Show Delta road work ins this fall Nearly $500000 worth of crucial storm drainage will be installed and 25 blocks of Delta City streets will be wide resurfaced with pavements under a road construction project to begin this fall City officials said Monday that a $13 million state Community Impact Board (CIB) loan will pay for the project This loan will be repaid under a unique financial allowing for arrangement repayment without raising the mill levy while cutting short the repayment period The CIB will sign over the funds September 24 and construction of a main drainage line on 100 North Street the first phase of the project will begin this fall as soon as bids can be let on the contract according to City Administrator Jim Allan Work on the rest of the project will begin as soon as the weather allows next spring The road project includes $425000 for critical storm drainage in three places with the balance of $875000 going toward rebuilding of four main road sections next spring In an attempt to stretch the road monies further city crews last week overlayed five sections of road with chip seal paid from city maintenance funds Originally some $200000 of the CIB funds were to go for chip seals Now the entire $13 million will go toward drainage and road rebuilding The officials noted that existing curb and gutter on roads slated for rebuilding will be incorporated in the construction design Otherwise curb and gutter on the rebuilt roads will come later under a system which will eventually standardize the roads at sections The city owns a on all city streets excepting Main and Center which are wider The curb and gutter plan will conform to budgetary restraints During the coming fiscal year city officials are hoping at least eight blocks will get the curb and gutter treatment The $13 million from CIB is a loan set at 45 percent over 30 years But with the return from investment of a $500000 IPP grant and an increase in UDOT city road funds the payback period will be cut to 23 or 24 years Administrator Allan said In addition the investment returns and UDOT funds which will cover a yearly loan payment of $79000 will spare the city the pains of increasing the local mill levy This finalized road improvement project is the result of four year’s work in trying to prepare Delta for the IPP impact In 1980 and 81 road improvement was listed behind schools water systems sewer systems housing parks and recreation library city hall and administrative and police services for priority municipal improvements Originally a city street committee identified major collector streets and wide proposed construction of pavements with sidewalks on each side and curb and gutter on the city’s entire 100 blocks of road It was thought at that time that seven geographic areas of Delta could be made into improvement districts with residents assessed the cost of road and Total cost of drainage construction this project was set at $7285000 However at subsequent public hearings it became evident that because of the large number of Delta families living on fixed incomes and because of the number of large lots existing within the city it was not feasable to fund the entire project from local assessment revenue were Alternative proposals developed and the CIB was approached with three options One called for $2300000 for 52 blocks of street and $688000 worth of drainage improvement the second called for $1800000 for 43 blocks of street and roughly half The million in drainage improvement final option which CIB finally went with was the $13 million package Summary of road and dr ainage package wide pavement are 350 East (Cemetery Road) betRoads to be rebuilt at the ween Main and 450 North Streets 200 North between 350 East to 300 West Center street between Main and 450 South Streets and 200 South Street between 200 East and 300 West The main storm drain to be installed will be underground below 100 North between 300 West and 400 East Streets then south a block to Main Street then east to an open drain Next an open drain on 200 South between 100 East and 200 East will be covered and then a collector line will extend west to Center Street The final drainage project will be another underground line on 100 West from 400 South to an open drain south of the Fillmore Branch railroad track City officials said that depending on how low the contract bids are the possibility exists that two other street sections may be rebuilt with the CIB funds Those roads are 300 West between 300 South and 300 North and 200 East between 200 North and Main Street James Hansen (right) for the 1st District Congressional seat Abrams challenges Hansen for 1st District Congressional seat The race for Utah's First Congressional District which includes Millard County has gotten little publicity what w ith a hot Governor’s race in progress this political year Milt candidate But Democratic Abrams was in Delta last week making the rounds in the 16 county Congressional District in an attempt to draw attention to his bid to unseat incumbent James V Republican Hansen Hansen you will remember unseated longtime Congressman Gunn Mackay in a suprising 1980 victory which saw many Republicans sweep office on the momentum of Reagan’s successful presidential bid Two years later Hansen proved he had staying power when he waltzed past a Democratic threat posed by former Ogden Mayor Stephen dirks in 1982 Hansen’s margin of victory over Dirks was a whooping 63 percent to 37 percent in the general election Democrat Abrams has his work cut out for him Not only did Hansen win 15 out of 16 counties in the First District while running against Dirks but also won an imin Weber County pressive victory Dirk’s home county and long considered a Utah Democratic strong hold In addition a recent Deseret NewsKSL poll of the First District showed a party preference of 43 per37 percent Indepencent Republican dent and 19 percent Democrat For Abrams part he has forged ahead against the odds clearly stating he backs such classic Democratic ideals as lower defense spending a verifiable nuclear weapons freeze aid for the poor and hungry and cost adjustments to secure the health of the Social Security System Beyond this Abrams is attempting to undercut Hansen’s “Reagan momentum” by a strategy intended to get the voter to take a close look at Hansen’s record “There are a lot of politicians who are asking for your support because they back someone else" Abrams said “Sort of a ‘Vote for me It’s a Because of Him’ approach curious trend of hiding behind another man’s success because you haven’t accomplished much on your own” this But Hansen has confronted challenge Promotional literature states Hansen believes the “Congressman America-all of First is served by the programs and policies pursued by President Reagan” is And Hansen proud of his record “Some bills have sponsored or cosponsored” the Congressman said Bill Budget Wilderness Utah the “are freeze legislation Congressional term Tax Indexing limitation (12 years) Amendments to Park Protection Act (opposition to ‘buffer zones’ of undefined size around all of the National Parks and Monuments which Hansen feels will greatly impede the economies of the Western States) and National Drunk Driving Awareness Week candidates are The Congressional preparing to square off during at least five debates throughout the district though times places and dates have not been set Abrams background Abrams is a former Political Science professor and a native of Cache County He was Chairman of the Utah State Board of History for years served as Chairman of the State Historical Sites Committee and Chairman of the State Antiquities Committee He worked with development of Utah State University’s Library and Research Center where he taught Political Science Abrams is a veteran of World War and the Kore?n War and during WW II was decorated with the Bronze Star He is married to the former Mattie Ann Robison of the Fillmore He now resides in Logan Robison's and has six children and 23 grandchildren Hansen background Before becoming a Congressman James Hansen was an independent surance agent and president of a Utah land development company He served two years military service in the United States Navy during the Korean War Congressman Hansen’s prior public service includes four terms in the Utah House of Representatives During the two years he served as Speaker of the House He is married to the former Ann Burgoyne of Salt Lake City and they have five children Mike Brown’s art gains statewide attention For the second year in a row Hinckley’s Mike Brown has walked away with top prizes in the Junior Oil Painting Division of the State Fair Competition and this year he has attracted the attention of people all over the state Mike's success story well known to local folks has recently been the subject of a television feature story and has led to a recommendation for the Governor's Gold Key Award which the Delta High Student is eligible for because he has probably one of the most severe physical handicaps known to medical science afflicted Mike at Arythrogryposis birth contorting his spine twisting his muscles and leading doctors early on to predict he would never sit up or walk But Mike’s miracle as his mother Beth describes it began early as the suffering baby was theraputically stretched and exercised until confounded doctors had to admit they were wrong “1 had always known of that old wives tale that you should rotate your baby’s sleeping position to mold the head” Beth said “and with Mike did basically the same thing for his whole body just kept propping him in different positions and working with his back until finally it became obvious he was getting better” Today the numerous blue ribbons Mike has won in state painting competitions are only a part of his busy and active life Though he has only limited use of both arms and walks at a slow shuffle Mike enjoys playing the drums and raising swimming gardening pigeons rabbits pigs and calfs which he has entered in the Millard County Junior Liveslotk Show “We had no idea Mike could paint” Beth said “Then one day he came home from school excited about an oil he had seen painting demonstration and said he wanted to learn That was a year and a half ago We couldn’t believe the first painting and since then we have just been overwhelmed with how he has done" Mike has to stand to paint ith the canvas lying fiat on a table His twisted arms can only hold the brush to the canvas when he turns his body away from the painting “It is hard to imagine but he can hardly lock at what he is painting" Be1h said Good news for Millard towns seeking hydroelectric power Area Word from the Western that public Power Administration utilities electric should continue to have first priority federal hydroelectric in purchasing power came as good news last week Meadow Kanosh to Fillmore and Electric Flowell Holden Oak City The standing of these utilities and two dozen other cities and rural elecas “preference” tric cooperatives customers had been challenged by Utah Power k light Company who claimed it too is entitled to an of power produced allocation by federal dams on the Colorado River “Preference” gives public noncomprofit utilities like city power panies and rural electric coopera first call on federal hydro power Only after their needs are met can private utilities buy federal power Dwight Day City Administrator of Fillmore said he was confident that the Western Area Power Administration the longwould uphold standing public policy of giving the benefits of public resources directly to the people “The law it dear on this matter” Mr Day said “Since 1906 this policy has governed the in fins use of natural resources country and it is just as valid today as it was 75 years ago” be extives plained UP&L objected to the preference it policy saying it was outdated prevented widespread use of federal hydro power and benefited select groups of citizens to the exclusion of its own ratepayers Western Area Power Administration refuted Utah Power k Light's arguments point by point “Preference in the tale of saying Federal power to municipal utilities serves tiie intent cf Congress promotes local control prevents utilities from making a profit on a public resource and serves as a yardstick to encourage competition within the utility industry” A principal theme cited by Western is that preference festers competition in the utility industry Western UP&L’s argurejected ment that the benefits of Federal denied hydro power are inherently to al taxpayers these benefits by They can obtain creating their own public utility The marketing criteria will be used in allocating power from federal dams in the Colorado River Storage Project (CRSP) when current power contracts expire in 1989 utilities eligible for s share of CRSP power serve 25 percent cf Utah’s population Some of tiie ratepayers served by these utilities faced potential rate increases of up to 150 percent if Western had sanctioned Utah Power k Light’s appeal for an allocation of CRSP power “For years our bore tiie risk and the ratepayers higher costs cf what was once expensive Federal power” said Mr Day “To ignore that Let would be a serious breach of faith with our citizens on tiie part of the Federal government” he commented The municipal and cooperative electric utilities agreed to buy hydroelectric power from the Colorado River Storage Project in the early 1960’s at higher rates than they would have paid for power from steam plants In fact their average power costs were higher from the time they began taking power in untf about lf?8 But when coal prices began escalating in the late 1970’ CRSP power became a less expensive resource Today it looks attractive in comparison with power from costly new plants and eves planned hydro 14 developments The rates are enough however set at levels high to fully repay the in the investment Treasury’s facilities and to power generating subsidize the cost cf irrigation water and recreation features While the rates paid by customers of the electric municipal and cooperative utilities for CRSP power may seem low by today’ standards they are tot subsidized by (he Federal Tbe Federal government government’s rate structure is designed to recover al costs Eke tbe practices used by aS Me public utility com missions US |