LOGAN — On KVNU’s monthly Speak to the Mayor program on Wednesday, Logan mayor Holly Daines paid tribute to local law enforcement during National Law Enforcement Week
“This is the week that we recognize those folks that really play an important role in our communities and public safety and helping us. People may see them occasionally (and say)’They gave me a ticket’. But their role is to help people and to keep people safe, and we have a really good team here in the city and they really do an excellent job,” said Daines.
Also on the program was Logan city recorder Teresa Harris, part of her oversight is municipal elections and filings, and she said those filings start June 1st through the 7th.
This year’s election will be for three council seats that will be open. She said there will be a change with the election process.
“This year though, is a little different, we have contracted with the county. So, as have other cities (and towns)in (Cache) county, they will be sending out the ballots and they will be going back to the county for processing. But the clerks and recorders in the county will be doing all the noticing, they’ll be doing all the financial reporting and all of that,” Harris said.
She said the city is still over the election but Cache County will be helping with the processing of the ballots.
The mayor did want to address the situation with the Creek Side RV park (447 West 1700 South) which is flooding and the utilities have been cut off.
“We’ve gotten some criticism over that, but there are two sides to that story. So, it’s an RV park, these are mobile homes. By code, to be in that section, an RV park, they have to be moveable. For six weeks we have been working with the management and the residents, putting door hangers telling them…I mean, some of them were there in 2011 when it flooded. And we’ve been saying ‘it’s coming, we advise that you move’”.
The mayor said they have been proactive in trying to help the residents over the past weeks in preparing for flooding.
But she said they did not take their advice to move, as they were told that if the water came to a certain level that would affect the utilities and sewer infrastructure.
Some of the residents, though, have said they have nowhere else to go.