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Show City Council Acts On Water. Street Recreation Items At the Monday night meeting of the Parowan City Council that body took stops to arrange for the observance of July 4 In Parowan Paro-wan with the program for the day being placed in the hands of the City Recreation Committee, Commit-tee, states Mayor Osmer Nielsen. Heading this committee for the city Is Councilman Bryce Adams, with Councllmen Glen Holyoak and Charles Burton, members. Heads of the various civic organizations organ-izations In the city are also members of that committee. It was reported to the council at the meeting that the Farowan City hydro-electric plant situated In the mouth of Paragonah canyon can-yon Is being damaged by water leaving the penstock according to Mayor Nielsen. He states that the council hydro-electric committee, headed by Councilman D Robinson, Robin-son, with Councllmen Morris Ras-mussen Ras-mussen and Charles Burton, as members were Instructed to start work Immediately to correct this condition. With the Parowan City swinging swing-ing pool to be placed In use within the next ten days, the recreation committee, headed by Councilman Adams, was Instructed Instruct-ed to make preparations for its operation. Mr. Adams reported that Lowell Caldwell has been employed to manage the pool and that his committee was al iedy vii!:lng with Mr. Caldwell on plans for the operation of the new facility. Mayor Nielsen also reported that the waterworks committee of the council, headed by Councilman Coun-cilman Rasmussen, was Instructed Instruct-ed to begin making preparations to go ahead on the program to Improve the city culinary water-system. water-system. This will be (''re on a small project basis, us.r.g funds being accumulated by the city accruing from the raise in the city water rates inaugurated a few months ago, according to the mayor. When the citizens of the city turned down the waterworks improvement bond issue last year city officials made a decision deci-sion to go ahead with the improvements im-provements on a small Item basis ba-sis and increased the water rates in order to do this. Mayor Nielsen states that this work will begin on the two city streets where plans are made to Install curb and gutter so that those streets may be oil surfaced their full width. This project Is also to be undertaken with the cooperation of the State Highway Department. Therefore streets to be given first priority or new pipe lines as money is accumulated, will be Main Slreet and Center Street, from Main Street to the east edge of the city. The hearing was held on the proposed Parowan City budget for the fiscal year beginning on July 1, and as no one appeared to question that budget as drawn up by the council, it was passed by a unanimous vote of the members mem-bers of the council. The budget calls for the expenditure of approximately ap-proximately $38,000 during the coming year, we understand. |