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Show 1958-1959 SUMMARY OF THE ANNU;-~L REPORT The GOOD - Increase in membership and membership participation in all areas of League work; taking Urban Renewal to the community; a ~new unit (that makes ll)o The B~D - Two uses for every dollaro Paid-up membership as of March 31, 1959 - 258 March 31, 1958 - 219 Board Meetings held - 16 Finance Drive - $1,581024 - General Meetings Unit Meetings on: Trade and Aid (No: :.cR #5) 3 Letter Writing 1 State Welfare 3½ State Program Making½ Urban Renewal~ Strong Mayor bf Local Program Making½ · Legislature 1 Foreign Policy 3 ·Total -.- Con'i!,ent_i.on Report Tea, May 1958 Continuing Responsibili ties Workshop, November 1958 Strong Mayor, Decemher 1958 (2) :_:1mn:uai iM.ee~;ing, March 1959 17 .. ·-.· ! J_ _ Bulletins . 6' Newsletters 8 Voters Service ·- We di.stributed 700 State Candidates Questionnair es, 5,000 Local Voters G_.uides, 3,500 Local Political Directories through civic, social, and religious ;. groups ,< ,·: . • In cooperation- _:w;i th the Salt Lake City Junior Chamber _ of Commerce, we operated a Speakers Bureauo Sixteen ·- or the requests for vciting ~nformation were filled by LWV speakers., Legislative ~~Gtion :~ _We ~orild rather leave this out, but alas the truth must be knowno It would not be amiss to say · r that ihe 1959 Utah Legislature was perhaps the most discour~ging event of the year. We have neither the space nor the objectivity_. to ·make an analysi.s of why this was tr.ueo We leave. it up to our readers own judgments·~ __ _ ---... The League officially suppprted 6 (or 7) .b.illso Two were .of major impo~tance ~tid received c6n~idetable attentiono These were the metropolitan government bill ·(HJR 1) and ur~an . rertewal enabling legislation (HB51). Both bills died in th~- sifting committee. Two of the bills might be considered steps to our ultimate goal ----cff met-r.opoi!tan government; these were the County Service Areas amendme-rit ... (9-~_4 9), and Overlapping Taxes bill (SB53)o .Of these two bills, the County Service - 2 - |
