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Show Cedar Council' cracks down on city's pet regulations CEDAR CITY - City Council officials are anticipating that pet owners will think twice from now on before allowing their pets to run free in the city. The council decided during its regular meeting Sept. 2 to seriously tighten up the city's animal control program. A motion to increase citation fees to try and encourage pet owners to keep their animals secured passed unanimously. From now on, when an animal is picked up, the initial cost to have the pet released will be increased from $5 to $25. A second offense citation has been raised to $50, and for each additional ad-ditional offense after that it will cost pet owners $100 to have their animal returned. The council also decided to hire a part-time part-time employee to care for the animal shelter, thus leaving animal control officer Chuck Prunty free to patrol the streets on a full-time basis rather than only part-time. "We've got $1,000 left in this budget that will be put to use to pay for the part-time employee for about three months. That will give us enough time to try it out and see if the plan will work," said Mayor Robert Linford. During another part of the m meeting the council reached an agreement on the price per acre for property in the city's industrial park. The minimum price set for the property was $20,000 per acre and the maximum price was set at $30,000 per acre. The council also voted to have a review board consider the land price yearly, due to the flexibility of the cost of land. Acting on other matters, mat-ters, the council set a deadline of Oct. 15 for property owners who are planning to do their own work in the Special Improvement District 82-1. According to Matt Bulloch, city engineer, it is too late for the city to do any more work at this time, due to the late date and the lengthy amount of time it takes to put out bids on projects such as this. The city will resume work in the spring. However, residents wishing to do their own work before Oct. 15 need to contact the city engineer's office before beginning work. In other business, the council discussed the purchase of a refuse truck that would be utilized by the city as a back-up truck to the garbage truck. The council decided to purchase pur-chase a refurbished truck from a firm located in the Phoenix area. According to Mayor Linford, the city will purchase the new truck for $29,000, about 40 percent of what a new one would cost. In other business, the Mayor brought to the attention of the council a n..wnr nf complaints from individuals that people are hunting illegally within the city limits. "This is a great concern con-cern of ours, we've got a real problem here with people hunting in the southeast part of town," stated Linford. He added that the city police suspect that youth are the primary offenders of-fenders and that parents will be held responsible if their children are caught hunting within the city limits. During another part of the meeting, Linford announced a change in meeting dates. The work meeting has been changed from Sept. 9 to Sept. 8; the regular meeting scheduled for Sept. 16 has been moved to Sept. 23; and the regular meeting for Oct. 7 has been set for Oct. 6. The council also passed a motion giving the Cedar High drill team, the Mohey Tawa, permission to hold a bake sale in the city park Sept. 11. |