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Show H Letters yrKkii To The jj Editor contacted and botn gave assurances n the GS group would not be affected by B the user's fee. I In Sept. 1979, the GS were told the I user fee also applied to them and they I would be charged $4.00 an hour for use I of . the lunchroom at South. For the I school year it would cost the GS ap- I proximately $150.00. (The GS had I $26.00 in the bank.) The main source I of GS funds is the annual cookie sales, I which with a lot of hard work, nets I them about $150.00. This money is I used for materials used in the I program. - I A board member was contacted and I the GS predicament explained - I "basically, the GS had no funds to pay I the user's fee; it would be the demise I of the GS program in Cedar City; the I GS use the room once a week, bet- I ween 3:30 p.m. and 4:30 p.m., use no I lights, and need no heat because of the I residual heat in the lunchroom from the normal school day activities. It was also the GS understanding that teachers had to remain in the building, until 4:00 p.m. and the custodian remained until 5 p.m. Therefore, the user fee, for utilities was not valid since the GS used no utiltities and did not require additional ad-ditional school personnel to be on hand to open or close the building or supervise the GS. The board member stated the board was unaware of the GS situation especially as to the time and circumstances of the use of the lunchroom at South. The matter would be brought up at the next meeting of the school board. The member was optimistic about the GS being able to use the room at South without charge since no energy was used and no cost would be experienced ex-perienced by the school district. For the next four months the board member was contacted at approximately ap-proximately two week intervals as to the progress being made. It was explained a policy was being prepared to allow the GS to use the room without charge. Since the GS were under the impression there would be no problem, permission was sought to start using the room for the next scheduled meeting. The answer was no; not until the board acted on the matter in a formal manner. During this time period, the GS were able to meet in a room at the Utah Department of Transportation building and the Walker Bank when a room was available. The transporting trans-porting of the GS between the two places started taking its toll on the program. The. Brownie program, consisting initially of 23 girls, died. The older GS were holding together, but not well. Some meetings had to be cancelled-use of rooms at UDOT and Walker Bank had Been scheduled for use by other groups. On 1-9-80 the board member was ' ) ffOntacfed, concerning. ,pgre,ss I ' being made with the school board on the GS situation. The reply was that everyone was favorable, however, at one elementary school there was a problem with a cub scout group not having proper adult supervision. The net affect being the cubs creating a disturbance etc. This reply left me with the impression im-pression the users fee was not the problem. It was the behavior of another group. It led me to believe, in fact, the user fee was being used to keep out the problem group at the expense of the GS. On 1-11-80 the previously mentioned "Civic Center" legislation came to ' lieht. County Attorney James Shumate was contacted to review the legislation (law) and in his opinion it was good law and he would direct a letter to the Superintendent about it. The above first school board member and a second were contacted and copies of the "Civic Center" were furnished to them . Both expressed optimism, ie., the GS would be able to use the room without paying a user fee. At last-a solution. The GS would be able to re-group. But alas. An error was committed. A tactical blunder. Being a participant par-ticipant in the use, with a group of adults, of the old junior high gym, menton was made of the "Civic Center" law. Double blunder. Friends associated with the Hey Cedars were also made aware of the "Civic Center" law. But wait a minute. What has all this to do with the GS? Iron County Record, 2-21.80; Board reviewed policy concerning use of school buildings and "with adequate legal backing" would retain policy and fixed charges for various activities. ac-tivities. Received letter dated 2-11-80 from South.. "As of the School Board decision on 2-19-80, anyone who uses an elementary classroom must pay $4.00 per hour for use of that room. The building must also be used between bet-ween 3:30 p.m. and 5:00 p.m. or it cannot be rented. Beginning 2-25-80 I will have to receive, in advance, payment for each day you choose to use the lunchroom.. .'. Girl Scout program finished? Step forward one benefactor. Thirteen more weeks of meetings? One meeting per week at $4.00 per hour? Here's a . check for $52.00. Silver Lining. Girl Scout program back on track. First meeting since Sept. for Brownie group. Twelve girls at-' tended; hope to get the other eleven back and involved. 3-3-80 brief contact with first board member.. "Girl Scouts had it made till you started talking to those other groups" (about "Civic Center" law), J. Cwik -Fditor: I would like to respond to your recent article airing Mrs. Florence Wolfram's views on the existing planning commission and her evaluation of the 'balance' of the commission. It is somewhat indicative of Mrs. Wolframs nature that she is more concerned about problems which have existed in the past, than with positive action to encourage and maintain good development in the future. She is not a problem solver, but a problem finder. As such she belongs perhaps on the County Attorneys staff . or in the media, not however, on the County Planning Commission. In her hands, the County Subdivision Ordinance Or-dinance has become a weapon instead of a tool. Hal Mitchell, on the other hand, was not anti-development; he was not pro-development. pro-development. Rather, he was objective ob-jective in evaluating a proposal, voicing his concerns, and voting accordingly. Unlike Mrs. Wolfram, he has voted in favor of developments in the past when, in his judgement, the circumstances cir-cumstances merited his approval. Mr. Mitchell had filled his 5-year term of office fairly and competently his term had expired, and another individual in-dividual was appointed to serve in his place. I IK WAS NOT RKMOVED FROM OFFICE! Howard Knight was selected from among several others proposed to, or by, the County Commission. They have expressed their confidence in his ability. Mrs. Wolframs reaction to his appointment is to publicly impugn his integrity by inferring an association between him and the "vested interests" in-terests" involved in development. She is equally willing to cast aspersions on the other members of the Planning Commission. With her statement that the "process toward orderly and legal land development is now in jeopardy", she is saying in essence, either that they are corrupt, or that their judgement and their concern . for the county are not as valid as hers. With the County Commission, County Attorney, d developers, and other members of the Planning Commission calling for clarification and more definition to the current subdivision ordinance, Mrs. Wolfram threatens a "weakening of the ordinance" or-dinance" and a return to the anarchy of yesteryear. With one recent appointment, a new chairman and an expiring term of office for a third member of the Planning Commission coinciding with : a controversial development like the'"'0' one proposed for the mountains east of Summit, it is easy to brand any decision of the County Commission as "bowing to pressure'1. Incidentally, there is no requirement that proposed subdivisions sub-divisions be adjacent to other developed areas as has been misrepresented on numerous occasions. oc-casions. The ordinance states that subdivisions adjacent to developed areas will be encouraged, while those in remote areas of the county will not be approved. The obvious intent in the wording of the ordinance was to allow flexibilities . in considering the merits of proposed developments in various parts of the county. This' does not constitute "irregularities in subdivision sub-division approval practices." There is absolutely no danger to the county due to the current commissions com-missions alledged inability to stop undesirable subdivisions. There is no threat to orderly and legal land development in Iron County. The current commission members, including in-cluding Howard Knight are honorable men with a great deal of concern for Editor: I've wanted to write this letter for some time and as my 20th year Cedar High School reunion approaches it somehow seems most appropriate to write it now. I want to thank those who have made positive influences on me during my life while growing up in Cedar City. To my teacher, I give a special thanks. To one of my most favorite people as well as teacher, Oscar Hulet, who taught me genuine concern for others. To Dixie Leavitt who taught me to accomplish those things I desired to accomplish. To Loren Miles who taught me how to write well in long hand. To Mrs. Frame who taught me what I know about English grammar. To LaVel Chamberlain and Red Osborne who taught me to be competitive and how to both win and lose. To Mr. Clark who taught me how to make rotten egg gas, among other chemical things. To Dough Russell who taught me how to enjoy school. To Kent Myers who taught me to enjoy poetry. To Bruce Decker for being a good teacher and also a good friend. To Wally Adams who taught me to enjoy music and singing. To Mrs. Zoe Palmer who was t without a a doubly bst teacher. To ' .Mr. PrtttjBetbep jjor jteing augh but good principal. And a special thanks to Mrs. Irene Hyatt for being such a great support to musical instruction. in-struction. If she were paid for all the quiet and unsung support she has given of her talent to the people of Cedar City, she would be a rich lady. Thanks to those who helped me in Little League, Klein Rollo and Therol McArthur. Working with kids who have six thumbs is no easy thing. Thanks to all those who spent their hard earned dollars in my dad's Western Auto Store so our family could eat and have the necessities of life. Thanks to the Applegates, the Harrisons, the Burgesses, the Quinns, the Smiths and many others who were and are good friends of my parents. To Edna Sargent for being so nice to me and my own family. To Leta Cowley for being so nice to me and my own family. To Leta Cowley for being the super lady she is, always helping so many others and being a close friend to my mother. Thanks to LaMar Snyder and Rudy Iverson who gave me my chance to work many summers at Zion National Park. Thanks to the best barber in Cedar, Frank Holmes. Thanks to Doc Prestwich and Dr. and Mrs. Rymal Williams for their friendship to my mom and dad, and for their medical care to our family. Thanks to our neighbors, the Platts and Isoms for having good kids who would and still do help my mother shovel snow. Thanks to Mrs. Eldon Ashdown for being a good neighbor to my mother. And thanks to Gladys Isom for being another one of those super ladies. A special thanks to all of my school' classmates. Their influence upon me was certainly a positive one and I'm anxious to see them all once again this July. Last but not least, a great big thanks to my dad, two brothers, sister and especially my mother. Those who have never known Mrs. Marie L. Endsley have missed out on a reai treat. She is quite a lady, one of the best. I'm proud to be from Cedar City. It is a great place in which to grow up and mostly because of its people. v William R. Endsley Alta Loma, Ca. 1 the rights and interests of all of the citizens of Iron County. They are men with the ability to weigh facts and make' decisions accordingly. This is not what jeopardizes orderly and legal land development. On the contrary, it encourages it! I have had the pleasure of becoming involved in land development during the past 1 1 2 years. Like few other professions it has a stigma attached to it because it looks like an easy money game. (As recently as the last Planning Corrimission Meeting, one Cedar City councilman even reverted to the time-worn out-dated emotion-packed emotion-packed 60's expression, "Raping the land.") Profits have become socially unpopular today even though they are essential to our economy and prosperity. I have discovered that the . developer earns the mone that he is able to generate through his own efforts. (If it really were an easy money game, there would be alot more people getting a piece of the action). The land developers produce a product which is sought in the market place. If he does not, then he is shortly out of business. He gives value for value. Mrs. Wolfram's publicly stated view is that all developers are crooks. (Does this mean that only crooks develop land or that developing land is criminal?) Now she is including former and present government officials. of-ficials. Apparently she regards herself as the last bastion of righteousness in county office. Stephen Brown |