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Show 8 SPRING-VILLE HERALD Thursday, February 7, 2008 State of Continued from page 1 Since more than once I've seen your city leadership lead-ership 'successfully face up to that challenge, I say again: I'm proud to serve alongside them, . Springville is also made strong because of our many partners outside government. Our local chamber of commerce, our local churchescivic clubs, many great Business firms and all combine to enhance the health and vibrancy of our community. Other behef actors who prefer to remain anonymous have contributed so generously to the benefit of our city. We have over two hundred hun-dred dedicated city employees em-ployees who do their best every day to provide topT, quality services to the people peo-ple of Springville. Many of their achievements will be referenced later in this report. - I also recognize the great contribution of an active group of volunteer citizens and pay special tribute to our firemen and ambulance ambu-lance technicians who give feely of their energy and creativity to make our city all that it is. Springville is chuck full of mighty good folks. So what is the state of our city today? Where have we been? Where are we at? Where are we going? go-ing? What are our needs for getting there? THE PAST i With 15 to 20 new subdivisions subdi-visions going up last summer sum-mer it was obvious that ourity was growing at a record pace. Over 400 permits were issued for building with a total valu CZZZIZ3 Springville's Only Traditional Lirug Store & Soda Fountain 48-6041 214 S. Main St. Springville 4 !,. 'f - f t ft, I f I . t' , , 1 " I "' 1 1 t ' ; Now enrolling for night nail classes. ; All haircuts $5.00 each every Thursday. fREE SENIOR DAYS TUESDAYS & WEDNESDAYS! (Seniors get service FREE for cost of products used.!) the City ation of nearly 78 million dollars. Record use was established at every public pub-lic facility from the golf course to the public utility desk. Our city library saw unprecedented growth. Over 10,000 children and adults attended key programs. pro-grams. Story time hours alone increased attendance by nearly 1500 individuals. Thank goodness for those 91 library volunteers who contributed 656 hours of their time. A good many of the tasks undertaken in 2007 could easily have gone un-noticed by the average citizen. Did you know that , during the year city staff planted over one thousand new trees along city streets and parks? Are you aware that citizens gained acres . of new green space and miles of new trails while elaborate concept plans were being created for parks yet to be developed? Hopefully you noticed that existing parks were kept more green, clean and attractive. at-tractive. Additional property was purchased to expand our canyon parks. Several new pavilions were installed and more are scheduled. A new playground was also created at the Civic Center and quickly became a popular pop-ular high use area. New playground equipment was installed at Jolley's Ranch, and this winter an entire new winter recreation recre-ation opportunity started there. My visits there have brought many a "thank you" from the crowd in attendance. at-tendance. The credit goes to a great recreation staff Long line greets voters Christi C. Babbitt SPRINGVILLE HERALD Springville residents were waiting as long as two hours to vote late Tuesday afternoon, with some wondering why the process wasn't planned better. Eight Springville precincts pre-cincts were assigned to vote at Springville High School during Tuesday's primary election, but with only one set of election judges, five voting machines ma-chines and a strong voter turnout, the line stretched down the hall from the main office to the school's music rooms. "This is ridiculous, This is not good for people," said Aileen Clyde, who had been waiting with her husband for an hour and a half and still hadn't quite reached the election judges' table. She expressed concern for people who couldn't stand for long periods of time as well as those who might be discouraged from voting in the future. "We need to know who made these de- ' cisions and contact them," Clyde said. "This discourages behavior be-havior that they're trying to encourage," said Josh Kruse as he too neared the judges' table after waiting an hour and 40 minutes. Kruse has voted at Springville Spring-ville High before, but said he's never waited longer than 20 minutes. He with- For years our recreation staff worked out of an office at the high school. When the school needed the space we remodeled the Art Shop and it is now the community services office, of-fice, housing management for buildings, grounds, recreation, rec-reation, parks, cemeteries and facility management. A portable office was also moved next to the Civic Center to allow more office of-fice space for those working work-ing there. New gates and decorative decora-tive fencing were installed at the City Cemetery, while the Senior Citizens center received a new climate cli-mate control system and an exercise room. Ambulance crews responded re-sponded to 931 calls in 2007. Two ambulances were out at the same time on 58 occurrences and there were 11 times that three ambulances were out at the same time. With only two emergency emergen-cy technicians on duty we find ourselves facing the ' dilemma of how to fully iillllli 1 t J FAMILY mm Itwifc '-'ililil; Family Audiology & Hearing Services Invites you to HEAR the DIFFERENCE! ' Our Professional Audiologists are Board Certified and Recognized by the American Speech Language and Hearing Association to provide YOU with the BEST possible Hearing available. OUR SERVICES INCLUDE: Hearing Evaluation for ALL ages Dizziness and Balance Evaluations (ENG) ' ABR and OAE Evaluations Tympanometry and Acoustic Reflex Evaluations Tinnitus Evaluations and Counseling . Sales & Proper Fitting of Hearing Aids in ALL technologies from reputable manufacturers including the NEW Open Fit DIGITALS Hearing Aid Counseling v Hearing Aid Programming and Adjustments Provo Location ( ollonlret Square Suite 9B X 0 Residents voting at Springville High School on Tuesday afternoon faced a long wait in line. Eight precincts were scheduled to vote at the school, but only three election judges and five voting machines were on hand to assist voters. stood the wait this time "because the troops that are fighting deserve it." Myrna Jeffers said another an-other woman in line near her had waited for an hour before she had to leave to pick up her daughter from a piano lesson. Jeffers saw a few of her neighbors neigh-bors leave before voting as well. "I bet they lose 10 percent of the vote just because be-cause they can't stand this long," Jeffers said. Some saw the long line provide emergency services. ser-vices. Our waste disposal plant, probably the oldest in the county, nearly reached its maximum processing capability capa-bility and plans were made to upgrade and expand this critical facility . City crews monitoring electrical and . water requirements got us .through a high demand yer without a hiccup. t Our golf course received national acclaim with a 4 '4 star rating and yet maintains a very modes! mod-es! fee schedule. There is not a better model for an art museum anywhere in the country than what we have right here and it is free of charge! The good folks in our public works department processed over 1700 citizen citi-zen service requests, last year. That's nearly seven calls a day for services that were not booked into their expected work load. Hopefully you understand why some of your requests could not be answered immediately. im-mediately. AUDI0L0GY a HEARING SERVICES Payson Location 39 Professional Way, Suite I 8OM65-4S05 CM - 1 mill as an encouraging sign. "I think it's wonderful that this many people will wait in this line to vote," said Charlene Knight. "Nobody likes waiting in line, but if you believe in the system you've got to put up with stuff like this, and I want to vote." Colleen Hatfield said she had spent her time in line talking with her husband, son and people around her, so the time spent waiting wasn't too bad. She stayed , Public works staff spent countless hours and thousands thou-sands of dollars to comply with Utah State requirements require-ments to control storm water flow. The four million mil-lion dollar pipe line down 400 South was one of the largest culinary water projects ever initiated by Springville City. That major ma-jor job was accompanied with a number of other ef - , pensive and extensive piping pip-ing projects for both water and sewer. A half million dollars was spent to install in-stall additional piping and valves to correct pressure deficiencies in various city locations and 1 V2 million was spent to install pumps large enough to return sewer waste from the far west fields back up hill to the existing treatment plant. Some expensive road work was done and some very expensive work obviously obvi-ously remains. Our intent was to let the effect of that big dig on 400 South settle before the street was resurfaced. Now resurfac J7ts all paid j-o .. S:::K,iSjw;.; -" . ; .... : f I ' I ' ' : Maul Call oi wHte to us today to . leam more. i .--, 1HOMESTEADERS lift COMPANY Wheeler Mortuary 5 489-6021 State Tuesday i is 1 . i because voting is very important im-portant to her, particularly in Tuesday's primary. "This year I feel like my vote just might be the one that tips it," she said. Two other polling locations lo-cations were open for Springville's 10 other voting vot-ing precincts on Tuesday: Cherry Creek Elementary School and Westside Elementary Ele-mentary School, each with five precincts. Utah County oversaw the election. ing is questionable due to a cost estimate exceeding one million dollars. One nice thing in 2007 was that our city had no significant claims filed against us. Credit goes to each of the city departments depart-ments for doing an excellent excel-lent job in minimizing the " City's liability exposure by working in a productive, safe and responsible manner. man-ner. A long-term dispute over property lines had drug on for a number of years between the U.S. Forest Service and Kelly's Grove residents. Numerous legal transactions were finalized by the city to the benefit of those residents. Anti graffiti efforts have reduced gang graffiti graf-fiti more than 60 while reductions in crime of all sorts steadily decreased. A police tip line (491-5598) was made operational and residents are encouraged to help our police department depart-ment stop crime. To be continued in next week's issue. Although the average funeral fu-neral and burial cost much less today than many people expect. ..surely a funeral will cost more in the future. With Homesteaders funeral funer-al planning, if you pay the full amount today, your funeral is fully funded and won't be a financial burden on your family. Affordable monthly payments pay-ments are also available to fit almost everyone's budget. You can choose the payment plan that best suits your budget. And if you should relocate, you do not have to cancel . Your Homesteaders plan goes with you. Please provide me information about Homesteaders funeral planning. I understand mere """""s"''""- Name Zip 2230 N. I nivrnily Parkway 8(11-375-3175 DL Phone Number |
