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Show to eliminate Spring cleanup because of increased costs ByTOMHARALDSEN , CENTERVILLE-Thcre will be no Spring Cleanup in Centerville 1 "this year, i 1: v" ;t " " : -': That was thd'decisioh reached by city council after some spirited debate de-bate last week. Increased costs to the city, a limited amount of citizen ' participation last year and possible logistical problems with implement-1 ing a charge for services led to the death of the cleanup, which was ap ' proved on a 3-1 vote by the council. Last month the council heard a proposal from city staff to charge for this year's pickup. Hauling of refuse to the county's bum plant in Layton has increased costs to the city, which in the past agreed to have the city's hauler pick up various var-ious items left curbside during a de- . signated period of time. ' But last year, the length of the cleanup .stretched from its original five day time span to about a full month. Those delays caused backup ' in other services. In addition, the city staff felt it was inappropriate ' for all residents to subsidize such a pickup when only a percentage of the citizens were using it Tuesday night, a recommended pay-as-you-go schedule was submitted sub-mitted to the council, but the de cision was made not to- hold a Spring Cleanup this year. Councilman Council-man Kent Lindseymade the motion to bag the' idea, Councilwoman Nancy Gibbs concurred, and Coun-cilman Coun-cilman Bruce EriCkson sided with them on the vote. Councilman Mike Barton cast the lone dissenting vote. Doug Nielsen; the fifth member of the council, was out of town on business. In other council business, an ordinance or-dinance designating the council as redevelopment agency board of directors di-rectors was approved, the Chase Lane Street improvement project was discussed, council decided not to express objections to a site plan for an Arby's restaurant, and the council heard a report from city public works director Randy Randall Ran-dall on activities for 1988. The RDA ordinance does nothing more than establish the council as the listening board, and it does not create such an agency in Centerville. Centervil-le. The action is not irreversible, but is a preliminary step in looking at possible areas of blight within the city. Chase Lane will undergo extensive exten-sive work in the months ahead, as part of a citizen" participation project that includes improvements to curb, gutter and sidewalk from 400 West to Main Street along the roadway. The 24 property owners in the area will be impacted for amounts ranging from $500 to $2,000, based on both square foo-" tage for driveway approaches and frontage feet for curb and gutter.- The council is inviting those residents re-sidents to meet with them in a special spe-cial workshop on February 28 at 7 pjn., at which time certain re- quirements will be discussed at length.:, .;'rvv'..;;;v;v-;;v;-;-; There was no action taken, or objection ob-jection voiced, to a site plan before the city's Planning Commission for construction of an Arby's restaurant south of the Hardee's on the fron- tage road near Parrish Lane. Council Coun-cil will still have a final approval opportunity on the project, but referred re-ferred the site plan approval back to the Planning Commission. In one other item, the council took no action again on a request from the South Davis Benchmark Economic Development Committee for a $1,000 contribution for a survey sur-vey the committee will conduct in the county. The survey is designed to seek information about the south county area to be used in helping recruit new business to the Benchmark Bench-mark area. |
