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Show A-2 The Park Record Wednesday, January 28, 1998 Voting precincts split in area County Clerk Jones says polling locations will not change by Kirsta H. Bleyle OF THE RECORD STAFF Local voters can expect shorter lines when they head for the polls this June, according to Summit County Clerk Kent Jones. During their meeting on Monday, Jan. 26, the Summit County Commissioners approved a measure to increase the number of voting precincts in Park City and the Snyderville Basin by 10. Actual district boundaries, which are determined by the existing Park City School District boundaries, will not change, Jones said. Rather, nine of the existing exist-ing 1 1 precincts have been split to better accommodate accommo-date the number of voters showing up for each election. elec-tion. "It will make (voting) faster and easier," Jones said, noting that the last time anyone worked on the precincts was before Jeremy Ranch was built out. To accommodate Jeremy Ranch's growth, he noted, the existing JeremyPark West precinct was split into three parts. Jones said the split will separate sepa-rate out Park West, and will divide Jeremy Ranch along East Canyon Creek, creating Jeremy East and Jeremy West. Voters need to note, he added, that existing polling places will not change as a result of the voting precinct boundary changes. Instead, each location will have additional judges and books, and will decrease in the size of lines or time spent waiting. . Jones was required to complete the precinct changes and have them approved by the county commissioners com-missioners before February 1. An important aspect of the change was making sure the existing district boundaries match those of the U.S. Census Bureau, which is a precaution Jones said he has taken. And, because it is an even year, all of the county's elected officials, with the exception of Summit County Commissioner Sheldon Richins, will be up for re-election this fall. Additionally, primaries will again be held in June this year. The decision to move primaries from early fall to June began two years ago, and has been met with some resistance, as voter turn-out has been low for the mid-summer month. When the new Census is taken in the Year 2000, Jones further noted. Summit County see a difference in representation at the state legislature level due to population increases. However, the existing district boundaries are not likely to change. The filing period for Summit County Commission Chairman Eric Schifferli and Commissioner Jim Soter's seats is March 7-17. Schifferli's seat has traditionally tra-ditionally been held by a western Summit County resident, and Soter's seat usually represents South Summit County. Communications difficult for some Continued from A-1 Mayor Brad Olch, Director of Olympic Planning Frank Bell, Director of Public Affairs Myles Rademan and City Councilman Hugh Daniels. Public Works Director Jerry Gibbs, along with Bell, went to Nagano last fall to observe infrastructure-related preparations for the Olympics. "My perspective in going ... is specifically focusing in on information infor-mation that will be of value to the business community," Calder said, adding that she is also very interested inter-ested in the demographics of the visitors to the Nagano Games. "Who really does attend the Olympic games." Calder, who is leaving for Nagano Tuesday, said she wants to compare how businesses in different dif-ferent parts of the city fare, because, she said, during the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, many businesses not located at or near venues suffered. The same may be true in Park City during the 2002 Winter Games, she said. "My belief is that not all businesses busi-nesses in Atlanta benefited equally," equal-ly," she said. "My belief also is that all Park City businesses will not benefit equally." English and Cumming are travelling trav-elling to Nagano for different reasons. rea-sons. Both Deer Valley Resort and PCMR will be hosting multiple multi-ple events during the 2002 Winter Games and each wants to observe Olympic venues while events are occurring. Deer Valley, which will host mogul freestyle, aerial freestyle slalom and combined slalom events in 2002, will send English to observe such items as the fencing fenc-ing of the venues, course maintenance mainte-nance and crowd control. "I'm happy to get a better understanding of the immense scope of an event like this," English said, adding that he will also better understand what SLOC will expect of Deer Valley during the Salt Lake City Games. Strachan, who attended past Winter Olympics in Lillehammer, Norway, and Albertville, France, said he does not have a specific agenda of items past the events, including the opening ceremonies, cer-emonies, hockey, downhill skiing and figure skating, he has tickets for - he would like to observe in Nagano. But, he said, transportation transporta-tion issues are near the top of his agenda. "I wanted to know how the highly-vaunted Japanese mass transit is," Strachan said. The entire Park City contingent contin-gent is also looking forward, albeit cautiously, to visiting and learning about Japan outside of their Olympic mission. Strachan said he is worried about communicating with Japanese citizens because of language lan-guage differences. He said he has made a stack of notecards with Japanese phrases and their English translations such as "Thank you" and "May I have a cup of coffee?" Despite cost concerns, county Justice Center is ready to open Continued from A-1 Controversy over the jail escalated esca-lated in September of 1996 when felony charges against the project's pro-ject's former construction manager. manag-er. Cliff Lawrence, resulted in two convictions pertaining to similar work his company, Lawrence Construction, was completing in Juab County. The county attorney's office has since investigated Lawrence's further dealings with the justice center, and said Lawrence has resigned as the company's president. Despite the convictions, Lawrence Construction remained the construction manager for the project through its completion. Financially, the bottom line for the jail, said Summit County Auditor Blake Frazier, will be $11 million. But, said Sgt. Sargent, through frugal planning, "I think, with the quality of building we've got ... (the county got a good deal." To help defray the building's cost, the county will accept state prisoners pris-oners at a rate of about $36 per day. Sgt. Sargent said the process for obtaining state prisoners has begun, and the first state inmates should begin arriving in about 30 days. Additionally, he said, instead of building a 160-bed jail, the county chose to conserve some costs and build one "pod" with 94 beds, and has retained the option to build another pod in the future. Of the 94 Justice Center beds, all inmates will be double-bunked, double-bunked, with the exception of 12 maximum-security beds. While movers will begin hauling the physical contents of the Summit County Sheriff's Department from its current location in the county courthouse in Coalville today, Wednesday, Jan. 28, the county's approximately approxi-mately 25 prisoners will not be transported to the facility until Monday, Feb. 3. That day, because 9-1-1 service will also be transported to the new location, most emergency calls will be handled han-dled by Park City or Heber City dispatches. Because there are no prisoners in the Justice Center at this time, visitors are welcome to tour the facility for the rest of this week. Those interested in a guided tour can ask an available staff member, mem-ber, said Sgt. Sargent. Students will keep a diary in Japan Continued from A-1 persistence during recovery from a broken hip inspired Lauren. "She just kept on going," marveled mar-veled Lauren, "until she was off her walker. She spent three months practicing walking." During their stay in Japan, students are required to keep a journal of their activities and impressions. Upon their return, they will write another essay covering what they learned from the experience. That promises to be an exciting read. An additional 90 students were selected on the basis of their essays to represent their communities communi-ties in Utah activities. Four of these students are from Park City. They are Crystal Christiansen from Ecker Hill Middle School, and Anna Piepmeyer, Megan Warren, and Sam White from Treasure Mountain Middle School. Tailing your parking questions m. SCOTT SINEflW RECORD Eileen Morris performs customer service for Park City's Transportation Department. She recently moved to the city from Evanston, Wyo. Students protest closed campus Continued from A-1 Another concern, which seemed important to the students, is the cost of lunch on campus. It is more expensive to eat in the lunchroom than at a local fast food restaurant. According to one student, a Tacomaker taco purchased on-campus costs 90 cents, compared to 69 cents if purchased pur-chased at Tacomaker. Smith said he was unaware of this price discrepancy. dis-crepancy. During the meeting, next year's plan to have two separate lunch periods was mentioned. This caught students by surprise. They were upset by the prospect of being separated from their friends, and said they were given no.-, input into, this decision. According to , Smfthu ithe , school , was designed with a double lunch period in mind, as the lunchroom will only accommodate half of the school's student capacity. He also pointed out that there is an active student council, a student representative repre-sentative to the school board, and three students on the site-based committee addressing this issue. Several suggestions were made as to how to resolve the situation. The privilege of leaving campus could be offered to juniors and seniors. One parent suggested students be allowed to leave campus cam-pus on foot, but not in vehicles, reducing auto traffic. The logistics involved in closing clos-ing the school would be complicated, compli-cated, and Smith said it would take an enormous amount of student, stu-dent, parent and school board support. The school was built to be an open campus and has more than 90 doors. Several people voiced concern over what part of education would suffer if resources were being put toward policing these doors. One student expressed concern that if campus were closed, more drugs would be brought on campus. cam-pus. A parent countered that open lunch encourages students to skip the rest of the school day. Not all parents were convinced the campus should be closed. One parent said, "1 love the fact that Park City High School trusts our kids." Smith was quick to point out that the meeting was not intended to end in a decision. It was intended to gauge the feelings of parents, and assess whether the issue is large or small. Judging by the intensity of emotions at last night's meeting, it is an issue that will not go away soon. Stone, Bergoust lead U.S. Olympic Freestyle Ski Team to Nagano World Cup leaders Eric Bergoust (Missoula, Mont.) and Nikki Stone (Westborough, Mass.), who won aerials competitions this past weekend in Canada, were named Tuesday to the 11-member U.S. Olympic Freestyle Team heading to Nagano, Japan. The team includes six men and five women. Six former for-mer Olympians are on the team; four of the athletes qualified by winning their event at the Chevy Truck U.S. Ski Team Gold Cup competitions in Lake Placid, N.Y. earlier this month. Six different athletes have won a total of 1 1 World Cups this season. And each of the four men's aerial team members were on the podium podi-um this year. The 1998 Olympic Freestyle Team, based on World Cup and gold Cup results: Men's aerials: Bergoust (28; '94 Olympian); Matt Chojnacki (24; Aurora, Colo.; Gold Cup winner); Mariano Ferrario (24; Winston-Salem, N.C.); Britt Swartley (26; Blue Bell, Pa.). Men's Moguls: Jonny Moseley (22; Tiburonm, Calif.); Alex Wilson (23; Buffalo, N.Y.; Gold Cup winner). win-ner). Women's Aerials: Stone (27; "94 Olympian); Tracy Evans (30; Hornell, N.Y.; "94 Olympian; Gold Cup winner). Women's Moguls:Ann Battelle (30; Steamboat Springs, Colo.; "92, '94 Olympian; Gold Cup winner); Liz Mclntyre (32; Winter Park, Colo.; "92, '84 Olympian); Donna Weinbrecht (32; W. Milford, N.J.; 92, '94 Olympian). Weinbrecht, the 1992 Olympic gold medalist, was World Championship silver medalist on the Iizuna Kogen course last year. Mclntyre is the defending Olympic silver medalist. Bergoust took the silver in aerials at the World Championships last year, as well. Stone earned the 10th World Cup win of her career Sunday at Blackcomb Ski Area in Canada; it was her fourth win in six events this season. Bergoust took the men's aerials for the eighth win of his career and Battelle earned her second place finish Saturday in moguls. "Obviously, there's a lot of talent in this group," said Head Coach Wayne Hilterbrand. "Everyone on this team has the potential to be competitive in the next few weeks at the Olympics." We established a very high standard of performance perfor-mance for Olympic selection in freestyle and it has been met by this team. We've spoken of "performance, not just participation' for the Olympics and there can be no question that through this selection, we have chosen those athletes with proven ability to be on the podium," said USSA Vice President of Athletics, Alan Ashley. "I think that we should all be very proud of this team as they certainly represent our finest athletes." ath-letes." 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