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Show Lower water rate for mobile home owners By TOM HARALDSEN CENTER VILLE A special water utility rate for mobile home parks was adopted, a contract for a new 1,000,000 gallon reservoir rewarded re-warded and agreements with the Utah Department of Transportation Transporta-tion for sidewalk projects approved by Centerville City Council. The new water rate was established estab-lished at 15 percent under the rates currently charged single family dwellings. Petitioners for the reduced re-duced rate had originally sought a one-third reduction, citing ease of billing which the city has in addition addi-tion to easier maintenance. But council felt the 15 percent reduction reduc-tion was a suitable change, and it was adopted by ordinance. In action also related to water, council awarded a contract for construction con-struction of the Ricks Creek Reservoir Reser-voir design to ESI Engineering in the amount of $9,750. Four engineering en-gineering firms bid on the contract, and Palmer Wilding actually submitted sub-mitted a lower bid of $8,900. But city engineer Fred Campbell, who is also a principal with ESI Engineering, En-gineering, had submitted abid "not only for the design of the culinary water reservoir, but also to perform per-form services associated with soliciting soli-citing construction bids, analyzing the bids, providing surveying of the subject property, inspection of the construction, and reviewing and approving all construction payment pay-ment requests," according to city staff reports. Campbell's familiarity familiar-ity "ith the city's water system was also cited as an advantage. The reservoir will provide a needed source for additional culinary culin-ary water. It is planned for an area near Cherry Lane, at 1400 North 300 East. Council did approve two contracts con-tracts with UDOT for pedestrian safety. Oddly, Centerville was the only city in Davis County applying for the UDOT grants, which total $61,500. The first grant is for sidewalk side-walk construction on the west side of Main Street from 499 North to O CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 Centerville Council O CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 555 North. UDOT will pay $24,000 of the estimated $32,000 cost, the city funding all engineering-related services, and citizen contributions covering the remaining costs. A second grant for $37,500 will go towards a $50,000 improvement on the west side of Main Street from 400 to 700 South. Construction Construc-tion will begin next spring. In one other action, council gave staff approval to submit a $75,000 Land and Water Conservation Fund grant application to the state of Utah. If awarded, the city would use matching funds for completion of the first phase of the city's new sports complex. Among those items which could be obtained initially are an irrigation irriga-tion system for the 20-acre site, seeding of playing fields, two baseball base-ball backstops, team benches and underground improvements, as well as park architectural design. The council did grant approval to purchase of two park boweries (each 16x20) and 10 six-foot picnic tables at a cost of $9,494.42. Both . Smith Park and 700 East Park will receive a bowery and five picnic tables. Recipient of that contract was Boyce Recreation, which submitted sub-mitted the lowest bid. |