By Myrna Trauntvein
Times-News Correspondent
Commissioners changed hats twice in order to sign
lease agreements with the Utah Highway Patrol for the new
addition to the county jail which the UHP will occupy.
The building addition cost approximately $250,000 and
will be paid for in two ten-year leases at $22,212 per year
and $1,851 per month.
Commissioners agreed to allow the lease to be set for
the first ten year segment.
"The building authority is a non-profit entity set up
to build buildings," said Jared Eldridge, county
attorney.
"The county then leases the building from the building
authority."
In this instance, he said, the Utah Highway Patrol
will then lease from the county. Therefore, the county
commission chairman signature would be the legally binding
one.
Nevertheless, said Cheryl Searle, representing the
state, she needed both names on the leasing document.
Neil Cook, commissioner, as president of the Juab
Municipal Building Authority, signed the document after
commissioners went into a session of the building authority
in order for the signature to be rendered.
Then once again back in regular session, commissioners
authorized Wm. Boyd Howarth, commission chair, to sign the
lease document.
Searle said the names and signatures of chairmen of
both entities, the county and the building authority, needed
to be on the lease document.
"It is an internal issue," said Searle. "The Municipal
Building authority is the landlord, Juab county is the
lessee, and they then sublease to the UHP."
She said the state also had a Utah State Building
Authority and so she was used to dealing with
technicalities.
Her insistence on both signatures and names of both
entities being on the document was so that the bookkeeping
would reflect the proper trail.
After considering the question, discussing it with
Searle and reviewing the documents, Eldridge agreed that:
"Technically, I think we could do that."
He did say that the lease might fall under the lease
of the jail which, when it was designed, was set up for any
extensions which might need to be built.
Pat Ingram, county clerk-auditor, said that all checks
come directly to her office. Her office then determines
which account and which department should receive the money.
There would be no problem in knowing where the money should
go, she said, since it would be recognized as a lease
payment.
Searle said she had been visiting Nephi two or three
times a week since the groundbreaking of the new UHP
facility.
"I may be visiting more if new facilities are agreed
to for the driver's license division," she said.
An open house of the new UHP facility will be held in
the near future, said Searle.
"You (county commissioners) will receive a copy of the
lease agreement once the signatures on our end (the state)
are in place," she said.
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