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<br />PARADISE VALLEY -Engineers' reports on the
<br />Invergordon Ditch repair project and a six-month review of
<br />the town budget ·head the agenda for this week's town , council meeting ..
<br />The council will meet at 7:30p.m. Thursday in the Town
<br />Hall, Invergordon Road and Lincoln Drive. · .
<br />Town Manager Oscar Butt said engineers from the firm
<br />gf Collar, Williams and White will brief council members on'
<br />the amount of flood water coming into the Invergordon
<br />system and will make recommendations on repairs needed
<br />to handle the increased flow.
<br />Butt said the engineers probably will insure that repairs
<br />they recommend will carry all water that comes into the
<br />town from north of Mountain. View Road, the north-south
<br />boundary between Paradise Valley, Phoenix and Scotts-
<br />dale. '
<br />The coun~il authorized $9,800 for the engineering study.
<br />Heavy ram of Sept. 25 and earlier storms did considerable
<br />damage to the Invergordon Ditch and minor damage to the
<br />Bern ell and Mountain Views Ditches. Property damage in
<br />· the area following the storms alSo was heavy.
<br />Butt has estimated that the repair project will cost nearly
<br />$300,000. The town requested and received from the state $133,~00 in floo~ disaster funds, of which $100,000 will go to ·
<br />repair of the ditches. The remaining $33,200 is tabbed for
<br />~repairs to streets, roads and bicycle paths damaged during
<br />the rains.
<br />Another $150,000 in town contingency ftmds is expected to
<br />· be appropriated later this year to supplement the state
<br />funding. Improvements to the ditch system are expected to
<br />consist of relining of the ditches and construction of box
<br />culverts at certain locations.
<br />Town Clerk Mary Ann Brines is preparing a six-month
<br />budget report which is expected to be readied for the
<br />council meeting. .
<br />Butt said the report probably will show a low level of
<br />· expenditures during the first six months of the 1976-77 fiscal
<br />year, but a high level of commitments, or expenses for
<br />which the council has yet to authorize funds.
<br />. In other busines~, the council is expected to adopt a ·
<br />resolution which formalizes the change in the speed limit on
<br />·. Invergordon in front of Camelback Desert School from 40
<br />miles per hour to 25.
<br />The change was authorized last month at the urging of the
<br />town marshal and a resident lobby. group concerned with
<br />town safety.
<br />The council also will consider a request from developers
<br />of the proposed Alamos Village Resort for a time extension
<br />for obtaining building permits and will discuss possible
<br />realignment of the intersection of Tatum Boulevard and McDonald Drive. ·
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<br />McDonald work begins·.·
<br />PARADISE VALLEY-Construction on the McDonald
<br />Drive improvement project has begun and Town Engineer Workmen a~e e~pected to c?ntinue widening McDonald
<br />Charlie· Atkinson advises that residents should use alter-o~ thet~orth·ftde m front of Ktva School until Wednesday .. nate routes for the next 60 days: . •. , w en ey WI have pr?gressed past the school to the west ~rews ar~ working from the east to west with.work now of the McDona_ld-~ockmgbird intersection, he said.
<br />bemg done m front ~f Kiva School, 6900 E. McDonald Drive. A four-fo.otwtdemng of McDonald will be completed from Par~nts _and residents complained Monday that. con-about Quml R~ Road ?n the east to just east of Tatum structwn m front of the school has started · without Boulevard, Atkmson satd.
<br />notification. · He added th t · · t d · • · . . . . a m seven o 14 ays, crews Will resurface · Atkmson said ~e school's crosswalk temporarily has th_e street in front of Kiva School. Resurfacing will be a'_ . been moved f_rom. m front o~ the scho.ol we~t about 1,000 feet plied to the length of the improvement project.· · p to the Mockmgbtrd Lane mtersectwn with McDonald to A ki · direct students away from construction on the north side of 1~ ns?n ;m? he does n?t anticipate moving the cross-the street. The crosswalk will be returned to its normal wa .. a gam unng resurf~cm~. He said he will notify school
<br />location after wi~ening work clears the school area, he said. ~~~~~~~s when constructiOn Is to resume. in front of the
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<br />·$57,768 project
<br />PV to ask city's aid
<br />fixing flood ditch
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<br />PARADISE VALLEY-Scottsdale will
<br />. be asked by the town to help defray the
<br />cost of repairing and improving the
<br />Mountain View Ditch here, towri officials
<br />said this week. '
<br />Mayor Barbara vonAmmon and· Town
<br />Manager Oscar Butt said they would seek
<br />help from Scottsdale in the $57,768 project
<br />which will consist of lining one half of the
<br />2,500-foot-long ditch with three inches of
<br />sprayed cement, or gunite.
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<br />An engineer hired by the town in ·
<br />November to design plans for repairs· to
<br />the Mountain View, Invergordon and ·
<br />Berneil Ditches told council members this
<br />week that runoff water entering the town is
<br />coming from Scottsdale to the north.
<br />George Tepley, an engineer with the
<br />firm of Collar, Williams and White, said,
<br />"Scottsdale is dumping more than half the
<br />flow into Paradise Valley."
<br />VonAmmon emphasized that waters
<br />coming from Scottsdale literally "tore up
<br />up" the· Mountain View Ditch.
<br />Butt said he does not know how much of
<br />the cost of repairs and improvements the
<br />town will ask from Scottsdale. ·He said,
<br />however, that he hopes Scottsdale is
<br />receptive to participating in the project.
<br />Tepley, in a report on the repair and
<br />improvement project, said once the
<br />Mountain View Ditch is improved it will be
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<br />able to handle twice the flow it does· now.
<br />He told council members and residents
<br />that his plans for lining the Invergordon
<br />Ditch with either gunite or gabions (large
<br />rocks contained in heavy wire baskets
<br />· inside drainage ditches) will ·handle
<br />projected runoff from a 100-year storm
<br />after complete urbanization of the
<br />residential areas north of the town ex-
<br />tending to the Central Arizona Project
<br />Dike .
<br />Tepley said cost of the Invergordon
<br />repair and improvement phase which also
<br />includes installation of three street box
<br />culverts and two private driveway
<br />culverts will be $147,270.
<br />All ditches within the present system
<br />were dirt channels until rain water eroded
<br />the banks last fall.
<br />Butt said repairs oh the Mount~in View
<br />and Berneil Ditches are continuing and
<br />that the project will be in full swing when
<br />Tepley, finishes his plans in 10 days. He
<br />said bids are expected to be opened Feb.
<br />10.
<br />Butt said the town will spend $60,000 to
<br />$70,000 of state flood disaster funds it
<br />received in November for repairs only.
<br />The remaining cost for improvements is
<br />estiniated at $155,000, which will be taken
<br />from town contingency funds, he said.
<br />Lincoln paving pact frustrates · PV opponents
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<br />PARADISE VALLEY -Residents last
<br />night voiced frustration when they learned
<br />that the town council six months ago had
<br />entered into a binding contract with . '
<br />Maricopa County to widen Lincoln Drive to
<br />four lanes.
<br />Resident Barbara Perlman said she
<br />discovered . the contract had been signed
<br />July 6 and that residents did not know
<br />, aboutit.
<br />However, town officials today said the
<br />council voted 4-1 on July 8 to enter into the
<br />agreement with the county, anil that a
<br />public hearing was held when the item
<br />came up for consideration. .
<br />To\m Attorney Roger McKee said the
<br />town would be subject to a law suit for
<br />breach of contract if it violated the agree-
<br />ment or withdrew from it.
<br />Town Manager Oscar Butt said the item
<br />appeared on the· agenda for the July 8
<br />meeting under the section entitled "Peti-
<br />tions, Hearings and Communications."
<br />Minutes· from the meeting included
<br />council discussion on the requirements of
<br />the contract, the design of the street once it
<br />is improved, cost of the project and traffic
<br />flow, Butt said.·
<br />Mayor Barbara vonAmmon and council
<br />members ·L. Barry Palmer, PeterS. Wain-
<br />wright and John V. Long voted in favor of
<br />the agreement. Council member Jon Bon-
<br />nell voted against the contract.
<br />The Progress reported July 14 that the
<br />agreement· had been made and that
<br />engineering would begin with the town
<br />reimbursing the county for one-half the
<br />cost of the engineering, or $40,000. Total
<br />cost of the project was set at $300,000.
<br />Residents last night' asked council mem-
<br />bers if they could.present alternatives to·
<br />the proposed four-lane street at two public
<br />meetings Jan. 24 and 26 in which prelim-
<br />inary plans for the Lincoln widening will
<br />be made public and open for citizen com-
<br />ment. ·
<br />Although no answer was . given the
<br />residents' request to submit alternatives,
<br />council member J. Duncan Brock said he
<br />hoped council members would take a stand
<br />on another resident request for the town to
<br />employ an independent firm to conduct a
<br />"feasibility and impact study" on the
<br />widening project. . ·
<br />Mira Ditchek, president of the Paradise·
<br />Valley Homeowner's Association, told the
<br />panel that the Department of Transporta-
<br />tions's Office of Highway Safety has
<br />recommended that such a study be com-
<br />pleted before road improvements such as
<br />widening are considered. .
<br />. Richard Walmsley, . engineering
<br />program specialist for the Office of High-
<br />way Safety, said today he "strongly"
<br />. urges and recommends that such a study
<br />be conducted for Lincoln Drive. ·
<br />Walmsley said in the case of the
<br />widening of Lincoln Drive, the town should
<br />consider a study to discover possible
<br />safety hazards of telephone poles one foot'
<br />from street curbs and bike paths too near
<br />thestreet. ·
<br />He said the poles may cost $1 million tn
<br />relocate, "but is that too much to pay for a
<br />life?"
<br />Town officials on previous occasions
<br />have said the 'cost of relocating the
<br />telephone poles on the south side of Lincoln
<br />would be $2 million.
<br />Ditchek also said a survey conducted by, .
<br />the PVHA of about three-tenths of the 2,653
<br />town households shows that 411 households
<br />are opposed to Lincoln widening while 343
<br />are in favor of it. She noted that 85 per cent
<br />of those polled who lived in the Lincoln
<br />. "corridor" are against the widening ..
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<br />Motorists in the Town of Paradise Valley may ha~e frowns on their
<br />faces if they don't obey these happy face signs wh1_ch went, up today
<br />at entrances to the town. As part of a ~rackdown on sp7ed~rs, town
<br />marshal's deputies have been handmg out more (!ltabons and
<br />speeding violation fines have gone up. Drivers cited for traveling ?ne
<br />to nine miles per hour above the limit will pay $12. Te? to 14 miles
<br />per hour above the limit will cost $15 while 15 to ~9 m~les ~er h()Ur
<br />above.the limit will cost $25. Fines will be $30 for vwlahon~ 1~ school
<br />zones and $35 for more than 20 miles per hour above the hm1t, town
<br />officials say. ·
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