Special Bond Election For New School Addition

Notice of Special Bond Election

Board of Education of Rich County School District, Utah

Public Notice Is Hereby Given that a special bond election will be held in Rich County School District, Utah (the “District”), on Tuesday, November 6, 2018, at which bond election there shall be submitted to the qualified, registered voters residing within the District the following question:

Board of Education of Rich County School District,
Rich County, Utah

BOND ELECTION

November 6, 2018

(Facsimile Signature)

Business Administrator

Rich County School District Bond

Shall the Board of Education of Rich County School District, Utah, be authorized to issue General Obligation Bonds in a principal amount not to exceed Eight Million Five Hundred Thousand Dollars ($8,500,000) for the purpose of paying all or a portion of the costs to acquire land; acquiring, constructing, furnishing and equipping new school facilities; improving or rebuilding existing facilities; and the authorization and issuance of the Bonds due and payable with a term not to exceed twenty-one (21) years from the date or dates of issuance of the Bonds?

PROPERTY TAX COST OF THE BONDS

If the Bonds are issued as planned, without regard to the taxes currently levied for outstanding bonds that will reduce over time, an annual property tax to pay debt service on the Bonds will be required over a period of twenty-one (21) years in the estimated amount of $35.77 (for a residence with a $156,000 value) on a residence and in the estimated amount of $79.78 on a business property having the same value. 

If there are other outstanding bonds, an otherwise scheduled tax decrease may not occur if the Bonds are issued.

The foregoing information is only an estimate and is not a limit on the amount of taxes that the District may be required to levy to pay debt service on the Bonds.  The District is obligated to levy taxes to the extent provided by law in order to pay the Bonds. 

	For the Issuance of Bonds
	Against the Issuance of Bonds

The bond election will be administered entirely by absentee ballot.  The election officer will mail to each registered voter within the District an absentee ballot and a postage paid business reply envelope.  For a voter that registers to vote after the absentee ballots have been mailed, the County Clerk will either give the voter an absentee ballot and envelope to vote in the County Clerk’s office or mail an absentee ballot, postage paid, to the voter.  There will be no polling places in the District for the election.  If a voter fails to follow the instructions included with the absentee ballot, the voter will be unable to vote in the election.  Voters are not required to apply for an absentee ballot for the election.

To vote the mail-in absentee ballot, a voter will need to: (i) complete and sign the affidavit on the envelope; (ii) mark the votes on the absentee ballot; (iii) place the voted absentee ballot in the envelope; (iv) securely seal the envelope; and (v) deposit the self-addressed, prepaid envelope in the mail or deliver it in person to the County Clerk.

There is to be no special registration of voters for the bond election, and the official register of voters last made or revised shall constitute the register for the bond election.  The County Clerk will make registration lists or copies of such lists available for use by registered voters.

For information on registering to vote, voters may contact the office of the (a) Rich County Clerk at 20 South Main, Randolph, Utah  84064, telephone: (435) 793-2415 or visit the County’s website at richcountyut.org, or (b) Utah Lieutenant Governor, State Capitol, 350 N. State Street, Suite 220, Salt Lake City, Utah  84114, (801) 538-1041 or visit the Lieutenant Governor’s website at election.utah.gov.

Notice Is Further Given that on a day no sooner than 7 days and not later than 14 days after the bond election, the Board of Education of the District (the “Board”) will meet at its regular meeting place, 25 South 100 West, Randolph, Utah, and will canvass the returns and declare the results of the bond election (the “Canvass Meeting”).

Pursuant to applicable provisions of Sections 11-14-208 and 20A-4-403 of the Utah Code, the period allowed for any contest of the bond election shall end 40 days after the Canvass Meeting.  No such contest shall be maintained unless a complaint is filed with the Clerk of the Judicial District Court in and for Rich County, within the prescribed 40-day period.

In Witness Whereof, the Board of Education of Rich County School District, Utah has caused this notice to be given.

Dated:  October 5, 2018.

Board of Education of Rich County School District, Utah

Kip Motta Given Lifetime Achievement Award In Education

October 8, 2018.   Northern Utah Curriculum Consortium (NUCC) announced Kip Motta, Principal of Rich Middle School and North Rich Elementary, has been selected as the recipient of the NUCC Lifetime Achievement Award in Education.  Principal Motta will be recognized for this achievement at the NUCC fall administrators conference being held at the Davis Conference Center on October 11, 2018.  NUCC is recognizing Principal Motta for his contributions to the education of students in Rural Utah.  He has demonstrated exceptional leadership in the areas of educational technology, curriculum development, and with being a spokesperson ensuring overall educational equity for all Utah rural school students.

Principal Motta earned his bachelor’s degree from the University of Montana Western and his master’s degree from the University of Cincinnati.  In 1982, he started his educational journey coaching and teaching at a rural K-12 school district in central Ohio.  After a year in Ohio. Motta moved to Trinity Valley Community College in Athens, Texas where he coached basketball and taught mathematics.  After a three-year stint in Athens, Kip moved to Washington State University to coach basketball, then onto the NBA where he coached four teams over a seven-year period.  

Principal Motta moved to Rich County as the Middle School mathematics teacher in 1997, and in 2000 he became the principal of both the elementary and middle schools. 

Throughout his 22 years in the Utah Public Education System, Principal Motta has served as a member and chairperson of NUCC, a Small Middle School Representative, President-elect, President, and Past-president of Utah Association of Secondary School Principals (UASSP), a Board member of Utah Rural Schools Association (URSA), and an elected member of the Board of Directors of the National Association of Secondary School Principals (NASSP).

Pickleville Philosophy

Rice Crispy Revenge

By Jim Stone, The Pickleville Philosopher

I love to fish, and fisherman maybe are kinda known to, on a rare occasion, tell a little fish story. Not really a lie, just stretching the truth a little teeny tiny bit. It’s hard to explain but sometimes a small fish kinda grows into a huge monster fish!  

So today at the store I had a gentleman come in and he was very ornery, kinda one of those people that no matter how nice you are to them they are just not very nice.

Anyways he needed three boxes of Rice Crispies. He almost threw them up on the counter while saying some not so nice things under his breath.

I always treat customers very respectful and nice just like I did this man, but he just let me have it for how the price was way too high and he could buy it way cheaper at Walmart or a bigger chain store which is very true.

He left the Rice Crispies on the counter and snarled at me while saying he wouldn’t pay that much.

“I’m going to town to a bigger store to buy my goods,” he snapped as he walked out.

I know the same item downtown in Garden City is about one to three dollars more plus it is four miles away.

I had a feeling that he would be really rude to the people working at the other stores when he saw the price of the Rice Crispies and he would return here to be rude to me again, all just to save a couple dollars.

Well, I decided to pull a fast one on this very rude person. I was going to be a little rude in an indirect way. Not say anything rude just treat him nice and keep on smiling. (Maybe laughing a teeny bit in my mind).  So I pulled all the Rice Crispies off the shelf and put them in the back room so the shelf was empty.

I know that it wasn’t a very nice thing of me to do and I would ordinarily never do this, but this guy kinda had it coming to him. Well sure enough, twenty minutes later here came old ornery pants. I had a feeling that he would return to be rude again. 

 

Sure enough he went to get the Rice Crispies and they were mysteriously gone.  Well this is where the fisherman, and not really a blatant, lie comes in.

I like to think of it as stretching the truth just a wee bit.

Mister ornery came up to the counter and said. “I left three boxes of Rice Crispies on your counter and I want them.”

“Well sir I’m all sold out and there’s not any more on the shelf.  I won’t have more until next Tuesday.”

“Where did they go?” he shouted.

“Well sir, I’m the best price in town.  I sold them right after you left to a really nice lady who is going to make homemade Rice Crispy treats for her grandkids. Sorry I can’t help you out sir. If you go to Walmart or the bigger stores downtown I’m sure you can find some Rice Crispies for your needs. Have a nice day sir.” I smiled.

Ha ha, he was speechless and left the store without any more rude remarks.

I kinda felt bad.

Now that’s a big fib.  I didn’t feel very bad at all.

Golden Mountains

Photo by Jim Stone, Garden City

Short Term Rental Moratorium For Sweetwater Discussed

Bobbie Bicknell Coray, Reporter

Rich Civic Times

RANDOLPH, Utah. October 3, 2018.  Frank Corgiat, president of the Bear Lake Water Company and Sweetwater Hillside HOA, and Terry Allen, Bear Lake Water Company, asked commissioners to put a temporary moratorium on short term rentals in the Sweetwater HOA.  This request came from the Golf Course HOA, the Trailer Park HOA, the Hillside HOA and the Bear Lake Water Company.

Allen said that the water usage since 2016 has shown a tremendous increase in usage. In 2016 the yearly use was 204 acre feet. In 2017 the use was 300 acre feet.  The only thing that has changed is the addition of short term rentals in both the Golf Course and Trailer Park. 

There are twenty new connections proposed for 2018 and most are for large short term rentals.  Allen said that the Water Company is in a mitigation process now, buying canal shares, but the short term rentals are growing so fast the water company cannot keep up. 

“We would like to slow things down till the mitigation is done and then we can work on a pending water right.”  Allen said.  “In the 1980’s we had a huge water right, then it was dropped, but the state said we can file for the 1600 acre feet underground water when the mitigation is done.”

“We are getting so far behind that the state will step in and take over.  We have 204 acre feet of water right now, we go over that allotment in the summer alone. Just one short term rental has fifty people in it.”

 

According to the water company data, 60% of the use goes to outside watering.  Each house and trailer is metered. When they read the meters at least 4 rental homes had used over 700,000 gallons the other houses used about 350,000 gallons and in the summer the pumps are working about 20 hours a day.  The CC&R’s do not allow outside lawns but there are people who ignore the rules.

Allen said. “We are changing the rates to make high water usage very expensive.” 

Commissioner Norm Weston asked if the commission granted the moratorium how long should it be in place.  Allen thought it would depend on when the water rights were granted.  Commissioner Bill Cox said that there needed to be a time limit. Corgiat suggested two years and then re-evaluating it.  He said that they have purchased canal shares and are filing with the state to transfer the shares into ground water shares for another 100 acre feet.  A new well is being drilled.   Corgiat argued that this affects fire suppression as well.

Currently there are 29 nightly rentals in the Golf Course HOA. They are not allowed in the Trailer Park HOA or Hillside HOA.  This year, 20 new building permits have been issued for large short term rental units.  They are not permitted as commercial buildings but are built ostensibly as private homes.  When finished, they then apply for licenses for them to be used as nightly rentals.

Corgiat suggested that the ones permitted at this time with existing business licenses be “grandfathered in”.  Weston said, “Better do the moratorium today or there will a rush on permits.” 

   

Chuck Stocking, Garden City Council, said that Garden City did a study to see if short term rentals use more water. They don’t.  It is the landscape watering that uses the most water; he suggested that Sweetwater should enforce the CC&R’s that prohibit lawns. 

Mayor Mike Leonhardt, Garden City, said the property managers are willing to work with the HOA.  The only difference is that people are making money on their property, the rest of cabin owners have just as many people with their family and friends. 

Stocking said that Garden City will have the same problem because “you can’t use more than you have rights for.  That is why we ask developers to bring water rights to the city when they request a new development.”

 Stocking said, “You could look at what the water usage was for the property before it became a short term rental for an idea on how much more water is really being used.”

Corgiat said that the HOA is going to enforce watering guidelines. There will be a meeting in November about outside watering.  “The last thing we want is for the state to come in and take this over.”  Allen asked Commissioners to put a time limit on a moratorium and then as the problems are solved it could be eliminated.

“The system is engineered for single family homes for water use and fire fighters.  We are pushing our pumps 20 hours a day.” Allen said.

Joey Stocking, Property Manager, asked if Allen had seen the copy of the study Tiffany Wahlberg did on water use.  He said that the data shows that short term rentals don’t use much water unless you count landscape water. 

Allen said that nothing has changed in the last two years other than the 29 new rentals, but there is a huge increase in water use.

Commissioner Norm Weston said they would table  this until the next meeting while the water company gets more data. The County will stop issuing short term rental licenses in Sweetwater for a month until the data is gathered.  

Commissioner Cox said that it is a problem because everyone’s access to water is compromised.

Cisco Road Progress

Bobbie Bicknell Coray, Reporter

Rich Civic Times

RANDOLPH, Utah. October 3, 2018.  Engineers from Jones and DeMille Engineering reported that Cisco Road is paved to south Eden and two thirds of the project is seeded.   Signs and delineators are being installed.  The rest should be paved during November, and a center lane will be striped.

They are getting 92% compaction of the asphalt, so they are under the budget by $100,000.  They need to build a retaining wall at the Scout Camp for the bike trail.  Rocky Mountain Power ran underground power lines south of the Scout Camp for one half mile.  There are also new poles and power along the rest of the road.  Centra Com has buried conduit for future use. 

They are right on schedule within two or three days.  Next year they will chip and seal and then mark it more thoroughly. They had 20 trucks of asphalt a day average coming to the site.  Whitaker construction is the contractor. 

Commissioners praised the  work and suggested that they need to stripe the bike lane right away so heavy trucks don’t get on the bike path.

Fall Aspen

Photo by Jill Monson

Randolph Cemetery Needs More Revenue

Bobbie Bicknell Coray, Reporter

Rich Civic Times

RANDOLPH, Utah. October 3, 2018.  George Peart, Randolph Cemetery Board Chair, told county commissioners that the Randolph Cemetery District needs more revenue. This year a new road was added and additional acreage was added to the cemetery.  They also need some additional mechanical repairs. 

Peart said he had been in contact with the State.  It was recommended that the District put in a rate increase that would raise $5,000 which is significantly lower than the allowable rate.  The tax will be raised.  They must go through the process mandated by state law.  There will be a public hearing October 17, then the Commission must approve the cemetery budget in December for 2019. The rate increase will go into effect in January. For tax purposes, the cemetery and the fire district have the same boundaries.

Commissioner Norm Weston said the cemetery has improved a lot.  

Peart said that they are buying back plots from families that may have moved away and won’t use them.  There is a different plot rate for residents; it is $500 for a plot with 4 spaces.  A non-resident pays $1000 for 4.  In the past, a family had to buy 8 plots, now only 4 must be purchased.