| OCR Text |
Show C-1 B-1 SUMMER IN PARK CITY TURNS SILLY AGAIN TE TATE ESTA AL ES REAL RE MONTHLY MONTHLY SUMMIT SUMMIT PARK PARK A PARK CITY GRAD SOARS LIKE AN EAGLE WASATCH & WASATCH & COUNTIES COUNTIES 30, June 30, 20173–- June June 3,June CITY CITY RECORD RECORD PARK THE PARK THE 2017 2017 Real Estate Guide Inside! ROOM AT DEER VISTA TO BREATHE OUR MONTHLY REAL ESTATE GUIDE IS INCLUDED WITH THIS PAPER. 0' SEE INSIDE Information BUSINESS, A-15 COLUMNS, A-20 THERE IS A BOND BETWEEN BUSINESSES IN KAMAS VALLEY The reliable, but not guaranteed. Square footage is an estimate FRONT COVER FOR DETAILS ]´W -RXIVREXMSREP 6IEPX] %J½PMEXIW 0 PX]® MW E PMGIRWIH XVEHIQEVO XS 7SXLIF IVZIH 7SXLIF]´W -RXIVREXMSREP 6IE RIH 3TIVEXIH IEPX] %J½PMEXIW 00' %PP 6MKLXW 6IW )EGL 3J½GI MW -RHITIRHIRXP] 3[ © Opportunity. only. 11<:-- 7SXLIF]´W -RXIVREXMSREP 6 Equal Housing Park Record. PARK CITY , UTAH | WWW.PARKRECORD.COM Sat/Sun/Mon/Tues, June 3-6, 2017 Serving Summit County since 1880 Land rush: cash sought for big deal deemed TOM CLYDE SAYS HE WANTED FLOOD INSURANCE THIS YEAR Vol. 137 | No. 34 50¢ Teachers secure raises Climate move leaves the city dumbfounded Mayor says green agenda will continue regardless of president By JAY HAMBURGER The Park Record PHOTO BY MARK LONG Artist Bridgette Meinhold designed a T-shirt that represents the Bonanza Flats scenery. Proceeds from the Prival Concepts attire will go toward City Hall’s fund to purchase the area. Bonanza Flats efforts include T-shirt sales as deadline nears By FRANCES MOODY The Park Record Bridgette Meinhold is emphatic about preserving Bonanza Flats, a land she calls her backyard. “My husband and I live in Brighton Estates, which is the community that borders that area,” she said. “I’m doing everything I can to protect it.” Meinhold has stuck by her commitment to help preserve the 1,350-acre swath of land high in the Wasatch County mountains that could potentially be sold for development. In February, the artist raised more than $20,000 for Bonanza Flats by selling two paintings at an auction held at Park City’s Gallery MAR. She also pledged, in April, to paint a watercolor each day for 100 days. Proceeds from the imagined landscapes (available at www.etsy.com/shop/ bridgedesigns) will go toward City Hall’s goal of purchasing the area located downhill from Guardsman Pass. And though Meinhold has done her fair share of fundraising for the buy, she decided to step up her game. City Hall will have to pay $38 million to Redus, LLC — the company that owns Bonanza Flats — by June 15, and Meinhold wants to help close the $4.1 million gap before it’s too late. To that end, she teamed up with artist Nick Jones and Tony Pavlantos, founder of Prival Concepts. A Salt Lake City company, Prival is selling T-shirts designed by Meinhold and screen printed by Jones. The shirts, made of organic cotton, can be ordered online at www. privalusa.com/savebonanzaflats for $35. Money from the sales, of course, will go in the Bonanza Flats pot. Meinhold said the design represents the beauty of Bonanza Flats. She painted a grove of aspens in front of a sea of pines. Some aspens have green leaves and some have yellow ones. Other trees are bare. “I created this idea of the aspens changing throughout the seasons,” Meinhold said. “You can see everything, from spring to summer to fall to winter.” Pavlantos said helping protect a vital watershed for the Salt Lake area is imPlease see Land funds, A-2 3 sections • 42 pages Business .............................. A-15 Classifieds ........................... C-8 Columns .............................. A-20 Crossword ........................... C-4 Editorial............................... A-21 Events Calendar .................. C-6 Legals .................................. C-11 Letters to the Editor ............ A-21 Movies................................. C-4 Restaurant Guide................. A-19 Scene .................................. C-1 Scoreboard ......................... B-5 Sports .................................. B-1 Weather ............................... B-2 BUBBA BROWN/PARK RECORD Bob O’Connor, principal of Park City High School, addresses a crowd of students and staff members Wednesday during the Park City School District’s announcement of a teacher compensation package. Teachers throughout the district this fall will receive a $7,000 pay increase. The salary for new teachers will start at $50,700, the top mark in the state. School District agrees to add $7,000 to salaries By BUBBA BROWN The Park Record Teachers in the Park City School District will have plenty of reasons to check their bank accounts this fall — 7,000 of them, in fact. The district announced Wednesday it has agreed with the Park City Education Association to a threeyear teacher compensation package that provides a $7,000 boost to salaries for all licensed staff members, which includes $1,200 for housing and travel and $2,500 for professional development. First-year teachers with bachelor’s degrees will earn $50,700, up from $43,700 and the highest starting salary of any district in the state. Salaries for licensed staff with master’s degrees will start at $55,700, and teachers will also receive extra money by earning endorsements or completing national board certification. The Park City Board of Education ratified the agreement Wednesday in a unanimous vote. Tim McConnell, assistant superintendent of human resources, said striking a three-year deal was “remarkable.” The district and the Park City Education Association — which represents teachers in Park City — initially set out for a two-year agreement, but the sides were able to agree on a salary schedule that will last through the 2019-2020 school year. “It was beyond our expectations to get three years,” he said. “It was a smooth process. There was a definite motivation to have people understand that teaching is a good profession to be in. And also, we’ve got to be competitive in this market. It’s not easy for people to come up and live in this community, and part of what we have to do is attract people to come up the mountain.” The announcement comes amid a salary spike that has swept throughout Utah’s public schools this spring, with districts seeking to make teaching a more attractive field amid record turnover rates and fewer people entering the profession. Earlier in May, the Salt Lake School District, for example, increased its starting salary to $44,000 and bumped pay for all teachers by 9 percent. McConnell said that trend played a definitive role at the bargaining table. “The momentum started from what the other districts were doing,” he said. “That was very clear. … That absolutely had an impact on what we wound up doing.” Sam Thompson, co-president of the Park City Education Association, said the $7,000 salary surge is not far from the increase teachers sought at the beginning of negotiations. He’s confident the raises will make a tangible difference in classrooms and credited school officials throughout Utah for making teacher compensation a priority this spring. “Actions speak louder than words,” he said. “Putting that in place says (the district) is committed to attracting and retaining the best teachers in the state of Utah. It’s expensive to live up here or commute if you’re living in the valley. This gives us that incentive to get the best and brightest.” Andrew Caplan, a school board member involved in the negotiations, said teachers are the district’s most important asset. In a community like Park City that prioritizes education, it made sense for the district to open its pocketbook. Please see Teachers, A-2 The mayor of Park City on Thursday expressed disappointment in President Trump’s decision to withdraw the U.S. from the Paris climate accord, saying the move was not based on science and was “irresponsible.” Mayor Jack Thomas said in an interview the president’s decision essentially disregarded the scientific evidence of climate change. He said it was a decision the president based on his own political agenda “rather than based on the health and welfare of the citizens in this country.” “I’m not completely surprised given what the president has said in the past. I’m hugely, hugely disappointed,” the mayor said. “It’s really inconsistent with the logic and science of this very delicate atmosphere that we all live within.” He added that “atmosphere doesn’t recognize borders.” The move by the president was made as Park City continues to press environmentalism and the wider issue of sustainability as key priorities for City Hall. Park City’s leadership adheres to the ideal that a changing climate could someday broadly threaten the community. There is concern that a warming planet could eventually threaten the ski industry that drives the Park City economy by leading to winter rain instead of snow, particularly at the lower elevations of the community. There is also worry climate change could lead to devastating wildfires in the Park City area. “I’m dumbfounded by the decision to do this,” Thomas said. City Hall’s environmental efforts cover numerous policies and programs meant to reduce emissions. The municipal buses run on cleaner-burning fuels, there are solar installations atop some public facilities and there are numerous environmental upgrades to municipal buildings, as examples. The environmental programs began in earnest more than a decade ago under the administration of former Mayor Dana Williams and continued during the Thomas administration. There has been widespread community support for City Hall’s environmental program, and the municipal efforts are seen as influencing individuals and businesses in Park City to pursue green upgrades to their properties. Park City has a goal of by 2022 cutting to zero the carbon emissions attributed to the municipal government. Another City Hall goal calls for cutting carbon emissions to zero communitywide by 2032. The net-zero figures would be accomplished by reducing the use of emissionsreducing energies as well as offsets of some sort for any emissions that remain. “It doesn’t change our goal. If anything, it activates us a little more,” Thomas said, adding that local governments will continue to take action. “I think there’s a groundswell Please see Green work, A-2 Wonder Woman lassoes a fan in Park City Jacki Zehner thrilled to see longtime hero on the big screen By NAN CHALAT NOAKER The Park Record Whether or not the 11-year-old girl sitting cross-legged on the floor while watching Saturday morning cartoons owes her subsequent success to Wonder Woman may be open to debate, but according to Park City resident Jacki Zehner, the world’s first female super hero has been a constant inspiration. “From my earliest days, I loved her super powers: the Lasso of Truth, the bracelets and the invisible jet,” she recalls about the 1970s animated show “Super Friends.” In the coming years, Wonder Woman went on to star in her own live action series starring Lynda Carter, while the little girl in front of the TV made her mark as a title-holding, teenage, competitive body builder. But as her animated friends moved from TV to the big screen, Zehner began to notice that Wonder Woman was taking a back seat to Batman, Superman, Spider-Man and the Green Lantern. Zehner, herself, had moved on to become the youngest woman and first female trader to become a partner at the prestigious financial investment management firm, Goldman Sachs. But she didn’t forget her favorite superhero. In 2013, she wrote a 70page report calling out the major film studios for leaving Wonder Woman in the wings while others grabbed the spotlight. This week, though, she said has been as giddy as that little girl wearing a Wonder Woman cape. In late May, she attended the premiere of the newly released “Wonder Woman” film starring Gal Gadot and directed by Patty Jenkins and this weekend TANZI PROPST/PARK RECORD she is celebrating its wide release. Zehner has been a Wonder Woman fan since she was a young girl and has “I am so happy. It seems kind of Jacki long collected memorabilia of the comic-book heroine. She once wrote a 70-page Please see A fan, A-18 report highlighting that the major Hollywood studios had not made a movie about Wonder Woman even as they had produced films about male superheroes. VISITOR GUIDE Spend Monday at museum without spending money Park City and Summit County residents will be admitted for free on Monday, June 5, to the Park City Museum, 528 Main St. For information, call 435-649-7457 or visit www.parkcityhistory.org. |
