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Show Btfl Still Pondering i she Council Appointment By GARY R. BLODGETT BOUNTIFUL It's going to be at least Jan. 7 Bounti-ful's Bounti-ful's next city council meeting before appointment is made of a new city council member. It will also be at least Jan. 7 before the council can take official action to hire a new city manager. ALTHOUGH it's been made public that the new city manager mana-ger will be Dr. Thomas R. Hardy Har-dy of Ontario, Ore., the actual appointment has never been ratified by the council. It happened hap-pened this way: Mayor Elmer W. Barlow announced at the close of a regularly scheduled city council coun-cil meeting that Mr. Hardy had been the council's choice as new city manager to replace Grant P. Petersen, effective Jan. 2. EVERYONE, including the press, accepted the announcement announce-ment not immediately realizing that the mayor was making the announcement without the council taking official offi-cial action in an open city council meeting of a decision that had been made in an authorized au-thorized "closed door" session ses-sion a few days earlier. City Atty. Layne B. Forbes said that the ratification of the council on Jan. 7 would be leg-. leg-. al and would create no serious problems. "We'll just have to make his salary retroactive to the day he begins work," said Atty. Forbes. THERE WAS some indication indica-tion that a meeting of the city council might be scheduled sometime prior to Jan. 7 although the council earlier voted to cancel two regularly scheduled meetings in late December De-cember one on Christmas Eve and the other on New Year's Eve. Which brings up the question, ques-tion, can the city council vote on a matter in a special meeting if that meeting is held on a night other than the regularly scheduled council meeting? MEANWHILE, the council is still considering a fifth member mem-ber of the council to succeed former Councilman Steve Studdert who has accepted a position on the staff of President-elect Ronald Reagan. The new appointee will serve three years of Mr. Stud-' Stud-' dert's original four-year-term. MAYOR BARLOW said 14 Bountiful residents have either been nominated or have nominated themselves for the position. This list has been narrowed nar-rowed to nine finalists, he said. The mayor will make the nomination of the new appointee appoin-tee and the council must either ratify or refuse this nomination. nomina-tion. THERE HAS been a lot of pressure put on the council in recent weeks to appoint a representative rep-resentative from the city's west side. It has been noted that all five council members presently live east of Orchard Drive. Only the mayor lives west of Orchard Drive but just barely. Recently, there has been a lot of controversy with residents resi-dents of the west side, especially espe-cially those living west of 100 West and north of 400 North. During the interim, many residents resi-dents have strongly voiced opposition to the fact that all elected offcials live east of Main St. and that there is no I geographical representation for other areas of the city. t THE MAYOR noted B however, that of the nine can' ? didates still being considered, I five men and one woman live I westofMain.'Twishwecould f limit our interviews to only those living west of Main, but of course we can't if there are I other qualified candidates," ; he said. The mayor said he will prob- ably make his nomination at f j the Jan. 7 council meeting. - |
