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Show The Salt Lake Tribune UTAH Sunday, December26, 1999 Work Ethic C5 for Salt Lake City’s new mayor, Rocky Anderson. Godfrey also is eliminating the job ofassistant to the mayor, fulfilling a campaign promise. Beyondthat, he will be looking to see which department heads are willing to followhislead. “I want to give everybody an opportunity to succeed. I want to “T want to give everybody an opportunity to succeed. I wantto see who [among city department heads] can show those [budget] cuts, who is anxious to make the tough decisions.” Given Credit for Godfrey’s Win Matthew Godfrey @ Continued from C-1 Ogden mayor-elect cisions,” Godfrey says. Ogden, the more it made sense, sherecalls. Godfrey, a distance runner, was a three-time Big Sky Confer. ence champion in the mile and 1,500-meter races and an eighttime memberoftheall-conference indoor and outdoortrack andfield teams. He wonthe Junior Nationals in the steeplechase and wentto the Pan American Games in 1989. ‘There, he crashed into other racéts on a hurdle and finished almost last. “It was ugly,” Godfreyrecalls. Hislopnotes that Godfrey went fo WSU with college credits already underhis belt andfinished hris bachelor’s degree in finance a year before his athletic eligibility Yan out, Godfrey earned a master’s in accounting that year. “It's a pattern in his life. He’s always a step ahead of most peo- ple,” Hislop says. It was on the long trips by van to track meets that Hislop taught Godfrey the ins and outs of what would become one of Godfrey’s Ifvelihoods: apartmentrentals. “The other guys would be listening to music and he’d be asking me how I bought them, how I should buy them, aboutcosts and percentof rent,” says Hislop, who Owns 20 apartments. ; Godfrey, by then married to Rick Egan/The Salt Lake Tribune The mayor-elect, seen here on Ogden's Washington Boulevard, won élection by vowingto fight crime and reverse inner-city decay. Godfrey campaigned on the premise that Ogden has many problems — crime,inner-city de- cay, poor economic-development plans. His views rankledcity leaders whohave worked hardin recent another track and tennis athlete, Monica Allen, began by persuading the owner of a duplex next doorto seli and to carry the loan. Hegot the down paymentbyborrowingfrom credit cards. Godfrey took a job as a program manager at Iomega whenheleft school, and soon was a manager overseeing a successful Zip drive product from manufacturing to marketing. Helost that Iomega job during mid-1998 layoffs, and worked in another Iomega posi- tion for several months before quitting a year ago because the commute to San Diego was too draining. Meanwhile, Godfrey was building his property business on the side, buying run-down places in the central city, fixing them up and renting them out to low- income residents in need of affordable housing. Hebristles at the suggestion, made during the campaign, that years to turn the tide. 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