Family focus of South Salt Lake race
Gray has been endorsed by the police union in South Salt Lake and wants to give officers pay raises and bring more of them into the city. He said his focus has been primarily on public safety, which was his career for decades, he said, but he also hopes to focus on encouraging business and residential redevelopment and improving communication among city agencies, residents and businesses.
One of Gray's major initiatives has been to bring back community policing, a system in which officers spend time with residents by patrolling on bicycles or on foot and attending neighborhood meetings to gain support.
"They earn that trust and build it over a period of time," Gray said. "That starts building that partnership, the partnership being that the community acts as the eyes and ears of the community, so the police department depends on that."
Losser has drawn attention away from Gray's support by emphasizing his accomplishments over the last four years.
"Running the city is more than one issue, it's a balancing act," Losser said. "It's all-encompassing."
Losser touted his improvements to infrastructure, including curb, gutter, water line and sewer repairs, and said those improvements will lure young families back to South Salt Lake. The city has become known for its aging population, he said. Census figures from 2000, however, show that South Salt Lake has a lower percentage of senior citizens than Utah as a whole.
Nonetheless, Losser and Gray both are keen to bring families back to South Salt Lake. Losser said the city has relaxed its code enforcement to allow people to build extensions to their homes for more space, and both candidates support construction of houses that have at least two bedrooms and two bathrooms, which is key for growing families.
"As South Salt Lake, we have to offer everything else that Herriman does or Sandy does and provide all those things that they do in order to attract younger families and get people to move in here," Losser said.
Gray, who is the city council chairman, said the city has vehemently opposed closing Granite High School because it knows that families won't move to a city without a good school system.
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