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Show - t- .- .f Page A8 Thursday, August 7, 1986 Park Record City Council listens to Chamber advice on city budget by TERI GOMES Record editor Tempers flared last week when members of the Park City ChamberBureau presented budget recommendations to a largely unyeilding city council. After weeks of meeting and study -lr;j city budget, line by line, the CwmberBureau suggestions on where to save in next year's budget focused on what many community leaders felt was an "overly generous" employee benefit package. Council member Ann MacQuoid told Chamber leaders she felt the suggestion was a "slash effort" that would cause serious morale problems pro-blems within the staff. Mayor Hal Taylor said you just can't ask the city employees to take money out of their wallets to fund the bus system. "And that's exactly what you're asking them to do," said Taylor, But Jim Whitteron, human resources consultant and the Chamber member assigned to the personnel portion of the budget study important to all parties. "What you're faced with is a political decision," said Whitteron. "You need to decide who should absorb ab-sorb the shortfall in the budget. The 10 percent should be felt the least by the least amount people. The taxpayers tax-payers and the tourists should be the last people to feel any cut." Whitteron explained it was not unusual these days for organizations to ask employees to participate in cutbacks. When council members protested the idea Whitteron shot back, "I'm sure you could manage it. U.S. Steel just did with a 22 percent cut." Chamber recommendations also included areas of agreement with the Chamber suggesting the city levy the 14 resort city sales tax so long as the money be earmarked solely for bus replacement costs. Next year there will no longer be federal monies available for the city bus system and since that area of the budget has grown 20 percent per year creating a replacement fund is im portant to all parties. The Chamber also suggested an independent outside consultant be hired to study the transportation system something the council as a whole agreed was wise. The argueing came to a halt when council had to recess the work session ses-sion to attend the public meeting. The work session reconvened an hour later with Chamber director Bill Ginger asking the council to, WHY PARK CITY SHOULD VOTE FOR SENATOR GLADE SOWARDS "For the first time in decades we have the opportunity to support a respected legislator who calls our community HOME. Senator Sowards has shown a high level of understanding for the problems and challenges Park City faces, from economic development and tourism to education. He has also worked hard to get us off Washington's Super Fund List." , " "y f ' I If Ann MacQuoid "Let's give him our enthusiastic help on Tuesday, August 19th." "...change the tone of being adversaries, adver-saries, if we can." In the end the Chamber pointed to several specfic areas of the benefit package they felt could be cut without serious repercussions to the quality of the employee the city could hire. One of those ideas was to offer no cash for sick pay. (Currently employees can bank unused sick leave time and be paid in cash for the half the days they don't take. This can accrue over the years.) The group suggested a longer vesting period than Just three years before an employee could quit and take a portion of their retirement funds. Another suggestion was to reduce the contribution made to health care to pay just 50 percent of dependents. Currently employees enjoy full dependent coverage. Arlene Loble said she had in the past told the council the vesting period for employees was too short, now. "But when I first came the city, more than six years ago there were few if any employees who had worked that long." Loble said she welcomed the involvement in-volvement of the business community communi-ty in setting up a salary review within the city. She said she had repeatedly asked for that information informa-tion from the community and to date only Deer Valley had been willing to share that. in defending car and housing allowances, Loble maintained the trade off would be providing certain employees with city vechicles for the travel around town their jobs required re-quired and a less involved responsive respon-sive staff when those employees not living in town were called out off du- trv to solve the crises. sonnel director that turned over three were in line with other Utah towns and resort communities, but the benefit package was in many cases the hook to attract top quality people into the government jobs. Loble pointed to the job of personnel per-sonnel director that turned over three times in one year because the original pay and compensation package offered was too low to live on in this community. Council members in the end thanked thank-ed the Chamber for their involvement involve-ment in putting together the report and said they would consider the suggestions before adopting the budget. Because of the lack of a quorum council will not be passing a fee budget Thursday, but they are expected ex-pected to pass the budget on Aug.lt The Summit County Fair offers a little something for everyone Everything from horses, to queen contests, canned preserves and the best in home cooking can be found at the Summit County Fair from now through Aug. 16. Although fair activities began Aug. 4 with a Little Buckaroo Rodeo Queen contest, the heart of the fair is scheduled next week, from Wednesday Wednes-day through Saturday. Fair goers can attend 4-H contests Aug. 7, at the North Summit High School auditorium beginning at 10 a.m. with an assortment of demonstrations. A style revue and talent contest will follow at 5:30. On Friday, Aug. 8, a 4x4 truck pull will be held at the Coalville arena at 7 p.m., and Summit County Talent Night is set for 8 p.m. at the high school auditorium. On hand at the program entitled "For America" will be magician and ventriloquist Kerry Summers. On Saturday, Aug. 9 the day will begin with an open horse show at the Coalville arena at 9 a.m., and a horse pull will be held later at 7:30 p.m. A Farm Bureau talent find is scheduled Monday, Aug. 11 at the North Summit auditorium at 8 p.m. Home arts exhibits can be submitted the next day from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. at the quonset hut,- and art show ex hibits can be entered at the North Summit High School cafeteria from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. A Little Buckaroo Rodeo is scheduled for that evening at 7 p.m. at the Coalville arena with timed trials and events. On Wednesday, Aug. 13, all exhibits ex-hibits will be closed to the public and judged, and the Little Buckaroo Rodeo finals and main show will be presented at 7 p.m. The following day all exhibits will be opened to the public, and the Miss Summit County rodeo queen contest is scheduled at the Coalville arena at 1 p.m. Kids games will go on from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. in the grandstand area, and a livestock weigh-in will be held at 4 p.m. at the city park. Miss Summit County rodeo queen will be crowned that evening at the arena at 7 p.m. A Clegg Championship Rodeo is scheduled to follow the crowning of the queen at 8 p.m. and a Roman Riding performance will be the specialty act. Local barrel racers are scheduled to ride this night. On Friday, Aug. 15, exhibits will remain open, and a livestock fitting and showing is scheduled in the Beef Barn area at 9 a.m. "Rainbow the Clown" will make his appearance at the grandstand area at 1 p.m. and will be teaching children how to make animal balloons. Kids games will be held from noon to 1:30 p.m. in the same area, with grandstand enertainment following the games. A "Little Fox" riding act is scheduled for 3 p.m. at the arena, and the Summit County Fair parade will decorate Coalville's Main Street at 6 p.m. Another rodeo will be held thateveingat8p.m. On the final day of the fair, Saturday, Satur-day, Aug. 16, jackpot roping will begin at 9 a.m. Exhibits will again be open to the public, and a sheep lead contest will be held at the grandstand at 10 a.m. A junior livestock sale will follow at 11 a.m. Home arts demonstrations will be held throughout the day from noon to 5 p.m., and grandstand entertainment entertain-ment is scheduled for 1 p.m. with a comedy team called "Clapier and Nielson." The Miss Summit County Royalty Farm Bureau winners will provide additional entertainment that afternoon as well. A demolition derby is set for 8 p.m. in the Coalville arena, with fireworks to follow. And to top off the fair, a dance is scheduled for 9:30 that evening, to the music of the Muddy Water Band at the quonset hut. The 1986 Miss Summit County Scholarship Pageant ( ) X X -V ! 1 f 4 - i ''1 4 Marilyn Jepson Miss Summit County 1986 $1,000 scholarship 1st Runner-up - Joy Willoughby $ 500 2nd Runner-up - Jackie Graham $300 A very special thank you' to those listed below, for their contributions BENEFACTORS Holy Cross Hospital Park City Chamber Bureau PATRONS Commercial Security Bank First Interstate Banks. Coalville and Park City Mrs. Fields. Inc. Ogden Desk South Summit Community Clinic Utah Power & Light DONORS Cofer Chiropractic & Sports Injury Clinic Daines-Rasmussen C.P.A. Geary's Construction Home's Landmark Inn ledediah's Famous Dining Research Land Development, Inc. Silver King State Bank Utah Title & Abstract Co. Western States Title Yager & Associates SUSTAINING CONTRIBUTORS Adkins-Christiansen. Law Offices Bell Brothers Oil Blonquist-Leavitt Insurance Blonquist-Valley View Mobile Park Brown's Dairy Crandell Ford Dean Vernon Fur Farm Dr. Wayne Bosworth Dutch's Sinclair First Security Bank Flare Construction less Reid Real Estate. Ltd. Kamas Building Supply Kamas-Woodland Telephone Ken's Kash Leavitt Lumber Company Mirror Lake Service Moore Motor Company Park City Flower Box Park Avenue Stylists Pinebrook Estates Polar King Rees' Fur Farm Rees' Metal Works Summit Merchantile The Comer Store CONTRIBUTORS Blonquist Motel Brown-Eyed Susan Children's Clothing Calico Katies Country Side Barber David and Lesa Blonquist Dolly's Bookstore Dr. Glade Crowther Dr. Wain Allen Family Jewels Farm Bureau Insurance Farmer's Ins.-Walter Ludlow Fashion Plus Sun Bodies Fleck Secretarial Galleria Floral Gazebo Hair Salon Great Garb-La Boutique Hair Today-Gone to Maui Hi-Valley Feed Hoyt's Store Huddle Drive-Inn lackie Graham liffy Tan ludy Hanley-Farmer's Insurance Keyes' Fur Farm Kamas Auto Parts La Niche Kitchen Gifts Mainstreet Video Meyer Art Gallery Minors Only Moore's Chevron Service Mt. Valley Service Mueller and Company Oakley Polar King Park City Optical Park City True Value Hardware Parry Construction & Landscape, Inc. Patchwork Parlor Peoa One-Stop Picture Frame Annex Quarter Circle Drive-Inn Radio Shack-Mountain Sound Red Banjo Pizza Rocky Mountain Christmas Store Sargeant Timber Sears Catalog at Paper Case Summit Body Shop The Shear Touch V & S Store Walker Mortuary Wasatch Dyna Electric IN KIND Deer Valley Ski Resort Great Park City Ski Area Prospector Hotel Ramada Inn The Yarrow A special acknowledgement is given to the committee members who made this years scholarship pageant a success Rcnec Dairies-Pageant Chairman Lisa Bagncll Lisa Blonquist Faye Boycr Tina Boycr De Ann Geary Theresa Hardman lill loncs Nancy Mondragon Ron Perry Icanne Rydalch |