The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-06-05
UNITE OFFICES
IN PARK CITY
Council Tries Combination of
Position and Hears Water
COmpany'S Offer.

Park City, June 4.-Last nights ses-
sion of the city council was one of the
most interesting ever held here. There
was a large attendance of citizens in
terested in the business to be trans
acted. The feature of the session was
the adoption by the council of a report
OF the committee on laws recommend
ing that the city physician shall as
sumo the duties of food inspector, mas
much as the city marshal is burdened
with too many duties already The
recommendations Of the committee
were as follows:
I. That the office of sealer OF
weights and measures, food inspector
and chief of the fire department, as
separate offices, be abolished.
=. That the city marshal be eY-
nEtclO chef CT police, chief Of the FIRE
department and sealer Of weights and
measures, at a salary of $3.50 per month
3. That the Office of street commits
sioner and city janitor be comb ined IN
der one office, at a salary of 81 per day.
Il. That the Office of city physician
be a salaTied Office, and that the city
physician, in addition to his duties as
such, be the food inspector and sanitary
and public health officer.
3. That the office of city justice of
the peace and city recorder be COM
bined, or, if this cannot be done, that
the salary of each office be $50 pei
month, so that hereafter these offices
will be held by one person"
It was the decision of the council to
have the city attorney prepare new or.
dinances making the changes suggest
ed.
Water Franchise Matter.
Considerable discussion followed a re-
port by the special committee appoint-
ed to investigate the water franchise
application. The committee was APP
pointed to get the proposition OF the
management of the Park City Water
company, which had asked for q ran
chise. and reported that when they HAD
asked the company TO make an Offer 10
sell the present system TO the city,
taking city bonds in payment, the com.
pdny suggested prOfit-sharing scheme
but declined to make an oner TO sell az
that time. Later the committee OBJ
tanned three offers from the company.
which We're made verbally.
First. the company asked a renewal
of franchise to run twenty-five years.
upon which it would agree 10 expend
IS, 600 in improvements. to include a
50,000-gallon tank for fire protection, a
siX-inch main down Main street for fire
protection purposes only; also to *
pend $3.50 in replacing hydrants and
putting in new ones at points to be in
dicaiet icy the city. Under This agree
ment the company specifies that the
present minium rate of s66 per month
for hydrants be esta blished as a fiat
rate, the city to have as many hydrants
placed on the system as may De ceemec
advisable.
Second, the company makes a pro-
for a ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS franchise ard
the management to remain as at pres.
ent, the first $500 profits to be re-
tanned by the company. tho next s. 20 |
to go to the city, after which The prOn1s /
shall be divided One-third to the CITY |
and the rest to the company, the COM |
pany to build the big tank, as IN the /
first proposition and maintain the pres
ent system in repair, and the city to
make any improvements wanted at its
own expense.
Third, the company makes a propo-
sitiOn to sell outright to the city for
$4,000, payable in bonds of the city.
$12,500 in five, ten, fifteen and twenty
years; interest at s per cent; guaranty
TO be made by the city that 81 300 shall
be placed in the sinking fund each
year, besides the interest, for the re-
demption of the bonds, and that a min
imum family rate of $3.50 per month be
established to the users of water
The committee submitted its report.
without making recommendations. ana
stated that since the offer mad been
made the committee had gone no fur
Their into the application for a fran.
chise. deeming it advisable, if possible.
to secure the water works system for
the city.
Bills against the city to the amount
Of S2,710.1 were ordered paid, and re-
ports of city officers were read. The
sealer and inspector reported that ped
dlers had been selling butter short If
the required weight, and that they had
been warned against it. He said that
milk was up to the required standard
but in some instances had been found
to be very dirty. He recommended that
dairymen be compelled to deliver milk
in glass bottles.
Council adjourned until Thursday |