patrandall (Pat Randall) says…

I keep seeing an announcement in the paper about a meeting for the FS for input on proposed land sale and building a new administrative facilities and heli-base.
And then we have Evans already putting an ASU campus on the forest service land. Is this the same land on the east end of Payson where the FS office is now located or is it FS land somewhere else?
Does anyone know what any dept is doing with anything?

rtnaz (Rex Hinshaw) says…

Pat,
The FS land purchase for ASU is only a portion of the present acreage. The balance of the FS land would be retained by the FS and new administrative facilities and heli-base would be developed by them.
Yes it is the the land where they are presently located.

patrandall (Pat Randall) says…

Why do they need new administrative facilities? Can't they add on to what is there and save some of our tax money?
People will really scream if they put in a heli-base. But let them scream, there is a reason for the helicopters to be here.
I hear the medical helicopters all the time and think how great it is we have them to save people's lives. I think my family has paid for at least one. I am grateful we have them.

Ruby_Finney (Ruby Finney) says…

Before I left Payson , almost ten years ago, the forest service was planning on moving their offices to a location south of the reservation on the Bee Line. I'm not sure whether it was to be next to the event center of on the east side of the highway. But those plans were in the works at that time. I urged the town to buy the parcel the Forest Service was located on at that time ( I think it was about 15 acres) and hold it for a future park. Of course nothing was done with the suggestion. Forest Service land is available to municipalities at a minimum cost if they are to be used for public purposes,

patrandall (Pat Randall) says…

Forest Service did have to either trade land or ask for bids on it. Of course everything changes.
FS has rules and regulations not laws. A few maybe but most of what is done is how a certain group decides how to interpret the regulations.