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Show The UTAH INDEPENDENT Page 8 January 24, 1972 ing fund the accounting records. Does each fund have a general ledger? If not, by what means are West Jordan Mayor Does each fund Continued from Page 4 Fund for fiscal years beginning July 1, 1965, July 1, 1966, and concerned, and they are too voluminous to even begin to July describe, but they, too, are public records and we should be very happy to show them to anyone who is interested in the problem. Let me briefly give you a little sketch of some of bis requests: 1. All the cancelled checks from the General Fund for the years 1954, 1958, 1958 sic and I960. 2. The book containing Town ordinances. 3. The book containing the minutes of Town Board minutes. 4. The bi-annu- qudit for al 1952, 1953; the annual audit for 1958; the annual audit for 1959-6- 0. 1, 1967. 14. Receipts and revenues for General Fund for fiscal years beginning July 1, 1965, July 1, 1966, and July 1,1967. 15. Amount of Sales Tax collected by West Jordan year by year, beginning in 1959. bi-ce- nt 16. Ordinance for purchase of additional ground for park. 17. Cancelled checks for 1966 and 1967. Ledgers corresponding. 18. Town Board minutes for 1968, 1967, and 1966. 19. Copy of minutes of Budget Hearing July 28, 1969. 20. Copy of Ordinances 18 and with letter from Recorder stating why the delay in receiving cancelled checks and ledgers. 21. Tentative budget for the Balance in the year 1968-196Revenue Fund as of 1958. Balance in the Improvement and Extension Fund as of 1958. Ordinance No. 20. Ordinance No. 21. Date when Budget Officer was appointed for fiscal year 1968 and 1969. Chart dated April, 195 7, showing total monies to be received each year over a twenty-yea- r period from twelve-mil- l tax levy and from monthly sewer service charges, 18-- 5. The Clerk s annual financial report for 1959 and 1960. 6. A letter written about March 1, 1961, by the Towns attorney, Weston L. Bayles, to the Town Board President Donald J. Parr relative to seven shares of water sold by the Town to the Jordan School District in 1955. 7. The contract between the Town and those who sponsored the prizefight in the park in the summer of 1960. 8. Names of people annexing into the City and amounts paid in back taxes and dates. 9. Garbage Ordinance and date of passage. 10. Special Improvement District Ordinance and date of passage. 11. Budget for finally adopted. 12. List 1968-6- 9 of revenue for js for the General Ledgers 9. etc. 22. Please give the name of every separate accounting fund of the City. 23. Please give the name of the bank for each checking account, savings account, trust account or other types of account with 1968-6- 9 budget. 13. the transactions summarized? banks. 24. Please list for each account have a cash receipts register? Does each fund have a Notes on the News... cash disbursements register? 25. Do you prepare a trial balance of all funds monthly, quarterly or annually? When you prepare the trial balance, is it on work paper or how is it prepared? 26. Please send me copies of all Annual Reports required to be Slightly Disguised Editorials of prepared by Section the Municipal Fiscal Procedures By Mark A. Anderson Act for the three years ending Recent surveys printed in the Deseret News and the June 30, 1969, June 30, 1968, of Utahns in and June 30, 1967. I am, of Salt Lake Tribune indicate a slight majority of the job course, prepared to pay the cost the second Congressional District approve of the requested copies and will Sherman P. Lloyd is doing to them in Washington. The send you a check when the polls do not indicate any public knowledge of what he is amount is determined. actually doing. This is only a small sample of the requests that have been made In his budget message, Governor Rampton said that over the last few years by Mr. the state legislature should set the property tax levy rather Jacobson, and, as you can readily than the State Tax Commission as is currently the practice. see, most of the requests are very he proposed diffucult for a city to fulfill on an I agree. I oppose a $300,000 expenditure that later on in his message. He wants to start an early basis. When requests for cancelled checks, receipts and childhood development program in our state schools to old records are made, this means train children. It is a program to take that we have to detail one of the young children out of the home and put them even more office personnel to stop their in the care of the state. 1984 here we come. normal function to do research in the old files to draw these records out for inspection. The Salt Lake Tribune (16 January 1972), the Bureau This the City did for a long of Indian Affairs, and Senator Edward Kennedy have time, in the hope that somewhere that Indians arent white men, and must be along the way this man s appetite decided for whatever he was after would dealt with as separate cultural groups. Not so with black be satisfied. However, this never people, however. Their cultural differences are not so occurred. The requests just great, and the government is forcing them to associate with became more difficult and white people and vice versa. and it was determined that it was possible that this was nothing more than A Deseret News editorial (17 January 1972) says, harassment, so we decided to Americans could end up with both continuing inflation refuse him the records and let a court trial determine what was and persisting federal restrictions on wages and prices. . . . Few things are as permanent as a temporary federal 1 1 Continued on 10-10-7- 3 ot pre-kindergar- time-consumin- ten g, Page program. You are invited to hear How true! Jordan man has been sent to jail because a Justice of the Peace doesnt like the conditions he chooses to live under. The J.P. has no right, legal or otherwise, to force the man to change but has decided to try it anyway. A West PAT HURLEY discuss ILLUSIONS ABOUT CHINA TRUCK PARTS Are Our Business Prelude to Disaster Patricia Hurley, daughter of the late Patrick J. Hurley, former Secretary of War and former Ambassador to China, was for years her father's confidante with access to his records, reports and correspondence. With insight and clarity, Pat Hurley traces the American foreign policy which has led to our present course of ping pong diplomacy in the Far East. I Sponsored By South Davis TRAIN Committee Thursday, February 3 8:00 P.M. 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