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- Brough officially appointed as city recorder
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By Myrna Trauntvein
Times-News Correspondent
It is official—Lisa Eyre Brough is now the new Nephi City Recorder.
Mayor Mark Jones appointed Brough to be the city recorder and the council approved that appointment on Tuesday as one of the agenda items for council meeting.
"We have had key people resign to retire this past year," said Jones. "One of those was Blair Painter who had been city recorder for 28 years."
His shoes would be difficult to fill, said Jones. However, a very capable person had been selected to do the job.
"I know Lisa is capable and will be able to take the reins and march forward," Jones said.
Brough, who resigned her position as city council member the first of June, had made history as the first woman council member in the history of Nephi to win the position.
Brough had been working as financial secretary for the Juab School District.
She is married to Chad Brough who has been both a council member and a mayor for Nephi and both are life-long residents of Nephi. Both are graduates of Juab High.
She has six children and two grandchildren and graduated from BYU with a Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting.
In the last 30 years, a few women have tried for a position on the city council, but all have been defeated in the November election until four years ago when Brough won a place on the council as the high-vote recipient of the election. Had she not been selected as city recorder, she would have been up for reelection this year.
"As far as the city council has been able to determine," said Jones, "the city had not had a female sit on the council since the city was incorporated in 1889."
In 1882 Nephi became the county seat of Juab County. The city was founded in 1851.
Jones said that Brough was first appointed as financial director of the city and served in that capacity while she was being trained to take over the position upon the retirement of Painter.
Painter has now left the office, and it was time to appoint Brough to the new position, he said.
All council members approved her appointment.
"As you all know, we have had a tremendous amount of change the last year," said Jones. "Several of our key people have retired."
The city recognized the good work those people had done and wanted to pay tribute to them.
"The city is in great condition because of the work they have done," said Jones. "Visions have been seen and have been brought into being."
He said it was obvious that councils in the past had made good decisions in choosing people to work for the city who served well and those who are sitting in council seats today were also making good decisions in choosing great people to do the work of today and of the future.
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