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Show Council mulls sales, voting, insurance He said, however, his main concern con-cern was to do what the city wanted him to do. In other action, the city council approved combining voting districts for the municipal election which will be held this fall. The consolidated districts would vote at the multi-purpose center. Districts' 1 and 2 would be consolidated con-solidated district 1, districts 3 and 13 and would be consolidated district 2, districts 4 and 6 would be consolidated con-solidated district 3, districts 5 and 9 would be district 4, districts 8 and 10 would be district 5, districts 11 and 14 would be district 6, and district 7 would be district 7. The city council agreed to the lease-purchase of a mower, sweeper, police telephone system and a computer system. The three-year three-year lease purchase agreement is with Zions Bank. City Budget and Finance Director, Kay Driggs, reported on the current porposals to form some type of insurance in-surance pool to cover cities with umbrella coverage. The city is presently covered with adequate insurance but will continue to review options and assess the costs. Mr. Driggs was asked to continue to update insurance information. in-formation. The council approved the sale of property near the rodeo grounds to DHMATCO, Inc. To be sold is a 1.247 acre parcel. The sale price was reported at $29,900. , ,L1M piMMMMamffi' TW"' '""T vv?3K?vaR?iMKMPfM J Pleasant Grove City Council has asked Councilman David Dickerson to make a formal proposal at the M council meeting concerning merchandise being placed on city sidewalks by merchants. The present ordinance does not w for the display of merchandise j" front of stores. Some merchants Itel, however, that it is needed to ance business. e city has received some wmplaints from citizens about the j"hlem. Some feel that it does not we enough space to walk and rs dislike the appearance. A survey of businesses on Main "t showed that some thought it H i LaS.i?lright t0 display merchandise J e sidewalk, others disliked it, and others did not care one way or the other. Some ideas discussed included allowing the sidewalk to be used as long as it was only four to six feet from the front of the business, only permitting outside sales at the time of special sales and using the back of the businesses for parking lot- It was noted that trees in front of the businesses take up some room and allowance had to be made for them, as well. One merchant said that he is limited in that he can not expand his store and in order to sell what he needs to to make a go of things he would like to display in front of the store. j ,... |