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According to the police report of the incident, Higgins was involved in a fight at Jody's bar on Main Street on March 1, 1981 and was placed under arrest, handcuffed behind his back and put in the patrol car driven by Officer Virgil Sickels. When Sickels returned re-turned to the bar to aid fellow fel-low officers, Higgins apparently appar-ently stepped through his handcuffs and drove the police car several blocks before abandoning it and taking flight on foot. Higgins later was spotted on Swede Alley and was confronted con-fronted by Officers Ray Ben-zon Ben-zon and Sickels. Sickels said he put his hands out to grab Higgins by the lapels, but caused the suspect to slip on a patch of ice and fall backwards. back-wards. Higgins struck his head on the corner of a building and later received stitches at the Park City Health Clinic before being transported to the county jail in Coalville. Last Friday, Loble said that Higgins did not file a lawsuit against the city, but rather demanded $20,000 as a settlement. After discussing discuss-ing the issue at length, the city's attorney for the case, Max Wheller, recommended that Higgins be awarded $1,000 for "inconvenience, pain and suffering," and $100 for medical fees. The city manager said that while there is no evidence of police brutality, the city chose to settle out of court "as a matter of economics." "To take it through the courts would cost several thousand dollars," said Loble. "So rather than that, we said we'd pay $1,000 to drop it. The question is, do we want moral victories or cheaper expenses?" On Monday, Wheller said that the settlement indicates that the city feels it has some responsibility, since Higgins did receive injuries during the incident. But the fact that Higgins appears to be willing to accept one-twentieth one-twentieth of what he originally asked for "is an indication that Higgins recognizes that his claim was unfounded," said Wheller. The attorney said there are some cases, however, that are important for the city to battle out in the courtroom. court-room. He pointed to an incident in-cident that occurred last winter in which a Salt Lake City woman claimed she was deprived of her civil rights when her car was impounded impoun-ded because it was illegally parked near the Park City resort. Wheller said that after Sandy Weinrauch discovered dis-covered her car had been towed, she went to the impound im-pound lot and drove it away without paying the $20 fine or telling the lot attendant. The Coalville dispatcher then was informed that the car had been stolen, and police officers began a search. Weinrauch and a passenger were pulled over on Interstate Inter-state 80 as suspects in the auto theft. When it was found that she owned the car, she was asked to return to Park City, where she was convicted convic-ted of the parking violation and fined $20. Wheeler said the woman has filed a suit in federal court claiming that the city's parking ordinance is uncon-situtional uncon-situtional and that her rights were violated, since she was required to pay the fine before driving her car away. She is asking for $200,000 in damages. "This is really a nonsense suit in my opinion," said Wheeler. "If the city deals fairly where we do have some responsibility (as in the Higgins case), that's expected. ex-pected. But I don't think we have an obligation to pay off when there are spurious claims." Wheeler said that claims of civil rights violations are becoming more popular, and cities now are beginning to take out insurance policies to protect themselves against costly lawsuits that often are unfounded. He said he felt it was important to settle the matter in court rather than open the doors for others who may think a city is willing to pay a lesser amount to drop the case. "My opinion is that Congress will eventually see that civil rights are not being used the way they were intendedfor in-tendedfor when a person's rights are seriously being impaired. I don't think they were intended for trivial matters." The attorney said he has filed a motion to dismiss the Weinrauch case in federal court, but Judge Aldon Anderson An-derson has yet to respond. Higher council salaries? Who cares? Citizens stayed away in droves last Thursday from a public hearing held to receive re-ceive comment on a proposed pro-posed ordinance to raise the salaries of City councilmen and the mayor. Although sentiment against the proposal was purported to be strong, not one person responded when Mayor Jack Green asked for comment. The proposal to raise the salaries of the elected officials of-ficials originated with City Councilman Tom Shellenber- ger. He argued that the council now is meeting twice as often as it did when he was elected in 1980, and members should therefore be awarded twice the salary. Currently, councilmen are paid $125 per month the same salary they received when meeting twice monthly. month-ly. But for more than a year, the council has been meeting every Thursday. City Manager Arlene Loble has recommended that the council's pay be raised from $62.50 per meeting for two meetings per month, to $75 per meeting for four meetings a month. The total salary, then, would be raised from $125 to $300 per month. In addition, Loble has recommended that the salary sal-ary of the mayor be raised from the current $750 per month to $1,000 per month. "Although I recognize that he performs the services of mayor primarily as a voluntary volun-tary public service, given the amoun of time that Mayor Council approves ski lift ordinance The City Council approved the amendment of Ordinance Ordinan-ce 8-80A last week, opening, the way for the construction of a ski lift in the historic districts of Park City. According to the ordinance, ordinan-ce, the City Council believes that the change in use in the HCB and HR1 zones will serve the community by reducing auto traffic in the Main Street historic district, encouraging pedestrian traffic, traf-fic, and providing economic stability in the area. The ordinance or-dinance allows for a ski lift base facility in the HCB zone and a mid-loading point in the HR1 zone as conditional uses. ;U, , -f .,;,, .v A conditional use permit will be issued only after a public hearing before the Planning Commission, if after certain criteria are met. Some of those requirements require-ments are that the Historic District Commission review the proposal, a neighborhood impact analysis be performed, perfor-med, and that parking, traffic traf-fic and transportation plans be prepared. The Planning Commission must conclude that the con struction of the tram way serves -the community interest in-terest .by .accomplishing or furthering goals such as reducing traffic between the Main Street area and the ski resorts, encouraging pedestrian pedes-trian traffic in the . downtown down-town redevelopment area, stablizing the economic base of the Historic District and lessening the demand for parking in the area. Four council members voted in favor of the ski lift ordinance amendment, while Councilman Bill Coleman abstained. Green puts into his job, the $1,000 per month seems to be a minimal increase," said Loble. Likewise, Loble said she felt the recommended increase in-crease in the council's salary was minimal when compared com-pared to the hours spent on the job. City Councilwoman Tina Lewis agreed that members spend long hours at regularly regular-ly scheduled meetings and at other meetings held by various committees and boards. But she doesn't agree that the salary should be increased. When the issue was first raised, Lewis said she felt councilmen perform a public service, and that giving her more money "isn't going to make me work harder." "I will vote against it," said Lewis Tuesday. She pointed out that, as written, the ordinance includes the mayor and council. Had they been written as separate ordinances, she said, she may have voted in favor of raising the mayor's salary. The City Council is expected ex-pected to vote on the ordinance at its regular session today at 5 p.m. in the Memorial Building. 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