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Show Spragne Branch Libr. So Uth Eait City ( Action on Pen Park Gets Going Agreeing that any sound development devel-opment of the old Utah penitentiary peniten-tiary property will cost money, six members of an advisory committee commit-tee named to undertake such development de-velopment this week agreed to ask Salt Lake City and County each for 545,000 to start the ball rolling. roll-ing. A seventh member will be chosen by the six Thursday (today) at the second meeting of the group to be held at 2:30 p. m. in the City and County building. It was decided at the initial ression to seek $45,000 from the city, a like amount from the county. Half of each sum would be used to make final payment of $45,000 to the state for the old prison property. The rest would be earmarked for cleaning up of the site, and possibly some of it would be used for planning. It was further decided to request re-quest that the $45,000 already an-nualed an-nualed in the city and county remain in future budgets to maintain main-tain and operate the developed properties. The committee of six will endeavor en-deavor to select the seventh person per-son to round out the group, as provided by both city and county stipulations. Names of several have been under consideration for a week, with all six leaning toward a strong, civic minded - man who would be able. to devote considerable consider-able time and study to the project. Because of the overall scope of the development, it was felt a tried and proven architect or engineer en-gineer might be hired in an advisory adviso-ry capacity to help shape and guide the destinies of the park. |