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Show i Clem Hansen States Views A six-year-veteran of City Council, Clem Hansen is seeking re-election on the major issues of upgrading the Police Department, improving im-proving equipment used by City officials, and getting planning and zoning approved. approv-ed. He also spoke with the Record about a wide range of other issues. Hansen, who retired four years ago from his position with the United Park City Mines, says, "My lifestyle all the way through has been to help people. I have ample time to perform the duties of a councilman and I'm interested in seeing the town progress on a planned basis." On the Council he has been active in trying to clarify boundary lines. He doesn't completely endorse en-dorse the present zoning proposals, but islookingfor-ward islookingfor-ward to getting citizen im-put im-put at this week's public meetings. Hansen believes the city should give the Police Department De-partment "all the help we can. I hate to see .the day when we have problems or doctor because, "if there are obstacles in his way, he's perfectly entitled to go elsewhere. else-where. We need to persuade him to put his roots here." Hansen would like to see "solid buildings up and down Main Street," like he remembers re-members from the past. He supports beautification of lots and buildings, but "I know of no way we could legally subsidize house painting unless we pass some kind of rehabilitation act. We need to urge absent home owners to rehabilitate their buildings or else sell them to someone who will." "I hope that we can get out of the doldrums we're in now," said Hansen, "and see some of this development develop-ment we're expecting. There are still people willing to invest in a good sound development de-velopment and that's why it's time to get planning and zoning going before there's a rush of development." Hansen believes with many others that Park City needs to develop summer attractions attrac-tions "so that people can bring their family for a vacation vaca-tion and enjoy themselves. Now there's not much to do." Clem Hansen Price for his efforts on that issue. "Sometimes the growing pains give you a feeling of frustration," said Hansen who has been in Park City since 1927. But he is excited excit-ed about the prospect of continuing con-tinuing to work on city improvement. a controntation and there s only one available police officer. of-ficer. We need two officers offic-ers in separate vehicles so they can call on each other at any time. We can't continue con-tinue with the attitude that 'It won't happen to us.' We need to give our force more training so they will have ample support if something happens." "Employees of the city badly need more modern tools and equipment to work with," says Hansen. "This would be beneficial to the city because it would generate gen-erate pride in the work being done. However," he says, "I think we can economize in city administration a little bit. We're a little top heavy in administrators." Hansen does agree that proper planning plan-ning is important. Clem has a special interest inter-est in the problems of senior sen-ior citizens and feels that "our programs haven't expanded ex-panded far enough to take cari. of older citizens. Their organization should get out and become more active and recruit more members. They need to convince people that all you have to do is participate." When asked about exemptions exemp-tions of some city fees to attract new businesses and residents, Hansen stressed that these fees are necessary neces-sary to keep the city funding going, but that delayed payment pay-ment would be a good idea. "If you can once get the business established and the businessman to where he's making a profit, he'd be the last person to object to city fees." But he thinks it's important im-portant that the town get behind be-hind people like the new He thinks a cultural center sustained by younger townspeople towns-people and appealingto every one, including senior citizens cit-izens would be of value to the community. "I think the performing arts should be proposed a little more," said Hansen. He thinks that Park City must attract more family people who would bring the school enrollment up and thus improve the school system sy-stem because, "with more income we could update the curriculum." He thinks that the low-income housing issue is-sue could be solved by a mobile-home park which he stresses is different from an unplanned trailer lot. "Under the present conditions condi-tions a mobile home park seems to be the answer," he said. On the question of further annexation, Hansen said he had some conflicting views. "I think we're large enough now to set up a decent tax base and I'm hesitant to recommend further annexation annexa-tion until we can determine whether the county is going to control what's built outside out-side our limits. Nowtheonly way to get the kind of buildings build-ings we need and want outside out-side city limits is to annex them." He feels it's important im-portant for Park City to get representation on the County Coun-ty Commission. Hansen believes the current cur-rent city administration has somewhat improved relations rela-tions with the Resort. He cited negotiations through which the resort helped improve im-prove theThiriotSpringwat-er theThiriotSpringwat-er supply in exchange for some water connections. Hansen commended Mayor |