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Show Centerville 6-year plan By TOM HARALDSEN CENTERVILLE City fathers are looking to the future in Centerville, Center-ville, and during a recent Saturday retreat, a six-year capital improvement improve-ment project program was discussed. dis-cussed. Though only speculative at this point, the program outlined for city council members proposed expenditures ex-penditures in areas of police, administration, admi-nistration, development services, parks and cemetery, streets, storm drain and general government facilities. faci-lities. Expenditures over a six-year period, beginning in fiscal 1989, would total nearly $6.7 million in those areas. City administrator David Hales stated the program gives council members a "working" "work-ing" start at helping figure budgeted areas for future city spending. The police department total dur ing that period was estimated at $185,837, most of that for vehicle replacement during each of the first five years. Other equipment replacement re-placement would include radar, weapons, radio and computer software. soft-ware. Administrative budgets totaled $130,550 over six years, with copy machine and computer equipment purchases leading the way. A new main computer upgrade is proposed prop-osed for fiscal 1992, and an administrative admi-nistrative car is budgeted for fiscal 1994. The city also hopes to upgrade up-grade its telephone system in fiscal 1991, at an estimated cost, of $16,000. ; ' ' Only two items were figured into development services, both for capital equipment. A new pickup is budgeted for fiscal 1992, with another for the following year if a full-time building inspector is hired. In the parks and cemetery department, de-partment, the city hopes to purchase purch-ase both a new 3i ton pickup and medium size lawnmower next year. A one-ton dumptruck is earmarked ear-marked for fiscal 1990, a riding lawnmower in 19 1 1 , and a backhoe in 1992. Total amount for parks and cemetery would be $71,600. That department also discussed proposed projects for the six-year period. Among them is concrete work, bleachers, bowery and tables at the 700 East park; tennis court drainage, a jogging trail and playground equipment for Smoot Park; restroom-storage shed, paved parking, playground equipment equip-ment and an east side bowery at CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 Centerville plan CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 Smith Park; and a shop driveway-storage driveway-storage area at the cemetery. The department would also like to budget $2,000 for a city beautifi-cation beautifi-cation project, $12,000 over four years for Christmas decorations, $1,000 for a "Welcome to Centerville" Center-ville" sign, $2,000 for a bicycle route, and $1,000 for a hiking trail in the canyon. At the city park, subject to possible possi-ble sale of the property and relocation, reloca-tion, the city would develop a west' side fence, add ajungle gym, resur-v . face the parking lot, add trees, repair re-pair the tennis courts and build res-' trooms at the ball diamonds. Total budgeted amount for parks and cemetery projects over six years would be $95,900. The streets department would budget $211,290 for equipment over the next six years, including a dump truck, snow blower, flat bed, copier, one ton dump truck, two 2'2 ton dump trucks and an air compressor. The water department depart-ment would spend $159,089 on equipment, most of that next fiscal year. Major purchases would include in-clude a backup generator in 1989, another smaller backup generator in 1990, a chlorinator in 1990, a utility truck in 1992 and a 400 KW backup generator in 1993. The largest area of projects, and probably the one with the most public interest, is in streets, where a six-year pian would budget $1,627 million on improvements. The city has outlined a large number num-ber of projects, the list being studied stu-died and re-evaluated each year. Both major arterial roads and collectors col-lectors and minor residential streets are included. Nine of the projects are part of citizen participation partici-pation improvement programs, and $240,000 of that amount is for chip sealing maintenance on different diffe-rent roads, $40,000 each year. ' Among water, projects discussed were $1,498,630 in-improvements 4 including replacement of old and undersized waterlines, and a new reservoir along Cherry Drive. Other areas discussed included storm drain works totalling $1,391 million, and possible general government gov-ernment facilities totaling nearly $3 million. The latter would include funds necessary to build new facilities facili-ties if the current city complex is sold and-or developed commercially. commer-cially. One area discussed was possible increase of the franchise tax on utilities. uti-lities. The current tax rate is .03, an average impact of $50.39 per resident resi-dent each year. The city can by law double that rate, which would bring an additional $160,000 a year into city coffers. No decision was made on that, however, and the outcome of future projects is a long way from being decided. |