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Show ta storotaii ugf job A showdown over the city Foreman job brought Foreman Fore-man Jake Schow and Councilman Coun-cilman Turner head to head Monday, as the Council and Mayor Young tried to resolve re-solve the conflict of personalities. per-sonalities. Schow said Turner had told him to turn in his keys and see If he still had a job Monday night. He said he wanted the council to either let him do his job of running the crew or to give him his blue slip. He charged Turner Turn-er had a grudge against him, and was turning the crew against him, by talcing them off on jobs himself. Schow said he felt! he had done a good job for the city, since becoming foreman,and had the crew working well together before receiving interference in-terference from Turner. Turner charged Schow with not being able to control con-trol the men and get work out of them. He cited several sev-eral complaints of equipment not being taken care of properly, prop-erly, or repaired. However, in at least one instance at the lift station, Mayor Young said Turner didn't know how it worked, and that the Mayor himself had maintained the station since it was installed. Other Councilman lodged complaints of the crew sitting sit-ting on their brooms or leaning lean-ing on their shovels. They commended Turner for his efforts in getting in and working with the crew, but said he should give his instructions in-structions to the foreman and let Schow and the crew carry them out. Turner said he had told the people he was going to do something for the town when he was elected, and he intended to do just that. He said he didn't think Schow was the man for the job and wasn't forceful enough. Mayor Young said, "A crew won't work for two bosses." He indicated that in several instances his toes had been stepped on, when ouncilmen made decisions on the street, which were his perogative. He said he didn't like it, but had not raised a ruckus. However, he will not tolerate decisions that make him liable. Yount moved to let Schow go, but the motion received no second. Swain pointed out that the ordinances provided for the Mayor to do the hiring and firing and requested that the attorney research the matter and report to the next meeting. He asked Schow to return to work and settle the matter next meeting. Schow suggested he just take time off he has coming until the decision Is made. He said, "Either I do the job or not. Turner should give his Instructions and go home and stay home." Schow finally agreed to work the next two weeks, and protect his job. The public hearing on the improvement district was continued until July 14, at 7:00 p.m. to gain more information. in-formation. Several resi- j dents were concerned that they didn't know what it was going to cost, and therefore (Continued on Page 6) i invite them to meet with the city. . Councilman Maxey said that the council had agreed to open negotiations for steam, and if the Mayor could get them to meet with the city, to do so. He said negotiations should be start -ed ' immediately. A motion was made and passed tocon-tact tocon-tact all three companies and open negotiations.' It was fell that Mllford should not Just sit back and wait 90 days while Phillips Petroleum Petro-leum Jls tied up In negotiations nego-tiations with UP&L. Tines and forfeitures for June were $155.00. HERE'S MORE ABOUT City Council are no sanitary facilities and that hiS front yard was used as a latrine. He said there were no lights at the fairground fair-ground restrooms and that they were locked. He also asked who was responbisle for policing the area after the dance. He said the street and ditches in front of his place were littered with bottles and cans. The Mayor said it was the group sponsoring the dance who was supposed to shut it down, and police the area. He said sanitary facilities were needed both for the pavilion and ballpark and the city should provide them. Marshall Hannah said that he should Ir e had the dance shut down at 1:00 a.m., but was unaware that the coun- i didn't know whether they ; ! wanted to protest or not. j ! Adequate figures were not I ' available to give them a i ; reasonable estimate, though 1 actual cost will not be known until the bids are let. The Improvement district will pave the street and put curb and gutter on 500 West. . Joe Duffy expressed his j thanks to the council and I police for help, but said he ' understood that dances at i ! the Pavilion were to be shut : down at 1:00 a.m. He said - I the dance July 4th ran until i ! 2:45 a.m. He asked, "Who 1 is responsible for shutting . j it down?" He also noted that there 15 years, provided it be used for a SeniorCitizensCenter. The Milford Go GettersClub plans to move their building on the property and build an addition to make them a new meeting place. A petition to annex the property west of 700 West, between the golf course and Highway 21 was received from Jackson and Jackson Attorneys. They represent a group from Delta. The petition and map were ref- . erred to the Plannin Commission. Com-mission. ' A discussion ensued over the need to require annexations annex-ations and subdivisions to acquire adequate water right for the city to take care of any development. No decision de-cision was made, but Attorney At-torney Kanell was asked to . research what other communities com-munities were doing in this regard. Recorder Bacon reported that the preliminary census was down to 1282, which will cost the city in Revenue-sharing Revenue-sharing and other federal funds. The 1970 census was 1,370, but the population popula-tion has fluctuated to nearly 1800 between the two cen- sus. Mayor Young said he was confident the census takers tak-ers had done a good job, and the final census will be: slightly higher, but not. change the figures significantly. signifi-cantly. Turner noted the new homes, and questioned how the figures could be . lower. A discussion ensued on-V what the city's lmput should ' be for the Agenda of the 80's meeting Wednesday. It was agreed that the city sup- . ported any type of growth, " and encouraged Industry of all kinds to locate in the ' west end of the county.Coun-.. cilman Swain and Mayor'. Young planned to attend the " ; meeting. It was agreed the city ' should join the Southern Utah -Power Federation, a group proposing to switch most of ' Southern Utah to municip"aV power. Red Wilson asked; if O' Brien Gold, Thermal Power Co. and Amax had been contacted con-tacted about Milford pur- .. chasing steam for a geo-thermal geo-thermal power plant. The . Recorder said she hadn't and understood thattheMay-or thattheMay-or was to contact them and cil had set that hour. When called, he got busy with other calls, and didn't get it shut down until 2:45 a.m. Virginia Jones said the dance didn't get going until 11:00 p.m. because of the fireworks. It therefore had run late, and she hadn't been aware that it should be shut down at 1:00 a.m. She said there had been no trouble ' and that the Jr. Old Tim -ers had policed the area the next day. However, they may have missed the street outside the fence. She requested that the street dance this Friday, July 11, be allowed to run until 3:00 a.m. The Council Coun-cil had previously approved ap-proved the dance for the celebration to run until 2:00 a.m. A motion approved the later hour. She was denied permission permis-sion to sell beer at the dance. However, the Council Coun-cil approved 'he Jr. Old Timers placing a horse shoe court at the swimming pool park and repairing or building a new barbeque. They nixed a volleyball court. Myron Sessions and Vernon Vern-on Boyse, of Wasatch Associates, As-sociates, met with the Council Coun-cil to secure an option on city property between the hospital and the state road shed for low cost housing. hous-ing. They intend to apply for funding for 26 units. The property, 300 ft. sq. was appraised at $9,000. The Council granted a one year option, with another year extension, if the group could show progress at the end of the first year. They also authorized a lease to Beaver County for |