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Commissioners indicated the parcel is inside the Consumers Canyon area where the state already owns most surrounding land and is seeking to consolidate ownership. The county identified the parcel as \"2A-0980-0000,\" a 0.04-acre (about 1,742-square-foot) lot. Commissioners said the neighboring parcel \"2A-0975-0000\" measures about 0.07 acres and the state is seeking both parcels to consolidate holdings but that only one parcel was before the commission for action at this meeting.

Commissioners said the parcel had little county use; one commissioner joked about putting a county office there. The commission passed a motion to approve the purchase agreement by voice vote.

The vote authorizes sale of the identified parcel to the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources; county staff noted ongoing conversations with other landowners in the area about additional transfers but no related action was before the commission at the meeting.","mediaType","Video","parentTitle","Commission Meeting 5/7/25","oneSentenceSummary","The county approved a real estate purchase agreement selling a 0.04-acre parcel (and noted a neighboring 0.07-acre parcel) in the Consumers Canyon area to the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources; commissioners said the parcels were small and of little county use.","taxTitle","Carbon County Commission, Carbon County Commission and Boards, Carbon County, Utah","taxId",74880,"location","Utah","headline","shortSummary",{"_33":76,"_35":36,"_37":38,"_39":77,"_41":78,"_43":79,"_45":80,"_47":81,"_49":82,"_51":83,"_53":84,"_55":56,"_57":58,"_59":85,"_61":62,"_63":64,"_65":86,"_67":68,"_69":70,"_71":72,"_73":56,"_74":56},6243017,"Commission approves fire and emergency-service agreements with four cities; sets contribution percentages",287,4107000,4394000,"/Search/View?dp=1&key=3243310-90e01b3f82a54f6544c0da7c3f9409fe&start=4107&end=4394","https://assets.pipeline.soar.com/3243310-90e01b3f82a54f6544c0da7c3f9409fe/thumbnail_4107000.jpg","/articles/6243017/Utah/Commission-approves-fire-and-emergency-service-agreements-with-four-cities-sets-contribution-percentages","https://secure.pipeline.soar.com/6243017-3025a45b29fef9dbfa5d4db0b0f342df/orig.mp4?Expires=1771100865&Signature=MtQz59mVIjBrH2yMxcAvV7jcAgxE6JMe8VTyswgURNAT6m5whf8V2Z2v22XK31h9Zu6VO6ifpqRR6krXQ9rDnUStAwrGEjaiWXmcVLyLDwVjPdofcLZEACNX94m~Tlg4IM0rPpdc9YJnDkgrgbzKf5y3tqtUXNtQ7bL4UP4N4aXwhXen3w-WvWFK1-dkaeomRgF4J-2Q-JtJQIB5Grew9mZ9S1~CbiFrdRvazWZ6HrVxiLBvUYWN-lG1vNWQ~wkt7FD84X~3kAZsoDTCWner6mHmrKS0GpMrgCxOZ5vPC6rikmCtRXxFoeQ1ImLYGC6yItGHtHgpVGx5xjBBPzLSlQ__&Key-Pair-Id=KUT5TJCACFTXG","Carbon County commissioners approved updated fire and emergency service agreements on Wednesday that formalize how Helper, Price, Wellington and East Carbon will respond to emergencies in unincorporated areas and how the county will fund that coverage.

Commissioner Jensen presented the agreements and explained each city’s contribution percentage under the new structure. \"Price City, we've agreed to 35% of their annual budget. Helper, 72 percent. Wellington, 61 percent. And East Carbon, 50 Percent,\" Jensen said during the presentation.

Under the agreements the county will continue its history of supplementing municipal fire budgets in defined geographic response areas outside city limits. The contracts also require each city to submit its finalized budget between Sept. 15 and Oct. 15 each year so the county can calculate the following year’s contribution. The agreement directs the cities to remit 25% of the county-funded amount back to the county into a discretionary fund managed with the Fire Chief Association; county staff will disperse those pooled funds on the chiefs’ recommendations.

Commissioners said the percentage differences reflect operational realities: Wellington and Helper respond to higher numbers of crashes on Highway 6, which partly explains their larger percentages, while Price City responds to a larger share of home-based emergencies. Commissioner Jensen moved approval and the commission passed the motion by voice vote.

Justin Needles, referenced in the discussion, was named as a staff coordinator to help with fund disbursement administration, and county staff will continue to work with the four-city Fire Chief Association on the discretionary fund process.

The agreements aim to provide clearer budgeting, a pooled resource for joint needs, and a standardized timeline for cities to present budgets and for the county to calculate contributions.","The commission approved interlocal agreements with Helper, Price, Wellington and East Carbon to fund fire and emergency services for unincorporated areas and agreed to place 25% of payments into a pooled discretionary fund managed with city fire chiefs.",{"_33":88,"_35":36,"_37":38,"_39":89,"_41":90,"_43":91,"_45":92,"_47":93,"_49":94,"_51":95,"_53":96,"_55":56,"_57":58,"_59":97,"_61":62,"_63":64,"_65":98,"_67":68,"_69":70,"_71":72,"_73":56,"_74":56},6243023,"Consultants preview county transportation master plan, recommend connectivity and UDOT coordination",1027,3035000,4062000,"/Search/View?dp=1&key=3243310-90e01b3f82a54f6544c0da7c3f9409fe&start=3035&end=4062","https://assets.pipeline.soar.com/3243310-90e01b3f82a54f6544c0da7c3f9409fe/thumbnail_3035000.jpg","/articles/6243023/Utah/Consultants-preview-county-transportation-master-plan-recommend-connectivity-and-UDOT-coordination","https://secure.pipeline.soar.com/6243023-30866da6ad33589739d0d1fe6f728f48/orig.mp4?Expires=1771100865&Signature=g6hpeSJZEl8jdhCWC8WkoCgdbhvRbJAdDZoevqdncv18IEk-vQjGb6BWtfS-G4juJ4xoeEBjamAn3fRzuA-y9PelRjijWVZiTjpi8UtQ5tRzV7BBFXK04tmS3bXGmCzFjwBEnBQYASUp-Qwg1rlhJOJ~XY5RETpQfBBQD0ZZJy~zORPJ02Ay-gVoyg7SH6ARZm7cQ5Ye9ihUkX7ALMVaf7MtWqvv6of1KY-EdEA77ZGCBl5l8qgwgqZahZVM~Z4AWa3XHmlO82ULrcOwcC8urSmZgDMMp5fnjNXUOKxQmm0eJgtx~h6kkkw9ZucGhfe5yDQRCE31OUsYwc5qPkE-2g__&Key-Pair-Id=KUT5TJCACFTXG","Consultants from Jones & DeMille on Wednesday presented a draft transportation master plan to the Carbon County Commission, outlining traffic counts, crash data and a recommended future-road network intended to improve safety and to position the county for state funding.

Matthew Lenhart of Jones & DeMille said the county’s grant from the Utah Department of Transportation covered most of the plan and that an online story map and a 90-page report will be published on the county’s GIS site when the plan is finalized. “It’ll be on the county’s website,” Lenhart said when asked how the public would access the materials.

The consultants reported they collected traffic counts, speed and truck data last year, mapped crash locations and found a slight multi-year increase in crashes and fatalities, with a concentration on Highway 6. The plan recommends minor classification updates to align county road designations with UDOT funding eligibility and a set of prioritized projects with rough cost estimates and inflation-adjusted projections for a 10-year horizon.

A central recommendation is to improve road connectivity and discourage additional dead-end roads. The consultants said better connectivity reduces maintenance costs and improves emergency access. They also proposed standards for developer-required traffic impact studies so new development pays for off-site improvements such as turn lanes or signals when projects materially affect capacity or safety.

Lenhart said the project list includes local and county-managed projects and notes coordination needs where state highways are involved. He said a public open house and a public hearing will be scheduled before the commission adopts the plan.

Commissioners and staff asked about coordination with city road plans and the consultants said they would further align county recommendations with city plans where appropriate. Lenhart said the final deliverables will include maps showing traffic counts, speeds, crash clusters and a searchable project list.

The commission thanked the consultants for the forward-looking plan and suggested hosting the public open house at a larger venue to maximize public participation.","Jones & DeMille presented a draft transportation master plan that maps traffic counts, crash trends and a proposed 10-year project list. The plan emphasizes road connectivity, classification alignment with UDOT and a public open house before adoption.",{"_33":100,"_35":36,"_37":38,"_39":101,"_41":102,"_43":103,"_45":104,"_47":105,"_49":106,"_51":107,"_53":108,"_55":56,"_57":58,"_59":109,"_61":62,"_63":64,"_65":110,"_67":68,"_69":70,"_71":72,"_73":56,"_74":56},6243027,"Upper-basin negotiators say voluntary conservation needed as Colorado River supply drops",1439,1384000,2823000,"/Search/View?dp=1&key=3243310-90e01b3f82a54f6544c0da7c3f9409fe&start=1384&end=2823","https://assets.pipeline.soar.com/3243310-90e01b3f82a54f6544c0da7c3f9409fe/thumbnail_1384000.jpg","/articles/6243027/Utah/Upper-basin-negotiators-say-voluntary-conservation-needed-as-Colorado-River-supply-drops","https://secure.pipeline.soar.com/6243027-0a396ae8b3c49db7ddd4bf17c26317b1/orig.mp4?Expires=1771100865&Signature=QoAwRHc~Uut8QyO9o5YtN8bzlHY3O4L6XKGSUxsd-ay2~qwPi5ews2JQ0fg98D9IiZNt5cIrQcN754GFiheyNEx-oOjXVPja31KiAOj~b45ovlHShjiBN1QDlTwF3oAbJBnunvsi2f3bXp0dczgqwc0U-PD5SlJIMuNCxN4x05wfOq8p25Y3wRiivDT415iSqSEoyhYiWnICwMI1qdvCj4~RIXdW1AC5S~u3hPcwK6tW9SZwWekUs3gB8g7rF1bJB2B7BFc5i6lPnjeSWLxxJHEQyHROkSoQ6kS3dDCYN2dPY0y-zKXjb5EjN4lKVazexgM6gZAp-OFycyOsUB0v4w__&Key-Pair-Id=KUT5TJCACFTXG","Mark Stilson of the Colorado River Authority of Utah told Carbon County commissioners that negotiations among the seven basin states aim to replace expiring operational guidelines and that “one way or another there’s going to be a reduction” in water available from the Colorado River.

The update outlined the basin context and the key choices negotiators face: the Lower Basin states have signaled they will accept the first 1.5 million acre-feet of reductions, but deeper cuts of 2 to 4 million acre-feet will require agreement on how additional reductions are shared. Stilson said the Upper Basin states have proposed voluntary measures that include credits for water saved and a Lake Powell account to which conserved water would be credited.

Stilson placed the current negotiations in legal and historical context. The 1922 Colorado River Compact divided basin apportionments, and later documents such as the 2007 interim guidelines and the 2019 drought contingency plans govern coordinated operations; those temporary agreements expire this year, he said. Stilson warned that continued low inflows have driven reservoir elevations down and could make compliance with compact obligations difficult in the coming decade.

Stilson described a voluntary, compensated program Utah is piloting for 2025–26. The state legislature provided $5 million for a pilot. Under the pilot, conservation would be compensated at published rates: $390 per acre-foot for conserved consumptive use, $150 per acre-foot for irrigation-system conversions, and $150 per acre-foot for storage forbearance. Stilson said if all 27 applicants were accepted this year, the program would save just over 22,000 acre-feet per year at an estimated $6.3 million per year, exceeding the available $5 million pilot fund.

Stilson said the voluntary approach aims to avoid mandatory, priority-based cuts that would be administered without compensation and could affect storage reservoirs and hydropower reliant on those reservoirs. \"We want compact compliance,\" Stilson said, \"and we want the threat of a compact call that has unlimited cuts to be taken off of the table.\" He summarized the upper-basin proposal as including voluntary conservation, crediting of conserved water at Powell, and temporary compensated programs to preserve agriculture while reducing consumptive use.

Commissioners asked about reopening the compact and the risks of litigation. Stilson said litigation or reopening the compact could remove local control and leave decisions to courts or nonlocal political processes; he recommended negotiation. The commission discussed local implications and noted Schofield Reservoir water-share holders could be among the first locally affected if mandatory reductions are imposed.

Stilson closed by saying the seven basin states hoped to find consensus in the coming weeks and still must engage Mexico; there is an August 2026 deadline for a final agreement.","Mark Stilson of the Colorado River Authority of Utah briefed the Carbon County Commission on basin-wide negotiations to replace expiring guidelines, saying states likely must agree to 2–4 million acre-feet of cuts and describing a Utah pilot paying farmers to conserve water.",{"_33":112,"_35":36,"_37":38,"_39":113,"_41":114,"_43":115,"_45":116,"_47":117,"_49":118,"_51":119,"_53":120,"_55":56,"_57":58,"_59":121,"_61":62,"_63":64,"_65":122,"_67":68,"_69":70,"_71":72,"_73":56,"_74":56},6243032,"County ratifies $45,000 commercial appraisal agreement; assessor reports large land revaluation",239,320000,559000,"/Search/View?dp=1&key=3243310-90e01b3f82a54f6544c0da7c3f9409fe&start=320&end=559","https://assets.pipeline.soar.com/3243310-90e01b3f82a54f6544c0da7c3f9409fe/thumbnail_320000.jpg","/articles/6243032/Utah/County-ratifies-45000-commercial-appraisal-agreement-assessor-reports-large-land-revaluation","https://secure.pipeline.soar.com/6243032-7d1bc938acf1bd6da61c86a1e0d6dfbd/orig.mp4?Expires=1771100865&Signature=az2cBJSZgjgEth7CJYxiV7P8AwJh6f26oUQza5-BrSG8hP0fYcVutjcs7RXriGSaOmvgyzpwlB4XLqRSFjgHJCoGVQjf5RRIAHVLtWFeT-Cd6NOl0ZfKTxdYJB0N7Pq89rVig1SbMw3t2PbZeWaN4zBQODLy9cze1BTQfnwOZIFQvszUI-K6BiYoRNdqqYNp13J2uquUzg-VSV1q9ghlZDfIMaU7KtDthHs6TUWthfgsd-ZGFZMHTjnLROfxM11ZGTIR2nEwTme3ko1I4xlMf-nvCeGOoN-H05hSl215HEltKyZK-buBkksiUr9qdksdSVz9ywWDTEAVGehrGrRimw__&Key-Pair-Id=KUT5TJCACFTXG","Carbon County commissioners on Wednesday ratified an agreement to purchase commercial appraisal services from the Utah Association of Counties for $45,000 and heard a report from the assessor’s office on recent revaluation work.

The ratification motion approved an agreement the county had already signed because the work was time-sensitive, Amy Peters, a county staff member who presented the item, told commissioners. “This is just to have agreement that we accepted a commercial bid on our appraisal services from Utah Association of Counties for $45,000,” Peters said during the meeting.

The measure matters because the county’s assessor’s office has been correcting property characteristic data and performing a targeted revaluation of land across the county. Chief Deputy Assessor Kevin Yule told the commission the office reviewed and revalued land on about 15,000 parcels this year and will next focus detailed commercial review on roughly 870 improved commercial parcels and about 200 vacant commercial parcels.

“We did a lot of that,” Yule said of cleaning sales records and characteristics, noting the county had found major inconsistencies in land data submitted to the Board of Equalization last year. He explained a revaluation of land characteristics and a cleaning of sales records will help ensure property taxes reflect relative values across properties rather than broad market swings.

Yule walked commissioners through valuation mechanics, using two short “quiz” questions to show how percentage changes in value affect tax rolls. Asked, “If all values in the county raised 10%, what’s the net tax increase due to the increase in value?” he answered, “There is no increase.” He used the example to emphasize that taxes shift when individual parcels move out of alignment with the rest of the tax rolls.

On commercial valuation, the county did not perform a full commercial reset but worked with the association’s commercial appraisers to “center” values and then capped changes to limit dramatic shifts: commercial parcels were bounded to rise at most 20% and fall at most 5% in the initial work, Yule said. The county plans a deeper, parcel-level commercial review next year with the outside appraiser team led by John Ulibarri, a commercial appraiser referenced by staff.

Peters told commissioners the $45,000 agreement was substantially less than the first sealed bid the county received, which she said was about $240,000. Commissioners noted the arrangement saved the county money while getting the work done within an accelerated schedule. The county reported receiving preliminary statistics to the state and intends to load values into the county assessment system as scheduled.

The commission approved the ratification motion by voice vote.

Less-critical details: Peters said the agreement was signed quickly because of timing needs; Yule said the office had cleaned prior error reports and would continue five years of sales cleaning for future assessment cycles. Commissioners thanked the assessor’s staff for the volume of work ahead of statutory deadlines.

The assessor said the assessment roll “will not be perfect” and invited anyone curious about the mass-valuation process to review the methods, while reiterating the office’s aim to produce a fair and accurate tax roll.

The commission’s approval ratifies the county’s commercial-appraisal contract and authorizes the assessor’s office to continue implementing corrected characteristics and the planned commercial review.","Carbon County commissioners ratified a $45,000 commercial appraisal agreement with the Utah Association of Counties and heard a detailed assessor office update on a countywide revaluation that revalued land on roughly 15,000 parcels and will next focus on 870 improved commercial parcels.","actionData","errors"]

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