Logo Contest

Rich County

is sponsoring a contest 

open to all residents

for a new Rich County logo 

which will be on our letterhead and notices

$500 prize will be awarded

The logo should represent out whole county &

be easily reduced or enlarged as needed.

Please send all entries to:

Rich County

PO Box 186

Randolph, Utah 84064 or

largyle@richcountyut.org

435 793 5155

Please submit entries by April 1, 2016

Rezone Beachside For Million Dollar Homes

Randall Knight, Reporter

Rich Civic Times 

GARDEN CITY, Utah.  March 2, 2016. The Planning and Zoning public hearing meeting began at 4:30 PM and had approximately 22 residents in attendance.    The board members present were: Jim DeGroot, Susan House, Jim Stone, Dewayne Gifford and Tom Stevens.

Nate Perry requested rezoning the property located at approx. 620 S. Bear Lake Blvd from Beach Development and Single Family Residential zone to a Planned Unit Development to be named Legacy Beach, Bear Lake Resort, LLC.  The development would consist of 3.9 acres on the east side of Hwy 30 and 4.1 acres on the west side.  There would be 15 homes worth $1million on the lake side and 12 condos on the mountain side.

When the board asked for public comments several people stood and voiced their concerns with regard to safety, excess parking, ingress/egress, emergency vehicle access, additional people crossing Hwy 30 from the condos, lack of restrooms on beach area, property value decreasing, short term rental issues, etc.  They also felt the project does not meet the ordinance requirement of at least 5 acres because each of the parcels are less than the requirement as stated above. They also requested the city consider the wet land requirements and to ensure the Corp of Engineers are included in the planning along with UDOT with the traffic safety concerns.  They also thought the development didn’t align with the City’s Master Plan which they had paid thousands of dollars for. In response to short term rental concern, the ordinance officer reported there were 10 short term rental complaints last year: 3 noise and 7 parking.  He pointed out the majority of the infractions were by the property owners and not the renters. 

The regularly scheduled meeting started at 5:50PM.  The board discussed their concern with being able to combine the two proposed parcels for the Legacy Beach development so it would meet the city ordinance requirement of 5 acres.  Mr. Stevens asked what document would be provided to validate that the merging of the lots was legal.  The mayor stated a letter from the City Attorney would be the formal document.  Zan Murry, City Engineer, asked if Mr. Perry had considered other avenues to meet the acreage requirement for the 3.9 acre parcel on lake side and 4.1 acre parcel on west side; i.e. HOA.  The board also asked Mr. Murry how many homes could be built on the lake side.  He did a quick calculation and said twenty-two 7500 sq ft lots.  The board did not approve the rezoning request because a complete development plan needs to be provided to meet the ordinance requirement for a PUD.  They also want the letter from the city attorney stating the two parcels can be considered as one. Ms House also suggested Mr. Perry consider requesting rezoning to a PRUD instead of a PUD.  Because a PRUD would allow for flexibility in zoning in the future if necessary.

 The board approved the request for Water’s Edge Phase 3 proposal for commercial retail, restaurant on the main floor and multi-family residential on the second floor.

The board did not approve the parking proposed for the new business located at 75 W. Logan Rd that includes Bear Lake Cabin Rentals, Lakeview Custom Cabins office and a future restaurant until a lease agreement has been provided for the land required to meet the number of parking stalls required.

Good Stuff

The Winning Lady Rebels and Lady Tigers

By John Brown, The Man

Cody Lundgren, Jesse Calder, and Louie Stewart led our Lady Rebel basketball team to a 10- 10 record in the regular season and a 2-2 performance at the state tournament that earned our girls second place in our region and sixth at state.

It’s interesting that the wins and losses were split right down the middle, which means it wasn’t a losing season, but it wasn’t a winning season either.

Or was it?

I’m all for winning. I love it when our kids win. But I’ve never believed that winning should be the ultimate measurement or objective of high school sports. In fact, I will go so far as to say that it’s possible to win every game and become the state champion and utterly fail. Because, for me, high school sports are not about winning games. They are about learning the lessons that can only be learned by striving for excellence through competition.

 

Lessons such as learning to:

• Work hard
• Work smart
• Push yourself over a long period to obtain something you desire
• Not give up in the face of adversity
• Not give up even when you’re behind
• Play on a team, including supporting other team members in their roles, especially during the bad times
• See mistakes and losses as feedback and triggers for learning instead of labels
• Exert control over your future instead of feeling nothing you do makes a difference
• Deal with both success and defeat
• Deal with competitors who haven’t quite yet caught the vision

I could list many more. The opportunities for learning key lessons about winning in life litter the ground in our gyms and on our fields and on our mats.

The question is: did our coaches help our kids seize those opportunities? Did they help them learn what really matters and have a good time doing it?

I’m pleased to report from what I and others observed that the three amigos listed above helped our girls do just that.

They built positive and fun relationships.

They asked the girls to meet high standards of performance and kept the girls busy in practice with useful drills that built skills.

They taught them instead of yelled at them, and they praised them when they did well and when they attempted to do well but weren’t yet able to execute the skills right.

They taught them to play with skill, not with cheap shots, as was displayed by one team at the state tournament that had learned to punch the opposing team’s stomachs when they went up for shots.

They demonstrated, by example, how to deal with losses and mistakes.

Coach Lundgren also worked in a demonstration of how tricky the lines on the court can be for old guys, tripping them and causing them to slide across the floor (grin).

This was a winning season for me. Coaches are really just a certain type of teacher, and I’m sure they have things they want to improve in their curriculum. But this was a fabulous season full of opportunities to learn the things that really matter in life.

And it wasn’t just the Lady Rebels learning these kinds of lessons. For those of you that didn’t go to the tournament, you should know about the Lady Tigers from Tabiona. They’re one of our region opponents. One that we beat both times we met them in the regular season.

In our second game of the tournament, one of our girls, one of our top rebounders, a demon under the basket, broke her hand. She knew it hurt like heck, enough to bring tears to her eyes, but didn’t know she’d broken it, and so she played the last quarter and a half with a broken hand. (Is there a lesson there?) Well, Tabiona was our next game.

Now stop and think about this. We beat Tabiona both times this season. I think we’ve probably beaten them a lot more than they’ve beaten us these last few years. You know what you feel when a team keeps beating you.

So the Lady Tigers found out that one of our starters, one of the players that was supposed to have played them the next day, had broken her hand. And the girls, not their coaches, decided to get her . . . flowers.

Flowers. For a player on their region opponent’s team. I talked to their coach, and he said it was all the girls’ idea.

Who does that?

Well, the Lady Tigers do.

They’re learning things down in Tabiona that go far beyond basketball.

And they’re learning things that go far beyond basketball here, thanks to Lundgren, Calder, and Stuart.

That’s good stuff, baby. That’s excellent stuff.

Lake Ice

Photo by KUTV 2News

February School Board Meeting

Chris Coray, Reporter

Rich Civic Times

The Rich County School Board held its monthly meeting on Wednesday, Feb 24, in Randolph. All board members and the school superintendent were present. Items covered during the meeting included:

1) The appointment of Kam Jarman and Jaren Wadsworth as golf coaches for the men’s and women’s teams, respectively. Up to 14 or 15 boys are expected to be on the boy’s team and 4 or 5 girls for girl’s team,

2) Previously adopted transportation policies were ratified,

3) It was reported that the student activities fund, which includes the athletic fund, has been declining at the rate of $5,000-$7,000 per year and was approaching an insignificant balance. The board approved the transfer of $25,000 from the general school district funds to student activities,

4) The building and maintenance budget was increased by $80,000 over last year to meet the costs of needed repairs,

5) There is an ongoing discussion to reclassify athletic grouping and regions next year. Because of changing school populations in the state there will likely be major realignment. While the process is not yet completed there would be significant changes for Rich High School and some historical athletic competitions would be changed or deleted. A new realignment would include Rich being joined with several small private schools on the Wasatch front as well as some, but not all, of its traditional rivals. The process is still underway and Rich will have additional input into the outcome,

6) It was reported that using assessed valuation as the measure, 53% of the assessed property valuation in the county comes from secondary residential structures. As primary residences receive a 45% property tax reduction on taxes, when that is also considered, the actual percentage of property tax funds received by the school district from non-residents is even higher. For example, if half of the remaining 47% property valuation comes from primary residential structures then with this assumption in fact non-residents are paying approximately 60% of the total property tax funds levied and received by the school district and have no votes or representation in county or school district governance.

The school board went into executive session, spent about 15 minutes in that session, then returned to the public meeting to discuss board and district policy on drug and alcohol use.

Sunlit Ice Shards On The Lake

KUTV 2News Photo

Citizen Emergency Support Volunteers Needed

GARDEN CITY, Utah.  February 17, 2016.  The Garden City Fire District meeting was held on Wednesday, instead of Thursday due to conflicts with training classes being held in Logan and will continue on Thursday through March and April.

The board is working on updating the Policy and Procedure manual and Randall Knight is taking the lead.  The first section being updated will focus on the Emergency Vehicle Policy.  This section will be expanded to clarify the allowed usage for the vehicles and who the operators can be.

Fire Chief Wahlberg reported the fire district is sponsoring the Garden City Certification program through Bear River Health.  Local citizens are being requested to volunteer to support this emergency support effort.  The volunteers would receive training on how to react to a large emergency in the area by allowing citizens to assist the emergency service providers.  These individuals would make phone calls to alert the community, perform triage and/or basic fire protection skills.  It will also create a good pool of future volunteers for both fire and EMT needs.  To do the job correctly, the Chief thinks it would take at least 20 trained individuals originally but could eventually grow to more.  To spearhead this request the LDS church will be asking their members for volunteers.  However, this is a community service that is very important and is not limited to LDS members only.  If anybody is interested please provide your name and telephone number to the Fire Chief, Ward Bishop, or one of the board members. A notice will be posted on the Post Office bulletin board.

Other items of interest is potential enlargement of the fire station to house a new ladder truck, upgrading the motors on the fire rescue boat for faster response times and getting a winterized cover that can withstand the Bear Lake Valley high winds.