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Show City idea reborn, to study finances Editor's Note: This is the second In a series of articles concerning the incorporation incor-poration of Naples, Maeser and Ashley areas. The date for voters to go to the polls to decide if they want a Maeser City or not was postponed to May 25, 1982 to "allow more to study the issue." Orginally supports of the Maeser City requested an election April 20 with the Naples incorporation election, but it was requested to put the date back. "We needed more time to obtain more information about finances available to form the city," said Douglas Lawson, a supporter of the in-corpration. in-corpration. Lawson said that the people of Maeser need to know what services are required from a city and what they will cost. A letter containing those facts sent to Maeser citizens in 1969 was very influential in-fluential in convincing 289 to vote in favor of disincorporating the newly formed Maeser City and giving their assets to the Maeser Water and Sewer Improvement District The 1969 letter signed by the Maeser City Council says that in order to pay for the additional services which are not now being bore by Maeser, the mill levy in Maeser City will have to be doubled at its present rate. At that time only three voted for Maeser City to stay incorporated. Since that time laws have cha and a city isn't required to vnX the services as in 1969, Lawso "There is no comparison with Uw figures," said another spokesman the Maeser Water ImproJ District, "there is now more ruianri support." C1J1 ; "Keeping Maeser, Maeser" as person said, is the primary reason f the support for incorporation Maeser "Always one reason for incorDorat;, is the threat that Vernal City wUl anS Maeser," Lawson said. The Vernal City Council has signed resolution that the city will not anJ any of the present Maeser WaS District, but the city has approved an annexation in the proposed Maeser Cjtv which is larger than the water district Items which are being studied by SUt porters of incorporating Maeser are cost, service and formation. Members of the Maeser Water Board feel that the majority of the people in Maeser would vote for a city if financially feasible Whether the outcome of the April Jo Naples election to incorporate will jj. fluence the Maeser election, Lawson said he thought "Maeser was a dif- ' ferent ball game." "But Naples has a better chance to incorporate because they have the sales tax," Lawson added. add-ed. "But we planned to incorporate Maeser before the Naples City idea was talked about." |