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Show Panguitch City Council Meets PANGUITCH A public hearing hear-ing regarding the' newly voter-approved voter-approved Multi Purpose Events Center for Panguitch, was held just prior to the early November election. elec-tion. In attendance were Mayor Jon Torgerson, City Manager Allen Henrie, City Recorder Cindy Johnson John-son and Council members Denny Orton, Mack Oetting, Janet Oldham, Old-ham, Jolene Smith, Craig Twit-chell Twit-chell and Attorney Wallace Lee. Only three citizens attended the hearing, perhaps an indication that most Panguitch residents had no serious problems with the proposal. Also attending was Darron LeBlanc with Sunrise Engineering who was assisting funding for the project. Mayor Torgerson gave a brief rundown on the history of the project proj-ect stating that a number of years ago Panguitch City Council voted unanimously to impose a 1 percent resort tax to allow for future projects proj-ects to help build the business climate. cli-mate. Proceeds from that tax had been use"d previously on the baseball base-ball complex, high school track, and a little for Main street. Torgerson said the state originally origi-nally projected revenues from the resort tax of about $180,000 but that proved to be inaccurate. Last year Panguitch . received about $112,000, he said, so the council had been and continues to be cautious cau-tious about how they spend those funds. At this point the council felt the Multi Purpose Events Center Cen-ter appeared to be the best brick and mortar project the city could undertake. under-take. Togerson turned the remaining time over to City Manager Allen Henrie who explained that the facility facil-ity will cost about $1.9 million to build. Of that, the city will borrow $1.75 million. The city and Garfield Gar-field County will provide $150,000 in land work and utilities. Money will come from two sources to make payments on the tacility: $75,000 from Panguitch City's resort tax revenues and $75,000 from Garfield County to total $150,000. The payments will be approximately approxi-mately $112,000 a year and the (See CITY COUNCIL on Page 2A) CITY COUNCIL From Front Page balance of the money will be used for operation and maintenance expenses, ex-penses, according to Henrie. There will also be revenue generated from the facility itself. Henrie explained that revenues will depend entirely upon the type of event hosted and that some activities ac-tivities will be allowed free use of the facility. He said users will in some instances pay a membership fee or be on a "timer" basis for use of utilities, i.e. those wanting to come in to a train a horse in the winter would pay for lights which would be on a timer to help offset cost of utilities. He said there should be $35-40,000 $35-40,000 out of appropriated monies to offset operating expenses, for utilities, repair and cleanup. There had been some discussion that, through the county, prisoners . might be available for ' some cleanup projects. The city may hire someone in the future, part time to begin with, to try and solicit events for the facility. Mayor Torgerson said the council coun-cil initially undertook the baseball complex because they had a "partner" with the school district. In the new proposal, he said, Pan-guitch Pan-guitch City has a "partner" with the county. Henrie said the city had made application to Rural Development for funding between 4 and 4.5 percent per-cent interest. Henrie explained that he was excited ex-cited about the project and that basically ba-sically it would consist of a large arena with corrals at the back. In the front they will have restrooms and three meeting rooms, one big multi-purpose room that can be divided in half and another multipurpose multi-purpose room that could have a conference room divided off from it. The center will have a foyer and kitchen; the seats will be cement with overhead radiant heat. They won't try to heat the entire arena but they will heat where the people sit. Underneath the cement steps will be storage space. There will be areas for roping and dogging and areas for catch pens. With no comments forthcoming from those in attendance at the hearing, hear-ing, it was closed after about 40 minutes. Pat Oetting appeared before the council to update them on the plans for a Country Christmas Celebration Celebra-tion in Panguitch this year. The date this year is set for Dec. 4, the first Saturday in December. Oetting Oet-ting said she basically made an executive ex-ecutive decision to cancel the parade this year because it is just too dam cold to even walk around one block that time of year. Activities this year will include a home tour, a garnering around a community Christmas tree at Zion's bank parking lot for lighting of the -tree and singing, and Santa will come to the Social Hall to see the kids where there will be a short program and refreshments. The tree was moved from Welcome Market parking lot to Zions because the big grocery sign blocked that corner. cor-ner. The Welcome Market will have several smaller trees decorated at their corner. Panguitch will again do the Angel An-gel Tree and Sub for Santa programs pro-grams and Oetting was requesting $500 once again from the city council. This group will not be sponsoring the Shop at Home campaign cam-paign in Panguitch but it may be organized by another group. The council approved the $500 donation. dona-tion. The city council motioned to adopt the ATV ordinance 1999-7 for Panguitch City. Plans were discussed for the annual an-nual Panguitch City Christmas Party. This year it will be held on Dec. 14 with a short council meeting meet-ing beginning at 5:30 p.m. and dinner following at the Cowboy Smokehouse at 6:30 p.m. Each city employee will bring a $5 value gift. (See CITY COUNCIL on Page 4A) CITY COUNCIL From Page 3A Wally Veater from J.W. Disposal, Dis-posal, Panguitch, appeared before the council to request a specific lot in the Panguitch Industrial Park. Veater was interested in the first lot on the new road by the new Public Safety Facility. They would like to fence the property and have an of- fice building located at that site. Veater also requested the council to discuss possible sale of that particular particu-lar property. A motion was made to reserve the front three acres of the corner lot on the north east side of the new section of the industrial park for J.W. Disposal pending the outcome of the committee on the conditions of a lease. A request was carried to the council by Cindy Johnson for a donation of $500 for the Panguitch EMT's for their annual November conference in Salt Lake City. The request was granted. A request was also received from Luke McEwen for a monetary donation dona-tion for his business The Enchanted Attic in Panguitch to become incorporated. in-corporated. Because McEwen failed to appear at the council meeting his request was denied. A request for a business license had also been received re-ceived from him but was denied because official application had never been made. I Several questions and concerns were voiced among city council members regarding the legalities and controls the city has over the types of businesses that locate in Panguitch. They brought then-concerns then-concerns to the attention of the city attorney. Cindy Johnson and Wally Lee will work together on a new business license application form and bring it back to the council for review. City Manager Allen Henrie reported re-ported on a meeting with Kaibab representatives. Kaibab wishes to" trade approximately 30 acres of Panguitch City land for approximately approxi-mately nine acres of Kaibab property. prop-erty. The appraisal of the city property came in at $1,500 per acre . and the Kaibab property appraised at $2,700 per acre. Kaibab would like to have a workshop with city representatives and review the property that is be- (See CITY COUNCIL on Page 5A) CITY COUNCIL From Page 4A ing proposed for trade. If a trade takes place the cement plant cur-rently cur-rently located on city property will have to be relocated within the industrial in-dustrial park. Some additional discussion took place about regulations, standards and guidelines for the industrial park. Allen Henrie suggested deadlines dead-lines be set for the installation of fencing on lots within the industrial park. A committee had been formed some time back to review and clarify regulations for the park. Byron Howard came before the city council to inform them of his selection for an Eagle Scout project. proj-ect. He planned to install two score clocks at the baseball complex. The clocks were to be installed on .the concessionrestroom building. All of the brackets had been purchased pur-chased by the city. The council accepted Howard's project proposal with gratitude. Janice Henrie and Donna Osborn were in attendance to familiarize the council with the reading literacy program. The program needs funds for a matching grant. With $ 1 ,000 they would be able to purchase $2,000 value in books. The coun-i coun-i cil motioned to increase the library budget by $1,000 to be used specifically spe-cifically for the program. There were two options discussed dis-cussed for a fire alarm system for the new Fire Station. The first option would cost approximately $800. The second would be to contract con-tract with a security firm that provides pro-vides an alarm for $25 per month. It would automatically ring up the alarm company and they would call directly to local dispatch. |