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Show Wednesday, July Volume 66 Number 29 ALL AT Quilters are 27, 1988 Price 35 Cents SAUNA CITY COUNCIL MEETING New backhoe for City; water new fireman rationing begins; needed at Center Quilters arc needed at the Salma Senior Citizen Center every Monday and Thursday mornings beginning at 9 a.m. Whether youre from Sahna, Aurora, Redmond, or all points in between, you arc welcome to join the group. Quilters arc urged to come and enjoy a pleasant morning, and then have lunch at the Center. Call Joy Heath, Salma, for more details. Conditioning Class at NSHS for Football Team The annual Fundamentals and Conditioning class for boys in grades 9 through 12, who want to be on North Sevier High Schools Football Team, will begin Wednesday, July 27, 1988. The Utah State Activities Association requires that all boys have a minimum of two weeks activity prior to the practice in pads. Pads will be issued on August 12, with the first practice in pads' August 15. All of this is in preparation for the first game of the season to be played on NSHS home field against South Sevier on August 26. The Class is free, and will be held four nights each week, beginning at 6 p.m. Tf there are any quesCoach Glen Partridge call tions, 7 at between the hours of 7 and 10 p.m. 529-772- In business at the July 1 8, 1988 meeting of the Salina City Council, the following action was taken, according to an unapproved copy of the city minutes. Mayor Grant N. Stubbs reported that the balanced owed on the Airport Grant was $436.45. The motion was made and approved to pay that amount to Gunnison City. Mayor Stubbs reported on the Ordinance meeting held by Stubbs, Roger Nielsen and Mike Jorgensen. After discussion Nielsen made the motion to have Attorney Jorgensen write a Resolution on Building PEr-mi- ts which states that construction under $2,000 will not be charged a fee, but the City will pay Ray Black-hathe usual amount for inspections. Blackham will not be paid until the construction is completed with four inspections on homes and The motion was apbuildings. proved. Worth, Grimshaw and Associ- ates were hired to conduct the Audit fer $3 300 The Jensen Glass and Paint bid of $700 was accepted to paint all windows and doors on the exterior of the City Building. He will also paint the west door in the basement on both sides. m Backhoe payoff was discussed and it was reported that the city would save $1,366.27 if the bill was paid by August 1 , 1988. The motion was approved to pay it off. Supervisor Scott Holt reported ScottRobinson was sworn in as a member of the Salina Fire Department. Four building permits were approved. Councilman Nielsen reported he had attended an enjoyable Firemen meeting, and felt that the City should send at least two firemen to the firemen convention each year. The next meeting of the Salina City Council will he held August 1, 1988 at 7.30 p.m. Anyone with or questions problems for the Council is invited to attend. that the agreement with Century Equipment when the backhoe was purchased, was that if it was paid off in the allotted time they would deliver a new one for $5 00. The motion was made to pay the $500 for a new backhoe, and was approved. Supervisor Scott Holt discussed the shortage of pressurized irrigation water. Water shares that had been rented out have been recalled, and the schedule for watering will be: No one waters on Mondays; South of Main Street water Tuesday, THursday, and Saturday; North of Main Street, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday. The motion was approved to ave Attorney Jorgensen write an Ordinance on using pressurized water stating drat the Council is empow- ered t0 establish water turns and ordinance will anyne violatinS iUy of a Class B Misdemeanor, will go into effect J uly ordinance jhe 198 OCTOBER 17, 1988 Salina City lawsuit on sewer lagoon nears court A lawsuit concerning the soil conditions existing at the new Salina sewer lagoon site is nearing the date set to be scttelcd, October 17, 1988. K&P Plumbing and Heating, Provo, was awarded the contract to construct the sewer lagoon facility that is now being used and in place just North of Salina. They received the contract for a low bid of $ 1 ,059 ,000. Construction started late Fall of 1986. Steve Kay of K&P Plumbing & Heating, made notice to Salina City of a pending claim to the city for differing site conditions from what was bid. In September of 1987, a month after the project was completed Salina City was given notice of a claim for $ 1 ,820,477.8 1, to cover the costs incurred by K&P Plumbing and Heating incurred because of the differing site conditions. K&P claimed that the dewatering of the soil at the site was different because the soil tests were not accurate in depicting the soils ability to be dried. Jones and Demille, Richfield, was the engineering firm obtained by Salina City for this project. Their company as well as an engineering consulting firm of Rollins, Brown & Gunnell provided soil tests to those bidding on the project $160 PER TON Midwest dairymen want Utah hay ' Dairy operators in two parched midwestern states want to buy Utah hay, according to Clyde Hurst, Sevier County USU Extension Agent. An extension economist at Purdue University, Indiana, and a hay broker in Illinois have asked that DceVon Bailey, USU Extension economist, make a list of Utah hay producers who are willing to sell their hay in the Midwest markets. Bailey said the severe drought has pinched hay supplies. They want top quality dairy will take anything they can but hay, get, including straw. There is some urgency to getting the hay back there now, Bailey stressed. Bailey said good quality dairy hay is bringing $150 to $160 a ton, delivered to the two states. With Utah hay selling for about $70 a ton, the price in the midwest should provide a big enough margin to cover if i SAYS MAYOR STUBBS In last weeks city council meeting a counter claim against Sevier County Fair begins Aug. 8 WILL PAY UP TO K&P Plumbing and Heating was approved by the council for attorneys fees and other costs in defending the suit. To date over $60,000 worth of costs have been incurred by the city in this action. Salina is represented by Larsen and Stewart, Salt Lake City. The decision will be made by an arbitration board made up of an attorney, an engineer and a contractor from around the state who are members of the Arbitration Association. These three will listen to the facts from both sides and make the decision of who is liable for what. This meeting is set for October 17, 1988 in the basement of Zions Bank Building, Salina, at noon. shipping costs and still give the seller profit. All we are doing is providing a list of potential Utah sellers, Individual conBailey stressed. tacts and negotiations will have to be made by individual buyers and sell- ers. Buyers want a complte lab analysis on the hay for sale, if possible. They will accept NIR analyses, which can be done through USUs roving NIR machine or a lab atUSU. To obtain an analysis, growers should contact Ralph Whitesides or Hurst at The Sevier at 750-225-9, County Courthouse. Sellers arc asked to provide their address, phone number, quantity and type of hay for sale, bale sizes and weight, type of bale bindings, and a list of any additives or foreign matter that might be found in the hay. District BLM Salina s water supply shoul hold out, if we use good judgment and conserve The drought has officials throughout the state worried but for the most part optimistic about the future of their towns and cities water systems. Water conservation is often a touchy topic as it is usually associ ated with water restrictions which cooperate and stay within the restricsometimes cause residents to use tions placed on the pressurized irrimore water than they would have gation system, the city should be able used without the restrictions. to come through the summer in good Major Grant Stubbs says that shape. the future of Safinas culinary water Continued on Page 2 is good, and that if everyone will meeting set August 9 in Richfield, Larry Oldroyd, District Manager for the Bureau of Land Management reports that the District Advisory Council meeting will be held August 9, at 9 a.m. in the Richfield District office to discuss the following: Review of national Advisory Council resolutions. Update on the Deep Creek Exchange. Progress Update on Tabernacle Hill. The Wilderness Program. Update on the proposed amendment to R&PP Act The ORV program. Fremont river project. Clear Spot rehabilitation. Update on Henry Ml coordinated resource management proposal. The meeting is open to the public, and should anyone want to make a presentation contact Mr. Oldroyd at 896-822- 1. HONORED: Robin Mickelsen, of Southern Utah Agency, Salina, was recently honored by Unigard Insurance Company, of Seattle, WA, commending fifty years of professional service. Southern Agency was established by Mickelsen's father, Evan Mickelsen in 1938. Southern Agency was the third agency in tne state of Utah to be presented with such a plaque in the last fifty years. |