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Show the-L the-L EASED GRAPEVINE v -r Fifteen recommendations to speed up and improve legislative procedures have been tentatively-approved tentatively-approved by a subcommittee of the Utah Legislative Council. Recommendations will include pre-session filing of bills with the Legislative Council about Nov. 15; a pre-session conference confer-ence above Nov. 15 at which the houses would organize and adopt the rules; a 30 day deadline dead-line for filing of bills after the session convenes, a requirement that the executive budget be presented pre-sented by the 5th instead of the 10th day of the session; printing of the executive budget by the opening of the session which is predicated on plans to provide aids for a newly elected governor; gover-nor; an electric roll call for the House; a change in rules to make a working copy of a bill an official offi-cial copy and various recommendations recommen-dations dealing with the printing of bills and speeding up committee commit-tee work. Leon Sweet, 89, founder and chairman of the board of Sweet Candy Co., died Monday at his home, 1283 E. So. Temple. Budget of Salt Lake City departments de-partments were cut $258,505 on Tuesday by the city commission in order to wipe out a deficit (Notary public or o carried over from 1959. The commisiosn approved a recommendtion from City Auditor Audi-tor Louis E. Holley to reduce the budgets of each department on a percentage basis according to the percentage of the total budget bud-get each department received. Salt Lake City and Salt Lake County agreed this week on the first steps toward a joint city and county capital improvement program which might eventually lead to consolidation of some governmental services. A site for a new coliseunT and physical education building has been selected northeast of the stadium on the University of Utah campus. The news was reported re-ported at a meeting this week of the university's Board of Regents. Re-gents. Holger M. Larsen, Utah's Danish Dan-ish vice consul, this week was honored by the Danish government govern-ment on receiving the "Order of Danneborg." |