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Show nra TTT rvVn1 i 1 lit 5(0? Vol. 108, No. 42 3 Sections, 34 Pages Thursday, December U 1 I 'ri.; "J" " ' """" '""!"'"" W ff.fi Wl WtW - IH- IUMI.. f Ml fe' -ajw 1 $Wim w W' lM -'V-' J MI. f - i - ,ttR ;in 4 Into the wild blue yonder Like a fighter lifting off the deck of an aircraft carrier, Francois Vulliet of France, becomes airborne off the first of the three pro jumps in America's Opening action. For loads of other action- packed race photos see A6 and the first three pages of Sports. Planner sets tone for Editor's note: This is the first in a series of articles on the n cent projects pro-jects completed under the auspices of the Park City Redevelopment Authority (RDA). The RDA bonded for $3 million to improve the downtown area in 198S. by HEIDI WEST Record staff writer The Park City Redevelopment Authority has been around for 10 years, and of course, it had plans for just how it would spend the most recent re-cent $3 million it bonded for two years ago. But when the city's new planning director, Myles Kademan, arrived last spring, he altered those plans. "It's not often a planner has money available to spend," Rademan told the Record. He adds that the thought of improving Park City's downtown with some available redevelopment dollars "was a draw" when he was offered the position here. The bonds were floated originally to make Swede Alley into a heavily landscaped lane with plenty of parking. park-ing. In fact, much of the language in the bonding documents limit the spending of the money to projects associated with parking or improving improv-ing Swede Alley. "You couldn't just hold $3 million worth of parades or buy $3 million worth of flowers," says Rademan. But, through some maneuvering of budgets all strictly legal of course funds to complete redevelopment projects on Main Street, or projects likely to be temporary tem-porary in nature were freed up. Rademan took advantage of them to plan a few changes he thought would fulfill the edicts of the RDA to "create economic redevelopment opportunities in the district, or to revitalize." They were not the "brick and mortar" projects the vast bulk of the RDA bond money will be spent on, but rather creative, low-cost efforts to welcome tourists and spur Main Street business. Genesis files counterclaims by SENA TAYLOR Record staff writer Associates of the Genesis Health and Wellness Resort, who have recently been the brunt of three lawsuits, have filed counterclaims and third-party complaints to answer two of those suits that allege Genesis has broken financial agreements., The filings were made Nov. 14 by a group composed of Park City West & Associates, Prospector General Partners, David L. Williams, Eduar-do Eduar-do Guerini-Bolt and Thomas E. Clark. Those associates in each counter-complaint ask for $400,000 in general damages and $1 million in As an example, the traditional China Bridge parking structure was a $1.36 million project. All six vest-pocket vest-pocket plazas built this -summer were installed for $65,000 total. "They're very visible, tangile things that people can look at and say 'hey, someone cares. Things are getting better'," he says. The bonds were floated in 1985 based bas-ed on "tax increment financing," a scheme peculiar to RDAs. Within the geographic boundary of the RDA roughly equivalent to the historic district in this case all taxes collected over and above Uie tax rate at the time the RDA is formed form-ed go back into the authority's budget. The bonds were secured based bas-ed on future income over the next many years from this increment financing. When Rademan arrived, one of the items high on his agenda was to examine ex-amine the existing plans for how to spend the RDA bond money. "I have very strong feelings about development," develop-ment," he says, adding his observation observa-tion that it is usually the feelings of the staff and RDA board which dictate dic-tate how a redevelopment authority will grow and change over the years. In this case, Rademan felt the traditional tradi-tional was a little too heavily weighted. "Everything that had been done in terms of the planning had been very clever," he says, "but I just didn't think the emphasis was in the right place." The plans over-emphasized Swede Alley in Rademan's opinion. "They were trying to make it more grandiose gran-diose than it could ever be," he says, noting there would be landscaping and parks, "but trucks would still be there." At the same time, he found the entryway to Park City and Main Street itself in great need of improvements. im-provements. He created his own plan one he feels announces pride in the community com-munity and at the same time dramatically invites the tourist to feel welcome in Park City's downtown. "The first thing I said was 'why don't we clean it up?'," punitive damages. The Genesis associates were charged in one legal complaint filed in October by persons that alleged they had lost money, assets and energy in developing Genesis. Those persons said Genesis was insolvent, and made a claim for more than $4 million. Bolt said Genesis has not yet responded to this suit, but is compiling compil-ing information for a counterclaim this week. The claims to which Genesis has responded were made by First Security Bank of Utah and two partnerships: part-nerships: Prospector Land Association Associa-tion and the Huntsman Corp. First Security on Sept. 13 filed a complaint in Coalville's 3rd District Randy Hanskat RDA says Rademan. "Given a chaotic economy, the best thing we can do is to move forcefully forward in a positive direction and show people we have faith in our community," he told the RDA board. It was as if he had articulated something already on the board member's minds, and the response was enthusiastic. With a green light from his bosses, Rademan turned next to his available resources the city staff. There he found what he calls "some great strengths." He spoke first with the city's two landscape architects, Jennifer Harrington Harr-ington and Steve Call, and asked whether they would be "ready" to take on the beautification of Main Street and the entryways. When they said yes, Rademan knew he was really on his way. "The key to any development program is do you have anyone who really wants to do it," he says. Then he quizzed his own planning staff, Nora Seltenrich and Suzanne Mclntyre, on how they felt the city's downtown could be revitalized. Mclntyre, who is also staff to the Historic District Commission, noted the matching grant program to renovate historically significant homes which the commission had been considering could be funded through RDA money. Again, Rademan asked whether she would be willing to take on the substantial task of administering the program, and again, she said yes. The architects and planners moved mov-ed quickly in their respective tasks, and within a few months time accomplished ac-complished their goals six vest-pocket vest-pocket plazas, a brand-new entryway, en-tryway, lots of Main Street clean-up and the qualification of 33 homes and businesses for matching grants to spruce up their exteriors. "I didn't make it happen. They made it happen," says Rademan. see RDA on A3 Court saying the Genesis associates were "in default and breach of obligations" imposed under an assumption agreement, and were indebted in-debted to the bank for a principal sum of $1,437,697.07 and $240,000 for exemplary and punitive damages. PLAHuntsman filed a similar complaint in Salt Lake City's 3rd District Court. They alleged Park City West was "in default of its obligations under a promissory note" that was to be paid last July. see GENESIS on A2 County considers by SENA TAYLOR Record staff writer Summit County residents can soon air their views regarding the 1988 county budget tentatively set at $6,665,248. The meeting will be held in the courthouse in Coalville at 7 p.m. Dec. 8. County auditor Blake Frazier says "there are not a whole lot of drastic changes" in next year's budget, as the county commission decided against giving all but one county employee salary raises in favor of increasing their insurance coverage. "For most departments the only changes are in benefits," he said. Frazier characterized the budget as "leaning to the conservative side. The county's tax rate is the second-lowest second-lowest in the state, and the 1988 budget should not change that." The auditor cited the county commission's commis-sion's efforts in developing an industrial in-dustrial park as a project for which most of the money will not come out of the general fund and which has already been set aside in 1988. Copies of the budget are available from the auditor's office, and anyone reading them will find the budget broken into two areas, with the health department's expenditures expen-ditures separated into its own fund due to a state requirement. Frazier points out health department expenditures expen-ditures still come from the general fund. The one county employee to receive a salary increase is South Summit Justice of the Peace Robert McGregor, making expenditures in his department jump from $8,075 in 1987 to $13,472. Expense changes in employee expenditures are due to benefit increases unless otherwise indicated. They are as follows: The county commission's fund was $65,165 in 1987, compared to $67,925 for 1988. The general services department reflects a decrease, Frazier notes, because some of the employees and responsibilities in that department have been shifted to the clerk's office of-fice and the district court office, which have increased their budgets TEST Double IN" Ttin ing, to accommodate them. The general services budget for 1988 is $66,050 compared to $97,388 in 1987. The district court budget for 1988 is $64,100 and $53,400 for 1987; the clerk's budget is $89,700 for 1988 and was $57,095 for 1987. North Summit court expenditures are set for $63,455 in 1988 compared to $59,339 in 1987. In Park City, justice of the peace expenditures for 1988 are proposed to be $59,800, compared com-pared to $56,171 in 1987. The circuit court's budget rises in 1988 to $37,590 from 1987's $36,100, and the public defender budget, which is contracted con-tracted out, doesn't change from its amount of $16,000. The Summit County Attorney's budget rises in 1988 to $188,700, from 1987's $180,300. That increase, according accor-ding to Frazier, is due to benefits and an equipment expense of $5,000 for a copier. Related to the attorney's at-torney's office is the law library budget, which reflects an increase for 1988 to $7,300 from $5,800 in 1987. The auditor said the change is due to two new subscriptions for books being be-ing added to the library. Data processing expenses rise to $169,897 in 1988 from $166,125 in 1987, but the non-departmental fund drops from $85,050 in 1987 to $75,000. Frazier said the decrease results from postage and workman's compensation com-pensation cost decreases for the county. The auditor's department has decreased its expenditures, dropping dropp-ing to $85,400 in 1988 from $86,830 in 1987. Frazier says the decrease is because he "didn't need that much money for salaries," due to an employee who left the department who he didn't need to replace. The treasurer's budget is increased increas-ed from $94,800 in 1987 to $96,550 in 1988. The recorder's office budget is also increased, but it is doing so to add benefits for a surveyor position recently added to comply with state law. For 1988, the recordersurveyor budget is set for $205,800 compared to $190,706 in 1987. The assessor's office also reflects an increase in expenditures due to the addition of personnel. Frazier said 1988's expenses will amount to y 1 vf 1 1 - ft yv '"'.a. In the races the neat part was the could see which of the two head - to - as they bashed their way through the jungle of gates. budget $204,250 compared to $171,556 in 1987. "The assessor will hire a personal property auditor for next year, and at this point in time that person's salary will be 100 percent reimbursed reimburs-ed by the State Tax Commission through assessing and collecting taxes." Frazier explained that the assessor's office operates similarly to local school districts, which contribute con-tribute their monies to a state fund which then returns the funds in an equal manner to the school districts. If Summit County spends money on an additional employee in its assessor's office, more of its tax monies can stay in the county, he said. "And hopefully that person will put more taxes on the books." The ambulance budHs in the three areas of the county remain the same except for benefit laises, but the buildi:i(Z department reflects a jump because the county commission commis-sion is anticipating buying a building in Kamas to be used as a library for that area. A family owns the building, according to Frazier, and the commission has budgeted about $80,000 for 1988 to purchase it. Thus, the building budget increases from 1987's $262,105 to 1988's proposed $337,350. The building fund for the county office building in Park City is also increased in-creased from $24,386 in 1987 to $19,770 in 1988. The auditor said the additional funds for next year amount to about $7,000 and will be used for a ventilation system. The election budget jumps in 1988 because it is an election year, so expenses ex-penses are set for $22,300 compared to $950 in 1987. The sheriff's budget increases from $439,218 to $484,865 due to a deputy being added to the staff. However, the jail budget will reflect a decrease because the deputy was part-time or that staff, Frazier said. The jail budget is set at $160,454 for see BUDGET on A2 ( Randy Hanskat two-for-one trick. You head racers was winn- |