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Show if3fi Miners pass the test His best foot forward Pulling strings Education A14 Sports B2 .4. I T Homestead's 100 years Marketplace A1 5 Sports B1 4c m i JLlIA ilu Inn Inspector is hired Summit County hired a new building inspectorplanning assistant, Planning Director Jerry Smith said last week. The new assistant, Robert Taylor, Price, has five years experience ex-perience as a building inspector, and is certified with three different dif-ferent building inspector organizations. He is scheduled to start in early October on a $2144 per-month salary. Slide to shutdown One sure indication summer is on its way out is the closure of The Resort Center's Alpine Slide. And, sure enough, as clouds descend upon Park City, officials have announced that the last day you can ride the slide this year will be Sunday, Sept. 28. "We plan on opening the slide again sometime around Memorial Day," said Park City Ski Area communications director direc-tor Ed Bowert."Butrnow"wimhei snow in the air, I guess it's time for ski season." Buses to stop According to transportation director Kae Draper, the city buses will cease running as of Sept. 30 for the summer season. Bus service will resume when the Park City Ski area opens for the ski season. Openshaw gets award Susan Openshaw, communications communica-tions supervisor for the Park City Police Department, received the Dispatcher of the Year award Monday when the state health department honored the most outstanding emergency services personnel in Utah. She was nominated to receive the award by Christine Warren, who works at the University of Utah dispatch center. The two have worked together doing training with the Peace Officers Standards and Training Dispatch in Salt Lake City. Openshaw has also taken an interest in educating Park City students about emergency measures, and has put a lot of effort into upgrading emergency training in Summit County and Park City. The award ceremony was held at the University of Utah Medical Center. Vol. County officials are expecting budget deficit by HEIDI WEST Record contributing writer Summit County commissioners, anticipating significant revenue shortfalls in 1987, met with department depart-ment heads last week to hear how each plans to shave costs. Two sources of county income are expected to decrease next year. Dropping crude oil prices have closed clos-ed several fields in Summit County, and money generated by taxing production pro-duction from those fields will no longer be available. This, in combination com-bination with a lower assessed value for the average Park City condominium, con-dominium, means the county will have less to work with in 1987, said auditor Reed Pace. Although the exact ex-act figures are unknown, Pace says "we are quite sure the budget will take a drastic dive next year." The commissioners have the power to make up the difference by increasing taxes on private property, proper-ty, but they are reluctant to use that power in an election year when several property owners have publicaly stated taxes are already too high. Their remaining alternative alter-native is to cut the budget. The commission will approve the 1987 budget in December, and the in-formaTsefies in-formaTsefies of meetings this month '' with department directors are an attempt at-tempt to influence expenditures at an early stage. Last week, commissioners heard from the roads, Sheriff, attorney, and auditor's offices. Roads director Bruce Rowser plans to spend $106,000 more on his general budget in 1987, but forsees trimming around $700,000 from service ser-vice and weed control. His proposal also showed over $600,000 less to operate and maintain the county's solid waste program. Rowser's total budget next year would be over $3 million if his tentative figures are approved. Sheriff Fred Eley offered to Out of frustration, Loble writes by TERI GOMES Record editor Saying it comes out of "utter frustration" City Manager Arlene Loble has drafted a letter to the head of the Enviromental Protection Agency urging them to make a determination on whether or not the Prospector Square area should be placed on the SuperFund cleanup list. In a letter dated Sept. 23, Loble reminded Henry Longest II director of emergency and remedial response for the EPA that it has been one full year since the Silver Creek Mine Tailing site (commonly referred to as Prospector Square) 107, No. 33 3 Sections, 44 scrape about $14,000 off his 1986 budget. The department total would decrease from last year's $938,436 to $924,002. Commissioners quizzed Eley on whether he was prepared to "lose a deputy if necessary" to cut costs further. fur-ther. Eley was hesitant to cut services, ser-vices, and said he felt "public safety is a lot more important than some pothole." Sheriff and roads department account ac-count for a sizeable chunk of the county's budget, and amounted to 12 percent and 25 percent of the total 1986 budget of $7.8 million. The auditor's office would spend about $11,000 less in 1987 if Pace's tentative figures are approved, lowering that department's total from $98,360 in 1986 to $87,484. The cuts would come primarily from lower staff salaries, as both Pace and his deputy plan to retire in 1986. Commissioners seemed most concerned con-cerned over county attorney Robert Adkin's proposed budget. In their session with him, they questioned whether he needed three attorneys. They complained representatives from his office were often not present pre-sent at hearings or meetings when they needed them. Commissioner Stan Leavitt pointedly asked whether "if we were to go to court on a civil matter, who would you represent?" repre-sent?" during a discussion of Sheriff's employee Linda Smith and her request to reinstate seniority following two maternity leaves. Adkins offered to supply the commission com-mission with comparative figures for his workload and that of Wasatch or Salt Lake County to show his requested re-quested staffing is needed, and ' assured the board members he would represent them and not Smith should she sue. The commissioners plan to meet with personnel and capital improvement improve-ment departments to discuss their budgets this week. was proposed for inclusion on the list. Loble states in the letter when the proposed listing took place last year, city officials traveled to Washington D C. and met with Longest in Congressman Con-gressman Howard Nielson's office. They hand delivered their public comment com-ment within the 60 days allowed. For three years the city has been in a state of limbo concerning the former mine tailing site in the Prospector Pro-spector area. Tests conducted by the Utah State Health department for the EPA concluded there were potentially high levels of lead, cadmium cad-mium and silver in the area. But Ken Alkema, director of the Utah Division Divi-sion of Environmental Health has since said the tests showed the air in Predict winter? Check the hoof by JENNIFER MADGIC Record staff writer As the transformation takes place from the balmy days of summer to the brisk days of autumn, it is hard not to think of what lies ahead. Park City is a town which relies heavily on the metamorphosis which occurs sometime between Halloween Hallo-ween and Christmas, however no one has yet devised a viable method which we can rely on, to tell us when, exactly, that cold white fluff Utah is famous for will come. Sure, some have tried. The weatherman tries every day and we all know what good that does. Pages Thursday, September 25, ' . ' " N . J , r i s " . & t i? -4 ,' i ' -- . '"f.'.V ; ' '' i I j j :n - -- . ' v ' , ; I :: .. . , , ir, . -. . , .. . . j - i , 1 . . -; 4v ' ! A leg up on Lehi homes was contaminated but the surface and ground water tests were invalid. It is the contention of the EPA that the surface water and air are contaminated. con-taminated. In her letter Loble states : "According to the Denver Regional Office, EPA is ready to take action on the September 18, 1985, NPL List in October or early November, but that some consideration considera-tion has been given to holding Silver Creek off of the decision list until further tests can be taken. I want to express on behalf of Park City, our strenuous objections to any further delays on making a final determination determina-tion on Silver Creek. According to The Park Record doesn't even try to give you the weather. We figure if the weatherman can't tell you what tomorrow will bring, we sure can't tell you what the skies will be doing next week! Nevertheless, as a newspaper should, we research and listen as objectively ob-jectively as possible to all forecasts that could possibly pertain to our weather-conscious, snow-crazed community so that we can effectively effective-ly and efficiently give you some inkling inkl-ing to what Old Man Winter is up to. Our first such venture into the realms of weather predicting brought us to the pages of the Old Farmer's Alamanac surely such a legend of our great country could tell us when it will snow. 1986 Varsity football players Steve Knudson, left, and Ron Mathews are in fashion to receive passes during homecoming festivities at Park City High School. letter to EPA our earlier discussions and correspondence cor-respondence with the regional office in Denver, additional studies to determine whether or not a site should be listed would be inconsistent inconsis-tent with the EPA's own policy. " The letter concludes with a paragraph which sums up both Lo-ble's Lo-ble's and a great many residents frustration with the EPA : "The process used to determine whether or not a site is to be listed is at best imperfect, but to reverse the rules of the game at this late date and allow for additional testing would delay the decision yet again. Perhaps you know that the Federal Housing Administration has refused to provide financing for homes in the Prospector Area due to the fact that The almanac derives its knowledge from a secret formula devised by the founder of the renowned renown-ed book in 1792, believes "nothing in the universe occurs haphazardly" there is a cause-and-effect pattern to all such phenomena; therefore making mak-ing weather predictable. Great, we said. Get out the ol' book and let's see when the snow will fly ! Looking back on the summer of '86 (was it that long ago?) the almanac tells us that "following a very cool and wet beginning, the summer is expected to be close to normal in temperature, with frequent but light shower activity'." Well, OK. We buy that. It was a fairly normal summer as summers go. Jeff Jensen the EPA has yet to make a determination determina-tion as to Silver Creek's Superfund status. We recognize that economic impacts are not an appropriate part of your deliberations, but we ask that you recognize that your inaction makes it impossible for governmental governmen-tal agencies, like the FHA and the City; for property owners in the area, and for residents concerned about the health of their children, to make rational decisons about the future. We ask no more of you than that you make a determination to list or delist Silver Creek." Loble said copies of the letter have been sent to Sen. Jake Garn, Nielson and Alkema at the Utah State Health department. of an ox Reading on, the almanac tells us that "September is to be very warm and dry, but with normal precipitation precipita-tion in the south. The warm, dry weather should persist until about mid-October". Uhhh... Now wait a minute. We can recall turning the heat up a few degrees the past few weeks. The almanac also predicts a similar forecast for California, with "above-normal temperatures" in the state's interior. Didn't Tahoe just get dumped on9 Further investigation into the almanac states last summer the South Atlantic stales were to have Weather to A6 INDEX Business Ala Calendar A19 Classifieds Cl Columns A4 Education A12 Entertainment lit; Legals H12 Letters V5 Television BIG Sports Bl |
