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Show r r The Park Record D Section A Thursday, December7, 1995 H Page A3 Rec. board chairman resigns after four years of service by JENNIFER TOOMER Record staff writer It's time to pass the baton. After four years of service to the Snyderville Recreation Board, Chairman Mike Nielsen will resign Feb. 1, 1996. He's not the first to do so this year; Treasurer Jody Graham put in her resignation at the end of October, which is effective Jan. 1. "I wanted to resign about a month ago, but Jody beat me to it," Nielsca said. "Four years is enough." But when it came to relinquishing relin-quishing his positionf'it was anything any-thing but easy. "I was sad when I typed out my resignation," he said, "and it was hard when I saw the look on Summit County Commissioner Tom Flinders' face. But now I feel a tremendous sense of relief." "Mike has been excellent," Flinders said. "He started right from the beginning ... his experience experi-ence is irreplaceable." Nielsen's resignation came as a surprise to Board Member Amanda Peterson. "I'm disappointed only in that he will be missed," she said. "He's been here a long time, and brings continuity to the board ... but I understand his reasons. Volunteer work ... on this board has been a tremendous commitment. commit-ment. He had to make a decision that would be in his best interest," and in the interest of his family and business, Red Hawk, she added. During his tenure, Nielsen said he was unable to spend as much time as he wanted to with his wife and children due to his commitment commit-ment to the recreation board. So when he told his family about his resignation, they were "ecstatic," he said. "My wife Brooke wants to take a trip to celebrate," he said. "She's still doing cartwheels." Nielsen is a charter member of the recreation board who worked long hours to bring recreation issues into the forefront. And it wasn't easy. "It was like being a German second lieutenant on a Russian front," he said. But he said he's glad he did it. "My greatest satisfaction was making recreation an issue during the election and having all the candidates so receptive, so in tune with recreational needs in the basin," he said. "It was important impor-tant for us to be taken seriously." And, he met other goals as a recreation board member: passing the bond election and acquiring land. But now he wants to focus his talents and concentrate his effort "My greatest satisfaction sat-isfaction was making recreation recre-ation an issue during the election' elec-tion' -Mike Nielsen on his own business. Two weeks ago, he closed on 1,260 acres east of Jeremy Ranch. There he plans to build a development with one dwelling per 40 acres to keep density at a minimum. "My love is in low density housing with plenty of recreational recre-ational open space," he said. None of Nielsen's newly acquired land will be sold to the recreation board, he said. Between that and the recreation recre-ation board, Nielsen's time for anything else has drawn thin. "I don't think I'll have time to effectively work on the recreation board," he said. "But I hope I can Mike and Brooke Nielsen work on solidifying the land acquisition for a park ... I will volunteer my services after the resignation if they need me." He said he enjoyed working with the talents and personalities of other board members during his tenure. "We kind of bonded," he said. "It was a real great experience working with those people." Nielsen said he also enjoys working with the community, despite long unpaid hours. And, after he takes about a year off, he plans to volunteer somewhere else. "It's just the way it is with volunteer vol-unteer work you try to give back to the community as much as you can for as long as you can," he said. Peterson feels confident that many other basin residents share Nielsen's philosophy. "We have highly qualified people peo-ple in the recreation district area that could be wonderful members of this board," she said. "I hope those people will step forward and apply. That's what's nice about Park City it's never at a loss for people being able to do the work that needs to be done. Rec. board drafts premier capital improvements budget by JENNIFER TOOMER Record staff writer The Snyderville Basin Recreation Board has already shown it can talk the talk; now it's ready to walk the walk. After years of looking at property in the basin, the board has allotted nearly $5.1 million in its budget draft for capital improvements in the basin. Summit County Auditor Blake Frazier helped draft the budget. Due to the recently awarded $7.5 million by the bond election, the budget is the board's first aside from the less than $9,000 it budgeted for the bond election last year. The rest of the bond, according to the draft, will be budgeted in subsequent subse-quent years. The board has allotted funding for two park sites for which Chairman Mike Nielsen said it has begun "friendly negotiations" with the owners: a portion of the Buehner Ranch, which is owned by Paul Buehner, near Kimball Junction that is contiguous con-tiguous to the new middle school site on Kilby Road, and 26 acres owned by Property Reserve, Inc., which is located below Bear Hollow, south of Wal-Mart. At the Buehner site, the budget draft allots $1,725 million: $400,000 for land, $180,000 for water, and $1,145 million for fields and construction. construc-tion. The budget draft allots $3,325 million for the Property Reserve, Inc. site: $780,000 for land, $220,000 for water, and $2,325 million for fields and construction. The cost per acre from Property Reserve, Inc., $30,000, is about the same at the Buehner site, said' Jody Graham, recreation board treasurer. The board is not jumping the gun by allotting for land sites that are currently in negotiation, Graham said. "Land owners are waiting for master plan approval," she said, and budgeting for the land is a way to help the process. Recreation is to be a new portion of the Snyderville master plan "to clarify what the rec. board expects out of a developer," she said. The recreation board allotted $73,420 in the draft for master plan consultation costs. It will go to The Sear Brown Group. Operation and maintenance expenditures total $17,500, according to the draft: $12,000, which the county commission granted the board, goes toward a part-time staff employee, $2,000 will pay for professional, technical and legal assistance, $2,000 for field and facility contract maintenance, and $1,500 for liability insurance. A mill levy, which voters passed along with the bond election, will fund operation and maintenance mainte-nance expenditures. Because the board plans to acquire have acquired park sites by next year, the funds will increase for some of the same expenditures, Graham said. Field and facility contract maintenance mainte-nance is expected to jump from $2,000 to $250,000 by 1997, and liability insurance is scheduled to double to $3,000. The board is scheduled to vote on the budget draft in its next meeting on Friday, Dec. 15. Nonexistent county road is the center of controversy by NAN CHALAT-NOAKER Record staff writer Village Rim Road is platted to connect ParkWest. Village with the Snowed Inn but the connection connec-tion is not paved. In fact, as far as the county was concerned the road ended at the end of the pavement. pave-ment. That is, until two Park West Village property owners on either side of the unpaved extension petitioned the county commission to vacate its right-of-way on the parcel and to divide it equally between the two lot owners. That petition, submitted by Robert Commander and Thomas and Tani Doering, led to a heated public hearing in front of the commission Monday, Dec. 4 in Coalville. Suddenly the nonexistent nonexis-tent road was hot property. The petition to vacate, which had a room full of support from Park West Village residents, ran into stiff opposition from Richard Pack, owner of the Snowed Inn and an adjacent parcel to the east. Pack told the county commissioners commission-ers that without the county right of way his "creek property" would be land locked. Nearby residents, however, claim Pack is using the eastern parcel as an extension of his commercial com-mercial property, the Snowed Inn. They told the commissioners that property management vans, stored in a garage on the parcel, come and go at all hours of the day and night. Pack objected saying say-ing the vans were stored there and did not go back and forth to the airport as stated. ' According to the county planning plan-ning department, the history of the road easement is complicated. It was apparently planned as a connection from Park West Village Plats A and B and to Plat C. Plat C however was eventually vacated and part of the property later became the Snowed Inn which was approved in 1985. The site plan for the Inn showed a private pri-vate road connecting to Village Rim Road but the private road was never built. Nor was the extension of the county road between Lots 38 and 39 ever paved. Commissioner Jim Soter, who sat on the county commission in the mid 1980s said he remembers that the county kept its easement on the property at the request of the fire district which was concerned con-cerned about maintaining a second sec-ond access to the ParkWest Village subdivision. But Soter added, "It was never meant to be a thoroughfare." 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