Genola fails to pay project manager for cemetery, lot development

GENOLA, Utah County (Deseret News) — The project manager of a two-year effort to develop nine residential lots and create the town's first cemetery must take further action if he expects to get paid.

Dale Draper submitted a bill for more than $18,850, but a wrangling town council failed to approve it. Councilman Michael Vail said the work was complete and Draper should be paid, but no one would second his motion. The contract included roads, tearing down an old barn and building bridges.

The motion was for $17,805 after the council deducted legal costs of having a lien removed that Draper had earlier put on the property along with miscellaneous expenses.

Councilman Chris Greenwood questioned whether Draper met the contract. The legality of the contact itself was also in question since the town recorder hadn't signed it.

Twice Greenwood attempted to modify Vail's motion, but those efforts also failed. Greenwood first tried to make another landowner, Marty Larson, partially responsible, but when that failed Greenwood said the council should offer Draper just $5,000 for his services. That, too, failed.

"You never know, he might take it," Greenwood said.

Draper wasn't at the meeting, which also concerned Greenwood because he wanted to question him about the bill.

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