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Show I The Iron County Commission and the Cedar City Council agreed there are areas where cooperation is feasible, but the commission was in the hotseat again over a fencing proposal at the Iron County Rest Home. Cedar City manager Mike Embley, and council members Jack Whiting, Arlo Larsen and Barbara Starr conferred with the commission concerning recreation, solid waste and fire protection, with distribution of revenue shairng funds being the major point of controversy. County officials indicated it was their understanding they received federal revenue sharing according to the population residing outside incorporated in-corporated areas. However, the city questioned that analysis and also asked the county to remember Cedar City's tax base should also be taken into account when considering revenue sharing. Agreed solid waste Both parties tended to feel solid waste should be taken over by the private sector. "I forsee the county having only a landfill to supply everyones needs, but private contractors taking care of the garbage," Commission Chairman Grant Seaman said. "We want to get out of the garbage business." They city asked that the county once again start paying the city an annual assessment for solid waste disposal, or that the county take over the city pit until it reaches its capacity. The reason the assessment should once again be picked up by the county, they said, is the large amount of county residents who still use the city landfill. The county officials indicated they would consider using the city site until full, then moving to the Smith Pit, present county landfill. Recreation Full Recreation facilities are overfull to the point where new construction is eminent, city officials said, or restrictions of valley residents will have to take place. "If it becomes apparent we'll have to build more parks rather than restrict participation," Embley said, "lets participate together. That is where we are at-we will have to limit the kids playing or cooperate in parks and its going to have to happen quick." Starr indicated she felt recreation is not a frivolous thing to be concerned with. She said residents often choose their place of residence according to recreation facilities. Both parties noted neither level of government, city or county, has a "legal obligation" to provide recreation, but do so out of service to residents. The city also suggested new percentages per-centages of county participation in library maintenance and fire protection. The city also said they have an Attorney General opinion that could cut the city's payment to the county for prisoner picked up on a violation of state or county ordinance would have to be charged against the county, rather than the city, even if arrested by city officers. "Public intoxication, for example, is a state offense," Embley said, "and the county has responsibility for that prisoner. This could cut this $2100 bill wav down." Presently the county charges the city $20 a day for prisoners housed in the county jail. County Clerk Clair HuJet said, based on the first three months of 1978, the actual cost for housing a prisoner at the county jail is $46 a day. Cost for juvenile incarceration in-carceration at the juvenile detention center is $70 a day, he said. Documented runaways Armed with documentation of runaways from the daily log, several employees of the rest home asked that the commissioners reconsider a fence for the front of the building. The group also had a petition of over 130 names of those supporting the safety of the patients by use of a fence. |
