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Show W.Bo Okays Sales Tax Increase By ALICE MITCHELL After discussion led by Mayor Grant H. Secrist, the West Bountiful City Council voted unanimously to accept Ordinance 182-83, raising the sales tax from Vt percent to percent. This will take effect July 1, 1983. Each community in the state had the option of raising the tax which is needed in the present economy. Mayor Secrist says he believes the tax system will be divided 50-50 on point of sale and the population in the future. THE CITY is planning to adopt a new Annexation Policy. Poli-cy. This is being done to allow for the annexation of the property prop-erty on 5th South below the present city limits. At present the West Bountiful request for the allowing of the changing of the Annexation Declaration policy is in court. The Eggetl brothers who own the land are anxious to get the project off the ground. The city did say ii would be possible for them to begin to build some storage sheds with a building permit from the county. The Horse Ordinance. 181-83 181-83 was amended and passed unanimously. This will allow ' ' for horses in R-1-10 and R-l-20. if they have sufficient space to meet the require-ments. require-ments. It is emphasized that barns and sheds must be kept clean. It is possible to have horses running in fenced pastures. pas-tures. LYNN KENISON reminded the Mayor that the cost of the :; weed sprayer will be divided between the roads and parks '; ' and the water department. Councilman Jay Dewell commented that the raise in sales tax will prove a hardship on the 'businesses on 5th W. The city will benefit from the asphalt sales of Phillips Pet-roleum. Pet-roleum. ALL OF the members of the council were required to sign the letter which concerned the raising of the sales tax. i The Mayor said that the : work around the reservoir is I going along well, with Ivan i Everett and Duane Hughes working as liason man. There was some discussion as to s whether they should seal and chip the reservoir. There are some small cracks on the surface sur-face of the reservoir. LAYTON IS still hoping to get some grant money. The city feels that it is needed in their community as well as in the other cities of the county. The West Bountiful costs for the fire department are $700 more than last year. It is hoped that the city and-or county can get a grant. The fire department needs to be remodeled remod-eled to be up to date. COUNCILWOMAN Irene Janes told of the actions of her Citizen Advisory Committee. They are in charge of the poster post-er and essay contests carried on with the aid of the school. The prizes will be given out Friday, the 13th. The subject of the projects to be done by the children of West Bountiful School will be centered around the theme of beautifying the city. Mrs. Janes said that Dr. Griffin had shown pictures of earthquakes in South America and in other places where emergencies had occurred. It was noted that the water and gas lines are ruptured in time of earthquakes and other emergencies. It is well for all citizens to be prepared for all emergencies. MRS. JANES continued to stress that she feels that more should be done in the West Bountiful area to solve preparation prepa-ration problems. She pointed out that South Bountiful is well prepared. Mr. Dewell suggested that the community get together with people at Phillips Petroleum Pet-roleum and work out ways to cooperate in time of emergency. emergen-cy. They could build up each other. There might be danger in drinking the water from Phillips, Phil-lips, because of foreign substances subst-ances there in. However, everyone should learn to boil their water when there is an emergency. THE COUNCIL agreed that Phillips and West Bountiful could offer assistance to each other in times of earthquakes, etc. It was decided Council-men Council-men Jay Dewell and Sam All-man All-man should work with Phillips and the community in a program prog-ram of cooperation. Councilwoman Janes said that she felt that a history should be kept of the work she and her committee are doing. She again asked that something some-thing be done to stop the dog problem. MR. DEWELL, who is in charge of getting rid of the dog problems, reminded that the county pound is filled to overflowing. over-flowing. Citizens should obey the ordinance on dogs, i.e., their dogs should be on leash at all times. They should not run loose, especially at night. It was suggested that the city make arrangements to use the North Salt Lake dog catcher catch-er on a part-time basis. AGAIN THE conversation turned to the fact that Tony Cirelli of the county planning and zoning department is willing will-ing to aid the West Bountiful City on a part-time basis on some of their planning and zoning problems. It was suggested that a sum of $560 should be put in the budget to use for the help of Mr. Cirelli. The engineer's fees might be lowered, if Mr. Cirelli does help the city. MRS. JANES interjected a suggestion that perhaps the city should charge a fee for contractors who don't finish their projects. The city does use the expertise of their engineer, en-gineer, take time to help with the planning and other miscel laneous tasks as the time goes on. The citizens in the locality are not happy with the drainage drain-age ditch which was dug close to the greenhouses on 1 1th W. and Pages Lane. COUNCILMAN Lynn Keni-son Keni-son reported that his tree planting on Arbor Day had been a fiasco. There need to be more trees in the park. Sadly vandals have pulled up the stakes Mr. Kenison had placed to show where the trees should be planted. Mr. Kenison welcomes wel-comes any help possible in the building up of the park. Trees are welcomed at any time. Mr. Kenison also says he would like to see an end to all of the rain, snow and moisture. The weeds around the park are getting a head start on their growth. Mr. Kenison would like to use the sprayer to get rid of all of the weeds at the park and outside the park. THERE WILL be a special meeting concerning the proposed prop-osed burn plant on May 17 at 9. There is also a meeting on re-zoning re-zoning of the Peterson property proper-ty at 7 p.m. that same night. The clerks and the council have been working on their first preliminary draft of the 1983-84 budget. There will be other preliminary drafts during May. The budget has to be signed and sent the first of July. Work can go on during the month of May. The council will have several work sessions ses-sions on the budget, trying to keep expenses down. CLERK BEVERLY Haslam reported that it is possible that some revenue sharing funds may be forthcoming. Councilman Dewell asked Police Chief Wayne Jeppson what can be done to get rid of all of the starlings which inhabit in-habit Phillips Petroleum property. prop-erty. He said that he knows that it is against the law to shoot within the city limits. The droppings of the birds and all of the dead young birds are really creating a nuisance. Mr. Dewell had tried all sorts of methods to rid Phillips of the birds, but with no success. HE HAD heard that the starlings will leave if they hear a certain kind of music. Mr. Dewelhas purchased a copy of the record and will use it to try to get rid of the birds. The birds leave when summer arrives, thus Mr. Dewell adds his hope to all of the citizens of the community com-munity that summer will soon come. Police Wayne Jeppson promised that he will do anything any-thing possible to help to rid the city of the starlings. CITIZEN Loyd Paget has been complaining to the city council about the starlings at his property. |