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Duchesne County
Commission Meeting

Duchesne County
Commission Meeting

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MINUTES FOR REGULAR COMMISSION MEETING HELD DECEMBER 4, 2000 BEGINNING AT 1:00 P.M. IN THE COMMISSION BOARD ROOM
IN DUCHESNE, UTAH

Commissioners Present:  Commission Chairman Guy R. Thayne, Commissioner F. Ted Kappen and Commissioner Larry S. Ross.

Others Present:  Diane Freston, Clerk/Auditor, Road Supervisor Douglas Nielsen, Clayton Chidester, Planning & Zoning, Deputy County Attorney Roland Uresk, Carol Casey, Deputy Clerk/Auditor.

Prayer: Clerk/Auditor Diane Freston
Pledge of Allegiance

Minutes: Minutes of November 27, 2000 were read by Commissioner Kappen.  Motion: Commissioner Ross motioned to approve the minutes with corrections. Commissioner Kappen second. Motion carried. Roll Call Vote: All Commissioners voting Aye.

Road Items - Supervisor Doug Nielsen
Supervisor Nielsen commented that he will be attending the meeting on December 6th in Salt Lake with UDOT, and BIA regarding the Federal Hwy contract on the Arcadia Road.

The Road Department is finished with the Pleasant Valley bridge. This week they will be working on the road near O.B. Williams.
Commissioner Thayne mentioned that the dirt seems to falling away from the abutments on the bridge by JD Wimmer's residence. Doug will check out the problem.

Commissioner Kappen asked if the overlay on the road by Bob Lindsay's would be on the road agenda for next year? Doug replied that it was.

Commissioner Thayne and Doug will travel to the TV towers tomorrow to inspect them.

Commissioner Ross suggested to Doug that while Jerry Lisonbee is working on the 2477 roads, it would be a good idea to advertise in the paper for anyone with family history regarding these old roads to contact Jerry with the information. The Recorder's office also has old forest road maps that were made in 1903 & 1904.

Board Appointment Discussion for County Board Committee Members - Clayton Chidester  Public Lands Use Committee - Mr. Chidester reviewed the history of the creation of the Public Lands Committee. The committee was officially formed in 1998 with Resolution 98-20. The committee consists of 18 members. The board has not had a good record of attendance, it seems that the same 6 or 7 members are attending the meetings. Mr. Chidester recommends that the membership be reduced to a (7) member board. The Commission is in favor of Mr. Chidester's recommendation, and feel that they could combine many of the entities represented on the board.

It was determined that an amended resolution will be adopted on the December 28th commission meeting changing the board members to:

1	General Populace Member	2-year term
1	Natural resource member	2-year term
1	Timber resource member	3-year term
1	Farm Bureau, Permittee, Cattlemen or Agricultrual member	3-year term
1	Recreation resource member	4-year term
1	Economic Development resource member	4-year term
1	County official member	4-year term

...............Judy Mutton joined the meeting...............

Policy and Procedure Manual Change - Resolution 00-25 - Section 9 - Fringe Benefits - Judy Mutton   (Refer to Clerk's Office).

Motion: Commissioner Ross motioned to approve Resolution 00-25 with corrections. Commissioner Kappen second. Motion carried. Roll Call Vote: All Commissioners voting Aye.

Discussion and Review of additional Policy and Procedure Manual Changes - Resolution 00-26 - Reimbursements and Resolution 00-27 - Occupational Safety and Health - Judy Mutton   Judy presented the drafts of changes to the Policy and Procedure Manual concerning Reimbursements and Occupational Safety and Health. These changes will be approved in the December 11th Commission meeting.

Wild Land Fire Suppression Fund - Georg Adams
Commissioner Kappen read into the minutes a letter he had prepared concerning the Utah State Fire Suppression Fund for wildland fires. This letter when approved will be sent to Representative Gordon E. Snow, Representative Jack A Seitz and Senator Beverly Evans.

As a Duchesne County Commission we would like to make you aware of the reason Duchesne County is not participating in the Utah State Fire Suppression Fund for wildland fires.

In 1998 the County participated in this program with a premium of twenty thousand dollars, a figure based upon assessed evaluation etc. It was our understanding at the time that up to 75% of this premium would be returned upon completion of a fire hazard reduction program in the County. This was done, however, we were informed that the Fund lacked sufficient monies to reimburse Duchesne County for their effort. After this turn of events the County elected not to participate in future years premiums.

As you are probably aware, the 2000 fire year was a tremendous burden on fire budgets everywhere, and the State Fund has been depleted. We have been approached to join the Fund again, but at this time the Division of Forestry, Fire and State Lands has placed a reentry of three times the premium, which of course is not acceptable to us, or for that matter anyone else who may wish to join. We therefore suggest legislation that would let counties into the fund with no back penalties. As the Fund is totally depleted at this time it seems fair for such legislation as all participants will be starting anew to create the Fund, and there should be no concern about counties having to share funds with those that have no participated in previous years. Your support for such legislation would be appreciated.  

Sincerely,

Duchesne County Commission

Motion: Commissioner Ross motioned to approve the letter prepared by Commissioner Kappen regarding non-participation of the Utah State Wildland Fire Suppression Fund. Commissioner Kappen second. Motion carried. Roll Call Vote: All Commissioners voting Aye.

Auditor's Office - Vouchers - Personnel Issues - Finances
Vouchers: Diane Freston Clerk/Auditor presented vouchers #71220 to #71298 totaling $228,343.67 for commission approval.  Motion: Commissioner Kappen motioned to approve the Vouchers. Commissioner Ross second. The motion carried. Roll Call Vote: All Commissioners Aye.

Tax adjustment - Assessor's Office

Serial/Account	Year	Debit/Credit	Comment
2668-1	2000	-$110.39	Out of business
AL-31	2000	-$16.56	Solar panels not used
Dist 20	2000	-$80.00	S/B Exempt
N-84	2000	-$304.51	Adjust-wrong account
R-196	2000	+$304.51	Adjust-wrong account
1877-1	2000	-$126.18	Adjust basement
2247	2000	-$16.49	Greenbelt adjust
1379	2000	-$238.56	Home to salvage
CRVP-4-6	2000	-$209.25	Secondary to primary
D-294	2000	-$67.98	Adjust cinder-block garage

Motion: Commissioner Kappen motioned to approve the Tax Adjustments. Commissioner Ross second. The motion carried. Roll Call Vote: All Commissioners Aye.

Carol Casey and Lee Woods were called in and thanked for the fine work that they had done on the decorations in the building this Christmas Season.

Adjournment - 3:40 PM

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