Show City Engineer Work Out Problem With The Moab City Council Instructed In Davis C C. Holder Bolder Grand Junction consulting engineer for the proposed special special cial Improvement district including In in- Including the original 25 blocks of Moab not already improved ed to submit necessary detailed detailed de de- tailed plans to the offices s of the Federal Housing Finance Administration at San Francisco Francisco Fran Fran- cisco and Salt Lake Lak City and I to provide the Moab council with a copy of the plans to facilitate the city's obtaining ol oI as an interest free Tree loan to meet costs of preliminary prelim inary planning for the P pro pro- The instructions were ere made to Mr Holder at a special meeting of the city council last Friday called by Mayor Norman Boyd following his receiving information from the regional ofil office at San Francisco that they had hadnot hadnot hadnot not received plans sufficiently sufficient sufficient- ly detailed to justify the ci city's city's city's ci- ci tys ty's request t for A decision by the city council to set up the proposed proposed pro pro- po posed d special improvement district was ma made le in June 1963 with the preliminary planning going on since that time According to ell Dan Reardon Reardon Reardon Rear- Rear don city recorder er a request was made to for an interest free loan in the amount amount amount am am- of shortly after after after af af- ter the city's decision At that time the tIre federal agency agency agency agen agen- cy informed the city the amount amount am am- requested request l for preliminary any ary planning was too high unless the city could justify the need Mr Reardon said the listed a number of details to be Included with the preliminary plans if it a aloan aloan aloan loan in the amount of was to be justified According to tl Mr Reardon this justifying information was to o. o be prepared and sent to the federal feder agency by Mr Holder On On December 17 Mr Holder Hol Holder Holder Hol Hol- der informed the council such Information had been been sent to A according to council meeting minutes Mr Reardon reported that earU earlier this month the city had been informed by the A office in San Francisco Francis Francis- co that the justification had hadnot hadnot hadnot not yet been received At the meeting Friday Mr Holder told the council he had sent the plans to the Salt Lake office of He told the council also that he had never received complaints complaints complaints com com- plaints from the federal agency agency agency ag ag- ency and therefore had not been fully informed of the status of the loan application Recognizing this as a possible possible pos pos- sible cause for misunderstanding misunderstandIng misunderstanding standing and de delay decay ay Mayor Boyd authorized preparing caples copies copies co ca- co- co pies ples of all correspondence with concerning the the preliminary engineering Mr Holder explained at atthe atthe atthe the Friday meeting that up until this time his relations with th had always been good and that supporting data data da da- da- da ta sent by him had been ac It appears now however however however how how- ever he said that considerable considerable considerable consider consider- able more information Is being being being be be- ing required by the agency above the street profiles he said he had provided them such as field notes hydrological hydrological data and so on This he said requires much more I time and expense to the en en- Some engineering firms he stated are increasIng increasing ing their fees by as much as third one-third to take care of this added work The city has paid Mr Holder Holder Holder Hol Hol- der as preliminary engineering fee for the pro pro- Mr Holder pointed out to the council that added delay delay delay de de- de- de lay by the city's changing original plans for forthe forthe forthe the improvement district such as a bridge deletion and the addition of plans for water diversion in Tusher canyon A request st by Mr Holder for additional money above the approximately established for engineering costs for the water and sewer Improvement completed last year was also discussed at the meeting Mr Holder told the council that due to delays of the completion completion completion com com- of the water and sewer sewer sew sew- er er project m more time and money moey money mon mo- ey was spent by him than would have been done had the project been handled as one unit rather than being broken brok brok- en down as was done by the city He stated that rather than make a profit his engineering engineering engineering engin engin- costs had resulted ina In Ina a loss of about He requested requested requested re re- quested the he city officials to consider an amount of approxImately approximately approximately this much Mr Holder up to the present present pres pies ent has been paid around for his work as engineer engineer engineer en en- on the water and sewer project Engineering costs for forthe forthe forthe the sewage wage disposal plant which was a part of the original original original inal project have not been paid since a contract for the plant has not been let Mr Holder told the council that plans and specifications should be ready in time to allow allow allow al al- low advertising for tor bids on the plant in April making It possible tor for a contract to be awarded In Jn May This contract contract contract con con- tract would be for tor the construction construction construction con con- only since the city has already arranged for tor the purchase of ot equipment The he council also decided t to hold a public hearing on a proposed zoning change on February 18 Upon recommendation recommendation recommendation of the Planning Commission it was decided to zone re-zone the east side of East street from hom Rose Tree Lane to Nichols Lane from residential to Cl neighborhood neigh commercial for tor a depth of ot approximately feet teet i |