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Show Tuesday Night Meeting for P.G. City Council Has Varied Business Stems With Mayor Haynie presiding presid-ing and all members of the city council present the regular meeting of the council was held Tuesday evening beginning beginn-ing at 7 p.m. The first matter of business was to open bids on the cemetery well and pump house. Bids were as follows: John L. Christensen Construction Co., $31,971; Walker Construction Construc-tion Co., $28,886; R. C. Jones Construction Co. $27,900 and Bouchard Construction Co., $40,283.47. The council voted to take all bids under advisement and a decision reached after consultation con-sultation with the city engineer. engin-eer. Lee Wimmer, city engineer, also discussed with council members the need to provide input to the state about the acceptability of the state water wat-er quality study. This should be done prior to the public hearing set for October. Concerning Con-cerning the need for city council coun-cil members, planning commission, commis-sion, city planner, city attorney attor-ney and city engineer to meet together to discuss the implementation imple-mentation of the new subdivision subdivi-sion ordinance, it was agreed to set this meeting for Wednesday, Wednes-day, Sept. 11, 1974. City superintendent Art Steele was present at the meeting meet-ing to report on activities in the city departments for the past month. He indicated that there is a need to complete one area of curb and gutter which was not totally completed under un-der the youth corps program. He indicated that he had received re-ceived notice that there has been made available to the city a quantity of pipe from the surplus sur-plus property division of the civil defense. Councilman Bezzant report on the meeting held last Friday with the property owners to be effected if Center Street is extended ex-tended east. He felt that there would be some problems in getting get-ting the road through but that it appeared a possibility for obtaining ob-taining ingress and egress from the east part of the city. A local citizen and property owner in the concerned area expressed his view it appeared ap-peared that 100 South Street, which had been previously investigated in-vestigated as a route to this area of town had been dropped because of the pressure exerted exert-ed by several the families near the termination of the present street. The council assured as-sured this resident that 100 South is expected to be extended extend-ed in the near future and that it has not been dropped and that the council is aware of the several families resisting the extending of 100 South St., but that this road will be continued con-tinued to be reviewed for extension. ex-tension. It is the feeling of the council coun-cil that at this time some thought should be given to the extending of Center Street as a possible alternative to relieve future traffic problems of the area. Councilman Bezzant also reported re-ported on his trip to Denver, where the new community development de-velopment program was explained. ex-plained. He asked for a time when he could thoroughly review re-view this program with the council members. Councilman Bezzant reported report-ed that the meeting he had held last week with home owners own-ers in the Blackhawk Estates subdivision and the contractor had proven quite beneficial. It was felt that the problems existing ex-isting in the development could be worked out satisfactorily between be-tween the parties involved. The contractor had expressed his willingness to cooperate with the city and the home buyers. Relative to water used on the planter strip on west center, cen-ter, Councilman D. Ford West reported on several apparent abuses of the sprinklers. Councilman Coun-cilman John Huntsman was asked to look into this problem. prob-lem. Councilman Frank Mills discussed dis-cussed the program for mass transit as outlined by the county coun-ty committee. The need to de-un:;saiia de-un:;saiia the council's feelings on this matter was stressed. Information about the program was presented to the council members and they were asked to review it and determine to what extent they could support the study. Shayne Luck, representing Mountainlands Association of Governments, was present at the meeting to discuss the proposed pro-posed four city personnel director dir-ector program. Mr. Luck explained ex-plained the advantages of this position and the cost breakdown break-down for the' four cities to be involved. An information bulletin bul-letin was given to each of the councilmen for their review. Mr. Luck asked the council to review this information and to make a decision on the matter as soon as possible. John and June Frampton met with the council to express appreciation ap-preciation of the support of the (Continued on page 6) City Council Meets (Continued from page 1) council in the operation and construction of the oval race track. Officer Frampton stated that the Manila track has now been covered up and he is now searching for a new location. The property located south of the rodeo grounds was discussed discuss-ed as a possible location for this track. The council authorized author-ized Oficer Frampton to investigate inves-tigate this location and determine deter-mine its feasibility for the location. lo-cation. The need of a new ambulance ambul-ance for the Pleasant Grove area was discussed. The need to raise $6,000 to help pay for the cost of the ambulance was discussed at length. It was hoped hop-ed that local citizens will support sup-port the fund drive for the purchase pur-chase ofthe new ambulance. The council approved passing pass-ing a resolution encouraging the Utah County Housing Authority Au-thority to instigate the self-help self-help housing program in Pleasant Pleas-ant Grove. Three ordinances were read and reviewed. The ordinances pertain to fence regulations, gasoline storage and bicycle registration. No action was taken ta-ken on these ordinances pending pend-ing a review. The council approved annexation annex-ation of the property owned by Glen Phillips into the city. The necessary ordinance was read and approved. Minutes of the Board of Adjustments Ad-justments meeting held Aug. 26, were read. Bids on the declared de-clared surplus vehicles were opened. Because of the low bids for these vehicles, the council voted to reject all bids. It was approved that the 1971 patrol car be made available for administrative ad-ministrative duties. |
