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Show salt lake free not for sale n v volume one , - august 17, 1972 number fifty twc -- Board Approves Projects The Model City Joint Board of Commissioners met 16 and Wednesday, August approved funding for the continuation of three projects, the School Volunteer program. Voluntary Improvement Program and the Skill Center. A housing project sponsored by a worried about how this would affect existing county programs. He said the county is depending on revenues from Model Cities for the next three units to be leased to the City Housing Authority was also approved by the Board. The Board cleared the way years to fund existing services and programs. "I want some assurance by contract from the city that these services will be continued," he said. Joint Board Chairman Ralph Y. McClure expressed concern over the fifty existing Model City projects being cut to a dozen or for so. it non-prof- community o rgranization (COOP) providing 23 rent-subsid- y move of the Model Neighborhood News staff to new office space at 383 East 1700 a South. The facility will provide larger work areas and a darkroom. Mayor Jake Garn invited response from County Commissioner Philip Blomquist regarding the proposed change in Model City administration from a Joint Board to City Commission control. Blomquist advised Mayor Garn that he still felt unsure about giving the city complete control over the program and was Housing attempt to resolve any Problems? differences and pave the way for the changeover. The Model City Housing task force will meet with residents who have housing problems. We would like to aid in all housing problems and answer any questions tfiat residents might have. These meetings will be held follows: Northwest at 10:00 a.m. as - Mayor Garn said he did not see any reason for apprehensions, that projects will be evaluated as is now being done and projects would not be dropped if they were functioning as intended. He stressed it would be impossible to make promises for the fourth and fifth action years of the program at this time. He said there would not be any drastic personnel changes within the Model City agency under city administration. It was agreed that a letter outlining specific objections and issues would be submitted by Blomquist to Mayor Garn in an Ce nter Wednesday, 9:00 a.m. People's Freeway Wednesday, 1 1 :00 a.m. - Central City Every Brochure Available - Every Every Wednesday, 1 :00 p.m. For more information, call Harold Brereton, 328-5141. The Salt Lake Model City agency has published an - Services Department officially opened its new kitchen facilities and cafeteria with an Open House on Tuesday, from 2 - 4:00 p.m. Located in Building 5 of the County Complex at 21st South and State Street, the County kitchen will provide a variety of meals for County-relate- d programs. Dietary Services division of the Salt Lake County Department of Social Services, for which Commissioner Philip Blomquist has responsibility. Many meals are delivered a good distance from where they are prepared - - up to 15 miles in the case of one participant in the Meals on Wheels program - - by means of being transported by truck in vacuum containers. is a Every Tuesday Oquirrh Salt Lake County's Dietary informative brochure telling about the Model City process. It is available free from the agency, located at 151 East 21st South, and Bldg. 4, or call 467-941- 6 we'll mail you a copy. Thus, on prepared in enjoyed by Redwood, and Central working in given day, food one kitchen may be senior citizens in the Northwest, Magna, City areas; teenagers parks as part of the a Youth Environmental Conservation Project; patients in the Extended Care Hospital (which is adjacent to the Deitary Services facilities); and four-yea- r olds in the Northwest and Central City Day Care Programs. Other programs for which food is prepared include Meals on e staff of 28 supervises a and has directed the program since the beginning of the year. Up until that time the County had operated two kitchens with full-tim- Meals on Wheels occupying another building at the Complex. The consolidation has produced Wheels, which offers hot, greater efficiency for the County in terms of purchasing and balanced meals delivered to the bookkeeping. homes of individual senior citizens at low cost; Salt Lake Mental Health Centers; and even a summer camping program for youngsters, operated Northwest Multi-Purpos- e by the Center. Beginning this Autumn, Dietary Services will also prepare meals for the Rehabilitation Probation Division Detoxification Center, currently under construction at the County complex. "All told, then, we prepare about 1 ,500 meals on an average day," says Mrs. Margaret Butterfield, Director of Dietary Services. Mrs. Butterfield The expanded and renovated cafeteria, with a capacity of 75, is operated primarily to serve the employees of various government agencies located in the Complex. Renovation and expansion of the cooking area, as well as of the cafeteria, was done by the County Maintenance Department. The addition of $35,000 worth of new equipment (preparing tables, ovens, tilting kettles, walk-i- n freezers, etc.) completed the overall project. |