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Show Special S reic Disl Plums For Nov and American Fork are over 20 years old and are in poor mechanical condition. The population of the cities has increased beyond the capacity of the plants. Alpine City has not yet constructed a plant and can more profitably hook on to a central plant, rather than building an individual treatment plant to process effluent from that community. Each of the communities must meet state and federal standards for sewage treatment. Total cost of the project is approximately $163 million, of which 75 percent would be paid by EPA grant funds. The remaining $4.3 million is to be paid by bonds issued by the Timpanogos Special Service District How much will this service cost individual users? This will not raise the tax levy, but will be paid from operating revenues. Average per household sewer charge would be approximately $8.00 per month for each city. This would be much higher if each individual city tried to provide separate central treatment plant, paying basis for metered effluent which for operation on a pro-rat- a is treated at the central plant. In order to avoid the expense of a separate special election, the voters will decide on the bond issue as one of the issues of the upcoming general election to be held Tuesday, Nov. 2. Construction of the plant will be underway, if approved by the voters, in 1977, with treatment of effluent expected to will cooperatively own the Residents of Alpine, American Fork. Pleasant Grove and Lehi will be asked to vote November 2. on a special bond election to construct a new joint sewage treatment system to serve the four cities. The Timpanogos Special Service District was recently organized for the purpose of establishing a regional sewage treatment plant. Mayors and city councilmen of the four cooperating communities have formed, with the assistance of Utah County, the Timpanogos Special Service District for the purpose of creating the entity to construct, finance, own and operate a regional treatment plant to treat effluent from each of the four cities by contract. The central treatment plant, if approved by the voters, will be built south of American Fork, with each of the four cooperating communities to own and maintain their individual collector systems in each of the various cities. They begin by 1979. 4 In order to acquaint the public with the full proposal, a .: series of public meetings is planned by each of the separate cities. Alpine City will meet in public hearings on Oct. 19 and 27, while American Fork City will hold a special public hearing on October 29. Dates for the public hearings at Pleasant Grove and Lehi are yet to be announced. A new sewage treatment plants in Lehi, Pleasant Grove quasi-municip- al Janet Bateman Wins - . ; . sj 4 ii3 R5 T THURSDAY, OCTOBER While the identity of the Mystery Personality eluded even some of the old timers in Janet BateLehi, 12 year-olman wasn't fooled for a minute. And because she had guessed the Mystery Personality and had listed all of the clues, she picked up her $50.00 in Bonus Bucks Wednesday with a broad smile on her face.-Janet correctly identified the Mystery Personality none other than our own George Reynolds of the Lehi Free Press. She also correctly listed each of the eight clues that had been hidden in the ads throughout the paper. The jackpot for the contest had risen to a grand total of $50.00 when last week's winner failed to list all of the clues. Consequently, Janet won the $20.00 that had accumulated on top of the regular $30.00 weekly jackpot. Janet, who is the daughter of LaVar and Lornell Bateman, is a seventh grader at the Lehi Junior High School. This was the first time she had ever won money in a contest, she explains and she entered with no expectations of winning. When Janet first told a friend that she had won the Mystery Personality Contest, she mistook what she had said and thought that she had won a Miss Personality Contest. With a little explaining, she communicated that she had won the Mystery Personality Contest in the Free Press. Her friend, however, was not a bit surprised and thought she could have won either one of them quite easily. d iiiiw .pm Ur mini n j''yT'yV?X' 768-345- 0, The Lehi City Council made an unanimous plea to Lehi voters to accept the bond issue for the proposed regional sewer plant. The plant which has been under consideration for the past year is set to be voted on in the November 2 election. In the request for voter approval, Mayor Evan Colledge said that the present sewer plant in Lehi is inadequate to take care of present and future city sewer needs. He cited new EPA guidelines that private collection services make cleaner discharges from sewer systems into the environment a legal must for all cities. Mayor Colledge commented, "The environment that I leave when I die, I want to be as good as it was when I came into this world." He said that the EPA has agreed to pay for 75 percent of the cost of the plant which will be located south of American Fork and that the four cities are in on the ground floor of a federal funding plan that will "' ?'WT;'' ', ' i Mi'-iiter Willi f - Garbage collection was the talk of city council meeting Tuesday evening, and when all the talk was finished with, the council voted to raise collection rates from $1.75 to $2.25 for the residential user. In past weeks the council has considered several alternative plans to provide collection for Lehi and still make the financial ends meet. Bids from uvj f i - ' "" " """l U 'f 'V :'fwCH trV WIN PtIZES Mrs. Nodint Hickmon, left, congratulates Ashley Nelson, second from left, for being winner or rifle given by the Volley PTA Council. Karl Price, won the 10 speed bike Nine year old Greg Price con hardly wait to get the priie home. Proceeds from ticket tales will oo toward the PTA Scholarshp Fund. lehi-Ced- rental of small collection containers stayed constant at $5 and rates for large containers Councilman Mel Kirkham stated, "We either have to get i held at $7.50. The collection fee for those commercial users into the business or get out. will be billed at $1.75 per cubic We're going broke the way we : yard as opposed to the old flat are now." He said that the additional monthly fee of $2.75 per moth with a $1.00 charge for extra hike will from the rate income pickups. Small commercial be used to buy a new truck with . their own con- no money is, being set'rTei since;, tamers saw their bill rise to aside for one at the present. $10 per month. Commercial rates for the Park Discussed Alice Broadbent asked the council to assure that the definite plans would be made to have the park at 400 E. 100 S. She had some reservations about allowing a private owner next to the park to use a road that will be included in the park. Councilman John Haws stated that plans for the swimming pool are presently being drawn up and that no other work or plans should be done until those plans are completed. Crossing Guard Okayed Lehi Elementary PTA members asked the council if it could provide for a crossing eventually include all municiin the state. guard at the 200 West State palities Street crossing since the state The Mayor noted one area of had agreed to put a flashing the about uncertainty project in that Utah State clean water sign up. Mayor Colledge said that the city could not afford standards are higher than that expense and made a plea EPA standards. He said that for volunteers to man the the state requirements would drive the cost of the sewer crossing. He said that the city would pay for the insurance plant up $2 million and that the and provide a uniform. EPA would not fund for the added improvements required Annexation near Cemetery by the state. Councilman Lester Holcomb told the council that an enIn a recent meeting of the gineer is presently making a Timpanogos Sewer Service plat for the annexation of 30.85 District and the State Deparacres adjacent to the city tment of Health, the state He said that the cemetery. agreed to loosen its standards will include some annexation to the EPA level until funds and part of properties private would be available, Mayor the cemetery that was not Colledge reported. previously part of the city. Subdivision Approved He said that the district The council asked to accept would bond for the extra monthe plans for the development ey but hold it in abeyance until of another section of a subdiviother funds were available. sion at 1200 East 680 North. The sewer rates for the diThe subdivision which is strict will be near the $8 mark owned by Ken Russon will inas the plant is presently clude 14 homes. planned. City to Collect Debts Mayor Colledge said that the Recorder John Daly inis information city distributing formed the council that some on the bond issue by way of businesses had gone out of the Lehi schools. A public inbusiness and left the city withformation meeting to answer out paying their power bill. He further questions will be held asked the council to give him at the Lehi Jr. High School at direction as to how to proceed 7:00 p.m. Thursday, October in collecting the bills. Some of 28. which amounted to two or three hundred dollars. Mayor Colledge said that the Vernon Romney city would send out a "demand letter" and if no response was Visits in Lehi seen in ten days, the city would take legal action to colVernon Romney, Republican lect the bills. gubernatorial candidate, was a visitor in Lehi on Tuesday. Notice Mr. Romney accompanied Malcolm Swenson and Stephen Lehi City Offices will be Lloyd on a tour of the State closed on Monday, VeterBank of Lehi and Pykettes ans Day, October 25th. Company. would have driven the rates to 1 ; nearly $3.00. City Counci Urges Lis hi Voters to Pass B otud Issy VWW)T" 'X D Garaage The eight clues that identified George Reynolds as the Mystery Personality are listed as follows: 5 children, scouter, likes to hike, slender, drives fire fighter, Dodge, and likes classical music. The jackpot for the Mystery Personality Contest goes back up to $30.00 this week. Take a .chance and maybe you, like Janet Bateman,' will be some Bonus Bucks ahead! rTT 21, 1976 Counci Hikes C FIFTY BONUS BUCKS and a big smile was what 12 year old Janet Bateman had to show for guessing last week s Mystery Personality, George Reynolds. Janet said that the $50.00 would come in handy for Christmas shopping. services, since EPA funds would not be available to individual cities. Who will control the regional system? A Board of Directors composed of the Mayor and city councilman from each of the four cities would direct and control the regional sewage treatment system. Are these four communities the only ones facing new stringent State and Federal treatment standards which will require far better treatment than the existing plants are capable of providing? No! Every community in the state will be facing this national problem. As our population increases, we simply must take better measures to take care of our wastes if our environment is to be maintained fit for future generations. In future weeks, details of the regional system will be discussed for your information. royp dpposss Propos d Urn Personality Contest , Eels SSi 5 While the Utah County Commission and others in the county favor the proposed new county zoning code as a document that will "promote orderly development in the County and preserve agricultural land," not everyone in the county is in full agreement. A recent mass meeting held on the county courthouse proposal and thus letting steps brought out several hundred citizens to hear oppo- sitions to the proposed plan. Another meeting to explain the new law will be held Monday at 9 a.m. on the courthouse steps. The meetings are sponsored by a group known as the Citizens Opposed to Utah County Land Use Plan and Zoning Ordinance. Mel Tiemann, chairman of the group, began by welcoming those attending, then introduced Henry Jerry Bradshaw, a BYU employee who said he owned property in the county. Mr. Bradshaw said that he had studied other such planning and zoning ordinances in the country and labeled the Utah County plan "the most restrictive of . any in vthe ' nation." ;"".' ' He said that citizens would have to read both the proposal and the county master plan, and then study the master plan map, before coming to a true decision as to the worth of the proposal. "But citizens haven't had a chance to do that," he said. Mr. Bradshaw referred to a similar effort attempted recently in Klamath County, Ore. He said the county rs and local newspaper put together a supplement detailing the 40-pa- voters know the issues. He said his complaints now stem from the fact that the proposal has not been published here and is not planned for placement on the ballot to be voted upon. "If this proposal is adopted, you will not be able to leave land to your families, or divide your land and give a parcel of it to a member of your family," he said. He added that the proposal would require at least 330 feet of frontage on any county road before a building permit for the development of the land would be granted, and that business signs would not be allowed in residential zones, including fruit and vegetable stands. "The county officials are asking you to turn the rights of your property over to them," he stated. Mr. Bradshaw told the audience that during the last week, over 300 signatures on petitions have been collected with citizen comments asking that the ordinance, not. be adopted. He said the petitions will be presented .to the county commissioners, He also listed the commit tee's grievances with the county, saying citizens have a right to input and that the proposal should be put on the ballot. He said the petitions would help accomplish that. "We are asking the commissioners to grant a extension on the decision on the proposal in order for citizens to form a group to study the plan," he said. A counter argument on the f six-mon- th opposition to the proposal was offered by Buck Rose, senior planner on the county planning commission. Mr. Rose explained the proposed zoning map of the county, a large version of which he brought to the meeting. He said changes were being planned due to increasing population growth Following his speech, Mr. Bradshaw again spoke, saying in summary that "government should operate in the open and we must have a voice in what our county commission does." He also again encouraged citizens to sign the petitions being circulated in town. A group of citizens not on the committee carried signs during the meeting this morning which read "Zoning is Satan's Plan But God Made Free Land" and "Free Use of Land Is Our Demand." A spokesman for the group said about 100 to 150 citizens from several community groups plan to set up a picket line at the county courthouse tomorrow in protest over the proposed ordinance. ! if" ' . J Needs Hides Elk and deer hunters are advised that the local Order of the Arrow Scouts will take that smelly old hide off their hands. The group uses hides and horns in costuming and to help in the camp promotion program. If you wish to donate your hides, please call George Reynolds 7684450 or drop them off at 44 South 200 West, or contact Ray Jacklin at 768-814- Booklet Explains Ballot Issues Utah voters will soon receive by mail the election year 1976 Official Utah Voter Information Pamphlet that explains four measures that will appear on the general election ballot Nov. 2. The pamphlet published by the office of the Lieutenant Governor and Secretary of State, contains each ballot measure with an impartial analysis. Arguments for and against the measures are included along with rebuttals to the arguments. Instructions for marking the ballots are also included. The purpose of the information pamphlet is to inform the voters on both sides of proposals so they can make up their own minds on the issues. Utah State Senator Karl N. Snow spearheaded the movement to publish the information for - voters and submitted his amendment to the 1975 Utah Senate as Senate Bill 96 which was passed. The pamphlet contains detailed voting instructions, registration dates and other valuable information. The four state propositions covered by the pamphlet are Proposition No. 1, Election and Suffrage, a constitutional amendment; Initative Proposal A, "Freedom from Compulsory Fluoridation and Medication Act"; Initiative Proposal B, "Recall and Advisory Recall Act"; and Initiative Proposal C, "Budgetary Procedures Act Ceiling." Families are urged to save the voter information pamphlet for frequent use before election day. Elwood Hunt, right, presents $500 check from the Eldred Foundation to the Lehi $500 CHECK Senior Citizens. At left is B.J. Lott, Lehi Senior Citizen Chairman. Mr. Hunt is a member of the Board of Directors of the Eldred Foundation and said the money is to be used for Senior Citizen activities during the yen- |
