Show City Council Sets Election n TIL lj 1 T s. s Technicality Delays Date The Moab city council set the date for a special bond election for the proposed water and sewer sewer improvement project then encountered encountered en en- I en-I countered new delays which nullified num- num fied fled much of the work done at Tuesdays Tuesday's special meeting The council approved the sale of general obligation bonds pendIng pending pending pend pend- ing the approval of the voters and cleared the deck for a bond election on Oct Oct 5 The council then learned that the in water and sewer reserve bonds to be ought bought by the I government must be placed on the same bond issue City Attorney Attorney Attorney At At- torney Robert Gibson talked with federal attorneys in Denver by bylong bylong bylong long distance telephone Wednes Wednes- day Gibson said the new papers were mailed Wednesday to Denver for forthe forthe forthe the approval of attorneys The papers will then be sent to Salt Lake City for approval of the attorneys attorneys attorneys at at- for Edward L. L Burton and company which will handle the thel city bonds Gibson estimated this exchange of mail mall would cause a delay of about two weeks in the election date set by the council Nicholas G. G Smith a representative tive of the Sale Lake City bonding firm appeared before the special meeting of the council Tuesday night and presented the offer of his company on handling of the city bonds For t th- th sake of speed the company clipped th the red tape time to permit an early vote The council ac accepted his offer and set the earliest possible date for the election I IThe The project calls for the sale of In hi general obligation water bonds and In hi genera general gene gen gen- era eral obligations were bonds for the Improvement and nd extension 0 of 1 include a greater share and ex- ex water and sewer systems and the building of a sewer disposal plant Th The sale of the bonds was for over a 30 year period at an Interest interest inter Inter- est not to exceed five per cent The effort to speed speedup up the election election elec elec- tion was made because of the expressed concern on the part of federal housing officials ls that delays delays de dee lays might endanger the obtaining of the federal aid made available by the city of Moab being declared a a critical defense area Under Under this this agreement the the- city was to obtain a federal grant of plus a Ii loan of the 49 from the government To this the city was to add But with the recently announced ed hike like In fn city tax assessments it was decided that the city would the work project even more I For the special city bond election elec tion there will be two polling places These have been een designated ed as Bethany Hall and the court court- house The polls will be open from 7 am a.m. to 8 pm p.m. Both the sewer r and water projects will be carried on the ballot separately Three election judges and a ar an n alternate were named for each of the two voting boxes Those to serve at the Bethany Hall box are Mrs Eliza Burr Mrs Elouise Elouis e n Hawks and Mrs Genevieve Holyoak Holy- Holy Holyoak oak with Mrs Rebecca Newell as alternate Those named for the courthouse box were Mrs Hazel Thomson Mrs Gwen Meador and Mrs Carrol Carol Hines with Mrs Irma I Continued on Page 5 City Council Council- Continued from ra Page e 1 Newell as M alternate The city council planned to push the work as fast as possible and some steps toward c combating the water shortage problem that plagued local residents this summer summer sum sum- mer will bo be launched as fast as possible Cost and plans were discussed Tuesday with engineers but no action action ac ac- ac tion was taken on any of the steps but the way was cleared to give the work the green light as soon as approved by the voters |