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Show lit Or More LOCAL news than any other source! For subscription or delivery problems call 375-5103 or 756-7669 See our web site at www.newutah.com 11- ' r-,T WU '-"- W . Vol. 23, No. 40 Wednesday, October 3, 2001 50 cents a single copy Review I r- - i Si (lll'i 111 1 J , , mm J- J - I i i i i '; at PG city officials not happy with sewer fee increase "We're not being given a choice." Mayor Ed Sanderson By Julie A. Bellon Pleasant Grove City may soon have to raise its impact fees to accommodate the new $z,4UU proposed fees for the Timpanogos Special Service District treatment plant. This large increase is needed for expansion of the treatment plant and the district plans to pass this fee on to those cities north of Lindon who are part of the Timpanogos Special Service Distnct. A pub- lie hearing is set for Oct. 11 at 6 p.m. at the treatment plant to hear comments. The finance committee of the Timpanogos Special Service District recently discovered that seven years ago it was recommended that the district collect between $1,800 and $2,000 in Capital Facilities fees to cover expansion of the treatment plant. The board at the time decided to set the fee at only $1,000, well below the recommended amount. Over the last two years, the district has had to subsidize sub-sidize expansion because the $1,000 fee was not covering cov-ering the needs at the . plant. Frank Mills, a member mem-ber of the current finance committee, recommended that a new study be done to review what it would take to pay off the expansion bonds. When the study was done, it was found that the fee should be raised to about $2400 to cover the expansion of the plant and meet the community demand. With such a large increase looming, however, there is expected to be some public outcry ana wnoever is collecting the new fee will likely be the ones answering answer-ing the public demand for answers. That is one or tne reasons there has been a lot of concern over how the fees are going to be collected. The district's recent motion, which will be presented at the public hearing, states that it is a capital facilities fee, meaning mean-ing the cities should adopt the fee into its impact fees, collect the money and then give it to the district. Pleasant Grove city officials offi-cials disagreed and said that the district should collect col-lect the money and take some of the heat for the large increase. That way, home builders would then pay the fee at the district, present the receipt and get their building permit. This issue was hotly debated at the last district meeting and Pleasant Grove Mayor Ed Sanderson was disappointed in the See SEWER on Page 12 111 If Primary Voting Photo by Karli Poyfair Karen Arnesen explains how to vote to her sons Spencer, left and Hyrum. Residents had the opportunity yesterday to vote in the primary election. Please see our Web site at www.newutah.com for results of the Pleasant Grove vote. PG city council to meet tonight The Pleasant Grove city council will meet tonight due to the primary elections which were held yesterday. Normally the city council meets on Tuesday. Agenda items include a request from Robert Schow to establish an Agricultural Protection Area on land located at 3300 N. 900 West. There will also be a public hearing to consider the request of Timp Ridge Development to change the zoning of land at approximately 1300 North to 1400 North Murdock Drive from the Rl-20 zone to the Rl-10 zone. The city council will also present a safety safe-ty award to the Water Department employees employ-ees and consider Community Development Block Grant Projects. The meeting will begin at 7 p.m. in the community development conference room, 86 E. 100 South. The public is invited to attend. Lindon holds disaster preparedness training meeting By Harlow Clark Lindon and Pleasant Grove need people trained in emergency preparedness. pre-paredness. That was the repeated message Thursday Sept. 27 at the 3-Step Disaster Preparedness training meeting at Lindon City Hall. There will be another meeting Tuesday, Oct. 23 at 7 p.m., with Maralin Hoff of the state's Department of Public Safety Division of Comprehensive Emergency Management giving an earthquake demonstration with a shaking model house. The location of the meeting hasn't has-n't been determined yet, as organizers organiz-ers aren't quite sure how many people peo-ple to count on. Ross Wright, Lindon's liaison with Pleasant Grove's C.E.R.T. program, pro-gram, started the meeting by talk ing briefly about the groups involved, and going through a slide show Glenn Mott prepared on A.L.E.R.T., the Amateur Liaison Emergency Radio Team. Another part of the 3-step program pro-gram is the Neighborhood Watch program. Doug Eastman of the Pleasant Grove police gave a brief introduction to the program, saying he has a two or three hour presentation presen-tation he makes in neighborhoods, and that each officer is assigned an area to present to, usually the area they live in. He talked about how important it is for people to be aware of what's happening in their neighborhood. He said the police welcome calls even about small things, and would rather have residents call than not. As an example he said, "Today we had a call about a tarantula. Someone had caught a tarantula." Dave Richards of Pleasant Grove-Lindon EMS spoke next, giving giv-ing an overview of how emergency response is organized in teams of five. Every emergency will have an incident commander to oversee fire operations and EMS operations, he said, but, "In an emergency any person per-son can only direct five people," so fire operations are further broken down into Attack, Rescue and Vent, and EMS operations are broken down into Triage, Treatment and Transport. Each of those areas can be broken down further if more than five people are involved. Richards outlined neighborhood response with a slide show titled "Lindon City Neighborhood Disaster Response Strategy," noting that emergency preparedness has to begin in the neighborhoods because in a disaster it might take him five days to get to Lindon's east bench, depending on the condition of roads and the extent of the disaster. disas-ter. He used the 1988 Murdock Canal break as an example of how quickly a disaster can happen. However, he said that incident was fairly minor compared to what could happen in Lindon and Pleasant Grove. Richards said he had learned that in an earthquake Pleasant Grove and Lindon would get the biggest damage because of the six, eight, and 10-foot aqueducts running through Lindon. Richards urged people to take See DISASTER on Page 12 City considering speed monitor The Public Safety Department is considering consider-ing purchasing a new ; speed monitor trailer that also has a traffic counter. The estimated cost is $12,000 and could possibly come from traffic traf-fic safety money that is collected. Apple Grove PUD changes plans The Apple Grove PUD has changed its plans from duplexes to single ' family detached homes. The originally approved plan was for 172 units' and the developer is now proposing to only build 145. With fewer units there would be less strain on traffic and sewer and water. However, the mayor ' pointed out that cul-de-sacs have been added where open space previously previ-ously was and that the playground area has been eliminated. He recommended rec-ommended that the new plan be presented to the planning commission'. Zoning officers deputized . Six police officers were deputized as Zoning Enforcement Officers this past week. By deputizing depu-tizing the officers, they will be fulfilling a dual role by having authority to eliminate those problem prob-lem homes and businesses business-es that are zoning as well as police problems. This is an effort by the police department and the zoning board, working work-ing together to solve these problems quickly and efficiently while taking tak-ing care of budget concerns. con-cerns. BFI to pick up PI. Grove garbage on Wednesdays Beginning today, BFI ' will pick up the garbage in all of Pleasant Grove ' on the same day. From now on every resident of Pleasant Grove must put their garbage cans out on Wednesdays regardless .. of what day garbage pick ' up was in the past. BFI said it will be more efficient for them to do an entire city one day a week and that is the; -reason for the change. ; T Garbage cans should be" at the curb by 7 a.m. Pennies from Heaven h' 1 L v' n V mm 1 V 1 a y v Photo by Linda Butler fvnette Lyman, front right, instructs "Pennies by the Inch" volunteers volun-teers Faye Jaynes, front left, Tammy Merryweather, Camille Merrill, Brenda Rose, and Laurie Tueller. Local volunteers to collect donations for children's medical center By Linda Butler There are hundreds of angels among us who are working for the children in the Intermountain Region. Now through Oct. 15, these angels will be visiting each home in the Pleasant Grove and Lindon areas, collecting donations for the Primary Children's Medical Center's annual "Pennies by the Inch" campaign. "Pennies by the Inch" continues contin-ues a 79-year tradition of collecting collect-ing contributions to provide medical med-ical care for needy children at Primary Children's Medical Center. Last year, over 17,000 medical visits were covered by community contributions and hospital charity. "Pennies by the Inch" raised $1.2 million for these children's medical needs. Every cent collected in "Pennies by the Inch" goes to help with needy children's medical med-ical costs. No administrative costs are taken from these funds. Faye Jaynes, also of Pleasant Grove has been a volunteer with "Pennies by the Inch" for 25 years. She is now one of three area chairmen over the Pleasant GroveLindon communities. "I wanted to do something for the community," said Faye, who has no intention of stopping this volunteer work. Lynette Lyman has been a volunteer vol-unteer for "Pennies by the Inch" for 19 years, and now serves as the Region Chairman. Lynette's ties to Primary Children's Medical Center reach back for those 19 years. Her son, Kevin, was born with Spina Bifida and has visited and been treated at Primary Children's for his entire life. Now at 19 years of age, Kevin is preparing to serve an LDS Church mission. Grateful for having such excellent care so close has been a great blessing for Lynette and Kevin. "It's nice to know they're there," said Lynette. Many other children in the community have been helped by Primary Children's Medical Center. Many of the volunteers have children and grandchildren who have benefitted from Primary Children's. "My little grandson was helped with his speech up there," said Faye. Volunteers Laurie Tueller and Camille Merrill also have children who have received treatment at Primary Children's. Both mothers are grateful for not just the medical expertise at the hospital, but the kindness and concern for the children and their families. Children from Utah, Idaho, Wyoming, Nevada, and Montana receive care at Primary Children's Medical Center. Eleven-year old Anna, of See PENNIES on Page 12 |