- Raymond Boyd appointed to the Montezuma County Planning and Zoning Commission.
- The Salt Lake City Tribune wants records on 2012 criminal investigation involving San Juan County, Utah, Commissioner Phil Lyman.
There will be a new face on the Montezuma County Planning and Zoning Commission starting in January. Raymond Boyd of Pleasant View has been selected to a three-year term, replacing former chair Dennis Atwater. Kelly Belt and Bob Clayton were also reappointed to the five-member board. In another change for P&Z, the board is moving its regular meeting date from the fourth Thursday of the month to the second. This will better mesh with the timing of reviews done by the City of Cortez of proposed projects near the city’s boundaries.
San Juan County, Utah, Commissioner Phil Lyman is in the news again, even as he awaits sentencing December 18th on two misdemeanor charges related to an ATV protest ride near Blanding in 2014. The Salt Lake Tribune reports that the Utah Attorney General’s Office is refusing the newspaper’s request for records of a criminal investigation allegedly conducted by the Attorney General’s Office in 2012. The investigation reportedly involved whether Lyman, who is an accountant, was lowering property taxes for some of his clients while serving on the county commission. No charges were filed, but this summer, a Tribune reporter asked for records of the probe. When the Attorney General’s Office said no, the newspaper appealed, and a state records committee ordered the office to release the information. It reportedly has not complied so far.
