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Show Zone changes, annexation highlight council action Requests for money, zone changes, and annexations were points of interest in Thursday's city council meeting, with the recently formed Cedar City Utility Committee requesting the city join the Intermountain Consumers Pwer Association. "Vice-chairman of the committee LaKue Gardner said the citizen board made the motion to join ICPA, a cooperative of municipal and rural power associations, due to the possibility of ICPA doing an inexpensive inex-pensive feasibility study. Initial cost for admission into the ICPA would be $500. The association would do a preliminary feasibility study, to determine the state, local federal laws and other factors affecting the city's ownership of municipal utilities, for around $700, she said. Taken under advisement The city council took the request and status report under advisement. Two public hearings on separate items were also called for, to be held the evening of May 12. A second request for the annexation of 400 acres on the northeast city limits by developer Frank Nichols will be the topic of one hearing, the second dealine with a zone change from R-2 to R-3 on the 75 East to 150 East street, facing 400 South. The council initially denied a request from the Cedar Valley and Parowan Valley Pumpers Association for a $2,500 donation to help pay the cost of legal expenses involved in their protests filed with the public service commission against California-Pacific Utilities Company. The council said they denied the request "pending consideration as a budget line item for the July 1 budget now being formulated." The city attorney was authorized to notify management of D & O Sanitation Company that "activities of their company within corporate limits of Cedar City required them to appear before the"city council relative to alleged violation of city ordinances." The council also gave the city engineers the go-ahead in calling for bids on a pumping and pipeline addition ad-dition to the Enoch Water well. The equipment would put the Enoch culinary water well into the Cedar City north-tank system. Engineering estimate for the cost of equipment and installation is $70,000. City officials said the new well will increase culinary water availability by 1,000 gallons per minute. No meters Council members okayed a request from the Downtown Merchants Association to have free Main Street parking during four different weekend sidewalk bazaars. The request was granted with the provision the merchants mer-chants take the responsibility of covering and uncovering the parking meters for the free days. Authorization was given to furnish a quitclaim deed to Henry and Dee Lister to correct a description error on land they own in the vicinity of 1700 West Street. A request from the Alcohol Recovery Center to have sewer, water and garbage tees waived was tabled for future action. The city manager was asked to research the account charge records of the center to determine the cash value of the request. |