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Show Special 9i?iprov&iieiit Profect Iei Roosevelt Approved Ely Citizens Council Gives OK To, Advertise For Bids On Program; Several Fringe Areas Are Deleted Plans were going ahead Tuesday morning under the direction of the engineering firm of Templeton and Linke of Salt Lake City, preparatory pre-paratory to advertising for bids on the street improvement project for Roosevelt City. A unanimous vote of the council meeting Monday Mon-day night, approved the project for immediate completion, when only approximately 20 or the property owners affected voiced opposition. 66 2-3 is necessary to kill a project. First order of business of the council was to review protests that had been filed by 5 p.m. on Monday, Mon-day, and to include formal protests entered according to law, which would include less than 15, and petitions that had been signed, indicating only that they objected to the project, the entire project as advertised could have been put through. Approximately 6,000 of the 30,000 feet of proposed street improvements were included in the protests. Deleted Fringed Areas Where the most heavily protested protest-ed property existed on fringe area, sections were voted to be dropped from the project. Two heavily ob-jected-to streets which were in the center of the city and would detract from the program, were voted to be included. The latter two blocks were on State street and north of Lagoon street. According to Mrs. Irene K. Rup-ple, Rup-ple, recorder, the minutes of Monday's Mon-day's meeting indicate that in Plat E (Mud Flat), 4th North between 5th and 6th East, and all of 6th East running south to Highway 40, were deleted. Other sections were between 3rd and 4th North on Staj.e Street and between 3rd (Continued on Bark Page) CITY STREET IMPROVEMENTS (Continued from Page 1) and 4th North on 1st East Street. The Dry Gulch canal that travels trav-els through the center of the city has provoked a problem, and just what will be the final results of several streets where the canal interferes with progressive improvements im-provements will not be determined deter-mined until later. It is expected the Notice for Bids will be ready for publication next week and all possible haste will be exerted to get the project underway within the next few weeks. Organized Opposition An organized attempt was made by several citizens of the city to influence people owning property that would be improved by the curb, gutter and sidewalk project, to protest the program. They were not too successful as can be seen by the fact that less than 15 took the time to register legal protests. Petitions circulated among citizens in the community contained a fairly large list of names. However, technically, the petitions would not serve as legal protests. The council did take them into consideration when considering con-sidering what the percentage of the people might oppose the progressive pro-gressive step anticipated by Roosevelt Roose-velt City. |