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Show A-16 The Park Record MORE DOGS ON MAIN MEETINGS AND AGENDAS TO PUBLISH YOUR PUBLIC NOTICES AND AGENDAS PLEASE EMAIL CLASSIFIEDS@PARKRECORD.COM SNYDERVILLE BASIN WATER RECLAMATION DISTRICT MEETING BOARD OF TRUSTEES MEETING Estimated LEA REs Year to Date: # Above Splitter 0; # ECWRF 0; # SCWRF 0; Total 0 Proposed this Meeting: # Above Splitter 0; # ECWRF 35; # SCWRF 0; Total 35 AGENDA January 27, 2014 ** District Office** 5:00 p.m. VII. I. CALL TO ORDER II. CONSENT AGENDA Approval of Board Meeting Minutes for December 16, 2013 Escrow Fund Reduction Approval - Echo Spur on Rossi Hill - Retain 20% III. PUBLIC INPUT IV. SERVICE AWARD - Marlo Davis 15 years Blaine Bowden 10 years V. APPROVAL OF EXPENDITURES - Bills in the Amount of $979,791.93 VI. SUBDIVISION PROJECTS Colony 4C Phase 1 - 16.33 REs Colony 4C Phase 2 - 18.67 REs DISTRICT MANAGER Discussion Items Rescheduling the May 19, 2014 Board meeting Training Building Update Information Items Financial Statement Impact Fee Report 2014 NACWA, Local Public Service Award VIII. FUTURE AGENDA ITEMS Projects Operations Finance Governmental Matters IV. ADJOURN SNYDERVILLE BASIN PLANNING COMMISSION MEETING Notice is hereby given that the Snyderville Basin Planning Commission will meet in regular session Tuesday, January 28, 2014 at the Sheldon D. Richins Building (Library), 1885 W. Ute Blvd., Park City, UT 3. Approval of Minutes: October 8, 2013; November 12, 2013; December 10, 2013 AGENDA Items may or may not be discussed in the order listed. A majority of Snyderville Basin Planning Commission members may meet socially after the meeting. If so, the location will be announced by the Chair or Vice-Chair. County business will not be conducted. 6:00 p.m. Director Items 1. Park City Tech Center update. Regular Session 1. Public input for items not on the agenda or pending applications. 2. Discussion and possible action regarding a Low Impact Permit for a dog and cat boarding facility; Parcel SL-H-508; 1005 East Beehive Drive; Carl Prior, Applicant .- Jennifer Strader, County Planner Sat/Sun/Mon/Tues, January 25-28, 2014 DRC Updates Commission Comments Adjourn To view the staff reports, available after January 24, 2014 please visit: http://www.summitcounty.org Individuals needing special accommodations pursuant to the Americans with Disabilities Act regarding this meeting may contact Melissa Hardy, Summit County Community Development Department, at (435) 615-3157. Help Give Back For every new 1-year print subscription sold this month n summit county 1-year print $5 will go to the Park City Film Series. By Tom Clyde Life at the top The Sundance Traffic and Film Festival is over for the year. Tickets for next year go on sale any day now. I was mostly successful in avoiding the whole mess, skiing Deer Valley from the Jordanelle side so I didn't have to come into town at all. I managed a couple of days at Park City, and ended up driving around to Kimball Junction because S.R. 248 was backed up so badly. But overall, I got through it unscathed. Sundance was a total failure when it comes to producing snow, so we were deprived of both powder skiing and the delight of watching soon-to-befamous women in open-toed shoes mucking around in the slush. I assume the City will address this in the debriefing. Normally by now you begin to hear reports about movies people saw. I probably shouldn't call them "movies" because this is Sundance, and they are "films." There are usually a few that sound good enough to look for when they make it into normal channels. A lot more of the reaction is in the "you wouldn't believe the terrible movie I saw yesterday" variety. Documentaries about things that should never be documented are always popular. But this year, the only buzz is about the crushing traffic. If there were movies shown, they didn't draw much attention. The air in Salt Lake is smokier than a Sundance bus stop, and traffic from the valley was heavy as people sought refuge from the smog. Throw in the slopestyle and halfpipe events at PCMR and it got a little busy. But it's over and done with now. Nothing left to do but round up the last remaining groupies who are sobering up in a rented mansion near you, and get them back on a bus to California. Every year, I'm appalled by the garish excess surrounding Sundance. It's hard to find a parking place for your private jet at the Heber airport. Millions are spent retro-fitting buildings on Main Street to create a week-long marketing presence, the limos, the huge parties, all the give-away stuff. I'm sure it's all sustainably produced excess, but when it goes to the dump this week, it's just excess. But the Every year, I'm appalled by the garish excess surrounding Sundance. It's hard to find a parking place for your private jet at the Heber airport." excess of Sundance pales in comparison to some figures on the world's distribution of assets that came out this week. Oxfam, an international group that pays attention to poverty (so the rest of us can ignore it), came out with some new figures on wealth distribution in the world. The report is shocking. One percent of the world's population controls 50 percent of the total wealth. To reduce that to kindergarten math, which is the only math I can do anymore, if the world had 100 people, and 100 jelly beans, one person would have 50 jelly beans, and the other 99 people would share the other 50 jelly beans, which works out to less than half a jelly bean each. They also calculated that there are 85 people whose combined wealth is equal to that held by the economic bottom half of the world's population. In other words, 85 peo- ple have as many jelly beans as 3.5 billion people, who can't all be mud-hut dwellers. Eighty-five isn't enough to fill all the private jets parked at the Heber airport. Three and a half billion, on the other hand, is a crowd. It's almost as many people as there were trying to get into Park City on S.R. 248 the other day. Oxfam didn't propose any solutions to the disparity. Lynching the 85 and handing out their stuff to the 3.5 billion would, theoretically, double the combined net worth of the 3.5 billion. But those on the very bottom would still be destitute because raising their net worth from $10 to $20 doesn't relieve much poverty. On the other hand, lynching the 85 and looting their stuff has some appeal. Remember the French Revolution. Among the 3.5 billion who make up the poorest half of the world's population, there probably aren't many who are reading the Oxfam report on their Internet news feed. People without electricity tend to have bad Internet connections. So they may not realize how out of balance things are in the world's economy. Ignorance is bliss, or so the 85 like to think. What they don't know can't hurt us. I have no idea how to solve that kind of problem. But I'd feel slightly better about it if we managed to raise taxes in the United States high enough that people flying to Park City just to go to the movies had to fly commercial. First class is OK, but if you are going to the movies in a private jet, maybe you could be doing a little more for the 99 percent. Tom Clyde practiced law in Park City for many years. He lives on a working ranch in Woodland and has been writing this column since 1986. SUNDAY IN THE PARK By Teri Orr Story shards ‘‘ - The mission of the Park City Film Series is to create community through film." Subscribe today circulation@parkrecord.com 435.649.9014 The Park Record Get all the latest Park Record updates. The kaleidoscope of images from the week shapes and reshapes and looks differently with just a twist of the glass/ light/colors. There are jagged edges and smooth glass pieces and new designs you didn't see coming. Sundance is a shape shifter for nearly two weeks in our town. And you need to keep moving, listening, watching to enjoy the art of it all. In any other week of the year, if I go to one movie/film/ screening it is a good week. I rarely make the time anymore to get into the theater. My movie watching is often in a home with friends or on my own in my home. The energy of seeing a film where many people laugh/gasp at parts you did/ did not find funny/frightening is powerful. So when I say this week I feel like a slacker, since I only watched five films and ten shorts, it all sounds kinda unbalanced. And I find by the end of week, all the staffers start to sound like learned film critics. "It could have used more editing, a sharper point of view, less/more music, more locations/characters to tell the story, less wooden/flowery dialogue." And we disagree on how much violence is too much to tell a story. And if there are no new stories left, how artful can the old one be retold. And get caught up in all that… I do. But I try to remember the dreams of the filmmakers who took a chance and found the money and the talent and the locations to put that story on a screen and then the guts it took to submit to Sundance. And you see director after screenwriter after producer take that podium and be filled with glee -- they have made it to the pinnacle of independent viewing/reviewing at this festival. So to everyone involved with "Camp X-Ray" and "God's Pocket" and "Young Ones" and "Calvary" and "Dear White People," thank you for your hard work and storytelling. I have a lot to think about and chew on and consider in the days and weeks ahead. The moment that stands out for me, however, was a short film (nine minutes, I think) and it was viewed by high school and middle school students as part of the filmmakers in the classroom series (in the interest of full disclosure, the organization I work full-time for, Park City Institute, is a co-presenter). Eve Ensler showed her short film about last year's successful, global event, One Billion Rising -- the dancing moment worldwide created to draw attention to violence against women. The footage opened in Australia with indigenous people welcoming the day and ended I find by the end of week, all the staffers start to sound like learned film critics. ‘It could have used more editing, a sharper point of view…'" in Hawaii, two days later with indigenous people closing the circle. In the middle, joyful women and girls and men and boys danced and sang and played instruments and dressed up in all manner of colorful clothes. They displayed fancy placards and held up handmade signs. The powerful drumming towards the end was dramatic and the costumes were so colorful they were dizzying. And as exciting and beautiful and lush as the short film was, it was nothing compared to the direct and thoughtful questions young men and young women asked of Eve about her global work against violence toward girls and women. She spoke frankly and bluntly and thoughtfully and energetically. And the students, male and female, peppered her with questions. They were shocked that one in three women are raped in their lifetime (hence the One Billion num- ber). They wanted to know how they could stop violence. They wanted to know why language was dangerous. She explained the confines of living in a "Man Box" and how to break to out of it (hint: real men do cry, hug, express their wealth of genuine emotions). They talked about bullying and capitalism and the need for a paradigm shift to create a peaceful world. They talked about Martin Luther King and his nonviolent intolerance of intolerance. They spoke of being peaceful and powerful. The young men asked as many questions as the young women. They were hungry for honest communication about sexuality and reciprocity and kindness. And for those us of a certain age, we listened in awe and envy. We didn't grow up in a time, a culture, a place of opportunities where such tough subjects were polite conversation. To have them celebrated and appreciated and elevated could just be a game changer in how these young people view themselves going forward. In how they view each other, in how they respectfully demand respect of their feelings and their bodies. Eve was just one of more than 20 filmmakers who came into the classroom to share their art and their stories this week for Park City students. More than 2,000 students had their own unique festival experience. Sundance does/is so many things. Yes, it makes getting your mail /groceries/liquor a little tricky for a few days. And the traffic a little more congested than a regular winter ski weekend. But oh, what is gives back and plays forward, is impossible to measure. There is still time to join in. There are still tickets to be had. Discussions to join. Exhibits to view. All the way through this Sunday in the Park... \Teri Orr is a former editor of The Park Record. She is the director of the organization that provides programming for the George S. and Dolores Doré Eccles Center for the Performing Arts. |