Marshall White Center

OGDEN -- Kids whacked large yellow and orange tennis balls Wednesday afternoon while high school basketball players shot lay-ups.

OGDEN -- Mayor Matthew Godfrey vetoed three sections of the city's fiscal 2010 budget on Tuesday requiring the municipality to maintain the Lorin Farr and Marshall White Center pools along with the El Monte and Mount Ogden golf courses.
Godfrey said in a 13-page memo the sections violate the separation of powers controlling Ogden's council-mayor form of government.
"I am not opposed to the council or individual council members registering their opinions and desires with respect to proposed administrative actions," he wrote to the city council. "I am also not opposed to the council adopting appropriate general rules, policies and procedures of general application that guide the administration in carrying out its executive and administrative functions.
"However, as the elected caretaker of a separate and equal branch of municipal government, I cannot allow the council to co-opt and usurp for itself the executive decision making functions of the office of mayor."
The council-mayor system gives Godfrey administrative and executive powers and the city council legislative responsibilities.

OGDEN -- The city plans to take action against a Marshall White Community Center employee who is also working simultaneously at the facility for The Boys & Girls Clubs of Weber-Davis."We recently became aware an employee had been double-dipping at the Marshall White Center," said Mayor Matthew Godfrey.