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VQt® COUSltS Davis Morgan counties The Standard-Examin- er asked candidates What do you think is the No problem in your community and what would you do to solve it’ for this year’s municipal elections to respond to several questions The responses follow Date of birth: B Jan11 Phone number: 1953 773-971- 8 Occupation: President Kapp Construction Qualifications for office: 1 To achieve an equal balance between agncultural residential and commercial property that will coincide with the citycounty master plan If your city were given a $20000 grant with no stnngs attatched on what would you spend it and why’ Pipe deep dram ditches along the roadside and install sidewalks to make the areas safer for children to walk to school President of my own company: planning commission member: trustee on George S Eccles Dinosaur Park Committee Gary Kapp in the way your city government? what would I would listen to the citizens views on community action and take this information to the council for further discussion The silent majority that do not speak up need to voice their views before any final decision is made If it 0 Phone number Occupation: Manager Qualifications for office: Lifetime resident served on planning commission four years and on the city council for four years Experience in elected office: No response 773-796- More emphasis should be& given to commercial planning and development for future tax base i Growth and how to deal with by having a good overall plan and by following it it Sidewalks water roads and sports By listening and trying to treat everyone fair Would like to try and put programs to work that would better serve the people and try to keep expenses down Dennis Montgomery r: y Date of birth: July s v 1 1 1 957 Phone number: 776-5-1 1 1 Occupation: Concrete manager for Geneva Flock Qualifications for office: Member of the city council manager of a large division in a successful company operating Jay H growth we are experiencing Growth is good if we handle it property We must plan and prepare for the future so our infrastructure can handle growth as it comes Experience in elected would use the money to install additional sidewalks Davis County School Distnct has drastically cut back on the number of buses serving our school and many of our children are walking along dangerous roadways I I r: have always kept an “open-doo- r policy" as a council member Citizens can call me and feel safe in sharing their feelings with me about how they want “their" city run would hire a city Our city is rapidly I manager growing and a manager would give us the professional insight and direction we need as we grow and develop Preparation for the ture must take place now fu- of- fice: Council member Date of birth: Sept 29 1 947 2 Phone number Occupation: Dentist Qualifications for office: Completed citizen planner course from the University of Utah served three years on 773-935- t West Point Planning Commission served two years on West Point City Council Experience in elected ofterm fice: Served one two-yeon West Point City Council ' Glen L Supplying services required by growth without increasing taxes to homeowners Could be solved by continued use of community block grants for major upgrade projects as has been done in the past for our waterline project and our current sidewalk project The federal government will match 89 percent of their funds with 1 1 percent of our funds for I worthy community projects would use these monies for phase II of our sidewalk project for West Point and West Clinton students uncontrolled That money could be invested in business in Morgan beautification projects areas on State Street to provide sidewalks for safety Listen to their concerns Inform people when a vote is coming up that will affect them or their area of the city Increase personnel on the crews to provide better maintenance on roads parks etc city maintenance ar Wade i Our greatest challenge is the tremendous in the free enterprise system I am fully aware of the real problems facing our community Ritchie s i operated be and why? Distnct Date of birth: March 20 1950 i you could change one thing How do you propose to give residents a voice in city Experience in elected office: Board member of the Hooper Water Improvement M & MM Date of birth: Nov 1 0 1 958 Phone number Occupation: Software engineer Qualifications for office: De829-054- 8 $ sire to serve financially responsible experience in using teams to find solutions to problems i i Experience in elected Potentially growth We need to let the developers know what is good for the city and the direction we want tc go not the other way around Utilize five- - 10- - and plans Possibly limit residential building permits 20-ye- ar I think the avenue of giving residents a “voice" in govern- ment is already there Encourage them to attend city council meetings and I would always be willing to listen to their concerns without making the decisions first More synergy with the city It seems like there have council been those that have had their own personal agenda Decisions are made money is soent before all the facts are known of- fice: None Corey Lelshman T ' S 4 Date of birth: June 1 3 service Marsha Martin 1 942 Phone number 8296037 Occupation: Human resources Qualifications for office: Knowledge of Morgan City -the history and the residents accessibility to the people I serve strong commitment to ' Experience in elected of fice: Two terms Morgan school board two terms Morgan City Council The unprecedented changes and growth The problem is keeping the residents informed concerning needs precipitated by the changes and being cognizant of the concerns The solution - recognizing that the public needs to know Unencumbered dollars could be used to leverage other dollars or as match for grants in engineenng and constructing a recreation center or facility for our community Morgan City's employees officials provide a voice for the public A dialogue about communications is an important consideration in the planning and conducting of city business and meetings and elected As the manager and council of Morgan City are e public servants the need for an administrative officer or employ-'e- e becomes more apparent I would support an administrative position in city government and as the community is grow-- part-tim- ing and changing :WiiJ on vV Maf WWiiitfef f&57 WlWI |