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Show 'ort rpr ,n&Jilw wlijiiiiuilv lPUiSiylli - . : . . - Vol. 7, No. 20 Wednesday, May 15, 1985 50 cents a single copy Mayor, police approve first response program Mayor David Holdaway reviewed the First Response Program and rescue truck activities with the Pleasant Grove City Council Tuesday night. He read a letter from Bill Robbins thanking the city for initiating the program. The mayor told the council that a g accident had occurred the night before and the rescue truck was several minutes ahead of the ambulance. Police Chief Mike Ferre received permission from the council to purchase a computer from this year's budget. He suggested a computer costing approximately $7,000. He is looking at an IBM PC or compatible computer. This would have hard disc storage capacity. Councilman David Dickerson said there were problems with mowers in both the parks and cemetery. He recommends putting a new engine on the present mower at the cemetery and looking closely at purchasing a new mower in next year's budget. Recreation fees including the fees at the pool have been set for the summer. The chlorinator at the pool has been converted to pellets and should be much safer to operate, Councilman Dickerson noted. He added that the floor at the Community Center was ready for repairs and the city will have the floor resealed. Councilman John Frampton discussed a proposal by Seagall Recycling Company to receive the right to pick up glass, aluminum cans, and newspapers on garbage days. Citizens would be asked to separate these items from their regular garbage. The council felt that this would create a lot of problems and decided not to take any action at this time. Council approved awarding a contract to Neils Fugal and Sons for preparing the Monson Tank site for landscaping. ' The council set the interest rate at 10 per cent for the Special Im-provement District. Those residents who are included in the district will have 10 years to pay off their share of the costs of installing the sewer in their areas. Members of the Daughters of the Utah Pioneers met with the council to explain that they needed the additional space in the back of the museum for displaying heirlooms and relics. It was noted that at present the Dept. of Parks and Recreation uses a portion of the structure for shop and storage. The council explained that until the city can afford to build a new-sho-complex or rent other space, there is not much they can do. Lee Wimmer, city engineer, received permission from the council to proceed with an ap-plication for a $74,000 Safe Sidewalk Grant for 1986. The proposed project would be located on Highway 89 from about 700 South to 1000 South on the east side of the road. The council authorized the mayor to sign the 1985-8- 6 Community Development Block Grant Contract. I .' ', - : N- - i "V ! H ; k . ..' t I j v ' ; i " ' : ;. H ' V ' . 4'; ' i i X, v I - J - (. J - 1 V r . --a' ' ' ' - - r i i . ''-i- , - ' "V" i :. H w -- ...' ssv'f. ......4 I : ; " i . . - ' f tk " .'... .... .... Sgt. Steve Frampton and Det. Bert Bean of the Pleasant Grove Police Department look over some of the marijuana and drugs confiscated Thursday night during a search of a Pleasant Grove home. Police confiscate stash of marijuana and drugs Wilson,' Jeff Wilson, Jay Thornton"' and Tom Prestwich. Lt. Paul said the arrests will have an immediate impact on the drug traffic in Pleasant Grove for the juvenile age group. He said that several juveniles have been arrested for buying drugs supposedly out of this home over a period of some time. Pleasant Grove Police Officers with a search warrant entered a Pleasant Grove home Thursday evening and confiscated between $5,000 and $6,000 worth of marijuana andpharmaceutical'drugs. U. Tom Paul reported that on Thursday afternoon they arrested two boys and the inf-ormation they gained from the youths was enough for the officers to put together a search warrant for a house in Pleasant Grove. He said the police department had suspected for some time that the occupants of the home were dealing in selling marijuana to juveniles. During the search the officers confiscated six and one-ha- lf pounds of marijuana, numerous bottles of Pharmaceutical drugs and a large quantity of drug paraphernalia . The officers arrested one male adult and will be charging him under the new marijuana law with felony possession of marijuana and a second degree felony of distribution of marijuana. Lt. Paul said the man was being held in the Utah. County Jail. The two juveniles Were arrested for possession of marijuana. Lt. Paul said this marks the arrest of an individual who they had been interested in for sometime, par-- , ticularly this past week. He said the man is suspected of dealing in drugs to a lot of high school and junior high school age kids. He noted that the search began at about 8:30 p.m. The juveniles had been at about 5:30 p.m. Lt. Paul said the street value of the confiscated items would amount to between $5,000 and $6,000. Officers involved, in addition to Lt. Paul, were Chief Mike Ferre, Sgt. Steve Frampton, Sgt. Mike Blackhurst, Det. Bert Bean, Lonnie Handicap housing approved The Pleasant Grove Planning Commission has approved the issuing of Conditional Use Permits for handicapped boarding houses up to six people. The approval was given at the last meeting of the Commission. The Commission also reported that a final draft of the 1985 Land Development Code would be ready for the June 6 Planning Commission Meeting. Following a lengthy discussion, the Commission decided to ask the city planner and the city attorney to come up with a proposal regarding residential dwellings in commercial zones. The City Council had asked the Planning Commission to address a problem which has arisen wherein a family has moved into a house which had been vacated for over a year and which exists in a commercial zone. The city ordinance states that if a use permit has been given for a residence located in a commercial zone, it may be used as a dwelling as long as it is not vacated for more than a year. After that the property reverts back to com-mercial. The family which is now living in the home feels it would be better to have the home inhabited rather than empty anddeteriorating. Ken Millard, the city planner, explained that the Planning Com-mission could only make a master plan policy change, not grant a variance. Michael J. Housten received approval to have his home changed from a single family dwelling to a duplex. The home is located at 80 West and 200 North. Approval was given subject to final inspection. Minor accident injures two Police Officer Jay Thornton in-- v taligated an accident Wednesday at 800 S. Geneva Road in which two people received minor injuries. Rae Lynn Kinder, Huntington, Utah, was taken to American Fork Hospital where she was treated. Gary Hannig, Provo, was treated at the scene by Pleasant Grove Am-bulance personnel. ' Damage to each car was set at $2,000. Officer Thornton said that Ms. Kinder was stopped north bound lane getting ready to make a left hand turn. Mr. Hannig, also northbound, swerved to avoid a collision but struck the back of the Kinder car. Animal Control Officer John Hill reported Monday that a dog at-tacked a ewe owned by Lloyd Walker, 480 N. 100 East, Pleasant Grove. The officer said the sheep will probably have to be destroyed because of injuries to head, neck and leg. Two lambs belonging to the ewe were not harmed, the officer said. A burglary was reported at the home of Jim Loock, 455 E. 500 South, Pleasant Grove. Entry was made through a broken window. It was not immediately determined if anything had been taken. District will tighten belt Following defeat of proposed leeway tax vote Graph shows how local voters responded at each 457 consolidated disctict in last week's leeway election for the Alpine School District. J j I 1 , Ho " 227 "0 j Yes Yes Yes j Ro 178 161 156 yes 151 I I 138 Yes Yes I I 123 99 . Yes Yes 85 go Sejo lilj leht Jr. Highland rorbrt West Forbei Cast Greenwood Lndon ViHer View Ciovecreil 3010 1943 2931 U55 2967 3284 1194 20J JJI Reg. Voteri e. Voters Re. Volert ef. Voters e. Volerl Ht. Volert e. Volen Re Volrn n Voltn Officials in the Alpine School District this week are looking for measures to "tighten their belt" as they figure the budget for the up-coming fiscal year - without the benefit of additional funding from a leeway. The tentative budget was presented at the regular business meeting of the board last evening. The three mill leeway increase in property taxes asked for by district officials went down to defeat May 8. Although the official canvass of the votes wasn't until the regular business meeting of the board, unofficial tally results showed of the 7,244 votes cast, 4,161 votes, 57 percent, were against the leeway and 3,083 votes for it. Approximately 13 percent of the 54,000 eligible voters in the district went to the polls - for what some veteran poll watchers describe as an "unusually heavy turnout" for a special election. When asked what the district will do now, Dr. Clark L. Cox, Superintendent, said "We'll go on. We'll just have to tighten our belt a little harder." "We will go over every area of the budget to see where we can cut that will least effect classroom operations and still balance the budget. We will look at every area and if we don't absolutely need it, we won't go with it." Dr. Cox said possible areas of cuts will probably be discussed at the board meeting. "The people have mandated we live within our current budget and we will look at it carefully and as objectively as we can. There will be no area that won't be scrutinized. We've got to balance the budget," he said. Dr. Cox said several practices had been instigated prior to the vote to save money, including a freeze on filling job vacancies, a reduction in the use of substitute teachers, reduction in administrative staff at the district office, and cost cutting practices for custodial services. Dr. Richard Sudweeks, board president, added, "We'll make do. We'll have to take a close look at the budget and carefully .prioritize proposed expenditures - and will make do with the kind of textbooks and supplies we have." "We'll do without the instructional aids, and the computers and will have maintainance problems that will go unattended - but education will go on," Dr. Sudweeks said. Dr. Sudweeks said board mem-bers and district personnel are going to have to decide where to cut. "If we hire fewer people, the class size goes back up," he said. "Do we cut back in support per-sonnel? We are already the lowest in the state there. The Utah Foun-dation says we already have the trimmest budget in the state." "We will just have to make do -- that's all." District officials had asked for the three mill leeway to raise $1.8 million dollars annually for the district, and had said this would increase property taxes by about $30 annually on an $80,000. home. The leeway would have also given the district state equalization funds which they are not able to get now. Funds were earmarked for ad-ditional textbooks and classroom supplies, additional specialists to help students in special areas, classroom aides for large classes, for equipment such as classroom computers, and for building maintenance. District officials last asked patrons for a voted leeway 15 years ago. It was turned down then too. Flection judges reported many of the voters casting their ballots were senior citizens with one judge heard to comment there were only four people coming to vole in that district "who didn't have gray hair." The election is believed to have been affected by a group who came out in opposition, claiming the district lost $1.5 million through poor investments. . It went down to defeat in all of the consolidated districts in American Fork, Lehi, Pleasant Grove, Highland and Alpine and Lindon, and passed in seven of 11 Orem districts. Attorney to review Manila water agreement city's position and that the Manila Water Co. would have the option to get a legal opinion of their own if they desire. The questions about the service area of the city water lirtes and Manila Water lines have come about as construction occurs adjacent to where the two water systems exist. It has been explained that it would not be wise to have two water lines going down the same street if it could be avoided. Ray Harding, Pleasant Grove City Worney, win review the dty.s on on installation of water lines ni"e north area of the community, lne Wy council decided Tuesday. Jayor David Holdaway said he a discussion with Ken J'tteM of the Manila Culinary Co. and said that the company still concerned about en- - r aenment into "lr what they consider area of service. "e said that Pleasant Grove's ment with the gtate precludes thlse agreement the city Com make with the Manila Water Cuncilman David Dickerson felt openK 6 lsues should be discussed both Parties and tnat il h k J' , 6 affirmed that the city is cityiim7tf led in areas outsicie the fiSSfc David Faux reaf- - that th ay Harding had stated tendine r V 1S resPnsible for ex- - citv lim-t0 residents within the he;e T-H- felt that the time was Mani aue!lve the 'ssues with the Co. "Pinion frily of getting as,w an outside attorney the cuv The coullcil feH that altrney should review the Jr. Rodeo Queen to be selected The Strawberry Days Junior Rodeo Queen will be chosen Friday, May 17, in a contest to be held at 5 p.m. at the Pleasant Grove Rodeo Arena. Girls age 15 and younger are eligible to participate. They will be required to show horsemanship skills. For further information call Karmel Clay at |