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Show Scene Sports Arts Festival is bigger, working to be better. Kids skate the day away at Park City Skate Series competition. Paae B-1 Page C-1 PARK CITY, UTAH PARK RITV UTAH 1S80 20Ofi Summer is winding down H ^ H ^ ^ k Serving Summit County since 188C By PATRICK PARKINSON Of the Record staff As the criticism of electronic voting machines builds, Utah officials appear determined to purchase equipment rejected last week by California's secretary of state. The state's top elections officer, Utah Lieulenant Governor Gary Herbert, is currently meeting with county commissions around Utah to explain why he authorized the purchase of the Diebold touchscreen machines for Utah voters. In order to comply with requirements of the federal Help America Vote Act of 2002 (HAVA), Utah's 29 counties agreed to allow a selection committee to examine different types of machines and recommend to Herbert how $27 million in state and federal HAVA funds should be spent. The committee picked Diebold electronic machines, which opponents say can easily be hacked into by someone technologically savvy enough to navigate the Internet. HAVA was passed in the wake of the 2000 election to ensure more accurate vote counts and access to the polls for the disabled. '"There was a failure rate of about 10 percent, and that's not good enough for the voters of California and not good enough for me," California Secretary of State Bruce McPherson told The Oakland Tribune last Thursday. Jammed printers and other Diebold seizures reportedly plagued a July 20 mock election in California. "They can be used to rig elections," said Park City resident Kathy Dopp, a Diebold critic and founder of the organization, Utah Count Votes. "[Diebold] is so easy to hack.'1 Dopp has all but begged the Summit County Commission to not follow Herbert s lead and to purchase machines she claims are more suitable for conducting elections. "The Diebolds are the ones with the worst reputation because they've been examined so many times by computer scientists and found to be totally inadequate," she said during an interview Monday. "They've been prohibited from using them in California." Not only are Diebold machines insecure but they also do not provide an easily verifiable paper trail, Dopp claims. Additional computer equipment is required to audit the machines' internal paper rolls, however, Diebold has never demonstrated the equipment and slate elections officers have not budgeted for the School year starts Aug. 24, offices open on Thursday By JARED WHITLEY Of the Record staff Please see Count down, A-2 5 SECTIONS • 56 PAGES A-8 C-18 A-15 C-13 A-10 C-4 A-11 A-19 C-3 A-11 C-17 C-4 A-18 C-7 B-1 C-11 B-2 Park Record Serving Summit County since 1880 www.parkrecord.conn 8 34937 00001 VOL. 125 • NO.52 Wed/Thurs/Fri,August 3-5, 2005 California secretary of state, local activists have elected officials questioning choice BECKY IARSEWPARK RECC Ask the average Park City School District employee if they had a good summer, and you're likely to get the answer, "What summer?" Park City High School secretary Barbara Swenson describes her summer as nice and relaxing, but said, "It was awfully short." Summer is rapidly disappearing, as there are only three weeks before the school year starts again. And time for recreating might be scarce in these last three weeks, as preparation for the new year becomes increasingly imminent. On Monday, office staff returned to their schools. On Thursday. Aug. 4, schools will be open to the public. "August is really busy because we're trying to get out fee payment, schedules," Swenson said. "We have to make sure we have everything lined up for (registration) so that runs smooth." This week, the district mailed its back-toschool Focus Report to each family's home, and additional copies are available in schools or the district office at 2700 Kearns Blvd. The first day of the new school year is Wednesday, Aug. 24, and there are some significant changes on the plate. Swenson said, "I think it's fun when the kids start coming back, we won't have any new freshmen this year, it's just fun to interact with ttje kids again." > After four years of preparation, Park City School District will implement its grade "realignment, to cope with the district's expanding population. All sixth- and seventh" graders will go to Ecker Hill Middle School. All eighth- and ninth-graders will attend the recently renamed Treasure Mountain International School, leaving the high school with only grades 10 through 12. Some school start times will change too. Both Treasure Mountain and the high school will run from 7:30 a.m. to 2:25 p.m., to facilitate the additional busing that Treasure Mountain will require. This will require eighth-graders to wake up a lot earlier than they might otherwise have, as Treasure Mountain started at 8:50 a.m. last year. Ecker Hill will run from 8:50 a.m. to 3:45 p.m., and elementary schools will run from 8:15 a.m. to 3:05 p.m. The district's four elementary schools are not directly affected by grade realignment, however, elementary boundary changes made in December will go into affect starting this year. The shuffle was made to reduce the number of students at Jeremy Ranch Elementary School, which at its height last year had more than 700 students - almost double the populations of each other Park City school. Previous Jeremy Ranch students who live ^' State unfazed by election criticism chool Agendas Automotive Business Classifieds Columns Crossword Editorial Education Events Calendar Letters to the Editor Legals Movies Professional Services Restaurant Guide Sports TV Listings Weather rom 6-9 p.m. Aug. 5 the Kimbnll Art Center will hold its Last Fridays Arts and East Gallery Stroll. The event will coincide with the Arts Festival, j l wi" include ; numerous restaurants and galleri"- -,^'p, more Yil info, call 649-888? ^ ' " m *' Park Recoru. ^ • ^ ^ ^ www.parkrecord.com F SCOTT S\N& PARK RECORD items, Dopp said. "I ve never heard of Diebold actually demonstrating any system to Park City resident Kathy Dopp, founder of the organization, Utah Count Votes, has tried count its paper rolls," she adds. to convince the Summit County Commission to not purchase Diebold voting machines Please see Voting machine, A-2 favored by Utah Lieutenant Governor Gary Herbert, Utah's top election officer. Permits and public transit are rules of the weekend Arts Festival will have satellite parking lots, free shuttle service By MATT JAMES Of the Record staff Every year for one weekend at the beginning of August, the Park City Kimball Arts Festival fills Main Street with artists and their wares, and while that provides Park City with a huge tourist draw and a unique summer attraction, it doesn't help traffic. Main Street and Heber Ave. (between Swede Alley and Park Ave.) will close for the weekend beginning at 11 a.m. on Friday, Aug. 5, and access to all Old Town streets west of Marsac Ave. will be restricted. For those who must drive in Old Town, there will be two permits available. There is an Old Town Resident Passes for those who live on roads west of Marsac Ave. That permit will allow a person to access all Old Town streets except for Swede Alley, Main Street and Heber Ave. Parkites living on Park Ave. south of Deer Valley Drive, and those living west of Marsac Ave. and south of Heber Ave. will need resident permits. For artists and Main Street merchants who need automotive access to Swede Alley there will be a Swede Alley Access Pass. However, while this pass will grant access to Swede Alley, it will not automatically grant the holder parking privileges in the lots on Swede Alley. Additionally, city project manager Dave Gustafson, who was organizing the parking logistics for the city, said that both Resident Permit and Swede Alley Access Pass holders must abide by all normal parking restrictions. "AH parking enforcement is in place," he said. That means, he added, that the areas that normally have parking restrictions - like upper Park Ave. - will still have those restrictions during the Arts Festival. Swede Alley Access Passes and Old Town Resident Passes are available at the Kimball Art Center for those who need them. One must simply stop by before the streets close. Kerr head ofTPL in Utah "If you need a resident pass, come to the Kimball," said Dan Sorensen, the organization's public relations director. "We're more than happy to alleviate the situation." With all the restrictions, and more than 40.000 people in town for the weekend, Gustafson said it was essential that as many people as possible keep their cars away from Old Town. "What it comes down to is getting as many people to ride the transit system as is possible," he said. There will be three satellite parking lots serving the Arts Festival - at Deer Valley Resort, Park City Mountain Resort, and Park City High School. On Saturday and Sunday from 9:30 a.m. to 7 p.m. shuttles will run from those locations to Old Town every 15 minutes. "People need to park at the satellite locations," said Sorensen. The Kimball recommends planning on 30 minutes of extra travel time for those going to the festival. Please see Plan Ahead, A-2 Hit me with your best shot - where she is excited to work with developers and elected officials to help quell sprawl in the rapidly growing Phoenix desert. "I'll be out on the ground, I'm one By PATRICK PARKINSON of those that likes to see the land, find Of the Record staff out what the real values are," she said. After a distinctive career in Summit "I want to be at those public hearings, County politics, Park City resident I want to be a part of that participaShauna Kerr was named last Friday as tion." -For years, TPL has cooperated with state director of The Trust for Public ranchers and farmers in Utah to purLand (TPL) for Arizona and Utah. Kerr replaces Jenny Parks in the chase development rights and preposition and began overseeing proj- serve Utah's important agricultural ects and fundraising for the national ground from builders, she adds. "TPL's been able to enable people non-profit land conservation organizaand empower them to do the right tion on Monday. A former Park City councilor, thing with their land," Kerr said. Summit County commissioner and "They empower people to do 11what member of the state's Quality Growth they already really wanted to do. Contacts she has developed on Commission, she spoke to The Park Capitol Hill and in Record Tuesday by telephone from Utah's her new office at TPL's western Washington, D.C., during several political stints will come in handy, she regional branch in Santa Fe, N.M. "This is the culmination of a lot of added. "Isn't it thrilling," said Summit years of legal, political and conservation work that's brought me here," she County Commissioner Sally Elliott when asked to comment about Kerr's said. "It's a very good fit." Kerr applied after seeing the posi- new job. Elliott, a Democrat from Park City, tion advertised recently in a Salt Lake replaced Kerr on the County newspaper. Commission in January after defeatAnd she wasn't the only one. "The Trust for Public Land con- ing Snyderville Republican Steve ducted an extensive search," said Osguthorpe last November. Kerr Mary Menccs, director of public opted not to seek a second term in affairs for TPL's western region. 2004. "It's just the most miraculous place "[Kerr] has such an extensive history in public service and really under- for her to use her talents," Elliott said. stands the type of work we're doing." "We'll miss Shauna. She has lots of "We're absolutely thrilled to have energy and enormous talent and that GRAYSON WEST!PARK RECORD her, her values and life work really fit will be a way to put her talents to work T.J. Mayo challenges Grant Wallace to tag him out during a game of for public good." well." But Kerr insists she won't soon dodge ball during Camp Blast at Ecker Hill International School Monday Kerr says she will divide her time between Santa Fe, Utah and Arizona Please see Trust, A-2 afternoon. RC woman named to top post at land nonprofit \ |