Show UINTAH BASIN CITY OFFICIALS TO GATHER AT ROOSEVELT I City officers from all aU of the Uintah Basins Basin's six municipalities ties tiC will gather next Monday at Roosevelt to study the effects of 1947 legislation on cities and towns town towns and to be oriented on the six We bills billJ b which were passed were by bythe legislature the legislature which were sponsored by the Utah Municipal pal ral League Mayor B H a press pres dent of the municipal rt league reports that the Uintah Basin meeting is one bit mi in a series of nearly n arly of pearly nearly X J dozen which hv nave have been beel sponsored vocational by bY the state e boat f d of i duca Won W clarify the bill bUls- bUls which this year w It M Mayor yc r willibe one of the speakers at the Roosevelt meeting mee along with Tom Mc Mc- McCOY McCoy Coy executive director of the league and a group of experts en on city utilities city planning roads etc et which includes Lynn W Thacher Newell W I A Pratt Kesler John G Gr Davis Jerry Irvine George I and Joe Bergin I Mayor George Harrison of Roosevelt will conduct the meet meet- meetIngs ings logs At the first in the series of 1 wide state meeting held at Provo Prove Mayor declared that because cities and towns sent 77 percent of the states state's population they h deserve e even more gr revenue u uh ua ue than a has already lr peen open obtained In referring ref to the share of liquor revenues and the added B Band and C road funds obtained by bythe bythe the cities the Mayor declared that by necessity the cities and towns this year have broken out of their overgrazed pasture and demanded a small share of neighboring fields Cities and towns did not receive too much but too little All new revenue was predicated predicated on if and when h Mayor made the point that cities and towns should reduce their mill levies this year if possible but that if they did not do so they would I not be violating any promises or pledges |