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Show Bountiful spent $1 .30 per voter for election power on the district's board. The state statute specifies that there be one vote per city and one vote for die unincorporated area. This is a total of six votes, and the statute states that there should be an uneven number. "So the unincorporated area was given two board seats, which is unfair un-fair whether the critera is based on population or land area," said Barlow. "At the same time, the unincorporated area has steadily decreased in both size and population popula-tion to a point that is is only a fraction frac-tion the size of any city with less than 2,000 fewer connections. Meanwhile, Bountiful officials contend that its city has more than 10,000 sewer connections and is 53 percent of the total size of the entire district - but still has only one vote. By GARY R. BLODGETT BOUNTIFUL - Cities don't really hold free elections. Even municipal elections to elect a mayor and two city council members cost approximately $1.30 per voter in Bountiful, the city council was told recently. Bountiful spent about $17,000 total for its primary and general elections last fall, an average of $1.30 for each of its 11,690 votes cast Total cost of the election was approximately ap-proximately $17,000, of which $6,640 was paid to the 80 election judges who conducted the election. The council decided to install temporary street lighting on a stretch stret-ch of Orchard Drive which was not completed in the improvement project pro-ject last summer. Approval was given for poles and lights to be installed between 1500 and 1800 South - an area left in the dark after existing fixtures were removed to make room for expansion expan-sion of the street However, the project pro-ject was stopped short ofthe three-block three-block area, and left residents of the area in the dark. The council decided to reinstall the street lights and determine later who should pay the costs. . The council also approved improving im-proving two water sprinkling systems in the city, one at the golf course and the other at the city cemetery; heard a report on the South Davis Sewer Improvement District, and okayed the purchase of a truck for use by the Parks and Recreation Department Sprinkling system improvements will be at the No. 7, 8 and 9 holes on the city-owned golf course at a cost of $57,979, and at the city cemetery where replacement costs will total $29,827. Former Mayor Elmer W. Barlow, who represents Bountiful on the Sewer Improvement District board of directors, told the council that he was not pleased the distribution of |
