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Show ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF WATER DEVELOPMENT 115 Cooperation Essential Between District and Municipality In serving this interest neither the governing body of the District nor that of the Municipality should attempt to encroach upon the other as to matters within their respective fields of separate and independent obligation. But even as to those, where they touch, as many as possible of them ought to be finally determined only after consultation and coordination. In regard to the relationship between the District and the Municipal Corporation which occupies the same area, the Supreme Court of Utah said, " the closest cooperation is contemplated and should result." District Must Not Be Dependent It is not inconsistent with this point of view nor is it beyond the scope of this report to suggest that the Board of Commissioners ought to seek the independence rather than the dependence of the Board of Directors of the District, for it may be stated as a simple matter of fact that that end was the object of the original sponsors and creators of the District, of the public officials who caused its creation to be submitted to the will of the people, the electors, whose instrument it is, and the public press, who urged it upon the citizens of Salt Lake City as an independent agency necessary to the premanent solution of the community water problem. Municipal Authority Appoints District's Board of Directors and Provides Term of Office The law requires the governing body to fix the number and the terms of office and the qualifications of the District's Board of Directors. The number was originally fixed at seven, including the Commissioner of Water Supply and Waterworks. Of the first six directors other than the Water Commissioner two were appointed for 140. Suggestive of Salt Lake Valley's dependency upon suburban farming is this photograph of the Cottonwood agricultural district. L. Clyde Anderson 1 • il^:^" 1' '•" ***, \ - 9/ j£ w X . |
