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Show Page A8 Thursday, February 19, 1981 Hie Newspaper The Ultimate Addition to Your Home: Custom glass structure design, production and installation. Call for Free Cost Estimate and ask about a complimentary catalog. 1560 E. 3300 S., Salt Lake City, Utah 84106 801-467-1539 New senate bill may reduce snowmobile-skier conflict RON HALT & ASSOCIATES A bill aimed at reducing conflicts between snowmobilers and crosscountry cross-country skiers by requiring all users of winter recreation parking lots to pay their own way has been introduced in the Utah Senate, and may be up for a vote as early as next week. Senate Bill 124, sponsored by state Senators Frances Farley and Richard J. Carling, provides "for the assessment of annual fees for the use of areas designated as winter recreation parking lots to help fund the establishment and maintenance of such lots." Presently, snowmobilers are charged r'a $5 per machine registration fee which goes into a recreational vehicle account that helps pay for snow removal from parking areas, restrooms at trailheads, and snowmobile trail grooming. The $5 does not cover the total cost of these services, but covers 60-to-80 percent of the costs, with the remainder coming out of the state general fund. Other winter recreation-ists recreation-ists cross-country skiers, dog sledders, snow shoers, and sled and tube riders-park riders-park their vehicles in the snowmobile parking areas free. This situation is resented re-sented by the snowmobilers, who feel they are paying the way for all other users. With use increasing and parking areas becoming more crowded, two possible solutions have been suggested by the state division of Parks and Recreation: ( Hallow only snowmobilers to use the parking areas, or (2)spread the costs among all users by assessing a fee for everyone. SB 124 sets that fee at $5 or less, and would require all users to pay it and display a sticker on their vehicle. Parkite Dave Hanscom, avid cross-country skier and co-author of 'Wasatch Tours," has been instrumental instrumen-tal in pushing this bill through the Utah legislature. Last week he testified in favor of SB 124 before the Energy and National Resources committee. The bill was reported out of the committee without recom-mentation, recom-mentation, and is now on the Senate floor. It made it through a first reading, but must be read twice more before being voted upon. Hanscom thinks that vote could come next week, and is rallying cross-country skiers to notify their senators of their support for it. Hanscom thinks it is only fair that skiers pay a share of parking area maintenance costs. But due to some problems in the wording of the bill, it is not receiving support from the division of Parks and Recreation, an agency which earlier favored the notion of skiers chipping in on the trailhead maintenance costs. Ted Wooley, supervisor super-visor of boating and e Our Guest alt the-Movies . . . Now Showing For each 1 year subscription or renewal, The Newspaper willgive away a FREE PASS FOR TWO to Holiday Village Cinemas, (FREE PASSES FOR FOUR, for each 2 year subscription). Just fill out the form below and return to The Mewspaper P.O. Box 738 419 Main Street Park City, Utah 84060 SAT. 1 SUN. 1,6, 9 :00 Ml Co Hit CHANGE OF SEASONS Starring Bo Derek SAT. I SUN. 3, 7 MON.-FRI. 7:00 LILY TOMLIN. b JANil TONDA SAT. & SUN. 12:30,2:45.5,7:20.9:30 MON.-FRI. J 7:20, 9.30 JPG !-, .CK vF RICHARD PRYOR and litNE YVIIDER SAT. & SUN. 1,3,5, 7:15, 9:30 MON.-FRI. 7:15,9:30 s i in rum m In Summit County: 1 year - S6.00, 2 years - SI 1.00 (Out-of-county: 1 year - SI 2, 2 years - S20) Name Streer Clty State . -Zip Enclosod $ Charge my D VISA MASTERCARD account Card Na ---a Expiration date . Signature recreation vehicles, says the bill as it is worded now will mean snowmobilers will have to pay the $5 permit fee, in addition to the present $5 registration fee. Hanscom says this is not the case, that Section 5 of SB 124 gives the Board of Parks and Recreation the power to "establish regulations necessary ... to effectively administer this." He feels the, board would not charge snowmobilers both fees. Hanscom added that an amendment probably will be attached to the bill exempting exempt-ing snowmobilers from the parking fee. About $25,000 could be generated from parking permits, according to Wooley. Of that, $4,500 would go for administrative costs, with half of the remainder going to help plow existing parking areas, and the other half for new skier parking lots and track setting for cross-country skiers. Permit programs for winter win-ter parking areas are in use in Washington, Oregon and Idaho. A bill similar to SB 124 was introduced in the Utah House of Representatives Represen-tatives in 1979, but died in committee due to lack of support. Local judge presides over Fifth Circuit Court hmm-M---nI Larry Larry R. Keller, a resident of Park City, has been elected presiding judge in the Fifth Judicial Circuit Court for calendar year 1981. The presiding judge handles han-dles administrative details for the court, including setting the agenda for meetings meet-ings and taking care of matters related to recordkeeping. record-keeping. He also acts as the liaison between the judges and the other agencies in the judicial system. "I am honored with this election by my fellow judges," Keller said. "I am particularly excited to be working in our new courts building. The new facility will be a great asset to judges, employees, lawyers, and especially the citizens It. Keller who have business in our court," he saidreferring to ' the expanded Summit County Coun-ty Courthouse.' "w"'4: Among his goals for the year, Keller lists: providing improved service to the bar and the citizens who use the court, improving phone and counter services, and implementing im-plementing a computerized records system for the court. There are 11 judges in the Fifth Judicial Circuit Court. It serves Summit and Salt Lake counties, with departments depart-ments in Coalville, Salt Lake City, Murray and Sandy. Keller was appointed to the bench by Gov. Scott Matheson in July, 1978. Prior to his appointment, he worked work-ed as a legal defender and county attorney in Salt Lake City. Building bond issue continues to torment school board The members of the Park City Board of Education have found themselves embroiled em-broiled in a field which baffles baf-fles some of the best financial finan-cial minds in the country: the bond market. Since the decision was made last fall to invite bids on the sale of $5.8 million in school building bonds, the board members have had more than just a casual interest in-terest in the fluctuations of the bond market. At their December meeting, the members of. the outgoing school board voted to reject the two bids they had received, arguing that the interest rate of about 10.2 percent was too high. In .doing so they ignored the advice ad-vice of the district's financial finan-cial consultant, Lyle Larsen. At a special meeting held Jan. 20, the members of the new board again voted to delay the sale of the bonds, noting that interest rates were starting to drop. Like a bad cold that refuses to go away, the issue popped up again at Tuesday's board meeting. This time the members were presented with some disconcerting discon-certing news: the interest rates on the bond market were on the rise again, moving from 9.49 percent on Jan. 8 to 9.99 percent on Feb. 12. Although Larsen was not present at the meeting, he urged the board, via Superintendent Richard Goodworth, to consider a negotiated bond sale. "He's starting to get a little lit-tle concerned about timing, dates and so forth," Good-worth Good-worth said. He explained that a decision to negotiate fdr bond sale would allow Larsen Lar-sen to approach various financial institutions with a proposal rather than repeat the process of inviting bids. Goodworth said it as the opinion of Larsen and some other analysts that interest rates would start to rise again in the spring. Board members Nancy McComb and Gary Avise spoke in favor of a negotiated sale rather than run the risk of higher rate-later. rate-later. But they met some resistance from Gene Lambert. Lam-bert. "I get as many opinions that the market is going to go down in the long run as it is to stay the same or go up," he said. Lambert argued that a negotiated sale would leave open the question whether the board had made ti". best possible deal. He suggested that a better move would be to borrow money on the short-term market until some of the doubts had bee-resolved. bee-resolved. No action was taken on the bond sale proposal. The item will be discussed again at the, board's March 3 meeting. |
