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Show 2I.V Wcdnesdav, Januarv Salt Lake Inbum1, 1 he AT&T Cmlit Ollier I'limmd I'Mi 11. K ; "s.' Murray Beams Over New Center . X- Beyond the Jobs It may provide lor residents, the building will, of course add to the local commercial proper ty tax base Additional revenue is ex peeled from higher small business those of restaurants, bank of sales ficcs. gas stations - as traffic in creases in the area eetiltr will handle h million husine" and i evident lal a counts for Wesit rn staler 'I hough the (inter is expiated to The 1 1 m 'idkx p iW V V . ri; - m , 4 credit-manageme- J. . I c J "'X V ? C i lust week s announcement that Ftah Triad and American Telephone and Telegraph will build a $6 million recenter off gional Interstate 15 near 5500 South Mayor Lavar C. McMillan said he "considers AT&T a very prestigious company and will be very proud to have them a part of the community " The Murray site was selected over larger areas in Los Angeles and San Francisco. , W-- ' !&r' f . struction of a $6 million management center off of Interstate 15 near 5300 South. Murray City officials are looking forwardto Utah Triad and AT&Ts planned con- employ roughly 700 clerical workers by 1000. at this editions deadline it had not been determined how many of those jobs would go to ftah citizens The "It s something that s good for Murray, its good for jobs," said Ron Gregory, assistant city planner "Just having the traffic going " through the area improves business company rerentlv laid off workers, and the Communication Workers of America, which represents most of those former employees, said it will attempt to gain the Murray center jobs for its members. 24.000 The building 91,500-square-fo- will be built at 5245 College Drive, an area already zoned for professional offices The facility will be built by Triad, then sold to AT&T However, AT&T officials said they expect a substantial number of the positions to be given to ftah residents More Citizen Participation Is Goal of Murray Mayor herding cattle while attending Spec lal to The Tribune Ml KRAY - Kven though Lavar Millan has had almost two months to get used to the idea, he often sits b hind his desk in the mayor's office and wonders if it is true One year ago, the lifelong Mill ray resident was contemplating what he was going to do when he retired as director of research for lntermoun-taiMilk Producers, after more than 25 years Today, he is working on i easing the efficiency of the city's woi k force to keep up with 30. DUO resMe n m-e- idents' expectations without raising taxes. The idea of running for mayor of this city in the heart of the Salt Lake Willey didn't come about until after he attended a meeting with city officials and area residents on Prows-woodStillwater apartment project, Dairy. Because going in near the company had already put $2.5 million into an expansion of the plant, (he company was opposed to a residential project with such a high density After attending the meeting, in which he presented the. company's opposition. "I fell my speech loll on deaf tars," he said "They didn't listen to the people." Discussing that with workers at the plant, they convinced Mr. McMillan he should challenge incumbent Mayor LaRell D. Muir. With the support of his family, neighbors and friends, he put off retirement and won the job. Mr. McMillan was born in Murray in 1921, the only son of three children of Newell Dean and Phoebe Irene 's Ok McMillan His hnulx in the Murray School system. He graduated from Liberty Elemei. tary and the old Murray High School before packing a suitcase nd hitchhiking his way to Logan to attend sc f great-grandfath- arrived in the Great Salt Lake Valley three days before Brigham Young and the mam body of the Mormon pioneers and had already plowed and planted a wheat crop before they arrived. The Cottonwood Hospital and McMillan Elementary now sit on portions of the family farm. He grew up on the farm, thinning beets, hauling hay, milking cows and 'tali State I ollege in 1959. While at I 'tali S.ate, he me' and began dating Ruby Richards, a West Jordan native1 They were married Feb 11,1943 The couple has five children Carol Rack, Dr. Glen McMillan Ronald, Bryce, and Dale; and 14 grandchildren In April, 1939, his ROTC unit was activated and Mr. McMillan became an officer w ith the 45th Infantry Diviinsion. whore he survived the vasion of Normandy and served until the end of the World War II in Europe. In 194H. he returned to Utah State and finished school. I Once out of school, he began working for Ernest Ekins, who owned a small dairy in Ogden. He eventually bought into the business and continued to oversee its operations until it was sold to Dairy in 1960. He and was assigned to joined their plant in Murray. His father tried to dissuade his son from running for public office, because hed make too many enemies," but Mr. McMillan "couldn't see four more years of the current admims tration, which wasn't listening to the d d citizens. Mayor McMillan is planning on implementing his plans and ideas during the next four years. He feels city government is not unlike business. "We will work to restructure some of the citys departments and increase the efficiency of the departments and accomplish the goals we have set for ourselves." Faced with the possibility of losing several hundred thousands of dollars in in federal revenue grants, the mayor is urging some department heads to look at a 10 percent decrease in their budgets while still maintaining the quality of services. To help that along. Mayor McMil- - Lavar McMillan, a lifelong Murray resident, sits happily behind his desk while assuming his new mayoral position. Ian has coined a slogan Broaden Your Vision It Can Be Done, and asked city employees to have faith in the system. He has asked the department heads to put a hold on any firings and hirings while he reviews the citys operations for the first 90 days of his administration. Admitting not everyone is as optimistic as he, the mayor said Those that dont want to cooperate, we will have to take a look at " He said he is really going to try not to increase the property tax," and would like to decrease it by the one null it was increased last year. One difference, he pledged, is we ll have a lot more citizen mvolve-nun- t than the past administration. The main issue during last fall's Editorial election was the city's building poli- cy. Voters ousted the mayor and one councilwoman who had been in office while several controversial building projects were approved. He said he is not as worried about the city's future residents as the past administration. We need to look at what do the people want, and care for thoe who are already here." He has already taken steps to drop the city's appeal of a successful court suit challenging its controversial master plan, filed by a citizen's It makes no sense that "islands of unincorporated lands are left in incorporated cities. They look just like surrounding city neighborhoods and require exactly the same services as people surrounding them But because they're not within the boundaries of the municipality, convoluted and often expensive methods must be found to provide the basic city services required by these suburban residents. the middle of This is the situation in Sandy There are about a dozen islands of unincorporated land in the middle of this sprawling community that pay no city taxes and, unless special arrangements are made, receive no services from Sandy City Because these islanders are disthe nearest Salt Lake County fire stations and have Sandy City fire stations in the neighborhood, the county has paid Sandy City $250,000 a year for the past three years to provide emergency fire service for those county residents. tant from Faced with a tight budget, the county decided this year to eliminate the payments to Sandy, forcing the city on Feb 1 to stop responding to fires in the islands. Rather than receiving service from a fire station near their homes, residents of these unincorporated islands will have to rely on county fire stations located several miles away. Those extra miles could mean the difference between an inconsequential fire and a disas- ter. Although it places the islanders at risk, county commissioners made the right choice by ending the payments to Sandy. It forces the residents of the unincorporated area to take a realistic look at their position. If they want prompt fire protection and other high quality municipal services, they should annex into Sandy City. If they want to continue avoiding city taxes, they can stay in the county and accept a lower level of service. The overlapping layers of government services in Salt Lake County are already confusing and inefficient enough. Annexing these islands into Sandy City would be a small, but definite step toward ending the disorder to recoup the money to restore the group. "We need to get the master plan back and complete all the phases of the master plan, he said. During his inauguration, the new crowd it was mayor told a spill-ov- i their city and he wanted them to become involved in it. In support of that, he said the administration will organize community councils and "hopefully have better communication between citizens and city government. The mayor said he wants the city to continue to grow economically, culturally and socially. Re also urged the citizens to be involved with city decisions and plans many projects with citizen involvement. "I have a great group of people to work with in the City Council," he said, who are knowledgeable of what the city needs and what the residents want. He expects a relationship of cooperation with the City Council. Because of his business background, Mayor McMillan is concerned about the citys employment picture. 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