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In other Council business The Council approved a land lease agreement with Southern Utah State College to provide a 75 square foot parcel of land by the water tank south of the race track. The College is intent on constructing a communication tower on the site. The tract of land was authorized on a $1 per year lease agreement in order to relieve the City's liability. The new location for Bulloch Brothers Engineers, the city engineering firm, was approved by the Council. The new site is on 300 West across from the Middle School in the old junior high seminary building. One reason for the move is to consolidate the firm's office by having both the city records and the office located in the same building. The Council approved the request on the condition that as soon as space was made available in the City Offices the records would be transfered there. The Council gave its approval of a new zoning map for Cedar City. The new map has been updated to show industrial zoning changes. The changes include IMl and IM2 which are light manufacturing and heavy manufacturing manufac-turing respectively. CEDAR CITY - The Cedar City Council last week approved architectural ar-chitectural plans for a 10,000 square foot building to hopefully house the state's only Federal Aviation Administration Ad-ministration flight service center, Estimated construction cost for the center is $587,700, but as City Manager Joe Melling pointed out, "the cost of getting the center to locate in Cedar City is greatly outweighed by the benefits which would result." According to Melling, if the center is located in Cedar City, it would bring approximately 50 new jobs into the area, along with an annual payroll of about $2.9 million at the end of five years. He explained that a payroll of that size is comparable to two-plus Cedar Products companies locating in the area. He also noted that the average job salary per year would be $26,700 for the employees which would work at the center. The council agreed that the rental price the government would pay the city would be $4.75 per square foot per year. Melling explained that the city would build the building and then lease it back to the FAA. "The Council has an agressive attitude, at-titude, and they want to do all that they can do to promote jobs and the economy of our City," said Melling. In an earlier Record interview, Cedar City Mayor Robert Linford explained that currently there are 311 flight service centers in the United States and that three of those centers are located in Utah at Salt Lake City, Bryce Canyon and in Cedar City. In order to conserve money, the government is planning to phase out most of the centers, which means only one center will be located in the state. Councilman Jack Carter was quick to point out the economic advantages Cedar City would realize by having the center locate here instead of the Wasatch Front. The architectural plans which garnered gar-nered the Council's approval were drawn up by The Gardner Partnership, a Cedar City architectural firm. Melling pointed out that they have received a lot of help from Richard Harris and his staff and from Five County Association of Governments representative Vaughn McDonald. Linford said that the City's offer must be in no later than May 28,which Melling took care of earlier this week. Linford also said after that time the government will study the proposals for approximately one year, after which time a contract will be awarded, and the extra flight centers will begin to be phased out. In another matter, the council approved ap-proved an Industrial Revenue Bond for Don Bulloch, Bulloch Drug Store owner, to assist with his plans to restore the buildings where Bulloch Drug, Fernwood's (now under construction) and Mountain West Office Supply are located, to their original form. According to Bulloch, remodeling work on Sonoma's has begun, and a new Fernwood's will open up in its place by July 1. He also plans to remodel the The floor plan pictured above is included in the purposal sent to the FAA by Cedar City in hopes to have the state's only flight service center located here. The Cedar City Council is "agressively" intent on bettering the cily's economic contlitioin and hopes the site will be here. |