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You meet those three provisions and I can probably say that III sign that petition. Edison: "Very good, that's all I'm asking. Now Id like for Jim to state his position. Councilman Jim Cox: "As I took the I position here on the City Council don't have a degree in public I administration did attend the meetings with the league of cities and towns. I learn relatively quickly. I have a full time position and I know what the needs of the city are and they have increased in the last few years. We are charged, as City Councilmen, with the responsibility of administering this City in a reasonable and prudent manner and in my mind that reasonable and prudent manner is to have a City Manager on board to be able to monitor and keep up with the problems that come in to Fillmore City. I would feel, at this time, that I would be neglect in my duties if I did not support the Managers position." He continued at length He continued at length position. saying that the City is growing and has many problems the previous administrations did not have. Edison asked Cox for some figures on the growth of the City in the last few years that he mentioned in his statement. Cox answered that three years ago we had approximately 13 new houses, the year after that we had 23, and the last year we had 23. Councilman Duane Baugh said, "Id like to give you some history on our growth. In 1964 the population of Fillmore was declining. It was on a downward turn. It was about 1,400 people, and started an upsurge In the 1971-7- 2 period and at present there are 2,200 approximately, so we have increased by 800 people in the last 6 years, which is a pretty good percentage for not increasing your government at all during that period of time. Baugh stated that the Council had of the position discussed City Administrator many times before deciding to go ahead with it. He said the City Recorder, Carol Wise, had asked for more help to do the job. With IPP coming in and the possible impact, grants, loans, etc., the Council felt they needed a City Administrator. He said he personally tried to fill out the grant application for the new swimming pool and couldnt. - - Councilman Stuart said, "I'm of the same opinion as Duane and Jim. There's not a day goes by that I don't get an envelope with anywhere from 10 to 40 pages of stuff that I'm supposed to take home to read, and I don't have time to read all of that. I've made several trips to Salt Lake City, to UAMPS, (etc.) to go to meetings, and I could spend all my time just reading the literature that comes from IPP itself, and I wouldn't have time to do anything else." Councilman Dallin Nielsen, Sr. said, "I think the ground has been covered pretty well why we need a City The only alternative Administrator. e would be a Mayor. 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Edison also asked for a breakdown on Administration salaries. The reports showed Salary, Wages and Benefits as follows: Administration salaries were lumped together for a total figure of $49,517.02 for FY 1978 compared to the FY 1981 figures of $23,223.00 for Treasurer, $21,446.00 for Recorder, $5,618.00 for Attorney, $1,097.00 for Building Inspector, and $13,585.00 for Council fora FY 1981 total of $64,960.00 or a combined salary Increase of $1 5,451 .98 in the last three years. Edison left the meeting resolving to obtain more signatures for his petition and the City Council remaining firm In their belief that the City Administrator's job is justified. DAN MARRIOTT HOLDS FINAL TOWN MEETING Continued from Front Page "And the last factor Is," he continued, last year Congress passed 5 a tax cut program, so this year in June Plumbing, Ph. or 1218tf your tax brackets will be reduced by 10,addand anothertax10cut next year. When with (these other Turning Into Trouble up the you then add n you factors) on up the fact that Traffic "right-turof unemployment equals every 1 are time laws red another $20 billion In deficits, it doesn't savers. But they increase Guns and Ammo always take you long to figure out why you've to hazard the accident on sale at Pioneer Market, The first got a $92 billion deficit. public high school pesestrians and vehicles in the United States was Fillmore Buy He went on to explain that options to assume the when drivers opened in Boston in 1821. Sell Trade. correct the situation included cutting to y fail and check cross street traffic spending some more, putting a lid on entitlements, eliminating tax cuts, or or pedestrians. The inof incidence creased cutting defense spending. He explained that what was meant by putting a lid on right-tur- n accidents has entitlements was to freeze entitlements, caused the National Highnot cut them, but not to keep up with way Traffic Safety Adminthe pace of Inflation as has been done in istration to seek measures the past. He said no matter what they to reduce the risk of did they would make a third of the withmad out the corresponding people happy and have at them. reduction in energy and In Business Three Generations The congressman then opened the g advantages. from to questions the meeting townspeople. Former Mayor Robert Denny S. Brunson Dr. Walter G. Peterson Edison asked only that Rep. Marriott do him a favor and convey the message to OPTOMETRIST 211 South Main Baugh said Mr. Day filled it out (the Senators Jake Garn and Orrin Hatch to swimming pool grant application) and "quit including themselves in when Is in Fillmore Fillmore, Utah also one for the Library, and that he they say 'we have to suffer'. The point every other Thursday 743-62- 29 worked on the "Water project that Im from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. trying to make is that we are should have ween worked on several sufferers, but tell him to quit Including years before that." He said the City himself. Im not mad that he's living Eye Exams needed someone who knows what's that's great, I think he deserves Contact Lenses good going on all the time, and added that If it but not to say that 'WE' suffer, or Glasses the majority of the people did want a old Bob Edison down in Fillmore aint Administrator position, that I City 0 Phone gonna vote for him. Marriott chuckled, would have to support the people, but for appointment "I dont know that anybody back there I don't think the people really know is suffering yet. what all the City Administrator does." In protesting the increase in defense spending Edison commented, I'm not Roy scared of the Russians. I choose to jj AHA MAUI KM believe that a man in Russia Is just like me. I dont want my kids killing his and I'm sure he doesn't want his killing tip-out- the others' statements that "I think if the people knew what he did...." Edison thanked them for their statements and said he also wanted some other answers. He said, "I asked some questions in the paper last week (letters to the editor column) and didn't get an answer, so I'll ask them again in front of the Council, as to what the can I get that budget was In 1978 figures and also 1981 's? Mayor Rasmussen provided the statements of Revenues, Expenditures and Comparison With Budget reports for the years 1978 and 1981 to comply with this request. The reports showed the total city expenditures for Fiscal Year 1978 (June 1977 to June 1978) was $204,069.11 and for FY 1981 they were mine. My concern is that we have to cut defense spending if this country is to come out of the recession. Marriott answered, "I agree in concept with that. But on the other hand I think we still have to deal with the Russians from a position of strength. I dont like their leaders. I dont trust them. I don't like what they're doing around the world and we can't just sit back and say the Russians are good old boys so we can stop what we're doing. We did that in the 70's and if we had spent just a little bit and kept our percentage going we'd be far ahead of the Russians. I don't want superiority, I want parity. That is, to keep ourselves on the same plane and then let's all work together to get rid of these ghastly missiles and all this other stuff and get back to something reasonable." President Marriott also backed Reagan's advocation that the Welfare Program be returned to the states to manage. He said, "Let us give you the money were taking In. Let us give you the program and let you manage it. I think thats the only way we'll end the fraud. Theres a lot of waste and a lot to cut, but the cuts don't have to come In benefits." He explained that under the new federalism, letting the states handle their Welfare programs, they can better handle the waste and fraud. You know, right here In He said, who's Fillmore, who are the drones taking the government for a ride, but that the bureaucrats back in Washington only have a book to look at. In answer to a comment that the country should go back on the gold standard, Marriott said, "I, for one, would like to see the dollar backed by gold, but everybody back there (in D.C.) has their own set of statistics and you can do anything you want with statistics. But there are some awfully good arguments against the gold standard. I would push the gold standard if we could get other countries to agre to a universal gold standard, not just one or two countries." On a question about a cut in pay for and congressmen, the president Marriott answered, I don't think a pay cut is the answer. If you took all the members of congress and added up their $60 thousand salary and reduced it it wouldn't make a dent In hell, by nor if we had all of you workers taking a cut would it make any difference. 5 Our problems are on a much bigger scale than that. The answer to our problems is we have got to get the size of government down. We've got too many programs that we don't need." The townspeople asked the congressman many more very pertinent questions and had him explaining the how's and whys of the latest business pay raise and additional deductions the congress voted for themselves. Marriott said that only 25 representatives voted in the controversial bill on a day the House of Representatives were told there would be no votes. He said, "I was in Chicago and that only 25 out of 435 showed up that day. The rest were "doing meetings and speeches and other things." He said he didn't believe that's the thing to give the American people when you're saying "Tighten your belts, let's work this thing out." He said that if they thought they needed a pay raise they should have voted on the record so the people would know how they voted. One the question of eliminating the the and of Deartment Energy Department of Education, Marriott said, "The Department of Energy is Under the and the outdated, - 5, constitution the states have the responsibility of education, not the government bureaucrats we have back here that dream up such things as Title IX and all these other exciting progrms to make us catch the ring or dance a jig to get federal money. Our approach is to get that back where it belongs on the state level" with the federal goverment giving the states some block grants. of Interior's The Department has Marriott been said, cut, budget and they will also pick up a couple of programs that were under the Dept, of Energy. "The Dept, of Interior, as a department, has not been cut, but it's budget has been cut, he said. The department's employees will be cut through attrition rather than firing someone, he explained. "El Salvadore One of my favorite subjects," Marriot said when questioned about that strife-tor- n country. He explained why the government was backing the Duarte regime Instead of any one of the other several factions there. He said Duarte, who has made some kind of a deal with the military faction has consented to free elections to let the people decide what kind of government they want. He said the Left Wingers don't want free elections because they know they can't win. "The last time they had an election, they got 1 (of the vote)." So they have "a very called 'negotiated magical word settlements' and what that means is that they will negotiate their way into 50 of the Parlament. The congressman said the Left Wing faction claims the Duarte government is killing thousands of peasants. hat the group's military is ripping off people, and that they're violating people's rights. "The fact is the Militarys a bunch of guys you wouldn't want as neighbors. I'll agree with that. They do kill peasants and they ought to be put down for that, but these people (the Left Wingers) are killing at least three times that! It's estimated they've killed somewhere between 6 and 10 thousand peasants in order to promote a revolution" to overthrow the Duarte government. "Without having to win an election, they'll take over just like they did in Nicaragua. Remember, we bought off on that song and dance a few years ago? Who took over? The Communists! Now what have you got? Worse human rights violations, no free press, no free religions, and a Soviet air base! So, our position is, we have no choice but to support the Duarte government and provide limited military aid in the form of helicopters, naval patrol boats, and small arms; and to work toward a free election and, with our sytems economic aid, we keep these birds to a minimum, because all they want is to take over and turn this whole area over to the Communists." Congressman Marriott was forced to end the questioning at this point because he was already going to be late to his next scheduled stop in Cedar City. An interesting sidelight to the congressman's town meeting was that only one teenager showed up at that meeting. Curtis Hare, a sejlior a Millard High School, ran over during his lunch break to shake Rep. Marriott's hand. Curtis plans a Political Science major in college and has talked with many of the state's politicians. His interest possibly stems from his parent's involvment with politics. His father, Ron, successfully ran for Justice of the Peace in the last county election, and his mother, Georgia, is the Republican Party County Chairman. - |