The Fallon City Council met Monday in a regular meeting to appoint Deputy City Attorney Lem Mackedon as the City of Fallon representative to the Utah Associated Municipal Power Systems (UAMPS) along with Sean Richardson, city clerk/treasurer as the alternative representative. UAMPS is a political subdivision of the State of Utah that provides comprehensive, wholesale electric energy, transmission, and other energy services to community-owned power systems throughout the Intermountain West.
The City of Fallon runs its own electric utility and sources electricity through UAMPS rather than participating in the NV Energy structure. City of Fallon residents buy their electricity through the city which in turn purchases power from UAMPS on contracts.
Mackedon replaces former Legal and Administrative Director, Robert Erquiaga who represented the city for several years on the UAMPS board. According to Mayor Ken Tedford, Erquiaga has left the city to pursue his legal career.
Currently, the City of Fallon priorities and top three projects, as explained by Tedford are to finish the Front Street/South Maine street project which he says should be done in the next couple of months, improvement work to the water tanks on Rattlesnake hill, and the Sherman/East Williams intersection. Once the South Maine project is completed, that will trigger a Five-Year plan to address repair and maintenance on all surface streets in the city.
“We have saved all our road money for the past several years to do this South Maine project, there were places in that quadrant that had never even been paved,” said Tedford. He said with the public safety requirements for cities, and the changes made at the legislature affecting how cities use their enterprise funds, there just isn’t money in the general fund anymore to do roads. All the road repair and maintenance funding comes out of the fuel tax revenues. “The more gas you pump here, the more street work that gets done, all that fuel tax money stays here,” he said.
As soon as the Front/Maine quadrant project is done, Tedford said the city will be able to speed up the five-year maintenance plan on city streets.
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