Rich Civic Times
GARDEN CITY, Utah. February 21, 2013. The gun range is probably
the top current project. Danny White,
the City Administrator, is currently working on designing this project. The County is involved and will build the
roads into the range and keep them open as their contribution to the
project. The state owns the land where
this range will be created. They will
either lease it to the City, or let the land be used for this activity.
After checking with how
several other gun ranges were run, it has been decided that there needs to be
one person in charge of the range with volunteer help. The range will be open to the public on
specific days. Other times will be used
for special groups such as scouts, law enforcement officers, hunter safety
classes, and so forth. There may need to
be an annual membership fee. A gun club
might need to be established to help with the range. There are a lot of ideas and suggestions
being tossed around to make sure the range will be taken care of and used as
much as possible.
Riley Argyle, public works director, reported
that there were some problems encountered with the snowplow during one of the
storms. Some bolts sheared off, and the
blade gave them some problems. Dee’s
Service was able to repair some problems, and Steven Watterson, who plows the
roads at Bridgerland, loaned the city his equipment thereby allowing the
workers to keep the roads open. Riley
wanted the City to be aware that some bills will be coming in for repair. He also wanted the City to know of the
generosity of Watterson and to express his appreciation and thanks to him and
his willingness to share. It was greatly
appreciated.
Riley indicated that the GPS
units will be arriving soon. A couple of
the workers in the Public Works Department will be brushing up on their GPS
skills and will be starting to put more of the City’s water system on these
units.
Danny White is finishing up
the plans for Heritage Park. Everything
will be ready to go in the spring. There
will need to be a purchase of more bentonite to help seal the pond bottom again
this year.
There are two water meters
left to be installed on the Idaho side of the line. This will be done as soon as weather permits.
Landscaping will be completed
at the treatment plant as soon as weather permits. There is some problems with one of the meters
at the plant. It is the one that tests
the clarity of the water to determine if the filters can be placed on a
quarterly cleaning schedule instead of monthly.
If the plant filters can be cleaned quarterly, it will save the city a
tremendous amount of money as well as time.
There is a lot of paperwork involved in getting this routine established
but will be well worth the effort.
Since Third West is at least
two years down the road, the water line will not be completed along there this
year.
A pellet stove has been
placed in the water treatment plant and is working well. The propane heaters appear to be off. Putting tools and supplies in the roof area
of the plant is going to help tremendously and get some of the more expensive
items out of the weather.
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