Garden City Council Meeting

GARDEN CITY -  At the Garden City Council meeting held October 11, representatives of JUB Engineering said that the Shundahai water system which is owned by Garden City as a result of agreements signed about 13 years ago is now approved by the state and online.  Mayor John Spuhler said that in the last few years pre-engineering and sign offs have been required by the city, so that the difficulties in solving post building problems will not happen.

 

Spuhler said that the Water’s Edge engineers will work with both the town engineers and the state engineers on water systems before any development is allowed.  All developers are required to hold preliminary meetings with city and state engineers and public works directors in “All Effected Entities” meetings, not only is this good for the developers who can “test the waters” before a lot of money is spent, but it protects the city also.

Danny White said that the emergency water connection to Sweetwater Hillside which protects both the city and Sweetwater in the case of a large fire or other emergency has been completed and will be signed off by the state this week. 

Riley Argyle, public works director, said that the water treatment plant is finally running well and without problems.  He is looking at doing more GIS mapping and is working with the canal company  to ditch and pipe around the fish pond in Heritage Park .  More trees are being planted in the park around the pond.  People are still catching a lot of fish in the well-stocked pond. 

The public restrooms will be finished at the end of October.  There was  discussion about putting an informational kiosk  near them, but many felt that a location on Highway 30 would be better.