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Show THE LAW AND YOU Supervisory, Laboratory Services, starting salary, S759.00 per month, to be f illed by August Equipment Operator II, starting salary, Speech Therapist, salary range, (Beginning with this David (Sandy) Dolowitz, issue, Director of the Salt Lake County Legal Services office will offer legal advice and guidence to the consumer. Residents are welcome to send in questions or comments, however, we cannot promise each letter will be answered. An attempt will be made to reply to questions of a general nature and w.th the greatest interest to readers. Direct all correspondance to Editor, Model Neighborhood News, 157 E. Community Drive, Salt Lake City, Utah.) by Sandy Dolowitz "This machine is as good as new. guarantee it will last for three or four years and you won't have a bit of trouble with it. How many times have you heard this from a salesman but later, when something went wrong and you went back where you bought it to talk about it, he said that the I contract to purchase gave no warranty, no guaranty and that he had no responsibility to make it good. Whenever you buy something and sign a contract, always remember that what the contract says, in writing, is your agreement. It contains your full agreement and regardless of what a salesman has told you, if it is not in the contract, he is not going to be responsible, unless he wants to be. Before purchasing anything, what the salesman has told you must be included in the contract or it is not part of your agreement. Be sure to read the contract carefully, Anything that because it has beenmisrepresentedto you. If you have any questions about the contract, ask to be allowed to take it so that you may discuss it with someone or have a chance to read it and think about what it $627-83- 6 per month, 9th. two vacancies, no expiration date. per month, to be filled by August 18th. For information or application, visit Room 309, Salt Lake County Personnel Office, City and County Building, or call 328-7351- . Education Task Force Voices Concern Over Form in Letter To Director Dear Mr. Akeriow: We, the Education Task Force Members of the Salt Lake Model means. Cities Agencies, have been meeting This is very important because regularly each week since our most of the contracts you will be organization on March 9, 1971. asked to sign are verv long with a During that time we have great deal of small print. Even a enthusiastically worked together in lawyer will have to take time to read the identification and analysis of it and think about it before he will be numerous educational problems. We able to understand it. You must be were in the process of forming our certain when you read it that goals when, on July 7th, an everything you have been told is part announcement was made which of the contract. If you have been almost disrupted the future of our told something that is not included Task Force. It is by means of this and you feel it is important to your letter that we are communicaung decision to buy, ask the salesman to our feelings and concerns to the City include it in the contract. If he will and County Commissioners and to not do it, is a good sign that he does the staff members of Model Cities. not intend to live up to what he has We have great concern about told you. Then you should go to this matter and this concern is another place to purchase what you creating suspicion between the Task want. Force, Model Cities staff, City Remember, that the salesman Commission and State officials. This knows more about both business and suspicion may eventually lead to law than you do. You must protect apathy on the part of the citizens. very small print is usually in very small print to discourage you from reading it. Take the time to read and to ask about it. yourself, he won't. When looking at Therefore, we urge the commission If you ask what it means and the a contact that the salesman gives to actively try to rectify the salesman explains it means you, remember that his lawyer problems created. something that it does not mean, prepared it to protect him, not you. The announcement which we then you do have a right to make If you have any questions about the are discussing was made on them live up to the agreement contract, do not sign it. Wednesday, July 7, 1971. A is in 5 $490-56- 1 representative from Model Cities told us that our process had been and that the Federal Bureau of the Budget had issued a circular designated as "Form A 95, which was concerned with the coordination between all agencies. We were then told that we should move our time schedule forward by sixty days and that our plans would have to be reviewed by the Salt Lake County Council of Governments, the Wasatch Front Council of Government, and the Utah State Planning Coordinator. This kind of announcement makes us wonder what our function is. We are diligentlv trying to meet this deadline, but we earnestly feel that our impact has been minimized We would like to call attention to an article circulated by Mr. Akeriow on May 1, 1971 to all Task Force Members. This article was taken from the Denver Law Journal and changed, 5 A-- 9 resources to linking the disadvantaged into the regular institutional channels. We believe that our deliberations and concerns should be reviewd by the Model Cities Agency and the City and County Commission. These agencies alone are the established governmental agencies which should be concerned with local problems. We do tealize that the existing political structure, since it has been imposed, must be lecognized. However, we urgently request that any decisions made by any of these oi gan izations and agencies be referied back to the Task Foices concerned foi final consideration. If this is not done, then we feel that our iiar tic pat ion as citizens is of little oi no value. We hone it will not be necessary was "Resident for residents on the Education Task Participation: The Cities Force to combine with the residents Perspective. Among the numerous on the other eight Task Forces and ideas given in the article about make our reports directlv to the citizen participation, the following is Office of Housing and Urban stated: Development in Washington, D. C. The Model Cities concept is Respectfully yours, Alberta Henry, founded upon the belief that the Member of the Education Task basic political processes are the right ones to develop and that the federal Force Salt Lake Model Cities Agency government should devote its i entitled, What is the Difference Between Model Cities and Urban Renewal? The Model Cities program is a department of city government Publication of the Model which is committed to involving the Neighborhood News is made citizens and professionals together in possible through a grant from the planning for a better city. This Department of Housing and Urban planning includes the strategic use of Development. local, state and federal resources to meet local problems. It includes Marlene M. Young, tditor devising the best way that modern Joint Board of Commissioners city government can meet its many problems in its social and physical E. J. Garn James L. Barker, Jr., Chairman environment. By doing this kind of Phillip R. Blomquist Ralph Y. McClure planning, the City is able to obtain William E. Dunn George B. Catmull Charles W. Akeriow, Director additional federal funds, called The Model Neighborhood News is a publication of the Salt Lake Model Cities Agency under the supervision of the Joint Board of City and County Commissioners with editorial offices located at 157 East Community Drive, Salt Lake City, Utah 84115 Both the Model Cities program supplemental Model Cities funds, which help to meet those probiems. and Urban Renewal piojects are Once plans are devised, various aimed at improving the quality of programs are developed to meet life of the residents of the area. Both specific needs. Other City require that the citizens in the area or private be involved in .he planning and agencies actually operate the various carrying out of t!:e programs. Both programs. If they receive require a sound realistic relocation supplemental funds, they must be plan for persons displaced by any responsive to evaluation by the project. Both require a good deal Model Cities Department and the of planning prior to going into citizens involved in the original action. Both use federal funds planning. Urban Renewal is one of combined with local cash or these many programs, It is operated contributions. Thus, both are by another city department but subject to federal guidelines and subject to evaluation by the Model regulations. The final authority for Cities Department and citizen both programs at the local level is the committees and Councils. City Commission. Departments, public d |
