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Show Welcome sign out for Centerville By TOM HARALDSEN i CENTERVILLE The city of Centerville will soon have a sign to welcome visitors, gracing one of its most visible landmarks-Smith Park. Action taken during last week's I city council meeting opens the ! door for a citizen participation pro-; pro-; ject to design and construct a j "Welcome to Centerville" sign at s the park, located at 300 North Main Street. Samira Haddad appeared before ; the council to discuss the proposal. Continued Page 2 Centerville gets Welcome' sign Continued from Page 1 She is serving as chairman of a citizen's committee heading up the project. The committee hopes to construct a landscaped mound at Smith Park with the welcoming message. Though it will be similar in shape to that of Bountiful's at the 400 North park, the Centerville sign will not be done using shrub-ery shrub-ery to spell out the message. Estimated cost of the project is $800, and council agreed to participate partici-pate along with the citizens on a three-to-one basis. That means Centerville City will fund $600 of the cost, with the balance coining from citizen donations of time and money. The project is expected to begin right away. In other council business, a plan was approved for the completion of 400 West between 1275 North and 1400 North. Developers of Benchmark Ben-chmark Village will participate with the city on costs of curb, gutter, gut-ter, sidewalk and pavement along that stretch, which will provide a west-side thoroughfare and make for a new emergency vehicle access ac-cess to a large part of the community. com-munity. As part of that project, the council coun-cil has asked staff to look into two areas: speed limits along that stretch, and the possible need for a crossing guard at 400 West and Chase Lane. The city's share of costs will come to approximately $24,175, jnd work is expected to begin before the end of June. Council also adopted a resolution resolu-tion commending the United Way on its 100 years of service to com-munities com-munities nationwide, and appointed councilman Bruce Erickson as the city's chairman for the Constitutional Bicentennial Celebration Committee. With regards to the city's successful suc-cessful application for a Community Commun-ity Development Block Grant of $140,000 for acquisition of land and construction of a new fire station, council designated city administrator administra-tor David Hales as the Environmental Environ-mental Review Officer for the project, pro-ject, as specified by federal guidelines. guide-lines. Council agreed that 10 percent per-cent of that amount should be set aside to cover the administrative costs of the city staffs work on the project, again allowed by federal guidelines. Following a short executive session, ses-sion, the council asked city staff to enter into negotiations with Olen R. Sheriff and Sons on a new contract con-tract for garbage collection. Details of the new contract will 'btf announced once an agreement is reached. The city had received bids from a number of companies, but opted to remain with Sheriffs out of citizen satisfaction on service. ser-vice. Mr. Sheriff was honored recently re-cently by the council for his firm's high citizen-approval rating. The council also briefly discussed discus-sed two other items. The city is looking into a request from David K. Richards, who has expressed interest in purchasing a 12.75 acre parcel of city property. Both the current city center and Centerville ball diamonds and soccer fields are included in the parcel, and council appointed staff to look into the fair market value of the land, in case Mr. Richards decides to pursue the purchase. Such a purchase could allow the city to develop both a new parks complex and a larger city center facility. The city has also formed a hiring board that will review those members mem-bers of the police department who've applied for the position of police chief. Current Chief Clifford Russell announced earlier this month that he plans to retire on July 15. . |