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Commission roundup: kiosks, geocaching coin, retirement rates, fire MOU and tax‑sale approvals
Summary
At its regular meeting the Carbon County Commission ratified a geocaching coin agreement with USU Eastern, approved a kiosk agreement with Price City, certified URS rates (including a 1% offset for some Tier 2 employees), authorized a grant application for the motocross track, approved a fire services MOU with Price City, ratified several contracts/agreements, confirmed one appointment and approved the 2024 tax sale.
The Carbon County Commission cleared a slate of routine agreements, grants and administrative actions at its meeting, approving a range of items from tourism partnerships to retirement contribution certifications and a tax‑sale resolution.
Tina Grange, county tourism staff, briefed commissioners on the SPX GeoTour and a small fundraising agreement with Utah State University Eastern’s Prehistoric Museum to sell a collectible coin. "We have hidden 35 caches throughout the Carbon Corridor, and it's over 300 miles in traveling to find all of those," Tina said, and reported more than 1,000 people have signed up for the tour with about 175 completions so far. The commission ratified the museum coin agreement and later approved a kiosk partnership with Price City and USU Eastern (the county pays 60% of kiosk costs; partner pays 40%).
On personnel costs, staff reviewed the annual URS (Utah Retirement System) contribution certification. County staff noted prior pickups for public safety (2.59%) and described a combined county pickup of 4.73% this year. To help Tier 2 public employees facing a potential employee contribution if pension rates exceed 10%, staff proposed a 1% salary increase for roughly 66 Tier 2 employees; commissioners approved the rates by motion and voice vote.
Other approvals included the county’s application to the State OHV fiscal incentive grant (FIG) to continue improvements at the motocross track, ratification of a non‑funding participation agreement with the U.S. Forest Service and local partners for noxious weed control, and approval of the Seventh District Court security contract for 2024. The commission also appointed Zach Kanakis to the Sheriff Merit Board and approved issuing a county credit card for the treasurer’s department in the name of Tara Madsen.
Seth summarized the annual tax‑sale process: the county started with about 16 delinquent parcels and resolved most; four parcels proceeded to tax sale this year. The commission approved the 2024 tax sale results by motion and voice vote.
Several items included dollar figures read into the record; in some cases the figures were presented orally and not accompanied by a referenced contract in the meeting transcript. For example, the chair described proposed payments to Price City for fire services as approximately $85,620.20 to the fire department budget and about $27,819 to a shared chiefs’ fund; the transcript presents those numbers as read at the meeting.
