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Show mm TIE D 06-9.'. SID utaii wvrr. dotation if,7 east 300 r-jimi .ALT LAKK CTTY, I IT 8-11 J 1 50 cents Vol.114 No.18 60 pages 3 sections B3B3ED Park City, Utah Serving Summit County since 1881 D June 18, 1992 Schiller ivnnn m a Turn by ANDREA MATHER Record staff writer Why did Park City School District Superintendent Nancy Moore place Treasure Mountain Middle School Principal Brian Schiller on probation? It is the question Schiller and his attorney Erik Strindberg of Cohne, 7 Tray Bien Briefs Town Lift agreement slated The approval of an agreement between Park City Municipal Corporation and Mcintosh Mill, Ltd., the developer of the Town Lift project is slated for the June 18 City Council meeting. The council is expected to approve a $700,000 mitigation payment to Mcintosh Mill for the city's failure to live up to a 1982 agreement with the developer. The money, which would be funded through the Lower Park Avenue RDA, will be used for public infrastructure improvements, City Attorney Jim Carter said June 2. Planning items continued The Thaynes Creek Ranch Phase II (located on Payday Drive) request for a preliminary and final plat approval is continued to the July 8, 1992 Planning Commission meeting. Also continued to July 8 will be the public hearing on Thaynes Creek Ranch Phase II.. 693 Main rezone denied The City Council voted June 11 to deny an ordinance rezoning 693 Main Street from historic recreation commercial (HRC) to historic commercial business (HCB). 'iu'l . iSuL: v. ILL " fi m 4 I4 jr- j I t . Jl is i reveals n i o i ..-n Rappaport and Seeal are still trying to determine. The terms of "remediation" are vague, said Strindberg in a meeting with the Record on June 17. In an April 14 letter, Moore states: "Once again, Brian, your recent behavior has brought your management ability into serious question." She cites the following .",i i Hil'"' f . 11 '" ' 1 1 t-i . 1 . - - MUM.. "',SX'fT .. ' Park City waiters and waitresses participated festivities at the Resort Center last weekend. Task force presents recreation plan for basin by SENA TAYLOR Record staff writer A task force appointed last winter by the Summit County Commission to study the formation of recreational facilities in the Snyderville Basin returned Parkite wages war on secondary property tax rate by AMBER McKEE Record staff writer Summit County home owner and part-time Parkite Rick Barros is continuing his effort to fight higher second home taxes in Utah. A home owner in Park City since 1981, Barros enjoys his home on Morningstar Drive 75 or 80 days out of the year. In late April, he launched a campaign to fight against paying 30 percent more taxes than primary residents. (Primary residences are taxed at Clyde takes road issue to Newsweek magazine' In his typical self- deprecating fashion Tom Clyde isn't making a big deal about his column that appears this week in Newsweek magazine. "I'm sandwiched inbetween a story about Prince Charles and Lady Di and Richard Nixon and Watergate. It runs somewhere in the middle of the royal cleavage." The Park Record's award winning resident wit and more than Tom Clyde is : , X) . W".-. ' 'f -A. m - J X , his grievances .. i n i . .. i incidents: his behavior at an executive session of the Park City School Board that included superintendent and business administrator on April 2, concerning his possible transfer to Park City High School, his handling of the emergency power and water outage at TMMS on March 26. Her letter maintains u n.; ?.-, r., r , 1 ' by David Bertineli in races of skill during the annual Savour the Summit to the Commission Tuesday with their recommendations. They asked for a portion of the new restaurant tax to help fund the proposed facility. At a cost of about $2 million, the task force said the basin currently needs a facility that would include approximately 67 percent of the market value, while secondary residences must pay 95 percent, Glen G. Thompson, Summit County Treasurer said April 22.) Second homeowners pay more, but use less by way of services and schools, etc., Barros argues. Since that time, Barros has sent out a letter date June 3 to nonresident non-resident second home owners in Utah, explaining the situation and asking for monetary support of the efforts. . "Thus far," the letter states, "I occasional wisdom specialist wrote a column last March he thought wouldn't work for the paper. "I've already whined enough here about the government paving the road behind my house. I thought for a 29 cent investment I would see if it appealed to a larger audience." For months he heard nothing but then a few weeks ago a copy editor from the magazine called and said they wanted to use the piece and describe Woodland as a little village in Utah. "I told them there aren't little villages in the west. Those things exist in New England. I won on that point. But they wouldn't agree to capitalize National Forest. They don't understand our priorities here." Since the column came out Clyde got a call, "from some woman in New Jersey who just wanted to talk," and a talk show in Illinois where he waxed his rural wisdom Continued on A2 he is "reluctant to take charge in difficult situations, particularly if the decision will be unpopular with the staff." his failure to support the possible termination of Carla Hunt, a TMMS part-time assistant principal, in order to make the position full-time. Continued on A2 3 Mi .. ...... t 1 fc -f four ball diamonds, two soccer fields, a trail head, four combination hard surface courts for volleyball, basketball and tennis, a playground, four picnic pavilions, two sand volleyball courts, two horseshoe pits, a lake for fishing and ice skating, and a have received about 100 responses, all positive...." To help spread the word around, Barros has scheduled a press conference at The Yarrow on July 6 at 10 a.m. David J. Crapo, of Holme Roberts & Owen of Salt Lake City, will be present to explain how tax law gets changed.. Crapo and the law firm were involved in litigating the Amax decision, which changed current tax law in Utah in 1990. However, in order to eventually litigate the second homeowners' r 'i j J 1 -rm vj. , v ' yaw i' 1" i I. by Andrea Mather Kyle Kittredge receives standing ovation from the teary-eyed audience and participants at the Park City High School graduation ceremony, June 12. Kittredge received his diploma a year and a half after his heart transplant, (for additional graduation coverage, see page 11) Kudos for Kyle . ,JMi,- - H ( t 1 Public will be allowed to attend grievance hearing Treasure Mountain Middle School Principal Brian Schiller announced the public will be allowed to attend his hearing on June 23 at 9 a.m. at McPolin Elementary School. However, his attorney Erik County wants Harper to halt rock crusher by SENA TAYLOR Record staff writer The Summit County Attorney's Office will be asking a 3rd District Judge next week for an injunction against Harper Contracting, ordering the firm to halt a rock-crushing rock-crushing operation northeast of the Silver Creek Commerce Center that is being conducted without a permit from the county. Harper Contracting is the contractor on the State Road 224 widening project, and since this spring the firm has been taking gravel from the rock-crushing site located on the George Johnson land northeast of U.S. 40. Harper was issued a stop work order by the county May 12, and has been issued similar orders since that time. All orders have been ignored, according to Deputy County Attorney Franklin Andersen. Andersen said Harper has filed a suit against the county in response to the stop work orders, asking a judge for declaratory judgment on the matter. The county has counter-claimed counter-claimed asking for an injunction. The matter is tentatively scheduled to be heard in Coalville 3rd District Court before Judge Homer Wilkinson on Monday, June 22 at 10 a.m. Andersen said jogging path. In addition to those amenities, the group said two restroom facilities, a rental office and building and maintenance shed were necessary, as well as landscaping and parking. These recommendations were based on needs expressed by residents, case, the firm requires a $5,000 retainer, the letter states. Another attached letter from Crapo states "If the case were to advance to the District Court or the Utah Supreme Court, the litigations fees could approximate $20-50,000." In order to afford such expensive legal assistance, Barros is asking for $200 each from second-homeowners second-homeowners who receive the letter and are interested in participating. The checks will be placed in Holme Roberts & Owen trust account. "It seems to me," Barros said in I it Strindberg of Cohne, Rappaport and Segal does not believe he has been given adequate time to prepare a case. "We may take whatever steps are necessary to delay that hearing so we can adequately prepare." attorneys for Harper will be asking for the matter to be continued until June 26 and be held in Salt Lake City. The county issued an excavation permit last spring on this parcel of land for the purpose of allowing an amphitheater to be built for the summer Shakespearean plays held there. A review of wetlands mitigation was also conducted at that time, according to Bruce Parker, county community development director. "At no time was a rock crusher permitted," Parker told the County Commission Tuesday. "We have seen a rock crusher come onto the site and rock moved off." He said the gravel materials are being used for the road project and for the Winter Sports Park being built at Bear Hollow. "We believe that is a quarry operation and really needs a Class I development permit with the county," Parker said. "We have had discussions with Harper Excavation and with Doug Rosecrans who represents Johnson. We have put a stop work sign on the site, however, the work has continued in violation of the stop work order. Now we have turned the matter over to the county Continued on A2 according to Don Johnson, task force member. This facility would accommodate only present needs and would cost about $150,000 per year to maintain. No site has been selected, but if land was donated, the cost of Continued on A2 the letter, "it is worth at least the cost of one year's taxes to try and correct this unfair situation." For that reason, he said, he has no problem sending the money to the trust account. "As we receive more publicity, I firmly believe more persons owning second homes throughout Utah, such as in Bear Lake, St. George and in the Little Cottonwood areas will join the cause. At the press conference, I shall ask the persons from those areas to join us in the litigation." nr iJn 0 Classifieds B1 2 1 1 lb I Ut;. Columns A 16 Crossword C6 Editorial Al 8 Q Education AH Profile A9 Sports B1 Summit Al 7 UTubeTimesCII When & Where C2 |