers a year for three years along with technical services. Chidester said he has been nearly a year writing the grant. He has also written two grants for the Garfield County Jail where they get $13,000 a year for the next two years for part time teaching supplies. They have also worked with three other counties for a grant of $42,000 that puts a brand new A Plus program in the jail for teaching teach-ing up there. He has also secured two grants for adult education where that will provide $4,000 a year for the next two years. Chidester asked the county commission com-mission to form a partnership with the school district and additionally requested a letter of support for the grant package. Chidester had secured letters of support from the Forest Service and Americorp also. The Americorp group out of St. George supplies salaries for Earl Spencer and his wife to teach in Escalante with the school district paying part of that as well. Chidester Chid-ester noted the school had not paid that as yet. Besides those in Escalante, Esca-lante, they are funding two more part-time teaching positions in Panguitch. At the end of that program pro-gram each one of the students can receive a partial scholarship worth about $4,500 each. Chidester said he was working with Spectrum Consulting, a grant-writing grant-writing firm out of North Logan because of the lack of qualified grant writers in the school district. The grant includes something for each part of the county Chidester Chid-ester emphasized. "This is a very comprehensive grant and the only way they won't fund you is if you ask for too little," Chidester explained. ex-plained. Chidester added that if the grant is secured in May, the proposed budgets for each facility would be Panguitch High School, $139,611; Escalante High School, $143,175; for Bryce Valley High School, $134,000; for Panguitch Middle School, $93,000; Panguitch Elementary, Ele-mentary, $141,000; Escalante Elementary, Ele-mentary, $119,000; Bryce Valley Elementary, $123,000; Boulder Elementary $76,000 and Antimony Elementary $75,000. Chidester said that the grant which is funded out of Washington D.C., was required to be submitted by Mar. 30 and that he felt there was an excellent chance of being funded. BOARD REPORTS Naming Local Arches Commissioner Dodds said he received a letter on the naming of two new arches. One is going to be called "Justice Arch" down by Waterpocket Fold. There was discussion dis-cussion that these are supposed to be new arches but often times are old arches that locals have names for and then they get nominated and renamed. The notification came from thf United States Board on Geographic Names out of Virginia. Canyon Country Complex Triple C Arena Commissioner Dodds referred to an inter-office memo from Joe (See COMMISSION on page 2-A) COMMISSION From Front Page Decker saying he was able to land the Utah State Fairs Seminar for 2002. This is a one-day event in March. Camille Moore said they have an annual Utah State Association Asso-ciation of Fairs and Shows Seminar where people come from all- over the state who are involved in county fairs or other activities. They switch the location every year to become familiar with different venues. Moore also said they were considering a 32-team wrestling tournament at the' facility ' irr' December. - - Census Report The Census Report was passed around for review and will not all be coming out at once. UDOT Highway Meeting A letter was referred to by Commissioner Dodds from the National Highway Workshop held at Rubys Inn. They have put a group together that consists of Wayne County Travel Council Director Dir-ector Nan Anderson, Garfield Travel Council Director Bruce Fullmer, Dixie Natural History, John Williams, Will-iams, executive director of the Five County Association of Governments, Govern-ments, and others. Clare Ramsay said he and Dell LeFevre were asked to be on that committee as well but they decided against it. LeFevre noted he had been beat up on that a little by two or three people and wondered whether Ramsay had had the same reaction or was the issue dead? Bruce Fullmer was scheduled to address the Highway 12 Corridor Plan in the commission meeting. Spotted Owl Habitat Dodds said that he had a communication regarding designation designa-tion of habitat for the spotted owl. Widtsoe. Cemetery . . i Ramsay said that Phil Allen had called him from Antimony on the cemetery district. They may have to purchase some land from the ' State Trust Lands and have it surveyed. There are a number of people who have expressed a desire to be buried at Widtsoe. Camille Moore noted that the county gets four or five phone calls a year asking ask-ing about burial at the cemetery. Further research will be required. More next week. |