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Show C .TTDnffi UTAH pREs Aq 46 7 EAST iij b0ClA 1 J-UN SALT r.4B r ouuTH UT 841H FMhl Volume 1 1 0, No. 49 3 Sections, 44 Pages Thursday, January 1 1, 1 990 EZ23 i. , i i II TTr T -j Tp m i it j i i r i m. r i i ifi r '! SIP? riefa Opponents of Winters project meet Jan. 1 1 Park City resident Jim 1 Totora has scheduled a meeting on Jan. 11 for all peo-, peo-, pie opposed to the proposed development of a cultural center in the old Carl Winters School. The meeting will begin at 5 p.m. at 1240 Park Ave., across from the old school. Recreation department offers activities... The Park City Recreation Department offers soccer, basketball and volleyball for adults weeknights at the Treasure Mountain Middle School from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. Soccer is played on Mondays, basketball on Tuesdays and Thursdays, and volleyball on Wednesdays. There is also Sunday drop-in volleyball and basketball from 4:3-6:30 p.m. Cost is $2 per night or $1.50 wlocalscard. ...for sure shots... The Park City Recreation Department invites all boys and girls, grades 5-12 to the Utah Jazz Sure Shots Basketball Basket-ball Skills Competition Saturday, Satur-day, Jan. 13. Sure Shots will be held at Treasure Mountain Middle School and begins at 9 a.m., but call the recreation department to find out when each age group plays. The competition is free, and the only requirement is that a participant par-ticipant has never competed on a varsity high school basketball team. ..and gymnasts The Park City Recreation Department is taking registration for the second session of Gymnastics. Boys and girls ages 3-18 are welcome to register. Deadline for class registration is Jan. 15. Register early. Class sizes are limited. Terzian scores in World Cup Salt Lake City skier Kristi Terzian scored in her eighth World Cup ski race of the season Tuesday, finishing ninth in a slalom in Hinterstoder, Austria. The result moved her into a tie for 14th in the overall World Cup, and into a tie for 11th in the slalom standings. "It was a very good result for Kristi," said U.S. coach Paul Major. "She skied very well, except for nearly losing her pole at the start. I think she could have finished as high as third." Terzian was the only American finisher, with Diann Roffe, Eva Twardokens and Heidi Voelker failing to complete com-plete the second run. "The team is just where we left off in December," said Major, whose women's team is now in fourth place In the Nations Cup. "It's no longer acceptable to be in the top 15 everyone is shooting for top ten finishes." Swiss skier Vreni Schneider won the race in 1:35.27. Austrian Anita Wachter was second. Terzian finished ninth in 1:38.23. U.S. skier Monique Pelletier failed to qualify in the top 30 for the second run. The slalom team will continue con-tinue to train in Hinterstoder, while the downhill team begins official training Wednesday in Haus, Austria. The World Cup resumes in Haus with a downhill Saturday and slalomcombined Sunday. Tl -. -, ., ...... 'W? . . ' . ..tOtP" -iJW" - 1 " . , - ' vl . r J. " , - '- - , ,fc I ' ' , " t .. '?" '- 1 r- -"-' ' . ' f" v -j- . y - V V f 1 - - L ' v - - JlLy - " Wf" (irnM,"2.'W ---rn " L0t " . . . k ' i,. . v - ; . , - - i- ih.i ! u ' - .. - ... ' t " . --a.,. ' - V Watch those tips! UDOT updates commission by SENA TAYLOR Record staff writer ; A Utah Department of Transportation Transpor-tation official told the Summit County Coun-ty Commission Tuesday he has "given up" on plans to complete the widening of State Road 224 leading into Park City from Kimball Junction Junc-tion in 1990. But he said UDOT is working to complete "a lot of roads" before the Olympics come to Utah. UDOT District Director Gene Sturzenegger addressed a special session of the county commission Jan. 9 during an annual meeting between bet-ween UDOT and city and county leaders. He briefed officials on various projects pro-jects underway in the county, including in-cluding sidewalks, highway transfers and new roads around the Jordanelle Reservoir. Sturzenegger described the S.R. 224 project as "a little more sticky" than other UDOT-related jobs in the county. Referring to an interview with.KPCW radio last fall, Sturzenegger admitted he had been Educators concerned about school crises By ROBIN PORTER Record staff writer The next six weeks of the state's legislative session "will be critical" to Utah's educational system according accor-ding to Park City School District Superintendent Nancy Moore. And Park City's educators are asking the community to deluge legislators with calls or letters to inform them of what the Utah Education Association Associa-tion calls the "crisis in education." At a Board of Education meeting Tuesday evening District business administrator Burke Jolley told Board of Education members "it would be beyond horrible" if some recommendations made to state legislators by the Governor's Office were adopted. Jolley said Wednesday that there are three main issues that would be detrimental to Park City School District: equalization of voted leeway, including teachers' social security and retirement benefits in the weighted pupil unit and equalization equaliza-tion of capital outlay budgets. If a legislative bill on equalizing the voted leeway passes, Jolley says the five mils In Park City's School District budget that have been used to reduce class size through the hir ing of new teachers could no longer be used for that purpose, and class sizes would go up. Regarding a proposal made by Governor Norm Bangerter, Jolley said Park City School District stands to lose about $450 per student each year. . Jolley says the proposal asserts that teacher social security and retirement should be considered as part of the money alloted to each student stu-dent within districts. About $750,000 "hopeful" that the project could begin this year. Issues from wetlands to archaeological findings and right-of-way problems have delayed the project for two years. He indicated the most immediate problem at this time involves the archaeological ar-chaeological issue. "Last Friday I found out that the archaeological study still has not been completed... com-pleted... it needs the final touches," said Sturzenegger. Archaeologists identified three areas which have potential prehistoric or historic significance, one of which is a possible landfill site on the Osguthorpe property. "When we identify a site, it doesn't mean the entire project will be prohibited," pro-hibited," Sturzenegger explained. "But we have to look at it to make sure it's protected and preserved." Once these issues have been resolved, Sturzenegger expects the project to move ahead with regular speed. "Much of the design has already been done on this project, and I don't think it will take us long to complete that is normally reimbursed by the state for teacher salary would be reduced by 20 percent. "It would severely impact our district," Jolley said. , A third recommendation that was made by the State Board of Education Educa-tion to legislators would equalize capital outlay budgets throughout the state. Jolley says two-thirds of the money normally spent on textbooks, tex-tbooks, supplies and to enhance the salary schedule, attracting teachers to the district would be distributed throughout the state. He said this would "critically harm" Park City's school district, having a cripling effect ef-fect on the ability to buy resource material. At the Tuesday meeting, Park City Education Association President Pat Horyna told board members that teachers have been asked to write letters to parents and circulate petitions to put pressure on legislators, making funding for education their top priority. Horyna said she attended a UEA meeting of local association presidents Jan. 6, and there had been no discussion of a teacher walkout. walk-out. She said the object is to "keep the focus and energy on the Governor Gover-nor and legislators. " Referring to a letter sent to teachers from the Park City Board of Education regarding a walk-out and their policy on such an action, Horyna said she regarded the letter as "premature and insensitive." The letter, dated Jan. 3 stated the board's policy on a teacher walk-out. EDUCATION to A2 Handicapped skier takes a turn in races last weekend at ParkWest. See more on the Utah Winter Games in Sports, Bl. the rest of the design." He said it takes about six weeks after the pro- UDOTtoA2 Garn's gang expected to raise $500,000 total by TERI ORR Record editor Senator Jake Gam said there was no democratic process involved in-volved when he selected the recipient reci-pient of the Senators' Cup fundraiser fun-draiser the first year "It was a very dictorial decision I chose Primary Children's Hospital." But he had very good reason. Garn's own daughter had been a patient at Primary years ago when she was first diagonosed as having diabetes and failing kidneys. Eventually Jake would donate one of his own kidneys to his daughter and today both lead healthy and productive lives. Garn says the kind treatment they received as a family right in the beginning at Primary made a lasting impression on him. "I had spent a lot time in hospitals before my daughter's illness il-lness with sick parents and I was rather cynical about the medical process. At Primary I found a team of really kind people and it made all the difference." This week's Senators' Ski Cup which features returning alumni former senator Dan Quayle among others, is expected to raise more than $150,000 for the hospital bringing the four year total to more than $500,000 for the charitable care of children. For three days top senators and a handful of White House officials will put party differences aside and discuss only the parallel politics of making gates and finishing times. This year's event will be held in memory of Craig Badami, vice president of the Park City Ski Area who was killed kill-ed in a tragic helicopter ski crash in November. "He did so much for the event, which was in turn for the children of the hospital, " says Garn softly. soft-ly. "He is missed and we wanted to pay tribute to him in some small way." ; As to the most household name entered in the races Garn says right before he left for the awards dinner at last year's Senators' Cup he got a phone call. "You guys having a good time," the vice president questioned ques-tioned when he reached Garn at his Park City condo. "Well, yes," Garn remembers telling him. Gezelius picke for council seat by HEIDI WEST Record staff writer Ruth Gezelius, a member of Park City's Planning Commission for five years, was selected on a 3-2 split vote to fill the two-year city council vacancy left by newly elected Mayor Brad Olch Thursday. The council had very little discussionon discus-sionon the vote, despite an earlier decision to hold whatever discussion they had on the vacancy in open session. ses-sion. An hour of closed session time had been set aside to discuus the candidates, can-didates, but local media protested the legality of the reasons (professional (profes-sional merits of individuals and personnel) per-sonnel) the city had cited to close. Mayor Brad Olch tried to persuade per-suade council members to conduct the talks in closed session, despite the media challenge. He noted the council had held interviews in open session, but had closed to discuss the merits of candidates more than three years ago, when an exiting council member left a seat vacant. "It's almost like a precedent has been set," he said. Olch also said voting for a can- 2 didate should be something the coun cil was able to do behind closed doors, since it was "frankly your own personal business." City Attorney Jim Carter advised the council it could close to talk about the "character, professional competence, or physical or mental health of an individual," but added he had received input from media attorney Patrick Shea (counsel to the Society of Professional Journalists) Jour-nalists) and Deputy Attorney General Joe Tesch that the section "should be interpreted very narrowly." narrow-ly." Both had advised Carter the discussion of the merits of council candidates and the selection of a new council member were "legislative functions that should be open." ' , Council Member Jim Santy said he .would like to have the discussion "Who won? " asked Quayle. "We don't know the official results yet," Garn responded. "Well, will you call me when you know?" "Sure. What are you doing, Dan?" "Oh, I'm just sitting here in my living room watching the Secret Service walk around in front of my house and watch me. I sure wish I was there." "Maybe next year..." And so, here we are, one year and 70 Secret Service men later, Quayle is back and the phone lines at the Park City Ski Area this week include a direct line to the White House. Yeah that White House. It's enough to make happy campers out of us all. In addition, the list of senators on skis includes, as of presstime, Bond of Missouri, Chafee of Sen. Jake : ? -,T-i - nil. , J "" J ,.' ' I ! - I :' " - I Ruth Gezelius in open session during the formal meeting of the council later that evening. But when Olch debated the idea, Santy then moved to close to talk about the candidates in work session. The motion died for lack of a second. se-cond. Santy then moved to wait until the council's formal session that evening even-ing to talk about the vacancy in an open meeting. It was approved unanimously. (The Mayor does not vote unless there is a tie. ) At the formal session, Santy again made a motion this time to instate Ruth Gezelius as the new council member. Newly elected Council Member Bob Richer seconded the motion, and noted he felt Gezelius had one through valuable "public scrutiny" by running for election to the council this November. The council split 2-2 in favor of Gezelius, and Olch broke the tie by adding his vote in her support. Gezelius told the Record she was COUNCIL to A2 Rhode Island, Coats of Indiana, D' Amato of New York,Daschle of South Dakota, Gorton of Washington, Heinz of Pennsylvania, Penn-sylvania, Jeffords of Vermont, Hasten of Wisconsin, Lautenberg of New Jersey, Lott of Mississippi, Mississip-pi, Mack of Florida, Murkowski of Alaska, Nickles of Oklahoma and Symms of Idaho. White House Chief of Staff John Sununu and Michael Boskin Chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisors will be on hand as will former Cabinet members John Herrington and Don Hodel. The senators will be skiing on the Clementine run at the Park City Ski area on Friday and Saturday. Major sponsors of this years event are American Express, Ex-press, US West, Delta and the Park City Ski Area. Garn TwIOrr V |