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Show r - - -- City Okays Another'Step $75,000 4-Corners Grant Milford City took another step towards the completion of their sewer and water project when they okayed the 4-Cor-ners Commission's grant approval ap-proval for $75,000. The Council had previously approved a $45,000 grant from EPA (Environmental (En-vironmental Protection Agency) and now only await the nod o.n their $98,800 request from EDA (Economic Development Administration) and final approval ap-proval of loans and grants from FHA (Farmers Home Adm.) to complete the project. told that it was. Beitz said he had checked with Cedar City and St. George who both operate op-erate the same type of trucks, with the smaller engines, and they recommended the heavy-duty heavy-duty engine and truck. He said that the new truck would allow three men to pick up the garbage gar-bage in a single day where it had taken two men 1M days. New pickup days were set to conform with the new ef- Continued on Back Page Time is getting close to keep all ends coming out together, as the EPA grants require that bids be let o.n the project by December 1972. This means the city will have to put it all together soon or stand to lose part of these grants to attrition. at-trition. The $700,000 project would revamp Milford's Water system including a new half million gallon tank, a new well and replacement of bad line, plus extension of lines and new lines to eliminate all deadend lines within the city. It would also include a new outfall line a.nd treatment facilities fa-cilities (lagoons) and replacement replace-ment of bad lines throughout; the city. The need for the new sewer lines was emphasized even more Tuesday night when Mrs. Bert Merryweather complained to the city fathers that the sewer along 500 South backed up Sunday niht into her basement. base-ment. She said that clothes, stereo tapes and other goods, stored in the basement. She requested re-quested to know if the city had any insurance to pay for this damage. The Mayor asked her to see the Recorder and take care of the problem. Jahn Beitz made a motion that the city buy the new garbage gar-bage truck the city had been using for over a week. He said that the Atlas Company had been asked to bring the truck to Milford for a demonstration and for the benefit of the Editor, Edit-or, painting Milford City on the doors had been the salesman s idea and that ' purchase was not authorized or made until right then, (Tuesday night) when he made the motion. The vote was unanimous to buy the truck. Swain asked if that big engine was necessary and was Mountain Bell requested permission per-mission to lay underground cables in the Sunnysidc Subdivision, Sub-division, before the streets are paved. Granted, provided streets are kept in passable condition. Beitz introduced a brochure on Gilsabind, a treatment to seal coat the airport runway. Cost would be $4,830 with the Slate Aeronautics Board picking pick-ing up half the tab. No decision due to lack of funds. Beitz to investigate. Hardy was authorized to order or-der furniture for the Judge's chambers. Swain was authorized to hire an engineer to give specifications specifica-tions and inspect the installation installa-tion of the manholes at 100 E. and 300 N. The city has been plagued with problems with this manhole since installation. HERE'S MORE ABOUT ;! COUNCIL : i ' Continued from Page One ! ficiency All garbage will be picked up all over town on both Mondays and Thursdays ! ! except when these days fall I on holidays, and pickup will ' be on the following day. Cost ! of the truck with trade-in was : ! $16,800. ' The money to buy the new truck was taken from the Water Wat-er Utility Fund, and a tax anticipation an-ticipation note for $24,000 was authorized, of which $14,000 will be returned to the Water Utility Fund and $10,000 to the Gen. Fund. The note will be obtained at 5'- interest. An eruption over the problem prob-lem of getting the city work completed worked its way around to an advertising for applications for Water Master, or City Supervisor as the new man will be called. Applications Applica-tions will be accepted until Oct 2, at which time they will be opened. The job will start at $625 per month. (Swain advocated advo-cated this some seven weeks ago but his motion failed for lack of a second.) Councilman Thompson who was on storm duty for UP&L stopped in long enough to vote on the garbage truck purchase and discuss the dip at 300 West and 200 North which has caused motorist much anguish plus a few bunged up front ends. The invert was installed to carry off excess water that stands on that corner with each rain, but according to Thompson Thomp-son was installed too narrow by the City Foreman and consequently con-sequently caused problems. He instructed Ken Patterson to have it widened out immediately. immediate-ly. Patterson was on hand in the absence of the Forman. Floyd Bedingfield asked for a.n rexemption from water charges for the Masonic Temple, Tem-ple, on the basis of it being a non-profit organization. The request was granted. Also asking for an eremption was the Milford Industrial Foundation for the period between be-tween Milford Manufacturing and FarWest Garments in the AT&T Building. Request was granted, but Recorder was instructed in-structed to inform them that the city must be notified when building becomes vacant the next time. |