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| name | Lorenzo Jensen Bott |
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| order | 29th |
| office | Mayor of Brigham City |
| term_start | January 5, 1948 |
| term_end | January 4, 1954 |
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| predecessor | Rulon Baron |
| successor | C. LeGrande Horsley |
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After Lorenzo Bott took office, he immediately worked to persuade the federal government to convert the empty Bushnell Hospital into a boarding school for Navajo Indian children. After months of negotiations, the conversion was approved. The change from hospital to school cost $4,250,000 and was completed by January 1950. The arrival of the Indian students and school employees required an expansion of public utility systems, which consisted of constructing a sewage disposal system, a new water-storage reservoir, and a new substation for the power plant.
Mayor Bott authorized extensive black topping on city streets and modernized the bookkeeping system at City Hall. He allowed the Junior Chamber of Commerce to use the east side of the ballpark for boxing and wrestling matches on Saturday nights and sponsored the Peaches Baseball Club and winter flooding of the ball diamond to provide a place for ice skating. His administration renamed the north park “Lorenzo Snow Park.”
When the City golf course opened in 1949, membership fees of the first 100 members of the Golf Club were used to build a clubhouse.
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