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See you soon! y . f X inl:(i Han ; ll I il'. : ll ll I III 1 1 i 1 lean your 1 u w Tl kn Services Development may be blossoming blos-soming in Summit County, but we're begging for social services from the state. It's not hard to reach that conclusion after talking to Jim Wheeler, a state officer for the Utah Department of Social Services. Wheeler works in the department's District 3 (Utah, Wasatch, and Summit Counties) and recently presented a needs assessment report to the Summit County Commission which shows how thin social service is spread in this area. Wheeler has recommended recom-mended more office space and an increase in staff to handle the problem. State social services run the gamut investigating child abuse cases, determining determin-ing eligibility for welfare, counseling youth offenders, and other work. There are exactly three social workers to serve Summit and Wasatch Wa-satch Counties, said Wheeler. Wheel-er. They're based in Heber, he said, and rarely work in Summit County. The trio consist of Blaine Webster, who comes to Summit County Coun-ty two half-days out of the week; Ann Hersey, who works in the county one day a week; and Lowell Coleman, Cole-man, who comes here on an as-needed basis. Summit County has less access to state services than its sister county Wasatch. But, as Wheeler points out in his report, Summit has just as much, if not greater need for them. It has a larger population than Wasatch, and a greater number of poor. In such areas as school drop-out rates and illegitimate illegiti-mate births, it is comparable to Wasatch. The rates for suicide, abortion, and divorce di-vorce are higher. So why the inequity? One reason, Wheeler said, is that the state hasn't caught up with the changing population patterns here. "The services were set up in 1967-68, when Wasatch had the more stable population and Summit was losing people like crazy," he said. It was more efficient then to base the social work by Park City Chamber of Commerce Chamber Made Understanding sales The multiplier effect... it's the turnover of a dollar in the local economy. As a resort community, Park City should have two major objectives in mind when trying to improve the local economy: 1. Invite people to visit Park City and spend their money with a local business. 2. Keep that dollar in Park jeans on us. 3 lag behind county expansion in Heber. ' Wheeler said the staff will be increased from three people to five, starting July 1st. He said the state has hired Adrienne Boudreaux to work full-time in Summit County, and Wheeler himself will work half-time in this area. Office space will be set up in the Summit County Courthouse in Coalville, and in Park City, and they're negotiating for a space in Kamas. The five staffers then will sit down, Wheeler said, to divide their responsibilities and problem areas. The Department of Social Services, Ser-vices, he said, takes care of five basic areas. The following follow-ing information, Wheeler said, ' is not necessarily a summary of their activities, but it gives examples of what they do: (1) Child welfare. By state law, said Wheeler, social workers are on seven-day, 24-hour call to investigate reports of child abuse and neglect. They are prepared to counsel the family, maybe place the child temporarily in a foster home. Summit County is in need of foster homes and day care centers, he said. The Department Depart-ment of Social Service is obligated to develop and license day care centers. The Health Mints By Bob Reschke Summit County Health Department With warm weather just ar and the corner (really!), puvate swimming pools in Park City soon will be in full use. A few recommendations recommenda-tions about swimming pool use and care are offered by the Health Department. Private or public pool users should be requested to take a cleasing shower before diving in the water. Anyone obviously having open cuts, lesions or communicable com-municable skin conditions should be excluded from pool use. The use of common towels, combs, brushes, City, by encouraging residents resi-dents to "spend it again with a local." How do dollars spent locally benefit you? The two .major revenue sources in Park City are sales tax and property tax. Increases realized in sales tax revenue can mean fewer increases in property taxes. It's explained this way: When dollars circulate repeatedly re-peatedly in our community, greater revenues are drawn into the city coffers. In turn, when the time comes for the city to budget monies for municipal services, larger increases in sales tax revenues reve-nues reduce the likelihood of increases in property tax assessment. According to Rick Jentzsch, Park City director Shipshape insurance Afloat or ashore, I can provide pro-vide the protection you want and need. Farmers Trident Boat Policy covers almost everything that can happen to your boat and equipment. It provides for liability, medical payments, damage toyourcraft,plus30day automatic coverage for newly acquired or replacement replace-ment boats: motors and trailers. Set sail with the best - call me today to learn about a Trident Boat Policy and get acquainted with Farmers fast, fair, friendly service. Judy M. Kimball, Agent Tom Wilson, 'gent 202 Silver King Bank Bldg. Park City, Utah 649-8666 department also will finance day care expenses for parents if it helps them to become self-supporting. (2) Services to youth. Wheeler said the department is obligated to handle problems prob-lems with "status offenders" those whose actions would not be considered violations if they were adults, like runaways or habitual truants. "The juvenile court doesn't take these cases until earnest and persistent efforts ef-forts have been made by the department to solve the problem," Wheeler said. (3) Services to adults. The department is available to help in cases of spouse abuse, an all-too-common problem. "Any policeman will tell you a good portion of his time is spent settling family disturbances," said Wheeler. In extreme cases, they can help a spouse escape punishment; there are abuse centers in Provo and Salt Lake, he said. (A lesser problem is parent abuse. "The problem it's often called 'granny-battering' doesn't happen often," he said.) Job-related help also is available to adults. In fact, he said, any adult on welfare with a child over 6 years of age must register for the state work incentive pro drinking utensils or foot wear also are prohibited by current health regulations. Private pool owners are responsible for the maintenance main-tenance and sanitary condition condi-tion of their pools. A knowledge know-ledge of pool capacity, chlor-ination, chlor-ination, filtering techniques, testing and sampling are important. ' In addition, private pool owners are encouraged to submit pool water samples to the state health lab for analysis during peak use periods. Microorganisms causing communicable illnesses ill-nesses such as impetigo and hepatitis can be found in poorly chlorinated or non- tax impact on you of finance, the state of Utah collected $2,555,000 from Park City based on the 5 percent state sales tax. (This means that in excess of $51,118,000 taxable dollars were spent in Park City during fiscal 1980!) Of the $2,555,000, Park City received re-ceived $383,000 ( of one percent sales tax collected). This money was rebudgeted for city services, including ' snow removal, street cleaning, clean-ing, public protective services and more. -Park City's of one percent sales tax share has prompted a $400,000 revenue projection for fiscal '81. This is a substantial source of income for the city, and thank goodness for us, these revenues have increased annually. In fact, since 1975, sales tax collected in Park City has increased 600 percent. per-cent. Even during the generally gene-rally slow period of October through December, Park City saw an increase from $77,000 in 1979, to $104,000 in 1980. "It was good news for our budget," said Mayor Jack Green. "Every dollar spent here helps us and helps you too, by saving gas money spent if you had chosen to shop elsewhere." Generally speaking, then, the more local shopping that's done, the better the return we get as residents of the Park City community. Ideally this is how it should work: If a visitor comes to Park City and spends $100 at the Claimjumper Restaurant, Restau-rant, Park City gets of one percent sales tax. Lloyd Stevens will use that $100 to pay an employee. The employee em-ployee then takes that paycheck pay-check and could either (1) go to Salt Lake and buy a new pair of cowboy boots (and that's the end of the cycle), or (2) spend it at Wolfe's (in which case we get another shot at an additional of one percent for the city budget). If that same $100 then goes back into Wolfe's employee wages, it could be spent again in Park City at the Alpha Beta for food, and again for gas, and again for garden supplies, and again for your mother's birthday gift, and on and on. Each time those dollars are spent again, sales tax revenues gram, he said. The state provides training or on-the-job skills through a coalition between the Department of Social Services, Job Services, Ser-vices, and the Vocational Rehabilitation department. (4) Eligibility assistance. The department has a staffer who receives applications for public assistance, most often medical assistance, food stamps, and Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC). (5) Service for the develop-mentally develop-mentally disabled or retarded. re-tarded. Schools often provide programs of this sort, Wheeler Wheel-er said, so the state usually provides either pre-school or post-school service. The state for instance, is supervising super-vising and helping to fund a pre-school in the Marsac building. There is no chain of authority connecting county social services and the state, but Wheeler said he expects they will be cooperating completely. Last week, the county commission passed a pair of resolutions accepting the state aid and offering space in the Summit County Courthouse. His immediate goal is to meet with his four-member staff to figure out ways to service the ever-expanding needs of the two counties. chlorinated pool waters, so it is important that sanitation be an ongoing routine. As a public service, the Summit Co. Health Department Depart-ment offices in Park City will be most happy to inspect private pools upon owner request. Telephone 649-9072 between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday through Friday for appointments. Private pool owners are further reminded that discrepancies found during the course of such inspections mandate correction, correc-tion, but nonetheless compliance com-pliance remains a matter of individual responsibility. The Health Department will be offering Health Hints weekly in The Newspaper. multiply, and the Park City municipality gains more money for city services. The value of the dollar is worth so much to the economy of Park City, that the Park City City Council, mayor, and Chamber of Commerce went to the 1981 legislature in order to work at preserving our percentage of sales tax revenues, threatened earlier this year by House Bill 164. The issue was whether sales tax revenues reve-nues should be (1) totally returned to their point of collection (i.e., Park City as a prosperous resort town); or (2) be distributed throughout through-out the region, based on year-round residential population popu-lation figures. In other words, other towns want to get a piece of the action from resort towns that benefit directly from the tourist. Though House Bill 164 was passed by both the Senate and the House of Representatives, Represen-tatives, it fortunately was vetoed by Gov. Matheson. "Nevertheless," cautions Mayor Green, "Park City must beware that the legislature legisla-ture will attempt to introduce intro-duce this piece of legislation once again. At this point, the money we receive back is justified... Park City has to bear the burden of the cost of fire, police, ambulance and other services that the tourist tour-ist counts on while he's here." In the long run, shopping local benefits more than just city services. The more business the local businessman business-man does, the greater the profit increase he realizes. As his profit increases, he can afford to build his business, and hire more employees, thereby creating more jobs. More jobs mean that more people have more money to spend locally. A healthy local economy then encourages new business (which in turn pays for business licenses, another city revenue source), and new businesses hire new employees, starting the cycle again). No matter who you are, or what business you're in, the dollar that is spent locally touches each one of us when it is reinvested in Park City. So remember, "spend it with a local... it's good for you, it's good for Park City." |