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Show A-16 Meetings and agendas The Park Record to publish your public notices and agendas please email classifieds@parkrecord.com AGENDA SUMMIT COUNTY COUNCIL Wednesday, January 13, 2016 NOTICE is hereby given that the Summit County Council will meet in session Wednesday, January 13, 2016, at the Summit County Courthouse, 60 North Main Street, Coalville, UT 84017 (All times listed are general in nature, and are subject to change by the Council Chair) 12:30 PM Closed Session - Personnel (45 min); Property acquisition (90 min) 2:45 PM Work Session Discussion regarding water source protection; Scott Paxman and Rich Bullough (45 min) 3:30 PM - 2015 Service Report by Rocky Mountain Power including energy efficiency, philanthropy, renewable energy; Chad Ambrose (10 min) 3:40 PM - Update on transportation planning; Caroline Ferris, Regional Transportation Planning Director (30 min) 4:10 PM - Discussion regarding Canyons RVMA Transportation Master Plan; Brian Madasci, Pat Putt, Caroline Ferris (30 min) 4:40 PM Consideration of Approval Pledge of Allegiance Consideration and approval of Ordinance No. 854, Amendment to Title 2, Chapter 9, Mountain Regional Water Special Service District: David Thomas, Chief Civil Deputy Consideration and approval of Ordinance No. 855, Amendment to Title 2, Chapter 21, Snyderville Basin Special Recreation Service District: David Thomas, Chief Civil Deputy Consideration and approval of Ordinance No. 856, Amendment to Title 2, Chapter 25, North Summit Fire Service District: David Thomas, Chief Civil Deputy Consideration and approval of Ordinance No. 857, Amendment to Title 2, Chapter 24, Park City Fire Service District: David Thomas, Chief Civil Deputy Consent to Settlement Agreement between Summit County, Snyderville Basin Special Recreation District, The Ridge at Redhawk Wildlife Preservation Foundation, Inc., Tonya G. Fassio Trust, Mark & Nancy Cavallo, John J. and Tyann Mooney III, Redhawk Trail, LLC, and Matthew L. and Sarah Hollingsworth - Dave Thomas, Chief Civil Deputy Council Comments Manager Comments 5:40 PM - Convene as the Governing Board of the Snyderville Basin Special Recreation District Approval of Settlement Agreement between Summit County, Snyderville Basin Special Recreation District, The Ridge at Redhawk Wildlife Preservation Foundation, Inc., Tonya G. Fassio Trust, Mark & Nancy Cavallo, John J. and Tyann Mooney III, Redhawk Trail, LLC, and Matthew L. and Sarah Hollingsworth - Dave Thomas, Chief Civil Deputy Approval of Redhawk Trail Easement and Access Agreement - Dave Thomas, Chief Civil Deputy Approval of Mooney Trail Easement and Access Agreement - Dave Thomas, Chief Civil Deputy Approval of Hollingsworth Trail Easement and Access Agreement - Dave Thomas, Chief Civil Deputy Approval of Fassio Trail Easement and Access Agreement - Dave Thomas, Chief Civil Deputy Approval of Cavallo Trail Easement and Access Agreement - Dave Thomas, Chief Civil Deputy 6:00 PM Public Input Public Hearing to consider potential projects for which funding may be applied under the CDBG Small Cities Program for Program Year 2016 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 Council Chambers and Conference room, Summit County Courthouse, 60 N. Main, Coalville, 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) 7834351 ext. 3025 Posted: January 8, 2016 Lower the primary age? Michelle L. Price Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY - A proposal that Utah lawmakers will consider later this month could see the state join 20 others to allow 17-year-olds to vote in June primary elections if they'll turn 18 by the general election in November. Salt Lake City Democratic state Rep. Joel Briscoe, a former high school civics teacher, said he hopes his proposal will help boost voter participation and get more young people engaged. Briscoe said if someone will be 18 and eligible to vote in November, "Why not get them involved in the primary election? Why not get them involved even earlier that year and get them more pumped for what's going to happen in November? " Utah primary elections are held the fourth Tuesday in June. Briscoe said research has shown that the earlier people cast their first vote, the more likely they will be to continue voting. The Utah lieutenant governor's office, which oversees elections, has not studied the proposal, according to state elections director Mark Thomas. So far, 20 states allow 17-yearolds to vote in primaries and caucuses, according to FairVote, a Maryland-based election reform group that advocates for the idea. Some states have passed laws lowering the primary voting age and in others, state political parties have been allowed to change their party rules to allow 17-year-old participation. Rob Richie, FairVote's executive director, said 17-year-olds in a more structured environment of living with their parents and going to high school may be more likely to take advantage of their right to vote than some 18-year-olds who have moved out into the world and the distractions of college. After a similar law took effect in Illinois in 2014, Chicago election officials reported that 17-year-olds were more likely to vote in that city's primary election than most voters in their 20s, 30s and 40s. Kari Schott, the 17-year-old founder of a Young Democrats club at Jordan High School in Sandy, said she'd take advantage of the lowered primary voting age but isn't sure about her peers. "That would be an amazing opportunity. But knowing my friends and the people at my school, I don't know if it would be as exciting to them, " she said. "They aren't as politically active and a lot of them are apathetic to the political process." Schott said despite being a politically active 17-year-old, she isn't always taken seriously by candidates because she can't actually vote for them. Andy Pierucci, a 27-year-old who works with Utah Young Republicans, said he thinks the voting age should be lowered to 16, when teenagers start working and paying taxes. "I think that they should definitely be able to have a say on elected officials that decide where the taxes go, " he said. Pierucci said he was politically active as a teenager and helped to knock on doors to build support for candidates. That exposure spurred him to stay politically active as an adult, something he hopes would happen to other teens if they're newly allowed to vote right around the time they start diving into civics classes in school. identifiers of trafficking victims. "The Health Consequences of Human Trafficking and their Implications for Health Care Providers" is a national study undertaken by Global Centurion Foundation President Laura Lederer, J.D., a subject matter expert on human trafficking for several U.S. government agencies. The study interviewed 107 sex trafficking survivors in 11 cities across the U.S. and found 99.1 percent had physical health problems and 98 percent had mental health problems. The study also found that 87.8 percent had contact with a health care provider while they were trafficked. Additionally, Attorney General Sean Reyes, the Office of the Utah Attorney General's Human Trafficking Task Force and the National Association of Attorneys General (NAAG) plan to host a tuition-free, one and one-half day training for prosecutors and investigators on human trafficking. This training will take place on Jan. 28 and 29 in Salt Lake City. "This study humanizes victim suffering and provides common physical and mental health symptoms and other warning signs that can assist medical professionals in recognizing possible trafficking victims," explained Attorney General Sean Reyes. "It also provides recommendations for new policy and programs, including training for health care providers, and suggestions for referral and reporting to help these victims of modern day slavery obtain broader criminal justice assistance." According to Lederer, "The hope is that this national study and the training that will come from it will enable prevention and improve interaction between healthcare providers and law enforcement to bring more perpetrators of this heinous crime to justice." Kathy Franchek, assistant professor of Pediatrics at the University of Utah School of Medicine, and Laura Lederer will lead the two focus groups scheduled to take place on Jan. 27 at Salt Lake County Government Center, 2001 S. State St. in Salt Lake City. Human trafficking in focus Utah AG will host events for benefit of survivors Submitted by Utah Attorney General's Office Victims of human trafficking often go unnoticed and the crime unreported, despite interactions with various types of healthcare providers. In an effort to build awareness of human trafficking among prosecutors, investigators, and Utah's health care community, the Utah Attorney General's Human Trafficking Task Force will host two focus groups involving healthcare providers and human trafficking survivors on Jan. 27. The Utah focus group session results will add Utah statistics to a national study underway that will support policy and program recommendations for healthcare providers to enhance their roles as Core Samples Crapshoots and goggles SUMMIT COUNTY COUNCIL Bill would give some 17-year-olds the right to vote Wed/Thurs/Fri, January 13-15, 2016 Don't get buried in news you don't need. Call 435-649-9014 to get the news you care about Pertinent landscapes remain familiar when pondering wishlist black holes and ticket acquisition during the annual rollout of Sundance. Not that that eases the angst. The plotting of one's days gets to be quite personal as the sheer volume of screenings, music acts, and special events overwhelm available timeframes. It's a crapshoot! Issues range from not wanting to miss the latest from any number of the iconic independent filmmakers who have made the festival the draw it's become, to, in the obvious case of your humble scribe, a seemingly endless amount of foreign dramatic and documentary films that you just know will never make it to your local Bijou. Forces akin to the invisible gravitational pulls of dark matter nudge your evolving culture-lust through each section of the online Festival Film Guide. Must-see lists develop pituitary problems. The sense is of walls closing in. Eyes begin to fog. Brain hemispheres glare at each other. Analytics smolder while intuitions yawn in innocence. Examples run rampant. The artsy biopic "Richard Linklater - Dream is Destiny" screens in the Documentary Premiere category while later the same day "Dazed and Confused with live commentary by Richard Linklater and Jason Reitman" celebrates Linklater's seminal film with a twist. Sitting among those lucky enough to be in the theater and flaunting microphones with which to wax philosophically and no doubt hilariously while the mid-‘70s kegger classic "Dazed and Confused" follows our adolescent protagonists on their last day of school will be two of our greatest filmmakers. Insider commentary in realtime, what a concept! Word is that "Becoming Mike Nichols," a conversational-style documentary deal- By Jay Meehan ing with the brilliant career of Mike Nichols from his stint reinventing stand-up with Elaine May to directing his first two feature films, "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?," and "The Graduate," will have its world premiere at the festival. All I know is that it's a single screening and that even if I somehow became aware of where and when it was taking place, gaining access to the theater would still be the longest of shots. I mean even without its covert profile, it's going to be one of the hottest tix in town. From the first moment I encountered the art of "Nichols and May," my concept of "hipness" had to be modified upward. From the first moment I encountered the art of ‘Nichols and May,' my concept of ‘hipness' had to be modified upward." As has become its modus operandi, the Sundance ASCAP Music Café leaves me further in the dust each year as far as name recognition of the featured acts. Throughout the years, however, that's really never been a problem. Many of my post-festival favorites usually came from my now-expanding list of the unknown. Kelly Joe Phelps, Joseph Arthur, Old 97s, Jill Sobule, Buddy Miller, Nellie McKay, Mary Gauthier, St. Vincent, Jon Batiste & Stay Human, and The Low Anthem I first came upon at Music Café. There was a time when I referred to it as "the jewel" of the festival. I'm sure that to many, it still is. I just don't seem to get there as Red Card Roberts often anymore. The New Frontier category historically blows minds. At least mine. Staring becomes an art form. "Post-gawk" you might call it. With films, performances, art, and virtual reality exhibits, these artists stretch the fabric, as it were. They'll no doubt once again have their way with my senses, or lack thereof, this time around. I barely came back to earth from one VR trip that began in Nan Chalat Noaker's office at The Park Record building a few weeks back. Notwithstanding that virtual reality has always been a technology in which becoming fully mesmerized is the point, this current crop of creators are pushing the experience almost to the point of complete suspension of disbelief. You're interacting with a fully tricked-out environment and although a far-away lobe of your brain is trying to convince you that to the outside world your actions look rather comical, you couldn't care less. There remains much to be done. You couldn't possibly leave now. You're just getting the hang of it. It's all about the goggles and the goggles are all about you. No one else could possibly pull off the necessary movements required to negotiate such an environment. Right around that corner could possibly be the path to "Becoming Mike Nichols." You were "called" to be here. Of course, as time goes on, ignoring that voice from the far-away lobe gets more and more difficult. Especially when it begins shouting and you can't help but notice that something is shaking you and trying to rip off the goggles. They just don't get it! 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. By Amy Roberts Now what? I have to say, it was quite a jolt. A shock to my system for sure. Last month, my "todo" list was wiped clean, and I can't for the life of me ever remember a time when I didn't have dozens, if not hundreds of notes mentally scribbled on it. Most were things I want to get done in the week, month, or year. Tasks like "clean the house" or "respond to emails" never make this list. Because I don't have to write those things down any more than I need to write down "feed the dog." They'll all get done on schedule. It's fair to say my "to-do" list has been more made up of goals, not necessities like buying milk or folding the laundry. "Write a book" has been at the top of my list for years, something I always sort of shrugged at and thought, I'll get to it. Someday. Well, over the course of the last year, I got to it. Finally. And now I have absolutely no idea what to do with it. I never put "publish a book" or "find a book agent" or anything of the sort on that "to-do" list. Originally when I set out on this journey all I wanted to do was write a book, and I didn't care if my mom was the only person who read it. Now, after pouring a year of my life into it, I'm kind of thinking I want a book jacket and a contract. To be more accurate, this book didn't take a full year of my life. It did if you look at the calendar I suppose. One day in December of 2014, I sat down and wrote 10,000 words. Then I didn't touch the thing until this past November. And when I picked it back up, I basically gave myself carpal tunnel syndrome. For three weeks I wrote my face off and finished it last month. So yes, it took a year of my life, but I took an 11-month break. The break was largely due to a boy who I liked way too much. I met him right after the 10,000 words were written and pretty much got lost in the relationship and devoted every Now, after pouring a year of my life into it, I'm kind of thinking I want a book jacket and a contract." free minute to fixing him. An impossible task it turns out. Six months later we broke up and I was too heartbroken to consider writing more. So the moral of that story is, don't start or end a relationship if you're working under a deadline. Anyway, now I have this book, and a massive "NOW WHAT?" screaming at me every day. I've done some research, and it's only confused me more. Some say I have to get a book agent. Others insist self-publishing is the way to go. Those who know what it's about tell me to forget the book thing, it should be a movie. Then they tell me I have to rewrite it as a screenplay. And still others have suggested I just network and let it happen. None of which helps when you're type A+ and need a detailed plan to move forward. I want something concrete on that "to-do" list of mine. I can get there if I know the direction I'm supposed to take, but when you're pointed down several different roads, getting to the destination gets overwhelming. And it seems way more enjoyable to just pull over at the first exit and order a beer at Applebee's. The blankness of my original "to-do" list was very short lived. I basically typed "The End" in my book, and panicked. I clearly need to add something to it and move this project along. I just don't know where to begin or who to listen to. It's safe to say I have gotten a little ahead of myself in the process, too. I don't have my Oscars speech written for Best Adapted Screenplay or anything, but I do have the actors picked out. I probably ought to have the book proofed before I start contacting Jon Hamm. And I still have to answer: Now what? Who knew writing a book would be the easy part? Amy Roberts is a freelance writer, longtime Park City resident, and the proud owner of a rescued Dalmatian named Stanley. |
