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Show Council mulls fee for double grave Smith, retired city librarian; and Jean Gifford, new city librarian, will review the applications and make recommendations. Mayor Holdaway told the council that the local U. S. Post Office is advertising for bids for construction of a new post office in the city at 200 S. 100 West. The building is expected to cost from $975,000 to $1 million. The new post office should be completed by Oct. of 1988. The mayor also told the council that some modifications had been made to the new city library and senior citizen center plans. They have widened the door on the right side of the platform in the auditorium which goes into a storage room so that a piano and other large items can be stored in there. A curtain was approved for the back of the stage area to provide for better acoustics and to improve the appearance of the stage area. A better lighting plan has been agreed upon and a movie screen will be installed. Doug Bezzant, city inspector, suggested that the city install an adequate sound system since the room will be used for council meetings as well as various programs. A portable podium was also recommended. The council has decided to put the old City Hall Building on Main Street up for sale for several months. It will be placed on a real estate multiple listing until mid-winter. If it does not sell then the council may have the building demolished and a mini-park acting as a gateway to the library and senior citizen center from Main St. installed. Public Works Director Frank Mills reported that nothing can be done on the access road from 100 North to 200 South near 1050 East until the crews finish the work on the Jordanelle aqueduct. Nominating conventions for the Citizens and Peoples Parties will be held on Sept. 17 at 7:30 p.m. The Citizens Party will meet in the Kiwanis Room of the Public Safety Building and the Peoples Party will meet at the Recreation Building. Everyone in the community is invited in-vited to attend one of the conventions. con-ventions. Those who would like to run for one of the three councilmen seats should be nominated at these con-ventions. con-ventions. Mills told the council that in their investigations regarding the ground water getting into the homes in Deveraux estates they found that some of the water in the Murdock Canal is chlorinated in Provo Canyon. The question arose when test holes showed the ground water had chlorine in it, but not in the amounts that the city uses. In the meantime, the water problems have nearly stopped. This coincides with the decrease of water in the canal and Mills said they felt that the canal has been the source of the water. Councilmembers stated that some residents have wondered about the passing and no passing lines being painted on city streets. It is now the state law that these lines must be painted on the streets, they explained. Members of the Pleasant Grove "Sy Council were faced with the Mion last Tuesday of what a fee be for digging a double-deep feat the city cemetery. Recorder K. A. Driggs told council that there were several grave plots in the city lery that were for sale. To I these single plots more ar for purchase, a double-deep could be allowed. The ;i then arose of what the fee se graves should be. k city presently charges $100 j9 for residents and $200 for presidents. The opening and I for residents is $115 and non-residents. There is an ! ;nal fee of $50 on opening and i a8 for both residents and non-. non-. v (nts it is done on a Saturday. ; to pay for the overtime for i employees. , council felt that since a ,,Jtep grave excavation would )Jnderable more time and ,Jj opening and closing fees , somewhat higher. The .-"ion for such a grave plot , De that they would only have .J- Tone site rather than two. . ;j vf-deep lots one. person Placed above the other. Jor David Holdaway suggested H hiPemng and closing fee for , " t'le-deep could be $200 for J 5 and $300 for non-residents. nCunci1 merrbers felt that vOUa like to talk with Sexton ,, uilhmore and get his Jn tne proposal and also J other cities on their rates I iT service before making 'U?CiI aPPrved the awar-C"tracts awar-C"tracts to the apparent low : .r the second through sixth 1 , the new library-senior , Prject. , y'Pkin Masonry of Orem :'lnp r Contract for No. 2; , 6 1 f payson for No. 3; John I'-'tforv ng of Pleasallt Taylor Electric and t , for No- 5: and Kilt CO nSa 'Lake City for No. (;, f C was told tnat 14 ap- ,or assistant city librarian Xd retCeived- A committee t -isDiu of Frank Mills, Public y 4 anrieCl,r; cuncimen Dave Lloyd Ash; Drucilla |