Orderville Town audit “finds no significant deficiencies”

ORDERVILLE, Utah — The March 12 Orderville Town meeting began with an audit report from Hinton-Burdock/ Squire, the regular third-party consultant for the town audit. The company is merging with Squire, with a re­minder, “Nothing’s re­ally changing with the audit or the town, just the name; you still get the same great team you’re familiar with.” The audit reported “No material weaknesses or significant deficien­cies … also no compli­ance concerns. As far as we’re concerned, the town got an A+ on all three.”

Photo by Ty Gant.

The council then heard a report on the culinary water im­provement plans in Mt Carmel, with the coun­cil considering a con­tract to award with an engineering company. Said Mayor Spencer, “This is a wonderful project, we’ve been waiting on it for a long long time.” The mo­tion passed to award the bid to Larry Rose Construction unani­mously, with Council Member Sharkey stat­ing, “Keeping things local and bringing the tax dollars back into the community makes a big swing in this deci­sion.”

The council consid­ered municipal sup­port of Valley Little League baseball and the Valley Rally sports events. Per city staff, there was “plenty of money” in the town’s donation and adver­tising accounts for the support of such public events, and the money would go to the non-profit organiza­tion putting the Rally together. Stated Mayor Spencer, “I think this is a wonderful pro­gram, I don’t have any problems with it.” The council approved unanimously, granting $1,500 to the project.

The city considered a memorandum of un­derstanding with the school board to use the old fire house property for storage and use of fitness equipment. There is a membership fee associated with the use of the equipment, and the agreement would call for the city to handle upkeep and maintenance. After discussing the agree­ment and providing feedback on proposal changes, the council authorized city staff to return to the board.

The council then authorized city staff to prepare a PTIF re­serve for a portion of city funds, investing city assets and reduc­ing risk. The motion was approved unani­mously.

The following agenda item was a consideration of grant funding for local recreation and park improvements, with the city discussing the use of incoming grant funding from Kane County and the Utah Outdoor Recreation initiative. The funds were set for hiking and biking trails connect­ing Orderville into the greater trail network initiative in the state. Following some feed­back from participating Orderville locals, the motion to proceed with the grant applica­tion was passed with three ayes and two nays.

The final item on the agenda put forth the public hearing to change regular city meeting hall day and time to the first and third Mondays of each month. The council set the hearing date for April 1.