Cultural Arts

In 1990 I was first elected to the SCERA Board of Trustees. I was 26 years old and had great plans for SCERA.  Since that time the cultural arts has been very important to me.  I was chairman of the SCERA Board of Trustees when Mayor Nelson wanted to build a cultural arts center on the campus of  UVSC. SCERA opposed the new center and we took our relationship with Orem City and Mayor Nelson to the very brink.  Fighting against the Nielsen Cultural Arts Center was the right thing to do at that time, and my opinion has not changed about the current center,. I am not opposed to the arts center being in Orem.  However, I cannot support a cultural arts enter at Orem’s City Center. The Orem City Council is not considered the damage this will do to SCERA and the Hale Center Theater. The damage is just too great to SCERA and Hale Center.  If I am elected I will ensure the survival of the two great cultural arts center's of this city, SCERA and Hale Center.