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Show Heber chooses sewer grant By SONNI SCHWINN Wasatch County Correspondent HEBER CITY The Heber City Council was given a choice last week between canceling either its order for a new fire engine or its plans to improve the sewage collection system and extend water and sewage service south of the city to an area being considered for annexation. The city had applied for a $220,000 grant for the utilities. Wasatch County Commissioner Larry Duke, a member of the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) screening committee of the Mountainlands Association of Governments reported those were the two options the committee recommended. They will be presented at the Mountainlands executive council meeting this week and are expected to be approved. He explained, "If you do decide you want to, go ahead and purchase the fire truck. Heber City isn't going to qualify for any CDBG grant this year, as far as water and sewer extensions go. If the city decides they want to forego that grant and apply that money toward water and sewer, there's a $47,000 buffer which could be added to the $68,800 you got last year (for a fire engine) making a grand total of approximately $166,000 which could be - awarded." Mayor Gordon Mendenhall objected to the decision, saying that the CDBG money awarded in 1987 had nothing to do with Wasatch should get funding Another motion, proposed by Councilman Rasband, "To give the mayor support to go down there and read the riot act to Mountainlands about making it contingent on our fire engine money, whether or not we get the sewer funds," passed unanimously. 189 West 300 South, Provo All Wedding Professional Career" equipment building, according to Commissioner Larry Duke, a member of the Mountainlands Association of Governments screening committee. He reported that the com- vi n properly equipped. Even though we're renting a piece of equipment, we've got a La France (engine) that'll fall to pieces just like the Van Pelt did." Heber City tried to form a Heber Valley Fire District,-excludinWallsburg, several months before the county formed its district, but couldn't get the required support from the county commission and the other city councils. Councilman Bob Morris said, "It would be my hope that we could unite behind the fire district and give them a chance to function. If, and when the time comes that they don't and can't, and they fall flat, then we'll have to take appropriate steps, as necessary. But I think they ought to have a chance." ill's Jut and we will edit to produce a smooth, interesting flow. We will then process it and reproduce it in typeset form or on typewritten pages with photographs for publication. We will accept your history in almost any form, or rewrite until then, this means SAVINGS for you!!! 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The council voted unanimously to cancel the fire engine purchase for now, until they see what happens in the fire district, but not to return the $68,800. On February 29th We're Leaping to a Hothing. THE HERALD, Provo, Utah, By SONNI SCHWINN Wasatch Correspondent HEBER CITY The Wasatch County Commission last week accepted the apparent low bid of 6.5 percent interest on approximately $100,000 in tax anticipation notes. The bid was submitted by Zions First National Bank, to fund the County Fire Protection Special Service District 1988 budget. They said they would open the county's general budget for the $23,000 balance necessary to meet the district's obligations. However, Heber City Mayor Gordon Mendenhall told the city council the following night, "I'll bet five bucks, to anybody that wants to take it, that the present fire district fails. And it's all going to come about because of financing. I made a mistake joining that thing (the district). I should have let it fail, just like they let us fail. If they'd gone along with - happens. - an leased because the city can't make a profit from it. Councilman Scott Wright said it must be housed in Heber City, maintained by the city, and used primarily inside the city limits, except in an emergency. Councilman Wayne Clegg reported that the district board had recently turned down Wallsburg's request for funds for a building to house a fire truck. Returning to the subject of water and sewage, Mendenhall pointed out that if more people can be added to the sewage collection system, it would lower costs for the rest of the users and that the system was installed for the eventual use of everyone in the Heber Valley. 1988 County accepts low bid on tax anticipation notes and Without advertising, a terrible thing By SONNI SCHWINN Wasatch County Correspondent - HEBER CITY Wasatch County will probably receive a Community 1988 money. The commissioner said only seven of 13 applications were approved and that Heber rated ninth. "So if the committee wanted to play hardball, they could say, 'Well, you're ninth. You don't get any money, period.'" The commissioner said that if the city decides to extend water and sewer outside the city limits, the area would have to be annexed before November 1989, the deadline for spending this year's grant, or the money would be forfeited. The council filed the application for the grant for a fire engine a year ago, when the council was hoping to form a Heber Valley fire district. But it accepted a bid for the engine two weeks ago, even though a countywide fire district has been organized. Mendenhall has said the city should have the engine because he doesn't expect the fire district to succeed and he thinks Wallsburg and Midway will get their own fire departments, so Heber should also have its own. However, Wasatch County Commissioner Chairman Lorin Allred, in a separate discussion, said the idea was to eventually have scattered fire stations within the district and subject to its bylaws, like fire departments in large cities, not separated fire departments. The mayor suggested the city could lease the engine to the fire district, but Councilman Keith Jacobson said that, as he understands it, the enpine couldn't be Sundav, February 28, 2r.V5797 |
