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Show Wed/Thurs/Fri, May 10-12, 2017 The Park Record A-14 Meetings and agendas Core Samples By Jay Meehan to publish your public notices and agendas, please email classifieds@parkrecord.com Ghost dancing AGENDA: SUMMIT COUNTY COUNCIL SUMMIT COUNTY COUNCIL Wednesday, May 10, 2017 NOTICE is hereby given that the Summit County Council will meet in session Wednesday, May 10, 2017, 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) 3:00 PM Closed Session – Property acquisition (35 min) 3:35 PM – Move to Council Chambers (10 min) 3:45 PM - Pledge of Allegiance Discussion and possible approval of Proclamation No. 2017-4, a Proclamation Declaring May 7-13, 2017, “National Travel and Tourism Week”; Julianne Rosen-Carone, Park City Chamber and Visitors Bureau Advice and consent of County Manager’s recommendation to appoint member to the County Fair Advisory Board Continued consideration and possible approval of May Tax Sale proposed payment plan for Parcel SULA-2-AM; Kathryn Rockhill Council Comments Manager Comments Council Minutes dated April 19, 2017, April 26, 2017, and May 1, 2017 6:00 PM Public Input 4:10 PM Work Session Council retreat follow up regarding revenue strategies; Michael Howard, Corrie Forsling, and Matt Leavitt (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 5:10 PM Consideration of Approval Posted: 3:50 PM Convene as the Board of Equalization 1) Discussion and possible approval of primary properties, and non-primary properties; Ashley Berry (5 min) 2) Consideration and possible approval of Summit Land Conservancy’s request for a property tax exemption; Ashley Berry (15 min) Dismiss as the Board of Equalization May 5, 2017 Summit County Democrats Central Committee Meeting The Summit County Democratic Party will hold a Central Committee Meeting on Thursday, May 25, 2017 at 6:00pm to select nominee(s) for the position of Summit County Attorney. The meeting will be held at the Park City High School cafeteria, 1750 Kearns Blvd, Park City. A quick look at Utah news Zinke is in Utah, tax revenue soars after Amazon deal Associated Press US interior secretary starts Utah red rocks monuments review SALT LAKE CITY — U.S. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke started a four-day Utah trip to assess whether the designation of 3.2 million acres of national monuments in the state’s southern red rock region should be scaled back or rescinded. Zinke arrived in Salt Lake City Sunday to launch the reevaluation of the new Bears Ears National Monument and the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument. His visit comes after an executive order signed last month by President Donald Trump called for a review of 27 national monuments established by several former presidents. The Bears Ears monument is a source of ire for Utah’s conservative leadership and is a top review priority. Zinke must make a recommendation on that monument by June 10 ahead of a final report about all the monuments. This brief was written by AP writers Michelle L. Price and Brady McCombs Mexican woman in Utah given temporary deportation reprieve SALT LAKE CITY — Immigration officials have granted a temporary reprieve from deportation to a Mexican woman in Utah whose family and supporters protested after she was detained while shopping with her daughter. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokesman Carl Rusnok said Friday that Silvia Avelar-Flores of West Valley City, Utah, has been given 90 days to leave the country. He didn’t say why the agency made the decision. Agents picked her up last week. The 31-year-old woman came to the U.S. in 1993 with her family as a child on a temporary visitor visa. Community groups and her family called the pending deportation of the mother of three unethical at a rally Wednesday outside government offices. They say they are overjoyed she been reunited with her family. Avelar-Flores has a pending request for legal residency through her husband, who has a green card. Long-time Utah ski general manager retires ALTA, Utah — The Alta Ski Area general manager is hanging it up after 29 years of working of one of Utah’s best-known resorts. The Salt Lake Tribune reported 67-year-old Onno Wieringa is leaving a legacy of only lightly tinkering and modernizing slopes that remain largely the same as they were when he first came to the mountain with the ski patrol in 1972. Wieringa’s tenure officially ended last month with the end of the 2016-17 season. He says Alta veteran Michael Maughan is taking over the resort. Wieringa and his wife are returning to their native Montana. In a recent interview, Wieringa says he has no fixed retirement plans. Utah sales tax revenue soars after deal with Amazon.com SALT LAKE CITY — The state of Utah has seen its sales tax revenue skyrocket since the online retail giant Amazon.com agreed to collect taxes on purchases in the Beehive state. The Salt Lake Tribune reported that the Utah Tax Commission recorded $195 million in taxable sales from “non-store retailers” in the months of January and February. That’s a 122 percent increase from the same period in 2016, when the state took in $107 million. Officials won’t say how much of the latest tally of taxes came directly from Amazon. Amazon started collecting Utah’s 4.7 percent sales tax in January under a deal with the state that allows the Seattlebased retailer to get the same 1.31 percent of the taxes-collected handling fee that in-state retailers receive. Mormons stick to neutrality despite Trump’s order SALT LAKE CITY — The Mormon church says it won’t change its longstanding practice of practicing political neutrality despite President Donald Trump’s executive order Thursday aimed at easing an IRS rule limiting political activity for religious organizations. Eric Hawkins, spokesman for The Church of Jesus Christs of Latter-day Saints, said Thursday in a statement that the religion is “always grateful for the efforts of leaders to safeguard religious freedom and protect the beliefs and religious exercise of all people.” But, he added that the Utahbased religion of nearly 16 million members remains committed to political neutrality. Trump says he’s giving churches their “voices back” with the order, but the move that fell far short of a more sweeping order some supporters had expected. Utah House speaker says he will not run for Chaffetz’s seat SALT LAKE CITY — Utah’s House Speaker Greg Hughes says he will not run for Rep. Jason Chaffetz’s congressional seat. Hughes said on Friday that it’s important for the vacancy to be filled as quickly as possible if Chaffetz ends up deciding not to finish his term. He says he wants to take himself out of the equation so that this process can happen as fast as possible if it’s needed. Hughes said he did consider running, but decided against it because he enjoys his position as speaker. Chaffetz said last month that he would not seek another term in 2018 and he’s open to a 2020 run for Utah governor. He also said he may not even finish the two-year term that started four months ago. Utah teen settles federal lawsuit to allow girl wrestlers LAYTON, Utah — Girls in Davis School District will be able to wrestle on their school’s team thanks to 15-year-old Kathleen Janis. The Deseret News reported Thursday that Janis and her family have settled a federal lawsuit they filed against the school district after the girl had been denied the right to be on the wrestling team. District officials have agreed to allow girls to participate in any school-sanctioned wrestling programs in exchange for a dismissal of the lawsuit by Janis’ family. Janis was previously granted a temporary restraining order against the district by Judge Robert Shelby, which allowed her to wrestle on the ninth-grade team this year. Janis recently wrestled in the U.S. Marine Corps Girls Folkstyle National Tournament, where she placed seventh. Democrat, professor joins ‘18 race for Hatch’s Senate seat SALT LAKE CITY — A Salt Lake City college professor who co-founded the Utah League of Native American Voters is running for Republican Orrin Hatch’s U.S. Senate seat. James Singer launched his campaign this week, saying he wants to work on income inequality, gender inequality and racism in the U.S., along with environmental causes. The 34-year-old told The Salt Lake Tribune that he thinks Hatch is out of touch with his constituents, particularly because of his push to repeal Bears Ears National Monument. Singer, a member of the Navajo Nation, says repealing the monument is at odds with the wishes of local tribes who called for the monument. Hatch, the long-serving Senate Republican, pledged in 2012 that his current term would be his last but now says he’s considering running again. Mormon missionary from Utah dies while serving in Wisconsin PAYSON, Utah — A Mormon missionary from Utah has died in Wisconsin. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints said Saturday that 19-year-old Jeremy McCauley died Friday night of unknown causes. McCauley is from Payson, Utah, but has been serving in the Wisconsin Milwaukee Mission since November. The church said it’s mourning the tragic loss of one of its young missionaries. The shimmer arrived without preamble or incantation. It didn’t announce itself and it wasn’t summoned. Maybe sandals falling upon long-undisturbed Pinyon and Juniper needles set it in motion. Although perfectly still, it caressed all the senses. A feeling of being in the presence of “holiness,” possibly a return of Yeats’ “ceremonies of innocence,” permeated seemingly sacred space. Or perhaps, just another manifestation of that particular magic-realism that hovers over the Colorado Plateau. I woke to the beautiful cascading musical whistles of a Canyon Wren, its loudness muted by distance, only minutes earlier. With not disturbing the Samurai “wah” of my still sleeping shipmates foremost in my thoughts, I crept away from our hurriedly-thrown-togetherin-the-dark campsite. Soon enough, I became bathed in shimmer. Although the Catholicism of my youth didn’t necessarily stick to my ribs, guilt came knocking like an old friend. The feeling was that of an interloper, of not belonging, possibly even desecrating. Emerging from what passed for REM sleep in those days often enabled the Surrealism option. So, not necessarily sensing an inclusionary component within the aforementioned holiness, the sandals continued, covertly, down toward the then still-unpaved loop road circling back up through White Canyon to the northern reaches of the not-yet-full-pool Lake Powell. The shimmer, keeping its own counsel, did not follow. Obviously, however, a spiritual profundity of some magnitude left its imprint upon that space. Something happened there and the land remembers. This is the first I’ve come out about what I refer to in private as the shimmer-on-the-mount. I haven’t gone as far as to call it the Gospel according to Jay, but it is my story and I’m sticking to it. What the experience left me with harkened to being marooned in an alien landscape without proper vocabulary or portfolio. I was out of my element. The shimmer didn’t know whether to, in a Jonathan Winters sense, wave or salute. When faced with ignorance at this level, they knew not where I would refer to it as Trump’s view but, as we’ve learned, the man is completely bereft of that vision thing.” or how to begin. And that, dear reader, is exactly where I find myself with friends who’ve bought into the Republican Party’s view on climate change and public land protection. I would refer to it as Trump’s view but, as we’ve learned, the man is completely bereft of that vision thing. Mother Earth’s enemy in all this has, of course, proven to be pretty much, but not exclusively, the white male demographic. Not only are the sciences beyond its grasp but, also, the lessons of history. They’ve been screwed by the system and payback’s a mother. The pendulum has swung to the right and you’d best get out of the way. Even if apocalyptic breakdowns occur in the fabric of civilization, well, no worries! Our President will just explain to them how, if they would just kick in additional tithing to build his border wall, it’s been Obama’s fault all along. While nosing around an expanded notion of the current Bears Ears National Monument years before its recent designation, a few touchstones were constants. The whereabouts of Everett Ruess, of course, dominated. But after scouring Davis Gulch and its offshoot canyons ad infinitum, other trailheads beckoned. Hole in the Rock road, both east and west drainages off the Escalante River, and the Johnnie’s Hole country north of the San Juan River sang a siren’s call. The other constant in these wanderings was the desire to locate yet another shimmering in the landscape, to feel I had been “chosen,” not unlike Moses, to hear from the indigenous past. It was about boots on the ground and cigars around the campfire. Further sightings, as you no doubt imagined, remained aloof from the pilgrim’s prayers. The depth of the spiritual side of the journey, however, deepened with time. Most all the land in question needed protection from the politicos and their extractiveindustry donors. The greedy, both then and now, in more than one context, reconfigure “rape and pillage” at will. Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante and the faithful who refuel among their precious stones will be the losers. Canyon country still had much to teach me. Possibly I could work in a Ghost Dancing lesson or two. Resistance is not averse to shape-shifting. Jay Meehan is a culture junkie and has been an observer, participant, and chronicler of the Park City and Wasatch County social and political scenes for more than 40 years. Red Card Roberts By Amy Roberts The traveling twos If you are a parent, there’s a good chance I owe you an apology. For years, at least the last two decades really, I have passed judgment on you. I have rolled my eyes when your toddler was throwing things out of your grocery cart. I have urgently prayed, “not next to me, please do not let them sit next me,” while you boarded my flight. I have sighed with heavy annoyance at restaurants when your young offspring has screamed and started a food fight because you refuse to let him or her play with a steak knife. Many, many times I have wondered: Why can’t these people just control their kids? The public meltdowns, the tantrums, the ridiculous concessions made for the sake of not making a scene (or keeping your child alive) — I have generally always assumed was a result of poor parenting. Children who behave like rabid monkeys surely only did so because they had no boundaries or consequences or respect for their parents. I thought all of this until last week, when I went on a Caribbean vacation with my 2 1/2-year-old niece. For the record, I adore my niece, Addison. I spoil her unapologetically. I allow her to do things her mother won’t. I buy her things my sister says she can’t have. Until last week, I had only told her “no” once, and that was when I took her to the zoo and she asked to swim with the polar bears. Between my parents and my sister, Addison is fretted over constantly. So I have committed to being the fun, “let’s take a few risks and skin a few knees” adult in her life. And for that reason, because I do let her push the limits and explore and fall and fail, and give her cookies for dinner, she loves to be with me. Which, until now, I assumed meant she would listen to me and behave and do as I say without question. Boy, was I wrong. Much like my parents, my sister is always irrationally worried. So when Michele started to voice her concerns about the pool at our vacation home, I told her to relax. I would simply tell Addison she had to wear her lifejacket when outside. Which worked for about the first seven seconds. When I tried to put it on her, it was like my niece turned into an MMA cage fighter. She screamed, she cried, she Netflix and chill morphed into turning on the Disney Channel so I could use the bathroom.” kicked, and she refused to wear that thing. I told her she would sink. I explained she couldn’t touch the bottom in parts of the pool. I showed her how the lifejacket would help her float. And that’s when I learned you can’t reason with a toddler. Another day she had her crayons out and made a move to color the couch. “No, Addison, only on the paper,” I told her. She looked right at me and I swear she mouthed the words “I own you,” right before making a green squiggle mark on the sofa. A few days later I awoke to what I assumed was a goat being skinned alive during an exorcism. The sounds I heard were not of this world. I ran outside to stop the torture, only to learn it was my niece, upset my sister would not let her put scissors in the electrical outlet. “Why doesn’t she listen? Why does she look right at me and do the exact opposite of what I tell her? Why does she scream when you prevent her electrocution?” I asked exasperated. “Because she’s 2. That’s what toddlers do,” everyone in the house answered back. Throughout the week, my niece woke me up at 4 a.m. to tell me her sock came off. Netflix and chill morphed into turning on the Disney Channel so I could use the bathroom. And I learned that hell hath no fury like a toddler who wanted the green sippy cup, not the orange one. I only had seven days of it. I have no idea how parents manage this day in and day out. I would be the 2007 version of Britney Spears daily. So from now on, I will only offer my sympathy to parents whose little person is in the midst of a big tantrum. Parents of toddlers are essentially hostage negotiating with a bipolar chimpanzee who is allergic to sleep. They deserve respect, not judgment. Amy Roberts is a freelance writer, longtime Park City resident, and the proud owner of two rescued Dalmatians, Stanley and Willis. The opinions expressed in this column are solely those of the writer. Follow her on Twitter @amycroberts. |