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Show Political Forum (Con't.) community zoning in the valley, have strong feelings that the wishes of the local neighborhoods be the dominant factor in planning and zoning decisions. When people buy a home, they buy more than a home. They buy a neighborhood. To have someone come along later and change that peaceful residential area into some sort of commercial venture is a great injustice. feel committed to follow the wishes and desires of local residents in local zoning matters. I I PETE KUTULAS Two Year County Commission Seat Democrat THE TAKE OVER shown that efficiency and services would be better. There mass transit purposes. MORE are some areas where consolidation warranted now. The planning and zoning in this valley can no longer be carried out independently by each community. Consolidation is necessary not only for efficiency is but to a single concept on which to base our community's growth. Fire and ambulance service can be basis. provided on a county-widThere should be a consolidated traffic engineer department. have served the citizens of Salt Lake County for 1 7 years as a law enforcement officer. want to continue in your service as a County Commissioner. ask for your vote on November 7. e would like to thank the Model Neighborhood News for the chance to present some of my I thoughts on county government. am a native of Central Salt Lake have some feel City so firsthand knowledge of the I I I don't problems of your area. have a lot of experience with the Model Cities Program but do have some general ideas about Model Cities. think it could be a program which delivers service to the people if politics were I I I I I I abandoned Commissioners. by the think, especially, that the City I Commissioners should listen more to what people want and stop trying to jam through their "head projects." oppose the transfer of Model Cities to complete control by the City Commissioners. The residents of the model neighborhood who live outside the city limits must keep a voice. The only way to insure that voice, is to retain joint control. My experience with County government has shown me that services must be the primary task of government. You pay for local government to respond to your City-Count- I y needs. As a Commissioner, County I will be responsive to upgrading services which now exist and to meet current needs with new services. There are three (3) basic ways in which existing governmental services need to be improved. 1. First, some need to be expanded because they are not meeting needs that they are designed to take care of. Fire service is a good example. Our response time is falling behind national standards. So we must upgrade now. Building inspection and planning and zoning must be given high priority as massive growth continues throughout the valley. 2. The second way we can improve services is to tighten budgets and cut waste. There are departments which need reorganizing. There are cases of or "dead wood over-vieof County with a broad over-staffin- g OF SALT government. We could organize logically into departments based on need. The responsibilities of each Commissioner could be divided sensibly, not by poli teal considerations. There are too many tax dollars at stake to fool around with politics. 3. The third area of potential improvement is consolidation of services. We should not jump into consolidation unless it can be LAKE COUNTY AND SALT LAKE CITY BY CERTAIN JOSEPH F. STEENBLIK 1442 Leadville Ave. NATIONAL State Senate, District Republican PLANNERS, THROUGH OUR GOVERNMENT. THIS SCHEME INVOLVES ALL OF THE CITIES AND COUNTIES IN THE U.S.! On the same grounds as stated above absolutely refuse to use State highway funds for In regard to zoning of Wastach Front canyons, do you favor complete state control, partial state control or no state control? Absolutely no state control. Let's wake up and control out own area1 Commercial and residential development should be worked out vety carefully as time goes on. Lets not forget the interests of John Q. Public in these problems. Do you favor a new form of government, such as combining Salt Lake City and the unincorporated pait of Salt Lake County? This is just another method of destroying our ptesent form of government. All of the proposed amendments to our State GARRETT C. PACK Two Year Commission Seat American Independent Party Would you favor consolidation of City and County government? Absolutely not. This is just another scheme to help bring about a further consolidation of Salt Lake City and Salt Lake County. Consolidation is a tool being used by certain planners to destroy our constitutional government and eventually take away all of our libertys as citizens of this Great Republic. How do you view Revenue Sharing? The 5.6 million expected to come to Salt Lake County is some more of this "Revenue Sharing Scheme." The hidden purpose is merely to give the United States government more authority over the running of Salt Lake County. Of course, would send all such to money back!!! Who am decide whether to: a. Let the U. S. Government run the physical part of Salt Lake County. ( mean the part of the I I I earth's surface within our boundaries.) b. Let the U. S. Government run our Fire and Police departments. c. Dictate to our County employees how to run Salt Lake County. d. Let the U. S. Government run the County Board of Health. (The U. S. Government is as of now practically running the Salt Lake County Board of Health.) e. Give the U. S. Government a chance to run our mass transit system. f. THIS IS ALL A FRAUDULENT ATTEMPT FOR Consitutions tend to take the government farther from the people. Lets not let a Commissioner rule over Salt Lake City and Salt Lake County. Lets keep the same type of government we now have. It is close to the people. Lets Wake Up! Concerning Rampton's Jordan River authority - I can see another bureaucratic octapus invited into our state with all of her devouring arms to take over the waters of the State of Utah. These Washington "Bureaucratic" Octapuses always hatch many little Octapuses. They do indeed keep in step with mamma1 Again Remember say Wake Up1 when the U. S. I Government went into the power business - Tennessee Valley Authority1 On the subject of Fluoridation We the People of the State of Utah voted this thing down with a resounding NO in about 1961 and since then the proponents of fluoridation have introduced it into our Legistative again and again. Our legislators, bless them, have always voted it down. Now they are trying to cram it down our throats, like they have Urban Renewal or the same thing as Model Cities. Have we all forgotten that the State of Utah voted this down 3 to 1 in a special election. Both Urban Renewal Model Cities and fluoridation are run out of Washington by government bureaus, Octapuses if you please. know no man has the right to force medication down my thtoat, or anyone else's throat! I I changing neighborhoods. WILFORD REX BLACK, JR. 825 North 12th West State Senate, District 2 Democrat I CONSOLIDATION! 2 able to keep the lower tax, until they sell for the other uses, then an adjustment is made. favor a similar arrangement on homes in A widow should not be taxed out of her home just because someone built an apartment house across the street. PUBLIC SAFETY - As a former Police Officer, have a I better than average ROBERT E. BUHLER understanding of the problems of law enforcement. When was in House of Representatives, the sponsoied and got passed into law some measures to strengthen the State Senate, District Republican ability of the Police to protect us in our homes and streets. have No Statements. I I 5 live with my family, six of eight children still at home, at i 1076 South Fifth East Street, and I own and operate the Professional Salesmen's Service Company and work as a Supervisor of Carriers for the Salt Lake Newspapers. Of the many problems that will come to the attention of the feel that as a State Legislature will be member of the Senate best qualified to work with and I I those am most interested in aie: TAXATION strongly feel that the tax load is unfairly distributed, and that the lower I - I middle class has long, much too long, carried the heavy end of this burden. favor, First, the removal of food and medicines from the Sales Tax. This possibly would mean an increase of the Sales Tax on other items, but think this would be fairer than the present situation. A man with a large family who finds it necessary to spend 60 or more of his earnings on food and drugs, is thereby taxed a full 472 on this 60 over his pay. This is a tax of 2.7 on his earnings. A tax to him much higher than the Federal Income Tax and his State Income Tax combined. Example, a man with a family who takes home only I I $3,000.00 per year, and spends $150 00 per month on food for his family is taxed an additional $81.00 in sales tax, a tax on the milk for the babies bottle, and the bread and peanut butter in the school lunches. When you compare this with a man who earns in the higher middle income bracket, he might spend 25 of his take home income for food I other legislation planned to further this goal of more equitable law enforcement, as ome measures that would further protect our rights as citizens. In the genetal area of Law Enforcement are some changes that are needed to enhance the work position of our public servants. We need to keep the best of these men in these impoi tant jobs, am not referring to income to them, but to other important phases of their situation. feel that am a product of the neighborhoods that seek to represent in the Utah State Senate, and that understand the I I I problems that directly affect the citizens of my district. As an active combination, employer, employee and small businessman, as well as my past experience as a Police Officer, twelve years and can be a strong legislator effective voice for the people of my district in the Senate. I DON BROOKE 761 Roosevelt State Senate, District Democrat 5 No Statement NORMACHAFFOS 724 Elgin Ave. State Senate, District 6 Republican MORC.JI L. JENSEN 2940 Filmore Street State Senate, District 6 Democract and medicine, then under the present sales tax law he is taxed 1.12 of his take home income on these essentials. Many claim that to make this adjustment would mean increasing the sales tax on other items, if this is necessary, then it should be done. It is fairer to tax luxuries, and sport equipment and all other items, than to tax the very food that is the only thing the poor can afford to buy. No Statements Recently the legislature passed a law giving a tax bieak to farmers who wanted to maintain their farms, instead of being taxed the higher tax that the property is worth for they are reasons for running, (and running successfully) for the State Senate in 1970, and for this year running for embrace many issues. believe have something to offer the State sub-division- District 13, State Senate Republican Party - No Candidate KARL G. SWAN State Representative, District 13 Democrat My I I |