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Show Saturday, September 19, 1998 The Park Record A-3 City Beat LI Wash Up! CITY EDITOR: Jay Hamburger 649-90 1 4 extl 1 1 Bond for land almost ready City poll suggests citizens won't pass two bonds on same ballot By Kevin M. Schultz OF THE RECORD STAFF Citing the general public's strong desire to obtain more open-space. Park City's Public Affairs Director Myles Rademan presented a nearly-finalized version of the wording for a $10 million bond that will come up for approval in this November elections. "We are presently not able to buy any more land for open-space without going into debt," said Rademan Wednesday night, at the Parks, Recreation, Beautification Advisory Board meeting. "Basically, we've run out of money," he said. According to the proposition, which is anticipated to bring in roughly $10 million over 15 years, the bond will increase property taxes by about $18 per $100,000 of ' assessed value of a home. Further, the proposition stipulates stipu-lates the bond will be used "to acquire and forever preserve undeveloped unde-veloped park and recreational land." An independent citizen advisory committee formed by the City Council will recommend lands to be acquired. A public audit concerning concern-ing the expenditure of the bond's revenue will be conducted annually also. "We've picked every word in this thing very, very carefully," said Rademan, who was concerned over the legality of approving a bond for open-space. Rademan also said he was recommending rec-ommending to the Council that the advisory board consist of 10 individuals, individ-uals, seven of whom, he said, should came from assorted public boards, including the Parks and Recreation Board and the Historic District Commission. The remaining three positions, he said, should be chosen from the community at large. Rademan also used the meeting to release the official results of a 400-person survey conducted by the not-for-profit Trust for Public Lands. The group was commissioned commis-sioned by the City Council to determine deter-mine exactly how interested the public was in acquiring more public lands. According to the group's data, the poll showed that 65 percent of voters polled favored a $10 million bond. Only 37 percent, though, favored a $20 million bond, and only 24 percent favored a $30 million mil-lion bond. The poll also had bad news for the school district's $30 million bond, which comes up for approval in a special election this February. The poll showed that only 42 percent per-cent said they would vote for both the open-space bond and the school district's bond. Fifty-two-percent of voters, however, said they would vote for a $30 million school bond if that bond were alone on a ballot. A bond requires a simple majority major-ity of voters to pass. To solve the problem of competing compet-ing with the school board's bond, Rademan said the open-space bond has been placed on a relative fast track to avoid a special election. Rademan hopes that if the two bonds are not on the same ballot, they will have little affect on one another. According to Rademan, the effect the open-space bond will have on the school bond is one of his department's chief concerns. Avoiding a special election, he said, would also be cheaper than putting the measure on the regular November ballot. "We chose not to hold a special election for this issue," he said, "in order to save money. This way we don't have to pay the extra cost of another election." The poll also said 42 percent of people felt controlling growth and development was the most important problem presently facing fac-ing Park City. Eighteen percent said preserving open-space was the most pressing issue the city faces and improving education and controlling traffic and transportation trans-portation problems rounded out the public's chief concerns, with each issue getting 10 percent of the votes. Water-for-trail trade still in the works Agreement could extend Millenium Trail from Osguthorpe's to White Pine Canyon By Kevin M. Schultz OF THE RECORD STAFF In a deal that could be a major advancement for area trails, Park City Municipal Corporation is considering con-sidering an arrangement with the developers of the Colony subdivision subdivi-sion that would create a recreational trail over their proposed water line. The city has already made a deal with the Colony to supply water for 'their project in retjjfpf (XXactjes of open space" that protects the front side of Iron Mountain as well as most of the exposed hillside visible ' from the west side of S.R. 224. Now, developers are proposing to cover the area that will be disturbed by their water pipeline with a 10-foot wide, paved trail that could extend from behind the Osguthorpe Barn, heading northwest along the tree line, through the Ivers property, to White Pine Canyon Road. The Colony is located at the end of White Pine Canyon Road. City officials were scheduled to walk the proposed trail Friday. No formal agreements on the trail have yet been made. The Parks, Recreation, Beautification Advisory Board, which oversees Park City's trails, estimated that the section offered by the Colony would be worth about $500,000. "Just because it's free," warned Parks and Recreation Board Chairman George Hull, "doesn't mean it's good." ; j 7 The deal." reported Linda,: CooR,'; who oversees the city's trail plan-H ning, could straighten out the trail from its present design, which meanders mean-ders through the trees uphill from the barn. The pipeline, though, requires construction that may prevent pre-vent access through the more wooded wood-ed areas. According to Park City Manager Toby Ross, the Colony developers are offering to grade and pave the trail at no cost to the city, even though the work was not stipulated in the original land-for-water deal. "They said they were interested in doing this project in conjunction with their water line," he said, "and we think it would help us considerably consider-ably in moving in the direction we want our trail system to go." According to Snyderville Basin Recreation District Trails Manager Troy Duffin, the deal would tremendously tremen-dously help construction of the Millenium Trail, a trail that will extend from Kimball Junction, along the west side of S.R. 224, past the Osguthorpe Barn, and eventually connect to the Park City trail system. The Millenium Trail is expected to be completed in the year 2000. Parks and Recreation Board members were also hopeful that the trail Could eajiftect with the Crosscountry Cross-country trails at The Canyons to improve winter use. "This trail," said board member mem-ber Mike Andrews, "would take us a long way to complete our goal." Cook said, "this trail would complete most of the trails the city wants in their entryway, and it would connect with the Millenium Trail. It could be a good deal." A decision on the trail will be made after city officials walk the proposed trail and formalize the agreement with the Colony. Gingrich bowls over Mayor Olch in DC Mayor abruptly meets Speaker in recent fundraising trip; returns with no money By Kevin M. Schultz OF THE RECORD STAFF Mayor Brad Olch did not return from last week's trip to Washington D.C. with any federal money for the Olympics, but he did almost get run over by Speaker of the House of Representatives Newt Gingrich. Gingrich, said Olch, was rushing rush-ing out of an elevator to pick up the Kenneth Starr report when he almost bowled over Park City's mayor. Mayor Olch, however, reported that he didn't get the chance to question Gingrich about funds for the 2002 Winter Games. The brief incident occurred last week as Olch and three city officials offi-cials traveled to Washington, D.C. to proposition federal officials about possible grants that could help the City cover Olympic transportation trans-portation costs. Although the group, which included Frank Bell, Director of Olympic Planning, Tom Bakaly, Finance Manager, and Hope Bleecker, Public Transportation Director, did not return with any assurances of federal funds, they did improve their relationship with several officials in the nation's cap ital, according to Olch. "We didn't get any money this time," he said, "but our relationship relation-ship with them is a lot better than it was a half dozen weeks ago." Olch said, in light of the stronger relationship, the group plans to go to Washington again as the national government works on the 2000 budget. Olch hopes that budget will contain more allowances for Park City's Olympic development. "The trip," said the mayor, "gave us the opportunity to educate edu-cate people, letting them know that so many of the events are going to happen here in Park City." "For a short trip, we covered a lot of ground," said the mayor. 4. 4 VJeWve your Sofa... 111! UlliiBlilM Slip-covered, Denim, Floral, Chenille, Polar Fleece, Leather Choose from upholstery in-stock or custom order in time for the Holidays!!! -' : , rasa W$T-I .'.MM 'wK I Hit n V4, And Come to the Grub Steak! 98 Join us for lunch Mon-Sat 1 1:30 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. Open, nightly for dinner from 5:00 to 10:00 p.m. Live entertainment Friday & Saturday nights. 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