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Show City Pushes Plan for Bond Issue provements, their costs and the whole question of whether the bond issue should be floated to the voters. According to the finance commissioner com-missioner htere has been considerable con-siderable interest shown by investment in-vestment firms which desire to bid for the bonds if the program for financing should receive the go ahead from the commission and the city's voters. Salt Lake City Commission this week was preparing to float a 15 million dollar bond issue to finance needed capital improvements. im-provements. The move was merely in preliminary pre-liminary stages but new finance commissioner Theodore I. (Ted) Guerts said the city should get moving as soon as possible on the program because the bond market currently is "favorable." Even as the commission moved toward making arrangements for the 15 million dollars City Engineer En-gineer Roy W. McLeese came up with a figure of more than 23 million dollars for capital improvements im-provements requested by city departments. However, Commissioner Guerts said fellow commissioners have been asked to submit their must projects and that this figure is likely to be close to the 15 million mil-lion dollar mark. Voters of Salt Lake City have the final say in whether or not a bond issue will be floated. The city commission must submit sub-mit the proposed capital im-j |