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Show A-16 Meetings and agendas to publish your public notices and agendas please email classifieds@parkrecord.com SUMMIT COUNTY COUNCIL MEETING AGENDA SUMMIT COUNTY COUNCIL Wednesday, January 28, 2015 NOTICE is hereby given that the Summit County Council will meet in session 6:00 PM Public Input Convene as the Governing Board of the Snyderville Basin Special Recreation District Wednesday, January 28, 2015, at the Sheldon Richins Building, 1885 West Ute Blvd, Park City, UT 84098 Public Hearing regarding proposed Impact Fees, including the Impact Fee Facilities Plan and summary, the Impact Fee Analysis and summary, the proposed impact fees, the draft resolutions, or any other matters related to the proposed impact fees (All times listed are general in nature, and are subject to change by the Council Chair) Discussion and possible action on Resolution No. 201504, a Resolution Adopting an Impact Fee Facilities Plan 2:45 PM Closed Session - Litigation (30 min); Personnel (30 min); Property acquisition (60 min) Discussion and possible action on Resolution No. 201505, a Resolution Adopting an Impact Fee Analysis and Imposing Impact Fees, Providing for the Calculation and Collection of Such Fees, Providing for Appeal, Accounting and Severability of the Same, and Other Related Matters 4:45 PM Work Session 1) Discussion regarding transit/transportation funding; Dave Thomas and Derrick Radke (30 min) 5:15 PM Consideration of Approval 1) Pledge of Allegiance 2) Council Comments 3) Manager Comments 4) Council Minutes dated December 17, 2014 5:40 PM - Convene as the Governing Board of the Snyderville Basin Special Recreation District 1) Discussion and possible adoption of Resolution No. 2015-03, General Obligation Refunding Bonds Authorizing of not More than $8,000,000 Aggregate Principal Amount of its General Obligation Refunding Bonds, Series 2015 B, and Related Matters Dismiss as the Governing Board of the Snyderville Basin Special Recreation District Dismiss as the Governing Board of the Snyderville Basin Special Recreation District One or more members of the County Council may attend by electronic means, including telephonically or by Skype. Such members may fully participate in the proceedings as if physically present. The anchor location for purposes of the electronic meeting is the Sheldon Richins Building auditorium, 1885 W. Ute Blvd., Park City, Utah Individuals with questions, comments, or needing special accommodations pursuant to the Americans with Disabilities Act regarding this meeting may contact Annette Singleton at (435) 336-3025, (435) 615-3025 or (435) 783-4351 ext. 3025 Posted: January 23, 2015 HELP GIVE BACK For every new 1-year print (in county) subscription of The Park Record sold this month, $5 will be donated to the Weilenmann School of Discovery! Our vision is to create a public charter school where students discover the power of their own potential - to learn, innovate, and change the world.' Subscribe today circulation@parkrecord.com 435.649.9014 HAVE YOUR OWN OPINIONS, THOUGHTS, OR QUESTIONS ABOUT THIS ARTICLE? Join the discussion... Share them at ParkRecord.com through the DISQUS Forum below each online article. Wed/Thurs/Fri, January 28-30, 2015 The Park Record Core Samples By Jay Meehan Opening week As always, time flying when you're having fun and all, the first half of this year's Sundance Film Festival passed in a blur. Seven quite interesting films, an eclectic session at Music Café, a bluebird day at Sundance Resort with its lore-rich Screening Room and quintessential watering-hole, the Owl Bar, and some excellent repartee with old and new friends. Of course, there's been traffic jams entering Park City on school days but the shuttle busses and their drivers appear to be moving the invading force from venue to venue without too much complaint, the stress of the invasion being no worse than normal, I would guess. Of the films I've seen but have yet to write about, both a riveting documentary and a complex character study have made deep impressions and I would highly recommend them both as filmgoer targets for week two. Taking them on in reverse order, a modus operandi that, for whatever reason, massages my comfort zone, "The End of the Tour" has stuck to my festival ribs while occupying my rightbrain since leaving the theater Saturday morning. The story of Rolling Stone writer David Lipsky hanging with acclaimed author David Foster Wallace during the waning days of the latter's 1996 "Infinite Jest" book tour took me prisoner from the outset and continues to hold me for ransom. Wallace has always been one of those writers whose work I keep close at hand but end up tossing away the bookmark, accessing the prose at random simply by flipping open the covers to whatever pages present themselves. It's sort of like William Burroughs' "cut up" technique, but without scissors. This approach is especially true when it comes to "Infinite Jest," which I began back in the day with a bookmark but, after tossing it, entered upon a "post-it" phase that kind of got out of hand. I mean if you're going to mark every page that rocks your world, DFW is not the author with whom to hone the craft. But, of course, I digress! The cat does more with eyes and facial muscles than your average thespian, I'll tell you that!" When I first heard that actor Jason Segel had been cast as Wallace in this film adaptation of Lipsky's memoir, "Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip With David Foster Wallace," I felt, being the ignorant dolt I am, somewhat betrayed. Although I'm not much of a TV sitcom guy, I have watched Segel in a few features and was duly impressed. But David Foster Wallace? Come on! This was going to take a retro Brando or Pacino or, at the least, a Johnny Depp or an Ethan Hawke. Well, as is often the case when my presumptuously pedantic side gets on a roll, I (we) ended up with all of that. Segel is more than equal to the role of the deeply quirky, deeply intellectual, deeply troubled, deeply talented Wallace. Hell, he could have waltzed through the assigned emotions with head shots alone. The cat does more with eyes and facial muscles than your average thespian, I'll tell you that! Not to say that Jesse Eisenberg doesn't take Lipsky out for a walk in the park. In fact, it's his close interaction with the Wallace character that elicits such spot-on reactions from Segel. Let's just say that various neuroses are given more than just cameos. "The End of the Tour" has been picked-up but, if you get the chance, you really ought to experience it at Sundance, don't you think? Now to the documentary "Meru." Whew! Now, this is a climbing film for the ages. As Conrad Anker put it when speaking of why the "Shark's Fin" on Mount Meru had seen so many failed attempts by elite climbing teams over the past 30 years, "This is like Yosemite big wall climbing at altitude in the dead of winter." Featuring Anker along with two of his climbing buddies, Jimmy Chin and Renan Ozturk, plus insightful narration by author Jon Krakauer, "Meru" puts you in harm's way in dreadful conditions with scant resources and few rational options right out of the chute. No spoilers here, but just remember that you're going to get extremely cold and hungry and forsaken up on those pitches before all is said and done. How they possibly could have filmed this extreme adventure is beyond me. Epic stuff! It's certainly my new favorite climbing film! You know, one of those that causes you to get out your best Himalayan maps and a magnifying glass when you get home and know that they will live on the dining room table for at least as long as it took Tommy Caldwell and Kevin Jorgeson to "send" the Dawn Wall. Jay Meehan is a culture junkie and has been an observer, participant, and chronicler of the Park City and Wasatch County social scenes for more than 40 years. Writers on the Range By Courtney White Agriculture needs to back up It's easy to forget that once upon a time, all agriculture was organic and grassfed. Saving seeds, composting, fertilizing diverse crops with manure, not tilling, and raising livestock entirely on grass was the norm over a century ago. Yet today, these are just the approaches we associate with sustainable food production. We all know what happened as we modernized -- the plow, the tractor, fossil fuels, monocrops, nitrogen fertilizer, pesticides, herbicides, fungicides, feedlots, animal byproducts, e. coli, genetically modified organisms, and erosion. We farmed faster, and we farmed more acreage. These are all practices and conditions that most Americans now consider "normal," if they think about agriculture at all. Fortunately, a movement to rediscover and implement "old" practices of bygone days has risen rapidly, abetted by innovations in technology, breakthroughs in scientific knowledge, and tons of oldfashioned, on-the-ground problem solving. Take Dorn Cox, a young farmer in New Hampshire. He tossed away the plow, preferring to use no-till practices on his parent's organic farm; then he developed a biodiesel alternative to fossil fuels. He measures the carbon content of the soil through sophisticated technology, aiming to raise the content as high as possible, and he also co-founded Farm Hack, an open-source virtual café for young and beginning farmers. "Farming isn't rocket science," he likes to say, "it's more complicated than that." Like Dorn, many young people in agriculture today are looking to the past, and what they have discovered is that nature's model works best. After all, nature has been using evolution and the laws of physics to beta-test what works for millions of years -- billions in the case of photosynthesis. Humans are pipsqueaks in this process by comparison, and the idea that we know what's best is increasingly looking like a dangerous form of hubris. That's why a new generation of agrarians is returning to the roots of agriculture for a different approach that includes large helpings of science and social responsibility as well. Soil carbon is a good example. As gardeners know, creating the dark, rich soil called humus is critical to plant vigor, mineral uptake and smart water use. At the farm and ranch scale, it helps prevent soil erosion. A short list of practices that build soil carbon include planting cover crops, mulching, composting, employing low or Humans are pipsqueaks in this process by comparison, and the idea that we know what's best is increasingly looking like a dangerous form of hubris." no-till, and planning where livestock graze. Building humus is a great way to sequester atmospheric carbon dioxide in the soil for potentially long periods of time, which means that "old" practices can address "new" challenges such as climate change. Recently, the level of CO2 in the atmosphere rose past 400 parts per million for the first time in millions of years. However, it is possible to help bring this level back down through the old-fashioned process of photosynthesis. Last spring, the Rodale Institute, a research and education nonprofit, released a white paper entitled Regenerative Organic Agriculture and Climate Change: A Downto-Earth Solution to Global Warming. It states boldly that we could sequester more than 100 percent of current annual CO2 emissions by switching to soil-creating, inexpensive and effective organic agricultural methods. Just a few years ago, the climate potential of soil carbon wasn't on anyone's radar screens, other than a few laboratories, soil scientists and a handful of progressive farmers and ranchers. Now, talk of trapping carbon in soil is everywhere. At a major grazing conference I attended recently, soil carbon was the most popular topic discussed (after cattle), with speaker after speaker extolling its virtues. And yes, people are even talking now about using it to slow down climate change. It is undeniably true that there are many obstacles to implementing these tried and true solutions to food and climate challenges. Some are economic, but many are policy-based, which is why it is important to support groups like the Organic Consumers Association (www. organicconsumers.org) and the National Young Farmers Coalition (www.youngfarmers.org) in their efforts to create an environment that favors old-style farmers and ranchers, not to mention eaters, which means all of us. It all comes back to nature. I like the way the Rodale Institute put it recently: Farming like the Earth matters. Farming as if water and soil and land matter. Farming as if clean air matters. Farming as if human health, animal health and ecosystem health matter. Because all of this does matter, and regenerative agricultural practices are the best way to preserve it. Courtney White is a contributor to Writers on the Range, a column service of High Country News (hcn.org). He co-founded the Quivira Coalition, a nonprofit dedicated to improving economic and ecological resilience in Western working landscapes. He lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico, with his family, two dogs and five chickens. |