Now that a judge has decreed that the creation of the inland port is a perfectly legal action by the Utah Legislature, it is time for the unelected board of the port to step up to the plate and do the following:
Choose a name such as Inland Port City.
Build fences or walls with appropriate gates around the port’s 25 square miles in order to prevent the smuggling of illicit narcotics and other goods in transit that might evade U.S. customs duties and inspections.
Establish essential departments of police, fire, water, streets and sanitation.
Enact and monitor environmental safeguards comparable with all the cities which form an arc from Tooele to Kaysville.
Plan for schools, churches, residences and shopping malls.
Prepare for elections so as to bring representative democracy, like the rest of the United States, to this large new sovereign entity governed by the state of Utah, and replace the port’s executive director, or czar.
James King, Salt Lake City