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Show 5005 Serving East Juab County - A Nice Place To Live! Volume 93, No. 8 Wednesday, February 22, 1995 10 pages Single Copy Price 50 ? Nephi City Council hears pros and cons on new roads for our community By Myrna Trauntvein Times-New- s Correspondent through the area to the north. On Nephis Main Street from 3rd South through 7th South the streets on the East side of town are off-swith the streets on the West side of the comet While others were out delivering valentines, Nephi City Council members spent Valentines night in a public hearing to take public comment on planned . growth of roads. Twenty-thre- e residents of Nephi gathered to discuss the new master street plan recommended by Nephi City Planning Commission. The council asked the commission to put together a master street plan because the council wanted to make certain orderly growth would take place," said Nephi Mayor Robert Steele. However, said Steele, the plan was not set in concrete. It is a plan, it is something to work from, he said. The plan was being considered because it had become fairly apparent, growth had escalated in the Nephi area. Some streets, in the past, had been poorly planned and growth had been allowed to occur which made the streets out of synch. For example, he said, the Phillips home on 7th South and 4th East sits in the middle of what should probably have been a city street. A home on 7thNortfr and 8th East is sitting to close to a road which should have gone munity. In addition, said Steele, arterial, collector and roads need to be established as the city plans growth. That way people will be allowed to utilize property in a better way. Union Pacific Railroad tracks follow 3rd West through the length of Nephi. State Road 132 is a main arterial road which follows 1st North from east to west through the city. Main Street, which used to be United States Highway 91, is a main artery roadway leading North to South and 400 East is a collector road. Proposed as a collector road would be 1275 South from 4th East to 4th West, 10th South would be a collector road. A road is proposed from 15th North the full distance of town and one is proposed on 17th North from Main Street West. A road is proposed to travel along 2nd East from north to south. On 4th West the street would be open all the way, excepting for the county fair- sub-collect- or BUZZ, BUZZ, BUZZ The sound of bees can be heard in our valley as the snow gives way to the early blooms of Spring. A gift to the Above these flowers were found in the front yard of Mr. and Mrs. Adrian Beal just west of The Times-New' ... Beals from the l&sUeesident of this home. . s. See- - City Council & Roads on page 2 Greenhalgh named School Board studying the needs for to school board additional schools with area growth Randy Greenhalgh, Nephi, was selected to replace Jerry Bosh on the Juab School District Board of Education. Greenhalgh began serving at board meeting He was selected by board members from a field of five applicants. Others who had submitted applications were: LouAnn Thalman, Patricia Ferguson, Kent Park and Rex Bailey. Greenhalgh Times-New- s Correspondent Juab School Board members are trying to determine if they need to build new buildings to house area students, the best way to go about meeting the physical facilities needs of the district, and a place for a building to be placed. John Taft, school building architect, met with the board on Wednesday to offer his expert ad- on Wednesday. ran against Bosh in the general election and was nardefeated. rowly Greenhalgh owns a dairy farm and has been active in land management practices. Greenhalgh visited Russia and Moldova and has been a host for those interested in American farming practices. Bosh left the board after Pexton Wholesale closed. His new employment required him to relocate in the St. George area. vice. Board members determined they would appoint a citizen group from the community to look at physical plan needs and to make some recommendations to the board. Taft had visited the school district and had visited the different school with Norm Wall, Tracy Olsen, and Superintendent Kirk Wright. The group also looked at several pieces of property, and enrollment figures. It would be a minimum of two years to complete a building from siting through the many phases to occupancy, said Taft. He said there were several possibilities, all with the same approximate price tag. The district could build a new elementary school, add six classrooms and a new gym to the high school, and add six Culinary water shortages influence actions of Mona Town council in February meeting By Marilyn Keyte Times-New- s Correspondent Culinary water shortages facing the town of Mona continued to influence actions of the Mona Town Council as they met in their regular February session, February 14th. Having studied water rates versus water fee demands for the town, the Council voted unanimously to approve a slight increase in culinary water rates to become effective with the March billing. Town resident rates will increase from $15 per month to $16. County resident rates in k classrooms to the middle school. Or the district could build a new high school, make the current middle school and upper grade elementary school, and make the current high school into a middle school. Thus, he said, the el- By Myrna Trauntvein students could be crammed into some of those signs, it was not an ideal situation. For example, at Nephi Elementary, the design capacity for the second grade classes was 25, the absolute capacity was 38 and some of the classes are three to five students over design capacity. The high school and middle school were added to make the buildings fit the bulges those age groups of students brought to the secondary school system. Now, he said, the student population had increased 7.9 percent this year. Future school population is difficult to gauge, he said. While the district knew how many new babies were bom in the district in a given year, they did not know how many people would move into the area or how the increased population ementary school could house grades K-- the middle school grades 8 and the high school Of course, he said, there could be flexgrades in the way the grades were arranged at the ibility and the middle school depending on would affect the schools. elementary The residential tax base does not cover serwhere class sizes bulged. A new elementary could be built on property the vices, he said. We have been working with the school has at the high schoolmiddle school com- city to try to gage growth. The new building additions at the high school plex which would not require the purchase of adand the middle school will be paid for in the year ditional property. Taft said the district could consider building an 2000, said Pexton. The other projects, the school educational park with all schools on the same cur- in Mona, the middle school and high school, as far rent site, even if a new high school is purchased. as original construction were concerned, were paid We looked at potential south-Nepsites, but for last year. there are problems, said Taft. He said the infrastructure needed to be considered. With growth However, said Pexton, something needed to be the way it is in Nephi, the city could not be of much done about the schools. The future needed to be addressed, he said. Nephi City has been aphelp. We need to look at our buildings, said Leon proached by those seeking to build a 168 unit condo 4, 5-- 2. hi Pexton, board president. He told board members project and by another seeking to build 72 homes the district was nearly at or beyond capacity in all in a subdivision. We need to explore sites from both a short and of the buildings. Buildings, he said, had been designed to operate at a certain capacity. While more long term approach, he said. come up with some new leads to rigation system in Mona. The status ofthe system right assist them to alleviate water to lift now be a able is we are going ahead with to and shortages six month building moratorium an application for conservation which went into effect October credit to get funding through CUP, said Young. 11, of 1994. According to Young the IrrigaAccording to Mayor Young the town plans to install meters at tion Company is also asking for both the town park and at the categorical exclusion from havMona Elementary School. This ing to have an environmental will be done to allow the town to study done. If the exclusion is approved the construction of the system could begin in late Spring. If an environmental study is required it will delay the project by approximately six 25.000 gallons used monthly, to pany has demanded the town pay those entities, said Young, and months and increase the costs, a penalty of .35 cents per 1,000 a 17 and 12 cent fee pr 1,000 the cost of the meters will be said Young. Costs to date for the feasibility gallons between 20,001 to 40,000 gallon of water used over the borne by the town. are $7,772.18 Young said. As weather soon as the towns allotment. .50 used and study permits monthly gallons cents per 1,000 gallons over Also, if we are going out to get the town will also study what Since the town formerly pledged more water we will need more improvements should be made at their assistance with the costs of 40.001 gallons used monthly. According to Mayor Kevin money, said Mayor Young. Any the Mona stand pipe. A lot of the study. Young asked that they Young the rate increases were additional water we get from any water waste is attributed to that contribute half the cost to date, water source. $3,886.09. The Council voted made in an effort to conserve source will cost us. gauge the water consumption creased from $20 to $21 per has been made with the Mona beyond home usage. The Mona month. A penalty increase was Irrigation Company. Due to sum- LDS Chapel already has a meter approved changing the previous mer overages of water used by in place. Meter installation will .25 cents per 1,000 gallons over the town, the Irrigation Com- not change the status quo of water usage, as well as to help insure that those who use the most water will be required to pay for it. Another factor contributing to the decision to raise water rates is a tentative agreement which Mayor Young is still attempting to meet with Governor Mike Leavitt to see what resources are available to the town to increase water supplies. The Council is working hard to i de- Gordon Young, President of the Mona Irrigation Company, met with the Council to inform them what progress is being made in a engineer feasibility study which is focused oh the possible installation of a pressurized ir Another question concerning the towns water system was studied by the Council. A build- ing permit which was approved for Nancy May prior to the building moratorium, would require the installation of a new water line from 2nd West and 3rd South to approximately 6th South. The existing fine is a 2 inch line which is already serving four homes along the 2nd West street. The town feels they should require the installation of a six inch line to handle increased service in that area and to provide for the possibility of future growth. Estimated cost of material and labor was $13,659, minus tax, with an additional cost of $28,050 for three fire hydrants. The Council will study the costs and how much cost should be assessed to the homeowner. Two other questions concernunanimously to pay this amount toward the study costs. ing water were addressed to the If we are able to carry this Council. The first question was whether through to completion this cost will be folded in and will be re- or not the town would allow Gor- imbursable to the town, said See Mona Council on page 3 Young. |