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Show Salt lake free-n- ot volume one imarch 23, 1972 number : Model Cities director Pete Grundfossen discusses strengthening neighborhood mhsM J e Win In Selection Of Center Site Coordinating Council members talk about functions of the task forces. councils at Coordinating Council. Neighborhood Councils . stronger role emphasized Redwood community that for years has been "shunned and strong community, not a shunned one. As long as we keep bulding facilities outside Redwood, it will be is a ignored by the rest of the Salt Lake community. It was the original target area of the Model Cities program but even with this "boost" Redwood has to constantly fight and . by Kirk Terry shunned," Pete Grundfossen, director of Model Cities said. The question was brought before the Model Cities Joint Board struggle to obtain services and of Commissioners on March 22, e where Grundfossen explained the programs. Plans for a center for Redwood were made long situation and some of the problems would be gained at some of these ago and residents have been working encountered when the Redwood toward the realization of such a School was built on the west side of meetings. Analyzing agendas, stressed center. A question was raised, Redwood Road. Three children were Grundfossen, would better serve the however, as plans neared killed crossing the road and several was community as a whole if it could be completion, as to the best location Injured before an over-pas- s determined if anything of value was for the Center. The Redwood installed and "it was a substandard Community Council originally one at that with no covering." He proposed a site at Crystal Avenue explained the general feeling of (2590 South) and Lester Street residents in Redwood and stated (1585 West). Salt Lake County that he felt "some credits are owed planners favored locating the Center here." next to Redwood School, at 2650 The Joint Board moved to South Redwood Road. The problem approve the project in concept for seemed to come about because purposes of preparing the grant There will be a county clean-uresidents of the Redwood area were application and agreed to accept on March 27 through the 31st. always aware of what was meant whatever site the Salt Lake County The cleanup will extend from when they referred to "Redwood"; Commission selected. The County 35th South to the Davis County line planners were viewing the entire area Commission meeting immediately and frorn State Street to Magna. which extends west to the proposed after the Model Cities Board meeting Garbage must be in front of all belt route at about 23rd West. reaffirmed it's decision of two years along the side of Planners also maintain that placing ago to place the Center within the yards for pick-uthe streets, the Center on Redwood Road would community of Redwood which is increase the number of people using part of the Master Plan. The Lester Street and Crystal Avenue site will it. "If a $500,000 building is going then be the location of the Redwood Community Center through, it must have a lot of people Multi-purpos- e using it just to justify that expense," and residents of Redwood will declared Tony Mitchell, who will perhaps be able to take some coordinate operations at the additional pride in their community county's Northwest and Redwood and feel that the many years of hard work will now be meaningful. The YWCA Spoon Dinner, an facilities. event open to annual money-raisin"We've worked seven years for held be will the public, Wednesday, something in our community. March 29 at the Association's don't see it as a center for those activities building, 322 East Third coming into the area," explained Issue- multi-purpos- Model Cities director Pete transportation and education, etc., Grundfossen told the Coordinating are needed but that these task forces and more over Model Cities, need to get more involved in the councils. Too many man hours are lost and wasted in task forces, the director phased out. Not thirty-on- Redwood Residents ' Council, March 1 6, that task forces may have become stagnant and that the neighborhood councils should take over the basic task force functions because the councils will be operating after Model Cities is for sale satisfied with the Government Task Force's decision of maintaining the general task force concept, the director said that as Model Cities is phased out in the next four years, or sooner, that This citizens would not want to get in an organization being involved the disbanned. neighborhood councils, would be Grundfossen said he wasn't funded by Model Cities. critizing the task forces, but that a Revising the Joint Board of neighborhood council made up of Commissioners from six elected neighborhood officials could commissioners to four and the serve as a collecting and developing placement of three citizens on the point for community plans and Board was also proposed by Grundfossen. projects. He said even though the official Seeing the importance of citizen participation and efficiency as the is responsible for governing his area, brick and mortar of a strong and long the citizen should be allowed to lasting fortress of action, participate directly, in this case, in Grundfossen feels that the councils the neighborhood problem solving could more effectively and at a act. A motion was proposed and "wiser level, cope with community carried to submit the revision to the problems. The director said he agreed with Joint Board taking two the Government Task Force's stand Commissioners off and installing on the neighborhood council as three citizens on the Board. It was announced that a regional building block; but he stressed the importance of starting the council at citizen participation seminar was to a walk in coping with problems, be held this spring and that the rather than dumping the whole Council might consider sending a community on the councils when local representative. The Model Cities director said Model Cities is no more, making that sending people from the them"run." A council representative said community on trips to seminars and that the community needs the workshops would probably make for specialized efforts of a task force, an enjoyable excursion, but that he Grundfossen agreed that the general questioned if anything of area task forces of health, importance to this community p p YWCA To Hold Dinner g I South. Mama Johnson, Redwood Next Over 60 dishes will be on the Community Council chairman, buffet table at 6:30 p.m. and each serving will cost a dime. Local restaurants will donate prepared dishes and several YWCA womens groups, including the Las Abejas Trabajadoras and the International Wives clubsare preparing dishes. Chairmen are Emma Dowda and Pauline Hein. They will be assisted by other members of the Tuesday Tune-InsanFriday Wives clubs. d Dr. Edward Moe of the University of Utah supported her contention with his belief that busing would be needed to take participants to either site. "Just think, if the Center is in the heart of Redwood it would mean that for the first time, people would come into their community," he said. "We want to see Redwood as a Housing Issue Critical In S.L. |