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Show City recorder hard post to fill By E. MARK BEZZANT There won't be another Johnson until there is another Johnson. On the front page of last weeks Pleasant Grove Review an article appeared telling about the resignation of the city recorder who was selected to replace Mark Johnson in the city hall. That was no easy task. You see the job discription to fill Mark Johnson's shoes went something like this. Work 6 a.m. to 2 a.m. (20 hours) six days a week. Take all calls and questions on the seventh from citizens. Be a member of the fire department. Be a member of the Chamber of Commerce and attend all meetings. Must know at least 80 percent of town's people, their relatives, and the history on problems relating to the city. Take the heat for and from the city council and other city workers. Listen to all cussing and keep smiling. Support all city policy and law. Know all city policy and law. Work in a cramped up corner of the city hall where your office will be a walk through to the safe. Know all about computers. Know all about the city' budgets. Take minutes at city council meetings that sometimes go on for seven hours, after putting in a full days work. Belong to National Guard. Take two weeks off each year to do National Guard duty (That is your vacation). City has good insurance in-surance for the familiy you never see. An old car is provided on occasion oc-casion to do city business in. (Usually worn out police car). Don't forget to arrange to see lights and music are on for Christmas time. Let people into city hall when you are off duty. Attend all meetings for mayor and council when they cannot go to represent the city. Memorize each employees retirement benefits. Take all complaints for garbage pickup, or non pickup as the case may be. -Don't forget complaints on the dented cans. Between putting out brush fires (both kinds) make sure no one is over charged on water. Have a wife who will attend all city functions or not complain when you do. Wife must also provide salads for city parties. Hold down a second job doing taxes because the city salary isn't quite enough to make ends meet for a growing family. Notorize anything anyone wants notorized. Unfortunately the person chosen to replace Mark Johnson was unaware of all the job had entailed. In fact, those same qualifications just plain wore Mark Johnson out. You wouldn't ever hear him say it but you could read it in his face as time wore on. Above and hpvonii thp call of duty Mark Johnson hair everything he had to the Or Pleasant Grove and no ones! be required or expected to dt . same - not even if it is s-: Johnson. Those who worked with V Johnson miss him. He -' replacement should know the a: Pleasant Grove and have to damental skills to accorapK tasks of a city admin Hopefully someone who lives'; the boundaries of Pleasant u can be found. Regardless of the choice; will never be another Mark; until there is another Mark. and for everyones sake we; not expect it. My bestw!. to the recorder who jus and wish him the best of had a hard row 10 hoe. hard rmu to hoe. ' |