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Show Citizens' government superior to bureaucracy represent the people and be Is li likely to seek the office fa monetary reasons. The con missioners, that is two of them, Miner and Anderson, volet themselves a 27 percent raise las! year. That raised their salaries to $45 thousand a year, plus the used a car, plus medical benefits. Pte some are not working full time a! the job. Now maybe you can sei why 12 people wanted the job. I fact it was understood that commissioners com-missioners only had to work thrs days a week. ! I'll take a government of citizerfi anytime over a government i beauracrats who think more of their, salaries than the people they sent! Our legislature is part-time. Our city council is part-time. Our maye is part time. Our school board i part-time. Lets make our corf commissioners part time! Yourf f; be seeing petitions coming out H L-put L-put it on the ballot next fall. ; After all, this is supposed to be government of the people, by people, and for the people. Isn't it? j by E. MARK BEZZANT Last Thursday night some of Pleasant Grove's Republican faithful joined Republicans from throughout Utah County to nominate three Republicans to fill the seat of Jeril Wilson, who is resigning as county commissioner to serve in the legislature. He will be filling the seat vacated by Joe Jenkins who was elected as Provo's new mayor last November. The gathering of Republican . faithful took place at Provo High in what is called a central committee meeting. Ross Bratt, Ganiel Fugal, Don Crump, Alex Hunt, Mrs. Benjamin and myself were a few of the Republicans from this area in attendance. From a field of 12 candidates the several hundred Republicans listened to over an hour nominating, seconding and acceptance speeches. Each candidate had only three minutes to present his case to the delegates at the convention. Needless to say that there were a myriad of phone calls, endorsements en-dorsements and lobby efforts that went on prior to the Thursday night meeting. Mayor Holdaway went on record witht he other Mayors from the northern end of the county to support Bob Warnick from American Fork. There seemed to be a general feeling of concern, from those in the Southern and Northern parts of the county, that the commission com-mission seats should be divided between the north central and south portions of the county as it had for years. As it presently stands there is no representative from the Northern part of the county but two from the central part of the county and one from the Southern part. Those from the South felt that it would not be long before they lost their representation too, and hence there was strong feelings to return to the gentlemens agreement that had existed for years to have one from each of the three areas of the county. It was not until O Neil Miner totally disregarded that agreement that the system broke down. With that sentiment, it is no wonder that Bob Warnick from American Fork was the top vote getter followed by Bill Arseneau and Brent Morris, both from the Provo-Orem area. In all fairness, Bob Warnick gave by far the best presentation at the Thursday n ight meeting, and did an impressive job presenting his case to the delegates prior to the meeting. Bill Arseneau had some big endorsements en-dorsements from the likes of Representative Jim Moss and Raylene Ireland who had just served as the county Republican Chairman. Brent Morris was nominated by the outgoing commissioner com-missioner himself. Bill Arseneau is presently the director of. surplus property in the state. The county commissioners must now choose from Warnick, Arseneau Ar-seneau and Morris, within 30 days, or the choice will be the Governor's. In the meantime there is increasing in-creasing support to change the form of government in the county, from full time commissioners to part time council much like all the cities in the county have. A full time administrator would then he hired to administer the policy set by the council as most all the cities do. Supporters of the council form of government argue that part-time council members will better |