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Serving East Juab County - A Nice Place To Live! Subscribe today! Call 623-0525 to start your paper! Volume 113, No. 48 December 2, 2015 Single Copy Price $ 1 00 LIGHT PARADE • Grand Prize: “Best of Theme” - was won by the Ed Park Family featured above. 1st Place and the “Peoples Choice” - Tony’s Window Cleaning. 2nd Place: Choice Hardware. 3rd Place: Miss Juab. 4th Place: Stotz Equipment. 5th Place: Committee Choice - Mt. Nebo Cruzin Association. Thanks for all the hard work for this year’s parade. Other photos on page 10. SENIOR BALL ROYALTY • The Senior Class of JHS will be holding their annual Senior Ball on Satur- day, December 5 at the Juab High School gymnasium. This year’s theme is “A Night in New Orleans”. Doors will open at 8:00 p.m. Floorshow will start at 9:00 p.m. Cost is $7.00 single, $10.00 for couple, and $20.00 for immediate family. This year’s royalty is King Austin Hansen and Queen Sidney Adams, seated left; 1st court, Spencer Eldridge and Sydney Reed; 2nd court, back left, Garrett Fish and McKinzey Greenhalgh; 3rd court (tie), Kade Jackson and Rachel Hall; Brock Durffee and Delayna Tolbert. Mona City now has funding to move ahead with new city center By Myrna Trauntvein Times-News Correspondent The city now has the money to make possible the construc- tion of a new city center but should they do it or not? “If the Mona City Council doesn’t support the idea, I will just let it go,” said Greg New- ton, mayor. “We are the ap- proved list for the Permanent Community Impact Board.” He said the city had $300,000 in the capital improvements fund, owned the property which amounted to a $90,000 value, had a loan from CIB for $180,000 at 2 percent interest and a grant of $178,000 which will never require repayment. “The building is estimated at a cost of approximately $685,000,” said Newton. “But because it is being done by the local building authority, there will not be an increase in taxes since the money being used by the building authority does not need to come from a dedicated revenue stream.” He said that the project had been on the county CIB list for 20 years. Each year, each com- munity and the county works with the Six-County AOG to make a list of desired future projects. If the project is not on the list, it is not as likely to be considered. He had attended the nec- essary meetings to get the funding but was not willing to waste his time to continue working toward completion of the project unless he had coun- cil backing. “I want to poll the council and see if you are all in sup- port,” said Newton. In September, the Mona lo- cal building authority (LBA) held a public hearing on Sep- tember 8. The Local Building Authority (LBA) of Mona City conducted the public hearing regarding construction of a new Mona City Center Build- ing. “I am concerned about the location,” said Molli Graham, city council member. She did not favor the city park site, where the current city hall is located. She also would like to see the building remain on Main Street. Everd Squire, city finance director, said the building pro- posed could be built where the blacktop is located at the side of the current city building. “The building design would be approximately 100-feet by 70-feet,” said Newton. Graham said she did not want the new building in that suggested area because she did not want to see any of the park facilities ripped up. “The city only owns one oth- er piece of property,” said New- ton. That property is the area where the road equipment shed is located. There is ample See Building on page 2 By Myrna Trauntvein Times-News Correspondent Mona will have a return- by-mail survey ready for their first meeting in December which will then be mailed to all residents of the community to find out if residents would mind paying $7 more a month to have a green waste collec- tion can at each residence. “I think we need to do a sur- vey,” said Frank Riding, coun- cil member. He said that a survey could be mailed to every resident in the city so that each household would have an opportunity to respond to the question of whether or not they would be willing to pay an addition to their collection fee for the con- venience. Jay Mecham, owner of Me- chams Country Garbage which serves Mona residents with a weekly household garbage col- lection, asked council mem- bers if they would like to see the community have a green waste collection program. “We have 459 customers,” said Greg Newton, mayor. “They pay $14 a month for household garbage collection.” If another $7 were added, that would bring the bill for collection to $21 per month. “We need to put our heads together and decide what to do and then prepare,” said Me- cham. “March will be here in no time.” Garbage in Mona is col- lected at the curb once a week and, said Mecham, that would go to twice a week. He would need to send two trucks to do the work because green waste is not supposed to be mixed at the landfill. The whole purpose in having a green waste can would be to keep the two types of garbage separate and give further life to the county landfill. He said that it is filling up too quickly and that separating the two types of collection allows the green waste to go to that sec- tion of the landfill where it is handled differently. Frank Riding, council mem- ber, said that people were be- coming more environmentally responsible. For that reason, some Mona residents would be willing to pay the extra $7 a month. “I think it is an awesome idea,” said Allen Pay, city wa- ter operator. Pay is the county landfill operator, as well. If the city were to choose to participate, the green waste wouldn’t go against the tonnage allowed in a day. He, however, wondered if the city could have a place, like the former green waste site, where the green waste could be taken, placed in wind rows, turned, aged and then sold to local residents as com- post. Mecham said he would be happy to buy the green waste can or that the city could do so and then own the can. To serve the city’s 459 cus- tomers, said Newton, if the city bought the cans it would come to $41,000. “What would happen if a customer didn’t want to par- ticipate?” asked Newton. “I mulch my own yard waste. The proposed increase represents 33 percent.” Pay said that he thought the only way to make the program successful was to make it man- datory. A lot of items, which did not belong in a garbage can, were put into the cans, said Me- cham. Right now, only house- hold garbage should be put in- side but people were jamming grass clippings inside plastic bags and then putting them in the trash. That is a violation, he said. Trucks now have cameras and mirrors so that customers who do not obey the rules can be identified and fined howev- er, that had not been done to date. “Green waste cans will only need to be used for eight Mona residents will be asked to weigh in on paying additional fee for residential green waste collection can See Green Waste on page 2
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Volume 113, No. 48 December 2, 2015 Single Copy Price $100
LIGHT PARADE • Grand Prize: “Best of Theme” - was won by the Ed Park Family featured above. 1st Place and the “Peoples Choice” - Tony’s Window Cleaning. 2nd Place: Choice Hardware. 3rd Place: Miss Juab. 4th Place: Stotz Equipment. 5th Place: Committee Choice - Mt. Nebo Cruzin Association. Thanks for all the hard work for this year’s parade. Other photos on page 10.
SENIOR BALL ROYALTY • The Senior Class of JHS will be holding their annual Senior Ball on Satur-day, December 5 at the Juab High School gymnasium. This year’s theme is “A Night in New Orleans”. Doors will open at 8:00 p.m. Floorshow will start at 9:00 p.m. Cost is $7.00 single, $10.00 for couple, and $20.00 for immediate family. This year’s royalty is King Austin Hansen and Queen Sidney Adams, seated left; 1st court, Spencer Eldridge and Sydney Reed; 2nd court, back left, Garrett Fish and McKinzey Greenhalgh; 3rd court (tie), Kade Jackson and Rachel Hall; Brock Durffee and Delayna Tolbert.
Mona City now has funding to move ahead with new city center
By Myrna Trauntvein
Times-News Correspondent
The city now has the money to make possible the construc-tion of a new city center but should they do it or not? “If the Mona City Council doesn’t support the idea, I will just let it go,” said Greg New-ton, mayor. “We are the ap-proved list for the Permanent Community Impact Board.” He said the city had $300,000 in the capital improvements fund, owned the property which amounted to a $90,000 value, had a loan from CIB for $180,000 at 2 percent interest and a grant of $178,000 which will never require repayment. “The building is estimated at a cost of approximately $685,000,” said Newton. “But because it is being done by the local building authority, there will not be an increase in taxes since the money being used by the building authority does not need to come from a dedicated revenue stream.” He said that the project had been on the county CIB list for 20 years. Each year, each com-munity and the county works with the Six-County AOG to make a list of desired future projects. If the project is not on the list, it is not as likely to be considered. He had attended the nec-essary meetings to get the funding but was not willing to waste his time to continue working toward completion of the project unless he had coun-cil backing. “I want to poll the council and see if you are all in sup-port,” said Newton. In September, the Mona lo-cal building authority (LBA) held a public hearing on Sep-tember 8. The Local Building Authority (LBA) of Mona City conducted the public hearing regarding construction of a new Mona City Center Build-ing. “I am concerned about the location,” said Molli Graham, city council member. She did not favor the city park site, where the current city hall is located. She also would like to see the building remain on Main Street. Everd Squire, city finance director, said the building pro-posed could be built where the blacktop is located at the side of the current city building. “The building design would be approximately 100-feet by 70-feet,” said Newton. Graham said she did not want the new building in that suggested area because she did not want to see any of the park facilities ripped up. “The city only owns one oth-er piece of property,” said New-ton. That property is the area where the road equipment shed is located. There is ample
See Building on page 2
By Myrna Trauntvein
Times-News Correspondent
Mona will have a return-by-mail survey ready for their first meeting in December which will then be mailed to all residents of the community to find out if residents would mind paying $7 more a month to have a green waste collec-tion can at each residence. “I think we need to do a sur-vey,” said Frank Riding, coun-cil member. He said that a survey could be mailed to every resident in the city so that each household would have an opportunity to respond to the question of whether or not they would be willing to pay an addition to their collection fee for the con-venience. Jay Mecham, owner of Me-chams Country Garbage which serves Mona residents with a weekly household garbage col-lection, asked council mem-bers if they would like to see the community have a green waste collection program. “We have 459 customers,” said Greg Newton, mayor. “They pay $14 a month for household garbage collection.” If another $7 were added, that would bring the bill for collection to $21 per month. “We need to put our heads together and decide what to do and then prepare,” said Me-cham. “March will be here in no time.” Garbage in Mona is col-lected at the curb once a week and, said Mecham, that would go to twice a week. He would need to send two trucks to do the work because green waste is not supposed to be mixed at the landfill. The whole purpose in having a green waste can would be to keep the two types of garbage separate and give further life to the county landfill. He said
that it is filling up too quickly and that separating the two types of collection allows the green waste to go to that sec-tion of the landfill where it is handled differently. Frank Riding, council mem-ber, said that people were be-coming more environmentally responsible. For that reason, some Mona residents would be willing to pay the extra $7 a month. “I think it is an awesome idea,” said Allen Pay, city wa-ter operator. Pay is the county landfill operator, as well. If the city were to choose to participate, the green waste wouldn’t go against the tonnage allowed in a day. He, however, wondered if the city could have a place,
like the former green waste site, where the green waste could be taken, placed in wind rows, turned, aged and then sold to local residents as com-post. Mecham said he would be happy to buy the green waste can or that the city could do so and then own the can. To serve the city’s 459 cus-tomers, said Newton, if the city bought the cans it would come to $41,000. “What would happen if a customer didn’t want to par-ticipate?” asked Newton. “I mulch my own yard waste. The proposed increase represents 33 percent.” Pay said that he thought the only way to make the program successful was to make it man-
datory. A lot of items, which did not belong in a garbage can, were put into the cans, said Me-cham. Right now, only house-hold garbage should be put in-side but people were jamming grass clippings inside plastic bags and then putting them in the trash. That is a violation, he said. Trucks now have cameras and mirrors so that customers who do not obey the rules can be identified and fined howev-er, that had not been done to date. “Green waste cans will only need to be used for eight
Mona residents will be asked to weigh in on paying additional fee for residential green waste collection can
See Green Waste on page 2
