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Show Should Employees Be Required To Take Vacation? By LE ANN BLODGETT Should employes be required to take a vacation each year? "I guestion whether a person can be productive year after year without a vacation," said Councilwoman Phyllis Southwick. MAYOR MORRIS Swapp proposed that city employes handling money be required to take a full week off each year. Many businesses require this to let someone else in four a check and PLEASE TURN TO PAGE 2 Should Employees Be Required To Take Vacation? CONTINUED FROM FRONT prevent manipulation and embezzlement. Councilwoman Southwick told of a case in a Salt Lake Court where a family is suing for the death of their father claiming he died of a heart attack caused by the stress of over working. "IF THEY win this case it could set a precedent," she said. The council also discussed the problem of dirt slippage on 1100 South above Davis Boulevard. There is six to eight inches of dirt on the road falling from the back yards of residents. "THEY DON'T recognize it as a front yard so they fence it off and forget it," said City Engineer Jack Balling. "The people travelling by complain." "It isn't any more unique than other places in the city," said Councilman Dean Stahle. "People need to accept responsibility res-ponsibility for their own areas and not always be looking to the city," he said. "WE HAVE never maintained main-tained city-owned parking areas any place else," said Mr. Balling. The Council agreed to go take a look at the problem. Councilman Don Perkins said he didn't think it was fair for persons to have to sue for damages when the city is responsible for sewer backup damage. "A LOT of times the causation causa-tion goes down the drain," said City Attorney Layne Forbes. It could be something like a diaper or grease or it could be city negligence such as improper maintenance, collapse or grading discrepancies. The city pays an insurance company to handle such cases but the insurance company is being criticized. Councilman Sterling Beesley says he thinks they have a "one way street." "We pay the premiums but they don't pay the claims." "THE PERSON damaged is at a disadvantage in the vast majority of cases because there is often no way to prove the cause," said Mr. Forbes. Councilwoman Southwick asked if the insurance company com-pany could be required to file a report with the city stating why the claim was not honored. CITY MANAGER Grant Petersen explained how the city could handle its own insurance in-surance but the council feared some of the inherent consequences con-sequences such as more employe time for investigations investiga-tions and more disagreements being taken by the council. |