Resident asks council to locate records on 1940 Forest Service garage easement and a county road dedication

A resident raised two public‑record questions and urged the council to clarify the town’s documentary basis for treating a local road and a Forest Service garage as County or Forest Service property.

The speaker (identified in the record as Mark) asked the council to “call and call attention to the minute book of the board county commissioner Salt Lake County, from the record, Wednesday, 10/09/1940,” quoting a minute that states the Forest Service submitted an easement for construction of a garage and storeroom on the county right‑of‑way in Alta and recording the board’s prior approval. The speaker said the 1940 record shows the Forest Service held a 50‑year lease on the building and that “there's no indication that the forest service has anything there other than a leasehold situation from the county.”

The speaker also referenced a July 16, 1997, letter to a former mayor that responded to a request for a road dedication document. The speaker summarized the 1997 reply as indicating the road—once a Forest Service road—“had been turned over to the town for all use and maintenance responsibilities” and that the Forest Service would be the appropriate place to find certain records. The speaker urged the council to “sort this out and just review their records and indicate what they do rely on that indicates to them that it's a forest service road.”

The council did not take formal action during the public‑comment period but the mayor acknowledged the request and the public record question. No definitive record copy was produced at the meeting.