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Show Utah Press Association k6? E. 300 Sol SLC, UT Weather report submitted by the Springville Jr. High School weather station: temperatures ranging from highs in high 50's to lows in low 40's. 10 to 30 percent chance of precipitation, today clearing, Friday and Saturday partly cloudy, Sunday cloudy, Monday partly cloudy, Tuesday clear. Volume Eighty-Five $1.1 million The Utah Transportation Commission Com-mission has approved a $1.1 million grant for the expansion and improvement im-provement of the Spanish Fork-Springville Fork-Springville airport. "There is a great deal of industrial growth in the area and pressure to enlarge our airport facilities," said commissioner Wayne Winters. Ninety percent of the funding will come from the Federal Aviation Administration Ad-ministration through the Airport Development Aid Program. Half of the other ten percent will be paid by the state, about $49,830. Springville and Spanish Fork will each pay about $25,000 for the remainder of the money, said Carl Carpenter, of Nielson, Maxwell and Wangsgard engineering firm. The Salt Lake City firm, under contract with Springville and Spanish Fork, made up the master plan for expansion of the airport. About a third of the funds for the expansion will be used to acquire some additional property so that the main runway which runs southeast and northwest, can be extended. The property is currently owned by City annexes property Four pieces of property have been annexed to Springville city. Two pieces of land belonging to Blake Gammell, a total of 4.24 acres, have been annexed. The city has also added 15.6 acres belonging to Robert , Perry . which is located east of the Union Pacific Railroad tracks. Another piece ' of land containing 11.274 acres and known as the Brookridge addition has also been annexed. Car vandalized A car parked in the Kolob Stake Center was vandalized Sunday. Karl Frazier, owner of a 1977 Cadillac, reported to police that his windshield had been broken by what appeared to be shots from a BB gun. , Police investigation of the call revealed that some teenagers had been handling BB guns nearby and one accidentally discharged, hitting the windshield. Stereo stolen A stereo and two speakers were stolen from the home of Mike O'Brien, 31 E. 700 South Feb. 20. According to the Springville police report on the incident, the O'Brien home was broken into while the residents were away in St. George. The suspect pried open the lock, forced the door and took a GE stereo and two speakers, with an AM-FM eight-track turntable from the living room. The stereo was valued at about $200. Ernie Steele, Springville animal control officer, cruises serious problem with . city streets looking for stray animals. "This town has a about eight different people. It totals about 50 acres, 31 of which will be purchased outright, and 19 which will be in easements. Other improvements will be providing a new taxiway, expanding the existing parking apron, installing new runway lighting, adding new lighting for equipment for nighttime flying, operations, and burying a power line. A new clear zone easements will also be acquired and two county roads will be relocated he said. The airport has been in use since the 1940's. Increased use of the facilities have created a need to upgrade and expand. "We were required to prepare a master plan for expansion of the airport," air-port," Carpenter said. The plan was completed in 1978. "It took over a year to complete the master plan," said Carpenter, "because of the size of the project." Originally, the cities had thought they would get enough funds only for the easements, but applied for the full amount, which they received. "We could be under construction possibly in the fall," said Carpenter. The project has been designed in phased sections so that as federal money becomes available, separate phases can be completed. The name of the airport is generally known as Spanish Fork Air Services because it is so close to Spanish Fork, but Springville owns most the property, said Carpenter. Gradually increasing traffic use of the airport and the type of aircraft now using the facilities has created the need for the expansion, he said. ... "The runway is not. long enough.. Our projection of increased traffic there justified the improvements." In 1978, there were 16,000 manual air operations (landings and take offs) at the airport. Predictions are that in the next 20 years, that number will double, said Carpenter. In 1978, 37 aircraft were permanently based at the airport. "That could be more now," said Carpenter. "It's a busy place. They really need the runway extended, and the lighting upgraded." Long-range plans have also been made to resurface and restore another runway which is currently closed because it has fallen into disrepair, said Carpenter. . "After the first project is completed, we will go with another project to resurface that runway," he said. "This is a significant project. There is substantial industrial and private use of this field. These improvements will service Utah Valley and aviation in general, said Utah Department of Transportation aeronautics director Phillip Ashbaker. At a recent city council meeting, the city council discussed the possibility of reestablishing an airport board to govern the airport and set up rules and regulations for the airport. City attorney at-torney Don Strong said some of the hangars at the airport are being used for storage areas. City recorder Verl Dallin said the airport has had a board in the past, but it was discontinued. iiiiii iir in inn SPRINGVILLE, UTAH :':';''':':"V''':'',:':'' BlWWWjiBjffi flMK5(fi 'DUMmi IIMIHiimiHniiim niimijff vfcj ' ' ' Funding for expansion of the Spanish Fork-Springville airport has been approved ap-proved by the state department of transportation. The improvements will in Ci'S'v budget -blnced; tfradls Springville's budget for the last fiscal year was well in the black, according to a budget report released by the city. The city's budget for last year was more than $4.5 million, but the city still had an unexpended balance of $134,854, at the end of the fiscal year, the report said. Revenues the city received exceeded estimated revenues by almost $200,000. The city spent only 97 percent of the money appropriated. The largest source of income for the city was the utilities department. Revenues from utilities totalled more than $600,000. Other large sources of income were property taxes, $250,793; sales taxes, $212,841; the Hobble Creek Restaurant, $125,000; and revenue sharing funds from the federal government, $116,700. .. Police, fire The police department, fire department, depart-ment, and city offices were the largest users of city funds, with salaries among animals," he says. Mm - February 28. 1980 major expenses. However office salaries still only cost the city $27,823. The police department spent $222,344 on salaries and $56,268 on employees benefits. Full-time firemen cost the city $45,462 last year, and volunteer firemen cost $11,934. In addition, employee benefits were $26,619. . Total expenditures for the ambulance service were $22,301, for fire, $114,442, and for police, $334,528. The inspection department spent $25,178; $17,869 of it on salaries. Springville's city court system cost the city $8,824, $5,532 of it on the city judge's salary. The streets department spent $536,555 on items ranging from a $107,000 payroll and $37,000 in employee benefits to payment for supplies, gravel, engineering, and other professional services, insurance and bonds, snow removal, streets maintenance and new equipment. Officer says pringville's 'njmds lbecinn)Dini serious .problem "Cat." "Dog." "Horse loose." The words appear on the roster at the Springville police department in between bet-ween reports of burglaries, vandalisms, van-dalisms, thefts. They attract little attention, until one ' notices that reports on animals are the most common listing on the roster. "We have to kill about 1,600 animals a year in the city," says Springville animal control officer Ernie Steele. "This town has a serious problem with animals." Steele, along with officer Pamela i Danzie, is in charge of the city's animal "control. The job, which Steele has had for 19 years, includes picking up, caring for, , and ultimately disposing of Springville's unwanted animals. And there are hundreds of them, according to Steele. Overpopulation of animals, a national problem of growing proportions, is happening in Springville. The proliferating animal Price 25' clude lengthening the main runway, upgrading lighting facilities, and expanding ex-panding the parking apron. The project will take $1.1 million. The city road fund expenditures, $27,400, exactly equalled the revenues available. The parks department spent $142,557, about half of it on salaries and employees benefits, and the rest on items ranging from shade trees to the ' Kelly's grove expansion. The art museum cost Springville $34,000 last year, $20,115 of it for directors and custodians. Recreation The recreation department spent well over its . estimated budget, in some areas, but total expenditures were only 97 percent of the estimated budget. The expenses totaled $10,478. The golf course, which brought in substantial revenues to the city, spent slightly more than its budget, $123,127. The swimming pool also went over its budget by 10 percent. The pool cost the city $83,405. Hobble Creek restaurant expenses went over the budget by 19 percent. Total cost was $39,390. population locally required the expansion ex-pansion of animal care facilities and the addition of officer Danzie to the animal control staff, in order to provide the city service during both day and evening. Steele's small white animal control truck pulled out of the Springville police station at 7 a.m. and turned slowly south down Main street. "It's a bad job, really," he said. "But it's a job that has to be done. If people could just stop and think what it would be like to have 19,000 or 20,000 dogs running loose in Springville without animal control. ..People wouldn't have a chance at all." "These strays have to be picked up." Wrestling with the clutch on his truck, which he said has not been working properly, Steele continued, "We put about 100 miles on this truck on each shift. The only time I'm ever in the station is to pick up an animal or an Number nine in The library spent $106,247, just under 100 percent of its budget. The cemetary department also exceeded ex-ceeded its budget by 16 percent. Total cost was $66,540. More than $150,000 worth of capital improvements were made. The city also spent almost all of the revenue sharing funds it received this year, $118,000. Of $100,000 appropriated for swimming swim-ming pool construction, the city ended up spending only $75,00. An amount of $343,762 was spent on the utility department, just slightly more than appropriated. In the utilities area, $343,762 was spent on water utilities, $100,853 on sewer collection, $73,848 on the disposal plant, $1,508,668 on electric department distribution, and $63,869 on generation of electricity. The airport fund expenditures were 650" Waste disposal cost $182,313. swer a phone call. The rest of the time I'm out working." Money spent . Money spent last year for animal control was $1,355, not including salaries. Most of that money, said Steele, goes for dog food for eight to 10 dogs that are in the local shelter at a time. The city buys two to three tons of dog food a year to feed the dogs it impounds. "We're losing bad, real bad on dog food," said Steele. "We keep every animal we pick up for five days. A big dog can eat a three pound can of dog food a day. That's 15 pounds for one dog." Owners whose dogs are impounded are required to pay a $5 pickup fee for them and $1 a day for the number of days the dog has been held at the shelter, but 90 percent of the dogs are never picked up, he said. Continued on page 5 mrnh |