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Show Ill ffispls iGfiniiiuo Rip!! ftp loll Fpoi Kl2E38 IB lG Eoooiji By ROSELYN KIRK FARMINGTON - A more definitive proposal for county-wide toll-free telephone service has been approved by the Council of Governments (COG) and will go to Mountain Bell Telephone with their stamp of approval. REP. JAMES Hansen presented the proposal to COG which had approved the toll-free concept last month. Since that time several toll-free toll-free calling plans have been suggested. The Public Service Ser-vice Commission (PSC) heard testimony from about 100 Davis County residents on June 7. According to Representative Representa-tive Hansen since that time Mountain Bell has almost conceded that county-wide toll free calling is the logical option. Joe Engles, administrative adminis-trative secretary for the Consumer Con-sumer Service Commission, when contacted later, said that the PSC commission will meet in Salt Lake City on Sept. 25 to conduct two weeks of hearing on the extension of service. PRIOR TO that date, Mountain Bell will file their testimony with the PSC by August 15. The Consumer Service Commission will have until Sept. 15 to file their response res-ponse to that testimony. The plan, as adopted by COG, in addition to including county-wide calling, asks that from Kaysville north residents be allowed to call the Weber exchange and that from Farmington south they call toll-free through the Salt Lake. calling zone. Representative Represen-tative Hansen said the proposal would also include an optional calling line where individuals or companies with a need to call either north or south for business purposes could have that service. MR. INGLES said the suggestion for the caller to have the option of direct dial, toll-free calling with an additional addi-tional charge is one of the proposals that the Consumer Service Commission will make to the PSC. COG, in accepting the toll-free toll-free calling proposal, voted to table a decision on whether to push for a county-wide emergency emer-gency number that was proposed by Sheriff William J. Lawrence, two months ago. Gar Elison, Kaysville mayor, moved that COG wait until the PSC makes a determination. Sheriff Lawrence asked the COG to reconsider that decision later in the meeting. He said toll-free calling would have no effect on the installation installa-tion of a 911 emergency number. "We will always have to pay the line charges for the emergency number," he said. SHERIFF LAWRENCE urged the COG to take action approving the concept of the emergency number since he hopes it will be available in -about 18 months when the construction of the addition to the sheriff's office and jail is scheduled for completion and the communications r. opens in tobuiS cent He had asked cor authorize the issuiiiE J asking for the 911 which is now available?' the Bountiful months ago mayors ' approved the coS asked to talk to the 'c councils before officii'1 suing the letter. M sheriff Lawrence gued that no matter wta outcome of the to 2 request, that it will be J sary to pay for six lS initiate the county-wideM number. This Syt'em connect and increase the 2 patch capacity of the cob mumcation centers alrea set up in Clearifeld, Uni Bountiful and the sherisd fice in Farmington - tyj, the centers together with 911 number. , Although Sheriff uwret. arugedmatthetwopimoai were unrelated, COG decide to stay with the orig,u proposal and wait for in from the PSC. i |