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Show Council adopts priorities in Capital Improvements By MARCELLA WALKER Pleasant Grove City Council adopted what Mayor David Holdaway termed a "position paper" on Capital Improvement goals for the next few years at the council meeting held last week. A list of 10 projects was prepared by the city's department heads as goals that should be reached with capital improvement funds. The projects were not listed in order of priority and some of them were earmarked as possible projects for seeking Community Block Grant funds. Among the projects listed were a public library, new city shop, addition ad-dition to fire station, new city hall, replacement of heat system in Public Safety Building, extention of sewer lines to North Pleasant Grove, implementation of master storm drainage plan, upgrade city vehicles, city computer, rehabilitation of existing low income homes and construction of new homes. Mayor Holdaway noted that the city should also give a high priority to developing a park in the north part of town. The council decided that the city will apply for Community Block Grant Funds to continue the extention ex-tention of sewer lines into the north section of the community. The city council members indicated in-dicated they would like to apply for funds to be used to rehabilitate some low income housing, perhaps for ramps for the handicapped and parking places. The council went over the items one by one, noting the urgency of some and questioning the pressing nature of others. The enlargement of the present library or a new structure was suggested as the most necessary project at this time. The council discussed the possibility of moving : the city hall offices to the basement of the Public Safety Building and placing the library in the present city hall. The library was actually housed in the upstairs of the city hall at one time. Sec Improvements Page 3 i ; 0 Improvements h Continued from front page present heating system could be improved or if an entire new system was required. Since Community Block funds are only allowed where it will effect the low to moderate income families or where a disaster situation exists, the city council felt that the extension of the sewer lines into north Pleasant Grove was a project which filled those criteria. A Community Block Grant last year for $150,000 was awarded to the city and was used essentially to place the sewer along 1300 West. Mayor Holdaway indicated that he hoped to see considerable progress made on the city library project this year. . - . . . as ft Problems with this plan were !nl discussed and the requirement to have all public buildings equipped with ramps for the handicapped was also a concern, dt The city is still pursuing the possibility of moving the fire station lis to the shop area of the old junior high school with the city leasing the il)' structure from the school district, "i Council members noted that soon oi the city is going to have to have fire w substations in the Lindon area and the north Pleasant Grove section, tor The growth of the area protected by m the Fire Department is going to led make this a necessity, the council members noted, lie - They indicated they hated to add ire on to the present fire station just to ed. find out that substations would be m- required in these other areas and the lic trucks would be moved to them'. Fred Christensen, Community Development Director, indicated n that the city could acquire a steel 1 building for the city shop at a reasonable price. Equipment could i be stored out of the weather and a j grease pit provided for maintenance of machinery. Other than the point about the j ramp for the handicapped, the council did not see much hurry about ; leaving the present city hall as it i would be also difficult to make a ; ramp into the basement of the i Public Safety Building. Because of the extreme expense of . heating the Public Safety Building, the council members felt that a I study needed to be made to see if the |