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Show Public defender contract wins approval The Iron County Commission approved ap-proved a contract with Philip Eves of Parowan to act as public defender for 1979 in its last meeting of the 1978 year. Public Defender A contract had previously been approved with the Southern Utah Legal Defenders' Association but they had reneged saying in a letter to former County Attorney Hans Chamberlain that they had not submitted sub-mitted a formal bid. While the commission and former county attorney at-torney thought that they had submitted sub-mitted a bid, the commission decided to contact Eves whohad made the next lowest bid of $10,800. Eves stated that his costs would probably be higher since he would have to contract with another attorney at-torney to cover cases which involved conflicts. He had originally bid on the service according to an older county contract which had not covered cases which involved conflects. Eves also objected to his law firm covering conflicts stating, that it could possibly be unethical to defend two clients who were involved in one case through the same firm. Chamberlain said that only one case involving conflicts had occurred in Iron County during the past four years. However, he also pointed out several cases in other counties which were not being defended by the public defender which had cost the respective counties thousands of dollars. According to Chamberlain, a murder case in( Price has cost Washington County $50,000 and is still continuing. Eves has recently moved to southern Utah from southern Calif. He plans to hire a Utah attorney to handle his cases until his law firm is established here and he has passed the Utah bar exam. He hopes to be practicing in Utah by early 1979. Subdivision Owners of the Far West Subdivision spoke with the commission concerning con-cerning a problem in the recording of Continued on Page Two is Iron County Commission ments which the commissioners feel might need to be more strongly enforced. en-forced. -Sent a letter to the Southwest Utah Power Federation denying their request for $1,333 to help pay for their power feasibility study which was prepared by Ford, Bacon and Davis. -Discussed raising the amounts of : bonds for elected officials who handle money. cording to Clark is some of the oniy water outside of the basin which is available. . Seaman said, "If you want to compare this project to the Central Utah project, this one is extremely feasible." Resolution Commissioners Clark and Seaman voted a resolution of thanks to Cleo Wood who has served a four year . term ar- a commissioner and Hans Chamberlain who has been the Iron County Attorney since late 1970. The men have been replaced by Dee Cowan as commissioner and James Schumate as the new County Attorney. At-torney. Other Business -The commissioners spoke with Sherm Dalton of D & O Sanitation who hopes to have house-to-house garbage pickup service started in some valley areas by Jan. 15. -Discussed improvement Donuuig problems in subdivision develop- Continued from FrontPage their subdivision which is located approximately ten miles west of Cedar City on the Lund Highway. Kent Stapley said that an error had been made in the plans which only allowed 66 feet for a railroad right of way instead of 100 feet. County Clerk Clair Hulet suggested that the problem be corrected by . submitting an amendment to the already filed plans. The first page of the plans will be re-recorded and according to Hulet "with proper cross reference there should be no problem" The commissioners agreed to amend the subdivision which seemed to be the most expedient solution for both the county and the developers. Kolob Water An informative letter received by the county concerning the Kolob Water Project raised discussion between Commissioners Grant Seaman and Jim Clark. According to the County Clerk, the project only indirectly affects the county since Cedar Citv is really the project's sponsor. The information was a copy of a letter from Ralph B. Piatt, engineer for Cedar City, to John , S. Boyden, a Salt Lake City attorney who is involved in the project. Commissioner Clark felt that the same areas were being repetitively surveyed and that water rights needed to be cleared up before more surveys were done. Seaman felt that the surveys .. weren't duplicative and that the project's costs might be too high to be ; economically feasible. Both felt that Cedar City and Iron ' County need the water which ac- i ( |