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Show C-1 B-1 LEARN ABCS OF ARTS, BEAUTY AND CULTURE COLUMNS, A-12 AMY ROBERTS SAYS PARK CITY TEACHERS EARNED RAISES Park Record. PARK CITY , UTAH | WWW.PARKRECORD.COM Wed/Thurs/Fri, June 7-9, 2017 Serving Summit County since 1880 Fieldhouse expansion celebrated To add an event to our calendar, visit www.parkrecord.com/eventsubmissionform YOUTH PROGRAMS UNITE ON SLOPES EDUCATION, A-7 EDUCATION ASSOCIATION WILL WELCOME NEW LEADERSHIP The Share your event! Vol. 137 | No. 35 Combat carbon 50¢ Three seek the mayor’s office COURTESY OF SAM SCHWOEBEL/BASIN RECREATION A four-lane lap pool was built at the Basin Recreation Fieldhouse during a final phase of construction. Basin Recreation will be hosting a Fieldhouse Expansion Celebration on Saturday morning to highlight new amenities. COURTESY OF ANDY BEERMAN Park City Councilman Andy Beerman formalized his mayoral campaign on Tuesday. It is his second bid for the mayor’s office. Andy Beerman formalizes run, forcing a primary contest Final phase includes pool, courts and more fitness areas By JAY HAMBURGER The Park Record TANZI PROPST/PARK RECORD By GRIFFIN ADAMS The Park Record The Basin Recreation Fieldhouse Expansion plan, which has been in its third phase of construction since June 26 of last year, was completed just in time for summer. There will be an expansion celebration on Saturday morning to celebrate the finalization of the long process and the Fieldhouse’s new amenities. “It feels great to be finished,” said Matt Strader, Basin Recreation’s fieldhouse and facilities manager. “The timing couldn’t have worked out any better. The community is already using the facility and enjoying it, and kids are coming after school and playing in the gym. It’s really exciting.” The new amenities include three volleyball courts, two basketball courts, two soccer/lacrosse courts, six pickleball courts and an outdoor four-lane lap swim pool and warming/hot tub. The Fieldhouse also expanded its upstairs fitness area that now has a stretching/ core and cardio area, a party/meeting room and additional support spaces. The most exciting thing about all of this, Strader said, is The Fieldhouse is now a complete facility. “Now we have pretty much everything that you could want to offer somebody over here at the Fieldhouse,” Strader said. “You can swim laps. You can play basketball. There’s volleyball, indoor pickleball, a variety of fitness classes, an indoor turf field, the batting cages. The list goes on and on and on.” In turn, Strader believes that the new facilities will aid in Basin Recreation’s effort to grow its youth programs, as well as build up adult recreational leagues. “We’ve been using other people’s facilities, such as the school district gyms,” Strader said. “It’s been a great agreement and we still will use some of the school district’s facilities, but now having our own facility to run our own youth programs — basketball, volleyball and adult programs, which we never really done. It’ll really help in that way.” A free ride seen as possible Park City readies to hire an app-based car service By JAY HAMBURGER The Park Record Park City officials early in the week recommended the hiring of a firm that offers free rides covering short distances, a service that has drawn competitive concerns from taxi and shuttle companies. City Hall staffers want the Park City Council to approve a contract with a company called Downtowner App, Inc. The contract is pegged at up to $358,727 and would cover six months ending in mid-January. The service would launch July 10, according to a City Hall report submitted to Mayor Jack Thomas and the City Council in anticipation of a meeting on Thursday. The City Council could vote on the contract at the meeting. Downtowner App, Inc. is one of four firms that submitted proposals. A selection committee consisting of three City Hall staffers and one Summit County representative unanimously supported Downtowner App, Inc. City Hall sees a service like the one offered by Downtowner App, Inc. as complementing the free bus system. The Downtowner App Inc. service would reach deeper into neighborhoods than the bus system, as an example. Someone would use an app to order a vehicle under the service. The vehicles would run on electricity, something that officials see as advancing City Hall’s environmental goals. The report to the elected officials indicates the six- Classifieds ........................... C-8 Columns .............................. A-12 Crossword ........................... C-4 Editorial............................... A-13 Education ............................ A-7 Events Calendar .................. C-6 Legals .................................. C-11 Letters to the Editor ............ A-13 Movies................................. C-4 Restaurant Guide................. B-6 Scene .................................. C-1 Scoreboard ......................... B-5 Sports .................................. B-1 Weather ............................... B-2 month term is seen as a pilot program. The service would be limited to several Park City neighborhoods stretching out from Old Town. The initial neighborhoods are proposed as Prospector, Thaynes Canyon, the Aerie and Bonanza Park. The range does not include the heavily populated Park Meadows nor anywhere outside the Park City limits. Staffers would return to the City Council in October to assess the program and consider an expansion into places like Park Meadows and other neighborhoods, perhaps including Aspen Springs. Downtowner App, Inc. operates in communities in Florida and California as well as the mountain resort of Aspen, Colorado. The experience in Aspen is especially notable since mountain resorts like Aspen and Park City face similar challenges in traffic and transportation in addition to climate. Some in the taxi and shuttle industry expressed early concern about the prospects of City Hall hiring a firm like Downtowner App, Inc. There is concern that a free transportation service will hurt the business of the taxis and shuttles. The City Hall report notes there was similar concern from taxis in Aspen when Downtowner App, Inc. arrived. Park City staffers spoke to their counterparts in Aspen. The report acknowledges Park City plans ongoing discussions with taxis and shuttles. A Downtowner App, Inc. executive declined to comment on Tuesday, indicating the company would withhold public statements until after the City Council meeting on Thursday. The meeting is scheduled to start at 6 p.m. at the Marsac Building. A hearing and vote are scheduled. Please see Primary, A-2 Planned Parenthood Scale a Silly wall closes in Heber City Organization cites the political climate and rising lease rates Please see Expansion, A-2 3 sections • 34 pages Park City Councilor Andy Beerman on Tuesday filed campaign paperwork at City Hall formalizing his second mayoral bid, forcing a primary election involving three top-tier politicians who want to hold the city’s highest office. Beerman had previously publicized his plans to campaign for mayor and waited until the final days of the filing window to make his run official. Beerman is in his second term as a member of the City Council. He unsuccessfully campaigned for the mayor’s office in 2013, losing the contest to current Mayor Jack Thomas. The incumbent Thomas is not seeking re-election. Beerman’s filing makes a primary election necessary in the mayoral contest. Park City voters will reduce the field to two during the Aug. 15 primary. The other two candidates are Dana Williams, who served three terms as the mayor ending in early 2014, and Summit County Councilor Roger Armstrong. Beerman brings credentials in business, government and environmental activism to the campaign. He has said his platform will stress housing, transportation and energy, largely mirroring the priorities of City Hall. He has said Park City has become out of balance in the hot, post-recession economy and the campaign will operate under the theme of “Our Town.” Beerman has said he wants to tout the importance of continuity within the municipal government’s ranks and what he sees as his leadership role on the City Council. Other issues he plans to address in the campaign include continuing City Hall’s open space program and traffic-fighting measures. Beerman, 47, lives in Old Town and has lived in Park City since 1995. He and his wife have significant residential and commercial holdings at the Treasure Mountain Inn on Main Street but have sold the company that managed the rentals at the lodging property. He once was the leader of a group that represents the interests of businesses on or close to Main Street. The three mayoral candidates will need to highlight themselves in unique ways to voters. Beerman will need to show he can continue City Hall successes, Wil- Samantha Martinez lowers a Siouxland poplar during a tree-planting event in Round Valley on Sunday morning organized by City Hall and the Summit Land Conservancy. Park City leaders see the trees planted on Sunday as sponges that will soak up carbon emissions. The event was part of a City Hall initiative to plant up to 500 trees across the municipal government’s lands in 2017. By ANGELIQUE MCNAUGHTON The Park Record After nearly 30 years of serving Summit and Wasatch County residents, Planned Parenthood’s Heber clinic permanently closed its doors last week, citing the rising costs of real estate and the current political climate as reasons behind the decision. For more than a year, the Planned Parenthood of Heber has struggled with rent, changes in healthcare and the overlay of politics, according to Planned Parenthood Association of Utah (PPAU) CEO Karrie Galloway. “We were unwilling to make a quick decision and figured we’d see whether we could sustain real estate, but now we have come up with what, we thought, was the most sound decision for Planned Parenthood, which is to stop providing from brick and mortar,” Galloway said in a phone interview with The Park Record from Washington, D.C. “I can say it is with a heavy heart, but it just came to pass.” The Heber clinic, located at 728 West, 100 South, suite #1, closed its doors on May 31. Two white sheets of paper are currently posted in the winPlease see Heber City, A-2 TANZI PROPST/PARK RECORD Kiera Espaillat, 9, and Zaheer Reid, 11, scale the climbing wall at the first Park Silly Sunday Market of the year Sunday afternoon. The Silly Market offers a variety of goods, food and entertainment. It runs on Main Street through the fall. VISITOR GUIDE Roll over to a preview of Beethoven festival Park City Beethoven Festival will present a pre-festival concert at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, June 9, at Park City Community Church, 4501 N. S.R. 224. Tickets are $20 for general admission and $15 for students and senior citizens. The Beethoven Festival will officially open on July 2. For information, visit www.pcmusicfestival.com. |