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Show Page 3 Commission Hears Ed UCation Cen4r Utah Foundation Presentation Surrounds Renewal Of Federal Revenue Sharing Wednesday, Jan. 14, 1976 Uncertainty 1 jh T : '. 1 A The Park City Planning ' Commission, last Wednesday night, listened to a proposal "designed to bring a minimum of $4 million in revenues to Park City between bet-ween Easter and Thanksgiving." The University of Utah Continuing Education Center proposed for the Prospector Square-Prospector - Village . area would be the generator of this cash flow according to Lonnie Adams, speaking on behalf of the Amechor Company. As planned, the center would , consist of an educational building, a recreational building, four tennis courts, a swimming, pool and 300 living units on ten acres of land. The facilities would be donated to the U of U bv Amechon. and jitilize(Lhy, conferences of.1prDfeswoOflliDtefoj"b'jieiaue zi 11 TTnivAMtifv As it has in the past the planning commission expressed ex-pressed its agreement with the concept of the center but said the size and complexity of the undertaking demands close scrutiny. Living Units City Councilman Jan Wilking questioned the need for the 300 living units oh the ten-acre site and was told by Adams, "It is a matter of money." J- rv j L It Supplying th Park City area with . Furnishings Carpeting 4 Draperies if Condominium Kltchen-Beddlng-Accesiory Packages Original Designer and suppliers of Crescent Ridge, Paday. Park Avenue, Clalmjumper, and Treasure Mountain Moun-tain Village Condominiums, s . ' located el Retort Centerliver Mill House 1214 Empire Avenue Park CKy, Utah 14060 (101) 64MMI ' ' " (' Lonnie Adams "It's the only way it can ' economically fly," Adams said and then added, "In order to give $1 million in facilities, we need that many units to make the project economically feasible." . "As long as ten years ago Park City and various citizen groups had offered to donate land to build a facility thai would attract a year-round participants," Adams observed. ob-served. ; He then delineated the reasons "why .this unique idea was never pursued." ; Adams said the University had no funds to build an education center regardless of the amount of land donated. He also stated that changes in educational philosophy have made such a facility "more necessary and. in. iJgreateE.,demandtban,.Avat "proximity to the University of Utah campus, nearness to an international airport, beautiful summer climate and other considerations," Adams said, "A learning facility of adequate proportion, with suitable accommodations directly adjacent to the center would give the University of Utah a product to market second to none in the United States." "A Park City Institute could surpass even the Aspen Ed Vetter Design Coalition Interior Design and Gifts Institute in popularity and participation," he' declared. Aspen Institute Adams noted that the Aspen Institute was established in 1949 at the instigation of Walter Paepcke and that in the last five years its budget has soared from $500,000 to $4 million annually. an-nually. "Park City Institute ... can be greater than the Aspen Institute because it can offer not only in concept all of the attributes of the Aspen Institute, but offer them through a division of an established Universtiy," Adams said. . "Those attending at-tending will not only receive recognition and prestige, but, in plain language, . college credits which they will need in order to maintain state and professional licenses . in the future.". ' " Adams fiSld theQjective of theyCrnt a package that wilrDe competitive in the marketplace market-place ... because of content, academic excellence, superior location and attractive at-tractive price." He described the pool of potential users for the education center as . "astronomical." f jrospector Square , and , Prospector Village developer j Ed Vetter said, "There-is no way conceivable that this cannot overflow into the rest of the city." "We will need the cooperation of the other lodges in town." Referring to the local summer economy, Vetter commented, "Hopefully, this can be the answer . to the economic problems of Park City." He then added, "Prospector :. Square naturally is going to profit from this, we're entrepreneurs." , "We want your input," Vetter said. "We want this to be a Park City project." Planning Commission Chairman John Strand said the proposal : is of "such magnitude" that a special session of the commission along 'with city council members is needed. An- extraordinary meeting was then scheduled for tonight at 7 p.m. Decker Leaving Recorder's Post City Recorder. Bruce Decker has announced he will be leaving his post in late February or early March. Mr. . Decker intends to pursue a Masters Degree in Public Administration at Stanford University in Palo Alto, Calif. At approximately the time of his departure, the " University of Utah' graduate 'will .marry Miss: Melanle - Schuput of Salt Lake City who is presently employed In San Francisco by the Arthur Anderson accounting firm." Mr. Decker assumed his Uncertainty . , surrounding renewal of the Federal revenue-sharing program, scheduled to expire at the end of 197C, is creating a problem for state and local governments govern-ments with respect to budget planning. This fact was emphasized in a study of Federal revenue sharing in Utah just completed by Utah : Foundation, the private tax , research organization Federal revenue-sharing allocations made to all state and local units in Utah during the 1975 fiscal year amounted to $36,217,429 v Since enactment enact-ment of the program in 1972, a total of $120.3 million in Federal revenue-sharing funds has been distributed to 250 governmental units in Utah. ' According to the Foundation Foun-dation study, local units in Summit County ' received $177,884 in Federal revenue-sharing revenue-sharing funds during the 1975 fiscal ' year. This total included in-cluded $98,769 for the county government and $39,449 for Park City. Wells And Bertagnolo NamcsdJQir n Rati fTIIYCf ;J? 3 Commission Seats Bob Wells was appointed to the Park City Planning Commission by the city council Thursday night and Dill T3 Ai n rtw. m1 a .nM nMAl 4a ZZXr u T l succeed himself on that same j body. Wells and Bertagnole were selected from ten candidates desirious of Killing the two commission vacancies. Seven of the candidates were interviewed in-terviewed Wednesday night by a joint panel of commission com-mission and council members. mem-bers. ' ; - Wells, a former vice president with Greater Park City Company and now a general partner in the Michigan-Utah Company, declared himself to be an advocate of growth and individual in-dividual rights while Bertagnole Ber-tagnole was touted for his ability to say "no." The other candidates for' the commission posts included in-cluded James Piper, Thomas Monge, Craig Masters, Mary Lehmer, Wayne Iverson, Gordon Sloan, Marvin. Steadman and Stanley Johnson. . post as city recorder in November of 1973. "I've learned more in my two years here than during the rest of my education,!' the city recorder observed. Mr, Decker noted that the complexity, of Park City's finances has increased immensely im-mensely during his tenure. He added, however, that the city, is in better financial condition now than at any other point during his two years and is "probably in better shape than it has been at any other time since the demise of the local mining Industry," ' Foundation analysts point out that if all the Federal revenue-sharing funds were to be replaced by a property tax levy, a total of 12.44 mills ($12.44 per $1,000 assessed valuation) would be required in Park City. This would include a levy of 4.36 mills to replace the revenue-sharing money received by the State, 2.89 mills to replace the funds received by Summit County and 5.19 mills to offset the revenue obtained by Park City. Under - Fedeal revenue sharing, funds are automatically and regularly disbursed to more than 38,000 state and local units across the nation without the extensive ex-tensive restrictions that are attached to other Federal grant programs. Advocates contend that the program allows more of the functions of government to be provided by units closer to the people than would be the case if decision-making is centralized cen-tralized in Washington. Opponents, on the other hand, Council Revenue DaiiIiiIiavi i ncuuiuuuii oyinow 9i oiuow i Mi.- n 1 rai.. r :i 1IK A ' Ul n VJ WVUUVU) Thursday night, signed a resolution in support of the federal government's General Revenue Sharing plan. The resolution will be forwarded . to the Utah ' Congressional Delegation in an attempt to encourage them to support a bill re-enacting re-enacting the General Revenue Sharing Act of 1972 which will soon be in front of jjgjgg The General Revenue Sharing Act, which will expire ex-pire on Dec. 21, 1976 if the U.S. Congress' does not take immediate action to re-enact it, provides additional funds to state, county and local governments, including Park City. Although many lawmakers consider revenue sharing to be the most efficient and most equitable means of distributing federal monies to the different governmental levels, there is a possibility that Congress will institute a policy of block grants in- While revenue sharing provides funds for general purposes at local levels, block grants are given only upon specific and strictly defined CI (IP Cf Live BAND THE TENPENNIES (English, Soottish and Irish dance tunes.) bpjlA..,2P.M. WAYNE JOHNSON'S DANCE CONTESTS PRIZES FUN ' Rrldayandaiturday, January 16 and 17 v STEAK HOUSE RESTAURANT OPEN DAILY FROM 11:30a.m. -3:00P.M. and 6:00P.M.. 11 :00P.M. point out that the Federal government has not been able to balance its own budget during recent years, while many state and local units have been able to maintain strong fiscal positions. When revenue-sharing funds were first allocated three years ago, there was considerable skepticism concerning the permanency of the program. As a result, many units earmarked the funds for nonrecurring expenditures, ex-penditures, such as buildings and other one-time items of spending. Despite this early caution, Ll - A 1 II a ine report ODserves inai many governmental units have gradually incorporated the revenue-sharing funds into their regular operating programs. Foundation analysts point out that the vulnerability of local units in Utah to any revenue-sharing changes enacted by Congress this year will depend on the extent to which the governing authorities have committed their revenue-sharing funds Passes Sharing requests. Smce this type of funding heavily favors bigger cities, with larger projects, the City Council, along with many other; small city governments, is encouraging the Utah Congressional Delegation to work for the re-enactment re-enactment of the General Revenue Sharing Act. City Attornoy Suffers Hoart Attack Park City Attorney Carl Nemelka suffered a heart attack in City Hall just prior to the city council's Thursday night meeting. Mr. Nemelka was stricken at approximately 8 p.m. in the city manager's office and received on the scene treatment from the Park City Fire Department. He was then transported to a doctor's office in Bountiful, Utah. The city attorney, who had reportedly neglected to take prescribed medication prior to the attack, was back at work on Monday. ADOLPH'S INC. WELCOMES AMERICAN AIRLINES SKI WEEK Wednesday, January 14, 1976 to recurring items. As a sidelight, the Foundation Foun-dation study notes that one of the major arguments used by advocates in the revenue-sharing revenue-sharing debates of the late 1960's was that "revenue sharing would help eliminate the 'fiscal drag' that results when Federal revenues tend to rise faster than Federal expenditures." 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