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Show The Park Record A-20 Meetings and agendas Sat/Sun/Mon/Tues, November 19-22, 2016 More Dogs on Main By Tom Clyde to publish your public notices and agendas please email classifieds@parkrecord.com Time flies when you’re getting old SUMMIT COUNTY COUNCIL AGENDA SUMMIT COUNTY COUNCIL Monday, November 21, 2016 11:50 AM - Official canvass of the 2016 General Election; Kent Jones (30 min) NOTICE is hereby given that the Summit County Council will meet in special session Monday, November 21, 2016, at the Summit County Courthouse, 60 North Main Street, Coalville, UT 84017 (All times listed are general in nature, and are subject to change by the Council Chair) 9:00 AM – Work Session - Department head budget presentations 9:00 AM – Auditor; Michael Howard (15 min) 9:15 AM - Public Arts Program and Advisory Board; Kristen Mitchell (20 min) 9:35 AM - Emergency Management, Fire Warden, Wildland Fire, and Risk Management; Matt Jensen (20 min) 9:55 AM - Clerk w/ Public Defender; Kent Jones (20 min) 10:15 AM – Information Technology; Ron Boyer (20 min) 10:35 AM – Health; Rich Bullough (45 min) 11:20 AM – Special revenue funds and other budgets; Matt Leavitt (20 min) 12:20 PM Consideration of Approval Council Minutes dated July 13, 2016, July 20, 2016, October 19, 2016, November 7, 2016, and November 14, 2016 12:30 PM Closed Session – Property acquisition (60 min) One or more members of the County Council may attend by electronic means, including telephonically or by Skype. Such members may fully participate in the proceedings as if physically present. The anchor location for purposes of the electronic meeting is the Council Chambers and Conference room, Summit County Courthouse, 60 N. Main, Coalville, Utah Individuals with questions, comments, or needing special accommodations pursuant to the Americans with Disabilities Act regarding this meeting may contact Annette Singleton at (435) 336-3025, (435) 615-3025 or (435) 783-4351 ext. 3025 Posted: November 17, 2016 SNYDERVILLE BASIN WATER RECLAMATION DISTRICT SNYDERVILLE BASIN WATER RECLAMATION DISTRICT BOARD OF TRUSTEES MEETING AGENDA November 21, 2016 ** District Office** 5:00 p.m. I. CALL TO ORDER II. CONSENT AGENDA Approval of Board Meeting Minutes for October 17, 2016 Escrow Fund Reduction Approval Colony 4C Lot 194 – Retain 8 percent Fiddich Glen – Retain 8 percent Silver Creek Offsite Sewer Extension – Retain 0 percent Silver Creek Estates Unit I Phase 2 – Retain 0 percent Silver Creek Estates Unit I Phase 3 – Retain 0 percent High Mountain Road Extension 2 – Retain 0 percent Park City Heights – Offsite Sewer – Retain 0 percent Park City Heights – Phase 1 – Retain $3,000 The Canyons Ski Beach Sewer Realignment – Retain 0 percent The Belles at Empire Pass – Retain 0 percent Quarry Springs – Retain 85 percent Final Project Approval Colony 4C Lot 194 Fiddich Glen III. PUBLIC INPUT IV. APPROVAL OF EXPENDITURES – Bills in the Amount of $2,103,635.39 Including SCWRF Project Pay Request #7 for $965,874.72 V. SUBDIVISION PROJECTS Silver Creek Village Phase 1A – 20 REs Estimated LEA REs Year to Date: # Above Splitter 39; # ECWRF 188.10; # SCWRF 0; Total 227.1 Proposed this Meeting: # Above Splitter 0; # ECWRF 0; # SCWRF 20; Total 20 VI. DISTRICT MANAGER Discussion Items – Discuss Board Meeting Schedule for 2017 Action Items – Consider Adopting 2017 Tentative Budget & Set Public Hearing for December 12, 2016 @ 6 p.m. Information Item Financial Statement Impact Fee Report Annual Board Member Training, December 12, 2016 @ 5:30 p.m. Christmas Brunch – December 23, 2016 @ 10 a.m. EC Training Building VII. FUTURE AGENDA ITEMS Projects Operations Finance Governmental Matters Thursday, November 24, 2016 If you are planning to attend this public meeting and, due to a disability, require reasonable accommodation in understanding, participating in or attending the meeting, please notify the District twenty-four or more hours in advance of the meeting, and we will try to provide whatever assistance may be required. The next Board of Adjustment meeting is scheduled for Thursday, December 15, 2016 Posted: November 17, 2016 Published: November 19, 2016-Park Record Solving Colo. housing woes Deed-restricted housing helps out resort town locals KAILYN LAMB Summit Daily In October 2014, Teresa Zube bought her first home. For those squarely in the middle of the American working class, that milestone would be seen as a major accomplishment — no matter the community. But in Summit County, Colorado, where the average price of a single-family home is more than $500,000, home ownership is a particularly noteworthy achievement. Still, Zube, a housekeeper and single mom of two children, had to fight to buy a deed-restricted home in the Valley Brook neighborhood. “I had to jump through hoops to even get a mortgage,” she said. Deed-restricted housing allows people to purchase homes at a price that isn’t determined by the fluctuations of the free market. Along with a discounted price point comes a set of rules specifying how the property can be used and for how much it can be resold. For many working families in Summit County, deed-restricted housing has become the only option to carve out a long-term niche in the community. This type of housing has been around for decades in Colorado, making a quiet entrance into the market in the ’70s. However, it wasn’t until the ’90s that deedrestricted housing started gathering speed, as many communities, particularly those in the state’s prosperous resort areas, made workforce housing a priority. “The benefit is we can try to ensure that our workforce can live Western history is so compressed. Eastern farm country was well-settled, depleted and abandoned a century before this corner of Idaho was first homesteaded. My grandparents didn’t steal it from the Indians or build the log cabin, but they knew the people who did. In town, there was electricity, water, telephones and other services we would all expect. Move a couple of miles out of town, and you were stepping back in time. The dry farm house is still there, though about caved in. It’s a one-room log cabin with a leanto kitchen tacked on the side, and an attic bedroom accessed by a In other milestones, this week marks 30 years for me filling this corner of your newspaper. Time flies when you’re having fun.” ladder. They relied on kerosene lamps, a wood stove for heat, pumped water by hand from the well outside. Water for the Saturday bath was heated on the stove. Domestic life looked like Daniel Boone, except they eventually had a Model T Ford and could drive into town, or take the train to Salt Lake, and a crew would come in with a steam-powered threshing machine to finish the wheat. They moved from the dry farm to the egg farm to be a little closer to town. There was a tworoom school available. It was a bigger house, but it didn’t have electricity until my mother was a teenager, and there wasn’t an indoor bathroom until after she had finished high school and left home. My parents became friends with James Fletcher, who was the head of NASA. He invited them to watch one of the Apollo moon landings from NASA headquarters. The technological changes over that lifetime, especially beginning in such a primitive setting, always amazed my mother. She eventually got used to the microwave oven, but truth be told, I think she was more comfortable with a wood stove. In other milestones, this week marks 30 years for me filling this corner of your newspaper. Time flies when you’re having fun. The arc of change around here isn’t quite as dramatic as my mother going from pioneering to NASA, but it’s significant. Thirty years ago, Kimball Junction was mostly farmland. The suburban explosion was just beginning. About half the businesses on Main Street closed for the summer, and almost everybody shut down for the mud seasons. Art Festival wasn’t just the biggest event of the summer, it was pretty much the only event of the summer. Park City’s phone system had expanded to add the 645 prefix, forcing you to dial all seven, which was a great inconvenience. People who had a 645 phone number were looked down upon. There was only the 84060 ZIP code, and you knew everybody at the post office and the only grocery store. Thirty years ago, my shoulder didn’t hurt and my knees didn’t squeak. Other things have been constant. Everybody complained about parking 30 years ago. Tom Clyde practiced law in Park City for many years. He lives on a working ranch in Woodland and has been writing this column since 1986. VIII. ADJOURN Summit County Board of Adjustment Notice is hereby given that the Summit County Board of Adjustment will NOT meet on I’ve been struggling with my post-election funk. Huddling in the fetal position with the covers over my head wasn’t solving anything. It would help if we were skiing, but, well, it’s hard to pull that off when it’s 60 degrees. I considered mowing the lawn. Somewhere along the way, I realized a couple of notable anniversaries were coming up. If she were still alive, my mother would be 100 years old next week. She died a long time ago, but it deserved some observance, and I needed to get out of the house. So I made a quick trip to Idaho to look at her childhood homes. They lived on a small farm outside of Preston, where my grandparents raised chickens and sold the eggs to a packaging plant in the Logan area. My grandparents lived on the farm until old age forced them to move, and I spent a lot of time there growing up. Candling eggs is probably the most boring job there is. Their old house has been substantially remodeled, and the chicken coops are gone. So there really wasn’t a lot to see there. The mystery was the “dry farm house.” When my grandparents married, their first home was a one-room log cabin on a dry farm owned by his father. They lived there until my mother was about 6 and ready to start school. My grandfather and his brother ran that farm until the 1970s (a cousin still owns it), and I remember driving out there with him through the years. But I had no idea where it was. Childhood memories placed it miles away from the home farm. It was actually just a couple of miles away. A dry farm isn’t irrigated, and depends on natural rain and snow. It’s a risky proposition in this climate. The wheat was planted in the fall and harvested early in the summer, which all seemed entirely backwards. in the communities where they’re working,” said Laurie Best, the long-range planner for workforce housing in Breckenridge. “We have a diverse community with a variety of demographics represented, … that’s why the public investment in workforce housing is so important; it’s to preserve a community and also to support the economy.” Within Summit County, there are 1,165 deed-restricted units. Melanie Rees, a housing consultant who works with mountain communities, said that Summit County is unique because instead of placing deed-restricted homes or units randomly throughout the community, the towns here have made an effort to create entire neighborhoods around the model. Breckenridge, which offers most of the deed-restricted housing in the county, has also taken strides to ensure that multiple income levels are served. On the lower end, there are restricted townhomes that sold for $165,000. In places like the Wellington neighborhood, properties went for $300,000 to $400,000. “We have different projects that we’ve strategically planned,” Best said. “We believe we made workforce housing in all segments or demographics of our workforce.” The demand for these units has only increased over time. The Summit Combined Housing Authority (SCHA) keeps an “interested list” made up of people throughout the county who were at one time interested in purchasing a deed-restricted home. In 2012, there were 525 people on that list. The list has more than tripled over the last four years, and now has 1,660 names on it. While some of those people have been on the list for years, 394 signed up in 2016 alone. The wait list has been addressed in different ways. In Breckenridge, a lottery process has determined those who get first bite at the apple. The housing authority, on the other hand, will send an email blast to their interested list as properties become available. They go through applications on a first-come, first-served basis. One application can take between two to four weeks to process. In general, potential buyers face a confusing set of rules for each deed-restricted development. That’s why the housing authority has aggregated information on each neighborhood online. Some requirements run across the board. For example, a buyer must work 30 hours or more a week in Summit County. However, some developments include additional requirements such as prohibiting the buyer from owning any other property in the county and from renting the deed-restricted property. Zube said that when she began to look at buying a house, her broker said her salary greatly reduced the number of houses she could possibly qualify for. It was about finding a balance — having a salary low enough to qualify for deedrestricted housing, but still high enough to qualify for a mortgage. “Applying for a mortgage on my salary alone, it was very, very stressful and difficult,” she said. One crucial factor for deed-restricted homeowners is area median income (AMI). Buyers have to make sure that their total income falls at or below a certain percentage of the average, which is determined by the federal government. The preferred percentage of AMI varies by development. AMI is particularly important when owners of deed-restricted housing want to sell. The AMI in Summit County has been dropping consistently over the past several years. In 2014, the AMI for a family of four was $90,800. That dropped to $86,600 in 2015, and dropped again in 2016 to $81,500. That’s a $9,300 difference in just two years. Sunday in the Park By Teri Orr The right word at the right time Years ago, when I was a reporter for the Salt Lake Tribune (the Park City correspondent-there was such a thing in the ‘80’s) I was pretty sure I discovered massive corruption in our tiny city government. I spent months developing sources and meeting in out-of -the-way places in the county, trying to unravel what I was being told. I kept my editor abreast of my findings and he kept encouraging my work. Finally, at the end of my research, I drove to Salt Lake and met with him in a tiny Chinese diner on the seventh floor of a downtown office building city reporters loved. I told him, with much sadness and embarrassment and defeat, all the months of intrigue ended when I discovered there were indeed bad feelings between elected officials and city staff and some developers, but there were no actual criminal behaviors. I was sorry for wasting so much time on a non-story. And he said to me, those time-honored words every journalist learns.... “It’s hell when the truth gets in the way of a good story.” He was so generous with his time and his wisdom and kept encouraging me, me without a college degree let alone any formal training in journalism, to keep writing and keep investigating because “the truth always wins out.” So it was with both amusement and a heavy heart, I woke up in the middle of the night this week unable to sleep and turned on the radio that was still in the BBC news cycle. I heard the announcement of the “word of the year” as determined by the Oxford Dictionary. A word in such common usage that it was time to add it to the language of our language. The word is “post-truth.” And though it has apparently been around for decades, in this year alone, it’s usage has jumped 2,000 percent, according to researchers. The first spike came after the Brexit vote and the second during our own election cycle. The definition, if I can easily explain it, refers to the dissemination of information to make one’s case with passion but not facts. Much of the rhetoric used to misinform voters in England about the economic issues surrounding the European Union. And misinformation about each other, especially the refugee and immigrant populations there. The Oxford folks say it may have started out to mean, after a truth, but now it means — in relationship to politics anyway — when the truth is irrelevant. The American spike in usage came after Donald Trump received the Republican nomination this summer. Because words matter that much to me. The beauty of them written allowed me to journey when my circumstances did not. Words had cut and hurt, so I tried to avoid those with others. Words made the ordinary beautiful.” In my Super Moon, super not sleeping but not fully awake state, I thought of the little tour I had taken with my son last fall in the building he works in at the University of Utah: the James Sorenson Molecular Biotechnology building. He is a physicist there. I cannot explain more than that. But he showed me incredibly cool equipment that did amazing work in Nano-optics among other things. And in one room, we walked past, were people working in pure white, kinda hazmat suits. He explained to me any dust particles, hair follicles, skin tissue could contaminate the research they were performing. The detail and precision of the research was that, well, precise. I thought about what my son Randy does and I always marvel. He is so detailed about his work. So left-brained. So absolute. I know, for a fact, he was raised by a kinda hippie single mom. And the only claim I might have in his development was our constant conversations about words and their power and their precise usage. When we moved to Utah from Lake Tahoe in 1979, his elementary school was in the building that is now City Hall. He came home one day and in a fit of something declared “Oh my heck!” in a loud proud voice. I asked him what exactly was he trying to say. He mumbled about a swear word but this was the word all the other kids were using instead. I informed him, in the strongest single parent voice I had that the word was “Hell.” And if he was going to take to swearing he better use the correct language — He would still be punished of course, but the punishment would be twice the severity if he used the wrong word. And that especially went for the ever Utah popular “flippin.’” Say the word, the correct word, and receive a lesser penalty. Because words matter that much to me. The beauty of them written allowed me to journey when my circumstances did not. Words had cut and hurt, so I tried to avoid those with others. Words made the ordinary beautiful. When I had little else, I had words. Finding the correct word to use was no less important than the correct wrench to tighten something up, the right tool for the right job. There were other words that almost made Oxford dictionary this year. Words like “glass cliff” and “Brexiteer” and “adulting.” And one that will surely be in the book soon, taken from black slang, “woke,” as in being awakened to racism and injustice in society. “I been woked” makes me think of an old gospel song that says “I been ‘buked/ And I been scorned.” Because after this election cycle filled with post truths, I been woked in a way where I can no longer be unwoked....Something to start sharing each day, like Sundays in the Park... Teri Orr is a former editor of The Park Record. She is the director of the Park City Institute, which provides programming for the George S. and Dolores Doré Eccles Center for the Performing Arts. |