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Show -I. A I i Planners recommend By unanimous vote, the Planning Commission Wednesday Wed-nesday recommended to the City Council that Empire Avenue be made one-way north-bound from Marsac Manor Road to Silver King Drive. The motion was part of a plan to efficiently funnel traffic around the Park City Ski Resort area. The recommendation also said the one-way status would take effect only after road improvements had been made in the area in compliance with plans for Park City Village at the base of the Resort. The plan would provide that drivers going to the Resort from Park Avenue would drive southwest up Empire, then west on Silver King Drive. They would then turn onto Lowell, which would become a one-wav HB 172: making Mountain Metro legal Don't repeat this to anyone, but there's a possibility that Park City's mighty Mountain Metro bus system may not be strictly legal. The story goes something like this: About four years ago, the people of Park City were asked to approve the use of one quarter of one percent of the city's sales tax revenue to finance a mass transit system. So far, so good. However, according to Board authorizes bond sale After wrestling with the issue for several months, the Park City Board of Education voted Tuesday to approve the sale of $5.8 million in school building bonds. By a unanimous vote, the board authorized the First Security Bank of Utah to negotiate the sale on a "best efforts" basis, to get the best possible contract at the best possible time. The board first was confronted con-fronted with a decision on the bond sale last Dec. 9 when it opened two bids offering of-fering interest rates ol 10.19 and 10.20 percent. In the hope that interest rates would drop, the members voted not to accept eithei bid. i The question was raised again at board meetings in both January and February. Again, the decision was postponed, although interest rates had dropped slightly since the December meeting. School site deal near The Park City Board of Education was told Tuesday that negotiations for a new middle school site are apparently ap-parently in the final stages. "It appears that we will probably have that resolved and ready for formal action by the board meeting next week," School Superintendent Superinten-dent Richard Goodworth said at Tuesday's meeting. Name. Address. CityStateZip. mm ft street, to arrive at the Resort area and the Village. Driving further south, the motorists could return to Empire by turning down either Manor or Millside Roads. Empire would then be one-way north-bound until it intersected inter-sected with Silver King. The result, say city planners, would be an efficient "loop" of traffic. The two lanes of Empire, running north, would take in a 50 ft. right-of-way. City Planner Bill Ligety said it would be difficult to make Empire two-way (three lanes) at that point because it would need a 66 foot right-of-way. "That would seriously impact on development develop-ment on the east side of Empire," he said. The new traffic plan also means changes for Lowell state law, the people also should have been asked to approve the creation of a-public a-public transportation district and authorize the appointment a public transportation trans-portation authority to oversee over-see the running of the buses. That never happened. Nevertheless, the buses have been running, under the direct supervision of the City Council. In addition, general revenue funds have been used to help finance the operation. The legality of both of these Dractices ap On Tuesday, financial consultant con-sultant Lyle J. Larson urged the board to make a move. '"What I would like to do tonight is get you to make a decision, one way or another, to sell the bonds," he said. Larson spelled out the three options as he saw them: to ask for bids a second time, to authorize a negotiated sale, or to delay the bond sale again. He saw one major drawback to asking for bids: the process takes six weeks. "There's no way. if we picked a sale date for six weeks from now, that we could have any idea ol what i interest rate you would get. ' i ' " i Larson argued that a negotiated sale would allow First Security to watch the fluctuations in the bond market, then work out the best possible deal when interest in-terest rates appeared to beat be-at their lowest. "We have made an offer and it appears that everything is g"." The board has been negotiating with Dr. D A. Osguthorpe for a 40-acre parcel north of Utah Highway High-way 248 and immediately east of the present high school. Plans call for hall the site to be used for the new middle school, and the other rvir r u The Mewspaper NEW Syndicated Columnists Jack AndersonStanley Karnow Jim Murray SPORTS NEW Local Columns WinepressTwo-Way Street Marketplace Scoreboard NEW New York Times Crossword Puzzle AND MORE' v. NEW New York Times Sw Crossword Puzzle sAND MORE! SUBSCRIBE NOW! $6 in Summit County $12 out of Summit County Make check payable to The Newspaper one-way for Empire Avenue, with three lanes planned for one-way southbound south-bound traffic. One lane will be a "stacking lane" for traffic going into and out of the Resort. Ligety also said the new roadwork would straighten out the portion of Lowell which crooks to the west in a small right-angle turn. Ligety said traffic will be able to move past the Resort at 25 or 30 MPH. City Traffic Engineer Wayne VanWagoner said drivers will be able to move easily from north Empire to south Empire, , despite having to drive the loop past the Resort. "Your distance is increased, but your travel time will be cut by three or four minutes," said Van Wagoner. "Sometimes the shortest distance between any two points is by Point C" parently is questionable. The source of this information infor-mation is State Rep. Glen Brown, who has been asked to sponsor a bill in the legislature to take care of the problem. Under the provisions of House Bill 172, municipalities munici-palities would be allowed to establish, by resolution, a public transportation system and to impose a one-quarter of one percent per-cent sales tax to fund the system. II a sale were negotiated now. he estimated that the ' interest rate would be about 9.7.") percent. ' The concensus is that the market will come down a little bit. but not a great deal." Board member (Jenc, Lambert wondered how main other school districts had ehosen the negotiated sale approach recently. Lar " son said North Sanpete was the only recent example. The sale of the Ixmds originally was authorized in a special district election in May 1979. A decision in the summer ol lHHiiMo build a new middle school prompted I In board to ask lor bids, j Negol i.it ions for a site lor the new school are Hearing com pletion. and the board hope-:o hope-:o begin construction in 'he spring I..H MID pointed oh! thai the nionex derived from the bond ;ilc could bc rem wMed on the short term D.ll'ke! illlti! I! needed half reserved for a future elementary school. Goodworth said he had been working with the district's attorney. Oscar McConkie, on the terms of the sale. "The papers have been drawn up." he said. "It is my understanding that they went out yesterdav 1 Monday " - i I k II A U Q uuy Van Wagoner said Silver King, Lowell, and portions of Empire would all have to be widened. Traffic islands will be installed to guide cars at the Empire-Silver King intersections in-tersections and the Silver King-Lowell intersections. When an audience member suggested using the new traffic pattern only during the busy season, Van Wagoner Wa-goner pointed out that it would be impractical to remove the island in slow periods. "Two systems would be confusing," he said. Ligety said another need was for sidewalks running from Empire up to the Resort, while Van Wagoner suggested a large, roadside sign could clearly indicate to motorists the route they were supposed to follow. According to Brown, the bill would allow entities like Park City to run a mass transit sytem without creating another layer of government to oversee the' operation. And it would allow the use of funds other than the designated one-quarter one-quarter of one percent to finance it. City Attorney Michael McCoy said Tuesday that passage of the bill would head off possible legal action. ac-tion. "I think I could probably make it all legal, but that would involve litigation, and I don't want to litigate. ""What . we're doing, frankly, is better than the alternative approach." McCoy said the bill would correct a problem created before he was hired by the city. '"There's a serious question whether the city can pay money to the district to help operate the system." he agreed. HB 172 has been approved " by the House and is awaiting action bv the Senate. rxn Presents... The United States Ski Team and other top competitors from the U.S. & Canada Local racers are encouraged to enter and ski with the best M M f - i. . ., i men iw nil i., i which n Mil. Awards & Party 4 to 6 p.m., sponsored by the Cowboy Bar Slide show by Park City Photo Admission: $2.00 per person. Competitors no charge. All proceeds donated to Park City Junior Cross-Country Ski Team. Persons under 21 will not be served alcoholic beverages. Prizes will be awarded to the top three classified and citizens racers in each category: Men (19 and over), Jr. Men (14-18), Women (19 and over), Jr. Women(14 Dinner for 2 (Jody's) Geod (Rock & Silver) Cowboy Hat (the Hat Store) Belt & Buckle (B & G Custom Leather) 2 Memberships (Jody's) Dinner (or 2 (Irish Camel) Breakfast for 2 (Eating Establishment) $10 Gift Certificate (Root Seller) I"" - " SEND YOUR ENTRY IN TODAY! j NAME AGE. I ADDRESS. I I I SKI TEAM Lowell Ave. Empire Ave. r S I III I 0 r c3 I - Empire u) Winters u) Woodside $ ? I . , Middle I , . J , r f I J 1 1 2 Ischoo! hi m iff in State Highway 224 (Park Ave.) A 4C To Main Street Miner's Hospital Dvfl TO llJ -c Man Hrt mmj r. ililUj 'I III Ml J I L. urn ijBij'i f ; n . 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