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Show i Wednesday, October 5, 1977 Page 9 The Candidates And Vote Tines :g mMm . .imp" j Stady The following statements have been submitted by the respective candidates for the Park City Council. Incumbent Councilman Richard Martinez was out of town last week and could not be contacted. if S VP Matt A My reasons for running for City Council are as follows : I feel our Park City senior citizens are scandalously scan-dalously being neglected. I would like to make a specific effort to recognize their talents and needs and attempt at-tempt to use them in our city. I would like to lead in encouraging all of our citizens to use their11 democratic right to vote and""" participate in their city government. I am hopeful my participation will lead more qualified people to participating. par-ticipating. I would support quality education that will encourage en-courage competency in skills necessary to function in our community. I would support an effort to develop an awareness in the populace of our responsibility respon-sibility with regard to conservation con-servation and efficient use of our natural resources. I would continue to lead in helping develop Park City's tourism industry and would further propose better development ot our new parks, community swimming swim-ming pools and recreation facilities. I would hope to help Park City develop in a healthy sort of way, making sure that we are provided with additional needed services ser-vices rather than duplication of the same services. I would work toward implementing im-plementing the original master plan concept of developing our Main Street historical community prior to allowing a duplication of services. I would want to help organize the city in its effort to have a bus system or transit tran-sit system supported by the community whether with taxes or toll. I would help support total employment of citizens who live and work in our community before allowing those dollars to go out of our community. I see the city being faced with complex municipal financing needs very soon. a1 I Do Your I Part And Vote I Tues., Oct. 11 Ivarez As the suburban sprawl invades in-vades our open land, service costs will escalate. We will need to build more sewers, streets and lighting. More human services will be needed and a better water supply will have to be developed. All of these things require study and understanding. un-derstanding. Such growth as Park City is experiencing now, if not controlled, rTcan be disastrous. I see the job of the next city council as being major. A reasonable expansion plan must be developed so that we might have a realistic, controlled con-trolled transition. The next council also will be faced with obtaining loans, grants and bonding to provide for its constituents. With my experience in engineering and business, I feel I could be a real asset to the council. I will offer the alternative of at least reviewing the issues before the new council, as opposed to a blind vote. The dimensions of monetary gains will delight the city and numerous officials of-ficials and merchants are going to be very pleased. But, expansion isn't without agonizing problems. I will seek to see that Park City develops in an orderly manner. I will seek to have the funds that are budgeted judiciously spent and will seek to achieve specific allocations in the budget for funds going to pay for services. ser-vices. I will pay attention to issues that might be presented presen-ted to the new council. I will attempt to be logical in my decision-making process and will listen very intently to the constituency that elects me to office. I will attempt to eliminate the confrontations that exist between the county and the city, the stranger and the old timers, the miner and farmer far-mer and the tourist industry. Most of this can be accomplished accom-plished by providing a better bet-ter communication link which I am seeking to establish. i j j J J J 4 Mary Lehmer I am running for City Council at the insistence of many people in Park City who are dissatisfied with what is happening in their hometown and wish a change. They are noticing that their elected officials too often forget that they are in office only as representatives represen-tatives of the people or show up only in time to collect their $100 per council meeting pay. I am willing to try once again to see if the voice of the people can be heard above the noise of any tunnel-vision vested interests in-terests and special interest groups inimical to Park City and the heritage we will leave to posterity. Everyone who was here from 1968 to 1976 knows my record as a competent and courageous city attorney and councilman. coun-cilman. Ask your neighbor. Here are some of my views. If they coincide with yours or if they make good sense, I need your vote so your voice can be heard. I advocate repeal of the 24 per cent franchise tax on your light, phone and gas bills imposed in 1974 to balance the city budget during the time our country suffered an economic recession. Like the sales tax, this tax is a regressive tax which impacts disproportionately on the retired persons in our town living on social security and pensions, the poor, and other persons living on Social Security and pensions, the poor, and others living on fixed incomes. I favor reducing the monthly mon-thly water rate back to $3.00 instead of $5.00. With all of the increased building in town, sufficient money has been generated through the increased rate to have raised the $150,000 needed to repay the loan from the State made to restore the water supply in the collapsed Judge shaft. That money should be applied ap-plied to accelerate the $30,000 annual repayments on the loan and pay if off in full. Water rates should then be restored to normal. When meters come, I don't want those $30,000 yearly payments paymen-ts to be computed into the cost of operating the water dept., as it is those costs upon which meter rates will be fixed. I favor the promotion of tourism and the increase of tourist facilities in preference preferen-ce to the recent trend in our city of proliferating permanent per-manent residences. Tourist dollars are good dollars, so why should we become just another bedroom community com-munity for Salt Lake City? It is also a fact that residences residen-ces do not pay their proportion propor-tion of taxes for the demand for services they generage; they are subsidized by commercial com-mercial property taxes, business license revenues, etc. Tourist dollars will keep your taxes down. For instance, in-stance, tourists make no demand for schools. 55 per cent of every tax dollar in Utah goes for schools. The Park City school tax levy on the average exceeds or equals the combined taxes levied by Park City and Summit Co. to operate Park City and the county. These are your tax dollars. Tourists arriving by bus make less impact on traffic. Our streets are becoming overcrowded. I am sure we all shudder to think of traffic lights and parking meters. Maintenance and snow removal on streets come high. In 1973, I visited colonial Williamsburg, Va., famous as a tourist attraction for its restoration of colonial times and crafts. Although I was there in an off-tourist season, the town was so jammed with tourists hat I had To stay in three separate inns in order to stay there six days to attend a seminar. Park City's mining history, Main Street and other historical sites and areas are just as unique and more authentic than what restored Williamsburg has to offer and should be vigorously promoted. In this connection, I favor the immediate rein-vigoration rein-vigoration of the Park City Museum. Anne Prince and Bud Gasparac of the original Park and Museum Board and their committee had gone a long way towards the fulfillment of the Museum. The county had given us the use of their old Sheriff office. A local lady on the committee commit-tee laid a rug donated by Robt. Murray from his former for-mer home. It was decided to put the Visitor Information Bureau into the Museum so it would be manned and open seven days a week instead of being open sporadically on a volunteer basis. The lady decided she didn't want all those tourists dirtying "her" rug and hurriedly returned all the artifacts to their donors. Nothing has been done since this sabotage of the Museum in 1973. It should be one of our prime objectives to reopen the Museum as one more of our tourist attractions. Most of us have remained in Park City or have come here to enjoy the quality of life. If you believe you are becoming an endangered species, listen to what Robert Redford had to say last month about a similar trend developing in Provo Canyon where he chose to make his home: "Pollution is encroaching in my canyon. I intend to do something about it." If we don't stand up for what we want, we deserve what we get. If we don't get what we bargained for, our only redress is at the ballot box. In either event, vote. I appreciate that I have commented on only a small part of the whole picture, but Jan and Steve under threat of hiding my glasses for a week constrained me to leave 10 per cent of this week's issue available for advertising, OH letters to the Editor, fast news and frivolity in general. u i ) Wayne Putman If I am elected in the primary election to run for the office of councilman, 1 am asking for the support of my friends in Park City. I will try to improve Park City for the better of the young and old. I think the Memorial Building should be left for recreation and meetings. I am against the waste of Park City taxpayer money, like the re-use of the old street lights. I think building should be held to a minimum Bob Trepanier Proposed Holiday VillageSkaggs Shopping Center Personally, I favor small individual business for a number of reasons. However, the city has no right to tell a potential business it cannot come in because it happens to be a chain store. Chain stores are not new to Park City -we used to have many large chain stores when Park City was a booming mining town. Park City is growing. If we don't allow more businesses to enter town, the town will suffer as a result. Memorial Building The Memorial Building is in an excellent location, close to the City Hall. It is probably in our best interests to use part of the building for office space. With the city so cramped for space at the present site, we really have no other viable alternative unless we build a new City hall. As better recreation facilities become available elsewhere, they will probably be phased out at the Memorial Building. Relations with Summit County Our relations with Summit County recently reached a low point but they will probably start improving, im-proving, now that a solution to the Memorial Building has been found. One thing everybody is waiting for is what counties are allowed to do on double taxation. Right now, they can't do anything. If they lower taxes for the city, it's due to the water and sewage problems. As far as Skaggs, I think it is a good thing because a lot of people have to go to Salt Lake or Heber to get a lot of things they need. I think the City Council is doing a find job, but I think it is time for a change. I am for the betterment of Park City. I am interested in what happens to the Park City people. illegal, or if they raise taxes for the unincorporated areas, it's illegal. The legislature allows the counties coun-ties to tax. Until the legislature decides, you're going to see problems throughout the state. One thing Summit County should do is stop operating a hospital in Coalville. It's not fair for the county to put more emphasis on one end of the county than another. They complained about the Memorial Building but didn't mention the hospital, which basically serves only Coalville residents. Local politicians try to favor their own area. I don't think the county should favor Park City, but I don't think they should favor the other areas either. People get the kind of government they vote for. Bill Wallin was elected to represent our area and if he's not doing a good job it's up to the people to replace him. Present City Council The performance of the present city council has been fair to poor in many areas. Frequently, the only way people find out about anything is to read about it after it has already happened. hap-pened. In many ways, the council has become a rubber stamp for certain developers and the appointed people at City Hall. They delegate almost all their duties to the city manager and city treasurer. I would like to see the A. -fx jS. 1 r Bob Wells I am a candidate for City Council in the November, 1977 Park City elections, The six persons who have filed for the two vacant seats will be reduced to four in a primary to be held on October Oc-tober 11th and the two seats will be selected in the general election on November Novem-ber 8th. I urge you to register to vote in the upcoming up-coming election if you have not already done so. I have listed below a number num-ber of points that represent some of the goals that I have set for myself if elected to the City Council position. I welcome your questions or comments on these points or any other that you feel is important. im-portant. Stabilization of our local economy I believe that there are a number of ways that city government can' help us' establish ; a better j year around business climate, including the creation of a promotion agency perhaps similar to the Salt Lake Visitors and Convention Bureau and aid in promotion of events such as the Art Festival, Walking Tour, Art Center programs, athletic events, etc., particularly par-ticularly in the summer season. Main Street and historic areas I am in favor of an immediate and concentrated effort toward the establishment establish-ment of Main Stret and the Historic zoned areas as more of an attraction both to visitors and to permanent residents. Anything short of this results in hit and miss and ultimate failure to reach one of our most important goals. Identification of the Historic District, landscaping, lan-dscaping, road and utility development and improvement, im-provement, and strict enforcement enfor-cement of the historic standards stan-dards are some of the areas that I feel we should concentrate concen-trate on. I would also like to work towards reducing some of the uses that permit very high densities that detract from the Historic area. Proposed Redevelopment District I think that this approach can be very beneficial in carrying out the steps necessary for the continued con-tinued development of Main Street and the Historic Districts. Our biggest problem will be to see that the effect of the program, if implemented, is not to penalize the school system and fire district. I think that if operated properly, it can help rather than hurt them. Senior Citizens and Cost of Living We have the responsibility respon-sibility to find ways in which the city can reduce the cost of living for the retired on fixed or limited incomes, including in-cluding transportation, utilities, taxes and other areas. Parks and Recreation We do have a council become more responsible for their actions instead of relying on advice, which I think they do. The city manager, instead of trying to implement his views, should be a servant. This applies to any city manager or city treasurer. I would like to see the mayor assume more of the responsibilities of the city manager. If we had a full- shortage of park area and recreational facilities for the resident, but I feel that our first responsibility is the improvement im-provement and upgrading of our existing facilities so as to make them more usable and to protect surrounding residents. We should improve im-prove the sanitary and concession con-cession facilities and develop proper parking. Secondly, I feel that expansion expan-sion of the facilities presently presen-tly existing should be in the same or nearby areas so as not to have a number of park areas scattered around town increasing maintenance and upkeep cost. Water Top priority should continue to be given to the securing and development of water sources sour-ces and storage. I would particularly like to see the development of the .Spiro ' Tunnel 'water' kilJ possible through cooperation with the mining company, Royal Street, the resort and the city of Salt Lake. I am glad that Rich Martinez decided to run again because of his knowledge and the work that he has done in this area . Transient Housing I think that seasonal employe housing is a proper area of involvement by the city, through city sponsored housing. The city has a financing advantage over private business in this area, which will probably require some form of subsidization. The possibility of an employe em-ploye tax on businesses which have the seasonal employe em-ploye problem is the only -way that I can think of to spread the subsidization cost properly. The city is also in a position to control the usage of this type of housing to insure that it is available to solve the problems for which it is created. . Property Rights I have stated many times that I believe in protection of individual in-dividual property rights and property values. However, I am against uses that infringe in-fringe on others or that are out of character with goals of the city. Public Transportation I am in favor of a year around public system that serves the whole community. While I feel that the free bus system is beneficial to us in the promotion of tourism, I am not opposed to a charge system, perhaps excepting school children and senior citizens or during certain seasons and without charge at other times. I think that the trolley system which has been discussed, if feasible from an engineering standpoint, stand-point, could be a unique and desirable addition to the city. I have lived in Park City since January of 1971. My background before moving Continued on Page 10 time mayor, I feel he would be responsible. If possible, I would like to see the city treasurer and others, such as the city recorder, be made elective offices again. I don't think the council is looking into information deeply enough. They're looking into the facts. They're taking the advice of ! other people and assuming it's correct. |