Monday, May 2, 2022
Sunday, May 1, 2022
Laketown Town Council
Notice is hereby given that the Town of Laketown Town Council will hold their regularly scheduled meeting at 7:00 p.m. on Wednesday May 4,2022 in the Laketown Town Office located at 10 North 200 East Laketown, Utah.
7:00 p.m. REGULAR MEETING AGENDA
1. Call to Order – Mayor Burdette Weston
2. Opening Ceremony – TBD
3. Roll Call
4. Approval of Agenda
5. Approval of Prior Meeting Minutes
6. QUESTIONS AND COMMENTS FOR MAYOR AND COUNCIL: Any person wishing to comment on any item not otherwise on the agenda may address the town council at this point by addressing the mayor and town council and giving his or her name and address for the record. Comments should be limited to not more than three (3) minutes, unless additional time is authorized by the mayor. Citizen groups will be asked to appoint a spokesperson. This is the time and place for any person who wishes to comment on non-agenda items. Some items brought forward to the attention of the town council will be turned over to the clerk to provide a response outside of the town council meeting.
7. ITEMS OF BUSINESS:
A. PUBLIC HEARING – Ordinance 2022-06: An Ordinance of Laketown Amending the Board of Authority of Laketown Code Title 10, Chapter 4, Section 1: Board of Adjustment.
B. PUBLIC HEARING- Ordinance 2022-02: An Ordinance of Laketown Amending the Zoning Regulations of Laketown Town Code Title 10, Chapter 6 Residential Zones Article A Residential-Agricultural Zones (RA-1, RA-1/3, RA-1/2) Adding Section 8: Agricultural Tourism, AG Tourism and or Agri-tourism.
C. Engagement Document for Appeal Authority
D. Activity Committee- Heidi Hodges
8. COUNCIL BUSINESS:
A. Planning & Zoning Commission Report on April 27, 2022 meeting and recommendations to the Town Council – Chairman Duane Robinson
a. Subdivision Ordinances
b. Building Permits applied for
B. Water Updates – Councilmember Delora Wight
a. Second Water System Operator
c. New meter reading system – Mayor Burdette Weston
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C. Rodeo & Arena Updates – Councilmember Eldon Robinson
D. Roads & Streets Updates – Councilmember Brandon Willis
E. Park & Recreation Updates – Councilmember Dallas Clark
9. MAYOR REPORTS:
A. Bear Lake Regional Commission Report
B. County Master Plan Steering Committee
10. UPDATES FROM CLERK’S OFFICE
a. Rodeo Sponsor Letter Update
11. BUDGET REVIEW
12. APPROVAL OF BILLS
13. EXECUTIVE SESSION (if needed)
14. ADJOURN
NOTE: The Town Council may vote to go into executive session pursuant to Utah Code 52-4-205
On Wednesday, April 27,2022 at 4:00 p.m.. a copy of the foregoing notice was posted on the Utah Public Notice website at http://pmn.utah.gov and on the Laketown website at www.laketownutah.com. A copy was posted in conspicuous view inside and outside the Laketown Town Office in Laketown, Utah, and inside and outside of the Laketown post office and at Dee’s Service Station.
DATED THIS 27th day of April, 2022
Burdette W. Weston, Mayor
Meet The Candidates
The
Empty Nesters will host a “Meet the Candidates Night” on May 16th at
6:00 – 8:30 PM. The location will be in the Garden City office’s Lake
View room at 100 N 300 W. This meeting is open to the public, so please
come out and hear what their plans are if elected to go forward to the primary
election November.
The
candidates that are anticipated to be present are:
Kera
Birkland State Representative and her opponents Raelene Blocker and Logan Wilde
County
Commissioner Bill Cox and his opponent Geo Peart
Clerk/Auditor
Annalisa Peart and Justin O’Mealey
Jennie
Earl from the State School Board to share her thoughts and actions to keep
politics out of the school system.
Randall
Knight - Empty Nesters Coordinator
Thank
you,
Pamela
C. Cornia-Chairman Rich County Republicans
UT/ID
Agent
Town
& Country Realty Bear Lake
Congratulations to the Rich High Girls
High school volleyball: Deseret News 2021 1A all-state team
1A First Team
Brittney Lamborn, Rich, OH, Sr.
— 61 aces, 173 points, 312 kills, 256 digs.
1A Second Team
Annie
Peart, Rich, MB, Sr. — 56 aces, 292 kills, 214 digs, 55 blocks.
Tayla McKee, Rich,
Setter, Sr. — 537 assists, 125 serve points, 253 digs.
1A
Third Team-Dixie Huffaker, Rich, MB, Sr.
Zions Bank
Zions Bank’s Garden City branch will move to its Summer
operating hours of 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Friday beginning on May 1. The branch
will return to Winter operating hours of 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Monday-Friday on Oct.
1. For our clients’ convenience, a night depository and ATM are located
directly outside the entrance of this location and are accessible 24 hours a
day.
Malcolm Hong
Public Relations Officer | Assistant Vice President
Bear Lake Watch Accomplishments and Results
Accomplishments and Results 2022
By Bryce Nielson
When I first heard about Bear Lake Watch (BLW), I thought that it was an exclusive group of lakeshore property owners who were worried about what they saw when they looked out of their windows at the lake. After a few years, I decided to find out for myself, so I volunteered to serve on the Board with the hope that I could provide insight into the history and scientific ecology of Bear Lake.
I quickly found out that Bear Lake Watch is committed to serving as an advocate on behalf of Bear Lake with the goal of keeping the lake CLEAN, DEEP and BLUE. What I also found out, however, was that securing funding for the operation of a non-profit organization like BLW is always going to be a challenge. Intuitively, I knew that for BLW to be successful, we needed to learn more about Bear Lake’s ecosystem and focus our efforts on addressing the challenges we discovered. Unfortunately, I learned that one of the biggest challenges BLW faced was the fact that there was limited money available to operate the organization and to also fund scientific studies.
To successfully raise money for both, a citizens’ group organization like BLW must not only do the work, it must also keep the public informed on what they are doing by reporting on what has been accomplished. BLW is rightfully proud of its efforts to date. BLW’s Executive Directors David and Claudia Cottle deserve much of the credit for the accomplishments of BLW, the success of BLW’s fund raising efforts on behalf of the Scientific Research Committee wouldn’t have been possible without the vision of one of BLW’s board members and the generosity and hard work of a lot of people who care deeply about the future of Bear Lake.
About ten years ago, BLW board member Phil Olsen and members of the Olsen family organized the first Merlin Olsen Summer Classic, a golf tournament at Bear Lake West in memory of Phil’s brother Merlin. From its beginning, the Merlin Olsen Summer Classic has been dedicated to raising money specifically for the funding of scientific studies on and around Bear Lake. To date, the MOSC has cleared $529,670 for use in funding scientific research. Additional financial contributions have been secured from partners like USGS, PacifiCorp, Idaho and Utah DEQ’s, Bear River Commission and Bear Lake NWR, which has brought the total value of the projects that have been funded to $1,077,562. Of that amount, BLW has invested $224,922 and our partners have invested $847,639, which converts to a 4.79:1 match. Bear Lake Watch has $304,747 in remaining funds for future studies. Our hope is to leverage that remaining amount in BLW’s Scientific Research Fund into at least another $1,000,000 of additional projects.
While these numbers are impressive, the results are even more remarkable. I want to highlight some of what BLW has recently accomplished.
Water Quality Profiling
and Weather Monitoring Platforms
Prior to 2018, intensive
sampling of the water chemistry of the lake had not been done in many
years. We needed to know what was
occurring with water quality in the Lake in terms of nutrients to determine
whether Bear Lake was being hurt by fertilizer runoff, leaking holding tanks
and quality of the water running into it from the Bear River. The study was conducted and partially funded
by the United States Geologic Service (USGS).
PacifiCorp, Idaho and Utah DEQ, and BLW provided the rest of the
funding. The study was started in 2018
and will be completed in the Fall of 2022.
Two floating platforms were outfitted with sampling devices that took
scientific measurements from the surface to the bottom of the lake four times a
day. Things like dissolved oxygen, pH, dissolved solids, chlorophyll, water
temperature and other parameters were quantified. Weather data was also
collected and compiled every five minutes.
This robust data set collected from five different lake locations and
compared to the “control” location off North Eden is providing a much better
understanding of what is actually occurring in Bear Lake.
Approximately $730, 000 has been expended on the project to date.
Nutrient, Suspended
Sediments and Total Dissolved Solids at the Bear Lake Causeway
Most people have observed the
discoloration of the water at the north end of the lake during Spring
runoff. That discoloration is a result
of spring flows coming into the Lake and we wanted to know what that flow
consisted of and what impact it was having
on the lake. Working with USGS, water quality sampling instruments were
placed where the water enters the lake so that the inflow could be analyzed.
BLW invested $58,100, USGS invested $38,730
Real Time Lake Elevation
Monitoring
For decades, this monitoring was done by Utah Power and Light at Lifton. In 2019, a state-of-the-art depth gage was installed at the Utah State Marina that provides real time data related to the elevation of Bear Lake. This data provides valuable information to all interested parties. BLW contributed $6000 to the project. USGS, PacifiCorp, Bear River Commission contributed $22,056
Other Noteworthy
Studies/Projects
BLW funded a project with the Quinney Library at USU to compile all the known studies conducted on Bear Lake and Mud Lake so that the public could assess the information and utilize it.
BLW funded studies on Mud Lake sediments and bathymetry including the coordination of a LIDAR flight to establish capacities and high-water marks for both Mud Lake and Bear Lake. These studies cumulated in BLW hosting a Mud Lake Symposium.
In summary, Bear Lake Watch has been and continues to be the leader in generating scientific studies to better understand Bear Lake and to provide accurate and reliable data to state governments, to beneficial users and to the general public.
Obviously, there is still much left for Bear Lake Watch to do to help protect and preserve Bear Lake. Public awareness, active involvement and ongoing financial support are imperative to our efforts. This update serves as an open invitation for you to join with us in these efforts.
To learn more about the work of Bear Lake Watch and/or to make a donation to help keep Bear Lake… Clean… Deep… and Blue go to www.bearlakewatch.com.Commissoner's Corner
One of the
organizations we participate in is the Utah Association of Counties (UAC). This
organization consists of all of the elected county officials across the State
of Utah. I serve on the Board of Directors of UAC. Last week I attended the
Spring Management Conference. In those meetings we discussed recent changes
from the last legislative session that will affect counties going forward. We
also were able to meet one on one with Lieutenant Governor Diedre Henderson,
and Speaker of the House Brad Wilson. In those discussions we brought up
challenges specifically facing Rich County such as affordable housing, economic
development, water preservation, public safety, as well as recreational
opportunities for the future. Many ideas and solutions were exchanged
during these three days with other elected officials across the state.
I pledge to continue
to work with state leaders to make them aware of the needs of Rich County. I
would appreciate your support in the Republican Primary Election on June 28th.
If you would like to discuss any issues facing our county, please feel free to
contact me at 435-757-8248 or wecox2@gmail.com.
Obit-Franklin Dee Kennedy
Franklin Dee Kennedy, 88, passed away
peacefully, next to the love of his life, on Friday, April 22, in Randolph,
Utah, from natural causes due to age.
Frank was born to Oscar and Rodella Jackson
Kennedy on Oct. 4, 1933.
He spent his early years on the family ranch
up Otter Creek, helping his dad and mother, his older sister, Shirley, and
younger brother, James Richard (Jim).
Frank went to school in the old Randolph grade
school, then went on to graduate from the Rich High School building that burned
down. He enjoyed sports and was very competitive, especially in basketball.
School came very easily for Frank, so he was
able to spend more time with sports than he did with school and books.
Following graduation, he went to work for the Aspen Tunnel Co.
On Oct. 31, 1952, he married his high school
sweetheart, Sydnee Ann Mower. They were married 59 1/2 years.
After they were married, he went to work for
Deseret Land and Livestock for three years. He then went to work for the
Stauffer underground mine and was honored to have a mine named after him — the
Franklin Mine. It’s where he got a broken back, but in true Frank fashion,
after several months, he recovered and worked hard for 16 years until the mine
closed.
Frank then moved on to work for the Kemmerer
Coal open-pit mine until he retired. After retiring from the mine, Frank needed
something to do so he started raising beef and took pride in the fact that the
meat packing company would always tell him he had the best beef they had ever
seen.
Some of his hobbies he loved included being a
jockey at the cutter races they had in Randolph and the surrounding areas. He
also had a talent for and enjoyed yodeling.
Frank is preceded in death his parents, Oscar
and Rodella Jackson Kennedy; and his brother, James Richard (Jim) Kennedy.
He is survived by his wife, Sydnee Ann
Kennedy, Randolph, Utah; son, Gary (Jane) Kennedy, Heber City, Utah; son,
Steven (Linda) Kennedy, Woodruff, Utah; son, Larry (Wendy) Kennedy, Randolph,
Utah; his daughter, Julie (Kent) Whatcott, Randolph, Utah; 15 grandchildren;
and 36 1/2 great-grandchildren.
Funeral services were held at 11 a.m. on
Monday, April 25, in the Randolph LDS chapel.
Interment in the Randolph Cemetery.
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