SALT LAKE CITY It s full steam ahead for another Utah Inland Port Authority bill filed late in the Utah Legislature s general session, this year to create a funding mechanism for low-interest loans for rural port projects.
Even though dozens of public speakers lined up both online and in person on Utah s Capitol Hill Monday filling the Senate committee room s limited capacity due to COVID-19 and multiple overflow rooms the committee s chairman, Sen. Daniel Thatcher, allowed less than 15 minutes of public comment on the bill as lawmakers barrel toward the end of the 45-day session this week. We re running out of time here, Thatcher, R-West Valley City, said as he called on the last few public commenters to speak. Not long after, the Senate Government Operations and Political Subdivisions Committee swiftly voted 6-1 to endorse the bill, with only Sen. Kathleen Riebe, D-Cottonwood Heights, voting against.
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Why the Kane County water district is building a golf course
Critics fear it may be part of a plan to pursue water from the Lake Powell pipeline.
(Scott Sommerdorf | Tribune file photo) This July 14, 2016, file photo shows then state Rep. Mike Noel, R-Kanab, watching Interior Secretary Sally Jewell as she speaks at a public meeting with San Juan County Commissioners in Monticello. The Kane County water district that Noel heads is proposing to get into the business of golf, and Noel says recreation fits with the taxpayer- and user-funded district s mission. | Updated: Dec. 20, 2020, 6:56 p.m.
Mike Noel is looking to get into the golf business and is seeking to harness public money to do it.