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Show Commission Versus Council-manage- - r Election Is that all four types permitted by state law be placed on the ballot. (The four are commission, 3444 W. 4700 South, WEST VALLEY. City residents will have only two forms of government to choose from when they go to the polls here July 28. In making that determination on Tuesday, the City Commission rejected a request by Duane Moss, council-mayo- council-manage- r, Decision. Officials Rule 'Elther-O-r r, city charter). On July 28, voters will decide passage, and a split election ballot would probably defeat the very purpose of our election. With that opinion in hand, Mayor Henry (Hank) Price suggested whether to retain the current commission system or to change to a form of govern- council-manag- ment. An opinion delivered to the City Commission Tuesday by the City Attorneys office maintained that only one form should be listed on the ballot. The opinion was requested after Moss submitted his request at Thursdays commission meeting. Keith Stoney, a law clerk in the attorneys office, concluded that a multiple choice issue is not permitted on the ballot. He said the law speaks of a special form of government election in the singular, as an either . . . or proposition. Moreover, he pointed out, the law requires a majority vote for of 1,000 names on a petition for a form of government. Scores of petitions were still out in city neighborhoods, he added. He said the special committee established by city officials to investigate the change of government issue (and which r council-mayo- - . Related editorial, this section Tuesday that the July 28 election be limited to two choices. To make a change now (in the ballot) would cloud the election. Id rather it be clear than clouded and subject to a (legal) challenge, the mayor said. Commissioners Jerry Wagstaff and Renee Mackay concurred. Its too bad he (Moss) didnt take action earlier, Wagstaff noted. On Thursday, Moss told the commission he had obtained in excess Four Sections -- recommended the council-manage- r form) did not have the right to determine what form should be before the voters. I dont argue their right to make a recommendation, but they dont have a right to make the choice. The citizens should have that choice, Moss said. He asked that city officials find a way to include all four forms on the ballot. 34 Pages - Mayor Price agreed. Frankly, think that (multiple choice alternatives) is the most democratic way. I would be in favor of putting it on if the law allows it, he said. City Recorder Kathy Kaumans pointed out, however, that there were several problems with the request. The first of three required legal notices of the election will appear this week, containing only the description of the council-manage- r form Ballots containing only the choice between the two forms have gone through the proofreading stage, she said. Moreover, she noted, Moss would need about 2,500 signatures which would have to be certified. At this point, there probably would not be enough time to do that, she added. I Photography Is Topic Of Library Program HU Taking Pictures Existing Light will be presented at the Granger Library at 7 tonight (Thursday). The program, for photo enthusiasts of all ages, will include a slide presentation. At 2 p m. Wednesday the County Recreation Roving Players will present a program of favorite childrens stories transformed into plays for the enjoyment of the r children during a presenGRANGER. With THE VOICE OF WEST VALLEY CITY UTAH one-hou- USPS How Much Growth Is On Horizon? CHANGE IS COMING . . . While the Wasatch Front range will stay the same, changes are foreseen for undeveloped land such as that seen here through a section of pipeline being laid in northern section of the city. What's to come? See story inside. tation. The countys folk dancers will perform the following Wednesday at 2 p.m. Children will watch and be given opportunity to partici- 656-38- Published weekly at 1S5 E. 490S South, Salt Lake City, UT 84107 Second class postage paid at Salt Lake City, UT 841 19 Subscrip tion rate. S12.S0 per year. POSTMASTER Send address changes to West Valley View, Box 7187, Salt Lake City, UT 84107 Thursday, July Volume 27, Number 9, 1981 All 26 262 6682 departments pate. At City Arts Festival 'Hot Times' Saturday At Granger Park West Valley City Arts Festival. The festival, commemorating both the Fourth of July and the first anniversary of the citys for- WEST VALLEY. Things that kept people cool were the most popular items here Saturday at the mation, attracted large crowds both Friday and Saturday to Granger park. Anything which could lessen the effects of the sweltering heat was popular with the crowd. Soft drink sales were heavy. Booths with watermelon also drew The their share of buyers. presence of some beer bottles and cans on the lawn showed that that beverage, too, had been consumed In part to cope with the heal. A favorite event of the day for children was an exhibition by the City Fire Department of its engines, a show which included a dousing with water from hoses of the various trucks. Fireworks Saturday night at tracted a crowd of several official sand, one Arts estimated. Council members set up about two do7'-,-i booths with various Games also type1- of art work. rPw numerous participants, as did carnival rides for children. The Arts Council was quite gratified by the response of the crowd, which was quite orderly, a council spokesman said. thou-Counc- il - Board's Attorney Files Protest GSD, County Renew Tax Hassle GRANITE PARK. MOUTHFUL . . . Eighteen-yaar-ol- d Catherine Healey took a few healthy bites of watermelon to relieve the heat at West Valley City's Arts Festival Saturday. Court. the baby items the first thing Thursday morning and had calls all day Thursday and FriWe sold all day! Steve Trujillo, 3834 So. 7120 West, reporting on his use of a Green PLAY PEN, car seat, baby scalai, walkar, infont chair, miscallanaous baby dothat. Sheet classified ad. The Hunter area man found, as hundreds have before him, that classifieds in Utahs most widely circulated weekly newspapers deliver quick results - and at low cost! to place your ad. Dial Save $1 by paying before it runs. Youll get results! ar 262-668- 2 here's a point Theunis Beukes is a young man whos both proud of his native land and terribly apprehensive about its future. Hes a old resident of Swaziland, a small kingdom apar proximately the size of New Jersey, loc- ated near the coast of the In- spoken. But he is trim and muscular and plays rugby In his homeland. However hes fallen hopelessly in love with both snow and water skiing in our country. Its little wonder water skiing isnt popular where he lives. The nearby river, which is the favorite swimmin hole, is shared with crocodiles, hippopotami (ac- cording to Webster) and sizeable water snakes. acknowledges An danger in just wading along the banks. Nevertheless, he in Idaho, where he resides with friends of ours, he was a recent guest in The h is silent when you pronounce his name, so it comes out Teeunis. Hes quite reserved, extremely polite and very soft- - V fact, T theres a certain element of student our home. In Africa. exchange Adand secretaries. ministrators salary settlements are pending. Classified employes in Granite will receive 5.5 percent plus seven employes cents an hour pay increases while secretaries gain 5.5 percent plus nine cents per hour, according to agreements ratified by the board and the employes Tuesday. Sick leave incentives and other items were also granted. Proposed Government In CIRCLING . . . Those two young ladies were whisked through the warm temperatures at West Valley City's Arts Festival. - Strengths, Weaknesses Are Evident (The following is the first in a series of r articles dealing with the form of government before voters on July 28. This article deals with the role of the manager.) WEST VALLEY. If residents vote later this month to change forms of government, the chief executive officer in the city would be an appointed manager. Members of a special city committee which recommended that the council-managsystem be placed on the ballot as an alternative to the current commission form expressed mixed feelings about the fact the manager is appointed. On the one hand, the manager is trained professionally to run a city. For a city of West Valleys size, the manager most likely will have a college background in municipal management plus several years experience directing operations at a smaller city. On the other hand, the manager is not elected by the people and not directly accountable to them. The manager is answerable only to the r council elected by city residents. There is a good probability, also, that the manager will not be from the West Valley area. Advertisements for the managers position likely would be circulated naseven-membe- tionwide. In discussing the system with the special committee, the city manager in Orem noted that he was selected from among several hundred applicants for the posi- tion. As a result, the manager would not know the people of the city nor have a first-han- d understanding of the factors which prompted the cinco-porati- on. itys Residents probably would be less inclined to walk into the managers office and discuss city problems than they would with a mayor or commissioners who have lived for years in and ordinances are enforced, the area. But, government analysts point out, that lack of familiarity also has its advantages. The separation of the manager from the public generally makes the citys chief executive less susceptible to political pressure from special interest groups. The Orem official noted, however, that a successful manager cannot sit in the back room and be is appointed by a vote of the council ; a majority vote is required to remove a A manager two-thir- manager. The average life span of a city manager is 3.9 years, nearly the same as the term of an elected mayor, according to Dr. Doyle Buckwalter of BYU. As the citys legislative body, the council adopts a budget and establishes policy through ordinances. The manager insures that laws ex- ecutes the councils policies, manages the administrative affairs of the city, appoints a budget officer to assist in budget preparation and management and implements the budget ultimately adopted by the council. Department heads are appointed, suspended and removed by the manager with the consent of the council. The manager is expected to pardeliberaticipate in policy-making tions, suggesting alternative courses of action and recommending changes in policy for the coun- cil to adopt, if it so wishes. The manager does not have the authority to veto any decisions made by the council. Once a policy is adopted by the council, it is the managers responsibility to carry out the intent of the policy. Next week the role of the council by Jim Cornwell dian Ocean in southeastern Kearns area and ratified agreements with classified council-manage- The current protest has been filed by the school boards attorney, M. Byron Fisher, who charges that the plan is contrary to state law. If the County Commission, which has taken the matter under advisement, chooses to honor the county assessors request, the matter will likely be taken to court, the board was told Tuesday. School districts are by far the largest taxing entity and pay a sizeable amount to have the county handle tax collections. A spokesman for the district said that if the county were more timely in its delivery of money, there would be far less resentment among the taxing entities. He also said the board would be dumbfounded by the increase in the costs of collecting taxes. In other action Tuesday the board determined that there will be a Bacchus elementary in the Sold Everthing! r The ongoing battle between Granite School District and Salt Lake County regarding collection of taxes took a new turn here Tuesday night. The district served notice that it is protesting a county move to designate 28 of its employes as deputy county assessors. The cost of their salaries would then be included in what is charged the 40 taxing units in the county for the collection of taxes. The district has previously sued the county for what it terms slow delivery of tax money and the issue lies with the Utah Supreme swims. However, its not the assorted crocs, hippos and snakes that strike fear to his heart. Instead, its sharks which lurk in the ocean where he now and then goes for beach fun. That fear, though, pales to insignificance in Ts mind when he talks of the uncertain future of the southern portion of Africa. Most of it has eluded the clutches of Communism, but all is endangered. Reflecting the general feeling of the white minority there, T insists Russia is the guiding hand behind the insurrection which has taken place along the borders. The objective, its obvious, is a Communistic government of the future, a fate thats already befallen much of the dark continent. An eligible draftee, hell return to two years of military service, a portion of which will be spent in the border combat zone. The enemy there consists of natives - impassioned by Communistic propaganda and Cuban troops. They take a toll among the trained, but certainly not equally battle-ha- conscripts. Swazilands white population rdened only 2.1. An is overwhelming majority of the blacks are mem bers of the Swazi tribe, an offshoot of Bantus who were driven from their homeland further north by the aggressive Zulus in the early 1800s. While the influence of the USSR has brought much valuable African land under Communistic control, none of it has as much strategic importance as the extreme south countries. So all of them recognize theyll share a common destiny - good or bad. -- Despite its monarchist status, Swaziland is heavily influenced by its neighbors in the Republic of South Africa. Its printed news diet, T pointed out, comes from Pretoria and Durban and its radioTV input is largely from those cities and Johannesburg. T, a young man, is elated to see many Americans are more than a trifle concerned well-inform- about the course of events in his of Africa. Well we might be. What happens in that far-of- f land has much part bearing on our own country because South African, particularly, is rich in strategic minerals we can procure nowhere else in the free world. One prominent American industrialist has been quoted to wit: There isnt a major corporation in Pittsburgh that wouldnt be impacted if the supply of chrome, cobalt, platinum and manganese from southern Africa was cut off. But those four minerals are only a portion of our dependence. We look to foreign sources for more than half of our supply of 24 essential minerals. Which means that even though parts of our own country may be heavily endowed with mineral wealth, we can meet our own requirements in only eight of 32 we must have. A single example thats both and frightening is manganese. Sixty percent of the worlds known supplies are in Soviet Russia and South Africa. Obviously, if Communism even indirectly controls South Africas portion, the free world is going to be in deep trouble. So T worries about his own future and that of his country. And we, no matter what our feelings may be about South Africas subjugation of blacks, must recognize that Ts future and that of young Americans of comparable age are inextricably linked. Our country has opted not to use a favorite ploy of Russia -supplying weapons so that another country can fight for the cause we espouse. But in truth, we should be hoping the defense being mustered by the nations of southern Africa against the Communistic onslaught will succeed. thought-provokin- g y |