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Show t;.' . Vo1- - 11, No. 26 Wednesday, June 28, 1989 50 cents a single copy Old Jr. High Shops to foe new fire station A new fire station for Pleasant Grove is coming closer to reality as remodeling of the old junior high school shops is now well underway. City Councilman Lloyd Ash said that the remodeling should be fin-ished by fall. Pleasant Grove City recently purchased the old shops from Al-pine School District for $180,000. The city council has appropriated $50,000 for the remodeling. The building, located at 100 East and 100 South, will house the fire and ambulance equipment for the city and also the Parks Depart-ment. Ash said that there will be a total of 10 new overhead doors placed in the building. Five will be located on the east side of the structure with the three on the north for the fire department and the two on the south for the ambulances. There will also be three new overhead doors on the west side so that the fire engines can pull in from the west side and leave from the east side. There will also be an overhead door to the basement where the Parks Dept. equipment will be housed. The building contains 16,000 square feet, Ash noted, making it as large as the new library build ing. All of the fire engines, including the water tanker, will fit in the building. Until the city acquired this building, some of the fire en-gines have had to be out in the weather because of lack of space in the old station. There will be an office for the fire chief and a large meetingroom for the fire department. The Ambulance Association will also have an office and a meeting room and there will be an office for First Response. Alpine School District will con-tinue to have the Young Mothers School in the building next year. They use a room in the basement for the nursery and the lunchroom on the main floor. After that the nursery area will be used by the Parks Department and the lunchroom will be turned into a multi-purpos- e room, Ash explained. The Parks Dept. will have more square footage than they presently have and it will save the city the cost of the rent for the structure the Parks Dept. now uses. With the remodeling work city crews have been removing walls in four offices and two classrooms and a have removed a lot of ceilings. Ash said that some of the ceil ings needed to be raised and some needed to be replaced. Inside the fire and ambulance apparatus bays there will be new ceilings to keep the heating costs down, Ash said. He added that there will be new lighting installed as well as new plumbing to support and fill the fire engines. Ash noted that on the west side of the building a ramp will be built out onto the old tennis court area so that the fire trucks can enter and leave the building on both sides. "There will not be any lire sta-tions built that are larger than this will be," Ash stated. He said that in big cities, if they needed a fire sta-tion which would be larger than this one, they would build a substa-tion in another area. "This fire station will take care of the needs of the city for a very long time," Ash said. The city itself is serving as gen-eral contractor for this building, just as it did for the new city hall and library. Some of the work will be con-tracted out but much of it will also be done by city crews. Ash noted that the most obvious changes to the appearance of the building from the outside will be the nine new overhead doors. V; , K " i' . ''' ti. ' :: (i. , f i 'k ,. t i : ? ; . . f, y .. 1 i i : ! "... . . 4 ..... . . "' - i ..... :. ' ' .,....." ,v '. J 1 iioydAsh, Lincoln Church and Clint Kelley remove a wall as remodeling of the old junior Digh shops is done to make the building into the Pleasant Grove Fire Station and am-Unc- e facility. Alforecht named BYU's academic vice president ill; - i liiife .IWIIIIiliMili Rex E . Lee, President-designat- e of BYU, announced key appoint-ments in his administrative organi-zation Tuesday, following last week's naming of Bruce C. Hafen as the university's first full provost. The appointments become ef-fective July 1, when Lee takes of-fice. Stan L. Albrecht, dean of the College of Family, Home and Social Sciences, will become academic vice president and associate provost. He replaces Jae R. Ballif, who has served nine years as provost and academic vice president and was administrative vice president one year prior to that. Ballif will return to teaching and research in the physics department. Dee F. Andersen will continue as administrative vice president. Paul H. Thompson, dean of the J. Willard and Alice S. Marriott School of Management, will become vice president for development and university relations, a new posi-tion at the university. Ronald G. Hyde, assistant to Eugene H. Bramhall will con-tinue as assistant to the president, general counsel. John B. Stohlton, current execi-tiv- e vice president, will serve as associate administrative vice presi-dent continuing to supervise Stu-dent Life, Auxiliary Services, and other related functions. Lee said Hafen, as provost, will coordinate the functions of all vice presidents and share, under the direction of the president, in the administration of the entire uni-versity. Albrecht, the new academic vice president, is considered an inter-national leader in research on so-cial impact assessment. He was appointed to a us congressional panel to study alternative methods of basing MX missiles. He completed his undergraudate studies in sociology at BYU and his graduate work at the University of Kentucky and Washington State University. He joined the BYU faculty in 1974 after four years at Utah State University. Stan Albrecht the president of university rela-tions, will become executive assis-tant to the president. Residents cautioned on survey Public Works Director Frank Js cautioned Pleasant Grove its today that a water sur-- )' which may have been left on wdoorknob in recent days has Wmgtodowiththe city. Hesaid that an independent Jercial company working out ""noonhasbeen placing a yellow water survey card on area doors which asks several questions about the water. Mills noted that m any residents have called the city hall with ques-tions about the origins of the sur-vey. He urged any citizens with ques-tions about their water or water service to call the city hall and they will have their questions carefully answered. He added that the company, which apparently sells water treat-ment and purification equipment, has been told that they will need a business license to go door-to-do-in Pleasant Grove, according to city ordinance. MndonP.G. have lowest per capita expenditures sewer revenues with Lehi, Springville and Midvale nearly as high. Payson lists no sewer reve-nues and Spanish Fork was the lowest of those listed. Sewer expenses were the high-est for Lindon and Midvale which were both about the same at $43 per capita. American Fork and Lehi were just lower than them with Pleasant Grove coming in next. Orem was the lowest. In the mayor's study, the total cost of all services for the cities showed Provo highest with between $300 and $400 per capita and Springville and Midvalejust under that. Pleasant Grove was next to lowest at about $240 with Lindon the lowest at about $190. Salaries in Provo run by far the highest with Spanish Fork, Springville next in line. Midvale and Payson were about the same and Lindon was the least. Pleasant Grove was next to lowest in cost per capita. The study showed that the debts of the cities were generally low except for Springville which was about $1,300 per capita. Spanish' Fork was next highest at about $750 and Payson came in third at just under $600. Pleasant Grove was lowest with less than $ 100 per capita and Provo and Midvale were about the same at about $170 and the other towns were all near or just above $200. Mayor Holdaway said he took the figures from the Utah Data Guide which lists all of the budgets of all of the cities in the state. He added that he felt really good about the figures which indicate to him that Pleasant Grove is doing well on the least amount possible per capita. ArJDavid Holdaway has JJted a study of several Utah ? and Midvale which 3' that Pleasant Grove is lowest in expenditures ta at about $140 CZy?l said that ony Lin" t.c F"nd budget than Pleas-- J NJ!; voishighestatabout (tA g hecities studied which 1 C?" yS0n Pleasant Grove, ti 5nwh Fork, Salt Lake Cfunt; tit poPulation is similar to pi 'ant Grove. I Grove, Payson and I f :ceanp nearly the sae for I km 5eprotectin-Pleasan- t C esLindon's Police and C5(nand ey are charged :egory Midvale was J S jhrtn Pleasant andreets budget, Orem, - SpamshFork werecon- - tfrJZv than any of the VlCef168 Springville pending much more than any of the others. Mayor Holdaway said he could not understand why Orem and Provo were so low, unless they use funds from some other source to be spent on streets and roads which is not shown on the streets statistics available. Lehi and Pleasant Grove both spend about the same amount on streets, with Lindon runningsome-wha- t higher. For parks and recreation budg-ets, Pleasant Grove was about in the middle spending less than $40 per capita. Lindon was very low, only spending a few dollars per capita. Pleasant Grove was about the same as Orem in this category with Springville being very high at about $90 per capita. Midvale spends less per capita on parks and recreation than most Utah County communities, includ-ing Pleasant Grove. Again, Pleasant Grove and Orem were almost even in their planning and development expenditures. Lindon and Springville were the highest with Midvale and Lehi being almost even but less than Lindon and Springville. Payson does not have any plan-ning and development expenditures, according to the study, and Ameri-can Fork has very little. Pleasant Grove spends the smallest amount per capita, less than $20, on administration with Provo spending the next least. Midvale was the highest, $55, with Payson, Lindon and American Fork not far behind. Spanish Fork and Midvale do not have any per capita expendi-tures listed for judicial budgets, but Pleasant Grove was next low-est with Lehi not far ahead. Provo and Springville are the highest with Orem, Payson, Lindon and Ameri-can Fork right up there. In a category listed as "other" Provo soared far above everyone else with over $100 per capita spent. (Maybe this is where their street costs are listed.) Orem and Payson were between $40 and $50 per capita. Spanish Fork was just over $20, Pleasant Grove was about $10 per capita and the other cities were just under that. Springville was the lowest. For some reason Payson does not list any water revenues. The other cities were all very even in this category with Provo just barely the highest at just over $50 per capita. All of the others were be-tween $40 and $50 except Lindon which was about $35. Water costs showed Midvale the highest with Lindon not far be-hind. Payson was lowest with the other cities being very close. Pleasant Grove was slightly higher at about $28 per capita. Pleasant Grove was highest in Total General Fund 300 : o II m II it 11 Hi ii il li A.F. Lehi Lindon Crem Payson P.G. Provo Sp. Fork Spville Midvale Graph shows comparison of per capita general fund expenditures for Pleasant Grove and surrounding cities. J aPer to be delivered j n Thurs. next week of thisB0Cause of the July 4th holiday, the next issue j V!,newsPaper will be delivered one day late on j illr? ' July 6' The deadline for news and advertising . ofrce same Monday, 2 p.rru). The newspaper kJbe closed Tuesday, July 4. i |