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Show The Utah Enterprise Review , February 9, 1977 Page 4b FREE PICKUP City Slaps Moratorium on Visual Pollution 90-da- y City commissioners have imposed a moratorium on issuing new billboard permits. The action W2s taken after planning commission member I.J. Wagner complained that the present sign ordinance allows proliferation, and the result has been visual pollution. , The government has to step in and start making regulations because businesses dont police their own industry, Wagner & DELIVERY Paper Banners Screen Process Graphic Design Magnetics & Decals Convention Signage Machine Showcards told the Review. moratorium, he said. Salt Lake City will conduct a study of height and spacing requirements, and review the During the 90-da- y 2365 So. Main entire subject of billboards. In Sandy City a proposed ordinance regulating billboards has taken effect while city council members study possible changes. Salt Lake County is currently drafting an ordinance regulating billboard permits. Local Clipping Bureau Opens Rocky Mountain Clipping Bureau, a newly incor- porated company, will pro- vide the business community quick and inexpensive ways to keep abreast of their industry. According to Dell Nichols, president for the On the Hill Time Demands Befuddle Legislators byJerraJdD. Cortder When the 1975 General Session of the Utah Legislature concluded, 807 bills had been introduced. During that session more than 200 bills died a very quick death during the last week by having their enacting clause striken. (sounds serious). In the budget session for 1976, which is limited to 20 calandar days, the budget was approved at one minute until midnight on the last calandar day. The budget session by constitutional mandate is limited to the consideration of appropriations bills unless a joint resolution passes both houses to allow the consideration on matters. As you might expect, a good deal of budget session time is taken up with debates as to whether or not items should be considered. More than 50 bills died during the last night of the budget session by removal of the enacting clause. Before the gavel struck to commence the 1977 General Session, more than 600 bills had been prepared in the Office of the Legislative General Counsel. As of this writing, the total is now very close to 1100. The eight legislative office staff are tired. The mood is depressed. attorneys and Their constituents are angry for the same reason. The staff in the Legislative Fiscal Analysts Office is dragging for they, like the other legislative offices, have been working six and seven-da- y weeks since prior to the session in an attempt (unsuccessful) not to be inundated with legislation. The depressed mood on the hill does not exist because there is a lot of work to do. It exists because the staff knows that 60 to 70 of the new matters which are now being introduced andor prepared will not be considered because of lack of legislative time. The state is growing and because of this growth, the demand on the legislature has also increased. It is not humanly possible for a legislator to thoughtfully consider 1 100 bills in the time he now has. Representative Roger Rawson has introduced H.J.R. 4 which addresses itself to the problem of legislative time. He thinks, and I agree, that something must be done. Because the legislature meets, as set forth in the Utah Constitution, Rawson s resolution proposes to amend the Constitution to establish annual 45 working-da- y legislative sessions. If the resolution receives a vote of the membership of both houses, the voters will have the final say. The reasons for extending the duration of the legislature are, I hope, obvious. The reasons folks are opposed are perhaps not so obvious, but they are not necessarily unreasonable. Many people are concerned that such a e proposal is the first step in creating a legislature. Whether it would or would not, remains to be seen. Whether it is good or bad remains to be seen. These concerns, however do not address themselves to the immediate problem. The problem will not go away if ignored. The valid criticisms that 1 hear all relate to the hardship imposed on legislators from rural areas who must travel great distances to attend and thus suffer continued absence from their families. Shall w'e stay where we are, or shall we continue to grow and meet the need and wishes of the people? Hopefully H.C.R. 4 will pass and the people will have the chance to decide. two-thir- ds non-appropriati- on non-budg- et two-thir- Ogden based company, the clipping bureau will fill the void that esists in national services. The local based Utah firm needs to be informed just as much as the national company, yet presently these services are often financially beyond their reach, Nichols explained. Nichols added the clipping bureau will provide an alternative to services presIn a ently being used. highly competitive or complex market area, many bus- inesses want to be reassured they are receiving all possible information and subscribe to multiple clipping bureaus, Nichols stated. The bureau can provide subscribers with information about market trends, zoning changes, growth patterns, news of competition and just what the public is saying about them on a state-wid- e basis, Nichols explained. Presently Rocky Mountain clips all pertinent newspaper articles from publications throughout the entire state. As the clientele demands, the service will extend to the rest of the Intermountain area, Nichols added. KEEP IT MOVING! If you want to keep your business moving, the Review can help. 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