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Show City requests change in DG&T mitigations The Vernal City Council directed their attorney at last week's meeting to incorporate several minor amendments amend-ments to Deseret Generation and Transmission's (DG&T) impact mitigation agreement and postponed initiation of new sewer fees until problems at the sewer lagoon are resolved. Basically the changes in DG&T mitigation agreement with the city, as suggested by the council, were so the agreement won't stipulate that Vernal City can't require more impact funds from DG&T should growth estimates be greater than projected, Kenneth Bassett, Vernal City manager, said. Words which constitute that the agreement is all of the impact funds required of DG&T are being taken out of the contract, Bassett said. The contract provides $120,000 for parks and recreation, $112,000 to the police force, and $358,400 to the city water fund over a four year period. One of the problems with the money for parks and recreation, is that the city doesn't have a department for the funds. Bassett said the city is looking more aggressively at providing more parks and recreation facilities In Vernal. In other business at the council meeting last week, Bassett advised the council that the new sewer impact fees. which up sewer connections from $750 to $1,350, are to go into effect Jan. 1, 1982. After discussion of the problems at the sewer lagoon site because the contractor walked off last month, the council requested an amendment be prepared to postpone the new sewer fee schedule until the problems at the lagoons are resolved. Also there is concern by the council about sewer connection fees for new annexations to the city which are being served sewer by the Ashley Valley Water and Sewer Improvement District. If the court rules that these areas will be served sewer by the city, they will pay the lower connection fee because they were unable to pay before the new fee was enacted, Bassett said. The council also approved the annexation an-nexation of 3.7 acres of land at 500 East and 1000 South. Land will be zoned R-3. R-3. Wayne Swett, representing the Ashley Water Co., presented a letter to the council from the directors of the water company requesting the city's support for their entire district to be annexed into the city. Mayor Samuel Snyder advised Swett that the consensus of the council was favorable to the annexation. |