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Show Uk oo Riots Con topped (See Page 6) ififirttiritiriririririririririririririfiricicicfritititiririririririririririririritiritiricir if if if independent if The Dedicated Morality, and if ifififififjfjfjfjfjfifjfjfjfjfjfjfjfjfjfjfjfjfjfjfjfjf'Ajfjfjfjfjfjfifjfjfifjfjfjfjfjfjfififjf Volume No To 2, 3 Urban Renewal has become a fact for the citizens of Salt Lake City as the first general project got underway with is first hearing February 4, 1971. In spite of the voters of Salt Lake Gty turning urban renewal down by 6 to 1 the Utah Legislature, with a push from Max Rich and the Salt Lake Chamber of Commerce, struck down the vote of the people in the Special Session called by Governor Rampton beginning May 5, 1969. m (entitled Neighborhood Redevelopment In ' our previous edition we ported by IIB 53 which increases the Driver Education Tax. Both bills should be defeated. PUBLIC EDUCIIB 61 presented many bills currently at issue in the Utah Legislature. We will continue with some more bills with a quick analysis of each. Our standard of measurement will be whether the bill under consideration falls under the proper function of government. This list is by no m eans complete. It is merely representative. Remember to call or write your legislator or senator. The telephone number of the House of The Representatives is Your Senate number is influence counts. Use it! 328-517- - ATION PROFESSIONAL NEGOTIATIONS ACT (Forced unionization of teachers) (Halverson, Buckner and Bennett) This bill is being sold on the premise that it will stop the yearly hassle that goes on between school boards and teachers contracts. If this bill becomes law it will, in effect, unionize the teachers and set up an exclusive bargaining agent for them. All teachers will be represented by 1. this INCREASED APPROPRIATION FOR DRIVER EDUCATION (Hill) From $30 to $45 per student. This program and other non- academic or proshould The out. be phased grams non-vocation- al students taking the course get very little time in actual driving experience. If the same amount were spent at a private school the student would at least have had some driving experience. This increased expense is to be sup organiza- tions relative to educators yearly 328-570- 1. - February 25 1971 OA . As a result of that session 3 250 prise, the voters turned urban re- for May, 1969 and another bill newal down by 6 to 1 in Salt Lake (SB-3) containing the elimination 1 3 and Provo. in to For of the right of the citizens to vote by Gty renewal the time being, urban was on urban renewal was introduced iL by Senators Brockbank, Burton, Act) sponsored by Brockbank, Redevelopment AgencyJnfl) dead, In the 37th Legislature meeting and Evans. The persistance of this Burton, and Evans, was passed. begin an Urban4ened prdjety ih 1967, a bill sponsored by Rep. trio finally paid off as the Special That act was simply another without the peoplebeinglowed Session passed the measure. They J Urban Renewal law which to vote on it. JrJLeese Hunter was proposed to ) clianged the name of the act and took out the safeguard amendrepeal the urban renewal enabling called it the Neighborhood ReHISTORY ments which were put into the legislation altogether. This was development Act. Under a new URBAN RENEWAL House the original act. One of those amendof Reprepassed by name urban renewal was finally ments was the requirement that Urban Renewal first made its sentatives but turned down by instituted without a vote of the before a Redevelopment Agency appearance in Utah in 1965 when the Senate. Urban Renewal was people as its designers originally (Urban Renewal Agency) could the 36th Legislature passed the still on the books. GoverIn March, 1969 the 38th Legis- wanted in 1965. Without be set up it would have to be Utah Community Redeveloplature turned down SB 219 spon- nor Rampton calling for a special ment Act. Its proponents were approved by a vote of the people. sored by Senators Brockbank, session it is doubtful if this would This was completely left out of so eager to set up an urban re-Burton, and Evans which would have become law. Some have prithe Brockbank bill that was newal agency that they were able have removed the right of the eiti-t- o vately expressed the feeling that 1969 thus in election for a maneuver special opening passed May, zeng tQ voe on the way for the Salt Lake City Salt Lake City and Provo to vote Governor Rampton called a (Continued on Rige 4) as a itself surestablish issue. Commission to To their shocked on the Special Session of the legislature - Senate Bill Truth Salt Lake City, Utah 84106 ALT IIB 54 Constitution," Liberty, -- exclusive bargaining agent and the decision as to whom this bargaining agent will be is to be determined by a majority vote of all teachers. Therefore, like it or not, the teachers union will be contracting with the boards of education on all matters relating to employment conditions , relations, employer-employe- e and educational objectives and programs. Note that the union will be determining the educa-tion- objectives and programs. al This bill is dangerous to the freedom of the individual teacher since by law, the person who will negotiate his contract will be a representative of the teachers union whether he likes it or not. The bill will be detrimental to the local control of teachers contracts by local boards of educa tion. This bill, along with the Professional Practices Act IIB 173, poses a very serious threat to the individual teacher and to the education of our children as a whole. It is being pushed by a certain education association and is designed to gain more life and death power over the individual THE UTAH INDEPENDENT. P.O. Box 6274 Salt Lake City. Utah 84106 Serials Order Department of Utah Libraries University Salt Lake Clty9 Utah 84112 873 teacher in particular and over the public educational system in general. This is a most dangerous bill and its enactment into law would be a crime. We urge the legislators to vote against its passage. (Continued on Rige 4) Application to mail at 2nd class postal rates is pending at Salt Lake City, Utah 84101. |
