- David D. Ogden, Mayor
Wendy McLaughlin, Clerk-Treasurer Shelley Jones, Deputy Clerk-Treasurer M. Zane Baler, Public Works Director Phone: (208) 356 7561
Fax: (208) 359 2654
Office Hours: 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
AUGUST 2016
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City of Sugar City
P.O. Box 56 – 10 East Center Sugar City, Idaho 83448
Support our local businesses
Aug 4-6 – War Bonnet Rodeo at Sandy Downs in Idaho Falls
Aug 4 -Planning & Zoning Meeting 7 p.m.
Aug 11 – City Council Meeting 6:30 p.m.
August 13 – RUSH Triathlon
Call Rexburg City at 359-3020
August 16 – Celebrate Youth
2:00 PM – 7:00 PM
Call 359-3300 for information
August 16 – Rexburg Mobile Food Pantry 5:30 PM – 7:30 PM
Volunteers needed between
4:30 p.m. & 8:30 p.m.
Aug 16 – 17 – School Registration for All Schools
August 17-20 – Madison County Fair
Aug 18 – Joint Council & P&Z Meeting 7 p.m.
August 20 – VFW Community Breakfast 8:00 – 11:00 a.m. 2nd North 5th West $5 donation, kids under 12 are free
August 24- ist day of school
Aug 25 – City Council Meeting 6:30 p.m *PUBLIC HEARING ON CITY BUDGET*
Dates to Remember:
Eastern Idaho State Fair – Sept. 3-10th
Curfew Ordinance for Minors Sunday Monday
5am — 11pm 5am 11pm
Tuesday Wednesday —
5am 11pm 5am T 11pm Thursday Friday
5am — 11pm 5am I T. 12:30am Saturday Sunday
5am i 12:30ann 5am I 11pnn
PIONEER COMMUNITY BREAKFAST: Many people were served a wonderful breakfast this year. We wish to thank all who helped in any way to make this activity possible, including our city maintenance crew and all the cooks and servers. We wish to give a special thank you to each of the following:
Mayor Ogden and City Council
Pam and lyan Gerdes for the music
Stones Town and Country for their annual $1,000 sponsorship and help with the cooking
Dickinson Foods for their contribution of hash browns
Walmart for their contribution of the watermelons
Zane & Cheree Palmer, lan Luke, Matt & Jacob Christensen for the cleanup and others who helped
We appreciate everyone who donated to help with city park innprovements and appreciate those who attended and made it a great success.
START OF SCHOOL: School starts Wednesday, August 24. We caution everyone to drive carefullv and watch for children. Also notice that during school hours Center Street will be back down to 25 mph.
WATER QUALITY REPORT: Sugar City has the 2015 Water Quality Report. It will be available soon on the City’s Website. lt is also available at City Hall to review.
GARBAGE PICK–UP REMINDER: Please have garbage set out by 6:00 A.M. Fridays. There are 6 holidays that will postpone garbage pick-up for Saturday. Those holidays are: New Years, Memorial Day, 4thof July, Labor Day, Thanksgiving and Christmas.
RECYCLING SURVEY RESPONSE: We have had 46 responses on our survey. Of those 46, 93% would like a recycling program and 80% said they would be willing to pay $8.00/mo. for the service.
We need 125 committed residents before we can have this service. Remind your friends and neighbors to take the survey. Pick-up would be every 2 weeks on garbage day. Itenns collected would be paper, plastics, tin & aluminum. Take our survey at:https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/682D2NC
SPRINKLER SYSTEMS: Thank you to those that have completed your backflow test! Anyone who is going to put in a new sprinkler system will need to get a permit from the city. If you already have a system, please check to make sure it has a double check backflow device. It needs to be tested by sonneone who is certified. Please bring your report into City Hall. This is required every 2 years for residential and yearly for commercial. The DEQ (Department of Environmental Quality) requires this of the city to ensure that contamination of the water supply will not happen in the event of a pressure loss to the water system. Call City Hall for questions.
David D. Ogden, Mayor
Wendy McLaughlin, Clerk-Treasurer Shelley Jones, Deputy Clerk-Treasurer
Phone: (208) 356 7561
Fax: (208) 359 2654
Office Hours: 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Dear City Residents,
City of Sugar City
P.O. Box 56 – 10 East Center
Sugar City, Idaho 83448
Support our local businesses
July 27, 2016
I would like to thank Councilman Joe Cherrington, Stones Town and Country, and all the others who donated their time, money and effort to make this year’s Pioneer Day Breakfast a success. It was great to see so many of you out mingling and having a good time, and the food was great! We hope you noticed the new cement pad where the food was served, thanks to the efforts of our great public works staff.
It was also good to see many of you at the Pioneer Day Parade in St. Anthony. It was my first time riding in the parade as a part of the city delegation. We saw many of you, and hope that we were able to throw enough candy your way. It is great to support such a great cause, and honor such brave pioneers.
As many of you are aware, we recently had an interruption with our city water. The staff quickly took care of this and it was only down for about 15 minutes. However, this and a couple of other minor issues has brought to our attention that we are beginning to reach a point where we are at capacity in providing water, especially during the summer months as we water our yards and parks.
In anticipation of this, the city has authorized the study of our water system to determine how best to handle both anticipated growth and to more efficiently use our existing system. We are very serious about meeting our obligation as a city in providing both culinary water for your use, as well as the mandated fire flow protection to all residents, businesses and schools.
Based on the initial meetings held with the engineers doing the study it has become apparent that we will have to make changes and add new capacity. The city already has sufficient water rights to make this happen, but there will be some costs associated with these changes.
The first stage of this study will be to make sure the city not only has sufficient water, but also sufficient fire protection. The second is to anticipate and handle any future growth. I want to assure you that we are dedicated to keeping the costs down, but at the same time making sure the system is not only efficient, but adequate for all our needs, and help to provide for future needs. More information will be forthcoming and will be made available to you.
Thank you.
Sincerely,
David D. Ogden
Mayor
