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Show Sat/Sun/Mon/Tues, January 21-24, 2017 The Park Record A-22 Meetings and agendas More Dogs on Main By Tom Clyde to publish your public notices and agendas please email classifieds@parkrecord.com The new circus comes to town Summit County Board of Adjustment Notice is hereby given that the Summit County Board of Adjustment will NOT meet on Thursday, January 26, 2017 Thursday, February 23, 2017 **The public hearing noticed for this meeting has been cancelled. The next Board of Adjustment meeting is scheduled for Posted: January 19, 2017 Published: January 21, 2017-Park Record SNYDERVILLE BASIN WATER RECLAMTION DISTRICT SNYDERVILLE BASIN WATER RECLAMTION DISTRICT BOARD OF TRUSTEES MEETING AGENDA January 23, 2017 ** District Office** 5:00 p.m. I. CALL TO ORDER II. CONSENT AGENDA Approval of Board Meeting Minutes for December 12, 2016 Escrow Fund Reduction Approval Colony 4F – Retain 8 percent Park City Cloud Dine Sewer Mainline Extension – Retain 20 percent Substantial Completion Approval Nakoma Phase 2 Park City Cloud Dine Sewer Mainline Extension Final Project Approval Colony 4F III. PUBLIC INPUT IV. APPROVAL OF EXPENDITURES – Bills in the Amount of $2,207,490.46 Including SCWRF Project Pay Request #9 for $931,672.87 V. SUBDIVISION PROJECTS Discovery – 129.33 REs B2 East – 75 REs PCFD Fleet Services Building – 1 RE Prospector Square Sewer Replacement Phase 1 – 0 additional REs Prospector Square Sewer Replacement Phase 1A – 0 additional REs Estimated LEA REs Year to Date: # Above Splitter 0; # ECWRF 0; # SCWRF 0; Total 0 Proposed this Meeting: # Above Splitter 75; # ECWRF 129.33; # SCWRF 1; Total 205.33 VI. DISTRICT MANAGER Information Item Financial Statement Impact Fee Report VII. FUTURE AGENDA ITEMS Projects Operations Finance Governmental Matters VIII. ADJOURN If you are planning to attend this public meeting and, due to a disability, require reasonable accommodation in understanding, participating in or attending the meeting, please notify the District twenty-four or more hours in advance of the meeting, and we will try to provide whatever assistance may be required. Snyderville Basin Planning Commission Notice is hereby given that the Snyderville Basin Planning Commission will meet in regular session Tuesday, January 24, 2017 Work Session Location: Sheldon Richins Building (Library), 1885 West Ute Boulevard, Park City, UT 84098 AGENDA Agenda items may or may not be discussed in the order listed. 5:00 p.m. Work Session Continued review of the proposed amended Canyons Master Plan. – Tiffanie Northrup-Robinson, Senior Planner 6:00 p.m. Regular Session Public input for items not on the agenda or pending applications. Discussion and possible action for the Lift RC 22 Condominium Plat; 2431 High Mountain Road; RCDA-RC22; Gary Raymond, applicant. – Tiffanie Northrup-Robinson, Senior Planner Public hearing and possible action regarding a proposed Conditional Use Permit for an 11,159 sq. ft. fleet services building for Park City Fire District; SS-30-X; 7981 Silver Gate Dr.; Preston Croxford, on behalf of PCFD, applicant. – Amir Caus, County Planner Discussion regarding a proposed Plat Amendment on Lots 24 and 25 of the Park City Business Center; 4376 & 4328 N. Forestdale Dr.; PCBC-24, PCBC-25. – Sean Lewis, County Planner Discussion on Chapters 1 & 2 of the Snyderville Basin Development Code. – Planning Staff Discussion on Chapter 3 of the Snyderville Basin Development Code. – Planning Staff DRC Updates Commission Comments Director Items Adjourn Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah officials are refusing to release details of a tax-collection agreement the state struck with online retailer Amazon. com, claiming that releasing the details would help the company’s competitors. The Utah State Tax Commission this week denied an openrecords request for information about the Amazon.com Inc. deal filed by the Libertas Institute, a Salt Lake City-based group that says it fights for liberty, The Salt Lake Tribune reported Tuesday. Continued from A-19 Heard Around the West impression about how this budding relationship is likely Congress will go along. Legislation is a long slog, and Trump has the attention span of a 5-year old. His cabinet seems like they were selected because they want to destroy the agencies they are being put in charge of. That’s almost refreshing. I mean the plutocrats have been running the show for generations. They’ve just been polite enough to try to do it discretely, buying a Congressman, siccing an army of lobbyists on every agency to get regulations watered down to suit their needs. So that’s nothing new. And so one historic circus ends, and another begins. When Trump placed his hand on an autographed copy of “The Art of the Deal,” and took the oath of office, we crossed into unknown territory.” What’s new is that Trump has eliminated the middleman, and is putting the plutocrats directly in charge. The curtain has been pulled back so that the pillage will now occur in plain view. Maybe transparency is an improvement. Washington hasn’t been working for a long time. Congress has been on strike for years, and shows up for work less than a third of the time. There hasn’t been a really understandable policy on things such as Syria, or clearly defined goals in Afghanistan, Iraq, Yemen, or any of the other un-authorized wars we are engaged in at various levels. So I’m not all that troubled by an approach that starts with blowing a few bureaucracies up. The problem is the lack of any A majority of Snyderville Basin Planning Commission members may meet socially after the meeting. If so, the location will be announced by the Chair or Vice-Chair. County business will not be conducted. Sunday in the Park To view staff reports available after Friday, January 20, 2017 please visit: www.summitcounty.org The way we really were Individuals needing special accommodations pursuant to the Americans with Disabilities Act regarding this meeting may contact Melissa Hardy, Summit County Community Development Department, at (435) 615-3157. I heard a sound bite this week that made me pause and laugh and realize I have lived through a lot of film festivals here. The comment was something like, “I really do enjoy the festival. I just wish it was some other time of the year, not in winter.” When I moved to Utah in 1979, the U.S. Film Festival took place in Salt Lake City. It was started by some guys at the Utah Film Commission. They were independent souls and they recruited Bob Redford’s brother-in-law to help them. It went okay. In the early ‘80s they decided to move it to Park City. I remember taking my young children to some exquisitely painfully, slow films. Heartland, I think, was the name of one where it took about two hours to witness the grainy, detailed birth of a cow. I had them watch the documentary about the gay activist, elected San Francisco Supervisor Harvey Milk, who had been assassinated right before we moved to Utah from California. By 1982, I was helping run the press room for the fledging festival. And around then the event moved from being in the fall to the winter. The ski resorts thought that would be great because after folks came skiing from other places for Christmas, nobody returned until President’s weekend. Nothing happened in January and most of February. Nothing. Nobody came here. Which, yes, was kinda fun for the locals when we had the town and the mountain to ourselves. Kids got out of school on Fridays, the resort had ski passes for students for way under $100, so they hopped on the free bus and skied without parents most of those afternoons. But making a living required multiple jobs. The only two real restaurants were the Claimjumper on Main Street and Adolph’s on the public golf course. Dolly’s Bookstore was on lower Main in the old mortuary building and the city library moved from one small room on Main to the relocated Miner’s Hospital. And the open space, well, we thought that was everything past the Old Mount Air Cafe out to the lonely gas station when you hit the interstate: two Posted: January 19, 2017 Published: January 21, 2017 - Park Record Regulators refuse to release Amazon tax deal records Utah State Tax Commision denies records request News came this week that the Ringling Brothers-Barnum & Bailey Circus is going out of business. The three-ring circus shows have been around for 146 years, featuring acts with elephants, tigers, bears and other animals. Part of their decline in sales was attributed to protests from animal rights advocates that the animals were not properly treated. The elephants were dropped from the show a few years ago. Officials with the circus said that wasn’t the biggest reason. Competition from movies, online entertainment and other electronic media present what appear to be real dinosaurs and other fearsome monsters in ways that make a circus performer in a cage with a superannuated lion, viewed from the nose-bleed seats, seem something less than spectacular. When a t-rex comes right at you on a 100-foot tall IMAX screen, the lady riding two horses at the same time is just not cutting it. The final nail in the coffin, however, came from somewhere completely unexpected. Sources close to the circus said, “There’s just nothing a three-ring circus can offer that can compete with the in-coming Trump administration. I mean, we have 300 clowns, but that’s nothing compared to Congress and Trump’s cabinet picks. Our best can pull a rabbit out of a hat. Trump can pull a nuclear war out of a Tweet. There’s just no way compete against that.” And so one historic circus ends, and another begins. When Trump placed his hand on an autographed copy of “The Art of the Deal,” and took the oath of office, we crossed into unknown territory. Nobody has a clue what he will try to do, or what he really stands for. He’s already at crosspurposes with the Republicans in Congress on some significant issues such as Russia and health care. It remains to be seen what he will propose and whether the Commission spokesman Charlie Roberts said Tuesday that Utah’s Government Records Access and Management Act does not require disclosure of commercial information because such information could give Amazon’s competitors an unfair advantage. Roberts has said Amazon will receive the same 1.31 percent of the taxes-collected handling fee that in-state retailers receive for collecting sales tax. Connor Boyack, president of the Libertas Institute, argues taxpayers have the right to know what their government agreed to in order to collect a not-legally-required tax. “After failed attempts to deputize out-of-state-companies as tax collectors for the state, Gov. (Gary) Herbert and the Utah State Tax Commission have somehow persuaded Amazon to voluntarily collect the tax and keep a piece of the pie themselves,’’ Boyack said. Boyack said the information should also be public because it involves a large amount of public money. It is estimated that 21 percent of all online sales are made on Amazon. Boyack said Libertas is discussing the denial with attorneys and will decide soon whether to appeal denial of its request to the State Records Committee. Under Utah law, internet retailers are required to collect sales tax for online sales only if they have a physical presence in the state, such as a store or distribution center. Otherwise, Utah buyers are required to pay the sales tax themselves by adding it to their annual income tax return, but few do. Lawmakers have proposed bills to force automatic collection by online retailers, but they have failed due to pressure from online retailers and groups that oppose the effective tax increase. to end. “To me, it’s like trying to see if the food’s ready or not,” Smith said. “It’s not surprising that it would try to explore this dog … but I guarantee if you left that bear there long enough, it would say, ‘I wonder what this dog tastes like?’ I’d be sorely disappointed in a bear that didn’t ultimately eat that dog.” And in Colorado Central Magazine, John Mattingly recalled an old saw about a government agency frequently accused of hubris: “The difference between God and the Forest Service is that God does not think she is the Forest Service.” Betsy Marston is the editor of Writers on the Range, the opinion service of High Country News (hcn.org). Tips and photos of Western oddities are appreciated and often shared in this column. Write betsym@ hcn.org or tag photos #heardaroundthewest on Instagram. replacement plans for when the dust settles. For example, Obamacare, or the Affordable Care Act, hasn’t worked out exactly as planned. Even with the (modest) penalty for not signing up, the cohort of young, healthy people who needed to participate in the risk pool to make it all work didn’t come to the party. The available policies, especially in the individual market, are still terribly expensive. So only the older folks like me are buying. Insurance only works if the people whose houses aren’t on fire also buy insurance. So the Republicans in Congress are all hot and bothered to repeal it, starting with the taxes that partially paid for it. Then they promise that nobody will lose their insurance, so it’s just a budgetary mess. In seven years of trying to “repeal and replace,” the Republicans haven’t presented an alternative, because they don’t have one. Health care is something like 17 percent of the total U.S. economy. It’s not realistic to think it will be restructured in 140 characters Tweeted out on the way to the john at 3 a.m. Yet that appears to be how we are going to operate. Our government process moves terribly slow, partly by design, and partly because it is hopelessly broken. When there is a real crisis, though, Congress seems to find a spine and actually addresses things. So maybe that’s the strategy. Government by deliberate crisis. Trump doesn’t have to have a solution. Maybe his plan is to be the destroyer in chief, running around blowing things up, and then letting the experts figure out what to do with the wreckage. Ladies and gentlemen, direct your eyes to the center ring for the Greatest Show On Earth. Tom Clyde practiced law in Park City for many years. He lives on a working ranch in Woodland and has been writing this column since 1986. By Teri Orr lanes to Salt Lake City. We didn’t have much. We didn’t need much. In 1981, when the old Silver Wheel theater was renovated and returned to the original Egyptian Theater, the U.S. FlIm Festival rented it out to show a premiere each year. I remember when “On Golden Pond” played and the place was packed. No real stars came, but the director did. I stood outside in the lobby after the film started to explain to latecomers there were no more seats. One ruggedly handsome man in a flannel shirt and hiking boots showed up and asked if he could go inside just to stand in the back. One of the volunteers said, ‘No, it was just too full.’ The man looked crestfallen. He said he had written the screenplay and just wanted to hear the audience’s reaction. I invited Ernest Thompson (who went on to Nothing happened in January and most of February. Nothing. Nobody came here.” win an Academy Award and fleetingly the heart of a local secretary) in to watch the film, standing in the back, with us. All the other makeshift theaters were falling down buildings all over town with power outages and broken equipment and uncomfortable chairs and light leaks. In the mid-1980s, it looked like the whole ambitious idea just couldn’t sustain itself and Robert Redford stepped in to save it from dying. It was the perfect match to the kinda summer camp he was already running down at his resort Sundance. Independent-minded film people, from actors to directors to cinematographers, came to his cabins and spent a few weeks learning from each other and cooking up ideas. Hell, nobody else was staying there then. A few breakaway films happened: “Sex, Lies and Videotape” and “Reservoir Dogs” being seminal firsts. And more and more people came to the festival. And not too long after that we were part of the winter Olympic bid. And it became clear in the ‘90s we would need hotels and more restaurants and a bigger space to show films. Sundance threatened to leave town unless the community helped them find better spaces to showcase the weeklong event. Because by that time the town had grown to depend upon the festival. We were junkies for the celebrities who ate breakfast at the chrome stools in the Mount Aire and played pool at the Alamo and skied and bought clothes and books and lots of meals. We had themed costume parties together in the old Memorial building. The closing night party was in the Racquet Club where everybody came to congratulate all the filmmakers and they all came to celebrate. There were no cellphones, hence no selfies nor record of our exuberant celebrations. It was a simpler time. And we were simpler people. It was long before we considered what it meant to be/to have an arts community. It was decades before I started signing my business letters with “Art Matters.” We need to be careful when we get nostalgic about wanting to turn back the clock. For all the charm and good times, we were also a rundown, neglected old mining town with no mining left. And a bunch of ski bum hippies who mostly were starting over from someplace else after failing at a job, or a marriage, or school, or the service. It was lots of fun but as folks now like to say, “It was not sustainable or scalable.” But in one chapter, we built this city on rock and roll and roll film. We were all the augmented reality we needed. Welcome to the festival held in the month formerly known as “Slow.” Enjoy each day, including Sunday in the Park... Teri Orr is a former editor of The Park Record. She is the director of the Park City Institute, which provides programming for the George S. and Dolores Doré Eccles Center for the Performing Arts. |