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Show IPA offers Nephi $100,000 UTAH to KUo.3 ASSOCIATION 467 EAST THIRD SOUTH SALT Li HE CITY, UT 34111 help offset plant's 'impact' The Nephi City Council in their Tuesday night session deliberated a proposed contract with the Intermountain Power Agency that would award Nephi City $100,000 for sewer improvements, but would restrict the city from easily pressing for more if the need arose. The contract projects the effect the Intermountain Power Project, being built near Delta in Millard County, would have on Nephi City. It projects the number ot persons living in the city associated with the project at about 400 people. IPA has negotiated similar contracts with other cities, and is attempting to get one passed with Nephi. Council members said they think the contract could be selling Nephi short in case of future impact on Nephi utilities and services. The contract limits the amount Nephi can collect from y 'i'W t .' . , Ambulance personnel treat Richard Hofheins after accident south of Levan Tuesday. Levan wreck Tuesday injures West Jordan man A West Jordan man, Richard L. Hofheins, 21, was seriously injured Tuesday when the small car he was driving went out of control and hit a trailer. The accident occured two miles south of Levan on at about 2 p.m., according to Utah Highway Patrol Trooper Paul Mangelson. The trailer was pulled by a truck driven by Arthur J. 73, of Glendive, Mont. Mangelson says the Hofheins car was northbound when it went out of control and crossed two lanes of traffic before smashing into the left front of the southbound trailer. The im- -' pact knocked off the trailers front axle and tires and uncoupled the trailer from the truck. The trailer then overturned and came to rest off the side of the road. Hofheins was pinned inside the car for about 30 minutes until rescue crews could pry him from the damaged car. Anvick says he saw the accident coming and drove his truck and trailer onto the side of the highway trying to avoid the accident. Otherwise it would have been a head-on- , he fifth-whe- 1-- An-vic- said. Hofheins was taken by East Juab Ambulance to the Juab County Hospital. He was later transferred to Utah Valley Hospital in critical but stable condition. At press time Wednesday, he was listed in satisfactory condition. Other passengers in the Hofheins vehicle, Denise L. Tidwell, 24, and her children Nicholas, 3, and Angela, 2, also of West Jordan, received minor k, injuries. They were treated at the Juab County Hospital and were later released. Anvick and his wife, Maxine, 65, were not injured. The Hofeins car and the Anvick trailer were totaled. The Anvick trucks bed also sustained heavy damage. Assisting Mangelson at the scene were Trooper Blair Bradford and Deputy Sheriff Jim Stephensen. the power project and requires Nephi to prove a significant effect on city services before it will do much about it. The contract says if Nephis population increases as a direct result of the project more than projected amounts, the city can then renegotiate the contract. The increased numbers of persons the project would bring in its initial stages is worrying many cities, who must then vide increased services. Since the project is not within the Nephi city limits, it would bring no tax dollars into city coffers. Thus, the money is one of the few payments the city could extract from IPA to deal with those problems. In recommending the adoption of the contract, City Attorney Don Eyre said it was probably about all the city could hope to get.' The contract would be valid for the next two years. They are becoming very difficult, very hard lined . . . they dont really think there has been that much impact, he said. Councilman Boyd Park mentioned that because of the high unemployment in the south Utah County area, a lot of the workers for the plant are coming from Provo and Spanish Fork rather than the areas projected to be affected, lessening the effect on surrounding communities. I think its fine today for $100,000, but in two years, it Councilman may not be, Frank Booth commented. Im not trying to advocate that we figure out a means to squeeze more money from them, but I think that two or three years down the road, we might end up in a logjam because of them. A good horse trader trades tough, and thats just what theyre doing, said Councilman Bob Garrett. The issue will be decided at a later city council meeting. . The council also approved a motion calling on the board to start preliminary arrangements to purchase pipe for a diversion of Salt Creek into a electrical generation plant. Another set of turbines would also be mounted on the culinary water line. The two lines together would provide about one seventh of A Nice Place to Live! October 20, 1983 Levan law enforce- ment pact approved At their meeting Monday, the vide limited patrol service when apdeputies are in the area and proved a law enforcement con- their regular duties do not retract between the county quire them elsewhere. sheriffs department and Levan The agreement specifies that Town. jail service will be provided at Levan, which has 700 the Juab County Jail. The jail residents, will pay $100 per service is to be compensated month for the service. separate and apart from the The contract was drawn up agreement. and approved largely because Levan will pay $100 per Levan needs law enforcement month on or before the tenth of services, but lacks sufficient each month, but may pay the resources to provide the service entire bill on a yearly basis if it for itself. Since the sheriffs chooses, the agreement says. If Levan establishes its own department does have the and Justice of the Peace Court, equipnecessary manpower ment to provide the limited law which would then sentence enforcement services needed by prisoners to the Juab County the town, commissioners agreed Jail for housing, terms for such to sign the formal agreement. an agreement would be Juab County is empowered by the interlocal cooperation act to enter into any such agreement jointly with a town to provide a service. Sheriff Dave Carter says the G. Richard Judd, superintenagreement doesnt really change things too much. We dent of the Nephi City Power are already providing some ser- Department, has been elected vice, and have been for a long to the board of directors of the time, he said. The sheriff also Utah Public Power Council. Judd, q veteran member of V "said the community doesnt Utah Municipals Technical the have much of a law enforcement Committee, will help direct the problem. activities of the council during The sheriffs department, acinitial year of existence. The its cording to the agreement, will be on call to the town through council was created in an effort the Juab County Sheriffs to help tell the story of Utahs workers in other areas of the Dispatcher to enforce state public power systems. The Utah Public Power Counstate. statutes, county ordinances, and town ordinances. The cil is charged with improving response time is to depend upon the image of public power in the availability of manpower at Utah, working for better state the time and the priority of the legislation, and seeking new means of power conservation. call with other pending matters. Unlike investor-owne- d sys- The department will also pro Juab County Commission negotiated at that time. The agreement will run for a term of one year but will automatically be renewed unless the contract is terminated by either party. The terminating party must give the other party 60 days written notice prior to the anniversary of the agreement. Negotiations to modify the agreement must also be first extended by written notice informing the other party of intent. In addition, each party agrees to cooperate with the other in working out problems or in listening to suggestions as to how the purpose of the agreement may be better performed. Richard Judd elected to Utah public power group get raises At their Oct. 17 meeting, the Juab County Commission agreed to raise the wages of all county employees retroactive to July 1. County employees will take home the retroactive pay in one lump sum in October, but will then receive the monthly increase thereafter. All county officials will receive a raise of $50 per month, and all deputies and other personnel will be given a $45 per month raise. Glenn Greenhalgh buys old fire station for $17,100 The commissioners say they have been committed to a pay raise, since county employees wages are not as high as Nephi City employees wages. In fact, city appointees make as much as the countys elected officials, the commission said. Commissioner Roscoe The Nephi City Council Tuesday night sold the old fire station to Glenn Greenhalgh for $17,100. The bid was a high bid accepted by the city after much Gar- rett said he thinks the pay raises for county employees are important, and has worked since he took office to see that wages were brought more into line with those of county Mary F. Smith Navy assigns Mary Smith to Penascola, Fla. Aviation Apprentice Mary F. Smith, daughter of Cleo Smith of Nephi, recently visited in Nephi after completing eight weeks of training as an aviation storekeeper in Meridian, Miss. She left Sept. 26 for Penthe citys current power needs, sacola, Fla., her first duty staand would provide necessary tion. She graduated from Navy backup during peak power basic training July 15. usage periods in the future. The construction of the plant, Wednesday, Oct. 26 which would be paid back through loans maturing in 10 to 15 years or through a bond elec- . . tion, would provide Nephi with III DlcUlflGCl a lower cost alternative to buy- The Nephi Kiwanis Club is ing power from other sources, Richard Judd, city power sponsoring a Meet the Candidates Night Wednesday, superintendent, told the counOct. 26. cil The public is invited to be at With ' electrical generation the Juab County Commission rates expected to rise chambers in the Juab County dramatically over the next few Center 7 p.m. to hear canat years, the plant would easily didates for Nephi's mayor and pay for itself in just a few years, the council present their city he said. views. and objectives Judd also said the dty is conFollowing the candidates' sidering buying used the meeting will presentations, pipe for the irrigation system, be opened to questions from the h and pipe for the new public. culinary system. Council will study water system funding Nephi City is closer to having a power plant on line and the culinary water line fixed as a result of city council action Tuesday night. The council approved a motion by Councilman Glenn Greenhalgh authorizing the water and power board to look for funding for the rebuilding of the culinary line carrying water down Salt Creek Canyon. The board will report with financing alternatives for a final decision. Serving East luab County Meet candidate Silt 22-inc- 17-inc- h deliberation and an auction, but it is well below the originally appraised value of the structure for $33,000, council members said. Greenhalgh, who is a member of the city council, abstained from voting on the issue both Tuesday and in prior meetings. In the last meeting of the council, Councilman Boyd Park and Mayor Bob Steele were directed to investigate financing of the new fire station and recommend whether to accept the bid. They reported that Greenhalghs bid would not pay for all the work yet to be done on the new station, but was probably the best the city would get for the structure. Park said the new fire station will cost about $70,000 to complete, of which $61,000 has already been spent. The money will go for the building of classroom and truck storage facilities, restrooms, and for the insulation of the structure. terns, Judd said, public power systems have a responsibility only to their stockholders. the bid amounts, but indicated Those stockholders are the that the bids were probably citizens of cities using public more realistic. power, and they do not demand, Councilman Frank Booth nor are they guaranteed, divisaid, I look at it this way. You dends except in the form of the can appraise a horse for a thous- lowest possible rates for the and dollars, but if nobody will power they consume and the asgive you a thousand dollars for surance they will receive the the horse, you wont sell it. But most dependable service possiif somebody comes along and ble. The technical committee is an says hell give you $650 for it, then you go ahead and take it arm of the Utah Municipal Pow. . . the fire station is a white whose members er Agency of cities are the elephant. Nephi, Levan, I dont think there is any Manti, Payson, Salem, Spanish question that we are going to do Fork, Springville, and Provo. it in the best interests of the The UMPA is dedicated to finpeople of Nephi City and get the ding the most economical and highest bid out of it, Coundependable power supply for cilman Robert Garrett the member communities, said Judd. He said the city has plans to hold activities to since off new the station, pay the sale price of the old station was not enough totally to pay fund-raisin- g for the new station. Council members have been concerned about the discrepancy between the appraised amount of the old station and Elder and Slater Ray Worthington will leave soon for LDS missionary service headquartered in Las Vegas, Nevada. They will speak to members of the Nephi First LDS Ward Sunday, Oct. 23 at 1220 pjn. They enter the missionary training center Nov. 2. |
