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Show N. Democrat Barbara Starr, with former Utah governor Calvin Rampton by her side, announces she will seek a second term for the Cedar City Council this fall. The an nouncement came Saturday at the Cedar City Airport where local Democrats welcomed Rampton to town. Starr to seek re-election Democrat Barbara Starr, citing her, sxperience and her commitment as qualifications, announced Saturday that she will seek a second term on the Cedar City Council. "I can bring some effort and experience ex-perience to the job. I have been totally involved in the City Council for the past four years," she said in making the announcement at the Cedar City Airport Air-port with former Utah Governor Calvin Hampton at her side. In talking of her concerns about the next four years, Starr noted that the proposed MX missile system and the possibility of municipal power in Cedar City were probably the top issues. In discussing the municipal power issue, Starr noted that she and Councilman Coun-cilman Harold Shirley and Mayor Jack Sawyers up were all elected at least partially on a pro-municipal power stand four years ago. . "The fact that we were elected four years ago was a statement by the people," she said, and continued that the Democrats are responsible for what has been done thus far in bringing municipal power to the area. She also noted that negotiations with Utah Power & Light Company for the purchase of the electric properties in the area would be beginning soon, and she hoped she would be re-elected to finish what had been started. Concerning the possible deployment of MX in Utah and Nevada, Starr said that she had basically been against it from the first time she had heard the proposal. "Since that first day I've had some tremendous reservations," she said. She continued that although she has been against such a deployment she has also fought to have impacts mitigated if such were to happen. In a related area, Starr noted that she would continue to push for industrial growth in the area "while at the same time protecting our rural atmosphere." at-mosphere." We need the economic and job growth in Cedar City , she said, but we also need to cling to the rural atmosphere prevalent in the area. She feels that the two are not irreconcilable, On another item Starr spoke against the 6:30 a.m. City Council work meetings as not being easily accessible to the public. "Everything should be done with public scrutiny," she said. "That can't be anything but healthy." "What's important is that you let people know and have them there," she continued, noting that several times she wishes the public would have been present at the early morning meetings. |