Few if any issues have arisen during the Nov. 7 election campaign here as voters consider the four candidates running for mayor and the three candidates seeking two City Council seats.
MayorMerrill H. Roberts, 57, 2935 W. 300 North is a retired Hill Air Force Base manager in the precision measurement equipment laboratory and city building inspector.
Roberts served on the city's Board of Adjustment, was chairman of the City Planning Commission and was a city councilman seven years, from 1982 to the beginning of this year when he resigned to become building inspector.
He said water services need to be upgraded and a great deal of planning needs to be done to prepare for the growth the city is sure to experience in the future.
Larry P. Sawyer, 32, 392 N. 2300 West, a production worker at the Carter Co., Ogden, and a part-time student at Weber State College where he is studying mechanical engineering.
Sawyer said he has attended many City Council meetings and believes there is a need for a younger person on the council to speak for all the younger people in the community. "I would like to maintain the quality of life West Point already has," he said.
Mark L. Sessions, 36, 430 N. 3425 West, a tool and parts attendant at Hill Air Force Base, a former volunteer fireman in Clearfield and Syracuse, an emergency medical technician for 15 years and a retired Utah highway patrolman.
Sessions, who took a medical retirement from the UHP in 1987 after eight years service because of injuries sustained in an automobile accident, said he would like to see more citizen involvement in City Council deliberations. "I'd like to have the city send citizens a regular newsletter of some kind to keep them informed of what is going on in the city."
City Councilman Howard F. Stoddard, 63, 909 N. 4000 West, is a retired Clearfield postmaster who has spent nearly 12 years on the council. He was elected to his first term on the council in 1969, retired for a few years after his term ended in 1973, and was elected again in 1981 and re-elected in 1985.
He has also served on the City Planning Commission and, as a councilman, has been chairman of emergency services in West Point. "We need a new, integrated water system in the city and improvements in the city's storm drain system," he said.
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Clark Johnston, 36, 4443 W. 800 North, an inspector at Farmers Grain Cooperative, Ogden, who was appointed to the City Council in January 1989 to fill Roberts' unexpired term when he left office to become the city's building inspector.
Johnston, who served one year on the Planning Commission, says water seems to be the most important problem for the council to solve - both culinary and irrigation water. "The city is growing and we need to provide for our future."
Dennis J. Montgomery, 39, 4600 W. 200 South, who works in the Davis County School District warehouse at Freeport Center, has served on the Planning Commission for 3 1/2 years. He said city residents get culinary water from both West Point and neighboring Hooper, in Weber County, and need to have a more unified system to increase water pressure and aid in fire protection.
"I'd like to see orderly growth in West Point, and I want to keep the city a good place for families to live in," he said.
Clint B. Techmeyer, 38, 2188 W. 300 North, corporate credit manager for Jack B. Parsons Co., an Ogden building materials supply firm, has served on several state and national credit union committees.
"There are several dangerous intersections in the city that should be remedied and we need to plan for growth in the city, especially in the area of water and other utilities."