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By Emilie Holmes
NIBLEY -- Parks in Nibley may soon have park hours enforced, the City Council decided Thursday after a resident brought up the concern. The council decided to place park hours on their agenda for its next meeting Oct. 2. Lori Spindler, a Nibley resident, came to the meeting to complain about a nearby park's standing water, which she said brings in mosquitoes and often gets deep enough that small children could drown. No time frame was committed to by the council to fix that particular problem. Although Mayor Lynn Welker refused to give a timeframe to take care of the standing water, he said it would "most likely be taken care of" by next spring. Spindler then asked if there were legal park hours. The council didn't know of any, but unanimously decided some should be made. The issue was given to Councilman Scott Wells, who's over city parks. Welker said Wells would come up with some tentative hours and bring it to the next meeting. If hours are agreed and voted upon, Councilman Todd Hansen said the hours will be made into a city ordinance. "It's unfair to tell our citizens to be the enforcer," Councilman James Waite said. "We pay for a police service to do that." Spindler said she has called the county sheriff when parties at the parks have gone after midnight and the sheriff said nothing can be done unless park hour signs are posted. Welker said once hours are posted, that shouldn't be a problem anymore. Hansen said Nibley has two useable parks now, and three other parks are in the process of development. City Administrator Larry Anhder said curfew on weekdays for those under 18 is 10:30 p.m. Park hours, he said, will most likely be the same, unless it's an organized and pre-planned activity. Other cities surrounding Nibley have similar city park hours to those will most likely be proposed. "The parks that you reserve, you can use from 6 a.m. to 10 p.m.," Terry Lewis, Providence's city recreation direction, said. For those parks that don't take reservations and often have baseball games that go past 10 p.m., park users can stay until the activity is finished, she said. Hyrum city's parks must be emptied by midnight, city clerk Gina Rawlings said.
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