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Phone: 435–649–9014 Continued from A-1 Continued from A-1 Book club formed Testing delayed Since the book club is a partnership with the Park City Library, which procures copies of the books to lend out to club members, Zegarra consults with youth services librarian Katrina Kmak and his Park City Community Foundation colleagues, community impact director Ollie Wilder and special projects manager Sarah McCarthy. “I think the main goal is to invite folks to see things through different lenses, perhaps to learn about something that is not in the mainstream,” he said. The discussions also try to tie the issues to Park City, according to Zegarra. “We usually talk about the general themes that arise from reading the book, rather than discuss what actually happens in the books,” he said. “It’s not your traditional book-club format, especially when you get 21 folks that come to the table. So we break up into smaller groups, and the conversations tend to be less formal.” Zegarra is constantly looking for ways to diversify the club’s participants. “I like that we’re exploring themes that aren’t top of mind,” he said. “We can talk about issues that are not part of the everyday lexicon, but are just as important. Zegarra hopes those discussions will lead to more inclusion in Park City. “From there, we can arrive to more equitable outcomes,” he said. “We are also starting to consider films — Continued from A-1 Music spot endorsed concept as working well in a spot that would otherwise be unoccupied for an extended period. City Hall expects the cost to taxpayers of the MuSE PC arrangement will be “minimal,” according to a report by staffers drafted in anticipation of the meeting on Thursday. The City Council on Thursday received public input in support of the MuSE PC plans during brief comments that covered the broad ideal of using the space for musical purposes. Jocelyn Scudder, the managing director of Park City Summit County Arts Council, was among those who spoke in favor of the idea. The MuSE PC proposal, outlined in a submittal to City Hall, calls for song circles on Wednesdays from 6 p.m. until 10 p.m. and open microphone events on Thursdays from 6 p.m. until 10 p.m. The song circles could draw between 10 and 20 people while the open microphone evenings could attract between 15 and 30 people, the submittal says. Special events could include Park City-area artists or those TANZI PROPST/PARK RECORD Diego Zegarra is the facilitator of the Park City Community Foundation’s Social Equity Book Club. documentaries and features — TEDx talks and other multimedia starting points moving forward.” To maintain civil conversations, the book club has establish some rules, Zegarra said. “These agreements are summarized as ‘listening to understand different point of views,’” he said. “Being respective is a paramount rule of the group, because we have people who bring both left- and right-leaning views to the table. And so far the conversations have been very productive.” The Social Equity Club, which is open to all community members, is only held in English for the time being, Zegarra said, though he’s hopeful that could change in the future. “I am trying to find ways to open up the doors for community members who speak Spanish,” he said. The Social Equity Book Club meets at 5:30 p.m. on the first Monday of the month. This month’s venue is Hearth and Hill, 1153 Center Drive. For information or to RSVP, email diego@parkcitycf.org. who are on tour for workshops of up to 40 people. City Hall does not anticipate problems with noise levels. The organization says there is limited parking at the location and encourages people to use Park City buses. The submittal also includes a code of conduct for MuSE PC that describes a ban on alcohol consumption and a prohibition of illegal drugs. Bullying, harassment and discrimination are prohibited. “Our reputation as an organization to foster musical talent is ... our most valuable asset, and it is up to all of us to make sure we continually earn that,” the submittal says. The MuSE PC space on Bonanza Drive will be an early entrance of an arts-influenced organization in an area slated for major redevelopment. City Hall acquired the building at 1685 Bonanza Drive as part of a wider real estate deal with the Bonanza Park partnership that put the municipal government in control of the future of the district. Leaders plan to use the land to develop an arts and culture district with the Kimball Art Center and the Utah offices of the Sundance Institute as the anchors. The presence of the Kimball Art Center and Sundance is seen as spurring the growth of the district as an arts and culture destination. Mayor Andy Beerman said on Thursday the MuSE PC operation could provide a boost to the plans for the arts and culture district. the first major interruption took place on April 25. Students who attempted to submit their answers received a pop-up message informing them that their exam could not be submitted. The RISE tests are adaptive, so the accuracy of a student’s answers from one set of questions determines the difficulty level of the next section of questions. Nielsen said the servers that were supposed to score the tests and provide the next section malfunctioned. The state decided to cancel testing for the rest of the day, and the science portion of the test was suspended until the following week. He said 18,429 students were taking the exam when the state made its decision. Only a handful of students were testing at Trailside during the first outage, Frink said. Questar, the vendor that distributes the exams, fixed the issue, but another problem caused similar error messages on Tuesday, Nielsen said. The interruptions on the second day impacted 20,000 students, but Questar was able to resolve the problem after 40 minutes. The state did not cancel testing, but Frink said he and several other assessment directors around the Continued from A-1 Trails addressed in a second phase and the possibility of building stairs to Treasure on 6th Street and 8th Street in a third phase. City Hall also intends to celebrate the acquisition with an event. It appears the gathering could be slated for June 1, the date National Trails Day is marked. Details about an event are not set. Continued from A-1 Drought continues of 2018, a result of the worst winter for precipitation in four decades, it’s a fortune of H2O. The benefits of the higher snowpack total are tangible. There will be more available drinking water from the Wasatch watershed. Reservoirs that sat far below their waterline last year will fill. (The Jordanelle, for example, is projected to reach capacity.) Wildlife will flourish and rivers will run fast and cold. Still, as the Wasatch and Uintas thrive, Hasenyager said, people should be careful of the hazards that a big snowpack presents. Those rush- state decided to suspend testing for the rest of the day. He said the entire eighth grade at Treasure Mountain was testing at the time, as well as students at McPolin and Trailside. The schools will now have to reschedule the exams. Marci Sargent, spokesperson for North Summit School District, said the district is aware of seven students who were affected by the problem. South Summit School District had to stop testing on both days, said Jodi Jones, spokesperson for the district. Summit County districts resumed testing on Wednesday. As of Friday morning, Utah schools had not experienced other major difficulties with the exams. The state selected Questar as its new testing vendor and the tests RISE and Utah Aspire Plus for the new statewide exams last summer. The exams replaced the controversial SAGE test, which experienced high opt-out rates around the state, and especially in Park City. Students from grades three through eight are given the RISE test, which has similar questions to the SAGE test. Ninth- and 10th-grade students take the Utah Aspire Plus test. Nielsen said there is a risk of malfunctions whenever schools adopt new testing software. But, he said, it is rare to have an outage that affects the whole state. Frink, too, said the district was expecting some problems with the software. Testing around the state is expected to continue until the end of May, but Nielsen said the majority of students will take the test over the next two weeks. The $64 million acquisition of Treasure, by a wide margin the most expensive in the history of City Hall’s open space program, ended a development dispute that stretched since the 1980s. The acquisition triggered the need for City Hall to address a range of issues like the trails plan. Officials will eventually also need to craft a set of restrictions that will be placed on the land to ensure it remains undeveloped, a document known as a conservation easement. The acquisition also created a new relationship between City Hall and Park City Mountain Resort owner Vail Resorts since an easement exists allowing the skiing infrastructure on the land. The acquisition did not alter the arrangement with the Colorado firm. ing rivers carry powerful currents, and mudslides and flooding pose an ever-present danger for those located downslope from the snowmelt. Those hazards are made worse by the previous year’s lack of snowpack as well, such as the leftover effects from a historic summer for wildfires in the state. “There have already been areas that have seen flooding or concerns about flooding, especially in areas that saw large burn scars last year,” she said. Despite the snowpack, Gov. Gary Herbert’s drought declaration is still in effect, and as the earth’s atmosphere warms, one good year for powder hounds doesn’t indicate an easy time ahead, according to Hasenyager. In the Wasatch Back, climate change may result in increased wildfire danger as well as the threat of more flooding and slides as winters could swing wildly back and forth between feast and famine. 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