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Show Centerville lists critical needs, plans for future this year to expand its retail tax base through development of land along the city's entranceway. Completion of the City's new public works facility in the Industrial Park will aid in responsiveness to citizen needs as well. Council members, working with Mayor Michael Kjar and city officials, offi-cials, will continue to hold strategic workshops to address these issues as Centerville's population continues con-tinues its climb into the 1990's. By TOM HARALDSEN CENTERVILLE Perhaps no community in Utah does a better job of outlining its critical needs areas than Centerville City, and those needs were detailed during a strategic planning session held recently re-cently with the Mayor and City Council. Many of the needs have been addressed ad-dressed through formation of master plans already, while others are waiting in the wings. Among the critical needs areas are municipal power; infrastructure repair and maintenance in areas . such as streets, storm drains, and water lines; subsurface drainage, secondary water supply and distribution, long-term culinary water, growth of the city's tax base, and garbage. Other critical areas include police and fire protection, human resources for the City Corporation, the city's participation in BARD, EPA and other governmental regulations, a new city hall, establishment estab-lishment and character of a civic center, and implementation of the Parks Master Plan. Centerville is currently in the midst of a huge overhaul of its culinary water system, an extensive upgrading of pipeline throughout much of the central core of the community. The City is also studying study-ing such issues as new reservoirs and creation of a special service district for the northern part of the city. Plans have been formed for construction con-struction of a new city complex to replace the outgrown current facility, facili-ty, and, along with that, eventual creation of a city recreation complex com-plex that will feature ball diamonds, picnic areas and a swimming pool. Repair and replacement of streets, curbs, gutters and sidewalks is also an ongoing part of the business busi-ness of Centerville government, with large projects such as those on Parrish Lane in the planning stages or nearing completion. The City formed a redevelopment agency |