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Show Wednesday, January 19, 2000 The Park Record A-3 c Seat COUNTY EDlTOFLTimWestby 449-90 M ext. 1 1 2 ooimty BFI, Summit County: still working out the wrinkles New policies aim to resolve remaining trash hauling issues, make service fair to all by Tim Wcstby OF THE RECORD STAFF The complaints and grumbling over Summit County new automated auto-mated garbage service are dying down. , , Both the county and Browning Ferris Industries, says Public Works director, Lamar Richins, are smoothing out the rough spots. "We're only two weeks into this contract, we're moving as fast as we can," said Richins. During meetings last week with commercial customers in Kamas and Coalville, Richins and BH representatives met to explain the new billing policy now in place. The county is no longer subsidizing subsi-dizing commercial garbage service, according !o Richins. The county commission decided to forgo the subsidy when the automated service serv-ice started. But the county heard a slew of complaints from commercial com-mercial customers when they received their first BFI bills short ly after the company started its new service. Those customers either did not understand or were not aware of the change, said Richins. But he believes last week's meetings changed that. t I feel most of them understood," under-stood," said Richins. "I feel that they walked away feeling much better." As for complaints from residents resi-dents in the Timberline subdivision subdivi-sion over the fact that they now have to haul their trash to dump-sters dump-sters parked at the neighborhood's entrance, Richins says the county will look into BFI concerns over safety. If those concerns are valid, the county is not likely to do anything, any-thing, said Richins. But if BFl's concerns arenl valid, the county may ask the company to find a way to pick residents trash individually. "It's not a closed issue," says Richins. BFI says the arrangement is only temporary, until it gets a smaller four-wheel drive truck more suitable for the subdivision narrow, gravel, and often snow packed roads. The company expects to get the truck at the end of March. The Summit County Commission is also considering eight new policies concerning the new waste pickup service. One of those new policies will establish criteria for BFI and property ow ners n-ers for collecting garbage on private pri-vate roads. Another policy would establish clearer guidelines for residential collection at condominiums and other multi-unit dwellings. A third policy would set up guidelines for people who want more than one container. Mike O'Hara, a waste consultant consult-ant for the county, calls the new policies "fairly simple." The new policies are meant to make things "fair to all parties," he says. "The contract as we have it now is about 16 pages," says O'Hara. "The original contract was 3 (pages." As of press time Tuesday, the commission had not made any decisions on the policies. Lost snowmobilers found after 2 days One man still hospitalized after grueling overnight ordeal in the Uinta Mountains by Tim Wastby OF THE RECORD STAFF The recent warm spell got Rick Peterson and Stewart Hughes in trouble and probably-saved probably-saved their lives at the same time. The two men roared off down the Soapstone Trail last Friday for a quick jaunt into the snowbound snow-bound wilderness near Mirror Lake on Hughes' brand-new-snowmobiles. They wanted to test the new machines while scouting for a youth-group outing they are scheduled to lead. But they got ithos machines stuck n a stream that was not completely' frozen over. Wet to their kaeet from wading wad-ing in the stream and unable to walk through the deep snow, they attempted to crawl back to their truck at the trailhead. With only a single nutrition bar between them, they spent Friday and Saturday nights hungry and cold in makeshift snow caves. Peterson, 35, from Sandy, and Hughes, 41, from Orem, are considered con-sidered expert snowmobilers. However, they left older, better equipped machines back at the trailhead, opting instead to try out the new snowmobiles. Search and Rescue teams from Summit, Wasatch and Salt Lake counties launched a search for the two men late Friday evening in a 23-mile radius southeast of Mirror Lake in the Uinta Mountains. In all about 60 people peo-ple were looking for the pair. It took rescue Crews so long to find the pair because they wandered wan-dered off into steep, rocky terrain ter-rain where snowmobiles rarely go, said Wasatch County Sheriff Lt. Kea Van Wagoner, Nor did the two tell anyone where they were going, Van Wagoner said. By noon Sunday, searchers were giving up hope of finding the pair alive. "You never want to give up," said Van Wagoner. "But when you're going into your third day. you're beginning to lose hope." But a couple of hours later a Salt Lake County Sheriff's rescue res-cue helicopter spotted Peterson and Hughes crawling though the snow about 11 miles from the trailhead near Mirror Lake. The lake is about 20 miles east of Kamas. The two men were suffering from exhaustion, hypothermia, and frostbite when search crews reached them, said Van Wagoner. The weekend's usually warm temperatures, he said, "very definitely" helped the men survive. ,( They were taken to University Hospital in Salt Lake City. Peterson was released arou.nd early Monday morning, but ii still suffering from severe frostbite. frost-bite. As of press time Tuesday, Hughes remained in the hospital. Van Wagoner said snowmobilers snowmobil-ers should always carry survival gear with them, including extra food, water, matches, and a tarp. State seeking public's input on growth Call it growing pains. Utah is one of the fastest growing grow-ing states in the nation.. And with so many people draw n to the Park CitySnyderville Basin area, Summit County is experiencing explosive growth. Now, the state wants to know what you think should be the stated role in managing this grow th. The Utah Quality Growth Commission is holding "town , meetings" in every county in the state seeking public input on growth issues. Monday night it's Summit County turn. The growth commission was formed during last year's Legislative session as a way of advising the governor and the Legislature on how to handle issues arising from growth. Summit County is one the last counties the commission is to hear from. The commission will then spend most of the next year compiling com-piling all the input it collected and preparing report to the Legislature and Governor Mike LeavitL "The goal of the meeting is to get input from Summit County residents res-idents on growl h related issues, and what the states role should be." says David Allen, vice chair of the commission and Park City resident res-ident The commission is especially interested in four different areas: infrastructure, open space, envi ronment, and transportation. "We want input from the public on how these issues effect their lives," says Allen. One of the major themes the commission has heard from counties coun-ties across the state is that the state can provide more leadership and training, says Allen. Residents of other largely rural counties like Summit County, says Alien, showed concern for the preservation preserva-tion of open space and farm land, and how best to manage large tracts of public land. 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