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Show Council slaps deadline on sewage facility start-up The Cedar City Council put a (inn start-up date on the new sewage treatment plant which will carry with it penalties for further delay in an effort to eliminate the slowdown in the plant's operation. R. B. Piatt, project engineer of the facility's construction, met with the council as the December 1 deadline was set. If that date is not met, the council said, the contract penalty will be imposed for each day of further delay. The council also noted that the County Commission has taken action on the franchise asked for by Deseret Ambulance. A formal announcement of the granted franchise will be made at today's commission meeting. The Council had referred the franchise matter to the county before any action would be taken at the city level. City Manager Mike Embley also gave the council a report on his recent meeting with the Board of the Utah League of Cities and Towns. He said the main item of business in the Salt Lake City meeting was a bill to be submitted to the 1977 Legislature to strike the prevailing wage rate clause in bids involving spending of public funds. Embley said it is estimated that the clause increases public facilities construction costs by 15 to 50 percent in some areas. Cedar Resident Howard Thorley met with the council to discuss a water rights trade. Thorley proposed the possibility of trading culinary water rights in Cedar Canyon Cluff Springsi' area for an out-of-town livestock water connection near the Quitchipau well. The proposal was referred to the city attorney and the city engineer for study and recommendation. recom-mendation. The council also discussed grants and studies for geological insight into the entire Cedar City area, particularly the east side. The city noted that a moritorium on building permits in the Highland Drive area will not be declared, one way or the other, until the studies are in. |