By Rebecca Dopp
Times-News Correspondent
Levan Town council meeting was kind
of quiet March 8 with council members giving updates on
issues discussed at February's meeting.
• Brian Ercanbrack, council
member, gave an update about the town purchasing a
10-wheeler truck from UDOT. He said that town employees,
Jason Worwood and Travis Rosquist, had traveled up north to
inspect the vehicle and said they were satisfied with it.
The vehicle included a sander and snow plow.
"Travis thought, out of the three,
they were getting the better one," said Ercanbrack. The
other two trucks that were available have gone to Juab
County.
Ercanbrack said that the asking
price was $10,500. Mayor Bob Shepherd said that he didn't
think they would have to amend the budget to accommodate the
purchasing, and that the money would probably come out of
the road department.
Council members voted to go ahead
with the purchasing of the vehicle.
• Ercanbrack also gave an
update about the animal control problem and how Nephi City
had responded to Levan's request to house the
animals.
He said that he had talked with
Nephi City administrator, Randy McKnight, a week ago, who
seemed accepting of the proposal, but wasn't sure how it
would all work out. Ercanbrack said that he had failed to
get back with McKnight to further discuss the issue, but
suggested that the Levan Council sit down with Nephi City
council members and figure out all the details.
• Mayor Shepherd
expressed his concerns with the poor condition of the town
hall's tables, chairs, and holding racks in the cultural
hall.
He said that some of the tables
were really old, falling apart, and potentially dangerous.
He said that he had already discarded some that were really
bad.
He wanted to get the council's okay
to find and purchase new furniture. He said that they would
need enough tables to fill up the room and enough chairs to
go around them.
"There are several [chairs]
that the ward gave us four years ago that are in still good
shape, and I didn't know if the church wanted those back,"
Shepherd said.
Council member Corey Christensen
said he wasn't sure if there was room in the church, but
that he would find out.
"We appreciated having them; we
wouldn't have gotten by without them," Shepherd
said.
• Christensen asked the
council about possibly putting town logos on the sides of
town vehicles, on equipment, and also on the town hall
door.
"Our dump truck says Springville
City, and our garbage truck still says Nephi City,"
Christensen said. "I thought we should take some pride in
our equipment."
He said that he was thinking of
adhesive stickers or window decals that sported the town's
name.
Council members okayed Christensen
to look into the cost.
Mike Kramer, resident, asked about
the town sign on the edge of town and if it would be
possible to make it look nicer. He said that donations,
fundraisers, and what the town could afford to pay would
help put in a nice sign.
Christensen said he liked the town
sign in Fountain Green which was lasered into a big
boulder.
Kramer said there were some rock
guys who regularly came through town that said they would do
the job.
Shepherd said that they might have
to contact the state if they put it on the old highway.
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