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Show 4 r ! j l s 1 " ; -, y - Sheila Ivers Files for City Council in my Heritage. My roots are in Park--since I was a child I knew that someday I would live in Park City I'm home now. When I first moved here three years ago I thought Park City had the potential of being a successful succ-essful community a very successful community. But I realize now that it takes more than potential to make a successful town it takes hard work and co-operation on the part of each person in a community to change potential into success." When Ms. Ivers was questioned ques-tioned as to why she feels Park City has not been a success in the past few years she replied, .'The one thing I feel has contributed greatly to the fact that Park City hasn't been a recent success suc-cess is lack of co-operation between City Hall and the people the resort and the old townspeople the merchants mer-chants and the resort and even the merchants and the merchants. Everyone is at odds," continued the lady jeweler, "It's a problem that I can't guarantee to solve, but Monday morning, main street jewelry store owner, Sheila Ivers announced that she will seek election to the office of City Councilman. In doing so, Ms. Ivers becomes the first official candidate in what will' most likely be one of Park City's most interesting in-teresting elections. As of this date not one of the three councilmen coming up for re-election has declared an election intention. When asked by THE RECORD; REC-ORD; why she chose to run for office? Sheila responded, 'I figure if you care about the town, you ought to do something for the town and the test way to do something some-thing about Park City is to hold a Public Office." After thinking for a moment, Sheila continued, "The City Council is where decisions are made, or supposed to be made, that will ultimately effect the future fu-ture and well being of the entire town I'd like to have the chance to help make those decisions." ' When Ms. Ivers was asked why she cares about Park City she commented," Basically Bas-ically tecause Park City is cil." rambled Sheila Ivers "should make it it's business to know everything about the City of Park to know it's laws, it's history, it's shortcomings, short-comings, it's dreams and most of all the character of her peopleand with these things in mind and with all sincerity, move to uphold and represent the spirit of Park City with the best interest in-terest of her people held utmost ut-most in their minds at all times. The City Council must realize" continued Sheila, "that Park is currently in a serious state of transition and therefore it becomes their responsibility to guide Park City, with their leadership, leader-ship, towards" a healthy and years the damage that can result from a government who lets fear of criticism stand in the way of good government- not to mention men-tion the damage done as a result of a personal vendetta. ven-detta. When personal animosities ani-mosities interfer in the workings wor-kings of a governmental body then otherwise clear issues have a tendancy to become confused and sidetracked---effective government is impossible." im-possible." "Why do you feel you would make an effective Councilman?" Council-man?" questioned THE RECORD. REC-ORD. "Effective is a good word," responded Sheila, "before a public servant can be termed 'good', he must first be effective. An effective effect-ive City Councilman is well informed; willing to make decisions which he feels are in the best interest of the community and stand by those decisions without fear of reprisal; an effective City Councilman will never let personal differences come between him and the issue and most importantly an effective Councilman fears stagnation and is always open to new ideas moving to a well co-ordinated City government, gov-ernment, I will try to meet and fulfill these criteria of good government," concluded con-cluded Sheila Ivers, "Again I must say all I can do is try. ..we have nothing to lose . and everything to gain..." prosperous future. "What kind of job do you think the current City Council Coun-cil is doing?" asked THE PARK RECORD. "The main complaint I have against the current City Council," responded the hopeful candidate, "and the thing I will try to avoid, is their reluctance to make a decision which could be the source-of criticism. To be a councilman" she went on, " is to make decisions which effect an entire community. com-munity. A councilman must make and stick by those decisions de-cisions he, in his mind, feels right and never let the fear of reprisal influence those decisions... We've all witnessed wit-nessed in the past several it's a problem I sure will try to solve." Ms. Ivers continues along the lines of cooperation, "We've relied too longonthe resort people to put Park City on the map. It's about time the rest of us get together to-gether and work to make Park City the great town we all know it is. Everybody Every-body knows Park City is a great City but these days, few really seem to express the sense of community pride it takes to let the rest of the world know what a great place we have here." Next THE RECORD asked Sheila what she feels is the role of the City Council in Park City? "The City Conn- |