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Show Commission Hears Governor's Visit Plans discussed purchase of lots in Summit Park that the Fire Station is currently located on. According to Mr. Williams the State has set a figure of $81,000 for the two lots. He explained that under existing laws the State cannot can-not deed property to other entities except for road purposes pur-poses without selling it at market values. It was the decision of the Commission that since the building is currently used to store road equipment that the State should deed it to the County. Jim Torgenson and Bryan Harris of the Utah Public Employees Association ex plained their organization and st at ed several county employees had approached them in regards to joiningthe Association. They gave a run-down on benefits that can be offered, offer-ed, their insurance program and various other services. Employees would pay dues to the organization through payroll deductions. William Gardner requested request-ed final approval of Gardner's Gard-ner's Addition to East Park Subdivision. It was pointed out that most of the property is in Wasatch Wa-satch County and has been accepted. Mr. Gardner has a mort- gage in favor of Summit County to cover property located in the County and received re-ceived the approval of the Mortgage Bondandsigningof the Plats. Hatch Howard of Bountiful wants some work done on the road to Anschultz ranch. Mr. Hatch owns property in the area and stated the road is getting so bad trucks cannot get in to pick up sheep. The commission agreed to see some work was done this summer. Wally Francis and Kent Wilde of the State Road Department, De-partment, proposed a few changes in the contract for the Chalk Creek Road Project. Pro-ject. They suggested the entire project be scarified and extra ex-tra gravel hauled in to level the road before re-surfacing. Scarif icing would mean the existing road way would be completely dug up and mixed in with the gravel and leveled. level-ed. The Commissioners directed the two men to get a cost estimate on the project and meet with the Commission Commis-sion on April 9. Summit's Commissioners passed an ordinance which will deal with the consumption consump-tion and possession of alcohol al-cohol by persons under 21 years of age. The full text of the ordinance appears in this issue. Land owners that will be affected by the proposed Airport Air-port site will be contacted. Jim Kaiserman, Call Engineering, En-gineering, presented a proposal pro-posal for the re-alignment of the Chalk Creek road near Pine Cliff. An agenda for the visit of Utah Governor Calvin L. Rampton, approval of subdivision sub-division plats and appointment appoint-ment of a full-time extension exten-sion agent for Summit County Coun-ty were among the many items of business that Summit Sum-mit County's three Commissioners Commis-sioners dealt with at a full regular session last week. Governor Calvin Rampton Ramp-ton will arrive at Parley's Summit at 8 a.m. Wednesday April 24. The Goernor will tour the County by air and meet with elected and city officials of-ficials from 9:30to 11:15 a.m. in the Park City area. Following the morningac-tivities morningac-tivities the . Governor and numerous officials will lunch in Park City and then proceed pro-ceed to the Summit County Courthouse for more official meetings during the afternoon. after-noon. Governor Rampton will conclude his visit late in the afternoon. Kent Jensen presented a bond for Plat B of Forest Meadow Ranch. A discussion was held concerning con-cerning a letter presented by Mr. Jensen guaranteeing enough crushed gravel to complete all the roads on Plat B. Commissioners felt the wording of the letter seemed a little ambiguous and some suggested changes were made. Changes were also made on the wording of the bond stating the bank will notify Summit County 30 days before be-fore the expiration of the bond and the transferring of the monies held by the bank to Jensens other accounts is accomplished. Dr. Marden Broadbent of the State Extension Service and Rell Argyle, Summit County Extension Agent reported re-ported the extension service has made plans to install Mr. Argyle as the full time agent for Summit County. Mr. Argyle is currently serving as Extension Agent for Wasatch County also. Target date for the move is about May 15. Dr. Broadbent suggested the Home Agent, Mrs. Annette An-nette Vernon, will work out of Wasatch County for the South Summit and Park City areas. Commissioner Koy G. Page recommended efforts be made toward securing the services of a full-time Home Agent for Summit County. Dr. Broadbent concurred this should be a long range goal and stated this would be an ideal situation, but he added at the present time it is impossible to have a full-time full-time agent. Dr. Broadbent outlined the following overall objectives of the ExtensionService with regards to theSummit County Coun-ty area: Complete re-activation of the Livestock organizations; determination of what input can be directed into all programs pro-grams to keep them successful success-ful and establishment of an over-all Agriculture Board. Mr. Argyle told the commissioners com-missioners the Weed Committee Com-mittee favored having the county upgrade the Weed Department De-partment and continue spraying weeds rather than contract the spraying that needs to be done. Dr. Broadbent received a request from the Commission Commis-sion to check into the soil survey that was scheduled to start in Summit County, but for some reason had been cancelled. Darwin Belnap of Colonial Life Insurance presented plans from his company concerning con-cerning Payroll Protection insurance, which would give salary continuance in case of illness, and asked permission per-mission to contact all employees em-ployees of the county. Max Williams, Road Right of-Way agent for the State, |