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Show City Council Continued from page 1' lion dollars. Gunnell said that a roundabout must have a diameter of at least 165 feet and more right of way would be needed. If the city were to request a change now, the environmental report would have to be modified. Those reports had to be accepted by October 1995 in order to be approved. Changing Chang-ing to a roundabout now would delay the project from nine months to a year he said. He felt that if the funding is not used by -the city now, the monies will go to other waiting projects. "To get federal funding, federal rules must be followed," he said. Gunnell also said that the city looked at several designs including includ-ing one almost identical to the group's first proposal. He felt sure the design committee would not accept this proposal because of the angles of the road. "Roads need to be as near as possible to 90 degree angles to be acceptable," accept-able," he said. Gunnell pointed out that his traffic counts for this area's eastwest versus northsouth traffic were very different than those quoted in the meeting by Zeidner. Gunnell said that his counts reflected nearly 5,000 vehicles traveling eastwest. Several citizens spoke about speeding on 900 South. The mayor said that the police department depart-ment has doubled its efforts on traffic control along 900 South. She also said that Nebo School District has known about this project for over four years, and that the council has had many meetings where this project has been discussed and the agendas agen-das for those meetings have been properly posted. And meetings have been held with individual property owners along the route to acquire property from them. "We don't know how to make people read the newspaper or the notices or to make them find out what is being discussed in open council meetings," Bertlesen said. City Attorney Harold Mitchell said that there was a public notice five years ago on this matter and letters have been sent to owners of property along the route. Streets Department Head Gary Ekker stated that he sat in a MAG and UDOT committee meeting just a month ago as they discussed a new - policy. That policy was that if a project funded fund-ed under these entities does not go to bid in the year in which the funding was granted, the funds will be turned back to other projects. It was also brought out that the road cannot be started at one end and then changed at the other when using federal funds. Also, there would be problems with changing the design because utilities have already been buried along the new road route to correspond to the current project plan. The mayor said that city is forming a safety committee specifically spe-cifically to address safety issues for children as well as other safety issues. Each councilman spoke and expressed their feelings about the city losing the funding for the road project. Councilman Gordon Smith said, "A great deal of money has already been expended on this project. If the city were to lose the funding, the city that is, its citizens-would have to pay back the monies spent. This would create a tremendous burden." bur-den." He felt safety concerns for children- outweigh change of route issues. Councilman Ralph Hitchcock made a motion that the Nebo School District Safety Committee do a study and evaluate the curb, gutter and sidewalk needs and establish needed routes to transport trans-port children safely to Sage Creek School and that the support of the PTA be accepted to try to establish a special improvement district to construct needed utilities. utili-ties. The council favored this motion. Roger Peay appeared before the council seeking tentative final approval of Stonebury Estates PUD at about 2600 E. 850 South. The council voted to give this approval if the 29 stipulations given earlier be followed; with the nine amendments given later to be followed by the developer; the pipe line to be placed be of 24-inch ductile iron with the difference in material price between be-tween concrete and ductile iron paid by the city. No permits will be issued until the pipe is in. It was reported that a group of people are suing the city about this issue. They feel the council is erring in the PUD approval. The council adjourned to a closed session to discuss a letter received re-ceived from the attorney for the group suing. In other action, the council moved to authorize the mayor's signature on an agreement to lease the wastewater pretreatment facility to Nestle. The city has been having problems at the pretreatment facility with Nestle and their discharge limits. This lease will solve that problem. Attorney Mitchell explained that the problem prob-lem really began in 1985. When Stouffers first came to Springville, the city constructed the facility on city property by the wastewater treatment plant. The city and Stouffers split the first $500,000 of costs for the plant, and Stouffers paid all costs over that. The facility has been operated at Stouffer's expense since that time. The problem has been that Stouffers (now Nestle) almost continually exceeds the discharge permit limits, and the state is dissatisfied with the city's enforcement en-forcement when limits are exceeded. ex-ceeded. "Leasing the facility to Nestle will solve the problems. Nestle will operate and maintain the Museum needs volunteers The Hafen-Dallin Guild of the Springville Museum of Art is hosting the exhibit, "When Art Was Popular: European Masters of the 19th Century." This exhibit will be a fundraiser fund-raiser for the Centennial Wing Project, similar to the popular Norman Rockwell exhibit from last year. The exhibit will run from November 19 to December Decem-ber 19 and will require a volunteer vol-unteer at the West Gallery entrance during all of the museum's mus-eum's open hours. If you would like to volunteer, volun-teer, please contact the Springville Spring-ville Museum of Art at 489-2727 489-2727 for more information. Nancy Cowley, President of the Hafen-D; lin Guild is coordinating tl effort. Museum h irs are Tuesday-Saturday, 0-5; Wednesday Wednes-day 10 a.m. to y p.m.; Sunday 3 to 6 p.m. Closed Mondays and holidays. November 13, 1996 - The Springville Herald - Page Three Citizens group had the facts facility and will have to meet state requirements themselves without the city having to enforce the limits," said Mitchell. The city will rent the facility for a nominal fee of $1 per year. The lease will run for ten years, with two, five-year renewal options. There will be surcharges if Nestle does not operate as the discharge permit allows. "The surcharges are all specified, speci-fied, and if Nestle exceeds the limits as they have done in the past, they will be paying the city about $90,000 a year," said Mitchell. He felt the surcharge gives them an incentive to operate oper-ate within the set limits. Mitchell said that the state was very happy with this arrangement. Daryl Berlin, executive director direc-tor of the Utah Risk Management Mutual Association, came before the council to give money back to the city. He explained that there were excess funds which his governing board chose to distribute distrib-ute back to the various cities in the organization. He presented the city a check for $82,984.17. Mayor Bertelsen suggested that the money would be well used if it were spent on safety improvements improve-ments for the city. Dec. 21-24 S.F. 49ers vs Detroit Lions Includes: 3 Nigktg at Holiday I nn Transfers tofrom Airport Transfers tofrom Game Airfare Game Ticket (Dec. 23) $499 oo Call: Executive Travel Services or A Travel Towne 221-1551 489-3444 Prices are per person based on double occupancy. Prices are subject to change without notice. Seats are limited. Dear Editor: Last Tuesday, Election Day, I was part of a group of citizens who went beyond merely voting as a demonstration of their desire to participate in the democratic process. A large number of citizens citi-zens attended the Springville City Council meeting eager to make use of the system of elected representatives listening to citizen input in order to make informed decisions. Several specific issues drew people to the Tuesday night meeting. I took an attendance roster of those who, like me, were there to discuss the proposed pro-posed road design at 800900 South. Ninety-five individuals signed the roster; 95 people who had been rallied into action by learning as much as they could about the project and then examining exam-ining it critically. Members of the neighborhoods neighbor-hoods surrounding the new road had met twice prior to Tuesday night. They had examined the actual written specifications for the new road; they had consulted with civil engineers who design city and state roads to propose alternative designs; and they had elected a committee to represent them. As a member of that committee, com-mittee, I am aware that a lot of careful thought and effort went into the preparations for the presentation made to the city council. I will leave it to those more qualified to describe the proposed design changes. My purpose in writing is to protest the characterization character-ization in last week's editorial that this group "needs to get their facts." One of our main complaints com-plaints is that this project has reached the bidding stage without public hearings, public notice or even an article in the newspaper to describe it in detail. We have sought information from the mayor, members of the council, the funding groups involved (UDOT and MAG), the written specs and the city attorney. We amassed all the information available avail-able to us from these sources. This is the information that left us with concerns, specifically about the intersection at 800 East and 900 South. I was very proud of the committee com-mittee members who made presentations pre-sentations during the meeting. They were well prepared, well versed and well mannered. Comments Com-ments from the floor were also articulate expressions of concerns shared by many of us. We have made formal our request that the city council review the design in light of our concerns and suggestions. sugges-tions. It is now up to them to give our concerns an adequate consideration. We hope they live up to the trust placed in them as our elected representatives. Sincerely, Debra Wells Springville '' MMAM W M.Ik UbMHI H I y . ' - j i HONESTY. It's all relative, isn't it? HO WORK. So why punish yourself? i III ESS. Why should I bother? SELF-RELUHCE. Why does it have to be me? Eldon Money says "Thank You Springville and Mapleton for your support the past 22 years." si y i ' (St: t .1 ',v I M r These values may seem to be dim and dying. But you can breathe life into such concepts. Talk about them with your family this Thanksgiving. Your child will be bringing home a discussion guide from school. Be a keeper of the flame. overnors Centennial Commission on Values J X II |