- Town lays off top employees
- Finance manager, parks director, fire marshal among those being let go
- November 25, 2008
- The fiscal bloodletting at Payson Town Hall started Monday, with layoff slips to the parks and recreation director, finance manager, fire marshal, town manager’s assistant, grants manager and two people in the building and planning department.
- Community Development Department
- What’s Happening? Design Review Board Recognizes Local Achievements
- October 9, 2008
- The Town of Payson Design Review Board, commissioned by the Town Council one year ago wants to make sure local business and property owners are appreciated for their continuing efforts to make Payson a desirable place to live, work and play.
- October is National Community Planning Month
- Celebrate How Planning Benefits Payson
- October 9, 2008
- How do you get to work or school? Where do you live? Where do you shop? Many citizens do not realize that these decisions are all impacted by planning.
- Where is the Payson Area Trails System (PATS) Today?
- October 9, 2008
- In the past 3 _ months since the Payson Town Council included implementation of the Payson Area Trails System (PATS) in the 2007/08 budget, much has been accomplished on an administrative level in order to begin building PATS in an organized, professional manner.
- Impact fee delay: Friendly or foolish?
- October 8, 2008
- Despite citizen and council objections, the Payson Town Council will give the water department the ability to stretch impact fees out over 10 years.
- Payson keeping fingers crossed
- Town approves $311,000 study for 13.5-acre airport land purchase hoping FAA will cover the tab
- October 7, 2008
- Payson last week crawled out a little further on the limb of a hoped-for federal grant to buy land near the airport, pausing nervously as the wind picked up.
- Residents’ concerns about airport exchange street changes go unanswered
- October 3, 2008
- Property owners expecting to express their concerns about proposed changes in neighborhood streets feeding into the airport exchange land, instead had their questions redirected to the planning commission Thursday night.
- Crackdown needed on killer weed
- October 3, 2008
- The Payson Town Council heard an impassioned plea from the U.S. Forest Service urging the town to crack down on careless property owners who are letting a noxious, horse-killing, land-wrecking weed get rooted.
- Residents decry Airport Road plan
- October 3, 2008
- The “appealing” plan to extend Sherwood Drive and Wagon Trail to serve recently swapped land near the Airport would “destroy” existing neighborhoods, residents insisted Wednesday at a contentious meeting of Payson’s Surface Transportation Advisory Committee (STAC).
- Mud Springs: A quiet resolution for a once furious road debate
- Few residents show up to hear Payson traffic committee’s near-final list of traffic-slowing ideas for extended road
- October 3, 2008
- Ah, what a difference six months makes — not to mention a budget crisis and enough meetings to tranquilize a tiger.
- What’s in a slogan?
- Council meeting includes plan to adopt new slogan: ‘A Cool Mountain Town’
- October 1, 2008
- So it’s a official: We really, really, really love ponderosa pines.
- YMCA election Deadline looms
- September 29, 2008
- Payson is rushing to pull off a last-minute, $40,000 election that will determine whether the town leases parkland to the YMCA for a gym and swim center.
- Payson council ponders impact fee changes
- Council asks town staff to study $7,500-per-unit water impact fee on apartments, townhouses, extend pay time
- September 26, 2008
- In the wake of a slowdown that has stalled building in Payson, the Town Council wants to take a fresh look at the hefty water development fee for apartments and condos and perhaps allow developers to spread payments over 10 instead of five years.
- Payson to buy airport land
- Council debates $520,000 down payment on a 13-acre chunk of land it hopes to lease to private businesses
- September 26, 2008
- Despite budget woes and council questions, Payson last week took the first step toward buying 13 acres of prime industrial land next door to the airport — in hopes of becoming a landlord.
- Town Manager’s Memo
- September 25, 2008
- Welcome to the first edition of the Manager’s Memo.
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