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Show City Engineer fields council questions per' month which the attorney felt was fair until an extremely high number of hours were spent on city work since June. The council decided to keep him on retainer of $1,500 per month for up to 40 hours of work. Everything over that will be paid for at the rate of $50 per hour. Mayor Holdaway cautioned the council to think matters over By MARCELLA WALKER Lee Wimmer, Pleasant Grove City Engineer, told the Pleasant Grove City Council Wednesday that the cost to lay the sewer throughout the rest of the north part of the city would be approximately $1.5 million. Mayor David Holdaway said the city gets complaints all the time about the failing septic systems in hat area. He said that even though it is early in the year yet, there are many problems existing already. The mayor said the city would like 'o seek more possible grants to help finance more sewer extensions into that area. He told the council and engineer that State Representative Don Lebaron will be at the city hall next Tuesday, January 8, to talk with the city council about concerns the city has that the legislature could help with. Councilman John Frampton reported that the city now has three salt spreaders because of fixing up an old one, the present one and acquiring a new one. Councilman David Dickerson said that the scoreboard has been installed in-stalled in the Community Center. Two scoreboards will be installed at Battlecreek Park. All of the scoreboards have been donated to the city. Mayor Holdaway stated that by the next city council meeting the city's properly in th Gibson In dustrial Park will be cleaned up or else. He said that the city council asked for this to be done a long time ago and it has not been done. Mayor Holdaway told the council that he had talked to Harold Jacklin of the Strawberry Days Committee who said that his group would be willing to purchase new Christmas decorations for the city if the city would store them and see that they were put up. He suggested that the Chamber of Commerce and a committee of volunteers might help. Some council members suggested that the decorations be spread out so that all segments of the business community could benefit from them and not just the Main Street merchants. mer-chants. Councilman . Lloyd Ash was assigned to check with the Strawberry Days Association to see what they have in mind. The council noted that the assignment to see that the decorations are put up each year could come under the Parks and Recreation Dept. and this would help to see that they were up sufficiently suf-ficiently early and stored properly. Councilman Dave Faux explained that the decorations had been stored in the basement of the Utah Power and Light Building for years even though it has a dirt floor. Others are now also using this storage area and proper care of the decorations is difficult to maintain there now. Councilman Ash said that he felt that plenty of other storage places were available including a large area in the basement of the Public Safety Building. Mayor Holdaway reported that he had met with the Alpine Superintendent Superin-tendent of Schools who slated lhat he thought the Central High School student enrollment will be maintained main-tained at its present level. The City Hall and Police Department Depart-ment personnel have received numerous complaints about the location of the Central High School, Alpine's alternate high school, ' so near to the city park. Supt. Cox said that the district is looking at some alternate sites for the school but he anticipates that it will be several years before a change would be made. The superintendent questioned the safety of putting the fire engines in the shop area since part of the building houses students and a fire hazard would exist with the gasoline in the fire trucks stored there. Mayor Holdaway suggested that a citizens committee be formed to see what options are available in considering con-sidering moving the city hall, , library and fire station. The city attorney had asked the council to consider a form of reimbursement to him for the extra hours he has recently spent in legal work for the city. Mayor Holdaway noted that the attorney receives a retainer of $1,500 carefully before taking them to the attorney so that some of the time spent on problems could be cut down. The mayor told the council that he had made a thorough study of the revenues and expenditures of the city budget to date. He said that everything was right in line and he was very pleased to report this. Councilman Ash reported that more police cars are needed. The chief wants to purchase ones similar to the other new ones they have acquired. The councilman said the officers liked the smaller vehicles, they moved well in snow, they were economical and they liked the white color. He stated that they planned to stay with the white color and the marking on the side. The city council approved sending a letter to Brigham Young University congratulating the football team for being named the number one team in the country and national champions. |
