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Show important study Tliis Friday marks the first meeting of a I.irqe, 1 S0-memlur S0-memlur committee of Ut.ihns, selected to serve in an at--mpt to make recommendations on how local government might hest be improved in Utah. The group, made up of citizens from nearly every walk of life, will he meeting under the sponsorship of the University Uni-versity of Utah. I.eRoy F. Harlow, director of the study, said the advisory group will be the main inspiring voice from the grass roots in a rapidly growing movement to update city and county government in Utah, to reduce costs in public service, ser-vice, to rewrite slate laws where necessary and hopefully to give taxpayers their money's worth in local government. Subjects sure to get attention arc multiple taxing districts, dis-tricts, which create political friction; gaps in service, and duplication in service (obviously in this area the committee commit-tee will study the relationship between city and county government') . No system is so good or so efficient that k cannot be improved upon. Certainly, as complex and as old-fashioned as local government structure is in Utah as we'l as in other parts of the nation, the area shall be a fertile one for study. The committee states that it will begin its work by first finding out what Ut.ihns think about local government, govern-ment, and then by determining what I'tahns want out of local government. This is a good beginning. The study will undoubtedly take a considerable time to complete, if it is to be an accurate and useful one. It is to be hoped that once completed, it will receive more than just a cursory glance from those in places of responsibility respon-sibility who can bring about change. |