Salt Lake Telegram | 1939-02-16 | Page 5 | Law on Water Boards Backed

LAW OH WATER ' BOARDSBACKED PROVO Declaring It ta ba of fundamental Importance that all administrative ad-ministrative office r be either elected elect-ed by the people or reeponatbl to thoae who are elected by the people, ppoeltlon to any amendment in the present law regarding metropolitan water dlatrlcta and removal of board member we rolced here Wednesday Wednes-day by Mayor Mark Anderson f Provo. Tht opinion waa contained In a latter to Leland H. Kimball, angl-near angl-near of the Salt Lake metropolitan water district, declaring that ."we would leave the law aa it la, or, If it I changed at all, make the metropolitan met-ropolitan board members elective, ' aa achool board members now are. School boards are not responsible to the city or county commissioners, but they are directly responsible to the people." Main laaue waa In the section regarding re-garding the removal of board mem- bera. Mayor Anderson aald. The resent law now states that manners mann-ers may be removed with or without with-out causa, and It la being propoaad to make It read "may be removed with cause." This principle I held wrong, as. If a board member wished to fight removal, lengthy court proceedings would likely be necessary to determine deter-mine what constituted sufficient causa for removal, he explained, and board members could remain on the board Indefinitely. "It may ba taken for granted that metropolitan board membera will I not be removed without cause, and If occasionally board member are removed without cause, publio Interest In-terest will not suffer as they would if a board la neither responsible to - the people nor to those electedby the people," he said in the letter.