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Show Hill looking at 'conflict or interest' BOUNTIFUL -- Newly appointed ap-pointed Bountiful City Councilman Dean J. Hill may face a "conflict of interest" if he accepts an engineering engineer-ing offer with a company wanting to install a natural gas pipeline through south Davis County. Councilman Hill was not on the city council when other council members voted unanimously to oppose op-pose any pipeline proposal that would bring a high-pressure underground gas line near or through the city. A long-time engineer and owner-manager owner-manager of a local engineering firm, Mr. Hill advised the council that he had been approached by Wyoming-California Pipeline Company to do the engineering in this area because he was "familiar with the surrounding area and the problems which a natural gas company com-pany might face." Councilman Hill said he was approached ap-proached by the company to do the staking for the proposed line. "I am seriously considering taking this job if I get a firm offer," he told the council. . He said that he wa¬ certain if the job would be a conflict of interest inter-est with his council position, "but if it is, I will give it a second thought." Councilman Hill explained that he was contacted by Ford, Bacon and Davis Engineering firm last' June and asked if he would consider doing the staking if the pipeline company was awarded the job. But the (engineering) bid went to a firm in Louisiana. "I called them (Gibbs-Ellison) and offered my services as a professional profes-sional engineer with knowledge of engineering in this area. That's as far as things have progressed at this time," he said. Councilman Hill was the engineer engi-neer for Bountiful Power and Light Company for the high-power transmission lines over the mountain moun-tain (into Morgan County) east of Bountiful. The Wy-Cal proposed route would be very close to the power , line route on the west slope of the Wasatch Front The pipeline route would extend through Mill Creek Canyon, down North Canyon, and into North Salt Lake. The extent of the pipline, nearly 1,000 miles long, would be from near Evanston, Wyoming to a destination des-tination in the Mohave Desert of southern California. |