Mona City approves fi nal budget and amended budget at meeting · 2019. 6. 18. · Mona City...
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Serving East Juab County - A Nice Place To Live! Volume 117, No. 25 June 19, 2019 Single Copy Price $ 1 00 96 South Main Phone Office Hours Our Website Nephi, UT 84648 (435) 623-0525 M-F- 9:30 to Noon nephitimesnews.com Deadlines: Monday 12 noon 1:00 to 5 p.m. Nephi City finalizes budget for 2019-2020, adopts amended budget for previous year By Myrna Trauntvein Times-News Correspondent Some goals have been set by the Nephi City Council for the budget for 2020 and adminis- tration has tried to meet some of the goals in planning for the coming year. The council voted unani- mously to accept the 2019- 2020 fiscal year budget and to adopt the amended 2018-2019 budget. “This budget document con- tains the financial plan for 2019-2020 fiscal year (July 1through June 30),” said Seth Atkinson, city administrator. “We are adopting the budget ahead of schedule.” The first goal, he said, was to start on the bridge improve- ments by completing the re- placement of one bridge of the many identified in a recent study as being in need of the work. “The budget has taken an extensive amount of work,” said Justin Seely, Mayor Pro Tempore. “I like that it is on the website and that everyone can review it.” Atkinson said that Google and the city website were mar- ried well and made it simple for residents to review the bud- get. By state law, the budget must be adopted by June 22 if no tax rate increase is put in place and the city had beat that mandate by two weeks. Also by law, a public hearing must be held on the budget and the public hearing must be ad- vertised seven days in advance and that had also been met. The council, prior to the hearing, is required to review, consider and adopt the budget and proposed amendments, if needed, to the previous year’s budget. “A big chunk of the capital projects fund will go for the water project,” he said. The fund summary of all funds shows the following: General Fund $4,981,297; Spe- cial Revenue fund $48,000; Capital Project Funds $3,685,670; Water and Sew- er fund $12,166,265; Sewer Fund $312,128; Electric Fund $9,131,806; Natural Gas Fund $5,071,373; Solid Waste Fund $412,512; Industrial Develop- ment Agency $164,769. The total budget for all cat- egories is $35,973,820. “Health benefits went up 7 percent,” said Atkinson. “When I came here, I received a $1 raise over my previous job, but the increase was significant because of the benefits.” “Many businesses do an 80/20 on insurance benefits,” said Skip Worwood, council member. The Capital Projects Fund serves as a repository for funds directly related or dedicated to capital improvements. These Mona City approves final budget and amended budget at meeting By Myrna Trauntvein Times-News Correspondent Mona City had a public hearing prior to voting unani- mously to adopt the total final budget for 2019- 2020 and voting to accept the amended budget for 2018- 2019. Though there were a hand- ful of people at council meet- ing, no one from the public attended the meeting to make comment on the budget or on the amended budget. “2018-2019 budget is the best guess for where the bud- get will end up at the end of the year which is the last day of June,” said Everd Squire, city finance director. “We may have to amend it and move some money from place to place, which is legal.” His uncertainty came be- cause not all of the bills had been submitted for the past year. He said it was his best guess how much was still needing to be paid out. Bill Mills, mayor, noted that some funds were still listed as coming from JRDA. The money was for the green waste site maintained, in the past, in Mona. “That funding will go away at the end of June,” said Squire. “JRDA will pay for it until the end of the fiscal year which is the end of June.” Mills also noted that the utilities for the city building had decreased in the budget for the coming year. “We were only in this build- ing for six months in 2018,” said Katrina Long, council member. The utilities for that year were at $7,161 and it is planned that they will cost $13,000 for the coming fiscal year. Squire said that he had found enough water shares to cover the residents of the city who wanted to do outside wa- tering using irrigation compa- ny shares. The city collects the money but the majority of the fee goes to the irrigation company. The city pays $75 of the $80 to the irrigation company. The amended budget to- tal revenue for the Mona City budget was planned for $603,270 which is less than last year which was $714,770. Utah State Code sets forth See Budget on page 12 Projects within Mona City water department are moving along nicely By Myrna Trauntvein Times-News Correspondent The city water department has had a busy month. “SCADA did a radio test,” said Jonathan Jones, city wa- ter operator. “We were pleased that it worked well.” He said that an antenna was put on the roof of the head house and had another anten- na at the city building. He held the city antenna and found that it still worked. When it was permanently mounted, it should be even better. “It will be permanently mounted on the head house,” he said. He said that the project was moving ahead quickly and that the equipment was coming. Supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) is a system of software and hardware elements that al- lows organizations to: control processes locally or at remote locations; monitor, gather, and process real-time data; directly interact with devices such as sensors, valves, pumps, mo- tors, and more through hu- man-machine interface (HMI) software; and record events into a log file. The basic SCADA architec- ture begins with programma- ble logic controllers (PLCs) or remote terminal units (RTUs). PLCs and RTUs are micro- computers that communicate with an array of objects such as machines, sensors and end devices and then route the in- formation from those objects to computers with SCADA soft- ware. The SCADA software pro- cesses, distributes, and dis- plays the data, helping op- erators and other employees analyze the data and make important decisions. Jones said that he and Cory Squire, engineer, had tested the city’s water well. It had not been run for sometime. The valve was a variable one and should be tested more often. “It should be exercised quar- terly,” he said. The GIS system was also moving along and the lines were going in. “We finished the GIS field work this week,” Jones said. “We found 90 percent of the valves.” A geographic information system (GIS) is a framework for gathering, managing and analyzing data. Rooted in the science of geography, GIS inte- grates many types of data. It analyzes spatial location and organizes layers of informa- tion into visualizations using maps and 3D scenes. The city utility systems are going to be on a map and 3D scenes. By the end of July, the city should have the finished prod- uct. Gordon Young, representing the irrigation company, said he was not interested in partici- pating and putting the irriga- tion company lines on the GIS. However, Jones was given a map. It was decided that the area should be Blue Staked and that work was done, said Jones. Blue Stakes of Utah 811 is a non-profit organization and exists to promote public safety, protect underground facilities, and minimize service interrup- tions by processing locate re- quests and providing damage See Mona Budget on page 5 See Mona Water on page 5 DISCOVER YOUR ADVENTURE • The Juab Travel Council erected a new digital sign on I-15 to welcome travelers to Juab County. It will promote events, festivities and other information that is pertinent to the county. The sign replaced an old wooden one that was in need of an update.
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Nephi City fi nalizes budget for 2019-2020,adopts amended budget for previous year
By Myrna Trauntvein
Times-News Correspondent
Some goals have been set by the Nephi City Council for the budget for 2020 and adminis-tration has tried to meet some of the goals in planning for the coming year. The council voted unani-mously to accept the 2019-2020 fiscal year budget and to adopt the amended 2018-2019 budget. “This budget document con-tains the financial plan for 2019-2020 fiscal year (July 1through June 30),” said Seth Atkinson, city administrator. “We are adopting the budget ahead of schedule.” The first goal, he said, was to start on the bridge improve-ments by completing the re-placement of one bridge of the many identified in a recent study as being in need of the work. “The budget has taken an extensive amount of work,” said Justin Seely, Mayor Pro Tempore. “I like that it is on the website and that everyone can review it.” Atkinson said that Google and the city website were mar-ried well and made it simple for residents to review the bud-get. By state law, the budget must be adopted by June 22 if no tax rate increase is put in place and the city had beat that mandate by two weeks. Also by law, a p u b l i c h e a r i n g must be h e l d o n t h e b u d g e t and the public hearing must be ad-vertised seven days in advance and that had also been met. The c o u n c i l, prior to the hearing, is required to r e v i e w , c o n s i d e r a n d adopt t h e b u d g e t and proposed amendments, if needed, to the previous year’s budget. “A big chunk of the capital projects fund will go for the water project,” he said. The fund summary of all funds shows the following: General Fund $4,981,297; Spe-cial Revenue fund $48,000; Capital Project Funds $3,685,670; Water and Sew-er fund $12,166,265; Sewer Fund $312,128; Electric Fund $9,131,806; Natural Gas Fund $5,071,373; Solid Waste Fund $412,512; Industrial Develop-ment Agency $164,769. The total budget for all cat-egories is $35,973,820. “Health benefits went up 7 percent,” said Atkinson. “When I came here, I received a $1 raise over my previous job, but the increase was significant because of the benefits.” “Many businesses do an 80/20 on insurance benefits,” said Skip Worwood, council member. The Capital Projects Fund serves as a repository for funds directly related or dedicated to capital improvements. These
Mona City approves fi nal budget and amended budget at meeting
By Myrna Trauntvein
Times-News Correspondent
Mona City had a public hearing prior to voting unani-mously to adoptthe total final budget for 2019-2020 and voting to accept the amended budget for 2018-2019. Though there were a hand-ful of people at council meet-ing, no one from the public attended the meeting to make comment on the budget or on the amended budget. “2018-2019 budget is the best guess for where the bud-
get will end up at the end of the year which is the last day of June,” said Everd Squire, city finance director. “We may have to amend it and move some money from place to place, which is legal.” His uncertainty came be-cause not all of the bills had been submitted for the past year. He said it was his best guess how much was still needing to be paid out. Bill Mills, mayor, noted that some funds were still listed as coming from JRDA. The money was for the green waste site maintained, in the past, in Mona. “That funding will go
away at the end of June,” said Squire. “JRDA will pay for it until the end of the fiscal year which is the end of June.” Mills also noted that the utilities for the city building had decreased in the budget for the coming year. “We were only in this build-ing for six months in 2018,” said Katrina Long, council member. The utilities for that year were at $7,161 and it is planned that they will cost $13,000 for the coming fiscal year. Squire said that he had found enough water shares to cover the residents of the city
who wanted to do outside wa-tering using irrigation compa-ny shares. The city collects the money but the majority of the fee goes to the irrigation company. The city pays $75 of the $80 to the irrigation company. The amended budget to-tal revenue for the Mona City budget wasplanned for $603,270 which is less than last year which was $714,770. Utah State Code sets forth
See Budget on page 12
Projects within Mona City water department are moving along nicely
By Myrna Trauntvein
Times-News Correspondent
The city water department has had a busy month. “SCADA did a radio test,” said Jonathan Jones, city wa-ter operator. “We were pleased that it worked well.” He said that an antenna was put on the roof of the head house and had another anten-na at the city building. He held the city antenna and found that it still worked. When it was permanently mounted, it should be even better. “It will be permanently mounted on the head house,” he said. He said that the project was moving ahead quickly and that the equipment was coming. Supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) is a system of software and
hardware elements that al-lows organizations to: control processes locally or at remote locations; monitor, gather, and process real-time data; directly interact with devices such as sensors, valves, pumps, mo-tors, and more through hu-man-machine interface (HMI) software; and record events into a log file. The basic SCADA architec-ture begins with programma-ble logic controllers (PLCs) or remote terminal units (RTUs). PLCs and RTUs are micro-computers that communicate with an array of objects such as machines, sensors and end devices and then route the in-formation from those objects to computers with SCADA soft-ware. The SCADA software pro-cesses, distributes, and dis-plays the data, helping op-erators and other employees
analyze the data and make important decisions. Jones said that he and Cory Squire, engineer, had tested the city’s water well. It had not been run for sometime. The valve was a variable one and should be tested more often. “It should be exercised quar-terly,” he said. The GIS system was also moving along and the lines were going in. “We finished the GIS field work this week,” Jones said. “We found 90 percent of the valves.” A geographic information system (GIS) is a framework for gathering, managing and analyzing data. Rooted in the science of geography, GIS inte-grates many types of data. It analyzes spatial location and organizes layers of informa-tion into visualizations using maps and 3D scenes.
The city utility systems are going to be on a map and 3D scenes. By the end of July, the city should have the finished prod-uct. Gordon Young, representing the irrigation company, said he was not interested in partici-pating and putting the irriga-tion company lines on the GIS. However, Jones was given a map. It was decided that the area should be Blue Staked and that work was done, said Jones. Blue Stakes of Utah 811 is a non-profit organization and exists to promote public safety, protect underground facilities, and minimize service interrup-tions by processing locate re-quests and providing damage
See Mona Budget on page 5
See Mona Water on page 5
DISCOVER YOUR ADVENTURE • The Juab Travel Council erected a new digital sign on I-15 to welcome travelers to Juab County. It will promote events, festivities and other information that is pertinent to the county. The sign replaced an old wooden one that was in need of an update.
