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Show Cedar Hills gets grant for sewer By JERRY SORENSEN The Cedar Hills Town Council met May 9 to give preliminary approval of the 1984-1985 fiscal budget, hear a progress report from the Planning Committee on the development of a masterplan and to hear the good news that a federally-funded community development block grant has been approved. The block grant of some $70,000 to 195,000 will become available sometime this summer, according to Mayor Max Adams, and will be used to extend the sewer system and to eliminate the sewer lagoons. "We have already begun the planning and engineering for the sewer improvement program," said Adams, "and we will be ready to go to work as soon as the funds are available." The council unanimously approved ap-proved a preliminary 1984-1985 fiscal budget of $76,533 in expenditures ex-penditures with anticipated revenues of $88,737. Mayor Adams reported that due to prudent management and increasing tax base the town is in good financial condition. "We have several new homes ' under construction," said the mayor, "and anticipate 10 new hookups this year. Cedar Hills is a prosperous, growing community 1 and we are very optomistic about the future." A masterplan for Cedar Hills is well underway, according to Planning Commission Chairman, Jeff Lindstrom, and will include guidelines on land use, streets and roads, housing, public facilities, zoning and all other details pertinent per-tinent to the orderly growth and development of the town. The final item of business was the authorization to purchase a riding lawnmower for the city park and a storage building to house equipment. |