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I think Joe Offret handled chat job as well as could be expected due to the already heavily-traveled roads. Three full time officers, three new vehicles and several different types of new equipment were added to the police department while Offret was acting ac-ting chief. Joe Offret obviously showed that he could have filled the title of Park City police chief by the testing procedures which eliminated several other applicants. ap-plicants. Joe had apparently met all the requirements up until the final five "siipsnts. I think Joe Offret proved that he had an advantage over any police chief applicant. It is very hard for me to understand, but with the apparent need to bring in professional people, I feel that I should leave my home town altogether in order or-der to give the new chief a fair chance. These are just a few reasons for. my decision to leave the Park City Police Department. I feel that seven years of loyal service, donated time, working holidays and special events for no extra ex-tra pay must have played a little part in making the decision of the police chief. It makes me wonder if there is any future or advancements within the police department, since there is no seniority within the city workers. I just wanted to take this time to give credit to the people where that credit is due! Ex-Acting Sergeant, Carey Yates Who should pay for curb and gutter? Editor: Last week I went to the Post Office and there was a bill for the curb and gutter. I sure was surprised because when Jack Green came to the center last fall to campaign I asked him if I had to pay. He said he didn't believe so. When the city paved the other side of the street, down to 1400 St, there was a grout to pay for it. Now what is good for Peter should be good for Paul. Is this being fair? If the city manager would've taken the bonus she gave the contractor for a poor job and applied it to the curb and gutter, she would've gained a little respect from the citizens. Bernice Marcellin (CdDimitfiimMedl f nimn . Park Ave. from 1 Hoover, adding that the load capacity was geared more toward light pick-up trucks and cars than tractor trailers. Hoover said he detected problems as soon as the old asphalt was torn up and heavy trucks began travelling on the base material, causing it to shift and compress. He said he alerted the Bush and Gudgell engineer and inspector, plus the city's project coordinator. Norm Dahle, and Public Works Director Bob Lashier. "I think they saw the problems, but nothing was done about it, I guess, because it was too far into the project," said Hoover. "As one time I felt we could've saved the road with another three inches of asphalt. We recommended it to Bush and Gudgell, but we never did get an answer. It would've been another $100,000, but that $100,000 then would've saved $200,000 now. The road is totally destroyed now." Righting the wrong City Attorney Tom Clyde said Monday that John Probasco of Bush and Gudgell has agreed that the engineering firm will "pay for the post mortem on Park Avenue." Edward Nurse, "the West's foremost expert on cruddy asphalt" will be brought in from Helena'Montana to analyze what was done on Park Avenue, what should have been done, and what needs to be done to correct the problem. Nurse's study will cost an estimated $14,000. Clyde said that Bush and Gudgell had indicated a willingness to cooperate co-operate with the city to repair Park Avenue. He said he was "cautiously optimistic" that an agreement could be reached without having to go to court. On Tuesday, Probasco declined to comment on Bush and Gudgell's stance, except to say, "Park Avenue, I'm sure, will be corrected. We'll work with the city on it." According to Mike Vance, Probasco "made it known they will do whatever is necessary to remain working in the city." Currently, Bush and Gudgell is working on 95 jobs in Park City, Vance said, and he confers with their engineers on 20 to 30 others. Those projects net Bush and Gudgell approximately approxi-mately $20,000 per month. "Bush and Gudgell is doing massive amounts of work with the city," said Vance. "Money-wise, of the 95 jobs, Park Avenue probably represents only five or six percent of the total value of their work." Despite the problems with Park Avenue Vance said he feels the city should continue working with the engineering company. "As far as I'm concerned, Bush and Gudgell has performed admirably with the engineering engi-neering things I've worked with them on." One of the most puzzling aspects of the Park Avenue project is, how could an apparently respected engineering company that has worked for the city for several years design a road that is so grossly inadequate for the traffic that it bears? "That," said Vance, "is the question of the hour." When will it be repaved? Once it is determined why the project failed and how it can successfully be reworked, the question that still needs to be answered is when? City Manager Arlene Loble said the City Council decided to authorize the repaving project last fall so that it would be completed before construction construc-tion began on the new state highway this spring. The officials reasoned at the time that if the road wasn't paved in the fall of 1981, it would have to wait until the spring of 1983 so that two massive road projects were not occurring simultaneously. Obviously, Park Avenue cannot wait to be repaved until 1983, and a schedule now needs to be worked out so that traffic flow is impacted as little as possible. Until the road is repaved, it will be patched, said Vance. "Yes, what we are doing now is absolutely temporary," he said in response to criticism about the method of patching being used. "All we're trying to do is save the road until July. We felt that cold patching is the best way to go right now." Can other disasters be avoided? In Loble's opinion, Mike Vance was hired by the city a few months too late. He began as the city's community development director last November, a month after the Park Avenue project was completed and problems became apparent. "Neither the council nor I are engineers," said Loble. "I certainly didn't question the city engineers' specifications for the project." But Vance is an engineer, she said, "and I'm convinced that if he had been working for the city at that time, we wouldn't be having the problems we have with Park Avenue." Festival from 1 on the Run" by Jim Mayer and Steve Christiansen. Stanley Kramer told his audience they face difficult times. "We are on the verge of another cold war God forbid, not a hot one," he said. "The heritage we have developed in the environment, en-vironment, race, old-age payments, not to mention the arts, has been put on the back burner." The audience of independent filmmakers film-makers was almost boisterously receptive. One of the loudest ovations of the evening came after Spencer Tracy, in an excerpt from Kramer's "Inherit the Wind", defended "the right to think" in a fiery courtroom speech. "It is the sign of an educated man hot to know air the answers," said Kramer, "but to ask the ' right questions. Director Coppola appeared on several TV monitors and a video screen in a transmission from Los Angeles. Actor-producer Tony Bill ("My Bodyguard") relayed questions and a few challenges to Coppola from the audience. "Do you think video gives you a better bet-ter performance or a better script," asked a skeptic. No, Coppola conceded, but his goal at this point was to "feel out" video to see what it can do. Video can serve as a leg of cinema, he said. "Why is it the definition of theater is so broad, but with film you're almost told what kind of a taxicab shot you're allowed to have?", he asked. Mark Rosenberg, a senior vice-president vice-president with Warner Brothers and a member of the festival board, praised the work done by festival director Susan Barrell. "If she mounted more effort than she does, it would take her to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue." Other festival officials were in good spirits about attendance at the event. "It's too early for a complete breakdown," break-down," said film coordinator Lory Smith, "but about 7500 people came to the Holiday Village Cinemas, and 4800 attended the Egyptian." Problems still existed "The help tends to get overwhelmed", Smith said. But everyone there realized that U.S. Film & Video is the vanguard for a new movement, she added. Video coordinator June Fenn said , "the TV section, although new, was suc-cessful suc-cessful in its own right. The video artists" ar-tists" were satisfied, she said, and attendance at-tendance at the TV showings increased as word of mouth spread. In the future, Fenn said, she would like to have an easier location for the video, (it played at Shadow Ridge) and would like to have technicians remedy the fuzzy quality that was often seen on the large video screens this year. "We were nervous that the video and film people wouldn't get along, but they pulled together," she said. Further details on the festival's outcomeand out-comeand a tentative date for the next festival should be available within the month. V J IE ESOETT Me1P(0MT Here are the latest snowfall measurements and ski conditions reported by the three Park City-area resorts. Thursday, January 28 Friday, January 29 Saturday, January 30 Sunday, January 31 Monday, February 1 Tuesday, February 2 Wednesday, February 3 NEW SNOW Deer Valley 0 3" 0 trace 2" 1" 9" Park City 0 1" 0 trace 4" trace 5" Park West 0 2" 0 0 6" trace 8" CURRENT CONDITIONS The weather pattern which has been favoring Park City with regular midweek snowstorms since Christmas has done it again. Area resorts reported between five and nine inches of white fluffy stuff Tuesday night, w ith snow continuing Wednesday morning. ' Deer Valley reports 109 inches of snow at the 9.400-foot level with all lifts operating. Park City reports 97 inches at Jupiter Bowl, with all lifts operating and all runs open. ParkWest reports M inches at the summit, with five of seven lifts operating opera-ting during the week. Slaughterhouse and Tumbleweed are open onlv on weekends. J FORECAST The National Weather Service is calling for a cold snap Thursday and Friday, with temperatures dropping below zero at night, rising into the teens during the day. A warming trend is expected to begin Friday afternoon and continue into the weekend. No new precipitation is predicted pre-dicted for the weekend. |