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Show Blurred Page s! Page A2 Thursday, October 8, 1987 Park Record COUNCIL from A1 The city is proposing for vote a C-shaped C-shaped pool roughly 45 feet by 75 feet in its center portion. The center rectangle rec-tangle would go from about three to about ten feet in depth. One "hook" of the C would be a deep end with swings, sw-ings, slides and false rock waterfalls for older children. The other end would be a shallow pool for small children. Although the particular features of the pool will not be defined on the ballot measure, the C -shaped outdoor out-door pool is the one the city's recreation recrea-tion staff recommends as the most likely to pay for its own upkeep. It, plus locker facilities and landscaping landscap-ing and fencing, would cost about $865,000. For a $ 100,000 home, passing pass-ing the bond would add $16.20 per year to the property tax total for the next 15 years. ASSESS from A1 fairly assessed, but that it was noted during his examination "that some individual properties may be clearly under-assessed based on other records on file in the county. " In response to Andrews' Oct. 6 statements, county assessor Ron Perry said he had "serious questions" ques-tions" regarding Andrews' statements, telling him, "your job deals with numbers; my job deals with reality." Andrews later said to the Record that no one person was at fault for the missing personal property pro-perty valuations, saying "they've probably been missed for five years or more." Andrews suggested that a county-wide county-wide personal property tax audit be conducted to determine where the potential $150 to $200 million of unassessed personal property is located. In order to do that, he suggested a combination of State Tax Commission Commis-sion employees, outside consultants and new employees for the assessors office be used. He also suggested the removal of any billed personal property tax be done only by the county auditor after approval by the Board of Equaliza- COUNTYfrom A1 tifying the Snyderville area as its own entity. In addition, they are making efforts ef-forts to open a recreation office in the Summit County Services Building in Prospector to aid the program, and are looking into cooperating with county health department personnel to man the office of-fice for the rest of this year. Salaries for Wartena full time and clerical help will be built into next year's budget. Commission chairman Tom Flinders originally called Morrill to the meeting to say the county needed to either get with the recreation program pro-gram in cooperation with Park City, or "get out of it and let Park City do it themselves" by giving the city a set amount to spend on the county's behalf. Flinders said he had been feeling pressure from a large amount of people who were supporting the recreation cause at recent meetings in Park City. He said the county needed to "give the the recreation program back to the city and send Doilney told council members the issues involved with the pool were "complex" since the best alternative alter-native might vary with time and whether or not the other entities chose to help support it. He had prepared a list of questions and answers which he asked council members to review and approve for publication in the Park Record (see As We See It). When it came before the council for a vote later that evening, Santy decided against putting the bond on the ballot. The other four voted in favor of it. MacQuoid also voted in favor of the bond measure, but prefaced her vote by saying "in no way does this indicate we are not proceeding in every way to go forward with a cooperative effort with the county and school district." If the bond passes, the council will have five years to determine whether or not it wishes to spend or refund the money. tion, and that all cash collections within the county be done in accordance accor-dance with a Utah statute that requires re-quires county treasurers and deputies to collect all cash receipts and properly deposit them into the accounts of the county. Lest Andrews sound too negative, he told the commission that Summit County had "a clean audit report. It's as fiscally sound as any in the state," he said. "This is about as good as any you will find. You look at your tax rates and they're not too high. You want to keep your levy down, yet still have some cushion." He also said, "This county operates very, very efficiently," not having wasted personnel or equipment. equip-ment. Responding to a commission request, re-quest, Andrews evaluated staffing needs and suggested the following additional personnel: two or more full-time people in the assessors office; of-fice; one or more full-time persons in the treasurers office; and one more employee in the auditors office. of-fice. Andrews said, "The Uniform Tax Assessment in the state of Utah provides pro-vides suubstantially more cash than is required for the assessing and collection col-lection fund and, therefore, the aforementioned system and improvements im-provements and personnel additions should cause no added tax burden to them a big check every year, or carry on what we're doing and do a little better job of it." The latter option was Flinders' hoice, and he said, "I still think we can do it cheaper than sending Park City the money. And in looking at county recreation recrea-tion in four quadrants, instead of three, Morrill began to- warm up to the west side of the county, saying, "we've been treating Park City like North and South Summit, but it's twice the size of those areas." Wartena will receive a contract salary of $15,000, and although he won't work a regular 8 to 5 shift, he will get 40 "hit and miss" hours in per week, Morrill told the commission. commis-sion. Flinders said, "I think having Grant on board will really make that program fly over there." He directed Morrill to approach the Park City School District to discuss using playing fields at Parley's Park Elementary School. He liked that area, saying "it's already set and it's a good location. Most kids could walk from Silver Springs." He added that he "would like to see the scenario where mothers aren't constantly running their kids all over. I think that would be a great "Maybe we could make an offer on a facility. Although council member Jim Santy agreed joint facilities should be pursued, and in fact was the one dissenting vote on the council, others argued the issue should be put on the ballot now. Council member Tom Shellenberger said, "since I've been on the council eight years now it's been the same issue. ..what about an outdoor pool?" "I would like to see us give the citizens the chance to decide," added add-ed council member Jim Doilney. Council member Kristen Rogers pointed out that "if we got a resounding resoun-ding no, we could say UK, now we don't need to talk about this any more. Although they then discussed the idea of wording the bond issue so the money could be used to purchase the racquet club, Rogers said she was "not in favor" of the idea "because the pool is inadequate." the county taxpayer." He pointed out that "Summit County is one of only five counties in the state of Utah which remits significant amounts of its assessing and collecting tax to the State Tax Commission." Andrews addressed other minor concerns regarding county departments depart-ments relating to its system of internal inter-nal control and operations. After his presentation, county treasurer Glen Thompson said, "we're not going to argue the merits of his statements whether we agree or not. You take audits on their face value and go forward to give the commission suggestions." He said he and other county department heads would be examining examin-ing the auditors' comments in order to respond to the commission next week. "We as department heads are responsible parties, and we need to develop a plan to implement the suggestions sug-gestions or study them further." Andrews' comments were well taken by county auditor Blake Frazier. He described Andrews' role as one of being a "devil's advocate," and said his statements were based on "worst-case scenarios." He added add-ed that independent auditors' criticisms and suggestions are "good" for counties to consider. place if we could do it there. There's lots of lawn maybe we could come up with a backstop that would still be cheaper than building a recreation recrea-tion complex somewhere." In making up this year's budget shortfall for recreation, Flinders first suggested taking the money out ot a ""wou8" fund, instead .of opening up the e. .". budget to rearrange things. But the commission commis-sion was unclear about other projects pro-jects that had been earmarked for receiving those "miscellaneous" funds, and so avoided a decision Tuesday. "We'll come up with it someplace," Flinders told Morrill, "but we don't know where. " Furthermore, he told Morrill, "Next year we'd expect you to stay within your budget so that we don't have surprises like this next fall." He also told him to get commitments com-mitments from Wartena on the hours, objectives and goals pertaining pertain-ing to the full-time position, saying, "for $1,200 a month we're expecting sometime." Finally, Flinders said, "I feel this will be a first-class recreation program pro-gram for the county, with no complaints, com-plaints, no apologies." Morrill was in agreement, but answered that "there will always be some complaints." Ill IPark n&ecgmil The Park Record (USPS 0037-8370) is published weekly by the Suburban Diversified Newspapers. Second-class postage in Park City, UT. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to The Park Record, 1670 Bonanza Dr., Box 3688, Park City, UT 84060. Entered as second-class matter, May 25. 1977, at the post office in Park City, UT 84060, under the Act of March 3, 1897. Published every Thursday. staff Publisher Peter Bernhard General manager Andy Bernhard Editor Teri Comes Staff writers Randy Hanskat, Ron Ceorg, Heidi West, Sena Taylor, Contributing writers Rick Brough, Tom Clyde Bettina Moench Dooley, Bea Kummer, David Hampshire, Robin Moench, Production and photography Matthew Snyder , lenniferMadgic Office manager. Susan Davis Circulation manager. Susan Davis Classified manager Linda Martin Distribution John Hobbs Advertising sales Bill Dickson, Pamela Hainsworth Craphics .Yvonne Thompson Cartoonist '. Mx-Mark McCune Subscription Rates CHECK ENCLOSED , BILL ME RENEWAL 52 issues, mailed weekly $12 in Summit County $23 outside Summit County NAME. ADDRESS. CITY .STATE. ZIP Mail payment to: P.O. Box 3688, Park City, Utah 84060 The Way We Were- ? MUr. mzim it. I ; , .... 1. k. - 1 1 i s I. ( I 2 Vi I . rj U ! -X ' 4 Miners Union Hall In 1881, even before the incorporation of Park City, this mining ramp was looking to unionize. Originally created as a fraternity to offer health and accident benefits to members, the Miners Union Hall became the symbol of stability for the organization. organiza-tion. Built at the top of Main Street near the Egyptian Theatre, the hall also hosted the Elks, the Knights of Pythias auxiliary, and the Knights of Columbus. Photo courtesy of the Park City Historical Society and Museum. Your dog could be on poster So, you think you're dog is poster material? The Humane Society of Utah could make your doggy dreams come true, granted your pet is an adoptee of a local animal shelter. Every adopted dog will have its chance to participate in the 1988 Poster Dog Contest for Adopt-A-Dog Month . sponsored . by Star-Kist Foods,. Inc. To enter, owners must write in 100 words or less why their dog deserves to be the official poster dog for next year's adopt-a-dog activities. ac-tivities. Entrants should include a recent photograph of themselves with their dogs. A judging panel will determine the finalists based on the creativity of their entries, and the grand prize winner will be selected by a general public vote to be held in June of 1988. The grand prize consists of $5,000 in cash plus one year's supply of dog treats from the sponsoring company, com-pany, and the shelters where win ners were adopted will receive matching mat-ching cash grants. The winning dog will reach full stardom by gracing walls of animal shelters nationwide in an effort to increase in-crease the public's awareness of the great numbers of homeless dogs. Entry blanksand further inform., tion can be obtained'at the Humane Society of Utah Shelter located at 4613 South, 4000 West, or by calling Carol Perez at 968-3548. Earthquakes make southern California wobble MONDAY, SEPT. 28, 1987 AIR FORCE B-1B BOMBER CRASHES; THREE KILLED A B-1B bomber, a $280 million Air Force plane with six people aboard, crashed in a ball of orange flame on the Colorado prairie. But three crew members parachuted to safety after birds were apparently sucked into the engines. The fate of the other crew members was not immediately known. The Air Force said they were listed as missing. miss-ing. TUESDAY, SEPT. 29, 1987 UP&L PROMISES TWO PERCENT RATE CUT AFTER MERGER-Utah Power & Light Co. promised pro-mised to cut rates by two percent or $20 million within 60 days of approval of its proposed merger with PacifiCorp. UP&L and PacifiCorp have also promised to cut rates by five to 10 percent within four years and then to keep rates stable for "the foreseeable future" if the merger is approved. WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 30, 1987 DUKAKIS AIDES RESIGN AFTER ADMITTING TO LEAKING BIDEN TAPES-Lieutenants of Democratic presidential candidate Michael Dukakis resigned after admitting they circulated a videotape that sabotaged rival Joseph Biden's White House bid. Dukakis accepted the resignations of campaign manager John Sasso and political director Paul Tully hours after holding a news conference con-ference to disclose Sasso as the source of an "attack video" that charged Biden, a Delaware senator, with plagiarizing British Labor Party chief Neil Kinnock. THURSDAY, OCT. 1, 1987 SEVERE EARTHQUAKE, AFTERSHOCKS RATTLE SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA A severe earthquake and 16 strong aftershocks rumbled across southern California destroying buildings, damaging hundreds of houses, closing freeways and setting off dozens of fires. At least six people were killed and more than 100 injured. The U.S. Geological Survey said the quake registered 6.1 on the Richter scale, making it the strongest to hit the Los Angeles area since the 6.4 Sylmar quake of 1971 that killed 64 people. Week in Review FRIDAY, OCT. 2, 1987 GARN REFUTES WOODWARD QUOTES, BUT ADMITS CURSING COLLEAGUES-Utah Sen. Jake Gam said he never advocated the overthrow of the Sandinista government of Nicaragua, as quoted in Washington Post writer Bob Woodward's new book on the CIA. But he admits the book's assertion that he said "the whole Congress is full of assholes" is partially correct. Senator Garn maintains he applied ap-plied the term to only a few senators standing around after a 1984 committee meeting. "We ought to overthrow them the Sandinistas," Woodward quotes the Utah Republican as saying during a Jan. 20, 1984, meeting of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Commit-tee, of which he is a member. "That's non-existent, manufactured," Garn later told the Salt Lake Tribune. "I don't know where he got that.. .I'm absolutely ab-solutely sure I was not involved in that conversation." conversa-tion." SATURDAY, OCT. 3, 1987 U.S. SHIPS REPEL IRANIAN FLOTILLA A large flotilla of Iranian gunboats approached an oil ' terminal run by Saudi Arabia and Kuwait in the northern nor-thern Persian Gulf, but were repelled by U S. warships war-ships amd retreated. Shipping officials said that Saudi jet fighters also scrambled to repel the invaders, in-vaders, and there were unconfirmed reports that at least one of the planes may have opened fire. SUNDAY, OCT, 1987 AFTERSHOCK JARS CALIFORN IA A sharp aftershock from last week's sever earhtquake jolted southern Californians awake before dawn, causing at least one death and dozens of injuries, finishing off some already weakened buildings and sending jittery residents into the streets. The quake, centered in suburban Rosemead about eight miles northeast of downtown Los Angeles, was measured at 5.5 on the Richter scale at the California Institute of Technology. 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