The 2020 Legislative Session has brought about several different pieces of legislation that aim to correct a funding problem. There are communities in the state where the nearest ambulance is hundreds of miles away. In a situations where minutes count, a person’s outcome could be fatal.
Chad Booth will sit down with Piute County Commissioner Darin Bushman and several legislators from across the state to talk about specific bills that intend to help provide some relief for EMS.
Highlights:
Representative Darrin Owens, Utah House of Representatives District 58, H.B. 389 Emergency Medical Services Amendments
Representative Carl Albrecht, Utah House of Representatives District 70, H.B. 280 Transient Room Tax Provisions
Representative Phil Lyman, Utah House of Representatives District 73, H.B. 174 Rural County Health Care Facilities Tax Amendments
Representative Dan Johnson, Utah House of Representatives District 4, H.B. 190 Local Government Cooperation Contracts
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Archives for February 2020
Overhaul of grazing amendments on public lands comments from ranchers are needed by the BLM!
The Bureau of Land Management is taking comments from the public as they begin the process of identifying improvements that could be made to the administration of grazing regulations on public lands. Comments need to be received by March, 6 2020 and can be made to the BLM here: http://go.usa.gov/xyMQB
Chad Booth talks to several representatives from Utah about how big a deal this recent announcement is to ranchers on public lands. There have been attempts in the past to modify grazing regulations but for the most part nothing substantial has changed since the Rangeland Reforms made in 1995 by Secretary Babbit.
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-1995-02-22/pdf/95-3866.pdf#page=76
Highlights:
• Past attempts to make changes to the regulations created y Babbit in 1995.
• The need for flexibility for ranchers where conditions on the ground change quickly but getting solutions from the BLM can take years.
• This is an important opportunity for ranchers to make their comments to the BLM so their issues can be heard during the scoping period.
Our panel
Troy Forrest manages the Grazing Improvement Program, GIP, for the Utah Department of Agriculture
https://ag.utah.gov/farmers/conservation-division/utah-grazing-improvement-program/
Tammy Pearson is a Beaver County Commissioner and Rancher.
https://beaver.utah.gov/111/Tammy-Pearson
Kathleen Clarke is the Director of Utah’s Public Lands Policy Coordinating Office, PLPCO and a former director of the BLM from 2001-2006.
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The County Seat is a public affairs program about the functions and issues of county elected officials and county government in UTAH. The County Seat is designed to provide the essentials to being an informed and engaged cittizen in what we view as the most important level of government to daily life, county government. Topics range from the life of a ballot to the wild horses on public lands. The majority of Utah’s 29 counties are rural with a concentration of urban issues along the Wasatch Front. This dynamic lends an interesting twist to the show where we highlight a number of rural issues that the majority of Utahns may not be as familiar with.
#CountiesMatter #S10E08
Maintaining bus routes on the Navajo Nation, intergovernmental agreements with a sovereign nation
What do you do when you are a citizen of a county but also live on the Navajo Nation and the roads that access your home aren’t being maintained?
The San Juan County Commission joined Chad Booth to discuss being asked to stop maintaining roads on the Navajo Nation and the impacts it’s having on kids getting to school. While the road was maintained by the county in the past, new developments relating to rights of way, ownership and jurisdiction have created a situation where county officials are stuck in the middle of bureaucratic red tape and the school buses taking kids from the reservation to school are just stuck.
We’ll talk about how the situation arose and what it will take to get an agreement to allow the county to maintain some of the roads within the Navajo Nation.
Highlights:
Touring a bus route off highway 191 between White Rock and Mexican Water on the Navajo Nation.
The complex relationship among the State of Utah, BIA, and the Navajo Nation that complicates San Juan County being able to work directly with the Navajo Nation.
While the Navajo Nation has claimed ownership and jurisdiction over the roads they lack the funding to keep up with maintenance.
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Chad Booth
Technical Director:
Brian Schuster
__
ABOUT THE COUNTY SEAT:
The County Seat is a public affairs program about the functions and issues of county elected officials and county government in UTAH. The County Seat is designed to provide the essentials to being an informed and engaged cittizen in what we view as the most important level of government to daily life, county government. Topics range from the life of a ballot to the wild horses on public lands. The majority of Utah’s 29 counties are rural with a concentration of urban issues along the Wasatch Front. This dynamic lends an interesting twist to the show where we highlight a number of rural issues that the majority of Utahns may not be as familiar with.
#CountiesMatter #S10E07
The County Seat – Tax Reform Referendum
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