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Show 7- - 50 expires 013030 HO AG & SONS BOOK BINDERY, INC. R 17 RAIL ROOD STREET S P R I N 8 P 0 R T M I 4 g s 4 f mm mmitrn it Vol. 11, No. 4 Wednesday, January 25, 1989 50 cents a single copy PG City Council makes position changes, discusses new fireambulance station The additional cost to the budget for next year, however, for the new man would be about $25,000 to $30,000 because of sal-ary, benefits, uniforms, etc. Mayor Holdaway said that Pleasant Grove is the fastest grow-ing community in Utah County. He said it is right behind Orem and Provo in the number of building permits issued last year. He said he knew that the growth of the city necessitated the city looking at getting another officer. He asked the chief and Budget Director Driggs to get together and come up with some figures about the total cost to hire a new man and present it at the next council meet-ing. The council gave its approval on a format to make quarterly pay-ments to Orem from the surcharge for the new 1 emergency dis-patch system. The E-- 9 1 1 surcharge can only be used for E-9- services, according to Gary Wise of the Orem Police Dept. He said that since Pleasant Grove has its own dispatchers that part of their salary could come from this surcharge. Also, any printers or other required equipment could be paid for with the surcharge. He said that it is expected that the E-9- system will be on line in about 20 months. They are now setting up the data base for it. There will be about 4,400 phone lines hooked in from the Pleasant Grove and Lindon area. There will only be a momentary delay from the Orem dispatching center to the Pleasant Grove office after the complainant calls come in. Cedar Hills receives fire and ambulance service from Pleasant Grove, too, however, Cedar Hills dispatching will go through the county dispatching center. ' Thesecalls will be transferred to Pleasant Grove dispatching also. The council gave its approval to the appointment of Anita Hardy as president of the Ambulance Asso-ciation for the coming year. Mayor Holdaway played a few selections from the Pleasant Grove Civic Symphony and Chorus for the council. He said the orchestra has 65 members and has only a few posi-tions less than what is needed for a full symphony orchestra. The chorus has about 60 mem-bers but it varies in size somewhat. Deputy City Recorder Char-main- e Childs' title was changed to City Recorder at last Tuesday's City Council meeting and City Recorder K. A. Driggs was named as Budget and Finance Director, in arealignmentofresponsibilitiesby the Pleasant Grove City Council. ' This change was made in part as a followup to suggestions made by the auditors on separation of re-sponsibilities in handling city funds and also to more accurately fit the responsibilities these em-ployees were already doing. Because of Charmaine's train-ingi- n computer technology, the city council felt that this would also aid in office procedures and increase efficiency. Charmaine will now report di-rectly to the city council as do Driggs, Public Works Director Frank Mills and Police Chief Mike Ferre. Mayor David Holdaway said he was recommending the change because most of the things which Charmaine is now doing fit under the umbrella of City Recorder, while Driggs has been having to work extensively on budget and finance. In other matters, the council decided to proceed with discus-sions regarding a new fire and ambulance station. K.A. Driggs told the council that there is not as much money avail-able in the capital improvements fund as was hoped. He said that he anticipated that with sales tax revenues which are expected between now and the end of the fiscal year on June 30 that there would be perhaps a total of $63,000 in the fund. Driggs said that there were a "few unexpected expenses with the new library which took more of the available money than they had planned on. Mayor Holdaway said that the city can only move on this as fast as they have the finances to do it, even if it means having to wait one more year. The council would like to make some progress toward a new fire station during this coming year if possible. The mayor said he would also look in the possibility of getting a grant to help with this project. The council was told that the Personnel Policies and Procedures manuals are complete and were to be distributed Monday to all city employees at a special meeting. The city employees will be asked to read themanual and sign a state-ment that they have done so which will be placed in their personnel file. This way the city can avoid problems later on down the road should an employee say that they were not aware of a policy. The council had a lengthy dis-cussion regarding thecarryingover of vacation time from one year to another. In talking with nearby cities, it was learned that American Fork allows onehalf of the vacation time, up to 30 days, be carried over while Lehi allows 10 days to be carried over. By policy, Pleasant Grove does not allow any vacation time to be carried over but everyone seems to be doing it anyway. The council said that the prob-lem is with employees building up too much vacation time through carry-ove- r that it becomes too much of liability for the city, espe-cially if they terminate or retire. The council said that it is impor-tant for people to get away from their jobs for a while and recharge their batteries. The auditors also criticize the city ifthe vacations are not used up. Some of the council members felt that there should be no carry-over at all and others felt that a small amount should be allowed to be carried over if it was absolutely necessary. The council also discussed the procedure of buying out a person's vacation time rather than pay time and one-ha- lf to replace him while he is on vacation. They felt that this should only be done if the person has accumulated a lot of carry-ove- r and the city wants to close it out. Councilman Dale Warburton said he felt that carrying vacation time over is just too much hassle. The council will take time to think about the policy and discuss it at the next council meeting on Feb. 7. Police Chief Mike Ferre said that his department is greatly in need of another man and he has a car available as well as enough money to pay the salary for the remainder of the year. " ...... ,. If ; .... f., -- t. n' i k : , ... & ' J .. j ' n i ' i Mack Trucks, Inc. CEO John B. Curcio answers reporters' questions at press conference FJ while Allen Alexander of the Savage Companies waits his turn. The pair have just announced the purchase of Savage Manufacturing by Mack Trucks. Savage sells subsidiary ; I in P.G. to Mack Trucks Mack Trucks, Inc. announced in a Salt Lake City rr-- press conference last Wednesday that it has signed a 'Al letter of intent to purchase certain of the manufactur-- k ing assets of Savage Manufacturing Corporation, a m producer of front-en- d discharge ready-mi- x cement ) mixers. Savage Manufacturing, a subsidiary of The Savage Companies, is located in Pleasant Grove. AH The sales agreement is expected to become effective Jan. 31. A Savage Manufacturing has produced the front-en- d mixers in Pleasant Grove for severalyears. Each mixer 3 is completely designed, fabricated and assembled in the Utah Plant. Last year Savage Manufacturing had gross sales revenues in excess of $5 million. k "We are proud that Mack Trucks, Inc., a world- - ' renowned truck manufacturer has recognized the quality of our product," said Allen Alexander, presi-dent of the Savage Companies. "The Savage mixer is an excellent vehicle, but needs the marketing and distributionn strengths of Mack Trucks in order to realize its full potential," he added. For many years Mack has been the North American I market leader in the sales of class 8 construction vehicles and in sales of traditional cement mixer I chassis. There are currently over 50,000 cement mix-- I ers in the U. S. today, representing a market that has been growing at a rate of 10 per cent per year. ; Front-en- d discharge mixers have representated a steadily incresing portion of that market and in 1988 accounted for about 15 per cent of all cement mixers sold in this country. "The addition of the Savage mixer to the Mack product line reflects our strong commitment to the construction market," noted John B. Curcio, Chair-man of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of Mack Trucks, Inc. "With this acquisition, Mack will be the first major class 8 truck manufacturer to offor a front-en- d dis-charge cement mixer to the U. S. market," he added. Mack Trucks, Inc., a publicly held U. S. company on the NASDAQ System, is one of America's largest producers of heavy- - duty diesel trucks in addition to major product components. Mack also markets a line of mediumm-dut- y diesel trucks throughout North America, parts of Central Am erica, Au strali a and New Zealand. Mack vehicles are sold and serviced in more than 65 countries around the world. The Savage Companies and its subsidiaries have operations throughout the western United States, which transport a variety of materials across the United States, including coal, sand and gravel and ready-mi- x concrete. The companies are also heavily involved in property development. ! PGHS will play 4-- A greatly decrease their gate receipts because of it being too far for the fans to travel. Li . ' : ,: - - -' :- - i ,M I I. " ... . ' iwi ' . - v v :. ........... ; ! )..: ; j 1 Pleasant Grove High School will be a Class 4-- school beginning next fall, despite months of protest. The Utah High School Activities Association Legislative Council voted in favor of the proposal for sports realignment on Jan. 11. The proposal was vigorously protested by Pleasant Grove High School Principal Bill Delaney, Al-pine School Board members, and members of the Pleasant Grove High School Booster Club. Hundreds of local residents had signed petitions protesting the proposal as well. Pleasant Grove will be in Region Four with American Fork, Orem, Mt. View, Timpview and Provo High Schools. Pleasant Grove, Provo and Timpview have all been schools in Region 8. Mr. Delaney noted that Pleas-ant Grove is the smallest of all these schools and there are 10 4-- high schools larger than PGHS. Other schools from the current Region 8 all remain 3-- The rea-lignment makes Region 7 with Darbon, Union, Uintah, Lehi, Emery and Wasatch. Region 8 will now include Dixie, Payson, Spanish Fork, Pineview, Springville and Cedar City. Principal Delaney said that Pleasant Grove High School has an inrollment of 1,075 right now. By 1993, they estimate theenrollment ;obe 1,251. At that time the school vould be large enough to be a 4-- ichool, according to the guidelines used by the Utah High School Ac-tivities Association. Provo High School has an enroll-mento- f 1,152, Timpviewhas 1,066, American Fork has 1,465, Orem has 1,713 and Mountain View has 1,740. Both of the Orem schools will have over 2,100 students in 1993, Delaney noted. He had asked the legislative council to leave PGHS at 3-- until 1993. He said that when the school was big enough to meet the criteria for a 4-- school he would not make any objection but as it was he did not feel it was fair for the school to be made 4-- A at this time. Sheri Atwood, president of the Pleasant Grove Booster Club, said that it was obvious to her that the legislative council was only inter-ested in what was convenient for the Salt Lake area schools. West and Jordan High Schools, both with larger enrollments than Pleasant Grove, will stay as 3-- schools, which was disturbing, Sheri said. She said that before the legisla-tive council voted they had heard a financial report which stated that the schools had been getting more gate receipts for games and coming out better financially they way they were organized at the present time. Sheri added that the council then turned right around and voted to put Springville, Payson and Spanish Fork with the St. George and Cedar City schools which will A brand spanking new Savage front-en- d discharge cement mixer was on display Wed-nesday when Mack Trucks, Inc. announced the purchase of Savage Manufacturing of Pleasant Grove. Fires damage homes Fire did an estimated $5,000 damage to an upstairs bedroom and bathroom at the home of Don Garnor, 24 S. 800 West, Lindon, on Friday night. Fire Chief Calvin Mills reported that the fire was under control in about five minutes' after the fire crews arrived. They were at the scene for about one hour. He said that apparently the fire was caused by a spark from a match which lit in a pile of clothes in a corner of the closet in the bedroom. The fire chief said that the Gar-nor family was watching television downstairs when the smoke alarm went off. He said he had no idea how long the fire might have been smolderingbefore the smoke alarm alerted the family. No one was injured in the fire. There were two fire trucks and 21 firemen who responded to the fire. Later the same night the fire department was called out to an-other structure fire, but in this case the fire was already put out when fire crews arrived. Fire Chief Mills said that the Larry Circle family, who live at 914 E. 600 North, Pleasant Grove, re-turned home and found smoke in the house. They called the fire department and it was discovered that the fire had started in the furnace room near the water heater. The heat had melted the solder joint on the water pipes and the water came out an d put out the fire. Chief Mills said there was about $2,000 damage. He said thathe was not surehow some material near the water heater had ignited, but that was the apparent cause of the fire. There were no injuries. Two trucksand 14men responded to the call. Lindon City honored for improving traffic control ly KALYN SECRETAN Lindon City was honored with he presence of Bryce McEuen at a ecent City council meeting. outstanding erformance in the Traffic Control "rogram. An engraved plaque was warded to the city with the follow-l- g message: Extra Mile Award resented to Lindon for Outstand-l- g Improvement in Traffic Control afety - 1987-8- McEuen represents the Utah isk Management Association, indon City's liability carrier. The m ssociation is made up of 40 cities. The cities joined together to form their own company. They are doing an exceptional job in reducing losses. Public Works Director Don Pe-terson and his crew were com-mended for their participation in the Traffic Control Safety Pro-gram. The Association presents awards each year, five awards were given this year. Lindon did a great job, bushes and trees were cut, directional signs were placed and private citizens were encouraged to cut their bushes back. McEuen informed the group that future insurance premiums will be determined by how well programs are implemented. The real bottom line is to prevent losses. The city has been successful so far. The biggest area in city liability is lawsuits concerning land use and zoning issues. Training will be of-fered to the cities on land use and zoning. Jody Burnett will conduct the seminars. McEuen noted that they appre-ciate Ray Brown, Lindon City Administrator, on board as chair-man of the claims committee. In conclusion, he left with his parting advice, "Remember Safety is no Accident." In other council business, Don Peterson reported the crew is going over every piece of equipment they have, making needed repairs and gettingit ready for spring. With all the snow, the road crews have been busy distributing slag and salt. Lindon received a bill from Pleasant Grove for $3,400 for help during the canal break. Lindon asked them to settle for fifty cents on the dollar. Pleasant Grove agreed and was paid $1,721. Garbage fees were discussed, the city is changing $5.75. They are paying Laidlaws $5.72. It is not adequate and they need about a 25 cent buffer to pay for administra-tive costs and bad debts. The Landfill is so unstable now that they are thinkingof extending the site as long as they can. At the last Landfill meeting, they voted to approve raising the telephone lines. They have some money but not enough for a new site. A decision on garbage fees will be made at a later date. A resolution of the Special Im-provement District east of the free-way was discussed and the dates for the equalization and review will be held February 15, at 6 to 7 p.m. Feb. L6 and 17 at 4 to 5 p.m. |