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Show Bond Election for City Building tabled The Cedar City Council met with the City Municipal Building Committee last Thursday June 3 to discuss the Bond Election issue proposed for this summer. The consensus of opinion was that this summer was not a good time to call for a bond election. Cedar City residents have just received their re-evaluation tax assessment ntoices and the emotional climate would not favor a proposal to increase the mill levy, stated Mayor Kerry Jones. It has been clearly understood by the Council members and the City Building Committee that the new City Building would involve about a one million dollar cost and most certainly would include , a tax increase. The decision reached in a joint session of the Cedar City Council and the City Municipal Building made at the city council meeting tonight, June 10." Following a lively and somewhat heated exchange during a public hearing called to consider a zone change request, the council, on a tie vote which was broken by the vote cast by the Mayor, voted to approve the change. Involved was the Gail Seegmijler Lot located at 231 North 900 West. The request had been submitted by Wittwer Motel Company, asking for a change from residential R-3 to Highway Servic3 - 1. The Wittwer firm indicates that construction will begin during the 1976 year, pending filial approval by the planning commission and the City Council of their building plans. A third preliminary draft of the proposed 1976-77 fiscal year budget was presented to council members showing requests for spending programs which exceed ex-ceed anticipated income" by $156,912.00. Council members have their work cut out for them in eliminating that spending deficit as a budget in which income in-come and expenditures do not match cannot be approved. Individuals and property owners living on 200 East Street, North of Center Street, had asked the Council to consider - authorizing the City Public Works Department to demolish and remove a home. Because of - the question of the propriety of using city equipment on private property, the request was temporarily denied and those individuals will be asked to resubmit re-submit their request after the summer work load has abated. Cedar City's resident State Health Department Sanitation Inspector visited with the council to discuss problems which are developing in the Leigh Hills area in the absence of a sanitary sewer system. The problem is that soil conditions do not lend themselves to completely satisfactory septic tank operation and that there is an unsettling rate of septic system failures. Consideration is being given to placing a moratorium on building permits in that area until sewer service is available but in' the meantime the' health department has been asked to make soil tests and provide statistical information on septic system failures. Future council decision will be based on that data. The council agreed to make building permits conditional on health department approval of" the septic installation plans and soil conditions. Committee was that a bond election, held during June or July while people are still wondering what their actual tax bills will be in October, would most certainly fail at the polls. Building plans will be shelved until after the question of actual tax costs, following re-evaluation, are answered, at the time tax notices are mailed in October, stated Jones. The Cedar City Council opened bids from Certified Public Accountants Ac-countants firms who were offering of-fering to provide yearly accounts auditing service for the coming two-year period, at their regular v meeting last Thursday, June 3. Bids were submitted by three firms, Huskinson-Gubler and Savage, Worth Grimshaw, and Floyd Pickering. Awarding of the bids was tabled pending personal Interviews In-terviews with the accountant s to determine the level of interim supervision between actual audit periods. Mayor Kerry Jones stated that "final award will be |