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Show EDITORIAL. Where have the robins gone? Where have the robins gone?? j i : Where is the five, four and one half, or four county Association of Gov'ts.?? What great things have they been doing the last few months except adding more unnecessary un-necessary jobs to an already top-heavy, pointless point-less and useless tax supported payroll?? ,1 ; Are the people in the SteerirgCommittee ; ! of this Association of Governments proud of their part in promoting this wasteful activity? ! Are they so lazy andor incompetent that they cannot themselves perform the duties of gov-'! gov-'! ernment required in the positions to which they were elected?? Is is right that these elected officials ! delegate their authority to anyone else?? This ' is what was done in 1973 when the articles of association were approved by our elected rep-! rep-! resentatives. ! Do not confuse the association with other I state-based social, family and community services. These are state programs, manned by state employes within state prescribed guide lines. There may be too many and too much of these services, but that is not the point in this consideration. The Association of Governments (AOG's) will try to make one believe that the government govern-ment grant monies, the needed and the un-needed, un-needed, cannot be obtained without going through the AOG red tape. This is not the case. Units of government can apply for and secure these funds on their own such as Cedar City has done on their sewer project. The application of regional government appears to be a planned bureaucratic, social -istic program intended to take over functions of local governments. It is past time that elected officials realize re-alize this; that they stand up and be counted as ones who are willing to accept the responsibilities respon-sibilities to which they were elected and not blindly follow the direction of some appointed staff director of a questionably affiliated association. Citizens for Constitutional Government Iron County Chapter No. 26 Cedar City, Utah |