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Show Board Dumps TRI-CCODARE Contracts Directly With State CCODARE in the best interest of Summit County. The budget listed the program's potential operating revenue at $47,000 for this year, but the board could only see approximately $12,000 in expenditures. The monies are made available from various government agencies on a reimbursement reim-bursement basis, meaning that the funds must be already spent by the program before they are released to the program. Marsha said she looks at her new position as a tremendous challenge, but wishes she would be able to spend more time doing counseling, opposed to administrative adminis-trative work. The three man advisory board of Summit County's Palefire drug rehabilitation and prevention program decided Friday to sever ties with TRI-CCODARE, headed by Dr. Lynne Alhay of Provo, Utah, and contract the program autonomously through the State Division of Alcohol and Drugs. Previously, the State contracted contract-ed through TRI-CCODARE, who administered programs in Utah, Wasatch and Summit Counties. TRI-CCODARE (Tri County Council on Drug Abuse Rehabilitation), Rehabili-tation), received $22,000 annually from the State to operate the program in Summit County. Those funds will now be available directly to the local advisory board, who will assume administrative adminis-trative and policy-making responsibilities respon-sibilities for the program. Marsha Wellever, who served as Palefire's senior counselor under TRI-CCODARE's administration, adminis-tration, has been hired by the board as program director. Marsha was fired by Dr. Athay two weeks ago after speaking out in favor of more local administra tive authority on the part of the local board. Marsha was subsequently subse-quently told to continue her program by the local board. Her files were then confiscated by a TRI-CCODARE administrative assistant, who also visited the schools where Marsha conducted a part time program and told principals that she was no longer authorized to offer drug prevention preven-tion and rehabilitation classes. Marsha told the Rcord Tuesday that the files have still not been returned but that she expected them any day since the state has informed TRI-CCODARE that it would be in their "best interest" to relinquish the documents nec essary for the continuance of the Palefire program. Constant administrative and policy making decisions made by Dr. Athay in Provo, with apparent disregard for the local board, brought the rift to a head several weeks ago. Also fueling discontent discon-tent was the program's vague budget, which led the local board to believe the program was not being administered by TRI- |