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Show City Council Orders Hearing on Municipal Pover Issue Cedar -CHy Council has set TuesJay,Sept. 7, for a public hearing on a power report prepared pre-pared for the city by the Arotec Engineering Company of Salt Lake City. The report, requested by the City Council and the Cedar City , Power Board, is an "Economic feasibility study report of the 1 proposed acquisition of the elec- 1 trical power system operating within the city limits of Cedar j City, Utah, and operation of this system as a municipal enterprise." enter-prise." Copy of the report is on file at the City offices and open for for public inspection. It will be the sublect of the nnhtie he?.ririg called for September 7. I Meeting with the city council I were members of the City Power I Board who made a report of their investigation and study. On I (hand were Roe Palmer, Robert McCannon, Lowell Sherratt, Dub j Leigh, George Corry, Leonard ! Smith and secretary Mary Lunt. I I The board, however, did not sub-1 mit a recommendation to the city a to whether or not the city should or should not consider a municipal system. In other action of the council a letter of resignation of councilman council-man Lowell Sherratt was read and accepted. The city recorder was instructed to send a letter of thanks and commendation to Councilman Sherratt for his service. ser-vice. Reason for his resignation is the fact that he is moving from the city and therefore will not be eligible to continue to serve. The council directed that the Cedar City Democratic Committee be notified to submit a list of at least three names for consideration considera-tion for appointment to fill the vacancy for the remainder of C ouncilman Sherratt's term of office. of-fice. His elective term will run through December 31, 1965, and I the position on the council is I scheduled to come before the i electorate in November for balloting bal-loting on a four-year term of of-fice. of-fice. City Manager Max Wood reported re-ported to the council that destruction des-truction of city property, particularly parti-cularly signs and posts, has been extremely heavy of late. The council nas asked the residents of the community to cooperate in eliminating this destruction by reporting violations so that proper action might be taken. An ordinance prepared for consideration con-sideration to vacate a street on the master plan of Cedar City ' between 700 and 900 West in the south portion of the city was presented. Approval of the ordinance or-dinance was delayed pending .i:natures of property owners involved in-volved in the arr-a, and the Cedar : City UiMs Club met with the ;cniiTKl ret, uost ii'g permission to sia;v the Fourth of July Cele-hra'ion Cele-hra'ion ii Cedar Cily next year. AcMon on the request was de-layed de-layed pending further investiga-' investiga-' tion and study. |
