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Show Appeal 4 Com mission made si Kolob water Local engineer Ralph Piatt spoke with the Iron County Commission at their meeting last Wed. and expressed ex-pressed his concerns over the Kolob Water Project. He said that the 10,000 cubic ft. of water which would probably be allocated to the county from the project would be over three ' times Cedar City's present water supply of 3,000 cu. ft. of water. Piatt said that Las Vegas and southern California were using water from the Virgin River and that the county and Cedar City needed to be sure not to loose their right to the Kolob water. Piatt has done some exploratory work on his own to get a time ex-tention ex-tention for filing a water claim which he has asked the commission to share the $20,456 expenses with Cedar City for. He said that drilling tests need to be done in the spring. He said that the $100,000 feasibility study being completed by Cedar City through funding by the. state Water Resources Board will have a lot of answers when it is completed. He also urged that the county work to have someone who represents the county's interest placed on the Water Resources Board. County Attorney James Shumate said that he would research the procedures involved for setting up a special improvements district and that a notice of a public hearing would need to be published. Zoning and Planning Shumate discussed a recent meeting of the Zoning and Planning Commission and their recommendations recom-mendations concerning the newly adopted county subdivision ordinance. or-dinance. The new ordinance states that the county will not supply municipal type services to remote areas and encourages development near incorporated areas. While they do not have many specific recommendations yet, Shumate said that they suggested that the county adopt a preliminary platt filing fee. The commission passed an ordinance for a $100 fee. Cooperation Commissioner James Clark discussed a recent meeting with Cedar City Mayor Jack Sawyers and City Manager John Hendrickson concerning a cooperative landfill. "I personally feel that by consolidating con-solidating we will save everyone some money," said Clark. He said that the mayor and continued on page 3 He said, "All I've tried to do is to protect the county's rights." Family Services Jade D. LeBlanc from Family Life Services reported on the state program to the commissioners. He informed them of a bill which has passed the state Senate and is now before the house. He described the bill as "essentially a law requiring a step parent to support a child living usually under his roof." He said that since Utah does not have a community property law that step parents have not been required to support their stepchildren. He felt that many people who were not financially in need had received benefits under the present system. He said that the law would probably reduce the present 4500 children receiving aid to 400 and that children and families needing aid could still receive it. based on their financial need. He reported that Family Life services' case load had slightly increased in-creased from Sept. to Nov. to about 300 cases a month. Monte Vista A group headed by Pauline Mc-Carty Mc-Carty from the Monte Vista subdivision sub-division spoke with commissioners. The subdivision has decided to form a special improvement district to seal coat their roads. The subdivison's representatives have met with commissioners frequently throughout the fall discussing drainage problems. The county intends to install some culverts on a county road and has helped them contact railroad officials to try to gain a right of way to further alleviate any flooding problems. S County Commission continued from frontpage manager will be reviewing and visiting other areas which ha e various landfill and garbage disposal systems. He also said that the valley will no longer be a special improvements district once D & 0 Sanitation takes over the county's billing procedures six months from now. One Citizen The commission held its last meeting from 3 p.m. to 8 p.m. to allow interested citizens to attend. The daytime meeting hours of the commission com-mission have been objected to by various people and groups in the past. Dennis Ohms was the only citizen in attendance but still supported the evening schedule. "I'd at least like to see what's going on- you probably aren't going to have a lot of the public here." The next commission meeting will be held during their normal daytime hours beginning at 9 a.m. Commissioners Com-missioners will discuss whether or not to continue the eveing hours at that time. Other Business -Commissioners Seaman and Clark discussed attending a public hearing in Salt Lake City with the Governor's Committeee concerning the Forest Service's Rare II wilderness proposals. -The commission passed a resolution to. not participate in a community Development Services' grant which they had applied for and recvived from the Five County Association of Governments. They told FCAOG representative Russell Stewart that they would send a letter informing FCAOG of the county's decision. - The commission received a letter from the state Attorney General concerning a bill before the state legislature which would create the offices of District Attorney. Jim Shumate will make a recommendation recom-mendation to the commission but initially did not think that both a District Attorney and County Attorney At-torney were necessary. -The commission received a request from Lynn Esplin to be relieved from the Weed Abatement Committee. They decided to review all boards and committees at their next meeting. -Therol Tail, local rancher and businessman, discussed improving a county road which joins state 18 near Escalante. Commissioner Dee Cowan said that the right of way and road ; would be checked. |