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Show E clan an Says Btfl. Handles Topic Miserably BOUNTIFUL - Former City Councilman Larry Eck-man Eck-man spoke out after last Monday's Mon-day's special council meeting had adjourned. "I THINK the council has miserably mishandled this whole situation," he said, referring re-ferring to the council's action to recind its vote to allow private pri-vate development of a 100-unit , hotel on a two-acre piece of property on the southwest corner cor-ner of 500 South and 500 West. "You had a private developer develop-er ready to begin construction and then you killed it (project). 1 think it's a shame." MR. ECKMAN then slashed out at Redevelopment Agency Executive Director V.A. (Kit) Bettilyon. "It was just like Christmas hearing that he had resigned," said Mr. Eckman. "He's done nothing to help this city and has cost taxpayers a lot of money." IN RESPONSE, Mr. Bettilyon, Betti-lyon, whose resignation is effective Oct. 31, said: "I'm very surprised with Mr. Eckman's remarks. I have a great deal of respect for him. He is an intelligent person and I'm sure he had a personal reason for making such a statement. state-ment. I'm just disappointed." |