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Show Thursday, May 10, 2007 SPRINGVILLE HERALD Mapleton council swears in judge, considers tentative budget LANDMARK ...VlTt, Business iof the Monti, Chamber honors Landmark Real Estate Congratulations to the Springville Area Chamber of Commerce Business of the Month for May 2007 - Landmark Real Estate. Landmark Real Estate is a big time business with home town values. The company was founded by David Simpson Simp-son 11 years ago and has been growing in success ever since. David has been joined by his brother, Brent Simpson, who is now the Broker for Landmark, and his son, Nathan, who founded Landmark Land-mark Excavating. . Landmark Real Estate offers many agents who are considered the cream of the crop in integrity and customer service and are standing by to help you with any needs you have. Call them today, to-day, at 489-3211, or stop by their office at 407 N. Main Street in Springville. Landmark Real Estate is there to help you find your way home! Local graffiti Continued from page 1 the hips - all gang styles a few years ago," said Ber-nal. Ber-nal. According to him a lot of Pacific Island gangs have moved into the state. He said to be aware of any suspicious activity you see. "Take notice of what people are doing and what they are wearing. Take down license plate numbers num-bers and try and remember remem-ber descriptions." Graffiti effects everyone in the community. It costs money for the city to clean up graffiti and vandalism and businesses do not like it and sometimes move 'out. Investors and develop ers do not want to come to a community that has lots of vandalism and tagging. "I am no longer feeling easy in my own neighborhood," neighbor-hood," said Bernal. "Graffiti "Graffi-ti effects the peace of mind of citizens and they may feel in danger. We have to be more conscientious and lock up and avoid bad areas. ar-eas. It giving us a loss of freedom." Springville Mayor Gene Mangum agreed to having hav-ing Bernal hold meetings to inform citizens of this problem. The city's stance is not to give the vandals "wall time" because it is an unwanted advertisement for their gang. And graf fiti crimes are prosecuted aggressively in the city. Bernal said that if you see someone tagging, don't make contact with them, just call the police. If you see tagging after it has occurred, you should call him at Code Enforcement. If you know that someone is a tagger, tell a family member, a teacher or the police. "These people want to cause fear in the community," communi-ty," said Bernal. "They are not always gang members, but we cannot tolerate this behavior. Rapid clean up is the best way to deter future fu-ture graffiti and keep our city looking its best." Debra Wells SPRINGVILLE HERALD The May 1 meeting of the Mapleton City Council opened with the "off the agenda" item of swearing swear-ing in Judge Sherlynn Fenstermaker, who will serve in both the Mapleton Maple-ton and Springville justice courts. Council members then heard a, presentation of a tentative city budget by the Finance Controller, Jeannie Bell, and voted to have the budget on the agenda for discussion in two weeks, at the May 15 meeting. The council also discussed dis-cussed a draft of the Capital Capi-tal Facilities Improvement Program for 2007-2016. This plan lists projects considered desirable and Tanks them. After noting that the city does not have the budget even to do all the priority 1 projects, the council decided to approve the draft with proposed amendments calling for an estimated time period for the completion of each project. I Approval was given to the Mapleton Police Department De-partment to purchase two additional vehicles for a total to-tal cost of $35,298 for both cars, with all police equipment equip-ment installed. A resolution authorizing authoriz-ing Water Revenue Bonds for a new water tank and water lines connecting existing ex-isting tanks on 400 North was considered and approved. ap-proved. This resolution is an update of the one passed in December, with a higher value amount, this time setting the amount at no more then $6.5 millioa The council voted unanimously unani-mously to repeal Resolu tion 98-73, which had limited lim-ited the amount of times during the year that requests re-quests for re-zoning could be considered by the planning plan-ning office. The resolution had been adopted in 1988, at a time when staff resources re-sources were limited. Now, requests for re-zoning can be submitted at any time After a discussion and public hearing on proposed amendments to the wild animals and reptiles sections sec-tions of city ordinances, the council voted to forego amending the ordinances and instead impose a six-month six-month moratorium on the issuance of conditional use permits while changes in the definitions of wild and exotic animals are reviewed. re-viewed. Deputy City Planning Director Di-rector Cory Branch stated that "our household pet ordinance isn't up,to date either," leading the council to decide they needed time to adequately overhaul the ordinances in question. The moratorium will not take effect until June 1. Prior to that time, citizens citi-zens needing to apply for a conditional use permit in regards to their animals should contact the Mapleton Maple-ton Planning Community Development Department at 806-9101. The council decided to continue Mark Whiting's requests to amend the Mapleton Ma-pleton City General Plan Map to allow the land use designation on approximately approxi-mately 25 acres of property proper-ty located at 1600 West and 1600 South to be changed to allow for medium density den-sity and his request for re-zoning re-zoning that same property from A-2 (Agrecultural Residential) to RA-2 (residential-Minor Agricultural). Agricultur-al). Whiting was satisfied with the continuance after being assured that the General Gen-eral Plan is in the process of being amended and that the issue will probably be resolved by the end of the summer. . . The consideration of a memorandum of understanding under-standing between Mapleton Maple-ton City and Wendell Gib-by Gib-by was stricken from the agenda and may or may not be addressed at a later meeting. Deadline forfiiingfor positions in Mapleton The date of next fall's municipal mu-nicipal elections for Mapleton Maple-ton City Council seats has been changed by state statute stat-ute from October to September. Sep-tember. The Primary election elec-tion will be held September 11. This moves the time frame for accepting Declarations for Candidacy to the period between July 1 and July 15. The positions open for this election are two, four-year term city council seats; one. two-year term council seat and the position of mayor, which will be a two-year term. For more information or to file applications, contact the city recorder, Camille Brown, at 489-5655, etc. 106. 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