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Show A3 Wage Mikes? OK After All January 20, 1964 REVIEW, (Continued from page 1) DOUBLE TimH Some Comments On TtuWeek's Headlines (. by Jim Baldwin When E. R7 Cox and Associates last week told the Salt Lake City Commission that the firm could build a program that would save city taxpayers $500,000 per year WITHOUT DEPLETION OF SERVICES, you could hear the petals falling from the nearest flower fund. In Emphasizing that the personnel committee would in no way replace the. present Civil Service Commission, which controls Civil Service Rules and Regulations, Mr. Cox suggested that the committee it seemed, no one really wanted to scrape up half a million dollars from where it would have to come....no one, that is, until a new political voice was raised abovy the din of the tradition J .V of politics, city, al. It, was suggested that the automobile - paindesigned by hundreds of Detroit engineers, costing about $3000, finished in luxurious plastic, and sporting the crushing power of over 200 horses, soars along a 65 mile per hour speedAn stakingly Did we adopt that one? asked Mayor Lee, who was one of those who could have adopted it. Nope! someone replied; and youd have thought thatd settle the matter for the majority of those present. Then Commissioner Catmull got defensive about an assumed threat that' Mr. Cox was trying to get rid of some of Georges snow shovelers. It was a poor try. Someone again tried to change the subject.. ..Mayor Lee this time getting in a word about adopting salary increases now; then getting to work to see where the money is coming from. Again Jim Barker showed what a rank political neVcomer he really is. Imagine the reaction when Wouldnt it be better to find where Jim asked: the moneys coming from, then put the money into way. conducted by the alert mind of a human male, muscle of mind conon how he centrating failed to sink a putt two hours before on the 18th hole with $25 at stake . strain-ing;eve- A new card game became a fad, meanwhile, amongst m He may have been concen- trating on plans to ask his boss for a raise that morning, 6r he may have been disturbed at himself for having talked too much at a party the night before, which after all came from a feeling of social inadequacy dating back to the first grade. do new Just in case Mayor Lee is all wrapped up in his own political problems and the perpetuation of his own political image; if hell look real close, hell see in Jim Barker a man who obviously has learned a tot fromthe old master from Carbon County.... " , Because the public seldom takes an interest in meetings of its governing bodies, you all missed it when John, Marv and Bill smiled happily at each other three days running. The real clue to 1966 as an election year, with the Democrats beginning to fret about it, was in the way Bill and Marv let John talk, explain his program; make good, solid legal suggestions.. .and they agreed with him right down the line. They even voted approval of one of Johns letters. They let him make a motion and they adopted it without waiting for a second. Bill turned year. Incidentally.... saw Congressman Dave King chatting intently with Melba Coon, Marvs politically astute administrative assistant. Could Dave be acting as peacemaker at home after his experience in Viet Nam? If the commissioners can keep it up for eleven months, this is goin to be some year. And, with Bill and John seeking renewal in office, they could agree term; they could amicably qn wholl get the four-ye- ar even agree to switch the vote balance oo commission . matters. week: the boss ask me every How come the Salt Lake Legal Defender to represent the poor, sets itself up in gettin tired of havin Assn-establish- a nice carpeted, where the poor never get? glass-encas- r ed ed including a few score of a physicaL or emotional disturbance. What contributed to the driver attitude of the individual motorist? How does it contribute to driving error? PhD's and several traffic court judges from across the nation,-werreminded that the causes of accidents as shown on accident reports, while satisfactory for enforcement purposes, do not show the basic cause of the unsatisfactory behavior." e should not speed, judgment fail? In an analysis of the nature of the problem driver, the con- ferCes and Judge Jones were asked to consider some suga basis for gestions as development of a driver improvement program. .As causes of accidents, there were listed five suggestions: The driver ed office in a buildings I dont know. But its a good question. The right answer could make the SLLDA budget go a lot farther. John Florez, over at Central City Community Action Center, 443 East 8th South, well bet, could find the .agency and gang a couple of drafty dens . on east and west sides at less than the cost of one; real cheap, rundown places where the indigent can feel more at home. , on-c- all ck time and retirement many instances, in ployes. different titles and descrip- tions were used by different icy. , departments for similar jobs. The job would require that Descriptions being used, the Cox study continued, were the director process all employes hired into non-cilengthy and very detailed; too He cumbersome to enable them service departments. would assist departments in to be kept current. Apart recruitment and selection of from being unnecessary, it was pointed out, the number personnel. Mr. Cox suggested that the of different descriptions for personnel director conduct a similar jobs led, in some wage survey every three years cases; to different pay scales to classify certain positions for the same type of work. where evidence indicates the community rates for those As part of its assignment, positions have increased by the Cox firm set up a job title 5 above the current rates. system which would reflect director more accurately the nature of The personnel would function 4s a civil serthe work assigned. The new vice coordinator, assist city system also would make future Good for - nothing departments in preparation of classification, simpler, contables of organization; service sistent and less expensive to corner goes requests for reclassification: maintain. review promotion and duty' The firm also consolidated to work with changes; maintain accurate the 402 job titles into only 194 job descriptions and perpettitles, giving brief descripuate wage and salary adminisMODERHFOLDS tions and job qualification retnfe tration for city as a whole. quirements for each. It deMr. Cox and Associates veloped a new salary plan, new folding door presented to the city a detailwhich is better suited to the ed and comprehensive proneeds of the city. It abandonee posal for reclassification of the point system of positions and a description of job classification as lacking each position of every employe objectivity, and providing opnow oo the city payroll. portunity for disagreement, Adoption of the study, the argument, distortion and favInstalling Agents Cox grbup concluded, would oritism for certain jobs. bring city positions into line EM 960 So. Main with community wage rates. It would provide longevity wage increases for non --civil service positions and civil service supervisory positions to. maintain salaries in line without pressure from re5 WJm classification and constant reQssHDGB' adjustment. The proposal places both Sold through all The results of 40 Civil Service and non-ciFuneral Directors years of research. service on a single pay plan and Cemeteries - conceived to halt the traditional leapfrogging of one side over the other. .The plan, Mr. Cox reported, is so flexible as to meet city needs for many years; leaving room for addition of a 20 --year step and addition of classes. The program wouldhave profuture maintainance per through the Central Personnel office. The study, meanwhile, cited significant information which influenced the firm while it made the study. ' It was observed, for example, that of 110 American cities having a population of 100,000 to 500,000, Salt Lake City was one of only 12 remaining under the commission form of government. The remaining 98 cities have either a strong mayor system or the council -- nfafiager form of gbv- emmenW'w ;&uy Jhe study Tevealed that at 700 mrlX Nm OPIN BAILT 700 UW-S4-S pm-ZA- T. present Salt Lake City has 402 separate job titles and Phone 344-646- 6 202 WEST 3rd SOUTH descriptions for some 900 em- pol- vil ed ( safe-drivi- . shift work differtime, call-ba- nrarara nnrnm driving, as in other phases of socail development, by his success in growing up in a friendly- - or a hostile world. He is influenced by his actual knowledge of the gamut of practices; by his personal attitudes toward his friends or society. did good entials; ALDER'S The driver reacts to his concept of the kind of person he really is. Judge Jones reported. He is influenced in The citation tells us that failure to stop at a stop sign or speeding occurred and led to an accident. But, why did it happen? Why, when the driver knows that he should stop at stop signs and that he r employes; out-dat- mm vil maybe influenc- ed by the attitudes Of the person who taught him to drive; the general attitudes of the entire community: do local people, generally, drive legally and safely? He may respond to his idea about policemen; he will respond to his perception of traffic officers as professionally trained, individuals, or the opposites. ed First, lack of knowledge. Observations and tests of even The conferees, Judge Jones experienced drivers made it reported, were told of areas clear that many drivers lack of apparent inadequacies The real causes of accidents are as mysterious to information critical Unsafe which may exist in traffic enenforcement officials as driving. Drivers failed to forcement in a given com. law the significance of stopmunity; inadequacies which they are to judges who decide grasp distances at various may apply', to a degree, to ping imand and innocence guilt the conferees were inall police officials, to judges pose sentences, but some of speeds, and to the licensing authority. those judges and officials are formed. Loss of steering con trol of improperuse because to out. find trying 'as toted,--) Kaiowx ja devetoproentof localen- q( hjdpplaniogML w 9iifpr?gnwBLdPCPgrBis,i judge --T- he courts havelowered-theboom. Fines, jail sentences, road - surface, overdriving of o,:were,;urgedi0keep in, mini distance and traction several points including: sightprobation, traffic schools, esvariations were among areas says, embarrassing moments, of driver 1. ignorance. The sole purpose of ...all have been used to prove traffic law enforcement at any to the motorist that hed betSecond, lack of attention. level is safe and efficient ter not do it agaih. Tests revealed accidents traffic movement; caused by reactions to actiAnd yet the accidents invities within a vehicle; being 2. Enforcement not related crease. absorbed in thought; and disto this sole purpose is usetraffic violation tractions from illness, tiredLocally, less and may develop negahas become a multimillion ness, use of drugs and altive attitudes in all drivers; dollar business in fines and cohol. forfeitures. 3. Any individual assigned to the task of traffic safety perThird, inadequate improvement needs special Although no sudden change ception. Different drivers, it training for the job; the asin procedures pr attitudes can was observed, differrespond signment does not make hirft be expected; just as being ently to the same hazard stiman expert; sick (alcoholism) is still a uli, including an animal in the crime punished by a criminal road, construction crews, 4. Years of experience do record and penal servitude, it children, fog, wet pavement, not qualify an individual as appears possible that there and irregular traffic patterns expert; may be some reason why calling for increased control violate" traffic laws. people of the vehicle. 5. Improper sign instalAnd it may be something other lation (25 m.p.h. where 35 is than simple contempt for the Fourth, reduction of physisafe) will produce violators law. cal or mental capacity. without involving safety; 6. Stop signs at intersecFifth, projection of undesSalt Lake City Judge irable tions better controlled by yield The traits. personality Maurice D. Jones, who remost important factor in cause signs will produce violations cently represented Utah Trafunrelated to safety; fic Court justice at a driver of accidents. Judge Jones learned. 7. And, means of obtainschooLconfer-ence improvement ing effective enforcement, at Kellogg Center, Michother Jhan at the scene of an It is impossible to generigan State University, was one must be developed accident, of scores of interested peralize about drivers, the prefor such violations and pracsons who was faced with conconference study showed. sideration of something beare not, generally tices as following too closePeople ly; driving too fast for existthe simple question: yond good drivers or bad drivers. What ing conditions; failure to yield the of causes from a in fit scale one They are; of way, and overdriving accidents? 'extreme, to the other. And, if right distance. we eliminate the 10 per cent sight The new questions faced by who are speeders and the 10 fu3ge Jones, noting that considerable study would be Judge Jones and others: why per cent who are creepers, does the driver act in an unwhile accident totals will required to effectively apply satisfactory manner? What sharpl;y diminish, they would all of the conference recommendations locally, added tiaT knowledge does he lack? What, v continue to occur, involving errors by the better drivers, he will expand the present qity produces unsatisfactory attitudes toward driving? How can who are unaware of the erTraffic Court education proW6 change these attitudes and rors they make. The good gram to envelop at least a educate him? driver may become, for the portion of the conference moment, a bad driver because Judge Jones and the others. J j The Review is thinking, of awarding a triple-Osc- ar to Marv Jenson, Bill Larson and John Preston Creer (who should have a nickname) (or the performance of the week at three consecutive sessions of the County Commission last week. Pm city-own- t- The police come - the man goes to court - but obviously doesn't divulge the real reason that accident occured. scores of the local intelligentia. If you watched real careful, you could catch the smart ones.... politicians, policemen, deputy sheriffs, radio and newspaper percommon folk sonalities (me, too) and some V rifflin through their wallets. The game requires that you shuffle through the deck of cards issued as membership status in clubs where likker is popular. You divide the cards into two stacks. In one stack you put those for clubs in the county and restore them to your wallet. In the other stack, those for clubs in the city. You beton which of the city clubs will be the first to resist Jim Barkers imangerr ry He imagines himself actually sinking that putt!, and turns deftly into the next lane Blam! wage increases? You could see that Jim Barker had a. one-tra- ck mind. He couldnt derail from the one idea of half a million bucks that could all but handle the cost of the proposed wage boosts. well-to-- areas-Overtim- . t up with a similar suggestion. ' aL Traffic Accidents: Do We Close The Barn Door After The Horseless Carriage Goes? ""T Jim Barker, who obviously doesnt give a hoot If hes ever elected again, made it clear to the audience (press, Mr. Cox and the commission) that if theres some way the city can save half a million dollars, rd like tq see his (Mr. Cox) proposal. They tried real hard to sidestep that landmine; someone even recalled that a couple of years back, Fred M. Oliver, fiscal consultant for the city, came politics-as-usu- ay matters. . director be employed at a salary of $700 or $725, depending upon qualifications. (Every recommendation clearly indicates the intent of the study group that the director be someone educated and experienced for a fully professional performance. Ed. note) The Cox study outlined the chore that would Immediately face a personnel expert, including making a thorough review of the citys present per sonnel practices, covering these e; city - owned houses assigned to employes; cars assigned to meet every month with the personnel director and assist him in preparing recommendations to the City Commission on wage and salary or personnel policy changes. The Cox study noted that the present wage and salary classification committee, although helpful, cannot provide the objectivity required for this advisory function. The personnel director, the study observed, will undoubtedly be under more pressure from different employe groups than any other position in the patronage position. The director, if the city sees fit to adopt th proposals in fulif would be supported by a citizens personnel advisory committee of perhaps five persons to serve on a permanent basis. The committee would work with the personnel director qn wage and salary administration, personnel policies and other personnel top-p- Notv NOT Fellows, (Continued from page at THE VILLAGE HAIRPIN A 8) There was never a And, limit placed on the construe tion of the addition by you or the county commission. 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