Savannah Perkins

 

By Savannah Perkins

 

In the wake of Tuesday night's Cache County Council meeting and conversation about the community’s engagement in county government issues, the county's push for water conservancy moved forward with promotion stategies.

 

“The water conservancy district needs more press,” said Val K. Potter, a Cache County Council member. “We need more media.”

 

The need for more coverage of the county’s efforts with water conservancy was brought up as Chad Booth, the County Seat television program host, advertised the program to the council in hopes of having Cache County join the 24 other counties that support County Seat.

 

County Seat is a weekly television program that focuses on the role of local government.

 

“It helps bring these discussions out,” Booth said. “It helps address, identify and shape discussions that are, from a county perspective, ones you will often not get from regular media channels.”

 

“We have to look at it from an economics perspective,” the chairman of Cache County Council Greg Merrill said. “I look at cost per thousand, I look at what audiences it is reaching and it seems like the audience it is reaching is a small amount for the amount of money that is being proposed here.” Merrill concluded that Cache County would not be an active supporting member of the television program.

 

Craig Buttars, the Cache County executive and surveyor, discussed the option of having County Seat produce a segment on the county’s water conservancy district. “If we had a presentation that was well put together that we could put on our county website and possibly tie into YouTube, it would be really beneficial to us a county,” Buttars said.

 

“If we feel good about it, we use it on our website and we send out the link to our residents and we promote the heck out of this thing,” Potter said.

 

Looking at the timeline, both sides of the discussion were able to come together and agree that a segment would be possible without full membership and the county council would be able to communicate to the community about the efforts and intentions of conserving water in Cache County, without disrupting the budget.