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Show Btfl Mayor Wants Extra BARD Seat BOUNTIFUL Bountiful Mayor Elmer W. Barlow was accused of "blackmailing "black-mailing the BARD board of directors' last week when he (Barlow) attempted to have a resolution passed allowing Bountiful additional representation on the board. THE ACCUSATIONS came from West Bountiful City Councilman Max Hall and Woods Cross Mayor Lawrence W. Urry. It all started at a meeting of the Bay Area Refuse Disposal (BARD) board of directors direc-tors last Tuesday night when Mayor Barlow Bar-low warned that his city (Bountiful) "may withdraw its participation from BARD unless un-less it gets more representation on the board." "I TRIED to explain that the request w as not my own, but came in the form of a motion from my (Bountiful) city council," said Mayor Barlow following the meeting. "I just ried to put the cards on the table and tell BARD officials just how we feel." But the threat of withdrawing from BARD didn't set well with Councilman Hall who accused Mayor Barlow of "blackmailing us" if we (the board) don't allow Bountiful an additional member on the board. MAYOR BARLOW had told the board that he "is not sure Bountiful will agree to continue participation in BARD if the board is not willing to grant this one small favor." He added: "I'VE TOLD you for some time how my council feels about Bountiful not being fully ful-ly represented on the board. "This was not my idea. It was the council's recommendation." recommenda-tion." Woods Cross Mayor Lawrence Urry then joined Councilman Hall in his accusation accusa-tion saying, "I'm still concerned about the blackmail aspect." IT WAS suggested that Bountiful Councilman Coun-cilman Bob Linnell be added to the BARD board, increasing the number to eight. Bountiful's council earlier approved the appointment of Councilman Linnell, subject sub-ject to approval from the BARD board. "I DON'T know Mr. Linnell very well." said Mayor Urry, "but I'm concerned about ab-out his prior remarks (about BARD) that have appeared in the newspaper." MAYOR BARLOW noted that Bountiful not only owns all 150 acres of BARD property prop-erty but about 60 percent of the revenue from fees comes from Bountiful residents. He said Bountiful's. council felt the city deserves an additional member on the board. Councilman Hall argued that "West Bountiful provides and maintains the roads leading to the dump site." NORTH SALT Lake Mayor Robert Palmquist joined the debate by noting that "Bountiful does provide 60 percent of the revenue, but its residents also provide 60 percent of the refuse that goes into the dump." He also argued against adding another member to the present seven-member board, but did suggest that perhaps the rate paid by each community to Bountiful for use of the land was low. COUNTY Com. Ernest Eberhard warned that a compromise should be studied stu-died by both sides before any action is taken for a community to withdraw. He then referred to Layton's recent action ac-tion to withdraw from the County Library District. "That was costly to Layton as well as to the county," he said. IT W AS finally concluded that each city council will further discuss the matter and report back to the BARD board at its next regularly scheduled meeting. |