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Show pedbS !IW3teir lSesfiii; IT He KleBd tra A special election has b a n called cal-led for Wednesday. :. comber 1. 1946 in Mt'prolitan Water District of "Pleasant C.rove-Rindon, which district comprises all ot Pleasant Grove City and the Town of Lin-don. Lin-don. The election is called for the purpose ot authorizing the Hoard of Directors of .such ua'er district to enter into a new contract for the purchase ot water Ifoin the Deer Creek I'rojei t All pmperty owners residing ir 1'ir.isaa: :.M',e and London, v. ho i.a'.e paid a property tax in the ycir pre. cuna: such election ale .iaablc to o;, 'Hie votia.; place for boi h I 'lens-ant 'lens-ant 1 In ve and 1 a nden will he at : the City Hall in Pleasant Gtuve j and the polls will lieoneu from T A j M. to S P.M. I The ordiiiancccalhng this diction dict-ion and setting torth m detail the. reasons and pin poses thereof is published elsewhere in this issue of the Review awl cam be re.feried. to for study. .1. Albert Page, counsel for the Water District, when asked tor a statement explaining why this election el-ection has been called, stated as follows: "In 1936 the Metropolitan Water District of Pleasant Grove-Liudon Grove-Liudon vas Organized for the purpose pur-pose of acquiring additional water resources for the District and especially es-pecially lor acquiring water in the Deer Creek Project. Any and all water acquired is for the use and benefit of the City of Pleasant Grove and the Town of Lindon. On 'December 17, 1937 a special water election was held in the district at which the taxpayers overwhelm- ingly voted in tavor oi acquiring such water and authorizing the officers of the District to sub- scribe for 500 shares of Deer Creek water, 300 shares for Pleasant Pleas-ant Grove City and 200 shares for the Town of Lindon. The officers eft the District thereupon entered into "a contract for the purchase of said 500 shares at a cost of $80 per share, payable in annual instalments instal-ments over a 40 year period, without with-out Interest, the payments to commence com-mence when the Deer Creek Project Pro-ject was completed. But because of the effect of the war and he attendant rise in construction costs the government was not able to complete the project at the original or-iginal estimated costs, and is now unwilling to expend additional a-mounts a-mounts until new repayment contracts con-tracts are obtained from all subscribers. sub-scribers. The new proposed contracts con-tracts call for the payment of $114 per share instead of the previous $80 per share. Consequently it is now necessary that an election be called and that it be submitted to the taxpayers of the district as to whether or not they still want to subscribe for this water at the increased cost. The new contracts call for repayment in the same manner as the former contracts, that is, in 40 annual instalments, without interest. If the proposition .should be defeated at the coming election then Pleasant Grove and Lindon will lose, probably forever, all chance of supplementing their water supply from the Deer Creek Project." The present Board of Directors of the District are Leo P. Harvey, chairman, Niels Fugal and Joseph A. Christiansen. Mr. Harvey, when asked for a statement, said: "To insure an adequate water supply for Pleasant Grove and Lindon and to take care of expected growth and increase irvpopulation, it is imperative that we acquire this water now, while we have the opportunity. op-portunity. If the vote is against authorizing the new contract then we lose all our rights to acquire Deer Creek Water and the 500 shared we previously subscribed for will be forfeited to some other subscriber, and there are, plenty of other subscribers who would jump at the chance to get these 500 shares. The cost is going to be somewhat higher than was jorigln-ally jorigln-ally anticipated, due to conditions over which - the government ' and tfee contractors had no control. The repayment terms, over a 40 year period, without any interest, are more than reasonable. In my opinion, if we fail to acquirie this water now, we never again will have such a golden opportunity to insure the present and future water wat-er supply of our two communities. I urge all taxpayers to support us in this and to be sure and turn out and vote. Myself, and Mr. Fugal and Mr. Christiansen, the other two members of the Board of Directors Dir-ectors of the District and Mr. Page, our attorney, will be glad to discuss this matter with any interested in-terested taxpayers, and will try to answer any questions that might arise." . . Remember the date: Wednesday, December 4th. Let's everybody vote. A |