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  • Levan holds short meeting, items discussed


By Rebecca Dopp
Times-News Correspondent

It was a short meeting for the Levan Town Council on Oct. 11. Issues discussed included an update on the animal control building and the need for a microphone in the council chambers.

• Brian Ercanbrack, council member, updated the council on the progress of the animal control building. He said he had some dimensions in mind, and asked if the next step would be to advertise for bidders.

Ercanbrack said that he thought an 8' x 30' building would suffice with a single sloping roof. Mayor Bob Shepherd said he felt the roof should be all the same heighth instead of sloping from 8' to 6'. Ercanbrack felt a sloping roof would be cheaper.

Ercanbrack said he had looked at other buildings that had 5' runs inside for the dogs. He said six runs would be plenty. The council discussed different ways of shielding the dogs from one another, either by a steel sheet or plywood.

The council discussed what type of runs the shelter would have. Shepherd said that Joe Cummings, a Levan resident, had some really nice dog runs and suggested the council take a look at them. He thought that putting in an already built unit would be easier than installing custom runs.

The project is progressing, and the council is looking forward to taking care of the dog problems in Levan to make it safer for residents.

• Mayor Shepherd said that there is a need for a microphone to be placed in the council chambers so that meetings can be better heard over the cable channel.

"It would have been really nice to have had one at the Meet the Candidate night," said Shepherd.

He said that he didn't think it would be expensive, and he thought it should be able to plug right into the camera.

He said that it was really hard to hear the meetings through the camera's microphone.