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Show Panguitch City Council Meets PANGUITdk Present at the Panguitch City Council meeting and workshop of Nov. 9 were Mayor Jon Lee Torgerson, City Manager Allen Henrie, City Recorder Re-corder Cindy Johnson, ' and city" council members Denny Orion, Mack Oetting, Janet Oldham, Jolene Smith and Attorney Wallace Lee. Council member Craig Twitchell was out of town. A workshop had been planned where Panguitch City officials met with Gordon Whiting and Barry Hatch of Kaibab Industries to review re-view properties owned by both Panguitch City and Kaibab for consideration con-sideration of a land trade. They discussed mutual appraisals and both came in higher than anticipated. antici-pated. Concerns were expressed by both parties and they will work to resolve those problems. The council coun-cil feels the trade will be very worthwhile so they will continue and move forward with the trade negotiations. One of the first items on the agenda was a staff work hour proposal. pro-posal. Shirley Chidester presented a proposal regarding the possibility of full time employees working nine hours per day with alternating Fridays or another day off during a two-week period. Chidester stated that the employees who are participating partici-pating in this program would have to be dedicated, honest and faithful in tracking their hours. Both the mayor and council had questions regarding the proposal but followed with a motion proposing the staff implement a flexible work schedule on a trial basis and discuss and review it again in March. David Nielsen anJ Ralph Haws were in attendance at city council to discuss in more detail the sewerwater sales requtst for Hidden River Estates located south on Hwy 89 a few miles out of town. The information reporteq to the city stated that this would be a 400-room 400-room motel with restaurants and shops. They would need a total source requirement of 80,440 gallons of water. Storage would add up to 158,440 gallons of storage and distribution dis-tribution is approximately 1580 gallons per minute. Wastewater would be 62,600 gallons per day. This is a concern to the city to place such an impact on the city water system. Attorney Wallace Lee distributed a memo for review by the council and mayor. A motion was made to refer the proposed numbers by Hidden Hid-den River Estates to city engineers for review. Diane Houston was in attendance atten-dance to discuss the annual Clean up Day for the year 2000. Typically Typi-cally in the past years the day was slated for the month of July. This often conflicted with several other activities held in the busy month of (See PANGUITCH on page 3-A) PANGUITCH From Front Page July. Houston queried whether the city could change the clean-up day to the month of June rather than observe the recognized Governor's day in July. The council felt the change would be okay as long as there was no conflict with the annual an-nual Quilt Walk Festival held in July. The clean-up will probably follow the same format as in years past with, a general clean-up of the community. As Public Affairs Director for the Panguitch LDS Stake Diane Houston also approached the council coun-cil to co-sponsor a Family Fair next year which would be a program pro-gram to encourage, build and uplift the family. A motion was made to have the city spearhead a Family Fair to take place in the spring in conjunction with the LDS Church. The motion stated they would use the officelibrary building for the event and placed this as an agenda item to be discussed the second meeting in January. The mayor reported to the group on the recent election tabulations. Apparently the figures did not match on the number of those voting vot-ing in precincts one and two for and against the bond issue. However, it appeared that some of the ballots were placed in the wrong boxes because the figures did match when combined together. The resolution for the bond for the multi purpose events center was presented to the mayor for signatures. signa-tures. Janice Hatch's design class at Panguitch High School approached the board with a request for a donation. dona-tion. The group was designing a window at the drug store for Christmas and needed additional funding. A motion was made to donate $100 to the design class for that purpose. A discussion was held regarding upgrading of the grass collection system for the city. Mack Oetting addressed the issue with the council. Apparently a ride-along bagger for the big mower is around $2,000. Oetting wondered about purchasing a smaller mower with a bag on it. The city, it was determined, already had two smaller mowers and the mayor felt the city really needed to invest in a grass collection system for the present big mower. Follow ing much discussion, a motion was made and passed tc purchase a grass collection system for the big Toro mower and to look further into purchasing pur-chasing a cab also for the smaller mower that is used in winter for snow removal. It was discussed that the city had received some complaints on a tree stump and old junk cars located on the state right of way at 500 South Hwy 143. The council asked Allen Henrie to send a letter to Roger Scovil regarding the cars parked in the state right of way for extended periods of time. The city crew will remove the stump. Allen Henrie presented a draft contract between Panguitch City and Sunrise Engineering to begin work on the Multi Purpose Events Center. It should take the engineers approximately 2 12 months to design the building. The goal is to have the bid go out Feb. 1, 2000. The cost of the design of the building build-ing is $90,000 which is approximately approxi-mately 5 percent of the cost of the building. Normally it would cost 8 to 9 percent of the cost of the project. proj-ect. The council made a motion to refer the draft contract with Sunrise Engineering over to Attorney Wal- , lace Lee for his review and directed Lee to draft a detailed inter-local agreement between the city and county. There was much discussion regarding re-garding the demolition and materials materi-als from the stalls and other items that need to be torn down for the construction to begin on the Multi Purpose Events Center. Also some discussion was held regarding a promoter for the Center or a recreational director for the city. A motion was made to approve having Kaibab and Panguitch City land parcels surveyed, approve the appraisals and supporting the concept con-cept of the land trade. Department reports were received. re-ceived. It was reported that the door on the Social Hall weight room had been fixed. It was also reported that the Main Street Proposal at this time is just an idea and that lots of rumors were floating around regarding this proposal. The elevator lift at the Business Incubation Center has been shut down by the state inspector. It (See PANGUITCH on page 4-A) PANGUITCH From Page 3-A could cost as much as $1,000 to repair. Because this is a public building, it needs to be fixed and be ADA accessible as well. The Rural Development Fund Board sent out an official letter re-- re-- garding money that will be available. avail-able. The money can be used for capitol projects only. Cities, coun- |