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Show neighborhood Page 6 group into the picture. The comprehensive program would make communication Revenue Sharing Increases Local between these groups possible. Bingham thinks if one force knows what the other is after, planning and coordination is a lot easier. Within the city government itself, communication between the departments Responsibility coordinated is better because of the program. With internal operations more closely attuned, Bingham says the approach to external affairs by Tim Funk is greatly simplified. City government has traditionally been responsible for delivering fundamental public services - water and sewage police and fire treatment, protection, street maintenance to local citizens. And while there a re exceptions, delivery of public welfare and health services has -- been more the function of county and state governments. With the advent of general revenue sharing and the growing possibility that special revene sharing will soon be a reality, the role of city government providing social services in is expanding. Revenue sharing funds are given directly to city, county and state governments. How the money is spent is a local responsibility. Salt Lake City received its first general revenue sharing check for over $1 million two weeks ago. That money and the general revenue funds to follow are almost certainly earmarked for existing city commitments. The phasing out of federal social service grant programs which has accompanied the adoption of the revenue sharing approach to funding has left the cities, and Salt Lake is no exception, with the task of supplying social services for needs that truly exist. This in turn has placed emphasis on special revenue sharing. If passed by Congress in its present form, special revenue sharing would provide money for urban community development, education, manpower training, and law enforcement. Here is where money for the vacated Federal programs is being sought by the cities. As with general revenue sharing how these anticipated funds are spent is up to local government. This puts the city in the social services business like it never was before. Now the city must decide what the policy and spending priorities will be. With new power comes new responsibility and Salt Lake City's mayor and commissioners face the task of planning for what happens once existing Federal programs end. Add to that new responsibility the fact that special revenue sharing guidelines, although very general, require increased citizens participation. Local people must share at least an advisory capacity in determining how funds will be spent. Citizen participation has been a large factor in the Federal programs facing extinction with the Model Cities Neighborhood councils and CAP Neighborhood boards being the most obvious examples. Under the revenue sharing concept it is intended that citizens participation will be broadened and interested citizens from the entire community will be heard as well as the existing citizens groups. Salt Lake City government is thus faced with expanding its scope of responsibility and assuring citizens a more active policy-makinrole at the same time. The city has been making efforts to bring this about. A "Comprehensive Community Development Program is being designed which will hopefully integrate the workings of city government more closely with the expressed needs and desires of g the people. Jeff Bingham, administrative assistant to Mayor E. J. Jake Garn, has been working on the Comprehensive Community Development Program. Bingham explains that Forming the core of the is a program team composed of assistants to each of the commissioners and the mayor, members of the city plannning commission and city financial and legal advisors. This core group will meet on a regular basis and discuss the problems before the city government. They will recommend to the mayor and commissioners what they think the policy and priority of city government should be. Of course the city fathers can use these recommendations as they see fit. Feeding into this core group will be the many voices of the addressing the overall needs of the people because the city has not met that role before. But he adds, many of the problems the city deals with are "inter-related- " with those being handled by interests, both public and private, which are outside the city government. What the comprehensive program aims to do, says to coordinate city planning with the planning of these other groups sharing the same problems. Bingham, is He gives as a hypothetical example the problems faced in locating a new hospital within the city. The hospital planners must discuss with the city zoning, sewer and water lines, traffic the facility will generate; health care needs for the community make the hospital location the concern of the regional health planning agency, putting the hospital in a residential area can bring a Shut-i- n Wants To Make. New Elizabeth Anderson Friends by Elizabeth Anderson or a phone call now and then, to brighten our lives. spend time looking over the same things for months on end. The only bright spot in my life is the Holy Bible and the faith I have in God. Come on, people, and life a little try to make a shut-in'- s more cheerful with a little bit of your time. (Ed. Note: We hesitate to include Elizabeth's address with this article, but if you will mail cards or letters to the Neighborhood News, 383 East 1 700 South, Salt Lake City, Utah I This is a short story of my life, one who has been a shut-ifor twenty-siyears, due to misfortune. The public does not understand the heart-ach- e and the long, lonesome hours that a Shut-ispends by their own n x n selves. To be forgotten by people while you sit back and see what pleasures others can have and you can't. It leaves a shut-i- so alone it is pitiful. Why can't there be cheerful little cards sent by mail n 84115, we will see that she immediately receives them.) community. Planning agencies, groups. Federal programs, special interests and so on will besought out and listened to. Their input will be taken and used by the core group in building its plans and recommendations. A special "social program neighborhood coordinator" to act as liason between social service interests and the central planning group will soon be hired. A planning process is being built says Bingham which can include all the people. He cautions though that such a process takes time to build and city government is just starting to fill its new role in the delivery of social services. many of the services the city offers now are not really A What to do if you cannot meet a payment? There may be a time when it seems impossible to meet a scheduled payment on a credit account. With difficult to meet. Just as possible, a temporary postponement of payment or reduction in the size of the payment may tide us over. In a real emergency there are intelligent courses open to us and, on the other hand, there are very unwise things we can do, as well. 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