Show County Recommends Continuing Of CAP I According to a recent amendment amendment amendment amend amend- ment to laws governing the Community Act Action Ion Program throughout the nation counties and cities clUes must make a decision whether or not to retain the or organization organization organization or- or within their bounda bounda- ries Counties must submit their decision before May 15 15 Individual cities clUes have until June 15 COUNTIES the size of population or more may accept the Community Action Program within their Jurisdiction and then allow each of their cities to vote to retain it or to by op out Commissioner Stanley M. M Smoot chairman of the Board of Commissioners explained the reorganization of the program program pro pro- I gram at the regular monthly I meeting of the Davis County Couty Community Correlation Council Council Council Coun Coun- cil which is composed of all mayors and other acting officials rials of the 16 communities within the county The Board of Commissioners Commission Commission- ers recommends the program I and wants it to remain Commissioner Commissioner Com Com- missioner S moot Smoot said The main decision for the mayors was whether it should remain active ac active active ac- ac tive within each of their cities or not ALSO TO BE decided was whether the existing agency should r rem remain e main a i n independently status quo or be reorganized under the county government If It the latter the county would become be become become be- be come the Community Action Program authority In each case a new board of advisors would be required to comply with the amendment The board would be composed of third one-third elected officials or their represent representatives a t I v e s one one- third c citizens i ze n s and one third one third members of the poverty group CO COMMISSIONER IONER ER S Smoot moot told the mayors that all applications from their cities must be in his of office by June 15 and nil all l applications applications I for recognition of the program must be filed with the regional headquarters OZO OEO In Kansas City by July 1 Annabelle Kagie Kagle Director of the CAP explained the circumstances circumstances circum circum- stances of the recent march on the capitol to the mayors She J said The Community Action board did not support the march marchand marchand marchand and met with the committee personally to advise them so SHE SAID My personal opinion is that it is 15 no way to handle their problems They should resort to court rather than name calling or other I forms of action Most definitely I Ithe I the Community Action Program Is going to see that things are handled In an orderly and lawful manner as far as possible She said also that when the position po position position po- po of the board was made clear to the residents of An Anchorage Anchorage Anchorage An- An that only eight adults were from Anchorage out of the variously reported people who marched on the capi capi- tol There were 32 teenagers from the area also she said but all the other marchers were I from Ogden and Salt Lake City I using the name of Anchorage II I II i I I I I LAWRENCE E. E Welling as assistant assistant assistant as- as superintendent superintendent-of the t k I Davis County Board of Education Education 1 tion told the mayors that the CAP is Is of real value It is oi of service in many ways education education education tion being one of them As an example the school board has hasa I. I a migrant program where CAP and other agencies work with the board to locate folks who need the Head Start Program This kind of cooperation hasben has b ben belen en d by CAP which has aides who can go out in the field He told the group that the Head Start Program has been in the county for four years Tl This s year there will be children children children chil chil- dren involved MR HATCH board member I of the welfare department told the group that the Ity Action Program does a great deal to cooperate He said the agency does a great deal In con con- tatting people who need welfare but who dont don't know they are eli eli eli- gible Not that they are recruiting for the welfare rolls he comI com com- I CAP does more to take people off welfare than to put them on HE POINTED out that the agency has a VIP program which trains people in skills to meet the labor de demand mand in the Job market and that after training tl this s removes many from wel wel- fareL fare MAYOR L CHARLES Eddy of Clearfield suggested that the funds fron- fron r OEO ought to go to the state or to the cities to be disbursed locally by city officials officials officials to meet the n needs eds In each city He gave as example Clearfield's Clearfield's Clearfield's Clear- Clear fields field's situation where work was needed in one part 0 of the city with no money to pay for it and andin andin in another part o 0 of the city there were many people on welfare He said The two should be beI I put together FATHER FR FREDERICK T T. T I Draeger president of the CAP CAPi i board said that was the whole I purpose of the Green amendment amend amend- ment to ment to put control more in inthe inthe inthe the cities' cities hands The mayor inquired if the cities could be directly involved involved in involved in- in and was told by br Commissioner Commissioner Commissioner Com Com- missioner Smoot that at at least leasta a half dozen mayors could sit on the advisory board THE COMMISSIONER a also 1 so explained that If the cities donot do donot donot not accept the program and op out that no one within n the city limits would be eligible for any Community Action Program No decision was made at the meeting but applications were passed out for each mayor to take back baci to his city council lk Ik |