The Summit County Council meets in regular session today with mostly routine items on their agenda.
The council meets at the Coalville Courthouse, starting at about 3:00 pm. Among the items, said County Manager Tom Fisher, the council will consider approving an Interlocal Agreement for law enforcement with Uinta County, Wyoming—which borders the northeastern end of Summit County.
“There’s a lot of areas within Summit County that are more easily serviced by Uinta County and vice versa there are places in Uinta County that are more easily serviced, or we can help provide different kinds of services,” Fisher explained. “That's everything for EMS to fire to law enforcement this formalizes our ability to cross jurisdictions and do that I'm sure even before there were formal agreements on that that we were doing it in hand shake agreements in order to provide mutual aid. But this formalizes it so that if there's incidences that we—you know let's say we have to exchange funds in order to make sure that everybody is compensated across these jurisdictions that we have the ability.”
At 4:30, they will consider some amendments to an ordinance, which governs the Eastern Summit County Agricultural Preservation Committee. Fisher said the group advises him on Open Space issues, which includes some projects involving the Summit Land Conservancy.
“The purpose of this committee is to advise myself the manager, and ultimately the council on open lands and agricultural preservation projects within the east side of the county,” Fisher continued. “You heard Cheryl (Fox) talk about a couple of projects that they're still waiting to close on. One in Henefer and one up Chalk Creek. Well those go through a process of this committee to get recommended for some level of funding from the county. Monies that are gained through property transfers through the promontory development.”
The amendments are mostly minor clarifications, though one would change the committee’s formal name from a “Open Space Advisory Committee” to “Open Lands.” Fisher said that’s to reflect attitudes on the East Side.
“One of the things that we don't always realize if we live on the West side of the county or are not familiar with the heritage of the County,” Fisher said. “Especially the ranching farming side of our County and our business base of that is that they don't always agree with the terms that are used. So this change seems to follow what their viewpoints are a little a little bit closer.”
Finally, the council will discuss monument preservation—that is, the monuments that help to define property boundaries.
“There’s a whole system out there all over the country of survey monuments that help surveyors decide a description of land a legal description turns into what happens on the ground,” Fisher explained. “Those sometimes get moved. Either through excavation or animals sometimes there you know the old ones are just rocks on the ground instead of actually being cemented into the ground in some way in order to preserve them. It's a continual process of finding those usually through the land owner or the surveyors that discover that they've been moved and then we have to actually go back and reestablish them.”
