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Show BRIGHAM CITY TO TRY NEW PLAN 0 0 tS 5 2 I MANAGER WILL BE IN CONTROL CHARLES O. ROSKELLEY (left), who has been chosen to take charge of the business affairs of the Boxelder county capital, and John W. Peters, the newly elected mayor. Innovation to Be Watched With Interest by Other Cities of State. Special to The Tribune. BRIGHAM CITY, Jan. 5. Monday Brigham City's new officers will be inaugurated, in-augurated, mayor and city councilmen and city manager. The inauguration of these officials will mark an epoch in Bripham 'a history that has long been sought by the more progressive element the beginning of the city manager type of government. Vhile those who are not thoroughly converted to the plan contend that a city under the present statutes cannot be governed by a manager, Mayor John W. Peters and associates have overcome over-come this problem. They have been in constant consultation with the best legal authority in the state on the mat-to- and are convinced that they are moving in .the right direction. By employing em-ploying a city manager the new officials .in no way intend to infringe on the present laws of the state of Utah regarding re-garding government of cities of Brig-ham Brig-ham 's class. i The mayor and city council will still hold the reins of government in Brig-1 ham, at least until more favorable enactments en-actments can be placed on the law books of the state. In the meantime the city inaDaser will take charge of the affairs of Brig-ham City, beginning Monday, and will take his orders from the mayor and council just the same as half a dozen men under the old plan have been doing here in the past. Besides having all the regular affairs to handle in governing the city, officials offi-cials of Brigham heretofore have had two public utilities of no mean importance im-portance to administer and the system sys-tem has been a total failure. These utilities are the electric light plant, valued at $100,000. and the waterworks svstem, valued nt &50,000. Upon the j latter an expemlil ure of $80,000 will j be made this ear. making the value of the water system $Ki0.0OO, or a total value of both if2o0,000. The argument that has been brought out and which has perhaps had more lo do with bringing bring-ing about the present change is: What private corporation .owning and operat-, operat-, ing enterprises worth upwards of a , quarter of a million dollars would manage man-age them under the system that cities are managed or governed? Charles O. "Roskclley, the appointed manager of the city, is an expert mathematician mathe-matician and one of the leading men on the high school faculty for many years, and a civil engineer. He has had much practical experience in city work and was considered the best adapted for the position. Mayor Peters has made a life study of political economy, which is coe of the subjects that he chances tc teach in the Boxelder liioli cilinnl of nrPQnf TTi p new eoiin- j cilmen are all young business men. Sperry W. Lawson of the First ward is a successful salesman; John YV Phillips of the Second ward is engaged in abstracting ab-stracting and conveyancing: J. C. Fred-erieksen, Fred-erieksen, hold-over, of the Third ward, has had more than two years' experience experi-ence as councilman, and A. M. Hansen, representing the Fourth ward, is principal prin-cipal of the Whittier (eighth grade) school and is engaged in other business affairs. Mr. Roskelley is the elected councilman council-man from the Third ward for the four-year, four-year, term, and upon his failure to qualify on account of being selected manager, a successor will be named, perhaps per-haps Monday. "Vhilo the new type of government will be more or less an experiment, there is little doubt but that it will be successful. suc-cessful. From a financial standpoint, the city has alwavs maintained a- superintendent su-perintendent of electric lights and a superintendent of waterworks. Both are salaried positions, as it also that of street supervisor and others. These department will doubtless be consolidated consoli-dated sooner or later and be under one head and one salary. |