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Show 0 SAID: exf ri F'EESE it AH 307 SAuT 5? W coo LAI E association S STE CITY 5005 'JT Serving East Juab County - A Nice Place To Live! City and school board discuss bail diamonds By Myraa Tunes-New- s Ihnutnii Correspondent Members of the Juab School District Board of Education and members of the Nephi City Council met to discuss ball fields and find out how the two entities could work together in making more ball diamonds for youth of the area. The cost of property is expensive, said Robert Steele, Nephi mayor. We would like to use some of the school district property to develop the needed addition to the ball fields. Nephi City has recently completed a recreational master plan, said Randy McKnight, city administrator. The plan points out the need for more ball fields. We have a large number of the youth of the area who play baseball and we are having a more difficult time, each summer, to provide the necessary facilities. McKnight explained the dty would fike to cooperate unth the school district to put in some ball fields. Steele said, if an agreement could be worked out, the city would like to work with the school board. If an agreement can be worked out, the dty would put up the money to build ball fields, structures, power and other needed items to make the project successful. The district is in the position where it could allow some property to be used jointly by the dty and the district, said Leon Pexton, president of the board. The staffs of each of the groups will study the issue. As they get together and find problems, each side should appoint a couple of people to work on the situations, said Pexton. Plans are to open the new high school for occupation in August 1998, a year from now. The completion date is expected to be February 1998, said Superintendent Kirk Wright If enrollment is not too heavy, it would be easier to move into the new building at the start of the school year. However, heavy enrollment might force the transition sooner. Wright said the board should be involved in the transition from the beginning. He said grade organization would be a question. At this point, he said, Mona Elementary is planned to be a Kindergarten through fifth grade school. Nephi Elementary will be a Kindergarten through fourth grade school. The present middle school will become an intermediate school with students housed there during the fifth and sixth grades. The middle school will move to the old high school. Students in the seventh and eighth grades will be housed there. The new Juab High School facility will house students ninth grads through grade 12. Hoard members, however, expressed some concerns about the grade alrgmer.t as it is proposed and determined to bold another mectirg to discuss the ksues. Single Copy Price 50tf 12 pages Wednesday, May 7, 1997 Volume 95, No. 18 mxssrt: starts KJspM CKty dsaunanp Momidaiy, Msiy 1 24h; tfi: tmftS ' Tunes-New- s Every year we have problems with power poles. Heavy equipment needs to people jumping the gun on the dean- our crews access to the debris piles in order up and putting items out too early "said backtrack, said RanJy McKnight, city move them, said McKnight. Power lines could endanger the Bowles. This year, there will not be a administrator. fall cleanup so items need to be kept off McKnight said residents are being heavy equipment operators, he said, asked to make certain piles are not Nephi City Police Chief Chad Bowles city streets, rights of way, and city prop- placed under power lines and low hang- said he wants to warn people to not put erty so streets can be snow plowed this ing branches and be kept away from debris out along the street after May 12. winter. Tickets can and will be issued to those who do not obey the city ordinance, said Bowles. McKnight said contractors doing construction or demolition work may not place materials on public property. Contractors are asked to haul construction debris to an authorized dump site, he said. Contractors doing cleanup for hire may not place material on public property without prior written permission, said McKnight Fall garden debris must either be transported to an authorized dump site by the landowner or kept off city property until two weeks before the spring cleanup day. . day, May 12. We dont want to. have Correspondent f The annual Nephi City Spring Clean- up will be held on Monday, May 12. hn wont item a hmilad away A tho in piles along the edge them must put no later than 8a.m. Mon- street ofthe : -- i- WAITING FOR THE CLEANUP This pile of limbs and trash on 100 South in Nephi is waiting for the cleanup crews next week like piles all over town. Ifyou dont have your pile out, you have until 8 a.m. on Monday, May 12th to have it at the curb. Lsvsm sumd commute off By Tunes-New- s Myna Ihnlidi Correspondent Levan mayor, Connie Dubinsky, thinks her town should be given an apology, in print, for the letter sent to the town by the county commission and published as part of a news report. . While Dubinsky was upeet at the way business was conducted, it is the commissioners right to review such items in commission meeting, said Mike Seely, county administrator. In addition, commissioners are not willing to accept the checks produced by Dubinsky at face value. We will now check it out, said Joseph Bernini, commission chair. As far as I am concerned," said Pat Greenwood, county clerk, the checks presented are not good evidence. She said few ofthe checks had on them what they woe issued for and may have been paid to the county for other reasons. "We need the check stubs. This means nothing without an explanation," said Greenwood. Commissioners agreed and ignd Seely to review the checks with the town of Levan to make certain the checks were actually issued for the gas payments owed. The checks could have been issued by Levan for law enforcement, for roadwork, or for other items. Wm. Boyd Ilowarth, cc: rlrrloner, said the checks were isssed to the county within the proximity cf e and for approximately the amounts the town mony dnsaigirce dun may have needed to pay for the natural gas reimbursements. However, that did not mean that was what the checks were issued for and the matter should be reviewed. The letter, sent by the county commission which began the disagreement with the Levan Ibwn Council and the mayor, stated that Juab County had just completed an analysis of payments on the natural gas system since the inutiliception of the community-owne- d ty became reality in 1S32. The letter also stated that: Juab Rural Development Agency and Juab County records were used in the analysis. As a result of the analysis, it appears that Levan Town owes Juab County $8,143.41 as of December 31, lama mi comnmte ffoir part-tim- e mayor, said Dubin- Levans money?" She said she had spent countless hours going over the books and finding the checks which, she said, proved the town did not owe the county that much sky. Where is money. She said, according to the records she had produced, Levan did owe the coun gas ty $755.20 and presented the commissioners with a check for that amount. . She said this past due amount was one she was not aware of because it went back a few years to the time when people and accounting methods were changed by the agency. "We did not re See Levan on page 2 1S3S." Records made, documenting payments other than those shown in attachments seat the three communities of East Juab, were to be reviewed and community officials were to study those records and return to Seely to examine discrepancies. This is a business matter and should not have been addressed in county commission meeting but should have been brought before the board cf Juab Rural Development Agency," said Dubinsky. "We are an agency and should do business as an agency." Che said the town Led been embar-raerz- d by tka reports Ktfoh Lad Cown terces the state that Lsvca did not pay its LIj. There are a cf people who read those news repels," she said. lt the warmgr weather this ele tree kas L traded the bees to its springtime show of white. The weaker continued warmer temperatures for the rest of the week tsUhjcu L Zz3 rzj cf-for u cLLLr |