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Show Board of Equalization ! "reports to city council j By MARCELLA WALKER The Pleasant Grove Board of ; Equalization presented its report to , the City Council Tuesday night. The board's report urged the , council to accept the assessments (or the Special Improvement ! District as announced, i The board had met the previous week. Under state statute, all those i who . received assessments could appear before the board to state their case and give reasons why : ' I (heir assessment should be changed. The board said that actually no one had asked to have their V: assessment changed but several had asked questions regarding the I assessments: Several indicated that they felt that the costs for Firwood and Cascade Meadows subdivisions shouldbecalculatedseparately. The city council said that this could not be changed because it was the way the Improvement District was written up. Some residents said that they felt the council lied to them and really let them down. Mayor David Holdaway said that the council had not deliberately lied to them but he acknowledged that some things had been said to the residents in all honesty that turned out later to be wrong. He said that he expressed his apology for misleading people but that it was done in innocence. He said that they believed what they said was true until the attorney brought to their attention that the city ordinances made requirements contradictory to the beliefs of the council. Residents said that orginally they were told they would not have to hook onto the sewer when it passed their home. Later they learned that this was illegal -?nd thai people must hook on if the sewer line came within 200 feet of their property. With the enforcement of the ordinance or-dinance requiring people to hook on to the sewer, the mayor asked Councilman David Faux to make his recommendations for those who were not in the district but who will have the sewer go past their home. Councilman Faux said his committee com-mittee had determined that the property owner must pay the front footage as well as the hook on fee. The ordinance states that payment for the service must be made within 60 days after notification. He said that the surrounding cities have similar ordinances. Another city ordinance states that payment is due within so many days after the sewer line is installed, so two ordinances are involved here. He said the question had been raised about the residents on 600 West not being forced to hook on to the sewer when it went out to the Manila School. Councilman Faux said it was just now enforced by the: city council at that time. They might not have been aware of the ordinance, he noted. Only one property owner on 600 West has hooked on to the sewer at this time, he added. ' Councilmembers ! stated that perhaps the time to pay the front footage could possibly b'? extended by the council or the- ordinance would have to be changed. The existing-homes which have had the sewer go past their homes are the question here. New homes would automatically have to hook on immediately. ; If it is physically impossible to hook up to the linejfrom a certain property, then there would be no requirement to hoqk on nor would any fee be made. I Mayor Holdaway pointed out that the way the ordinance reads now, and if it is enforced, it would mean that every citizen of Pleasant Grove, no matter where they lived, would be required to hook! on to the sewer if the sewer line is yithin 200 feet of their property. j He noted that there are several residences in Pleasant Grove which have never hookeci on to the sewer even though it might have been in front of their property for years in addition to those on 600 West. |