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Show A-14 Meetings and agendas Wed/Thurs/Fri, April 18-20, 2012 The Park Record to publish your public notices and agendas please email classifieds@parkrecord.com Core Samples PARK CITY COUNCIL MEETING Diggin' that crazy beat PARK CITY COUNCIL MEETING SUMMIT COUNTY, UTAH APRIL 19, 2012 PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the City Council of Park City, Utah will hold its regularly scheduled meeting at the Marsac Municipal Building, City Council Chambers, 445 Marsac Avenue, Park City, Utah for the purposes and at the times as described below on Thursday, April 19, 2012. Closed Session 1:00 p.m. Property and litigation Work Session 3:00 p.m. Park City 2030 Long Range Strategic Plan Public input 4:00 p.m. Library levels of service 5:00 p.m. Empire Avenue reconstruction Public input 5:50 p.m. Break Regular Meeting 6:00 p.m. I ROLL CALL II COMMUNICATIONS AND DISCLOSURES FROM COUNCIL AND STAFF Quinns Junction Partnership annexation application and MPD review update III PUBLIC INPUT IV WORK SESSION AND REGULAR MEETING MINUTES OF MEETING OF MARCH 29, 2012 V CONSENT AGENDA 1. Consideration to authorize staff to execute a Construction Agreement with Preferred Fire Protection for the Quinns Junction Water Treatment Plant fire sprinklers, in the amount of $54,842, in a form approved by the City Attorney 2. Consideration to authorize staff to execute a Construction Agreement for the construction of the Crescent Tram sidewalk with Lyndon Jones Construction in the amount of $71,795, in a form approved by the City Attorney 3. Consideration to authorize staff to execute a Professional Services Agreement with LSC Transportation Consultants in the amount of $35,000 to provide transportation professional services related to conceptual scope and location for the PCMR Transit Hub & Parking Garage, in a form approved by the City Attorney 4. Consideration to authorize staff to execute the Seventh Addendum to the Professional Services Agreement with Bowen Collins & Associates, for general engineering services in an amount of $191,826, in a form approved by the City Attorney VI NEW BUSINESS 1. Consideration of an Ordinance approving the 7700 Marsac Avenue Subdivision, Park City, Utah (a) Public hearing (b) Motion to continue to May 17, 2012 2. Consideration of an Ordinance approving a condominium conversion for the 7700 Marsac Avenue Subdivision, Park City, Utah (a) Public hearing (b) Motion to continue to May 17, 2012 3. Consideration of a Resolution authorizing the issuance and sale of up to $5,000,000 aggregate principal amount of water revenue bonds of the City; and providing for related matters 4. Consideration of a Resolution of the City Council of Park City, Utah designating an assessment areas are the purpose of (i) levying assessments against properties within the assessment area to finance the construction and installation of new roads, sidewalk, curb and gutter, culinary water improvements, sewer and storm drainage improvements, public parks and landscaping of public areas, and related improvements, (ii) estimating the amount of the assessments to be levied and the method or methods of assessments and (iii) generally describing the period over which the assessments are to be paid and the manner in which the City intends to finance said improvements; and related matters 5. Consideration of an Ordinance approving the 455 Park Avenue plat amendment, located at 455 Park Avenue, Park City, Utah (a) Public hearing (b) Action 6. Consideration of an Ordinance amending Ordinance 10-18 regarding an extension of the approval of the First Amendment to the Amended and Restated Nakoma Condominiums record of survey plat, located at 8800 Marsac Avenue, Park City, Utah (a) Public hearing (b) Action 7. Consideration of an ordinance amending Ordinance 11-8 regarding an extension of the approval of the First Amendment to the Resort Townhomes Condominium record of survey plat, located at 1109-1139 Woodside Avenue, Park City, Utah (a) Public hearing (b) Action 8. Consideration of Findings of Fact, Conclusions of Law and Order regarding the 60 Sampson Avenue appeal heard by the City Council on March 29, 2012 9. Consideration of staff's recommendation on the Requests for Proposals for the sale, use and renovation of properties located at 1450 and1460 Park Avenue, Park City, Utah VII ADJOURNMENT Pursuant to the Americans with Disabilities Act, individuals needing special accommodations during the meeting should notify the City Recorder at 435-615-5007 at least 24 hours prior to the meeting. SNYDERVILLE BASIN SPECIAL RECREATION DISTRICT SNYDERVILLE BASIN SPECIAL RECREATION DISTRICT ADMINISTRATIVE CONTROL BOARD SPECIAL MEETING NOTICE Public notice is hereby given that the Administrative Control Board of the Snyderville Basin Special Recreation District will hold a Board Retreat on Friday, April 20, 2012 at the time and location specified below. BOARD RETREAT AGENDA DATE: FRIDAY, APRIL 20, 2012 LOCATION: TRAILSIDE PARK, 5715 TRAILSIDE DRIVE, PARK CITY, UT 84098 10:30 AM PRESENTATION BY LEISURE VISION CONSULTANT, RON VINE, FOLLOWED BY Q&A 12:00 NOON LUNCH BREAK AND CONTINUED DISCUSSION 12:30 PM BOARD VISIONING SESSION 3:30 PM ADJOURN SUMMIT COUNTY COUNCIL AGENDA SUMMIT COUNTY COUNCIL Wednesday, April 18, 2012 NOTICE is hereby given that the Summit County Council will meet in session Wednesday, April 18, 2012, at the Sheldon Richins Building, 1885 West Ute Blvd, Park City, UT 84098 All time listed are general in nature and are subject to change by the Council Chair Please Notice Change in Meeting Location 1:00 PM Closed Session - Litigation (50 min) 1:50 PM Work Session 1) Council Mail Review (5 min) 2) 1:55 PM ‐ Interview applicants to fill three vacancies on the Board of Trustees of the Summit County Service Area No. 5 3) 2:25 PM ‐ Discussion regarding transit program updates; Kevin Callahan (45 min) 3:10 PM Convene as the Board of Equalization 1) Discussion and consideration of Mountainlands Community Housing Trust's request for a property tax exemption Dismiss as the Board of Equalization 3:30 PM Convene as the Governing Board of Mountain Regional Water Special Service District 1) Consideration for Adoption of Resolution No. 2012‐6, of the County Council of Summit County, Utah, Acting as the Governing Authority of the Mountain Regional Water Special Service District, Summit County, Utah (the "Issuer") Authorizing the Issuance and Sale of not More than $33,000,000 Aggregate Principal Amount of Water Revenue Refunding Bonds, Series 2012 (the "Series 2012 Bonds") of the Issuer, Delegating to Certain Officers of the Issuer the Authority to Approve the Final Terms and Provisions of the Series 2012 Bonds within the Parameters set Forth Herein; Fixing the Maximum Aggregate Principal Amount of the Series 2012 Bonds, the Maximum Number of Years over which the Series 2012 Bonds May Mature, the Maximum Interest Rate which the Series 2012 Bonds May Bear, and the Maximum Discount from Par at which the Series 2012 Bonds May be Sold; Providing for the Publication of Series 2012 to be Issued; Providing for the Running of a Contest Period; Authorizing and Approving the Execution of a Supplemental Indenture, a Preliminary Official Statement, an Official Statement, a Bond Purchase Agreement, and Other Documents Required in Connection Therewith; Authorizing the Taking of all other Actions Necessary to the Consummation of the Transactions Contemplated by this Resolution; and Related Matters Dismiss as the Governing Board of Mountain Regional Water Special Service District 3:45 PM Consideration of Approval 1) Pledge of Allegiance 2) Consideration and possible approval of Resolution No. 2012‐7 to Establish the Echo Sewer Special Service District, Utah, and Related Matters; Eric Johnson, Attorney, and Lane Peirce, Engineer 3) Consideration and possible approval of Resolution No. 2012‐8, Proposing the Creation of the Snyderville Basin Cemetery District; Helen Strachan, Civil Attorney 4) Assessor's Office Errors and Omissions; Steve Martin, Assessor 5) Consideration and possible approval of payment plans for 2012 Tax Sale Property; Kathryn Rockhill, Auditing Tech. MEMO Date: April 18, 2012 To: County Council From: Kevin Callahan, Public Works Director RE: Transit Program Updates Background This report has been prepared to inform the Council of the status of our current and planned transit activities. The report covers the operations of county bus routes, the UTA Salt Lake connection and the planning activities surrounding the planned Kimball Transit Hub. County Bus Routes Initially during the recession, we saw bus ridership on County routes drop due to a contraction in visitors and seasonal employment. In 2009, the county's bus routes carried nearly 600,000 riders but ridership declined by 7% to about 559,000 in 2010. In 2011, we saw resurgence in riders back to the 600,000 level. Data for 2012 indicates we are on track to match num- bers despite the fairly weak snow year. Transit Infrastructure Late in 2011, Park City completed the construction of the Ironhorse Transit maintenance and storage facility. This facility was primarily federally funded but Summit County along with Park City shared in the local cost of the development of the facility. In 2012, we began paying a monthly fee for our share of the cost of construction and maintenance. As our transit system expands, we will now have the ability to maintain and store up to 60 buses for the entire system. We have hired the design firm of CRSA to prepare a set of conceptual plans for the Kimball Transit Hub. We are also coordinating with the developer of the next phase of the Boyer Research Park for a compatible approach to parking access and use for the building site adjacent to the Richins Building. The current schedule would be to go to Snyderville Basin Planning Commission in May for a workshop It came to my attention recently that April is Jazz Appreciation Month. Well, snap my fingers and tap my foot! Whoda thunkit? And not only that but this past Friday, as declared by the U.S. Congress, was Jazz Appreciation Day. Makes you wonder if the distillation process continues on down to where, at a designated moment, signified, no doubt, by the decay of a live-oak atom in the rafters of New Orleans' Preservation Hall, swingers and bopsters worldwide all peer over their shades and, while swirling ice cubes in a Scotch glass, slyly, on the downbeat, wink knowingly at one another. I can't even imagine what my cultural life would have been like without the early street education in jazz music that, seemingly out of a vacuum, nudged its way into my quite befuddled teenage mindset. Fresh from the panhandle of Idaho and lusting for everything the Southern California boulevard scene had to offer, I must say I was an eager student. The "jazz" part was all new, of course. Up to the point where my new running mates dragged me down to an obscure cantina in the Boyle Heights section of L.A. for a heavy dose of what they called "Latin Jazz," I could only speak fluently about Elvis, Little Richard, Buddy Holly, The Platters, and Fats Domino. There were lifestyle sidebars during those times that came from hanging out with the jazz crowd, of course. It wasn't long before one became able to stay up all night, with nary a yawn I might add, while listening to Gerry Mulligan and Chet Baker and Zoot Sims and Art Pepper and other practitioners of what many Eastern music pundits pejoratively referred to as "West Coast jazz." About the time the '60s arrived, the floodgates had been totally removed and our fledgling ears had been introduced to Miles Davis and Dave Brubeck and Oscar Peterson and John Coltrane - not to mention the weirdly "cubist" bebop of Char- By Jay Meehan lie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie and Thelonious Monk. It would be a three-year stint in the Army, however, that would allow me to both come to terms with and somewhat satisfy my ever-evolving yet totally ravenous appetite for jazz in all its forms. There's no stopping cultural gluttony among American youth with far too much time on its hands, even when the monthly stipend is meager G.I. pay. If memory serves, although reading habits certainly played a role, jazz literacy proved to be I can't even imagine what my cultural life would have been like without the early street education in jazz music that, seemingly out of a vacuum, nudged its way into my quite befuddled teenage mindset." both the prime attractor and adhesive around which our cliques coalesced and stuck together throughout our various tours of duty. Not unlike jazz buffs from other generations, those of us still in touch continue to look back upon on those years as the "golden age" of the music. What we probably really mean is that it was our golden age and it was driven, qualitatively, by the jazz lifestyle. There was that August of '64 hitchhiking trip from Fort Benning, Georgia, to the Big Apple and back, which involved catching live performances of Monk and Mongo Santamaria in the Village and Nina Simone, Ray Bryant, Woody Herman and a 21-year-old Barbra Streisand in Midtown. Boy, were we full of ourselves after that one. But, more than anything, it Writers on the Range was the golden age of long-playing 33⅓ rpm recording technology, which, seemingly, more so than with other musical genres, lent itself to jazz. Other improvisers from other intellectual landscapes would also take advantage of the dynamic freedom available with vinyl. Dylan comes quickly to mind. We all belonged to record (and book) clubs and that kept our cultural coffers pretty well stocked. One of us would get Brubeck's most recent experiment with time signatures while the others might come into possession of the latest in Duke Ellington, Herbie Mann, Charlie Mingus, Ahmad Jamal, or even Sinatra. One payday I bought a "hi-fi" at the base "PX" and, with the help of a clandestinely procured extension cord - we were a Signal Corps Battalion, after all - our musical moveable feast was born. From one barracks to another, we would gather and listen and discuss additions to our burgeoning collection. Oftentimes, for sake of clarity, Scotch was brought to bear. Cutting to the chase, I hereby testify that acquiring an aural jazz vocabulary allows one much easier access to all musical and cultural idioms. I never would have recognized the instrumental virtuosity of bluegrass, which led me to country, without jazz. Likewise, my transformation into a born-again rock fan could not have happened without my first having gone through a jazzbased tutorial on "the blues." Same with the works of Monet or Pollock or Joyce or Pynchon. To me, they all emerged from an improvisational jazz sensibility. I feel a Jazz Appreciation Nanosecond coming on. I just might have to throw on some Coltrane, pour some single-malt, and dig that crazy beat. Appreciate it? Only like breath! Jay Meehan is a culture junkie and an observer, participant, and chronicler of the Park City and Wasatch County social scenes for the past 40 years. By Andrea Lankford A ranger stands up to bureaucrats When a woman ran to the front door of Yellowstone Park Ranger Robert M. Danno with a small bundle in her arms and a panicked look on her face, he grabbed the medical kit the National Park Service had issued to him. Danno, whose duties included emergency medicine as well as law enforcement, carried the kit with him constantly, even bringing it to his own home. It was fortunate that it was available when the young mother laid her blue and unconscious infant on the ranger's kitchen table and begged him to do something. That was in 1994, and Danno had worked with the Park Service long enough to know that during the course of every park ranger's career, bad things can and will happen. But he never imagined that one day, more than 10 years later, he would find himself handcuffed and held at gunpoint by his peers. He had no idea that he would end up facing a courtroom trial, or that his testimony about what occurred that day on his kitchen table inside Yellowstone National Park would play a role during it. In 2003, after working in several Western parks, Danno accepted the position of chief ranger at the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historic Park near Washington, D.C. Many rich and powerful people live near the C&O Canal, which parallels the Potomac River. For decades, park officials aggressively protected the historic and natural integrity of the C&O Canal through scenic easements prohibiting landowners from cutting mature trees on lands bordering the park. So, in 2004, when Dan Snyder, the billionaire owner of the Washington Redskins, clearcut 130 protected trees, it was Rob Danno's duty as the park's chief law-enforcement ranger to initiate an investigation. Some facts surrounding the Snyder tree-cutting scandal remain sketchy because the highlevel government officials involved "don't recall" anything. According to an Office of In- spector General report, it appears that Fran Mainella, Park Service director at the time, and several others "from the Bush administration" attended a Washington Redskins game. Soon after, Dan Snyder was given unprecedented permission by C&O Canal Superintendent Kevin Brandt to cut down 130 protected trees. The clear-cut improved the view from Snyder's mansion and increased his property value significantly. It also left behind an In this cautionary tale for all whistleblowers, the stubborn vindictiveness behind the Park Service's retaliation against this ranger is stunning. Incredibly, a U.S. attorney had the audacity to bring the theft case against Danno to trial." unsightly gash in an eroding hillside. Snyder's neighbors were furious, the Audubon Society was horrified, and Rob Danno blew the whistle on the park superintendent. Eventually, the Inspector General found the Park Service guilty of "wrongdoing" and the case was forwarded to the U.S. Attorney's Office. But instead of following up on the Inspector General's report, the U.S. Attorney's Office focused its attention on a case the Park Service had begun building against Danno himself. In 2007, federal officers raided Danno's home and indicted the ranger for theft of government property. Among the seized items were a gag-gift necklace made of obsolete government keys, retired Park Service signs, and an emergency medical trau- ma kit. Danno tells all the sordid details in his new book, "Worth Fighting For: A Park Ranger's Unexpected Battle Against Federal Bureaucrats and the Washington Redskins Owner Dan Snyder." In this cautionary tale for all whistleblowers, the stubborn vindictiveness behind the Park Service's retaliation against this ranger is stunning. Incredibly, a U.S. attorney had the audacity to bring the theft case against Danno to trial. It is a pleasure to read how the prosecutor squirmed while the ranger tells the jury about the day he laid a blue infant on his kitchen table in Yellowstone and resuscitated her until she started breathing again. The baby turned from blue to pink with the help of an oxygen tent Danno created with items pulled from the Park Service medical kit he always brought home when off duty - the same emergency trauma kit the federal agency later charged him with stealing. The jury had no clue that Danno was a government whistleblower but, even without the benefit of this knowledge, the deliberations lasted only 20 minutes. The verdict: Not guilty, acquitted on all charges. Yet Danno's ordeal with the Park Service is far from over. He remains demoted, stripped of his gun and badge, exiled to a lonely office and shunned by his colleagues. Was it worth it? The ruin of his reputation? The lawyers' fees? Were a hundred or so trees really worth fighting for? Amazingly, Danno still thinks so. "In spite of everything that has happened," he says, "I am still loyal to the national parks." Andrea Lankford is a contributor to Writers on the Range, a service of High Country News (hcn.org). She is a former park ranger, the author of Ranger Confidential, and lives in the Sierra Nevada foothills of California. For more about Rob Danno, go to www. honorcodepublishing.com. |