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Show it Utah V .ijw r: r.n r.ir.--s EAST 303 CO. WSS CUT, I';:.:; ;;s Construction Starts On The Rise in Davis County A recent University of Utah report shows residential construction to be on the rebound, surpassing last years levels. section Premature Aging Slow-dow- n A Clfd Dominates Colt League n Society, Church, Obituaries C A 17 L -544- NUMBER THIRTEEN VOLUME SEVF.NTY-EIG- 1 -9133 546-473- 5- Voice Of Davis County IT I .5 f- - i usrs 6730-0000- i .ij V Is Today - -- KAYSV1LLE The Kays-vill- e Chamber of Commerce is holding their annual summer free Dutch-Oveluncheon for ' s. 23 . ) WEDNESDAY, JULY 13, 1983 pages Electrical Power Dominates Council Agenda Dutch Oven Luncheon L W'' r n all chamber members on Wednesday, July 13 at noon at the Kaysville City Bowery. DOUG STANGER, Suzanne i j.J ! ' Nielsen and Sandy Butterfield, Chamber officers are in charge. Kasyville Chamber is once again announcing their annual Summer Krazy Daze sidewalk sale to be held on Friday and Saturday Aug. 5 and 6. U O the bargains. - : REDD SEARL from the IPA (Intermountain Power Agency) reported to the council that IPA had recently formalized an agree ment with (SCPPA) Southern California Public Power Association for furtherance on the'Southem Transmission System. Mr. Searle reported that at the present time the IPA project is about eight percent complete, having 1,350 employees at the project site. He also reported that the project is still on schedule with the planned completion being July 1986. Mr. Searle stated that it is a very busy site at the present time, however, he went on to report that the project is not without its problems. He said they have had problems in the last few months with their bonding program, due to the market not being strong and some bonds had to be recalled. The previous interest rate on the bonds had been 10lA percent, however, the last issue was at an interest rate of 14 A percent. w The Pizza Company in Kaysville now has facilities for business luncheons, meetings, parties or any special event. THE CHAMBER of Commerce was pleased to pass out over 3,500 We Love America stickers to the citizens of the community especially the children during the July 4th Heritage Harvest Festival Parade. Jim Hutchinson from Prospector Printing and Design in Kaysville has become a new -j cP fA member of the Kaysville The escapade of water and fury that hit the Wasatch Front, Saturday night, hasnt been equalled for a long time, complete with the tricks only lightning can play across the sky at dusk as this photo, looking north from the Farmington freeway exit, depicted. Photo by Robert Regan. LIGHTNING TRICKS - KAYSVILLE Representatives from the various power companies met with city officials on Tuesday evening for their regular city council meeting to discuss options of electrical power for Kaysville City. MRS. LAVONE Arkoudas is general chairman of the event. The merchants offer some excellent merdhancise for the sale these two big days. Plan to stay in Kaysville and ihi'p t- By NORMA PREECE Chamber of Commerce. ANOTHER new member of the Chamber is Jim and Pearl Love of the Mama Loves Pizza Company in Kaysville and Wood Van Cott the new owner of the R&R Builders Company, np HE REPORTED that their board approved another bond sale of up to six million dollars and were to sell those bonds on May 15. However, a week prior to that sale, IPA was contacted by the State Bureau of Equality. Mr. Searle stated they soon hope to have things turn around so the bond market. He also they can told the council that IPA has contacted other financial institutions who have found the agency to be in good condition, well managed, and within budget. He said that an estimate of the kilowatt usage of Kaysville for 1982 was around 100 mills, which includes transmission. Ned Wilson from the ICPA (Intermou- Ask Fo Ho SmiDiwrtt By NORMA PREECE - Mel Ward, Darcie White and Dave FRUIT HEIGHTS Mead met with the Fruit Heights City Council Tuesday evening to discuss the power proposal for the city . They represent Utah Power and Light Company. As representatives of the company they are seeking the support of Fruit Heights City for the acquisition of low cost federal hydroelectric pwer in the form of a resolution (83-05- ). MR. WHITE, vice president of public affairs spoke in behalf of UP&L. Utah Power and Light presently services the electric power needs of 77 percent of the citizens of Utah. Mr. White stated that under the Western Area Power Administration (WAPA) an. arm of the United States Department of Energy, WAPA is charged with distributing low-co- st federal hydroelectric power, generated from various facilities, including Hover Dam and components of the Colorado River Storage Pro- ject; WAPA is governed by certain federal statues which provide that preference in the sale of such power shall be given to municipalities and other public entities; under WAPAs present marketing criteria, the resident of Fruit Heights City are precluded from receiving the benefit of federal hydroelectric low-co- st power. MR. WHITE pointed out that the 28 municipalities that have been receiving the prefer- ence provision of low-copower for the past 20 some-od- d years would not lose all of. their power, but if UP&Ls request was granted and they st The Kaysville Jaycees have announced the winning entries in the Kaysville Heritage Harvest Festival on July 4th. FIRST place commercial REFLEX place commercial went to Phone Published weekly by CLIPPER PUBLISHING CO. Jr. Publisher John Stahle, Entered and Second Class Postage Paid at Layton Utah Subscription - M 50 per year UP&L is challenging the Preference Clause. He stated there are 68 other applicants besides UP&L seeking a portion of the low cost power. WALT Meacham, Kaysville Power and a director of Inter- mountain Consumer Power Association (ICPA) and Ned Wilson were representing ICPAs position and stated they have been paying for over 20 years and want to retain Winners went to Fran Brown Co. 2nd 546-473- 5 up. their status as is. They desire to protect their interest of the low-copower supply. Mr. Meacham stated, they are supplying service to Kaysville residents four percent best low what Fruit Heights City residents are presently paying to Utah Power and Light Company for service. Provo and Bountiful are being served at approximately 50 percent reduction because of their pre- sent low-copreference allocation. It is more expensive to serve the rural areas, farms and smaller municipalities. ICPA maintains they have st paid for and should be able to - UP&L state they are seeking equal opportunity for those they serve the federally funded low-copower. H. Dean Wade, city council5 man moved that Resolution be tabled until such time the council members have had an opportunity to study and evaluate. The council agreed. keep st 83-0- Bowmans Market. First place Clearfield 2nd place noncommercial to Miss Kaysville-Fru- it Heights Royalty. First place marching to Davis High D'Ettes and 2nd place marching to Layton High School Band. Jobs Corps, This years parade pre- sented over 60 entries. Toes, the Clown was on hand to paint faces. OF COURSE the fireworks lived up to its expectations of the best in Davis County. Over 45 minutes of extravaganza ended with a finale of 230 shells, with the grandstand, football field and surrounding areas jam packed with thousands of spectators. At their annual Chuckwa-go- n breakfast they fed over 1,200 persons. SEVERAL young boys and some older ones, tackled the greased pole before one finally retrieved the two $5 bills from the top. Also many took a refreshing break in the afternoon to relax during the big watermelon bust. Many hours were spent to build the beautiful float for the Miss Kaysville-FruHeights royalty for the parade. They it also featured the afternoon activities and were very successful with their concession stands. THE COMMITTEE extend ntain THE COUNCIL appointed Paulsen to be chairman of the annual summer party. Mrs. Paulsen accepted providing she had full support from the Mayor and council members. np citys their thanks and appreciation to both communities and all who came out and supported them through the holiday festivities. Richard Diehl, president was assisted by Dwight Krebs, Mike Young, Jeff Dunford, Craig Quist, Danny Bird, Steve Humphrey, Brady Koroulis, Bruce Nielson, Phil Hill, Steve Major and Alan Anderson. THE JCKS Kathy Diehl and Cindy Anderson were in charge of concessions, np Consumer Power Association) approached the council to give an update on ICPA. Mr. Wilson reported that it looks like the ICPA matter is going to end up being a national fight that will probably end up in Congress. Councilwoman Luci Beth Msirvest KAYSVILLE WEEKLY 197 North MIN Layton Utah 84041 were able to pass the savings on to their present residential users, those 28 municipalities present rate would probably go er , can soon refinance those bonds. She stated, the Public Service Commission held a coal hearing in April and UAMPS hired Keiscr Engineers from Oklahoma who suggested that UAMPS could save between five to ten million dollars a year if they got out of the coal business. UAMPS looked at this, but realized that they were bound by the coal contract with UP&L to buy coal and that they would have to break the contract in order to get out of the coal business. Therefore, the UAMPS Board of Directors decided to stay out of the hearings and to instead. They are' hegotiate going to stay in and negotiate the best deal they can. With-UP&- L KAYSVILLE is one of the five largest participants of UAMPS, using 4,049 kilowatts from the Hunter project. UAMPS projects that by the fiscal year 1988-8- 9 they will begin to run out of power from the pool, but are looking to purchase surplus power and are going the best they can to help for the near future. The council thanked all for meeting with them and updating them on the power issue. CORT LODDER met with the council with a proposal for the city to consider a water connection for his property of farm land so he could water his animals, which he desperately needed. City Administrator John Thacker recommended the council accept Mr. Lodders proposal. Following a discussion, the council asked Mr. Lodder to seek legal advice and draw up a legal document and present it to the council for review. Following a discussion of employees disability insurance coverage the council voted to go with the State Insurance program and a short term disability policy. THE COUNCILonce again discussed the Christmas decorations for the city streets. It was decided to seek advice from experts, such as Modern Display and have thepi come to Kaysville and give them some professional advice as to which type of decorations would be best and suitable for the city. The council will study atiraft of the proposed cemetery regulations that have been before the council. HE STATED that ICPA would appreciate Kaysvilles help when Kaysville talks to that help being to state that any ICPA should have the line back. Mr. Wilson went on to state that Congressman Nielsen agrees with ICPA on this matter. He assured the council that ICPA has a good engineer department, a good computer department, and is currently doing quite a bit of training. He invited the council to attend the next ICPA board meeting which is to be held on July 20 at 10 a.m. in Logan. MRS. CAROLYN McNeil, the General Manager of Utah Association Municipal Power Systems (UAMPS) was next to talk to the council regarding the update of UAMPS. Mrs. McNeil assured the council that there will be no rate change during the next year. She stated that Kaysville had used 127 percent of their allowance and is presently out of resources and pulling from a pool which UAMPS has. UAMPS has tried to set the cost of the pooled power so that it is reasonable, charging Kaysville 13.6 cents kilowatt. She said a year ago UAMPS sold bonds at 12 percent. The bond market shortly after that was 9.8-1- 0 percent and has not come back around. Hopefully, she stated, they THE COUNCIL scheduled a public hearing for Aug. 2 at 6:30 p.m. at the city chambers regarding the rezoning request of Brent Mitchell, to rezone his property on 400 West from 2 to GC. Following a brief discussion the council approved to rezone a portion of Hess Farms from R- -l to R-They also approved the zone designation to an A-- l zone. 2. Ott-Talb- ot ADMINISTRATOR Thacker said he had received a complaint regarding the water tank property on Ward Road. This complaint stated that kids were riding their bikes on that property and then crossing his property on their bikes. The council will follow through on this matter. It was announced that Vernon Flint has been appointed as chairman of the board of Adjustments committee. FOLLOWING a brief discussion, the council approved the final plat for Hess Farms III-The council adopted Resolution No. 163 authorizing the city of Kaysville to expend community development block grant funds to make a loan to Dean M. Sanders, Elthea Sanders, and Kaysville Glass Company to be used for the redevelopment program, np |