Garden City Public Works

Anita Weston, Reporter

Rich Civic Times 

GARDEN CITY, Utah.  December 14, 2017.  Riley Argyle, Supervisor of the Public Works Department, noted that the Garden City Fire Department is going to add onto the current building this coming spring.  There are four trees on the west side of the building that are going to have to be taken down.  Riley suggested that the City get the four trees and plant them at Heritage Park.  It would cost of City about $3,500 to dig the trees and move them to the park, they are about 15’-20’ high and would add to the park.  The City is going to have to get even more trees for the park, and the moving expense are all that these four will cost the City.

The water treatment plant has a problem with the flow switch.  It keeps blowing out.  Argyle contacted IFM in New Jersey for help with the problem and got a new switch.  There were still issues three days after it was installed, and it also blew up.  Argyle found the individual who put the flow switch in originally.  His name is Patrick Hayes, and he lives in Boise.  Argyle has called and left message with him hoping that he will be able to help out.  Argyle suggested that in the future, items purchased need to have local service available so that when problems like this occur, help can be obtained.

There was another problem at the Water Treatment Plant.  There is an automatic arm that moves across a screen to clear it.  The arm slipped and went too far.  Argyle ordered the parts that limits the switch brake so that the arm doesn’t go beyond the area it covers.  He was able to put

the parts in place so that it is now working properly.  The parts cost $4,500.

The Public Works Department has been working on the dump truck that has a snow plow mounted on the front.  They are trying to fix it so that the sand won’t shift when they are plowing snow.

Argyle reported that Chuck Stocking was able to pull all of the GIS information from the old computer to a new one after the old one died.  Everyone thought the information would be lost when that computer went down which would have caused hours of work redoing all required GIS information.  Argyle is always adding new GIS information so that updating is happening all of the time.  He will print the information and put it in a book and make sure the information is on file in case something happens to the new computer.  

Some employees have been working on the lake access south of Legacy.  That access is about 75 percent complete.  These employees have been pulled off the project because it gets dark so early.  The City will try and hire someone to complete this project.  A bid needs to be put out to hire someone to finish up the fencing and retaining wall on this access.  Three individuals had been hired, but they didn’t get the work done.  It needs to be finished.

All of the accesses that go to the lake that have been turned back to the subdivision need to be recorded.  The MOU that was made put this responsibility onto the City.  But so far, the City hasn’t taken care of this matter.  It should be done soon.

An air compressor at one of the water pumping areas quit.  The parts needed were ordered and have arrived.  Argyle will get it fixed as soon as possible.

The pellet stove at the water treatment plant needed to be replaced.  A new one was purchased and installed.  It is running well now.

The heater in the building at the bottom of Elk’s Ridge broke.  It will need to be replaced.  There are some options on this item.  There are a lot of high tech items that have been built into these types of heaters that make them very efficient.  This is the direction the City should go as they purchased the new heater.

The parking area at Heritage Park is fixed.  There was a moisture problem that has been resolved.