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Show 1 UTAH I'HKSC ASDwCIATICN ioT EAST 3RD SOUTH SAIT LAKE CITY, UT TUl For New Government Form Election Results Verified, Candidates Are Filing WEST VALLEY. The outcome of this citys change of government election has been confirmed. Now, qualified candidates are needed to ensure that West Valley residents have an opportunity to elect an efficient seven-membcouncil to direct the council-managgovernment which goes into effect on Jan. 5, 1982. That viewpoint was expressed by several city officials who support form of the council-manage- r government but foresee potential er Millerama Ave., became a candidate for a council position in District Two less than 48 hours after 3,000 of the citys 72,000 residents approved the government change. Harbrecht is secretary of the r Community Council and was a member of the special committee which recommended the council-managproposition be placed on the ballot. Also seeking the District Two council seat is Susan Stowers, 3921 er Granger-Hunte- Mrs. Fonnesbeck estimated she hours per week at the spends job, but added that the amount of time is flexible and can be controll20-3- or planning and zoning, she said. You have to ask yourself, What can I contribute to the city. It has to be more than just being a good citizen. You should have an area of Mrs. Fonnesbeck expertise, elaborated. Once taking office, the position can consume ones entire being, she said, noting that she and her husband refrain from socializing with other council members because the talk invariably turns to city affairs. You think about it, talk about it. 0 ed. To be you need to be there, she stressed, referring to meetings with department At prass tlma, thro other candidates filed for office. They are George Floor, who is seeking the er post; Phyllis Stoltenberg, District One; and Gerald L. Powers, District Two. two-yea- r, Its heads and contacts with business people and constituents. In addition to the time commitment, good council members are able to contribute their own knowledge about some aspect of a citys operations, such as finance always on your mind. You have to approach it almost as a full-tim- job, she said. e Even with the long hours (which left some Salt Lake council members overextended and exhausted at first), Mrs. Fonnesbeck finds the job quite fulfilling. Ive often she wondered why, noting joked, that council members have determined they are being paid 25 cents per hour for the job. Its been a tough 1M years, Ive learned a lot and its been quite rewarding. You spend a lot of time with those people (other council members). Its almost like a family, Mrs. Fonnesbeck said. But, she added, Im glad Im not on one of those councils where they fight a lot. One of the more difficult aspects of the council job is dealing with the press, she said. Its hard to take an extremely complex issue and simplify it for a story, the Salt Lake councilwoman said. She feels On Friday - one-colum- n reporters sometimes distort facts to get good stories and that, at 30 Pages Two Sections times, misunderstandings occur. In West Valley, the council will determine the frequency of its meeting sessions. Salt Lake City's council meets twice per week, once for official business and once for committee sessions. Elsewhere in the valley, Sandys council meets once a week except in the summer when sessions are held twice monthly. Councils in Midvale, South Jordan and South Salt Lake also meet every other week, while West Jordans council meets every week. Future Of Canyons Is COG Topic SALT LAKE. SO. WwWcmy UTAH 656-38- A i Green Sheet Newspaper Published weekly it 155 E 405 South. Silt Like City. UT MI07. Second cliss postige pud it Silt Like City. UT Mil. Subscription rite. $12.50 per yeir. POSTMASTER: Send iddress changes to West Villey View, Boi 7117, Silt Like City, UT MI07. Thursday, August 6, 1981 All Volume 27, Number 30 departments 262 6682 City Trims Funding Property Tax Less Than Expected Auditor Rum Sanderson and Recorder Kathy Kaumans look over ballot boxes in part of Tuesday's official canvass of votes in change of government election. ELECTION RESULTS . . . City She is the wife of city constable Scott Stowers. weaknesses in the new system if the council is not composed of capable representatives. As one city official put it, If we dont have a good council, things could be as bad or worse here than they are now. But I know there are good people out there. margin of vicAlthough the tory removed all suspense from the confirmation process, the results of the election were tabulated officially (2,505 to 748) Tuesday in a canvass of voting district totals by the City Commission. Within a week of the election, largely ignored by city residents, two candidates have filed for the same district seat and a third has announced his intention to seek a council seat rather than the Starwood. Claude Jones, 4339 Lotus Blossom, who earlier had filed for mayor, announced Monday he was withdrawing from that race in Renee favor of Commissioner Mackay, and would seek the council post in District Four, which 3V2-- 1 primarily represents Hunter. Mrs. Mackay has announced her candidacy for mayor. The current mayor, Henry (Hank) Price, is expected to enter the race officially next Friday. What qualifications are needed to be a member of a city council? Dedication, an area of expertise and stamina are three necessary qualities, according to Sydney Fonnesbeck, a member of the Salt Lake City Council since it came into existence more than a year ago. mayors post. Willard Harbrecht, 2954 WEST VALLEY. A property tax levy just below 10 mills is expected to be set today (Thursday) by the City Commission here. That represents a drop of roughly 1.5 mills from the levy estimated by city officials when the budget was adopted in late June. City officials had expected that 11.4 mills would be needed to fund the adopted $9.67 million budget. City officials felt it was imperative to lower the levy below 10 mills and bring it closer in line with tax levies in other valley cities, Commissioner Jerry Wagstaff said. To bring about the reduction to 9.95 mills, $316,000 has been removed from several projects in the budget, most significantly from the Public Works area under Wagstaff. Wagstaff is expected to propose that $240,000 allocated for major improvements on 3200 West be withdrawn to lower the levy under mark. the Other much smaller reductions are anticipated in several departments, including the police. If unanticipated revenues flow into the budget, funding could be restored to some of the eliminated projects, said City Auditor Russ ll Sanderson. Wagstaff noted that city officials also hope to establish a contingen Map outlines border of in city when paltry number of voters approved adoption of council- BOUNDARY LINES . . . the four, districts established here's a point g Amid much in the and aftermath of the special election on Zoo funding, a strange thing has happened. chest-thumpin- Those in didnt check charge district-by-distri- evidently ct totals. Or, a mums the word secret. The major media, reporting as though in lock-steonly noted the p, vote carried by a margin. The -l proponents hired hand, public relations man Richard Eyre, indicated the vote succeeded throughout the valley. He even cited totals of two nonexistent districts in an effort to smooth at-lar- will serve as mayor. Well discussed by local government officials here tomorrow (Friday ) Salt Lake City Mayor Ted Wilson will report to the County Council of Governments (COG) on the status of the advisory council proposal at 7:30 a.m. at South Salt Lake City Hall, 2500 So. State. The issue was discussed briefly at an earlier council meeting. COG members also will consider a proposal to consolidate Salt Lake County animal control functions and the appointment of officials to two boards. In previous meetings. Dr. Harry Gibbons of the Health Department has suggested the merger of animal control operations under county supervision could save money. Local officials appeared to balk, however, at his proposal to levy a small tax to cover start-u- p costs. Considered for appointment to the Utah Transit Authority board of directors are W. Hughes Brockbank, William Andes and Mrs. Jeanne Martin. Mayor Paul Thompson of Sandy also will discuss appointment of persons to a study panel. Valleys assessed property valuation of $198 million. That figure, received last week from the County the Assessor, represents one-fift- h value of all land, buildings and personal property in the city. The total is about $15 million less than last year, due to a 20 percent rollback in property assessments ordered by the State Legislature. - Offer Is Withdrawn GRANITE PARK. Members of the Granite Board of Education were spared a tough decision here Tuesday night concerning a property sale that might have paved the way for construction of a youth correctional facility in Kearns. A letter was presented to board president Miriam Farnsworth earlier in the day from the State Dept, of Social Services informing the board that the state did not anticipate the issue of a public park as a possible use for the land and related feelings of the community. The letter went on to say that the offer to purchase was being d We feel it would be withdrawn. much more appropriate for Youth Corrections to pursue possible compromises for use of that land with the leaders of the Kearns community. However, more than 100 Kearns residents were on hand Tuesday and expressed their concerns to the board, leaving little doubt that efforts to reach a compromise will be stoutly resisted. The board, after much discussion, declared the 21 acres across the street from Kearns high surplus, explaining to the residents inthat absolutely nothing, cluding a park, could be developed on the property without that action being taken. It did allow Service Area One eight weeks to explore the potential City-Count- y for purchase of the property. After that time, however, the land will be placed on the open market. Mrs. Farnsworth warned that the board cannot dictate development of the property once it is sold, although it has a vested interest because of its proximity to schools. In other matters, the board was forced to increase its mill levy for the coming year .18 mill to 45.15 to offset a difference between the actual assessed value of the district and the estimates that were provided by the county around which the school budget was built. It Was All Sold! all the items in the ad the day it came out - and at the price I wanted to get. Thanks! Pat Milne, 3795 So. Marsha Dr., I sold LIKE NEW Swlngomallc baby swing, Suptrcoup walkar, Johnny Jump-Up- . W VC Right In Staying Out Of Election': Price WEST VALLEY. Mayor Henry (Hank) Price said Tuesday he feels the City Commission made the correct decision in keeping West Valley out of last weeks Hogle Zoo vote. The mayor said he believed a different solution should have been found to provide funding for the zoo. West Valley City joined West Jordan, South Jordan, Riverton, Sandy, Draper and Bluffdale in choosing to stay out of the election. If we can finance public transit with sales tax, we can support the zoo the same way. Why must we always tax peoples homes that theyve worked all their lives to get, he questioned. Price said he did not favor, but would give some consideration to joining the special service district if approached by zoo backers. Richard Eyre, a consultant who spearheaded the Save Our Zoo campaign, was quoted last week as saying that zoo supporters were considering asking cities which remained out of the election to join the district, if they wished. Price said he would be willing to conduct public hearings and polls and that an election to join the district could be held if the majority of people favored joining the relating what happened when she used a classified ad in the Green district. But he does not think West Valley Sheet to sell baby items. The West Valley City lady themselves to another tax, he said. learned, as hundreds have before her, that the little ads deliver big results -- at low cost! to place your ad. Dial Save $1 by paying before it runs. Youll get results! 262-668- 2 residents want to submit Service district supporters estimated a property tax levy will be needed to fund zoo operations. Based on a recently released assessed property valuation, at that rate city residents would be required to provide $119,305 to the district. by Jim Cornwell prove Midvale had balloted in favor. One of the citys daily newspapers reported all the governments had agreed to be included in the special service district pending a vote by their citizenry. if did, they theyve kept it manager form of government. Council also will have three representatives, one of whom cy fund to cover any unforeseen expenses. The mill levy is based on West Kearns Land Purchase hand-delivere- proposal to . THE VOICE OF WEST VALLEY CITY USPS A establish a council to oversee use of Salt Lake Valley canyons w ill be - Murray, Midvale and South Salt Lake participated even though their commissioners had protested. And all three rejected the proposal. Unfortunately for them, theyre in the district anyway since the country-wid- e total determines the composition of the taxing area, not the vote of the cities themselves. And now, as though its something theyd never even noticed before, the other daily paper has editorially suggested the seven cities which refused to participate should be persuaded to join the district. Followed by the acknowledgement that the absurd 40 percent reduction in gate admission for those in the taxing district isnt foolproof, could cause some friction when its applied and could tend to break down as time goes by. All of which only echoes the arguments of those who were opposed to the vote from the start. What about the cities represented as being happy participants in the vote, when in truth they were quite disturbed? The Zoo district began with what might politely be called misunderstanding. Thats why it ended with sour tastes in the mouth of officials in Midvale, Murray and South Salt Lake. Unhappily for their constituents, they voiced only feeble objection rather than calling a spade a spade. Probably because it was their own failure to read the small print that put the matter before their voters to begin with. They somehow believed the County Commissions assurance that all municipalities would participate or thered be no taxing district. That was spelled out in a letter. But what the letter said and what the legal papers stipulated didnt coincide. Before the Midvale City Council, a taped conversation indicates, a high-u- p proponent of the Zoo made it clear citizens of that community could avoid the district if they voted against it. Which, of course, isnt true. Smarting from that experience, those councilmen plan to on the matter. They contend they can withdraw from the district if Midvale voters If thats true, itll have a domino effect. South Salt Lake has indicated itll follow suit. If it does, Murray would probably also do it. The appearance of having re-vo- te arbitrarily-levie- d a one-mi- ll tax their citizens doesnt appeal to any of the three governing bodies. Theyd have been more comfortable if their voters had favored the matter. Now it appears the error in judgement has been compounded by the voter rejecting the plan. Fact is, if these elected officials had refused to permit their citizens to vote, its likely thered have been no such taxing district. In which case Zoo proponents wouldve had to come up with a on plan that was fair and equitable and involved all valley residents. Few argue the Zoo doesn't need help. Although those in the know label that last ditch threat of closing the facility purest bull-one- daily editorial writer belatedly admits. Eyre has now been quoted as t cities planning to ask the to voluntarily join the district. That however, only puts an onus on the entire plan - the appearance that it was nothing more than a foot in the door tactic and in the minds of proponents the means justified the end. Thank heavens were not politically inclined. If we held an office in any of these municipalities or on the county level, wed be more than a trifle embarrassed. For having demonstrated questionable intelligence if a city commissioner or councilman or lack of dependability if a county commissioner. Sadly, its probably all said and done now - and the as he almost invariably turns out to be, is the taxpayer. He never knew right from the start who was telling it straight and who spoke with a forked tongue. honest hold-ou- fall-gu- tax shouldve been spread among the entire populace of the county -just as many of us contended from the start and as at least one Nevertheless, such a |