Salt Lake Telegram | 1933-08-31 | Page 9 | Ordinance for Power Plant Turned Down

ORDINANCE FOR POWER PLANT TURNED DOWN I Proponents Failed to Furnish Ample Facts Commission Commission Commission Commis Commis- sion Holds Because In the opinion of city commissioners commissioners com corn missioners the proposed municipal power plant Is Js of or such great I tance and a controversial subject on which the proponents proponents' have failed to furnish ample facts the projected ordinance was rejected Thursday Action was taken by the city commission com corn mission n after City Attorney Fisher Fishe Harris presented a a report accompanied nied by an analysis of or the three-day three public hearing held last week The precise Information which th the commission should have was not riot developed developed developed de de- de- de at the hearing therefore the commission Is justified in rejecting the ordinance Mr Harris said Whether the facts and claims of the opponents outweigh the thc advantages which the sponsors claim will accrue from the passage of or this ordinance Isa is isa isa a matter in regard to which reasonable reasonable reason reason- able men may well differ the city attorneys attorney's letter said The fact remains rc re mains that affirmative action in a matter of ot such tremendous tremendous' importance tance can only be justified b by intimate inti inti- intimate mate knowledge of the subject A careful reading of ot the transcript o othe of the made before you do donot does doe not disclose it FA FAVORS VORS DIRECT VOTE I feel the matter should go direeL die di di direel reel to the people to be voted on a athe at atthe atthe the polls polis Ma Mayor or Louts Louis Marcus s said id If It the majority of the commission cares to spend or to make makel a l study of ot this matter I am willing to abide by the opinion Commissioner George D. D Keyser admitted that prior to the public hearing on the proposed ordinance he was inclined to favor favoran an an independent Investigation of merits merits' and demerits of the proposal I f feel el no now y that it would be a use use- less expenditure of the taxpayers taxpayers' money to inv invest t a penny in iq such an investigation he stated The question of whether the thc city shall issue worth of revenue revenue reve reve- nue bonds to acquire maintain and operate a municipal power plant will now automatically go o on the ballot at the city elty election November 7 7 TO PRINT PRINT- ARGUMENTS Meantime the city will be required to expend several hundred dollars in printing a summary of arguments of ol proponents and arid opponents of the proposed pro pro- posed nosed ordinance which be sent by mail to every registered voter of the city It Is estimated copies will wUl be needed 0 J