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Show Escalante Citv Officials Meet The Escalante City council held a bi-monthly meeting on Feb. 2. Information is summarized from unapproved minutes. Present were Mayor Lenza Wilson, Council Members Don Porter, Jim Wel-burn, Wel-burn, Chris Christensen, and City Recorder Vickie Schulkoski. Council Coun-cil members Marilyn Jackson and Stanley Stowe were excused. J. Mayor Wilson opened a public hearing at 7:10 p.m. to discuss budget adjustments for unexpected revenue and expenditures. -; Monte Luker requested that any extra money available be used for public safety but Wilson there was none. Victoria Woodard said she . had been at a council meeting and heard that the city had an approximately approxi-mately $70,000 deficit. City Recorder Re-corder Vickie Schulkoski explained that the person reporting the information infor-mation did not have the facts correct. cor-rect. Schulkoski said it was impact fee money, and outlined the process. proc-ess. The public hearing closed at 7:16 p.m. and the council went into its regularly scheduled meeting. Schulkoski said Marilyn Jackson Jack-son called and said she would vote in favor of the budget resolution. Porter stated he would like the fire department money he turned into Schulkoski added to the fire department depart-ment budget. Welburn explained the carryover Class C road fund money. The council passed the budget resolution. Sharol Bernardo said she had attended at-tended the Garfield County Travel Council meeting and updated the city on grants that have been applied ap-plied for. Woodard said the ad-hoc committee com-mittee has agreed to use the survey from August of 1997 for the general gen-eral plan. The committee has been working on the goals and policy section of the general plan. Carmen Car-men Isheim asked to join the committee com-mittee and she was added as a member. mem-ber. Tom Mansell read a letter he had prepared about a proposed micro-brewery micro-brewery that he is considering es tablishing and asked the council if they had any concerns. Welburn asked Mansell if he planned on holding a public meeting regarding the brewery and Mansell replied said he would be willing to hold a public pub-lic meeting on the issue. The brewery, approximately 50 square feet, would be located behind his existing building. Mansell said he has ample parking and would approach planning and zoning when he starts the project. City Attorney Bagley said the city has no ordinance ordi-nance prohibiting a brewery. Bagley Ba-gley said the city would address Mansell's brewery like any other business that obtains a beer license. Mansell responded to questions from the public about potential odor and venting. He promised to keep the city council informed of (See ESCALANTE CITY on page 4-A) Escalante City From Front Page progress on his project. Mayor Wilson said the city purchased pur-chased new software to be Y2K compliant. At the mayor's request, the council approved Caselle training train-ing for Schukoski and City Treasurer Treas-urer Cindi Steed. Mayor Wilson reported that he is working on a vehicle policy for the city. Richard Costigan said Barry and Celeste Bernards were approved for a new residence by the planning and zoning committee. After affirming that the Bernards were aware of the city's impact fees, approved the municipal project approval form for the Bernards. After a lengthy discussion on impact fees, the council decided to send a letter to all those who owe impact fees, including the Bernards. They set a work meeting for Feb. 9 from 6 to 7:30 p.m. to discuss the fees. Larry Withers addressed item number seven of the building inspector's in-spector's agreement with the county which states that either party can give 30 days notice to be released from the agreement. He said he is trying to certify as a building inspector in-spector number three, which would not include inspection on commercial commer-cial projects. He suggested having the county do the commercial inspections. in-spections. Wilson asked Withers what the city would do if he quit or something happened to him. Withers With-ers said certification takes about a year and and he would conduct inspections in-spections as part of his duties for the city. Cindi Steed said she talked to the county about this issue. They said if the city has their own building inspector, they will not do any inspecting for the city. After more discussion on this issue, the council decided to get figures to determine feasibility. Costigan volunteered vol-unteered to check into the feasibility feasibil-ity of a building inspector. Mayor Wilson explained the position po-sition of a zoning administrator and appointed Larry Withers as the city zoning administrator for six months. The council ratified the position. Mayor Wilson said he is working work-ing on an ordinance for red tagging. Richard Costigan said the planning plan-ning and zoning committee approved ap-proved the preliminary plat for Mo- qui Garden Subdivision B. The commission imposed stipulations on the preliminary plat, to which the council agreed amd then subsequently subse-quently approved. Costigan said that Victoria Woodard wanted to add a basement to their original municipal project approval form. Planning and Zoning Zon-ing had approved the project. Wel-burn Wel-burn asked Woodard if it would be used as a shed and she said yes. The council then approved her request. Costigan updated the council on the Escalante Center. He said the Bureau of Land Management will be doing the master planning for the center. Bryce Lloyd will be the landscape architect for the building. Lloyd wanted to meet with the city to discuss ways to deal with the sewer and water for the center. Costigan said this area will need to be looked at for rezoning. City Recorder Schulkoski said there was a Community Impact Board meeting in St. George for the Alvey Wash Bridge funding. Layne Woolsey and Mayor Wilson will attend the meeting. Schulkoski read the council a handwritten notice that was put up at the post office. Schulkoski said that neither she nor Cindi Steed wrote it. She also stated that any information that comes from the city office is public information. The mayor said Schulkoski -went to Salt Lake City to obtain Flaming Gorge Water Rights. The city was awarded 550 acre-feet of Flaming Gorge Water Rights with the stipulation that the city annex Mark Minchey property, if he chooses to, to build a subdivision. Minchey had requested Flaming Gorge Water Rights and they thought it would be best if his property were annexed into the city. The high school was awarded 50 acre -feet of water for the irrigation of their outside property. The school is willing to help with the water project any way they can. Schulkoski said the water has to be utilized within five years. There is the possibility of additional water rights, if someone doesn't use then-water then-water right. It would be turned back to the Water Right Board and they would redistribute the water right. Schulkoski said she felt Karl Rasmussen should have represented the city from Jones and Demille instead of Tristen. She said the city needs to get to work on these water rights and not lose them. The city will have to drill a well to utilize the Flaming Gorge Water Rights. Steve Gessig said Pine Creek Irrigation Ir-rigation received 240 acre-feet of water. He said he thought more city officials should have attended the meeting and maybe the city would have gotten more water. Gessig told the council about the new system that Pine Creek installed in-stalled in December 1998. They proved efficiency on the Pine Creek system and the state approved Pine Creek another second-foot of water, now they can water an additional 60 acres legally. He said he is willing to help the city, if the city is willing will-ing to help him. The Pine Creek Irrigation pipeline can only handle 10 12 second feet of water, and their water right is for 12 12 second sec-ond feet of water. In two years, they have to prove to the state that Pine Creek has extra water, then there will be water available off the mountain for the city, that can be leased from Pine Creek Irrigation Company. Schulkoski Schulk-oski said the City will have to complete the application for the Flaming Gorge Water Rights and look at annexing Mark Minchey's property into the city. Layne Woolsey said there is a problem keeping Dell LeFevre's cows off of the airport runway. After a lengthy discussion the council asked Attorney Bagley to find out what options the city has. Council member Porter said he will (See ESCALANTE CITY on page 6-A) Escalante City From Page 4-A check into the cost of a temporary electric fence. Woolsey said he has been working work-ing on cutting the bank down on 3rd West. He said there was a major water leak in the Moqui Garden Subdivision that they took care of last week. Larry Withers said the shingles which are beyond repair on the Senior Sen-ior Citizen Center need to be replaced. re-placed. Deon Alvey said she is working on a grant to improve the Senior Center and would like to include the roof in the grant which the council approved. Mayor Wilson said he met with the group over the main street project. proj-ect. They will be applying for federal fed-eral grant money for street lighting, planter boxes, etc. Wilson said the city will be supporting them on the grant process. Mayor Wilson said the National Guard will be in Escalante for two weeks in April to excavate the Wide Hollow Reservoir. They will need eight gallons of culinary water per person, per day, for 16 days, for 170 people. The council approved the water for the National Guard on the project which w ill benefit the city." Don Porter said he and Schulk-oski Schulk-oski had authorized putting out a fire at the city dump to avoid being cited. The fire department did an incident report in case there are any questions. Welburn suggested contacting con-tacting the high school and to see if anyone knows who set the fire. Porter said he would like to use the fire department funds from the rodeo to equip the new fire rescue vehicle. The amount of money turned in was $1,354. Welbum would like any excess money to be used to equip the police vehicle. Council members agreed. Porter is permitting the Public Works Department use the old fire rescue truck until he contacts the state. He gave an update on the airport. air-port. Dennis Corsi with Armstrong Arm-strong Consultants came and updated up-dated the city on the progress. The airport plan is completed and now needs to be approved and signed by the FAA. Porter would like to have a capital improvement fund set up for the airport. He updated the council on the deficiencies and proposed pro-posed plans and projects for the airport. He said the city is working on a height ordinance for the area around the airport. The council gave approval for Chris Christensen to attend the meeting in St. George on Feb. 24, regarding sludge in sewer ponds. The council also decided to send Christensen to the Five County Association meeting on Mar. 30 for Community Development Block Grant funding for the sewer pond property. The council agreed with Steve Gessig who said the city needs to purchase the water rights with the property. Welburn said that two windows for the clinic will cost $247. Purchase Pur-chase of an air conditioner had been approved. Welburn said he was waiting on bids, due on Feb. 15, to do crack sealing, chip sealing and drainage road. Mayor Wilson said he would like something worked out with Griffin Lane Subdivision so they can get their subdivision road completed. com-pleted. Welburn said he would check into it. |