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Show Straw Poll Provides Tropic Citizen Input TROPIC Council members in Tropic recently announced the results of a questionnaire included with water bills to its citizenry. The straw" poll indicated that 57-percent of the town's residents would support any new bank that could be attacted to the community and would transfer their accounts to show that support. The questionnaire also revaled that increasing property taxes would be acceptable to provide a cemetery district (55 percent); better streets (55 percent) and increased fire protection (51 percent). Residents would not be willing to pay higher property taxes for increased law enforcement (53 percent); for increased water storage (51 percent); nor for park improvements (65 percent). Seventy-six percent of Tropic residents would like to see small industry in their community and 67 percent would like to see increased tourism. The results of the questionnaire were announced at the meeting of the Tropic Town Council in April. In other matters of business, council members heard Coon, King and Knowjton engineers -Phylip Leslie "aAWCes Barker outline a proposed culinary water study and associated cost estimates. In a subsequent special meeting council members elected to delay such a study until funds' tq cover its costs could be found through grants or from other sources. Council members told engineers they would like to be able to consider needs of the community for 20 to 40 years ahead. Engineers suggested splitting a future system into two or three pressure zones to avoid pressure problems. Water pressure varies from 65 pounds at the west end of Tropic to as much as 120 pounds at the east end. The possibility of requiring future out-of-town hookups to deed one acre-foot of water per hookup was also discussed. The council was reassured that the town will continue to participate in the Green Thumb program with two Green Thumb workers. Mayor Ahlstrom said that Frank Seegmiller, engmeer for Creamer and Noble, had never contacted him about the meeting which was supposed to have taken place in early April with engineers, contractors and the town regarding problems with streets paved under a Com munity Block Grant in 1981. Council members drafted a letter to the engineering firm requesting the meeting be held without delay. The council approved payment of training fees for Emergency Medical Technician's training for Charlotte Littlefield, Allen Schmidt and Valerie Else so that Tropic will have trained emergency personnel. |