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Show PG City Council makes offer on shop Pleasant Grove City Council noted Tuesday night that it had made an offer on the old Pleasant Grove Junior High School shop area located at 100 E. 100 South. The council said that they had not received a firm response yet from the Alpine School District. At the last council meeting the decision was made to offer up to $40,000 for the structure but the price is being negotiated, Mayor David Holdaway said. The city would like to use the building for a fire and ambulance facility. The structure is large enough to hold the fire trucks and ambulances. The council approved the hiring of Kent Walker as architect and will ask him to prepare a plan of the building and the minimum required re-quired to bring it up to code. The council does not want to spend a fortune making the building build-ing look fancy but said it will need to have the asbestos removed from the heating ducts and it must be made structurally sound. In the meantime, the city will await an answer from the school district. In other matters, the council discussed at length the value of hiring a full time custodian for the city. The councilmembers said that with the mechanical systems in the new library, city hall, public safety building and community center, the city could use the services of a skilled person. At present the city has part-time part-time people who clean each building. build-ing. When the library was nearing completion the city council discussed dis-cussed this question and decided for financial reasons to stay with the part-time system and take another look at it later. Preliminary figures indicate that it would cost the city about $500 more per month to have a fulltime person because of the benefits that would go with the job. The person would be asked to work a shift from noon until 8 p.m. most days so that office cleaning could be done in the evenings when they are empty. During the daytime hours maintenance main-tenance work on heating and cooling cool-ing systems, fire alarm system, etc. could be done. It would also provide someone to supervise when areas such as the Senior Citizen Center are rented out. The council felt that if they should decide to hire a fulltime person it would take place at the beginning of the next fiscal year on July 1. They said they would take into account the quality of work this would provide and the better preservation pres-ervation of the buildings in making this decision. The council decided to table a resolution to borrow money from the Utah League of Cities and Towns Cooperative II fund. The council would have had to submit the resolution right away and they felt that they would like to look into it further and not be rushed. In addition, since the money would have been used to finance the renovation of theold junior high shops which the city has made an offer to purchase, the council wanted to see if they could pay as they go on remodeling the building rather than going into debt. The council approved sending a letter of appreciation and a Community Com-munity Achievement Certificate to the PGHS Wrestling Team for winning the state championship and bringing recognition to the community. Public Works employees who have had to spend countless extra hours working this winter because of the snow and cold temperatures should- be given an appreciation See City Council Page 3 PL Grove City Council items'6 ' dinner for them and their wives, the council suggested. The Public Works Director will be responsible for this event. Councilman Bill West said he had noticed that Spanish Fork City had banned on-street parking during dur-ing the winter. He was curious about what Pleasant Grove was doing about this. He was told that warnings were issued by the police department at the first of the winter. But if the city were to impound the cars, where would they put them all? They said the ordinance was very difficult to enforce. 3 Mayor Holdaway said fc . an I city will be doing a study toW i all businesses have bacldMati tection. He said it is impett H the city that they have this;01ub tion. f PEL Councilman Dale Wart.-HA discussed the condition of :heF North street. He said thattkervf is full of chuckholes, especiume: the county side of the street cts 1 The council wondered ih Je could get thecounty to cooper.Iayc repaying the entire road, iresi the street is in the city andh'GH the county. iem It was also noted that bec!:'ian the cold temperatures fte -ment is popping out inmanj:. around town. The city has trying to fill the worst ones gravel butitisimpossibletopis 1 materials to fill them y:'a E until spring. ; The council was inforae:11' Insight Cable TV will extes: the north part of the citjj 8 spring. |
