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Show Naples City Council claims they have paid Uintah County for fire protection The Naples City Council is preparing a letter to be sent to Uintah County in refutation of recent allegations by County Coun-ty officials that Naples is delinquent in paying for county fire protection. At the regular weekly Naples City Council meeting Wednesday night, it was moved the letter be drafted to set the record straight, according to Council members. Naples City Treasurer Shirley Wilkins said the last bill Naples City received was in February and a check was issued in payment at that time in excess ex-cess of $2,000. It had been agreed Naples would pay for fire protection on a quarterly basis, Wilkins said. In other Naples City business, the council addressed the question of a franchise fran-chise for electricity to the city. Donna Merrell said it was her opinion the Council Coun-cil should grant the franchise to Utah Power and Light as they requested, since Naples is in no way ready to supply electricity elec-tricity to its residents, and won't be for some time. It was finally agreed Naples City would grant Utah Power and Light a franchise for a duration of 25 years. Every time a structure of any kind is built, the road is torn up to put sewer and water lines across. How to repair the road has always been a bone of contention. conten-tion. Naples, in the past, has required a $200 bond be posted at the time a business license is issued. If the road is adequately repaired after the construction construc-tion is complete, the $200 is refunded. In recent weeks Naples has undertaken under-taken a study to find out how other cities are handling this problem. Since the $200 deposit is not adequately addressing the problem, the council agreed something else should be done. Councilman Dennis Judd said at the present time everyone in the city is subsidizing the developer because street repairs have been coming com-ing out of the general coffer. He suggested sug-gested an equitable way to remedy the situation would be to charge a road opening open-ing and closing fee for that very purpose, plus leave the $200 deposit intact. He said this is fair because it costs considerably more than $200 to repair a road which has been cut through. Councilman Ralph Dart said it was his opinion that all building fees should be looked at together. His consideration was that numerous fees could be tacked on, and a better angle may be to levy one fee and designate certain amounts to each purpose. This way a builder would not think the city was simply levying fees to raise money. Councilwoman Rolene Smith questioned question-ed whether they might not be trying to be a big city when they are not. She said there would not be that many different fees levied at the time of issuing a building permit although they may very weU be more palatable if they were all. together. Judd said the most imrv,H, thepresenttimeistheTdat said tne roads in the as they are, this is a fair anH Mrs. Smith said this money to repair the roads cut t without levying a general tax v rell said she favored it becX V one-time charge. rtcs An ordinance was passed a j. levy $325 at the time a buUdS is issued for opening anddo roadway. uos i |
