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11.5 INCHES OF SNOW IN ONE DAY • The storm that arrived on Sunday dropped 11.5 inches of snow at Nephi’s offi cal weather station, according to Don Ball, who is in charge of the station. Above, Brea Aagard, USPS carrier, delivers mail on Monday morning, The post offi ce re-minds all patrons to keep the mail boxes clear of snow. If the box is not clear, you may not get mail until it is.

First steps taken in bringing more water to Juab County

By Rebecca Dopp

Times-News Correspondent

“I believe this is the first step in bringing water to Juab County.” That was Byron Woodland’s response to a Memorandum of Understanding between Juab County, Central Utah Water Conservancy District (CUWCD) and the East Juab County Water Conservancy District (EJWCD) for the com-pletion of a Regional M&I Wa-ter Supply Formulation Plan in conjunction with Southern Utah County. This MOU is not a promise, he said, but it will provide for a plan to help with the amount of water the county needs and for future growth. It provides for the infrastructure needed to deliver the water and the costs associated. It will be pre-sented to the communities for consideration. “It’s been a long time com-ing,” he said. “I think this is actually the first signed docu-ment, other than a resolution, setting aside water in Utah Lake for 10,000 acre feet.” CUWCD went from, two years ago, saying there wasn’t any water coming to Juab County, to saying there was now water coming in these first stages, he said. Woodland, commissioner, said there was currently a 5 ft. diameter pipeline under con-struction from Santaquin. It will be treated water. How that water will be delivered to Juab County is still under consider-ation. “I think there’s a very good chance we get some water from CUWCD,” he said. He said he was apprecia-tive of the moves the district had made to get more water for Juab County. EJWCD will provide a 1/4 of the funding ($50,000) for the plan while CUWCD provides the rest of the cost for the plan. If it goes over $250,000, CUWCD will pick up the rest. Ryan Peters, county attor-ney, had reviewed the MOU and suggested some updates. He said CUWCD was more than accommodating. “At this point,” he said, “it doesn’t obligate the county to anything other than to help.” Woodland said a commit-tee will be established to work with the plan with representa-tion from EJWCD. Juab Coun-ty and each of the communities will have a “chair at the table” on the committee in going for-ward with the plan. He said this has been a long time coming and he was excit-ed. He understood that noth-ing was a done deal, but it was a big step in bringing water to the county. Rick Carlton, commissioner, said he did not see a completion

Mona City general plan presentation will be held on December 11th

By Myrna Trauntvein

Times-News Correspondent

At Mona City council meet-ing to be held December 11, the city council will have the opportunity of accepting the new city general plan. All the proper steps have been taken, said Bill Mills, mayor. “The general plan presen-tation will be held at council meeting on December 11, our next council meeting,” he said. Urban Planning Interna-tional LLC, headed by Dr. Mi-chael Clay, a Brigham Young University professor of Urban

Planning, will be ready to pres-ent the final plan to the city by that date. Developing the general plan for Mona has been a process and was needed to determine community goals and aspira-tions in terms of community development so the 1980s era general plan could be replaced. “They told us our general plan would be ready in Decem-ber,” said Mills, “and it will be.” He said that the plan was to be presented to the city plan-ning commission and then it would be finalized and made ready for the city council. Urban Planning LLC, Inc,

the BYU Firm updating the Mona City’s General Plan, pre-sented the seven areas of con-cern to the public for input. Clay and BYU students working on Mona City’s Gen-eral Plan presented seven ar-eas as follows: Environment, Transportation, Annexation, Land Use, Historic Preserva-tion, Housing, Public Facilities and Economic Development. “They hoped to get the gen-eral plan through the adoption process before their semester is over; the last day of class is December 13,” said Mills. The plan will be to present to the city planning commis-sion on December 5 and have

the plan adopted by the council on December 11. The work will be shown via email to the planning commis-sion and the city council prior to their meetings to receive the needed feedback. The draft deadline for e-mail was Monday November 12 with feedback requested before Friday November 16 to stay on schedule. Mona City hosted a Review of Vision and Goals in October as part of the update of the city general plan. A second meet-

Mona City Council wants to review interlocal agreement for redundant gas line

By Myrna Trauntvein

Times-News Correspondent

Mona would like to be the entity providing natural gas to Houwelings Tomatoes west of the city but not annexed to it.

“I have contacted Eric John-son, attorney, to look at the agreement that Seth Atkinson, Nephi City Administrator, sent to us,” said Bill Mills, Mayor. Atkinson and Kyle March-ant, Nephi City Public Works Director, attended Mona City

Council two weeks ago to dis-cuss the need to run another gas line through Mona as part of a redundant gas line to serve county customers and all of the community customers of East Juab County. The project will cost $2 mil-lion but is a bargain. It would cost close to $9 million to con-nect to the Kern River Pipeline approximately 12 miles west of Nephi. Nephi is agent for the natu-ral gas system. While Atkinson and March-ant were at the meeting, Mills requested that he, and each member of the council, be giv-en a copy of the agreement be-cause, even though Nephi acts as agent over the Main Line Mona council members think Nephi should be able to pro-vide a connection to the city that would allow Mona to con-

tract with and deliver natural gas to Houwelings. “I contacted him (Johnson) to look over the interlocal agreement because our attor-ney, Kasey Wright, is also the attorney for Nephi City and there would be a conflict of in-terest,” said Mills. Eric T. Johnson, a Salt Lake City Attorney specializing in Municipal and Local Govern-ment Law, has agreed to look over the “Supplemental In-terlocal Cooperative Agree-ment” dated April 1991 among Juab County, Nephi, Mona and Levan and the Juab Rural De-velopment Agency, said Mills. In the agreement it states that, as agent of the agency, Nephi will acquire and hold

See Water on page 2 See Gas on page 3

See Plan on page 2

Why didn’t I get my paper on Wednesday? To answer this question is simple. The post offices in our area were closed on Wednesday, December 5, due to the fu-neral of former U.S. President George H.W. Bush. No deliv-ery and office help were available on that day.