RHS Students Will Be At Least One Year Behind Rest Of State In Mathematics

Challenge for the Rich County School District's Students Planning To Attend A College or University.

Chris S. Coray, Ph.D, 
Full Professor Emeritus, Mathematics, Utah State University

Utah, along with much of the nation, has gone to a “Common Core” approach in mathematics education in secondary schools.  This change, which is fairly dramatic, has consequences and challenges for small school districts with limited student populations and resources.

Beginning this year students at Rich High School will take what is now titled Secondary Math I, Secondary Math II, and Secondary Math III during grades 9-11.  Subject material in this mathematics sequence has been rearranged from historical methodology.  There are some issues related to this change that adversely affect students in this district and in other small, resource limited areas. 

To begin with, successful completion of these three classes does not make high school students calculus ready (source—Diana Suddreth, Mathematics Specialist, Utah State Office of Education, July 1, 2013).  In larger districts and schools there are generally companion “Honors” sequences to be taken in place of the standard common core.  If available, the three honors courses taken together in grades 9-11 do get a student calculus ready, as they contain extra material not in the standard course.  However, it does take a level IV qualified math instructor to teach the honors sequence.  Small schools and districts may not have the resources or population to run both sequences or may not have a level IV mathematics teacher.

If students finish the standard core sequence, without the honors strand, then to catch up they need to take as seniors a concurrent enrollment pair of college classes, Math 1050 and 1060, if available, through one of the universities.  This may be possible in the senior year of high school here, which would get a student calculus ready upon university entrance.  By comparison, at most schools in larger districts the students are able to take the honors core sequence, then take AP (Advanced Placement) calculus in their senior year of high school.  If they achieve a sufficiently high score on the national AP calculus test they earn university calculus credit. 

There is not an AP Calculus course at Rich High School.  Absent AP Calculus, even with the concurrent enrollment courses, students who graduate here are very often a year behind peers from other districts and large schools.  If the concurrent enrollment courses are not available then students would be two years behind many students in larger districts and schools. 

To illustrate a potential problem by example, suppose a student wishes to study engineering in college.  Admittance into the professional component of such a major is not allowed until all the central mathematics courses required for an undergraduate engineering major are completed.  As these courses are serial in nature and cannot be bundled, every year in delay in getting through the required mathematics curriculum at a university lengthens the university program by precisely that same amount.  Students who are not calculus ready at entrance to a university program are at least a year behind in virtually all technical majors.

Admission to a calculus course at a university can also be achieved by a sufficiently high score on a placement test offered by the university, but chances of passing such placement tests are not good without the requisite preliminary course work.  These inexpensive placement tests are easily scheduled as to time and place for students and can be taken locally, but they are rigorous.

How a school district decides to use its limited resources is always challenging, but all should know that the consequences of current choices (no AP classes and no Honors Secondary Math core sequence) can have an adverse effect on the children of this county as they seek to get increased education, especially in technical fields.  The youth of this county are as bright as any in our state and have an admirable work ethic.  Largely because of the district size and its resources, the students just do not have opportunities that are commonly available in most of the state.

My external sources for the data in this document are Diana Suddreth, Mathematics Specialist, Utah State Office of Education; Greg Wheeler, USU Math Professor and school board member in the Uintah Basin. 

Fall Sports and School Board Report

Kathie B. Anderson, Reporter
Rich Civic Times
 

Rich School District Fall Athletic Schedule:

RHS Volleyball 2013

8/30-31      Fri/Sat                 @ Cokeville Tournament  

9/06           Fri                       Altamont                             4/5/6:30 pm 

9/12           Thurs                   @ Bear Lake                     5/6/7:30 pm 

0/13            Fri                       Duchesne                          4/5/6:00 pm

9/21           Sat                       Lyman                             3/ 4:15/6 pm

9/27            Fri                       Manila                                 5/6:00 pm

9/28            Sat                       Freshman@Lyman                3:00 pm

10/4            Fri                       Freshman@Evanston

10/4           Fri                       Cokeville                               4/5:00 pm

10/11&12  Fri/Sat                 @1A PREVIEW @ Richfield

10/18         Fri                       @Tabiona                    11/12:15 pm

10/18         Fri                       @Duchesne                  4/5:15/6:30 pm

10/19         Sat                       @Altamont                   11/12/1:00 pm

10/19         Sat                       @Manila                          6:30/7 pm

10/24         Thurs                   @Mt Crest          5:15/6:30/7:45 pm

10/25         Fri                       North Summit    4:30/5:45/7:00 pm

10/31 &1/  Thurs/Fri              State Tournament  @ UVU

 

RHS Football Schedule 2013

8/29           Thurs                   North Summit                        5 pm

8/39           Fri                        @Summit Academy              1/ 4 pm

9/06           Fri                        Westside                                 1/ 4 pm

9/12           Thurs                   Sophomore @ Star Valley   6 pm

9/14           Sat                        @Mt Crest                             12/ 2 pm

9/20           Fri                        Milford                                      4 pm

9/26           Thurs                   Sophomore Star Valley        4:30 pm

9/27           Fri                        Monticello                             1/ 4 pm

10/04         Fri                        @ Kanab                                4 /7 pm

10/11         Fri                        @Duchesne                            4 /7 pm

10/18         Fri                        Altamont                                    4 pm

10/23         Wed                     Diamond Ranch                    1/ 4 pm

11/1           Fri                        Quarterfinals/Home sites

11/08         Fri                        Semi Finals @ SUU

11/16         Sat                       Finals – Weber

 

Rich Royals Volleyball 2013

Saturday   7-Sept-Jamboree @ Mt. View (Scrimmage)   10:00 AM

                  7^th @Lyman / 8^th @ Mt. View

 

Friday     13-Sept-Mtn View @ Rich                                   4:00 PM

 

Saturday 14-Sept-Rich @ Star Valley                               10:00 AM

 

Saturday 21-Sept-Rich @ Kemmerer/Jackson                  10:00 AM

 

Thursday 26-Sept-Kemmerer @ Rich                                 4:30 PM

 

Friday  27 Sept-Rich @ Cokeville/Lyman                          9:00 AM

 

Friday  4 Oct-Rich @Manila                                               1:30 PM

Saturday 5 Oct-Big Piney/Pinedale@ Rich                       10:00 AM

 

Thursday 10 Oct-Star Valley @ Rich                                  4:00 PM

 

Saturday  12 Oct-Star Valley Tournament                      9:00 AM

Rich Royals Football 2013

Saturday- Sept. 7- Rich @ Mt.View (Scrimmage, Jamboree) 10:00

 

Friday-Sept.13- Big Piney @ Rich                                               3:30

 

Thursday-Sept.19 – Rich @ Kemmerer                                       4:30

 

Saturday-Sept. 21 –Mnt. View @ Rich                                        9:00

 

Friday- Sept. 27-Lyman @ Rich                                                10:00

 

Thursday- Oct. 3- Star Valley @ Rich                                          4:00

                                                                                               

Saturday- Oct. 5 – 6^th Grade Rich @ Kemmerer/Big Piney    10:00

 

Saturday- Oct. 12- Rich @ Pinedale                                           10:00

Staffing

 
Leslie Wilson Argyle has been hired as a Special Education Aide for South Rich and Rich High School.

 

Tobacco Policy

 

The tobacco policy will include NO NICOTINE PRODUCTS and will include Pre K thru 12^th grades.

Opening Institute Teacher In-Service

Anita Archer, Ph.d will be the guest speaker for the morning and afternoon sessions of the Opening Institute.  Dr. Archer is an educational consultant to school districts, in explicit instruction, the design and delivery of instruction, behavior management, and literacy instruction.  She has taught elementary and middle school students and is the recipient of 10 awards honoring her excellence in teaching and contributions in the field of education.    There will be break out sessions as well.  All staff is welcome.   

Gun Range, Park, Pond And Lights

Anita Weston, Reporter
Rich Civic Times

                                                                             

 

GARDEN CITY, Utah.  July 11, 2013.  Garden City Council Meeting.  Riley Argyle, Garden City Public Works Supervisor, reported that work will begin on the 75 North parking lot on Wednesday, July 17.  LeGrand Johnson was given the contract, and that company hopes to have the job completed by the end of July.  Their bid was quite a bit lower than the other bids that were received for the project.

 

The Bear Lake Gun Range is moving forward.  Danny White, the City Administrator, has met with the individuals living in Sweetwater Trailer Park to inform them of plans dealing with the gun range.  A letter had been sent prior to the meeting with quite a few returns questioning possible noise problems, raising some safety concerns, and if there would be a possibility of fires being caused by firing the guns.   Overhead baffles will be installed and berms will be built to help do away with loud noise.  Individuals  may be able to hear some echoes, but the noise will not be very noticeable.  Fire danger is no different on the gun range than at any other location on the mountain sides in the area.  The types of guns and ammunition used on a firing range are different than those used by the army that started the Harriman Fire. 

 

A vote was taken of those attending the meeting.  The majority were in favor of the gun range.  Another vote was taken concerning a four-wheel trail that has been created by individuals not staying on existing roads.  The State along with those individuals at the meeting voted in favor of no longer allowing this trail to be used by four-wheelers.

 

The foundation is in for the kiosk.  The contractor who was hired to help with getting the kiosk built has backed out.  The City will need to get someone else to help get the kiosk completed.

 

The meter project is now complete.  The meter at the Church was the last to be put in place.

GIS mapping of the City=s infrastructure is continuing with points being added daily.

 

Steve Watterson finished the parking lot at Heritage Park.  Culverts have been installed along Third West.  Third West can now be usedBit is a narrow, dirt road, but drive able.  The trees that were planted in the park last fall look good.  There are no leaks in the fish pond.  It would be good if the water in the pond were circulated so that it didn=t get so warm during the late afternoons.  Also, the water in the pond is starting to get mossy. 

 

It was suggested that something be done with the banks of the pond.  More and more weeds, particularly thistles are growing along there.  Some type of plants need to be planted so that the banks are not so muddy after a rain.  It might be a good idea to pump the water from the pond onto the banks to water the plants in a recycling process.   The suggestion was also made to borrow Bryce Huefner’s trencher right after Raspberry Days to get some pipes in place to get water to the pond more easily and get some grass growing.

There are ten lights left to be installed.  Two will be placed in front of the park on Bear Lake Blvd. and two will be put in front of the KOA/ACE Hardware area.  Lights were going to be placed at the intersection of Logan Road with Bear Lake Blvd. but UDOT has so much signage in that area, that it appears there isn’t a good place to install them.  Rocky Mountain Power gave permission to hang some of the banners similar to those on the light poles.  It was also suggested that the banners on the light poles be made wider and longer for easier reading.  White said it would be possible to do that by placing new brackets of a larger size on the poles.

Argyle reported that the water leaks that have been so numerous the last couple of months have been taken care of. 

Some changes need to be made to the water master plan.  Currently there are some pressure problems.  There is not enough pressure in the lines to provide adequate water to homes higher up on the hills.  The City needs to at least meet fire code requirements.  More pressure pumps will need to be purchased and installed at some of the subdivisions.  It was noted that standards for pressure pumps as well as installation requirements be written up and placed in the City's standards book. 

There are still two meters that need to be installed for users on the Idaho side.

 

JUB has suggested that the placement of water tanks needs to be more carefully considered.  Instead of putting all of the storage tanks on the tops of the hills, some could placed lower down which would save pumping all of the water to the higher elevations.

 

JUB was in town on the 9^th of July and ran some flow tests.  The data logs were also pulled from the commercial meters allowing for a great deal of data to be made available to JUB for help in working on the master water plan.  The logs capture the amount of water used each day at each of these meter sites.  JUB wants readings after the 24^th of July as well as immediately after Raspberry Days.  This will give an idea of the maximum water used during peak holidays.  JUB is also working with the GIS data to flesh the water master plan.  It was noted that Garden City overall is actually using less water so far this year and last year. 

There is still some landscaping that needs to be completed at the water treatment plant.  There are also some issues with the lines that handle chlorine.  

Argyle reported that the parks will be mowed and trimmed along with some other properties that are used for parking on Raspberry Days.  Someone needs to be asked to work with helping people park during Raspberry Days to help solve some of the congestion problems.  Additional signs needs to be made to help control people and traffic flow during that weekend and big trash cans need to be made available for that weekend.

Garden City Council Reports

Anita Weston, Reporter
Rich Civic Times


GARDEN CITY, Utah. July 11, 2013.  There was a short discussion and approval of the Memorandum of Understanding with the Garden City Fire District that Garden City will collect the short term rental fire  inspection fees.

Hodges Irrigation Company has a Water Conveyance Facility Safety Management Plan in place.  It is important that all canal companies have such a plan.  Swan Creek Canal Irrigation Company should also get such a plan in place as soon as they can.

Several individuals were in the audience because the City is attempting to open several beach access points that have been closed for many years.  It is becoming more and more difficult to accommodate the numbers of individuals coming into the City who want to get to the beach.  Mayor Spuhler welcomed those individuals who own properties next to theses access areas.  He asked that these individuals give their input in coming up with a plan that will allow more people access to the beach.  There was a discussion.  The decision was made to create a committee made up of individuals being affected by opening these beach walkways and some City Council members.   Their mission will be to come up with a plan that is acceptable to all concerned. 

Signs are in place informing people that there is still not enough beaches for cars to drive down to the lake.  However, people are still trying to drive down.  It was suggested that perhaps signs saying park and walk or some other explanation could be placed on the existing signs to catch people’s attention. 

It was suggested and a motion made and passed to give all full and part time employees of Garden City a 3 percent pay raise. 

Council members gave their reports.  Bess Huefner reported that plans for Raspberry Days are doing well.  Perhaps more signage is needed in advertising this activity.   Darrin Pugmire informed the group that zoning for short term rentals does need to be considered.  He noted that the fish pond has been stocked, but that the fish were quite small.  He said he would contact Scott Tolentino concerning this matter.   

It was pointed out that the gate on the road just north of the City Park needs to remain closed.  That road below the gate is on private property and not available for public use.

 Andy Stokes, Garden City’s Law Enforcement Officer, requested that the individual at JUB who has been so very helpful in getting the GIS system working in the City be given a thank you gift as he is being transferred to another location.  The Council told Stokes to go ahead and take care of this request. 

Stokes noted that the lake is still high enough that there is not much beach yet.  There have not been any issues with the short term rentals so far this summer.  Illegal fireworks were confiscated over the 4^th of July weekend and will need to be destroyed.  

The City is doing better with its signage.  It looks much better than last year.  Most of the businesses have been very cooperative in working on this item.  The time limit is being observed and applications are being made at the City Offices so that enforcement is possible.  Dustin Hansen will have his sign finished by the 1^st of August.  Hansen, however, is encroaching upon his neighbor’s property and needs to be warned about this issue.  The Bennion property is looking better than in the past.  Stokes will continue to work with him in getting his area looking nicer.

67 at 67 Run For The Library!

 

Burke Christensen practicing to run/walk 67 miles at 67 years old to raise funds for Garden City Library

EVERYONE IS ENCOURAGED TO SUPPORT BURKE AT THE FINISH LINE SATURDAY MORNING, AUGUST 3^RD!

If you are interested in pledging money towards this run (fundraiser) to the library, there is a sign up sheet in the library.    Burke Christensen said:  “I am grateful for the resources and friendly place at the Garden City Library.”  

  

Garden City Library

P.O. Box 243

Garden City, Utah 84028

( 435) 946-2950

www.gcutl.org 

Bewitching Summer at The Library

Most would not think summer was the time to read stories of witches, unless you think about what happened in June 1692. The witch trials began in Salem, Massachusetts. My great aunt Elizabeth Howe was hung on Gallows Hill on July 19, 1692. By the end of the summer 19 people had been hung and one pressed to death.

Original Art by Local Computer Artist, Savannah Lamping

The real witches according to this story by S.L. Smith, written 300 years later, left Salem and went to New Salem, Massachusetts.

The Secret Circle Book 1 the Initiation and The Capture Part I; Harper Teen Publisher; New York, 1992. & The Secret Circle The Capture Part II and the Power; Harper Teen Publisher; New York, 1992.

Cassie was a teenager when her mother moved them from California to the town of New Salem, Massachusetts.  All she could think about was a boy she met at the beach at Cape Cod that summer.  She was shy and felt awkward in trying to make new friends at a new high school,  and to make matters worse she found out she was born into a family of full-fledged witches along with the other children on the street of old houses.

 Why had so many parents died in 1976? Would they find out about the mysteries of the crystal skull and the Books of Shadows?  You have to read both books to find the answers, in this fight against good and evil.  By the end of the second book each finds their special power and together in a circle they can rid New Salem from evil at last.

Garcia, Kami, and Margaret Sloho; Beautiful Creatures; Little Brown & Company, New York, 2009.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.         Martin Luther King Jr.

This story is another story about good versus evil set in the town of Gatlin, South Carolina.  A small southern town where things never change until Ethan Wade met a new girl in town, Lena Duchannes. A girl he had been dreaming about for months, a girl that smelled of lemon and rosemary.  

Lena fears her sixteenth birthday when the curse would take place making her a good or an evil caster (witch). The women in’ the family had been cursed since the Civil War. Could they find a way to change the curse in the Book of Moons? Lena did not want to be evil and she was running out of time.  She finds that she has the power to change her own future and to choose for herself with the help of Ethan’s love.

This is a series of books that are well written as they take you into the tunnels and the secret library in the town of Gatlin. I wonder what secrets our library holds. They do contain some bad language.

Events at the Library

August 3rd

Burke’s 67@ 67 Run goes over the finish line at the Library around 8:30 am. There is still time to make a pledge or donation for the Garden City Library.

August 7th

Garden City Library Book Club for adults will meet at 5:00 pm.

Fire Department Pancake Breakfast

The annual Pancake Breakfast sponsored by the Garden City Fire District will be held at the Garden City Park on the morning of August 3, 2013, as part of Raspberry days. 

The breakfast hours are from 8-11 a.m.  All are invited to come and enjoy the wonderful food and to support the fire department and all the work they do to provide for our safety.

Trapped Woman Extricated With New Equipment & Propane Tanker Report

GARDEN CITY, Utah. July 18, 2013.  Garden City Fire District board meeting.  Present were Terry Allen, Randall Knight, Christina Gracey, Travis Hobbs.  Absent: Ben Negus

Photo by Mike Wahlberg

In addition to essential but routine and normal department service, there were two major events during the month, both of which demonstrated the increased skill and training of the department.  On July 7, the department was called to the east side of the lake to help extricate a severely injured woman trapped under her wrecked car.  The new extrication equipment proved to be essential. Mike Wahlberg, of the fire department ,said that “it was highly likely that without the new equipment the woman would have died on the scene.”  After extrication she was taken by a life flight helicopter to a Wasatch front hospital and is recovering.

In a second incident on July 13, a propane truck with 9700 gallons of propane overturned in Laketown Canyon.  The tank had a puncture and began to vent propane.  The highway was closed for more than a day as firefighters sprayed more than 40,000 gallons of water on the tank to warm it up so that it would continue to vent.  Lightning in the area made off loading the propane unsafe.  Refilling the 5,000 gallon water tender 7 times during the night brought attention to the need to be able to refill and empty the water tender more rapidly than was expected.  Using cost-of-accident funds paid by the insurance company of the overturned tank the department will add a more powerful pump and auxiliary equipment to the tender.  Approximately 10 firefighters, including HAZMAT trained members, spent 24 hours working on the scene.

An independent audit review of the department for 2012 indicated sound management of all funds and Tiffany Wahlberg, CPA and accountant for the district was commended by the independent CPA firm for her excellent work.

Lindsey Hansen and Brandon McLaughlin To Marry

Lindsey Hansen and Brandon McLaughlin

will be married in the

Brigham  City LDS Temple

on

July 19, 2013

 

Reception will be held at

the Hansen Residence

in

Garden City, Utah

from

6 p.m. to 9 p.m.



Ben Alder Concert

Ben Alder will present an organ concert at the historic Paris Tabernacle in Paris, Idaho on Tuesday, July 16 at 11:00 a.m.   The concert is free of charge.  Alder is from St. George and has recieved praise for his musical ability.

He will be playing a 17 rank, two manual pipe organ, recently renovated, along with the rest of the 1888 building which is an historic architectural site.

Propane Tanker Crash Closes Laketown Canyon Road

Screen Name or Email Now I remember!

Bobbie Bicknell Coray, Reporter

Rich Civic Times

                   

Photo by Bryce Nielson

LAKETOWN, Utah.  July 14, 2013.  Saturday afternoon , July 13, a tanker truck full of propane ran off the road and the driver lost control.  He was injured and transported to the hospital in Evanston, Wyoming.  The truck continued to leak propane as the tanker filled with over 10,000 gallons of propane had been damaged.

 

The road was closed until one o'clock Sunday afternoon, according to Dan Kurek, Garden City Fire Chief.

 

The highway was closed from the mouth of Laketown Canyon to the junction of Utah Roads 30 and 16.

Needles and Leaves

 Yellow Leaves or Needles?  Poor Tree!
Iron Chlorosis

 

By:  Jennifer Huefner at Bear Lake Landscape 

 

The Bear Lake Valley, and much of the Western United States, has soil with high pH.  As a result, many of the ornamental plants we want in our yard have a continual problem with iron chlorosis.  Some plants tolerate our alkali soils quite well like the 'Emerald Queen' Norway maple or the Scotch pine.  Other trees like the 'Silver' maple and quaking aspen are not tolerant of our alkali soils.  Although Quaking Aspen is native to our area, it only grows naturally in the higher elevations where the soils are more acidic.  Some of you own cabins in the higher elevations where aspen will do well.  Others of you own cabins lower where the soil will present a pH problem for your aspen.  You can still have these trees in the alkali soils, but will need to treat those trees for optimal health.

We have found that a combination of several products is the best way to treat plants with iron chlorosis.  If you have trees, shrubs, or flowers that have yellowing leaves, try the following to green them up.  Top dress the root zone with Copperas and Fertile Earth Humate Soil Conditioner.  It's best to put these products in the hole when planting a tree, but they can be applied to the top and watered in if you've already planted.  Next, use chelated iron as a soil treatment around the root zone, and as a foliar spray.  Another good foliar spray is Ferriplus.  We carry all these items in the Garden Center so come on in if your plants are suffering from iron chlorosis.

If you treat for iron chlorosis and find your leaves are still yellow, your soil may have a manganese shortage, or pests can also cause yellowing of plant leaves.  The best thing to do is treat for iron problems since that is the most likely culprit and will rule out iron chlorosis if the treatment doesn't work.

Mark Cook To Serve LDS Mission

Mark Cook has been called to serve in the Canada Edmonton Mission. 

He enters the MTC on July 17^th.   

 

St. Charles Salmon Barbeque

5th Annual

Bear Lake County

Alaskan Salmon Barbeque

Saturday July 27 2013

Bring your family, your friends, your co-workers, folks you meet at the lake and enjoy just flown in fresh Alaskan salmon barbequed over hot apple wood flames.

6-12 years $6.00

Adults $12.00

 

St. Charles City Park  Highway 89

St. Charles, Idaho

11 a.m. to 7 p.m.

Hamburgers are available for the finicky non-fish folks

If you want to reserve some fresh (uncooked) salmon, contact Reid Stewart at 208 221 6893 to put your name on the fish list.

Garden City Town Council Meeting

 

Kathie B. Anderson, Reporter

Rich County Times 

GARDEN CITY, Utah, July 11, 2013. Garden City Town Council.   Zan Murray, the Garden City Engineer, reported on the town’s water model.  The meter record has been geo-coded to be associated with the correct location spatially in the model.  The meters that didn’t have addresses were recognized and manually placed in the right location.  The daily meter flows for Ideal Beach, Lochwood, Harbor Village, and Lake Meadow Lodge did not fluctuate much.  They ranged from 2.08 million gallons to 1.94 million gallons with the low end occurring on the fourth of July.  The highest reading was on the seventh of July.  The paving project will start next Monday and there will be asphalt by Raspberry Days.   Cindy Gooch is working on several grants, all of which have tight deadlines.  Consequently, it is imperative to have all the information needed for them ready to go.  We should know in September if Garden City is awarded any of the grants.

Danny White, Garden City Administrator, reported on several items on which he has been working this month.  He is continuing to work with the Army Corps of Engineers on wetlands issues for the road projects.  Danny and the Army Corp of Engineers are waiting to get further information regarding historic wetlands on 1^st West to learn whether Garden City needs to include these wetlands in the total impact acres, (total of ¼ acres), per the Council’s request.  White performed wetland delineation for the wetland located adjacent to the City Park.  White worked with JSH to stake out the parking lot on 75^th North.  Based on the survey, the plan had to be shifted to the north by 2 to 3 feet to help with traffic.   There were also changes on the layout of the decorative lights to allow more flexibility in the spacing.  Installation of the lights is continuing.  The Heritage Park parking lot is being constructed. 

As a result of a problem with the local contractor, the City ended up losing its samples, so White had to pick the colors and materials on the rock wall for the Information Kiosk that is being constructed.  White is continuing to work on the city’s master plan with JUB Engineers, has analyzed the survey, and has worked with the planning and zoning commission to revise parts of the zoning map. 

A letter was sent to the Sweetwater Trailer Park residents to inform them of the plans for the gun range.  Most comments from the homeowners dealt with the concern about noise pollution.   White attended the Annual Sweetwater Trailer Park Homeowners Association and used a PowerPoint presentation to focus on how the new range would make the trailer park safer.  At the end of the presentation, a vote was taken which was split 50/50.  A survey will go out to all homeowners in Garden City seeking their input on opening beach access to public rights of way.    

White is beginning to create  design concepts of entryways to the access points.  Rich County Commissioner Bill Cox is working with White to meet requirements for culverts along 3^rd west to ensure that irrigation water gets to where it is needed. Also, White is meeting with the engineers to discuss strategies for upcoming projects. 

Danny White,  Garden City Administrator, is working with Riley Argyle, the Publics Works Department,  and Richard Monk, the Garden City Pool Manager, to make sure that the Garden City employees receive training on the new OSHA approved programs for blood borne pathogens, confined spaces, and hazardous communications. 

SHORT TERM RENTAL LICENSE 

Gale O. Thompson, 1621 South Bear Lake Blvd., requested a short term rental license.  The Council approved the request. 

Scott and Patricia Davis, Bear Lake Lodging, requested a short term rental license.  The Council approved the request. 

ENCUMBRANCES  

Jay Jensen requested to encumber Lots 66 & 67 of Hodges Beach Subdivision with previous encumbrance 41-33-28-066 and 41-33-28-067.   Approved. 

Brian and Brook Hunsaker requested that lots 20 and 21 in the Cherimoya Subdivision be encumbered to build a house across the property lines 41-33-05-102 & 41-33-05-021.  Approved. 

Andy Stokes, Garden City Code Enforcement Officer, asked that the short rentals be made more clear and specific.  It was recommended that Garden City have random checks on each rental property.   It was suggested that the Fire Marshal examine short term rental properties ever year to make sure they are in compliance with town Ordinances. 

GARDEN CITY TOWN COUNCIL APPROVED THE FOLLOWING RESOLUTIONS:

a. Resolution #R 13-03, a Resolution of the Garden City Town Council updating the short term/nightly rental licensing and renewal fees.  Approval of the Memorandum of Understanding with the Garden City Fire District, under which Garden City will collect short term rental inspection fees of $130.00 per property  

 

b. Resolution R #13-04, a Resolution of the Garden City Town Council establishing a safe place to light and enjoy Utah legal fireworks within the Garden City town limits.  

c. Resolution R-13-05, a Resolution establishing a safe place to light and watch fireworks within the Garden City town limits in extreme fire conditions.

d. Resolution R13-06, a Resolution establishing a safe place to light and enjoy recreational fires within the Garden City town limits. 

For further information concerning these resolutions, go to the Garden City Website.

 

NEW PLANNING COMMISSION MEMBER 

 Susann House was approved by the Garden City Town Council to be a Planning Commission Member.  She is replacing Dallas Solum.