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Show The West Bountiful City Council meeting last Tuesday night was carried on as usual, with high hopes for the passing pass-ing of the coming bond election elec-tion to be held Tuesday, Feb. 20, at the city hall. CITY ADMINISTRATOR J. Dell Holbrook reported that there are problems with the sealing of the new city well. The Stale Board of Health said that maybe it would be better to take care of the surface sur-face water by using drain lines to carry off the surface waters coming from the well. This plan will be used. The council voted unanimously to send Beverly Hill to the upcoming clerk seminars and to send Mr. Holbrook to the manager administration ad-ministration seminars. Mr. Holbrook and Mayor Secrist will attend a disaster preparedness meeting with the state of Utah. REPRESENTATIVE Lloyd Selleneit is hopeful that the bill on deannexation will be passed by the legislature. This would allow municipalities municipali-ties to deannex property by mutual consent rather than district court action. It was noted that there are many requests to allow people to put trailers on foundations on lots in West Bountiful. Some of the trailer companies are manufacturing models which will meet the Uniform Building Code. Councilman Max Hall had the opinion that the city should resist this type of growth. The city ordinance, at present, calls for the placing plac-ing of trailers in trailer parks. Planning and Zoning Chairman Chuck Stephens was asked to have his committee com-mittee do a study on the problem. Maybe the present ordinances need to be strengthened. THE 500 South storm drain below 1100 West has not been completed. A box to introduce run-off water from Woods Cross needs to be installed. West Bountiful and Woods - Cross agreed to participate in . the project costs below 1100 , West. Citizens are urged to read the material concerning the bond election and to help to inform their neighbors. An announcement will be read in the various meetings concerning con-cerning the election and there will be special articles in the Clipper and a flier distributed to the citizens of the town. MIKE YOUNGBERG, building contractor had the opinion that people should not be allowed to live in unfinished un-finished houses, that when people move into houses not-finished not-finished they are never finishpH Mr. Holbrook talked of ways to get people to finish their homes before moving into them. Possibly they should not have power until the houses are completed. Mike Youngberg said that it might be best to have builders post a bond to insure the finishing of their homes. MANY LOANING institutions institu-tions hold a certain percentage percen-tage of loans in escrow until the buildings are completed. Mayor Secrist suggested that the matter of unfinished homes should be pursued. There are liabilities if power is turned off, as in the case of illness and young children. Mr. Youngberg finished his remarks with a plea to have action on the finishing of homes. He does not want the problem to be pushed off indefinitely. in-definitely. Councilman Wendell Wen-dell Wild promised that action ac-tion will be taken. Other building contractors present said that there is a definite need to have power to panel before the homes are completed. COUNCILMAN Edmonds told Mr. Youngberg that the reason why the streets in the town had not been plowed properly is that the snow plow has been broken down and it is proving a slow process to get needed parts for repair. The streets have been better sanded than in other years. Greg Call and representative representa-tive were present to talk of permission to complete the unfinished homes at 800 West 2015 North and 2035 and 2045 North. Mr. Call and associates as-sociates bought the lots at an auction and now want to repair and remodel the homes. They would like to have thirty days to complete the project, without having to pay for added building permit fees. COUNCILMAN ELI Mitchell said that the completion of the homes would be assisting the city. Contractor Neil Breinholt said that he feels that they should pay the fees for the finishing of basements, just as other builders do when they go to finish basements after the original building of the homes. It was determined that Mr. Call and associates . should pay the fees for per-- per-- mits on the completion of-constructions. of-constructions. Vaughan Hill, representing Dean Hill, approached the council to get signatures on the linens of Casa Verde Subdivision, Sub-division, Plat C. Chairman Chuck Stephens wondered about the storm drains capacity on some of the property involved. The council coun-cil voted unanimously to approve the plans for Casa Verde Subdivision Plat C and the linens were signed. WAYNE WINEGAR, of the Weber Basin Conservancy District attended the meeting to ansWer questions and to give information concerning contracts with Weber Basin. He feels that there will be need for many homeowners in West Bountiful to use culinary water for their lawns and yards, since they do not have Weber Basin irrigation water. Mr. Winegar continued saying that the area of most need of the Weber Basin water is in Davis County. Og-den Og-den is the largest customer. The district should not deliver water without a contract. MAYOR SECRIST said that he and the council are certain that the city is in need of a secondary culinary water system in case of emergency. The proposed reservoir would assist the city in gaining this needed facility. The city is using one acre foot of water a day to provide services of culinary water to the citizens. FLIERS CONCERNING the bond election for Water Systems Sys-tems Improvements will be sent out to all citizens. Further information on this project may be obtained from the West Bountiful City Office 292-4486. The project is vital to the city because it will replace deteriorated main supply lines, it will assure uninterrupted water supply, it will provide storage capacity for emergency, it will improve emergency fire protection, it will help to maintain favorable fire insurance in-surance ratings, it will provide for future growth of the city, and will make for increased value of all property within the city. The financing will be obtained ob-tained in the following manner: The Utah Board of Water Resources will purchase $229,000 in bonds, interest free; and the remaining bonds will be sold to lending institutions or private sector. ALL CITIZENS are asked to note that BARD will be opened at different hours ' during the summer months, . from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Coun-: cilman Hall commented that BARD is bankrupt due to the upkeep of machinery. The council spent time talking of the great amount of debris which is being scattered scat-tered on the roads as vehicles travel to BARD. Pages Lane and 11th West are often littered lit-tered with junk. CITIZENS AND others who travel to BARD are reminded that city ordinance forbids the carrying of garbage through the city streets without a covered truck or other vehicle. Violators of this ordinance or-dinance are liable to ticketing and fine, am |