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Show Serving East Juab County Volume 93, No. 7 -A Nice Place To Live! Wednesday, February 15, 1995 10 pages Single Copy Price 500 Levan council talks about raising pumping rates on irrigation company wells By Julie Smalley Times-New- BLOWING, BLOWING SNOW Drivers all over the state were treated to blowing snow and very poor visibility on Tuesday as Winter returned with a vengeance for Valentines day. Fender benders were reported all over the East Juab County area as the snow blew in. s Correspondent Council member Craig Worwood reported that in a recent planning session, the council discussed raising rates in an attempt to raise money to pay for the towns gas system. He proposed charging the Levan Irrigation Co. at the same rate Nephi charges for Irrigation Wells. He said, Nephi has worked out this schedule and they need this much money to survive. Were buying the same power they are. Golden Mangelson, Irrigation Co. Representative, indicated the Irrigation Co. would change the wells over to Utah Power and Light if the council decided to impose the increased rate. The Irrigation Co. is currently purchasing power through the town. The agreement is for the cost of power plus $50 per month per well. According to Mangelson, this agreement was a benefit for the town during the years they contracted with The Bureau of Reclamation for power. The Irrigation Co. asked the town to contract for additional power in the summertime to be used for irrigation pumping. The irrigation pumping in the summer helped improve the town load factor. The Irrigation Company also paid for the additional equipment and lines necessary to pump the wells. Council member Robert Shepherd pointed out that the Irrigation Co. is supplying water for generation at Levans Hydro Electrical plants. If the council decided to impose Nephis pumping rate, the Electric Power Agreement between the Irrigation Co. and the town would be canceled. He said, I will not vote for it on this board. How much money are you losing when you sell the Irrigation Co. this power and are you paying more than what youre selling it for? asked Ross Harper. Mayor Dubinsky replied, Quite a bit. We are paying O and M. (O and M is operation and maintenance.) She felt the agreement needed to be reviewed before a decision could be made. Cherry Grace, Levan resident, asked the council for help in minimizing the number of bees in her neighborhood. She told the board she was unable to use her hot tub because the bees are so thick they are plugging the filter. There are also people in the neighborhood who are allergic to bees. The bees and hives, owned by Richard Dalby, are located a few blocks away from the Graces home. They are within See Levan News on page 2 , GomelI and Flaming Commission holds public hearing on proposed additions to city streets By Myrna Trauntvein Times-New- s Correspondent Tuesday evening, Nephi City Planning Commission held a public hearing to take comment on several proposed additions to the citys master street plan and then agreed, following the hearing, to support the plan with one modification. Commission members considered three options and then passed the plan without including a roadway proposed to carry traffic around the Nebo Heights subdivision. The roadway will get further study before commissioners agree on the way the traffic should be routed. The proposal was to take traffic along a roadway which would nm along the freeway to 1250 South. The road would then stop and would continue again on the north side of subdivision. Richard Paxman, city council member, said he thought the roadway should be redesigned to al , low development on both sides of the road. Right now the road is right against the freeway fence, he said. The road which received the most comment from the public, however, was the proposed 1000 South roadway. Board members, Shannon White, Bonnilyn Kennedy, Richard May, and chair, Glenn Greenhalgh, took comments from several of the 18 residents which attended the meeting. Max Williams, who owns a piece of property which would have one corner sliced off from the rest of the property, objected to the placement of the roadway. Have you received property owner input? he asked. I have not been contacted nor consulted. I have capital improvements in place. He said the plan the commission had on the table was only being done to legitimize the need of the planned unit development for a roadway. Is the city attempting to take my rights and give them to someone else? asked Williams. The plan is a More Juab County Commission News window dressing being used to march toward con- demnation procedures. Williams said the job of the commission was to protect the rights of taxpayers not enable a development. You are contravening the free market. May said the commission was looking at the street plan because the city council had asked them to do so. The city council asked us, over a year ago, to review the master street plan and make some recommendations. I didnt think we were doing it because of some project, said May. Williams asked the 10th South recommendation be dropped from the plan. This is being done in the heat of the moment, he said. He said the recommendation was tainted. My recommendation is that we leave 10th South in, said Nephi Mayor Robert Steele. He said the city council had a public hearing planned and more comment and consideration could be given the plan before it was adopted. The first we could consider adopting it would be on February 21. Greenhalgh said there was a lot of interest in the 10th South proposal. The planning commission was recommending the roadway be placed immediately north of the power line poles which were already in place. We are suggesting a y for the street. The pole line, then, would be in the planting strip which belongs to the city. In addition, by placing of streets on the road at 10th South, the off-sthe East side of the street could be remedied. Inwhich begins at stead of carrying on the off-s300 South, the roads could be brought back into alignment on the East and West sides of town as the streets progress southward. Paul McPherson asked if carrying the street from 400 East to 400 West would give enough y street on 10th South. for a y Will the be on top of my house? he asked. McPherson also asked why the collector P nn Cii 99-fo- ot right-of-wa- et et 99-fo- ot right-of-wa- right-of-wa- Early Deadline deadline for next week is Friday at 5 p.m. Times-New- s At their February 6th meeting the the Juab County Commission also did the following: Juab County Commissioners agreed to allow the purchase of and uniform shirts for a Station One of the Juab County bar-lig- ht Ambulance Association. The East Juab association needs the equipment to be effective, said Cory Frampton. Two weeks ago, commissioners put the requests on hold until they received further information from the association. We wondered if we could go half-wa- y and purchase a uniform shirt, said Frampton. He said the shirts would be $20 each and would be reflective at night. He said there were 20 EMTs who would need a shirt. "We make as many runs as Provo City, he said. But we dont look professional. We get to some of the larger hospitals, we dont look like we belong. We y have been asked to leave because for the county and last month they did not know we were made 46 runs. Our EMTs are trained within four drugs of EMTs. We have no problem with the those on medical helicopters, expenditure as long as it is in the said Frampton. Crew members budget, said Gordon Young, are trained to perform many commission chair. Frampton said there had been a misunderstanding about the bar light. It was not needed for the new ambulance, as commissioners thought. It was to go on the extrication van. The old Utah Highway Patrol bar-ligwe have pulls too much from the alternator, said Frampton. On the last run, the vehicle had to pull off on the side without a light. We had to shut it off, said Frampton. A new light, needed for the safety of the crew when the vehicle is pulled to the side of the road in the dark, would cost the county $875 and would be good for at least 10 years. The team is doing a good job ht medical emergency services needed to save lives including CPR. We can start IVs . r We could have a if we needed to, in order to pay for the shirts, he said. Commissioners thought both fund-raise- r and the shirts a good expenditure after they understood the need. the light-ba- would be The budget ofthe association will pay for the equipment. Officers of the East Juab Babe Ruth Baseball League would like to see Juab County form a Special Services Recreation District and would like to e recreation direcsee a tor hired for Juab County. full-tim- Because of the Presidents Day holiday next Monday, February 20th, the deadline for all news and advertising for the February 22nd edition of the paper will be Friday, Febru- ary 17th. Please plan accordingly, says editor Mariann C. Gibson. See Commission on page 3 t i j |