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Show I (i Ilk, "lipj Vol VIII, No. 23 Thursday, February 24, 1983 Three Sections, 36 Pages Primicipals spar over use off new school facilities by Jeff Howrey At a meeting of the Park City school board last Tuesday, a discussion about funding a year-round intramural program at the Treasure Mountain Middle School erupted into one of the more lively extended discussions in recent memory. While the intramural proposal seemed fairly harmless on the surface, it provided the seed from which sprang an energetic discussion of cooperation or lack thereof between the high school and the middle school regarding the sharing of facilities. While several individuals including board president Gary A vise took part in the lively debate, the principal characters involved were high school principal Dr. Jack Dozier and Treasure Mountain Middle School principal Dr. Brian Schiller. In essence, the issue seemed to be territoriality. In a nutshell, who controls the new Treasure Mountain Middle School's elaborate gym? Months of apparent simmering tensionsand ten-sionsand rumors of serious infightingcame in-fightingcame to the surface at Tuesday's meeting which was attended atten-ded by about 20 people, mostly teachers who were there primarily to hear discussion about the size of next . year's faculty. (For more information on the board's action on that' matter, see separate article this section.) Before the verbal jousting was over, Schiller had accused Dozier of undiplomatically un-diplomatically inflicting the high school's will upon the middle school. For his part, Dozier offered to chip in $750 of private funds to help fund the intramurals and mused that anyone who didn't want to play by the rules could "pack up the Blazer and hit the trail, just like in the 'Grapes of Wrath.'" It all started out innocently enough. Parley's Park Elementary teacher Tom Tanzer in partnership with high school basketball coach Bruce Reid approached the board with a proposal for a low-cost intramural program for the Park City schools. Tanzer had approached the board with a similar proposal a few months ago, but was told he'd have to go prove the worth of the program on his own before the board would consider allocating support funds. Tanzer returned Tuesday night with a glowing report on the success of the program so far. According to a written report submitted sub-mitted by Tanzer: "As part of last year's proposal, (Tanzer) was to be in charge of organizing and implementing a soccer, wrestling and basketball program at Parley's Park Elementary. Even though funding through the board was denied, Robert Freeman, principal at the time, funded the program to the tune of $575 from the principal's discretionary fund and the program was once again a success. Sixty-five of the 77 students in the fourth grade and March 'Playboy' is in demand Occasionally, supet markets will use low-priced items to lure shoppers shop-pers into the stores. No such gimmick has been necessary in recent weeks, as long as the groceries have enough copies of the March Playboy, where local Alana Soares was the featured centerfold. At the Main Street Deli, the stacks of Plavboys could be seen rising up in a pile next to the cookies and gum. Ownermanager Randi Shellenberger said the Deli usually orders about 50 Playboys. This time she ordered 400 and, so far, has sold 300. The Alpha Beta store did even better. Manager Monte Vargason said his store ordered 1,000 copies of the March issue, and only have 50 or 60 unsold. Surprisingly, sales haven't been good everywhere. A staffer at the Park Avenue 7-11, when contacted by the Park City Newspaper, said the store had ordered heavily, but the sales were fewer than expected. Maybe that's because you can find Playboy in a lot more businesses these days. Vargason said the issue was ordered by many shops and bars that don't normally have the magazine. In Salt Lake, Alana's fame has been noted in the Salt Lake Tribune, "Spectrum" newspaper and the University of Utah Chronicle. And in Park City, judging from sales, there's hardly a niche where Alan can't be found. 78 of the 89 third grade students voluntarily volun-tarily participated in the soccer segment of the elementary program. An equal number of children have signed up for the basketball and wrestling programs. The emphasis at the elementary level has been on skills development and teamwork in each sport. Additionally, stress has been placed on good sportsmanship and recognition of improvement of both oneself and his or her opponent. "The elementary program has been so successful," the report continues, "at stimulating interest in participation par-ticipation in sports, that its continuation con-tinuation at the middle school level seems essential ... A basketball program for all middle schoolers fifth through eighth grades has met with overwhelming success (this year). Over 100 students have regularly been returning to school on Tuesday evenings in three shifts to be a part of this basketball clinicintramural program," says the report, which notes that the program was staffed entirely en-tirely by volunteers this year. In reference to the fact that the board has yet to allocate funds for the program, Tanzer commented, "I get a lot of satisfaction out of my work in the intramurals. I know I'm doing a great job and it makes me feel good. But I can't take that feeling to Alpha Beta-and Beta-and buy a sack of groceries with it." The report Tanzer submitted also implied that funding of the intramural program would eventually pay off handsomely in terms of high school athletics by training athletes earlier, they're much better prepared to handle han-dle the rigors of varsity competition when they become teenagers. "The continued progress (of the intramural in-tramural program)," reads the cover letter with Tanzer 's report, "is quite essential if Park City expects its high school varsity teams to succeed against increasingly stiff competition from the surrounding areas." High school coach Reid, a supporter of Tanzer's proposal and a volunteer staffer during this year's program, admitted that he had been feeling frustrated in recent times at the quality or lack thereof of basketball basket-ball skills among freshmen when they hit the high school. Dozier brought home the implication of Reid's position when he suggested that if the board didn't cooperate with the coaches in the district, perhaps the coaches would soon be looking elsewhere for work. "We have in this high school some outstanding coaches," commented Dozier. "There's nobody in the state I'd trade them for. If you don't fulfill their needs there might be quite a rush for the door." Despite such discussions of nurturing nur-turing winning ways in high school athletics, supporters of the intramural program insisted that the emphasis is never on winning above sportsman- Intramural to A3 , . ,r v - r - t - r , ,i - ; . , " -t f ' ' h - ' ' . " . - . ' ' A , ' Leading ladies dies tax boost for resorts? Issue to by David Hampshire A bill which would allow Park City and two other Utah communities to raise their sales tax by up to one percent per-cent is awaiting discussion by the Utah House of Representatives. House Bill 185, the Resort Communities Com-munities Tax Bill, was passed out favorably by the House Committee on Revenue and Taxation Tuesday and could, according to the sponsor, be discussed by the full House later this week. "I don't envision seeing the bill discussed until Friday," Rep. Glen Brown told the Park City Newspaper Wednesday. The bill, which is being heavily lobbied lob-bied by Park City officials, would allow certain resort communities (where the number of transient beds exceeds the census population) in Utah to boost the sales tax by up to one percent. per-cent. Only three communities in the state meet the definition: Park City, Alta and Brian Head. As it is currently written, the bill would allow the sales tax increase to be mandated by the City Council. Note to sewer district Only two moire The Snyderville Sewer District obtained ob-tained temporary permission Tuesday night from Summit County planners to continue dumping their processed sludge in an open put near East Canyon Creek. But first, the County Planning Commission called on District Superintendent Bruce Decker to explain why the dumping had been going on since Christmas without their knowledge. Decker told the Park City Newspaper the pit was a temporary solution, constructed by state standards. stan-dards. He added the county had been aware of his activities. Voting unanimously (with one abstention ab-stention from Ron Perry) the board voted to give the district until May 1 to use the pit. That solution was fine with Decker, who said the sludge pit, located on Judge James Kilby's property north of Interstate 80 was only needed to handle peak demand created by the ski season. Resorts give no passes to ladies with glasses? Don't believe it! In the Kimball Art Center 'Cabaret,' crazies Bette Snyder and Mary Lehmer wait at the bus stop, eager for a day of action in the Park City shops. hit Hoese this week However, Brown said that it may be amended on the floor of the House to require a vote of the people. "I won't be inviting the amendment, but I wouldn't in good conscience vote against it," Brown said. The bill was first discussed last Thursday by the House Committee on Revenue on Taxation. On hand for the discussion were Brown, a member of the committee, as well as Park City Mayor Jack Green, City Coun-cilwoman Coun-cilwoman Helen Alvarez, City Manager Arlene Loble and Brian Head Town Manager Steve Williams, who had flown to Salt Lake City for the discussion on the bill. In explaining the bill, Brown pointed to the problems faced by resort communities com-munities in trying to meet the needs of visitors. "I hope that it's easily recognized that the impact of the enhanced population over the permanent population causes a real burden on the tax base," he said. He noted that the additional one percent per-cent tax would only apply to purchases of less than $2,500. After May 1, he said, the district will look to two long-term solutions. ( 1 ) The sludge can be spread over agricultural land. (2) The district could construct a dewatering facility (estimated at an engineer's estimated cost of $650,000). This process, Decker reportedly told the commission, is like "turning chocolate malt into chocolate cake." Jerry Smith, assistant county planner, plan-ner, said the county became aware of the dumping two or three weeks ago. In its Delated approval, the commission com-mission laid down several conditions. There would be no dumping past May 1, their motion said. There will be no moving or removal of the sludge between May 1 and Oct. 1. The panel also told Health Director Frank Singleton to monitor the site. (State standards also call for this, Decker said.) If the odor becomes a public nuisance, Singleton can order the pit covered. Jerry Smith said his "We're trying to narrow it down to those activities that have a more direct impact on the transient-type people." When the bill was tirst discussed, he said, he had concerns about the reaction reac-tion of the community, particularly the real-estate industry. "We have done our best to articulate this position," he said. "There has been broad support for this position in the community ." At the invitation of Brown, Loble explained ex-plained some of the problems Park City faces in trying to meet the needs of the tourists. She mentioned the city bus system, supported largely by the business license tax and by the general fund, which carried about 80,000 passengers in January alone. "We carry six percent of the passengers carried in all of this (Salt Lake City) downtown area," she told the legislators. Loble pointed out that Park City has other unique demands placed upon it : there are 50 local establishments serving ser-ving alcohol andor food, she said, which attract a large number of months office has received one complaint from a neighbor about the smell. Decker explained he used the pit after af-ter the "drying beds" at the Kimball Junction sewage plant failed to dry the sludge. (The beds are presently holding their full liquid capacity of 2,480,000 gallons. The permit to sue the pit was granted grant-ed last summer by the Utah Department Depart-ment of Water Pollution Control, after evaluation of the site. "There was no water course running through it, no potential surface runoff of erosion," said Decker. There is also a railroad bed between the pit and the East Canyon stream. The Kilby pit holds about 100,000 gallons of sludge and has a capacity of 200,000. From May to last December, the district used the city landfill as a dump site, depositing about 4,000 gallons a day there. But the ground water problem is greater there than at photo by David Hampshire visitors and in turn requires a large local police force. She also mentioned the expense incurred in snow removal. At this point, she said, the majority of the burden falls on those who pay property taxes. "They are paying excessive amounts amoun-ts of tax for services they do not demand," she said. "We have the un fortunate distinction of being the community with the highest mill levy of any community that has been revaluated since 1978." Expressing concerns about the need to study the bill, the members voted Thursday to hold it in committee However, it was passed out favorably Tuesday without amendment. Brown said Wednesday he thought the bill had a 50-50 chance of passing the House. He said he expects some resistance from legislators who see it as special interest legislation. He also noted that some lawmakers have won dered why Park City should be permitted permit-ted to raise its sales tax when it is allowing property tax to be siphoned off by the Redevelopment Agency to demp Kilby's property, said Decker The easiest method to get rid of the sludge would spread it over farmlandor, farm-landor, in a process called inserting, insert-ing, apply it to plowed furrows. "You never have to mess with it again," Decker said. However, only a few farms in Coalville have expressed interest in getting the sludge A process called composting would mix the material with chips and sawdust, for use in gardens and farms. "We don't have enough space around the plant to dry sludge for composting," com-posting," Decker said. He said the sewer district board ordered or-dered a design last June for a de-watering de-watering facility. Under this process, the dried sludge must be hauled off and buried. At this time, he said, the district board has not decided if this facility is the ultimate solution to the sludge-disposal sludge-disposal problem. |