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Show Panguitch City Council Meets PANGUITCH Councilman Mack Oetting presided over the first portion of Panguitch City Council meeting on Feb. 22, as Mayor Jon Torgerson was unable to be in attendance at-tendance until later that evening. City Manager Allen Henrie, Recorder Re-corder Cindy Johnson, and council members Denny Orton, Janet Oldham, Old-ham, Greg Payne and Rick Swanger were all present. Cindy Johnson was given approval ap-proval to attend a Clerks Conference Confer-ence in Midway on Apr. 19-21. Shirley Chidester was granted approval ap-proval to attend a Treasurer's Conference Con-ference Apr. 26-28 as well. The first topic on the agenda was a report on the Panguitch Industrial In-dustrial Park. Allen Henrie, Janet Oldham and Mack Oetting had been given the assignment to meet and come up with recommendations for a Lease Policy for the Industrial Park. Allen Henrie noted that these were merely recommendations to be reviewed and discussed by the council. coun-cil. 1) All leased acreage will have six-foot chain link fencing installed around perimeter of the property within one year. 2) A building . with an estimated $30,000 value must be erected within two years on leased property. If no building is required for a given business, this will be reviewed on a case by case basis. 3) All property leased will be at the rate of $100 per acre per month. 4) If property is purchased for 3-$5,000 3-$5,000 per acre, the owner must ( meet all the conditions of the lease policy within two years or the property reverts back to the city. The city has the first right of refusal. re-fusal. The property cannot be sold to a third party .without written permission of the city. 5) As all current leases expire, new leases must be renewed under this new policy. 6) A keep clean policy will require a clean-up bond of $25,000 on each property. Material Ma-terial on the ground must relate to that business. Henrie again noted these were only recommendations at this point. He stated the city currently had a problem at the industrial park with materials being brought up there and just dumped which have nothing to do with that particular business. Oetting pointed out that the city had several leasees currently who, as part of their contract, were to employ at least three persons at a business and this was not being ad-, hered to. The council commended Kevin and Debi Frandsen, who were in attendance that evening, on the manner in which they kept their business. They discussed land lease and purchase options at length. Frandsen brought another issue before the council for their consideration. consid-eration. He had met earlier in the day with representatives of State Forestry and Four Corners Initiative Program, a group that does funding for forest projects. Stephen Steed (See PANGUITCH Page 7-A) PANGUITCH From Front Page with Utah Forest Products was also at that meeting. Frandsen emphasized that it is important for Panguitch City and Garfield County to become involved in-volved in the beetle infestation problem on the forest and begin to put some pressure on Governor Michael Mi-chael Leavitt on this issue. It has appeared the Governor is not willing will-ing to readily support the Forest Service in their endeavor to manage the bark beetle problem. He pointed out that his was not just a timber issue but a tourism one as well, as the forests begin to die off and become unsightly. He asked if the council might write a letter regarding re-garding this issue to the Governor. Pat Macklin was present representing repre-senting a newly formed ParentTeacher Par-entTeacher Organization at Panguitch Pan-guitch High School. She said her group formed specifically to address the low morale issue with students and teachers at the high school. Their group desired to do some teacher appreciation projects and had been soliciting funds from the Lions Li-ons Club, Zions Bank and others. She reported that it was too late in the season to get in on any fund-raising fund-raising at games, etc. and later this summer the group would like to . proceed with writing grant requests for projects. Currently, however, they were asking for donations. Panguitch City donated $200 to the effort. Dave Dodds, Jimmy Johnson, ' Justin Hatch and Gary Leach, all volunteer fire fighters, appeared before be-fore the council to discuss possible incentives monthly for volunteer fire fighters. First Dave Dodds proceeded to clarify with the council whether all fire fighters were covered by workman's work-man's compensation coverage. City Manager Allen Henrie noted that he had checked into this and they were fully covered. Dodds then noted to the council they believed they would have a better fire program is some type of incentive were offered to fire fighters fight-ers to encourage them to keep training train-ing level up. He proceeded to report re-port what information he had gleaned by checking with other cities. cit-ies. Kanab City gives each of it's fire fighters free water bills each months and $125 every six months for gas. Hurricane City fire fighters get paid $4 per hour for training and $6.50 to $7.50 per hour on fires, depending on their level of training. Parowan City pays $6 per hour for training and fires. Monroe City pays their firemen's medical coverage. cover-age. Allen Henrie reported that he and Mayor Jon Torgerson had talked about his previously at length and wanted to come up with some type of compensation for fire fighters that wasn't an accounting nightmare night-mare for the city. Dodds said they had 20 active fire fighters and wondered if the city could provide some type of compensation com-pensation through an annuity program. pro-gram. Henrie said he would have to check with state accounting but that this might be a good option. Dodds said he would like to require participation in two training's per month for fire fighters to be eligible eligi-ble for incentives. Henrie and Dodds will meet further on this. r |