Minutes for 2005-11-08, Direct pdf link.

Each Commission meeting is recorded on CD or audio tape, which is available to the public through the County Clerk's Office.

In accordance with the requirements of Utah Code Annotated Section 52-4-7(1)(d), the County Clerk records in the minutes the names of all citizens who appear and speak at a County Commission meeting and the substance "in brief" of their comments. Such statements may include opinion or purported facts. The County does not verify the accuracy or truth of any statement but includes it as part of the record pursuant to state law.

Commissioners Present: Kenneth A. Bischoff, Chair, and Camille T. Cain; Craig L. Dearden was excused.

Others Present: Linda G. Lunceford, County Clerk/Auditor; David C. Wilson, Deputy County Attorney; Fátima Fernelius, Clerk/Auditor's Office, took minutes.

A. Welcome - Chair Bischoff
B. Pledge of Allegiance - Shelly Halacy
C. Thought of the Day - Chair Bischoff

D. Consent Items:
1. Purchase Orders in the amount of $78,841.04
2. Warrants #207169-207374 in the amount of $593,651.04
3. Minutes for the meeting held on November 1, 2005
4. Set public hearing date for November 29, 2005 at 6:00 p.m. on the 2006 Tentative Budget
5. New Business License Applications
Commissioner Cain moved to approve the consent items; Chair Bischoff seconded, both voting aye.

E. Presentation from Wasatch Front Regional Council on the Visioning Process

George Ramjoue, Planning Manager, Wasatch Front Regional Council (WFRC), introduced Gabe Epperson of Envision Utah, stating that Mountainland Association of Governments, along with Envision Utah and the WFRC had partnered in doing a visioning process for the four county urbanized area (Weber, Davis, Salt Lake and Utah Counties) on land use planning with a focus on transportation. A number of workshops and meetings involving the regional growth and the steering committees had been held. This process was about complete and today they informed the Commission on it and asked for their input on the long range transportation concepts presented.

Mr. Epperson stated that a draft had been composed after receiving public input. The growth principles and objectives included providing efficient and adequately maintained public infrastructure, providing housing for people in all life stages and incomes, protecting and enhancing the environment, and integrating local land use with regional transportation systems. Mr. Ramjoue stated that the preferred vision called for minor changes that had significant impacts on the transportation system such as developing some nodes of higher mixed uses that included residential and commercial uses so that services and stores were more readily available to the population. The expected benefits included 18% less congestion and 23 fewer square miles of land consumption. In cases where communities preferred not to adopt these growth principles their general plans would be reflected.

Commissioner Cain said that because of the distribution of cities and unincorporated area in Weber County, the majority of the impact from mixed use centers would be in the cities, thus the county needed to see how that would affect the county's land use plan, and she asked if they had selected, through the workshops, any areas in unincorporated Weber County where there would be some high mixed use centers. Mr. Ramjoue said he could provide this information. Commissioner Cain noted that the county had requested that a review of the western Weber County corridors be undertaken, and efforts were underway to obtain funding for it, because growth was occurring so rapidly in that area.

F. Action Items:

1. Request for approval of an agreement by with Connex Informational Systems Inc., relating to the provisions of computer services for the Weber County Jail

This item was held.

2. Contract with Five Chute Productions for a Professional Rodeo to be held January 27-28, 2006 at the Golden Spike Event Center - Contract C2005-143

Jim Harvey, GSEC, presented this item and the next two together because they are basically the same standard contract, the dates being the only difference.

3. Contract with Five Chute Productions for a Professional Rodeo to be held February 17-18, 2006 at the Golden Spike Event Center - Contract C2005-144

See above item F.2.

4. Contract with Five Chute Productions for a Professional Rodeo to be held March 24-25, 2006 at the Golden Spike Event Center - Contract C2005-145

See above item F.2.
Commissioner Cain moved to approve contracts C2005-143, C2005-144 and C2005-145 by/between Weber County & Five Chute Productions for professional rodeos to be held January 27-28, February 17-18 and March 24-25, 2006 at the Golden Spike Event Center; Chair Bischoff seconded, both voting aye.

5. Agreement with AdvancePCS Health L.P., the National Association of Counties, & Weber County for provision of certain pharmaceutical services to the residents of Weber County - Contract C2005-146

Brad Dee, Human Resources Director, gave an overview of this contract and explained the pharmacy card program. This contract delineates the terms under which AdvancePCS Health, L.P. will provide certain managed pharmacy benefit services to member counties of the National Association of Counties. Mr. Dee stated that this membership card could be used for prescription discounts at participating pharmacies throughout the area. PCS then collects from the manufacturers of the pharmaceuticals a rebate which goes back to PCS for their participation in the program. The discounts range from 13-50%. Because there were some areas of concern and the contract language was somewhat ambiguous, some corrections were written into the contract, which will go to PCS for their review.

A vehicle needs to be designed for distribution of these cards, which could be provided through county departments or various centers in the county. Mr. Dee noted that this process could possibly be better coordinated through the Health Department. He said that this was a generic card, available to anyone free of charge and anyone using it at a participating pharmacy would receive the discount at the time of purchase. David Wilson, Deputy County Attorney, noted that Weber County would not pay for postage or other costs if a resident did not pay his bill on a mail order prescription.
Commissioner Cain moved to approve Contract C2005-146 by and among the Advance PCS Health L.P., the National Association of Counties, and Weber County for provision of certain pharmaceutical services to the residents of Weber County, as amended; Chair Bischoff seconded, both voting aye.

 6. Request to approve a Claims Process Memorandum

David Wilson, Deputy County Attorney, noted that each year the county participates in a Risk Management program with its insurer, the Utah Counties Insurance Pool. This memorandum is to be sent to all Weber County elected officials and department heads regarding the process of claims and lawsuit procedures. The process will be included as part of the Purchasing Ordinance.
Commissioner Cain moved to approve the Claims Process Memorandum; Chair Bischoff seconded, both voting aye.

G. Public Hearing

Commissioner Cain moved to adjourn the public meeting and convene the public hearing; Chair Bischoff seconded, both voting aye. 1.

2. Public hearing on a request to vacate a 15' irrigation easement on Lot 2 of Willardsen Enterprises LLC Subdivision

Kevin Hamilton, County Planning Department, stated that as part of recording the Willardsen Enterprises LLC Subdivision there was an old irrigation ditch that ran down the center of lot 2 and when it was recorded the easement for this ditch was included. Now the petitioners were requesting that the easement be vacated and they will then move the easement along the east side of lot 2. Chair Bischoff invited public comments and there were none.

Commissioner Cain moved to adjourn the public hearing and reconvene the public meeting; Chair Bischoff seconded, both voting aye. 3.

4. Action on public hearing:

G.2. - Public hearing to vacate a 15' irrigation easement on Lot 2 of Willardsen Enterprises LLC Subdivision
Commissioner Cain moved to adopt Ordinance 2005-14 vacating a 15 ft. irrigation easement on lot 2 of Willardsen Enterprises LLC Subdivision; Chair Bischoff seconded.
Commissioner Cain aye
Chair Bischoff aye

H. Assign Pledge of Allegiance &Thought of the Day for Tuesday, November 15, 2005 at 10 a.m.

I. Public Comments

Connie Chandler asked if a special session of the State Legislature on the Legacy Highway in Davis County was being held. George Ramjoue, Wasatch Front Regional Council, explained that a special session was being called to ratify the signing of the agreement between the Sierra Club and the State.

J. Adjourn
Commissioner Cain moved to adjourn the meeting at 10:51 a.m.; Chair Bischoff seconded, both voting aye.

Craig L. Dearden, Vice Chair
Weber County Commission

Linda G. Lunceford, CPO
Weber County Clerk/Auditor