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Show AN EDITION OF T SPGVQiJi vfvr 'L! ,"- ty, ut e;i24-iso: YOUR TOWN, YOUR NEIGHBORS, YOUR NEWSPAPER THURSDAY, DECEMBER 30, 2004 50 CENTS VOL 118 NO. 52 r. Ill N. Council to sign contract with DG&T forp ower Martin Conover SPRINGVILLE HERALD The Springville City Council Coun-cil authorized the mayor to sign a long-term contract with Deseret Generation and Transmission (DG&T) for coal fired, wholesale power at last week's city council meeting. The 20-year contract is for 15 mega-watts of "base load" inturruptable power that will allow the city to continue doing business with DG&T when the current cur-rent contract for 15 megawatts mega-watts of power runs out this coming June 30. Cost to the city for the first year will be in the $42 per megawatt hour range delivered to the city. The contract provides for rate increases, depending on coal costs as well as plant operational costs, over the duration of the contract. Also, should the plant need to stop operation for maintenance main-tenance or other reasons, the city will have to run its engines to compensate for the temporary power shortage. short-age. According to the authorities, authori-ties, DG&T have one of the Lest -continuous running records in the region. The council was also told by the administrative staff and members of the power company staff that this contract con-tract will go a long way to help stabilize future power costs and help the power company diversify its power sources from natural gas fired sources. Both the city administrative administra-tive staff ana the electric company have been working work-ing on getting this contract for six months. The contract also provides for an increase to 16 megawatts mega-watts of power in July of 2006 and up to 22 megawatts mega-watts of power over the Dfe of the contract. The city has also purchased pur-chased four mega-watts of power from the San Juan coal fired power plant located locat-ed near Page, Arizona. In other business, Springville Economic Devel Mapleton council says 'OK' to new building, hires general contractor Martin Conover SPRINGVILLE HERALD The Mapleton City Coun- cil, meeting in special ses- Everyone is invited to participate in the 7th Annual Polar Bear Plunge on Saturday, Jan. 1, 2005 at high noon at the home of Gary Price, 1307 E. 1200 South, Springville. Young and old are invited to jump into the pond on the Price property. This photo shows some of those who dared to plunge last year. T-shirts will be available for those who survive the dip and those who donate. Krispy Kreme-donuts Kreme-donuts and hot chocolate will be served to all. opment Director John Gleave met with the council and presented results of the recent business survey conducted con-ducted by the Downtown Business Alliance. Strengths for the downtown down-town area were listed as the post office, the library, grocery gro-cery store and city offices. weaknesses were the limited lim-ited variety of businesses and available parking. Sixty-two percent of the respondents to the survey said that the downtown area should concentrate on more art center stores and activities. activi-ties. Some 524 of the surveys sur-veys were returned to the alliance of the 10,000 that were issued. Jeff Kroneberger of the Westfield Academy met with the council to ask for a reduction in the electrical in- Eact fees that have recently een raised by the city. He want the reduction based on the fact that when he asked for the fees the person in planning and zoning gave him the wrong figures. After a long discussion the council granted him a 12 price reduction on the new tees which is still higher than the o'd fees would nave been. The city also agreed to enter en-ter into an agreement with Hansen, Allen & Luce to study and recommend to the city now to proceed on creating cre-ating a storm waste utility. The federal government is insisting that the city have this in place in the future. The cost to the city is estimated esti-mated at $27,900 with citizen citi-zen input. The council also decided to continue a discussion concerning con-cerning a requirement for implementation of "at will" employees to reside within the city limits. Presently about one half the cities in the county have this as a requirement for employment according to the city administrative staff. The issue has come up because be-cause of the coming retirement retire-ment of Jo Evans, the present pre-sent Springville City Recorder. sion, hired L&T Construe- tion Company to act as the generai contractor tor the new cy administration V mm Little Casey Harris, daughter of Todd and Marci Harris, and Maicee Harward, daughter of Jake and Sara Harward.both ten months old, don't know what it means yet to celebrate the new year, but they had fun playing with the serpentine and hats. Construction of Utah L delivery system The US Department of the Interior has approved the construction of a Utah Lake water-delivery system that includes two new hy-dropower hy-dropower plants, five pipelines and major conservation conser-vation initiatives to serve Utah's fastest growing communities. com-munities. Tom Weimer, Interior's acting assistant secretary for Water and Science, has signed the Record of Decision, Deci-sion, selecting this version of the project. The Utah Lake Drainage Basin Water Delivery System, Sys-tem, as it is known, will deliver de-liver Central Utah Project water from Strawberry Reservoir to the Wasatch Front area, provide water to generate electricity in the building which should be completed this summer. weather permitting, L&T Construction is a ,v1 WWW.HARKTHEHERALD.COM r "i- If ?i 1 ":'':?'! Diamond Fork System, carry car-ry out water conservation measures, and provide minimum mini-mum stream flows in the Provo River and Hobble Creek. The system includes the 1. Sixth Water hydropower plant, 2. Upper Diamond Fork hydropower plant, 3. Spanish Fork Canyon pipeline, 4. Spanish Fork-Santaquin Fork-Santaquin pipeline, 5. San-taquin-Mona Reservoir Pipeline, 6. Mapleton-pringville Mapleton-pringville Lateral pipeline, and 7. Spanish Fork-Provo Reservoir Canal pipeline. When completed, the system sys-tem will deliver an annual average of 101,900 acre-feet of Central Utah Project water. wa-ter. Of the amount, 30,000 acre-feet will be delivered to Mapleton company and bid $75,000 to do the project. High bid on the project was from Pentalon for $196,400. Next lowest bid was listed at $82,504 from Michael Parry. Total cost of the project is listed at $1.7 million with $800,000 coming from a loan from Zion's Bank, $500,000 from funds already saved by the city for the project, and the rest to come from grants and donations from the government and local lo-cal citizens. The building will be built on ground owned by the city behind the present city police po-lice station. The council was firm during dur-ing the discussion before the vote of approval that should cost over runs start to show up on the building, which would make the project more expensive than the city has money for, the project pro-ject will be scaled back to conform with funds available. avail-able. The council also stated that this responsibility will lay in the hands of the general gen-eral contractor. CALL 375-5103 TO SUBSCRIBE v; $ I f c; If t r nowmpnnv Salt Lake County water treatment plants, 31,590 acre-feet to southern Utah County secondary water systems, and 40,310 acre-feet acre-feet to Utah Lake as an exchange ex-change for water stored in Jordanelle Reservoir. Interior will also acquire 57,000 acre-feet of the Central Cen-tral Utah Water Conservan- S District's water rights in ah Lake as additional Jordanelle Jor-danelle exchange water. The Record of Decision also directs Interior's local representatives to work with the Central Utah Water conservancy District and Utah Reclamation Mitigation Mitiga-tion ad Conservation Commission Com-mission to construct and operate op-erate the system. The joint lead agencies for the project are Interior, the District and the Commission. Auditions Tuesday for Springville Playhouse "Take a Number Darling" auditions are being held Tuesday, Jan. 4, from 7 to 9 p.m. at the Springville Playhouse, 50 S. Main, Springville (lower floor of the the Springville Library). Parts are available for three males between the ages of 3848. They are also looking for a good pianist to take the lead role. Actors should be prepared to read from the script. For more information please call Ben Wake at 422-9766 422-9766 or e-mail him at benwakebyu.edu Usher in the newyear with sculpture and song Citizens are invited to the January Community and Family Night on Monday, Jan 3, from 6-8 p.m. at the Springville Museum of Art. This free event will include a presentation by a guest artist sculptor Bryon Draper, entertainment en-tertainment "by Alex Oldroyd and members of the Art Museum Mu-seum Royalty and a fun children's chil-dren's art project. LbL-JUUo &ke water The 1992 Central Utah Project completion Act authorizes au-thorizes congressional appropriations ap-propriations (federal funds) for construction of the Utah Lake system with additional cost-sharing by the district. The system approved by the Record of Decision is based on Interior's Proposed Action Alternative, described de-scribed in the Utah Lake System Final Environmental Impact Statement. It is known as the Spanish Fork Canyon-Provo Reservoir Reser-voir Canal Alternative. The Proposed Action alternative is also Interior's Environmentally Environ-mentally Preferable Alternative. Alterna-tive. For more information contact con-tact Reed Murray, US Department De-partment of the Interior, 302 E. 1860 South, Provo or call 379-1237. Draper, will talk about his art work and career as an artist. Oldroyd will perform on piano, playing pieces ranging from Classical to Ragtime, and the Art Royal-See Royal-See COMMUNITY & FAMILY NIGHT on Page 12 055 0005QIII,8 XXXI i |