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Show Council approves increases in water and sewer fees Other Business -The city agreed to complete its firing range so that Cedar City will be the site of the 1980 Utah Peace Officers Of-ficers Association's Convention. The completion has been budgeted for next year. Police Chief Douglas Bolton expects the convention to bring between $30-40,000 revenue into the area. -The council approved a new application ap-plication form for beer licenses which will provide more information on the applicant for the city. -The council discussed the city's policies on travel and reimbursement for travel, some personnel policies, benefits for employees and the payment of city bills. -The council discussed opening for bid a small piece of city property on the Airport Rd. and U56. The land is located near the proposed Industrial Park area. -A group of boy scouts from southern Calif, were given permission to spend the night in Canyon Park. -The city's recreation program and the need for a new Recreation Director was initially discussed and will be pursued further at the next meeting. -An application for a beer license from Del Signore's Italian Restaurant was approved. The city council voted last Thursday Thur-sday to increase the monthly sewer fee from $3 to $3.50 per month and to raise connection fees from $120 to $300. The increases had been discussed at the city's budget hearing last week. The budget was planned using the expected increased revenues which the new rates would generate. Small Parks "At first I thought it was a bad idea to have small city parks because they are expensive to maintain. But there are a lot of subdivisions with small children who are unable to use city parks or school facilities," said Councilwoman Barbara Starr. Starr reported that' the city's Planning Committee was requesting a directive from the council on the question. Developers of Bramblewood Subdivision have offered to donate a building lot for such a purpose if the city will maintain it. "If we start maintaining parks, I wonder if one building lot is large enough. If the city starts doing single subdivisions we might have problems," said Councilman Arlo Larsen. Councilman Gordon Slack opposed the idea saying that the city had tried ' it once with only one building lot and returned the donated land to the original owner. He said,"There's rjo way for people to get any satisfaction out of one building lot." Slack also pointed out that the city's first master plan provided that parks be developed in conjunction with the school district so that the school land would not be idle in summer. Starr's motion to accept the lot until further study could be completed was defeated. Survey Ralph Starr, Director of Community Com-munity Development and Services at Southern Utah State College, presented the results of a survey of the city which will be used in developing a final master plan. Ninety respondents indicated that they favored moderate growth to approximately 20,000, enforcement of zoning and building codes, more jobs especially in light industry, funding by user fees and fund raising, a municipal utility system and laws to restrict building in soil subsidence areas. The citizens represented a random selection process using the telephone book and an involved matrix to insure that an representational cross section of local residents were sampled. The survey was conducted by a political science class at SUSC. Media The council voted to provide information in-formation to the press excluding "sensitive" materials such as personnel per-sonnel information at its meetings. Mayor Jack Sawyers had initiated the "packet " idea for council members when he assumed office. The packets contain pertinent information in-formation such as copies of letters, charts, etc. for council members' use in making their decisions. Councilwoman Starr presented the motion saying that it would facilitate the medias coverage of the meetings. The information which pertained to the council's decisions has been been made available to the press after the meetings on their request in the past. |