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Show Mayoral candidates Evan Vickers (right) and Jerry Sherratt present t heir campaign platforms to a group of SUUans yesterday afternoon at an open forum discussion among those on campus and six seeking office. The Center for Polit ics and Public Service sponsored the open forum to help educate voters for the coming Nov. 8 c ity elections. - Candidates discuss issues at SUU forum With city elections coming up on Nov. 6, city office candidates discuss issues with S~Uans in f orum here BY STACEE YOUNG OF THE JOURNAL STAFF Candidate for Cedar City mayor and city council m t yesterday in an open forum to discuss issues of public concern. Candidat were given a chance to introduce l'hemselve and tell the audience about their platforms. Th audience was then invited to .l;Sk the candidates que tions about issues the city faces. Issues discussed by the candidates indud d bringing jobs to edar City building m re park and recreatio n facilities , increa! ing tourism , the Library bond, affordable housing and unifying the community to strengthen th city. One is u candidates addressed to the crowd° of m 30 atteode was where council, said finding a way to make job opportunities are coming from in industries want to tay. · a challenge. He Cedar City. emphasized the n ed Gerald R. "Jerry" to find a way to herratt, a candidate Issues discussl!d IJ_J' the support companies for mayor, said that ca ndic/11/es i11cf11detl · that are already bere . in the past three yt;arS, 7 11 people Joe Burgess and {1ri11giJ1gjul;s tu Cedar lost jobs because City. f;u ifdi11p, 1nore j){f rf..,s D ale Brinkerhoff, c.andidates for city ind tri left town. mid recn:atio11 facilities. · council, said Cedar "Cedar City.is relatively poor," City also needs to i11creasi11g f()11ris111. Ille attract companies to Sherratt said. lihnny /)(Jllr/. ttf(ordal>le the city. "Fifteen percent of /u,usil1p, and t(l1Ui •ing tile "We need to invite Cedar City re ideots businesse to Cedar are below the con1111u11i/J ' lu slr<'11°tl1e11 . ...... City," Brinkerhoff poverty line, and the city. said. another 15 percent is Evan Vickers, just above the another candidate for mayor, compared poverty line. That means one-third of the population is struggling to make jt." havi ng job to haring blood. He rud that job , like blood, keep people alive. Kip Hansen, a candidat for city "We n d to take care of what w have, Vickers aid , referring to companie that already exist in Cedar City. Sherratt also emphasized th.e need for employment opportunities for students. Another issu candidates confronted is that of a new city library. Candidate spoke ofthcir support for the bond and a Ut ·w here the i:J.ew library would be located. The library's location · till under debate. One po ibility is to tear down tb current library and build a new one. Another location under consideration · a lot on 100 East, near the city park . Raymond Green a candidate for city cowicil, aid the present location is "no g<;><><t." h rratt aid , however, that the ft (continued on page 3) |