By Myrna Trauntvein
Times-News Correspondent
Lyla Spencer, city recorder in Mona, will help residents who want to apply for grants.
"I spoke to the Utah Rural Development Office," said Gordon Anderson, council member.
Rural Development helps improve the quality of life in rural communities by providing those communities, co-ops and non-profits with the financing needed to build or improve key economic and civic infrastructure.
The organization helps local leaders provide basic services like safe, reliable water and waste treatment by helping fund improvements to civic facilities, business infrastructure and for public services like first responder, adult education, job training, health care and leadership development.
"They would like to have someone locally to help residents fill out forms," said Anderson.
A public meeting will be held, said Anderson, and those interested in obtaining a grant to help with the cost of installation of the sewer line from the house to the main trunk line in the street will be invited.
"Many of them will need help filling out all of the forms," said Anderson. Lyla Spencer would be the perfect person for the job, he said.
Residents from the community, said Anderson, who would like to receive a grant will be invited to city hall for a public meeting. That date still needs to be selected.
"I would like to have the meeting when it can be held outside," said Anderson.
That would allow all of those who wanted to attend the meeting to do so. The city offices are small for such a large group to meet.
"We could have the meeting at Mona Elementary," said Spencer. "I could call and arrange for us to meet there."
Bill Mills, mayor, said he agreed that the meeting should be held outside and favored June as the meeting month which would likely be the best time for the outdoor public meeting.
