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March 17, 2004
BEATTY TOWN BOARD Beatty addresses blights
By RICHARD STEPHENS Benshoof said that the department had sent letters to property owners, but had received responses from only one. The owner is cooperating with the department in cleaning up the property across from the school, which he had recently acquired. Benshoof said the department might even help in removing a number of abandoned mobile homes to use them for fire training. However, the department has waited approximately five months for the district attorney's office to draft a promised letter that is needed to pursue condemnation of the other properties. In other Beatty Town Board news: • The board considered adopting a newly revised user policy and agreement for the community center, but Bert Bertram, who said it was one of the best he'd ever read, was still concerned about the portion of the policy covering the building's $50,000 sound system. The policy calls for no deposit from non-profit organizations that use the equipment, and only a $100 deposit from for-profit users. He pointed out that $100 probably would barely be enough to replace a microphone, if that. The board decided to let the committee work a bit more on the policy and to put its approval and adoption on the agenda for its next meeting. • The board voted to hire Paul Farthing to construct a large oak cabinet to store the sound system. Farthing's bid for the project was $3,714. • Board members postponed a decision on whether to pay Noorda Contractors to cover the old wooden gable on the south end of the community center with metal to match the roof and prevent leakage and to construct covers for air conditioning units. Representatives of Noorda and of Rafael Construction, the building's prime contractor, visited the facility Monday to inspect the leaky roof. Town secretary Mary Ball also said the building was having problems with moisture seeping through masonry work that was not properly sealed. • Commissioner Joni Eastley told the board she had just returned from Washington, D. C., where she had lobbied Nevada's congressional delegation for $250,000 needed for improvements to the Beatty airport. She also said she was seeking the same amount for weed abatement in the county. Eastley told the board it would be helpful if they would write a letter in support of these projects. • Eastley reported efforts to get the state to change certain rate structures to enable U. S. Ecology to be more competitive with out-of-state companies had been successful. • Eastley said that $1.25 million of Payment Equal To Taxes money had been set aside for economic development and suggested that Beatty submit a project. She favored using a percentage of the money to work on developing infrastructure, perhaps running a waterline from the Barrick Mine to property near the airport that has been proposed for development as an industrial park. |
