Garden City Staff Reports

Anita Weston, Reporter

Rich Civic Times

GARDEN CITY, Utah. March 8, 2018.  George Peart, Garden City Residential Building Inspector, reported that he has had two building permits since the first of the year for new homes.  One of these homes is in Buttercup and the other is on Legacy Beach.  He also has four pending permits for Ideal Beach for remodels, and one trailer permit.

Zan Murray, City Engineer, reported that the plan for the 300 West pipeline to Buttercup is complete.  This project should have been completed sooner, but the Rural Development Group slowed down the process.  This project will need to be advertised on the web as well as published in the Harold Journal for three weeks.  After advertising, the project will be awarded to the low bid construction company.

Murray reported that he is working on the design for Elk’s Ridge.  The 300 West roadway plans are complete.  UDOT will be advertising this project by March 31.  It will take three or four weeks contract time, and the project will start about the middle part of June.  The City should allow the contractor until September 15 to complete the Third West road.  That time of year is still warm enough to lay asphalt without any problems. There is a built-in incentive to the contractors to encourage them to finish the project early.

There has been a delay in getting the $350,000 funding needed to complete Third West.  The City will have to get some interim funding to cover the time lapse.  When the road is complete, the state will then release this amount of money to the City. 

Bear Lake Escape PUD is moving forward.

The City’s standards and specifications need to be updated.  They are planning to do this as they work on the water project on Third West. 

The Shundahai project is one of the first that needs to be taken care of.  There are two pump stations that need to be built along with pumps and lines to be run from the storage tanks to the subdivisions involved.  The plan for this project will take three to four months.  The bid will then be let which will be another six to eight weeks.

Three Hundred West is another project the City is working on.  Another project is running a dry line up through Cherimoya that will help improve the water system there.  There will be separate bids on the water lines and the sewer lines.  They will be dry lines, but will make provisions for development above Cherimoya.

Riley Argyle, Garden City Public Works Supervisor, reported that the new GIS system is up and running.  They have been using this device but still need to do some work on Paradise Parkway and from Buttercup to Hodges Canyon Road.  They should have this project finalized by the next meeting.  

Argyle noted that some of the equipment was out of service but has now been fixed.  Things are going well, and they are currently back up to full capacity.  There is a water leak.  It is not causing any problems.  It will be fixed as soon as the workers can get to it.

Argyle said that he will be out of town on March 24.  He needs to attend a meeting on asbestos handling.  It is required for him to maintain his certification in this area.

One of the Council members asked if there were enough sandbags on hand in case there are some water problems later this spring.  Argyle said that he will order a couple of bales of bags.  He also noted that there is a small pile of sand already on hand and more sand can quickly be brought into the area if needed.