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Volunteers come together to clean up garbage on Sheep Lane Road

By Myrna Trauntvein

TN Correspondent

Sheep Lane Road on the way to the JRDA landfill is a lot cleaner this weekend than it was last week. On Thursday, a group of 20 volunteers gathered in the ce-dars along the roadway and with grit, muscle and several dump trucks and dump trail-ers, put in some hard work. “Jordan Boswell organized the clean-up,” said Skip Wor-wood, Nephi City Council member. “Bailee Olsen took the photos for us.” He said that Canyon Pizza sponsored the event and do-nated pizza for the workers. “The JRDA workers stayed after closing hours at the land-fill to help us out,” said Wor-wood. Alan Pay, Lee Olsen and Nick Painter were on hand un-til after 9 p.m. when the volun-teer workers had to stop. Jayce Newton works part time at the landfill. The JRDA Landfill is not maintained by Nephi City, said Worwood. “It is maintained by Juab County.” Each of those dump trucks were filled at least twice and there is more work to do, said Worwood. “There was all kinds of gar-bage—old furniture, mattress-es and other large items—in addition to other garbage,” said Worwood. There were cardboard boxes, construction lumber, tree limbs and other trash. He said that the people who discarded their garbage out-side of the dump were not just folks from the county but were people from Utah County and elsewhere. “They do not want to pay the fees in their areas,” said Wor-wood. “They know they would also have to pay a fee at our landfill if they are out of the county.” He said he had seen people with their utility trailers full of junk coming from Utah County to Juab County. It would be nice if there were some sort of tracking cameras that could be installed to catch those illegally dumping, he said. The Sheep Lane area had become the dumping ground for those who were unwilling to pay the fees at landfills and illegally dropped unwanted items off along the county roadside. “This volunteer effort orga-nized by Boswell is what we need to see more of,” said Wor-wood. “A lot of great work was done.” He said that he was appre-ciative of the volunteer effort of people who cared. As for the future of the coun-ty landfill, he said, a lot was being done to help it stay open at its present level. “JRDA is putting in a contact

COMMUNITY CLEAN UP • Twenty volunteers came together to clean up illegally dumped items on the Sheep Lane Road to the county landfi ll.

See Cleanup on page 2

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City council considers bids for culinary water pipeline replacement project

By Myrna Trauntvein

TN Correspondent

Bill Mills, Mona mayor, opened bids for the upcoming culinary water pipeline re-placement project. Separate sealed bids had been submitted for the con-struction of the 2020 Culi-nary Water Pipe Replacement which includes approximately 2,000 linear feet of 8-inch, PVC C-900 pipe for the culinary line. It also requires valves, me-ter service lines and related work. “We had 11 request infor-mation and six who submitted bids,” said Tyler Faddis, PE, Jones and DeMille Assistant Project Manager. “Our official estimate for the project was

$149,112.5.” Mayor Bill Mills then opened the six bid propos-als from: Cody Ekker Con-struction, at 163,700; Terry R. Brotherson Excavating Inc., at $133,155.05; Taurus Plumbing and Excavating, at 115,371.47; PNL Construc-tion Inc.,at $132.185; Newman Construction, at $173,490; and Silver Spur Construction, at $237,522.50. “The bids will not be sent off until after Tyler, as our en-gineer, has the opportunity to do research on the bids,” said Mills. “The apparent low bid-der is Taurus Plumbing and Excavating.” Bids were on a unit price ba-sis. Old city culinary water lines have been a problem for the city because of their decaying

nature. “The bidders had to submit evidence of qualifications to perform the work as described in the instructions to bidders,” said Mills. Now Faddis will make cer-tain that each bid complied with all of the requirements in the Request for Proposal (RFP). Mills said that Mike Stringer, council member, had worked hard on the project and deserved the thanks of the council. In June, Stringer distributed a copy of Jones and DeMille’s Engineering Scope of Work to each council member regard-ing Mona City’s 2020 Culinary Pipeline Replacement Project. “The Scope of Work for pre-construction engineering ser-vices will be completed for a

lump sum fee of $7,600,” said Stringer. “Construction engi-neering will be completed ac-cording to their standard hour-ly rate schedule with a fee not to exceed $15,400.” Stringer made the motion to accept the lowest bid from Tau-rus Plumbing and Excavating, Nephi, pending a bid review by Faddis. Jay Mecham, council member, made the second and all voted in favor. Bid evaluation is the pro-cess that takes place after the bid submission deadline. It in-volves the opening and exam-ining of the bids to identify the preferred bidder for the proj-ect. Negotiations may then be entered into with one or more bidders, and the successful bidder awarded the contract.

Mona’s Fall Festival will be held in OctoberBy Myrna Trauntvein

TN Correspondent

A fall festival will be held in Mona in October. “I was thinking that we could hold it mid-month,” said Amy Stanley, council member. “We could hold it the week be-fore the deer hunt.” Utah’s general any rifle mule deer hunt runs from Oc-tober 17–25, said Jay Mecham, city council member. “I was thinking that we could keep it outside and have a more simple celebration,” said Stanley. “I had been think-ing that September 26 would be good but it is not realistic for planning.” “What are you planning?” asked Randy Christensen, council member.

Stanley was thinking that there could be the 3 on 3 Hou-weling’s Basket Ball Tourna-ment and other fun fall games that could be played at the city park. Melinda Matheson, city rec-reation director, could be asked to help with some games that could be enjoyed in the out of doors. “It would be mostly for kids?” asked Bill Mills, mayor. It would be for the youth and for families, said Stanley. The youth are back in school and are learning about wear-ing masks and social distanc-ing. “I think we should make some kind of effort,” said Frank Riding, council member. “I am in favor of holding a fall festival.” “It would not be anything

huge, not like the 24th celebra-tion, but it would be fun,” said Stanley. She said that the activities, since they would be outdoors, would allow for social distanc-ing. COVID-19 restrictions in Utah allow some exceptions to

crowds. For example, events and activities may now host large group gatherings. The guidelines are up to 3,000 for indoor events and 6,000 for