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Siblings give 50 yards of service TOOELETRANSCRIPT S T C BULLETIN S TUESDAY August 13, 2019 www.TooeleOnline.com Vol. 126 No. 21 $1.00 New machine helps with ballot count MBV 1000 to provide electronic voter signature verification for this year’s municipal primary TIM GILLIE ready to be used in the 2018 EDITOR election. It’s called the MBV1000 and The switch to voting by mail it can process up to 100 return was made for several reasons, ballot envelopes per minute. It according to Tooele County scans the voter ID barcode and Clerk Marilyn Gillette. captures the voter’s signature It started with the need to for analysis by advanced signa- replace old electronic voting ture recognition technology. machines, she said. This year’s municipal prima- Almost half of the county ry election is the maiden voy- was already voting by mail and age for the MBV — mail ballot most other counties in Utah Mia Norton holds her nose while her father Matt Norton keeps her head above water at the EnergySolutions Aquatic Center Tuesday. verifier — in Tooele County. were already voting by mail, The 2019 election is the first according to Gillette. municipal election in the coun- Tooele County decided to WET AND WILD AT DESERET PEAK ty to be conducted by mail. The join with the other counties 2018 general election, which in purchasing new equipment PHOTOS FRANCIE AUFDEMORTE included county offices, was for counting vote by mail conducted by mail. ballots instead of spending The MBV was part of the money replacing the old voting new equipment purchased by machines, Gillette said. the county in 2018 when it Mail-in precincts in Tooele made the switch to voting by mail, but the device was not SEE BALLOT PAGE A7 ® FRANCIE AUFDEMORTE/TTB PHOTO Tooele County Deputy Clerk Holly Shields prepares and verifies signatures Swimmers enjoy the cool waters of the pool on ballots returned by voters for the primary election. at the EnergySolutions Aquatic Center. Zander Labaka (right) swims at County commission the pool. Andrew Furniss dives into the pool. LIfeguard studies plans to Lauren Wardle (right) watches divers and divide county up for swimmers in the pool. new government TIM GILLIE council and a hired manager. EDITOR The county council districts The process of dividing up need to be approved by the Tooele County for a new form current County Commission in of county government has time for candidates to file and started. run for election to the council Tooele City Council approves Maps depicting five dif- in the November 2020 elec- ferent proposed plans to tion.That election could start divide Tooele County into five as early as January 2020. districts for the election of State code gives the respon- $2.3M solid waste fund transfer county council members were sibility of determining the dis- displayed in the hallway of the trict boundaries to the county’s STEVE HOWE Included in the transfer amount was The city’s snowplows are aging and county building during the legislative body, which STAFF WRITER $500,000 toward interior furnishing in need of replacement, according to Tooele County Commission’s at this time is the County The Tooele City Council approved and equipment for the new police sta- Tooele City Public Works Director Steve Aug. 6 meeting. Commission, according to a $2.3 million transfer from its solid tion. The city’s $9 million loan through Evans. The division of the county Tooele County Attorney Scott waste fund to the capital projects fund the state’s Permanent Community A structure to store fire department into council districts is required Broadhead during its meeting last Wednesday. Impact Fund Board to build the police apparatus on 1000 North was also dis- by the change in county gov- Broadhead told the Tooele The one-time transfer followed a station can’t be used toward internal cussed by the City Council during the ernment approved by voters in County Government Study mailed public notice and a public hear- furnishing and equipment. 5 p.m. work session last Wednesday, the November 2018 election. Committee that the county ing, moving a portion of the solid waste The transfer is also earmarked to but more discussion was requested by That new form of government clerk would draw up proposed fund’s balance to pay for capital proj- cover the costs of four new snow- Tooele City Fire Chief Rick Harrison. will replace the current three- boundaries to be approved by ects and equipment. The solid waste plows, expected to be approximately Concerns about the structural integrity member commission with a fund handles the City’s trash and recy- $960,000, and airpacks for the Tooele part time, five-member county SEE DIVIDE PAGE A7 ® clable collection. City Fire Department. SEE WASTE PAGE A7 ® INSIDE BULLETIN BOARD B6 CLASSIFIEDS B4 Stansbury Days Tooele High Ryan Shupe HOMETOWN B1 starts Friday football preview takes the OBITUARIES A6 See A2 See A8 Fridays on Vine OPEN FORUM A4 stage SPORTS A8 See A5 A2 TOOELE TRANSCRIPT BULLETIN TUESDAY August 13, 2019 BACK TO SCHOOL CLOSET Parents and students (above left) line up to go school shopping at the Back-to-School Closet held at Blue Peak High School on Aug. 3. Student Matthew Briggs (above) tries on his new shoes at the event. Father- daughter team James and Sophie Hanson (far left) pick a backpack. Randee Kathan (left) finds a shirt she likes. SUE BUTTERFIELD/TTB PHOTO Changes come to UTA’s service Stansbury Days set for weekend offerings across Tooele Valley of community fun for everyone STEVE HOWE five buses on weekday morn- stops at the intersection of STEVE HOWE bike and 3.1-mile run. Younger show, which runs from 11 a.m. STAFF WRITER ings with transportation to Main and Orchard streets STAFF WRITER competitors aged 13-17 can to 2 p.m., will culminate with Significant changes Salt Lake City, with the first and Main Street and SR-112 A parade, food trucks, races compete in a super sprint triath- an awards ceremony at 2:30 to expand Utah Transit bus at 5:04 a.m. The bus in Grantsville, the Benson and car shows will all be a part lon, while there will be a kids p.m. Authority bus offerings in leaves from 307 N. Main St. Gristmill, Lake Point junction, of Stansbury Park’s annual com- tri for those aged 5-12. There will also be a card- Tooele County went into and will stop at 400 S. Main the International Center, Salt munity days, set to begin this The Stansbury Days Parade board boat race, a Stansbury effect on Monday, giving St., 60 N. 200 West, 1000 Lake International Airport Friday evening. will begin at 10 a.m., begin- Park tradition, held at noon and more public transportation N. Main St. and the 2400 and 300 W. North Temple St. Festivities get underway ning at The Church of Jesus 12:30 p.m. at Stansbury Lake. options to residents. North park and ride in Tooele in Salt Lake. on Friday, with food trucks at Christ of Latter-day Saints on The race is broken into two Route 451 will now offer City, as well as the Benson Route F400 has also been Porter Way Park presented by Bayshore Drive, then turning groups, ages 5-12 and 13 and Gristmill in Stansbury Park, changed, which makes sev- the Food Truck League from 5 right onto Lakeside Drive. The older. and 600 S. State St. and eral stops within Tooele City. p.m. to 9 p.m. After grabbing parade continues to Lakeview, Awards will be presented to 100 S. 300 West in Salt The route stops at Tooele something to eat, attendees can then Clubhouse Drive and past the first-place finisher in each TOOELE TRANSCRIPT Lake City. Technical College, the Utah head down to the lawn near the the Stansbury Clubhouse. The age group, the cardboard boat BULLETIN The bus will depart State University extension, Stansbury Clubhouse for a spe- route ends where Clubhouse with the best overall design and about every half hour until Remington Apartments, 400 cial showing of Pixar’s “A Bug’s Drive meets with Country Club the Titanic, for the best sinking ADMINISTRATION 7 a.m., taking up 1 hour N. Main St., 1000 N. Main St. Life,” courtesy of Mosquito Drive. ship. Scott C. Dunn Publisher and 15 minutes to reach and the 2400 North park and Squad. Following the parade will Stansbury Days is hosted by Joel J. Dunn Publisher Emeritus downtown Salt Lake. The ride, with the earliest stop at The following morning, be a car show, which will be Stansbury Park Community OFFICE first afternoon bus departs 5:35 a.m. and the latest at the Stansbury Days Triathlon held on the greenspace adja- Events, a nonprofit that spon- Bruce Dunn Controller from 100 S. 300 West at 6:53 p.m. begins with the sprint triathlon cent to the Stansbury Park sors and organizes events and Chris Evans Office Manager 3:44 p.m., with buses about UTA Trustee Kent at 7 a.m., with athletes complet- Improvement building off activities in Stansbury Park. Vicki Higgins Customer Service every 30 minutes, until the Millington spoke about the ing a 500-meter swim, 12-mile Stansbury Parkway. The car [email protected] Makenna Bergen Circulation Manager last departs at 5:48 p.m. changes to the bus system EDITORIAL The F453 route, which during the Tooele City Tim Gillie Editor runs on weekdays, will Council meeting on Aug. 7.

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