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Show Page 3C North Edition Lakeside Review Wednesday, March 30, 1983 Letters to the Editor Ignoring Law? Few Exceptions Review Editor: Any healthy stable business must have the good will of all current and potential custom-ers- . Those fighting for uncontrolled Cable TV, network TV Review Editor: I read a report of the mayor of Centerville to the citizens about what a great job he did for the city last year. I certainly hope the people and taxpayers of movies or other entertain- Centerville take note of a few ments are trying to ignore the esceptions he failed to mention. law of cause and effect. First, Centervilles streets Can a bushel of apples or a are in at least 150 percent poorcommunity remain firm and er condition than they were one healthy if rottenness is not year ago.' This is for every hole periodically discarded? Has a in the roads a year ago there are farmer the right to cause his now two and one half. manure spreader to cover his Second, some contaminates neighbors children? When we got into the culinary water syssow to the wind we reap the tem causing a large portion of whirlwind. the population to become ill. Modesty, courtesy, respect The mayor blamed it on a well for our bodies and uplifting fare that has been producing clean, are never out of style. Exploita- pure water and is still production of our women and prostitu- ing pure water. tion of normal human passions Third, the mayor has watched cannot be made acceptable. his neighbor pile junk, used The most holy things in the materials and used equipment world done in an unholy fashion on his home site thus allowing become the most unholy things him to create a public nuisance on a residential site. The mayor in the world. Protecting innovative think- has not had the courage his posiing to assure programs fully tion should demand to have this atcorrected. There is also an illegjustifies our titudes. However, little IQ is re- al sign that should be taken care quired to see that there is a of in order for his neighbor to difference between innovative comply with city ordinances. . anti-censorsh-ip thinking and rudeness, crudeness, and filth. Apparently we suffer from some judicial thinking which is incapable of making tht simple distinction. Only Constitutional illiterates try to use the Constitution to defend filth, pornography and degenerate behavior. Students of the Constitution know that all powers not specifically de- legated to federal authority are reserved to the states and the people thereof. Is not our most serious environmental problem the pollution of our minds? Walter C. and Wilma B. Lichfield Syracuse Help Animals Review Editor: When you go picknicking with your parents and friends this spring, please take a little extra time before disposing of cans and bottles. Too often during the spring, raccoons, skunks and other animals get their heads trapped in opened tin cans and glass jars. This situation can be avoided if the cans are flattened or both ends removed. Glass containers should be rinsed out and then broken for the same reason. Dispose of cans and glass in the proper disposal cans available in most camping areas. An animal with its head tightly wedged in a tin can or glass jar is in danger of dying a slow death by starvation. Dont be a litterbug. Look out for our wildlife, and help protect them. After all the woods are their homes. Leigh Engelbrecht Bountiful , Fourth, the mayor hired ful, in regard to the pasture land owned by BARD, I felt I should answer some of the false charges he made in regard to the way the BARD board conducted the bid process. The call for bid was published in the Davis County Clipper, sealed bids were called for. Six sealed bids were received and opened in the October meeting of the board of directors. The press were in attendance and everything was done according to state statute that governs boards that work under interlocal agreements. Mr. Lund said, and I quote,. I understand at the BARD meeting Mr. Argyles bid was accepted and later rejected by Mr. Barlow. This paragraph is completely false. Mr. Argyle was the low bidder out of six submitting bids. The bid was awarded to the highest bidder, who bid seven times higher than Mr. Argyle. Mr. Lund further states Mr. Barlow as manager does not have the authority to accept or negotiate contracts. This statement is correct and for the past 15 months that I have been manager of BARD, I have followed the directions and decisions of the BARD board of directors. This can be confirmed if you read the minutes of the .board, which are a public and may be obtained by another neighbor as city public works director who had little or no public works experience or management education. He was anyone. hired at a time when the mayor the board of diFor 20 could have hired any one of at rectors ofyears BARD held their least 50 qualified men or women meetings without a published at the same money. This is my agenda and without notifying opinion as a licensed profession- the press of their meetings. The al engineer (1506) and as a directors themselves did not person who has successfully re- know what was going to be dispaired, remodeled and built cussed at those meetings until millions of dollars of public arrived at the meeting. works throughout the western they BARD did not operate on a states over 30 years. budget, only on a day to The mayor must have found yearly basis! There was no depreday his public works director some- ciation schedule set up on the what lacking, as he promptly expensive machinery owned by hired a Mr. Carlson as a water- BARD. If new machinery was works consultant, another needed, the money was borneighbor, to fill the lack of his rowed from the bank to finance ' new public works director. the purchase. Time will not permit comment on the folly of the previous Since I was elected chairman city administrator or the build- of the BARD board almost two ing inspector; however, I must years ago, we completely mention that I volunteered to changed the way the BARD work for the city for nothing board operates. Agendas are when the mayor was publicly mailed to all the board of direcbemoaning that the previous ci- tors and to the press at least ty council had wasted a lot of three days ahead of the board of funds and he did not have directors meetings. enough to pay all the bills, but We operate on a yearly instead the mayor hired four We have a capital imbudget. men to do what I could have budget and we have provements was offer for done nothing (this made to Dennis Lifferth, as the funds available in those budgets to buy replacement councilman). This is how I see it from 1407 machinery and to make land West Parrish Lane, Centerville, improvements without going in debt. Our accounting system is Utah. E. Arthur Higgins completely computerized and Centerville there is a full report on our financial position made to the board of directors every 30 Process Proper days. Also, an independent accounting firm makes a yearly Review Editor: audit. After reading the letter pubElmer W. 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