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Show Panguitch City Council Meets PANGUITCH A public hearing on Panguitch city's proposed pro-posed sign ordinance amendment preceded the city council's regular regu-lar meeting on May 12. Those attending the hearing included city officials and D'Lynn Poll, Robert Driedonks, Laura Mosdell, and Lindsey Bremner. Under the amendment "all signs must be structurally safe and comply with all building, electrical and fire codes. The proposed sign may be inspected by the building inspector, and the building inspector may require the applicant to have the sign installed in-stalled by a licensed sign installer." in-staller." Poll expressed concern about being unable to get a licensed sign installer to put up a sign for her business. She was informed that it is not mandatory to have a sign installer involved. With no other comments received, the council passed the amendment. Lindsey Bremner, mayor of the Panguitch youth city council, reported on a recent trip made to Salt Lake City to attend a mock legislative session at the Utah state capitol. A group of 90 youths from throughout the state sat in the legislators chairs and voted on "bills" just as Utah's elected legislators do. She thanked the council for their support sup-port for the local group who attended. at-tended. Several students from Panguitch Pan-guitch High School demonstrated for the council what they will be doing at their National FHA Competition in July. Their advisor, advi-sor, Janice Hatch, said PHS, with (See PANGUITCH on page 4-A) PANGUITCH From Front Page seven students attending, will be the smallest high school from Utah competing. The council donated $25 per student toward their July trip. It was noted that Cedar City is using a tax incentive program to encourage new business to move into the city, since there is such stiff competition among cities vying for new businesses. Attorney Wallace Lee said that he had done some research on it and in his legal opinion, such tax incentives are unconstitutional. unconsti-tutional. Poll expressed concern about how a rebate or refund of taxes could hurt the school district. She said it can be done only for a redevelopment re-development area. The council decided not to pursue the tax incentive in-centive program at this time. Merle Prince reminded coun cil members that they were asked to come prepared to list some names for a 21st Century community commu-nity team. He suggested an education edu-cation representative be included. Council members suggested that the members of the Forest Service Serv-ice Action Team would make a good team. The council decided to ask the Forest Service Action Team to act as the 21st Century Team and Phil Singleton, (with Singleton's approval) to serve as the education representative on that team. Lee had come to the meeting with a resolution indicating Panguitch Pan-guitch City's intent to complete the process required to become a 21st Century community. The council voted to pass the resolution resolu-tion with all in favor. Prince reported that he had contacted five roofing contractors and asked for separate bids for removing old roofing materials and or installing new ones. The bids were reviewed by the council. coun-cil. Mayor Torgerson asked that he and Allen Henrie be allowed to evaluate the budget for available avail-able funding before making any decisions. Council members agreed. Community Service Day was to be held on July 11, but it was noted that horse races are scheduled sched-uled for that day. The governor scheduled Community Day for July 18 and council members said it should be coordinated by Sher-ril Sher-ril Henrie, who is the local organizer organ-izer of Community Day. Marty Dodds of Pyrodyne American asked the council for permission to place a fireworks stand at the Chevron station. She said that the stand will be located the proper distance from the gas pumps. The council decided to approve the business license conditioned con-ditioned upon the business meeting meet-ing the codes. The council also decided to elect a committee to evaluate the Karen Brienholt Scholarship applicants ap-plicants and have the committee make a recommendation to the council. Council member Denny Orton reported that Burdell Henrie expressed ex-pressed a desire to cooperate with the city on the roadway leading to the proposed baseball complex which is partially on his property. The city may need to acquire approximately one-fifth of an acre to square up the property and roadway. Questar Gas Company submitted submit-ted a 50-year non-exclusive franchise fran-chise agreement for the city to consider. Lee, who had reviewed the contract was asked to include a 3 percent energy use tax in the agreement. The council approved signing the franchise agreement will all in favor. The question of permitting beer sales at the race meet was considered. The city has an ordinance ordi-nance which prohibits alcohol at the park, except when a special events permit is obtained. The minutes list no decision. The county is working on the water source protection requirement require-ment and Mayor Torgerson will check with Commissioner Maloy Dodds on the status. Trail planning for ATV's is almost completed except for one more BLM-required meeting. The Main Street Project group will attend a National Main Street meeting in Pittsburgh, Penn. on June 15. The mayor received a letter of opposition to the proposed park being next to Zion's Bank from Ken and Emma Ahlstrom. It was pointed out that the park is still a proposal and a long way from actual planning. Denny Orton asked if it would be possible to send a letter of appreciation to the city's businesses busi-nesses letting them know how much they are appreciated and ' the good they do in and for the community. Mayor Torgerson said he would draft a letter. |