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Show Panguitch City Council Addresses Business Incubation Center Changes PANGUITCH Panguitch City council members, held their last meeting of the month on Mar. 24. The minutes show: The council unanimously voted to contribute $25 to Pepper Hatch to help her at the state homecoming pageant and $500 was given to the Quilt Walk Festival, which will be held in June. Council member Janet Oldham displayed the drawings of the gateways gate-ways to the city, which is part of the Main Street Committee's project. proj-ect. Work is continuing on gathering gather-ing costs, etc. Olin and Pat Powers of Tim-panogos Tim-panogos Pottery displayed samples of the pottery which they will make in their leased space at the Business Incubation Center (BIC). The couple cou-ple was doing business in Heber City, but the building they were in was sold and they needed to relocate. relo-cate. The council voted to allow the Powerses to lease space at the BIC. Mike Henrie was on hand to ask the council if he could rent space also at the BIC for Cherokee Telephone. Tele-phone. They service the pay telephones tele-phones in the area. He currently is leasing space in Cedar City, which will not expire until January 1999. Merle Prince asked if the council coun-cil would consider holding the space, the old home economics room, until a leasor could be found for the space in Cedar City. He also asked if the the council would not charge him rent until he was able to move in. The council agreed, as long as Henrie could show intent to move by doing the work by June 30, 1998. He will be required to pay a $500 deposit when he moves in. That space that is currently leased by Alex Lanham as part of his countertop business. He agreed to give up that space if it is needed by someone else. The council voted to reduce the lease from $250 to $200 per month, since Lanham will be giving up a portion of his leased space. Dr. Mark Waters, a chiropractic physician and certified athletic trainer at Brian Head, has also requested re-quested to lease the classroom which has water. He would like to establish the viability of the clinic for four months and asked if the city council if they would consider charging only $100 per month for that period. He said he would pay the regular rate which is 300 per square foot after the four months. Dr. Waters had talked with council member Allen Henrie earlier ear-lier in the day and said he would take an upstairs room if that was all that was available. The council decided to let Dr. Waters rent the upstairs middle or north room at $100 a month for six months on condition that he installs in-stalls a sink and water heater for that upstairs room. After that time, the lease rate would go up. Merle Prince contacted asbestos removers to receive bids on removing remov-ing asbestos from the boiler room at the BIC. The spaee could be used after that. The bids were: Advanced Environmental Envi-ronmental Resources, Inc. - $4,594; Thermal Heat Industrial, Inc. -$4,171; ABTECH, Inc. - 2,455.85. It was mentioned that former Panguitch resident Vic Middleton once took a group of prisoners (See PANGUITCH on page 4-A) Panguitch Council i From Front Page " trained in asbestos removal to do a job such as this. The council asked :' if Prince would be able to contact U Middleton and see if this service is still available. If it is not, the council would accept the bid from "; ABTECH. Inc. The city received one bid on the -j cost of a trench box. That bid was from Intermountain Public Safety, ; Inc. in the amount of $2,887 plus , :; $225 for estimated freight costs. .; The council voted to accept the bid price. The historical book item was tabled indefinitely. Council member Dennis Orton said that the baseball complex committee would be meeting with the school board and felt that if the city would submit a dollar amount, the school board would be more willing to commit a dollar amount also, towards the project. The city council voted to commit com-mit $250,000 towards the building and construction of a three-field baseball complex. The city would maintain the complex after completion. comple-tion. The golf course item was voted to be tabled until the next meeting. The new fire station was discussed dis-cussed at the meeting. Doug Hea-ton Hea-ton Construction was the apparent low bidder at the opening, which was held Mar. 12. There was a great deal of controversy over the new station surrounding the bids. Heaton found that he forgot to include in-clude the plumbing in his bid. He said he would stand by his bid and See PANGUITCH On Page 5A Panguitch Council From Page 4A also do the plumbing. Council member Craig Twitchell motioned to table the item, seconded by Janet Oldham, and wait for the cost reduction figures. fig-ures. The motion passed with all in favor. Attorney Lee pointed out that if all bids go 5 percent over the budgeted budg-eted amount, it must be re-bid. All bids were well over the 5 percent of the budget amount of approximately approxi-mately $450,000. Council member Craig Twitchell withdrew his motion to table and wait for the cost reduction figures. The council then decided to reject all bids and re-bid the fire station. There was discussion on additional addi-tional achitectural fees and charges for all the changes. The council decided to consider the options available to re-spec the building before going to bid again on the fire station. Architectural and change costs will need to be gathered before going further. Governor Mike Leavitt was on hand in Panguitch to sign HB180, which requires the Public Service Commission to approve the extension exten-sion of natural gas service under certain circumstances. There were 30 adults and six children in attendance atten-dance to watch the signing. Before the signing took place, remarks were given by Mayor Tor-gerson, Tor-gerson, Rep. Tom Hatch, Nicholas Ross from Questar Corp. and Gov. Mike Leavitt. |
