| Millville
council considers MUD proposal By Amanda
Mears
October 10, 2007 | MILLVILLE -- A plan to distribute
brochures in order to protect Utah's Wasatch-Cache National
Forest was presented at the Millville City Council meeting
last week.
Dan Miller, executive director of the Bear River Watershed
Council, created MUD or Motorized Use Data Project in
order to inform residents of Cache Valley about the
damaged caused by using motorized vehicles off of designated
trails.
Miller asked the Millville City Council members if
they would contribute funding to the project in order
to help with the distribution of brochures. Miller said
he plans to pass these brochures out to various retailers,
including a Honda dealership. Miller said he would also
like to get together a peer group to distribute the
fliers to people riding ATV's up Millville Canyon.
"The more funds we raise, the more flyers we can print,"
Miller said.
Councilman Brian Jensen said the forest service may
already be taking care of the problem, but that they
would look into it and make a decision at the next city
council meeting.
The council also discussed storm water management
ordinances. Superintendent Gary Larsen said that since
they are approaching the five-year mark, Millville has
six months to adopt storm water ordinances. Larsen said
the council will need to decide if they want to implement
fees and urged them to consider the options.
"Storm water management can get away from you," Larsen
said.
Council members also discussed the building of a communication
tower and the ordinance that will go along with it.
They decided that the ordinance will include instruction
for the tower to be put on city property and the city
will be able to add their own communication devices
to the tower. This will be an additional source of revenue
for Millville, said Councilman Mike Jessop.
In other business, the council decided against raising
prices on the Pepsi products in the vending machine
outside of the Millville City Office building and will
keep the price at $1, and receive 10 percent profit
rather than the 20 percent they receive now. Mayor Mike
Johnson said that since the machines are not a large
source of revenue it would be better not to raise prices.
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