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Show Page A4 Thursday, June 29, 1989 Park Record Council adjusts budget, property tax rate by HEIDI WEST Record staff writer Council members passed a $13.6 million city budget and a slightly lowered property tax rate to support it Thursday, despite a few last minute changes. In the work session before the budget was passed, Finance Director Direc-tor Kent Parker told the council there had been a miscalculation in the amount of new growth in Park City in 1988. That mistake meant $95,000 already budgeted for the $6.6 million general fund for next year would have to be made up from other sources or dropped. According to Parker, Summit County's Auditor, Blake Frazier had made errors in determining the portion por-tion of the city's total property value for which new building was responsible. responsi-ble. Instead of the $49 million Frazier had original reported as the value of new growth, Park City's ac tual new construction only added $26 million to its value. Parker also noted that changed the assessed value of existing property pro-perty in Park City as well. While Frazier had shown a $21 million decrease in assessed value in Park City, the new numbers indicate property pro-perty values have remained stable and even increased slightly ($1.7 million). The budget was even further com- School water rates reduced by HEIDI WEST Record staff writer Council members agreed Thursday Thurs-day to a Park City School District request re-quest to reduce the rate the city charges to provide water for outdoor playing fields. Public Works Director Jerry Gibbs told the council he was unsure how much they wanted the rates reduced. But, with the new pricing index he suggested, the schools would pay 23 percent less than last year if they used the same amount of water. The discount would be even higher if compared to the price the district would have had to pay with this year's 20 percent hike in water fees. Although council members were willing to exchange some of the cost of providing water for the use of the fields for its joint citycounty recreation programs, Kristen Rogers said the pricing structure Gibbs suggested "was not what I had in mind." "It was supposed to be a structure which encouraged conservation," she said. "Could we change it so the overage rate is high but the base rate for standard use is lower?" Gibbs had broken down the rate the city charges for each of the school's four fields. For some, the district would indeed pay more per 1,000 gallons for using excessive amounts of water. For instance, lasf year the district used between 70,000 gallons and 2.7 million gallons per month to water the high school field. Gibbs recommended reducing the Obesity linked to TV Men who watch more than three hours of television each day run a greater risk of being overweight than those who watch less TV, a new Brigham Young University study shows. Larry A. Tucker, director of BYU's health promotion program, found that adult men who watched more than three hours of TV daily were twice as likely to be obese as those who watched less than an hour each day. Among the "super obese," or those with more than 31 percent body fat, the correlation between the two factors was even higher. "There was a very systematic and significant relationship between TV watching and obesity," he reports. "The findings of this study and other recent research show that the impact im-pact of television on the lifestyles and health of Americans cannot be ignored." Tucker and Glenn Friedman of Health Advancement Services in Tempe, Ariz., published a paper on their research in the April issue of the American Journal of Public Health. It was based on a sampling of 6,000 employed men throughout the United States. While the study doesn't indicate that television viewing "causes" obesity, Tucker says obesity may be a consequence of "thje passivity of television viewing, as well as its relationship to snacking and perhaps to poor eating habits." "Television viewers are bombarded bombard-ed by thousands of messages for non-nutritious foods," he says. "And it is possible frequent viewers consume con-sume signficantly more calories than their counterparts and hence are more obese." Tucker admits that this research may indicate that obese people simply watch more television than thinner people. And, while it will take additional study to pinpoint the reasons behind the statistics, he says this study may suggest changes in lifestyle that could promote weight loss and fitness. "If you could cut back an hour a day of TV viewing and use it for positive lifestyle activities like exercising, exer-cising, you would notice a change in overall health," he says. "It may be that the obese people in this study found they didn't have time to exercise. They could make time by eliminating an hour of television each day." Local artist selected as exhibitor David Fernandez, of 275 Parkview Dr., Summit Park has been selected as an exhibitor at the 19th Annual Powers' Crossroads Country Fair and Art Festival scheduled Labor Day weekend from Saturday, Sept. 2 through Monday, Sept. 4. Fernandez does ceramics and stonware. Each year, the festival receives thousands of applications which are reviewed by a screening committee. A maximum of three hundred exhibitors are chosen. Because of the continuing emphasis on quality work, exhibitor acceptance accep-tance at the Powers' Crossroads Festival is considered a major achievement. Named for the third time this year as one of "The Top 20 Events" in the nine southeastern states by the Southeast Tourism Society, the Powers' Crossroads Festival will feature artists and craftsmen from 23 states and Canada. Our Lakeside Deck..... v- 5 'V .1. ---i JTW. Sunrise Breakfast Lunch & Dinner open daily 645-7839 8 a.m.-9:00 p.m. Banquet Room & Catering Available 1375 Deer Valley Plaza $210month base rate (for the first 5,000 gallons) , to $102month and charging a three-tiered overage rate. The district would pay $1.00 per 1,000 gallons up to 250,000 gallons per month, $1.15 per 1,000 gallons up to 2 million gallons, and $21,000 gallons for any water used over that amount. This is in contrast to the city's overage rate for the rest of its water customers of $1.37 per 1,000 gallons, up 20 percent from last year's $1.15 per 1,000. Under the new pricing structure, the district would still pay about $140 less than another customer using 2.7 million gallons per month, but more than if it had used that amount under last year's rates. Watering other fields would not be as costly for the district, however, and overall it would experience a savings of between 15 percent and 25 percent if it watered the same amount as last year. Other council members agreed with Rogers about the pricing policy for the district. Ray Johnson said he would like to see the base rate for the first 5,000 gallons "reduced even more" than Gibbs had suggested, but the overage charges steeper. Brad Olch recommended the city take over the watering of the fields if it was going to charge less for the water. Otherwise, he said, "it would be the same situation as a kid in a candy store all by himself. Don't we want to control it?" Rogers tried a second, slightly modified proposal. She said the city should take more of the burden for providing the water if it used the fields for its programs. But, the high school field, which it does not use, should not receive a price break unless they conserved. "Then they would get a dramatic break," she said. On the other hand, if the schools use the same amount of water as last year on the middle school field, which the city uses, "they would pay less because we're using the field." Mayor Pro-Tem Ann MacQuoid said she felt it was too late to make any changes since the pricing structure struc-ture was slated to go before the school district board in a few days. "By the time it's in place, the summer sum-mer will be over," she said. Instead, she suggested the city once again offer to train district personnel per-sonnel on how to conserve water, and that it absorb the $600 annual watering cost of the Little League field since it used that field extensively exten-sively ofr its youth programs. Other council members agreed and voted to go along with Mac-Quoid's Mac-Quoid's suggestions. plicated by another error, this time by city Leisure Services Director Bob Johnston. Johnston explained his department would be short by $42,700 next year because he had assumed spring soccer to be as popular as last year. "That was not the case," he noted. Johnston also said he had budgeted $21,000 in a category defined defin-ed only as "other" recreation. He was not sure what that category included, in-cluded, and has since decided it was not capable of generating more than $5,000. Parker suggested making up the $42,700 in this year's budget and $95,000 in next year's by assuming sales tax revenues would be 1.9 percent per-cent higher than he had predicted. Parker said he had been conservative conser-vative in using a 15 percent increase in sales tax money coming in this year, as others were using 20 percent. per-cent. The 1.9 percent increase would add $47,000 to the pot. He also noted a last minute evaluation of city planning and building fees collected in the 1988-89 fiscal year showed the city had $63,700 more than it thought. Finally, a bill passed by the 1987 Utah Legislature which allows cities and counties to bond for uncollected property taxes would also give Park City more than it had figured, said Parker. That law, called the Bonded Delinquency Act, would produce $28,000 of unexpected revenue. Combining the three, Parker said it would mean a $138,700 adjustment to the revenue side of the 1989-90 fiscal year budget. Although a public hearing on the budget and tax rate had been continued con-tinued until June 22, no one showed to voice an opinion. Council members did not discuss the changes, but passed the budget and new tax rate unanimously. In 1989-90, the Park City tax rate (for city services only) will be .004872, down very slightly from the 1988 rate of .005046. rSave up to $12000 -; winasnieia KeDiacemeiu wuuuu ! WE WILL WAIVE UP TO $120.00 OF YOTO INSURANCE DEDUCTIBLE ! wmmmumr: your omobile windshield j FREE Mobile service xo Your Home or Office We Will Bill Your Insurance Company! 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