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Show Park Record Thursday, June 18, 1987 Page A5 Connnnity News mm Democrats elect officers Summit Countv elected new officers at June 11 at the Summit County Cour- uiuuse in uoamue. outgoing chairman chair-man was Pattv Gearv. whn hori served for nearly two years. uon jonnson was elected as the new chairman. Johnson is at the Treasure Mountain Middle bchool in Park City and ran for the Utah Legislature in 1986. Nancy Harris, who works for the Park City ChamberBureau was elected vice chairman. HMeffs Dam builders break ground A ground-breaking ceremony for the Jordanelle Dam six miles north of Heber City will take place Saturday, June 27. The construction contract for phase I of the dam project was awarded by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation to a San Francisco firm, Torno America Inc., for $15.95 million last week. The first stage of construction is planned to take about 16 months of complete. com-plete. Jordanelle Dam is part of the Central Utah Project, Bonneville Unit. It will create a 370,300 acre-foot reservoir, about twice the size of Deer Creek Reservoir. Reser-voir. A campground and boat launch is tentatively scheduled to be built on a portion por-tion of the Jordanelle Reservoir closest to Park City. Miss Summit contest Aug. 1 Young women between the ages of 17 and 26 are encouraged to enter the Miss Summit County Pageant to be held Aug. 1. Contestants will be judged in the following categories : talent, evening gown, personal interview and swimsuit. The swimsuit contest will be held for the judges only, but the rest of the pageant will be open to the public. Miss Summit County will receive a scholarship award and will go on to compete com-pete in the Utah State Fair and the Miss Utah Pageants. Last year, the now reining Miss Summit County, Marilyn Jepson, was awarded a $1,000 scholarship. scholar-ship. Each of her attendants and the winners of the evening gown, talent and swimsuit contests also won awards. Each non-finalist was given $75 for participating. par-ticipating. For information on donating to the scholarship fund or entering, please contact con-tact Nancy Mondragon at 783-2322, Pam Francis 649-6790, or Lisa Bagnell 336-5910. The registration deadline is July 18. Re-appraisal to begin County Assessor Ron Perry expects his re-appraisal of Park City property to begin next week, Perry told the Record. "We should be finished by the end of the year no problem," he said. For this year's tax notices, slated to be mailed out next month, Perry applied ap-plied a "discount" blanket rate based on sales in the area. Condominium values were lowered by 25 percent, and homes in Old Town from Daley to 12th Street were discounted by 15 percent. Thaynes "was on mark" according to Perry, and there were not enough sales in either Park Meadows or Parkridge for him to establish a fair devaluation devalua-tion for hpmes in these areas. Perry already applied a 25 percent discount rate, to homes in the Prospector area when threatened listing on the federal toxic Superfund list reportedly dampened sales in the area in 1985. The effect of Perry's temporary action will be to lower property tax totals in 1987. He will re-examine each piece of property in Park City and adjust his numbers from the blanket percentages in the coming months. Hwy. delayed The project to widen three miles of Utah Highway 224 south from 1-80 will probably not be completed this year as scheduled, schedul-ed, J.R. Chamberlain, Utah Department of Transportation (UDOT) engineer told the Record. This portion of road was scheduled to be widened and realigned this summer season, but the schedule has slipped and bids were let last weekend. They will not be opened until July 7, said Chamberlain. The contract allows for 100 working days to complete the project, and at an estimated 20 working days per month, road-work road-work would extend well into the winter. The new plan is to complete the widened portion of the road this season and continue to use the existing ex-isting road during the construction construc-tion and during next winter. In spring 1988, traffic will be transferred to the widened portion por-tion while the existing road is torn up and replaced, said Chamberlain. "We'll maintain at least equal capacity on the highway," he promised. pro-mised. lVWr you would have done so 750 Kearns Blvd. Suite 217 Upstairs Across from the Yarrow Tiny Woolstenhulme, a native of Oakley, was ushered in as the new secretary. Woolstenhulme ran for Summit County Treasurer in 1986, and is in the trucking business. Blake Frazier, also the Summit County Auditor, was elected treasurer. Frazier was born and raised in Oakley. Democrats who are interested in participating in fundraising or campaign cam-paign efforts should contact any one of the officers. f 1 ttourCkk, i yi- i The finest beef of the Midwest's golden plains comes to the mountains of Park City with the opening of the new Omaha SteakHouse. Excellent, yet affordable, dining featuring steaks, prime rib, & steak soup as well as mesquite chicken and blackened redfish. Dinner from 6 to 9 pm daily Monday thru Thursday, to 10 pm Friday and Saturday. Sunday Brunch 10am to 1pm S5.95 Adulti $3.95 12 and Under (closed Sunday evening) JJMAHA SteakHouse PRIME RIB STEAK SEAFOOD Ad&k Radisson Park City ' n iir m M HE? 2121 Pa If you could lose J J vravi db'Si it by now. Left to right, Tiny Woolstenhulme, Nancy Harris, Don Johnson and Blake Frazier. Auditor says county budget is healthy by HEIDI WEST Record staff writer All is well with the Summit County budget, independent auditor T. Earl Andrews told commissioners Tuesday. Tues-day. Lauding the commission's "fiscally "fiscal-ly conservative" approach and "prudent investments" as the reason, Andrews could find no major problems with the 1986 balance of income in-come and spending. As of Dec. 31, 1986, the county had $7.4 million "in cash." Close to $3 million of that was held in a separate trust by the State Treasury Fund, and the rest was in four local banks. By trading the county's money from bank to bank to secure the highest Interest rate, Andrews said Summit County Treasurer Glen Thompson had netted at least a good share of last year's $991,000 in interest income. in-come. This Is opposed to less than $3,000 gained by investing county income a few years ago, noted Andrews. The auditor, a CPA with Andrews and Co. out of Salt Lake City, reviewed several specific recommendations recom-mendations and notations with commissioners. com-missioners. He advised them to continue con-tinue to put money in the "tax stability fund," a special account which banks excess in times of higher-than-average income from state assessed lands (such as oil or mineral producing property) . Noting San Juan county had "$5 million in its tax stability fund," An-drews An-drews and, Thompson agreed it would allow the county to "borrow against itself," and thereby fatten county coffers with repaid interest. "We've got to get away from borrowing bor-rowing from banks," said Commissioner Commis-sioner Tom Flinders. Much of the discussion revolved around how the county could best afford af-ford to help a fledgling industrial park start up in Summit County. w in Avenue, (801) 649-5000 jj via skin a rw "The Weight-Lou Professionals" 649-6776 Commissioners are presently discussing providing infrastructure (water and sewer) to an area in Silver Creek to seduce industrial customers like Fields Corp. into locating there. Capital improvement funds could be used, said Andrews in response to questions from the commissioners. And, those funds could be committed for three years, beyond the expiration expira-tion date of two of the commissioners commis-sioners present terms. "Maybe you could issue a short-term bond," he suggested. Of the more than $1 million in the capital improvement fund, $226,000 remains to be allocated. The commissioners com-missioners plan to open the budget June 23 in a public hearing to establish the tax rate for 1987, and could declare the $226,000 be used for helping the industrial park get started, said Andrews. Alternately, the county could commit com-mit its entire $1 million capital improvement im-provement fund in 1988 to an industrial in-dustrial park. "You've got a million this year, and you'll get another million next year," said Andrews. "I don't know how big the scope of your project is, but this could cover it." Engineers are working on determining deter-mining the cost of providing infrastructure in-frastructure to the land tentatively slated for development into an industrial in-dustrial park now, said Flinders. Overall, though, the budget was healthy and that was good news for commissioners grappling with the 1987 tax rate. "You're in excellent financial shape," Andrews assured them. YQW Dad . . . Afctilefcie a fug? He may be a dad for all seasons - a hiker, a biker, a skier, or runner, or maybe none of these at all. But we know he's one thing for sure he's special. Show dad how much voir care this Sunday Come mto " Snug the source" for.. v Fathers Day gift Ideas. Our -team of friendly prof es- . slonals will help you flnd the right gift Quickly & easily. 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