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Show Council suggests Sprace St. solntiom By LEE WARNICK Record Reporter Residents of subsidence-damaged homes on Spruce Street who plan to file financial complaints against the city have been advised to instead file claims with Cedar City's insurance carrier. These instructions came to the handful of Spruce Street residents present at the Cedar City Council meeting Mar. 5. Among other agenda items, the Council discussed the recently-received Dames and Moore study on Spruce Street and Sunrise Subdivision. Alter hearing the report's recommendations, recom-mendations, the city committed to check the street's water main and all service lines under its responsibility for leaks, and to resurface and regrade the entire street as soon as weather permits. per-mits. "But what about our homes?" asked Jeff Peterson, owner of one of the subsidence-affected homes on Spruce Street. "I can't answer that question," replied Mayor Jack Sawyers. "We do have insurance. Make a claim and we'll turn it over to our insurance company. We'll see what happens from there." Peterson also expressed worry about the present drainage problem on the street, and said that storms, "or even someone above us washing their car" results in a sizeable pool of water in his driveway and near his house. He felt each runoff aggravated his personal subsidence problem. Because of the subsidence, a small dip has emerged in the general downhill drainage of the street, resulting in Peterson's problem. City Engineer Matt Bulloch said his crews would take care of the extensive work needed on the street "as soon as weather lets us," but promised to try and work out a temporary drainage solution for Peterson. In another interesting matter, the council opened bids for materials and installation of water lines to interconnect in-terconnect the present water tank and the two now under construction. Some 19,000 feet of 10-inch pipe was involved in the bid, said engineer Bulloch. Only one bid was received for materials, from Pacific States Gas and Iron Pipes. The $217,700 bid was nearly $3,000 under the city estimate, and was accepted by the council. But bids for installation of the pipe seemed to cause some confusion. A total of 13 bids, ranging from $38,233 to $171,895, were received. "I hope we don't have another situation like the county had with the dump," said Councilman Harold Shirley ,, and he encouraged the council to review the terms of the contract with the bidders to assure the job was understood. un-derstood. The group then proceeded to pass a motion that the four lowest bidders be explained, in order, the terms of the job, and that the lowest bidder 'expressing 'ex-pressing a willingness to undertake it be awarded the contract. The four are: Hurricane Sand and Gravel, $38,233; Dwight Peterson of Riverton, Utah, $39,627; Hall Brothers, Hurricane, $66,007; and Steven Weaver, Ogden, $66,555. The engineer's estimate for the job is $96,222. The council also decided to hold a public hearing Apr. 2 concerning the city's plan to charge various amounts for water surcharge and connection fees, rather than the flat $1,000 now assessed ($700 or $750 for the surcharge and $250 for a water meter). The new plan, now in draft stage, calls for a straight $1,000 water surcharge sur-charge for single-dwelling structures, with residents responsible for purchasing pur-chasing their own meters. Other proposed charges include $500 per unit for apartments, $250 per unit for hotels and $5,000 for restaurants. The council said the new surcharge schedule is based upon the amount of water various types of structures use. In other matters, the council: -Approved spending $2,000 for an evaluation of the city's computer needs, to determine if the city should continue to contract out for computer services or obtain their own computer. -Allowed parking on one side of the street in front of College Ave. Apartments, Apart-ments, in zones now red-curbed. The Council also wants to continue investigating in-vestigating the overall parking situation at the apartments. -Approved a lease for oil-searching equipment at the Airport, as long as it doesn't interfere with property earmarked ear-marked for the city's proposed in-. in-. dustrial park. |