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Show City mayoral contest begins ; Frehner announces candidacy enough to make an accurate, judgement. It is on this segment of people that Frehner will focus his campaign. "It's apparent that with 42 percent of the people that don't know me, there's some work to do," explained Frehner. Survey results also shed some interesting in-teresting light on what people perceive The race for Cedar City mayor started this week, with local businessman Clayton Frehner recently v announcing his intentions to seek the Republican nomination for the office. "I've thought about running for this position for two or three years," said Frehner. "I feel that I understand public finance, employee negotiations and business management well enough that I could do the job that both Cedar City and my family would be proud of." The mayoral candidate explained that results of a recent survey solidified his decision to run. A random survey was conducted by volunteers in the area to determine people's concerns with regards to Cedar City and their attitudes towards Frehner as a leader. Of the 250 people questioned, 49 percent felt Frehner has done a good or excellent job with his previous leadership responsibilities. These prior experiences include member of the Iron County School Board, president of the Southern-Utah State College Development Board, president of the SUSC Foundation Board, vice-presi 'ent of the Utah State School Board and member of the National Task 'Force on Rural Education. Around 42 percent of those surveyed said they didn't know Frehner well as the most pressing needs of Cedar City. ; The five greatest needs w?re lfs?d a-industrial a-industrial development, more job opportunities, establishing a better financial base for the City, unemployment unem-ployment and street maintenance. Frehner said he basically agrees with City needs and would work to deviate pressing problems. He cited his desires to improve the industrial base and explained: "By bringing in new dollars from outside, as did Coleman, Cedar Products and Morton Metalcraft in the 1970s, numerous retail businesses and job opportunities will occur. These three companies brought opportunities for possibly 50 or more small businesses because of the dollars they brought into town, along with several hundred job opportunities." This would be a primary problem to be challenged, according to Frehner, though not an easy one. The candidate also explained his position on the power issue. "It would be a slap in the face at this time to campaign against the Federation; they've spent four years trying to put a municipal thing together." Frehner did say he felt the Federation knew its own financial limits and would back-off if they ever could see a municipal system was totally unfeasible. f Clayton Frehner |