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Show The Park Record A-20 Meetings and agendas Sat/Sun/Mon/Tues, October 14-17, 2017 More Dogs on Main By Tom Clyde to publish your public notices and agendas, please email classifieds@parkrecord.com It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas SNYDERVILLE BASIN WATER RECLAMATION DISTRICT SNYDERVILLE BASIN WATER RECLAMATION DISTRICT Including SCWRF Project Pay Request #18 for $1,642,221.50 BOARD OF TRUSTEES MEETING VI. SUBDIVISION PROJECTS Estimated LEA REs Year to Date: # Above Splitter 75; # ECWRF 137.33; # SCWRF 227; Total 439.33 Proposed this Meeting: # Above Splitter 0; # ECWRF 0; # SCWRF 0; Total 0 AGENDA October 16, 2017 ** District Office** 5:00 p.m. I. CALL TO ORDER II. CONSENT AGENDA Approval of Board Meeting Minutes for September 18, 2017 Final Project Approval Park City Cloud Dine Sewer Mainline Extension Escrow Fund Reduction Approval Park City Cloud Dine Sewer Mainline Extension – Retain 8 percent Silver Creek Village Phase 1 – Spine Road – Retain 40 percent Silver Creek Village Phase 1A – Retain 56 percent III. PUBLIC INPUT IV. SERVICE AWARD – Lisa Sessions 5 years V. APPROVAL OF EXPENDITURES – Bills in the Amount of $2,562,410.29 VII. DISTRICT MANAGER Discussion Items – 2018 Tentative Budget Information Item 2016 CAFR Award Financial Statement Impact Fee Report VIII. FUTURE AGENDA ITEMS Projects Operations Finance Governmental Matters IV. ADJOURN 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. Board members may appear telephonically. Summit County Board of Health AGENDA Mental Health Update (Aaron, 4:00 – 4:15) Summit County Board of Health Meeting October 16, 2017 4:00 – 5:30 PM Summit County Health Department 650 Round Valley Drive Park City, Utah 84060 Communities That Care Update (Mary Christa, 4:15 – 4:25) Mental Health Strategic Plan Work Session (Aaron, 4:25 – 5:30) Adjourn letters to the editor Thanks to the Park City community Editor: My wife Wendy, dog Scout and I want to write the residents of Park City and surrounding environs, to say thank you. We recently moved back to San Diego after our third consecutive summer living in old town. Well, summer for us is actually June 1 through Sept. 30th. Each year, we fall more in love with Park City and the community. We appreciate the kindness of the people we meet at Library Field where Scout loves to romp a couple times a day. We VERY much appreciate its leash free status and everyone who supported that positive change a couple years ago. We like that PC city streets are well maintained and host a growing population of bike racks, benches, public art, and colorful flower pots. The town is blessed with an excellent recreation center and library, and we frequent both. We enjoy the free concerts in all the venues, including Kamas, Midway, and Heber. Add in the beauty of the mountains, the clean air, great weather, and the collective happiness of the locals and you have what may be the best place to live in the U.S. Thank you all for allowing us become residents for 1/3 of the year. Park City is truly life elevated. Paul and Wendy Rosengard San Diego Joyce will question the status quo Editor: Steve Joyce is a critical thinker and won’t be afraid to question the status quo. He will be strong in the areas of budgetary spending and open space preservation. Steve has worked hard as a Planning Commissioner and will do the same as a Council member. Please join me in casting your vote for Steve Joyce on Election Day. Mary Wintzer Old Town Former Bahnhof owners thankful for Park City support Editor: The Bahnhof at 693 Main St. has been owned and operated by the Smith family since 1984. We would like to thank the local community for the past 33 years of support, without it we would not have been success- ful. Recently, we (the Smith family) sold our Park City location to R&R Sports which owns and operates eight Aloha Ski and Snowboard Rentals locations throughout Park City. We are excited to now be a part of the Aloha family and we look forward to what the future holds. We want the community to know that we will still be working in the Bahnhof like we have since 1984. You can expect the same high level of service and specialty items that have been our trademark since we first opened our doors. Lindy and Ryan Smith Francis Dana Williams believes in civil discourse Editor: If you have ever stood at the podium at Park City Council and had to sign your name legibly, you know the anxiety of speaking in public, especially if you are in opposition to the prevailing opinions in the room. Dana Williams, who was mayor when I served on council, always went to great effort to make the speaker and the audience comfortable—sometimes using humor, but never sarcasm or rudeness. Respect for everyone is one of Dana’s greatest strengths. Let’s get back to a relaxed atmosphere at these meetings where citizens are heard and where there is civil discourse. Marianne Cone Chaplin Park City Why I stand with Dana Williams Editor: My experience of Park City is unique. I grew up here, I moved away for college, and quickly returned in hopes of reestablishing roots in this community. However upon my return, the threat of growth and consumption of the Park City community became chillingly clear. Instead of resigning myself to the inevitable future, another ski town coopted by corporate interests devoid of any genuine community, I decided to face the threat head-on and become more entrenched in this community than I ever imagined. Through this new chapter I found incredible insight and inspiration from our past mayor, Dana Williams. Not only was he deeply involved in the community, but he put himself on the frontlines to speak for those too timid to speak for themselves, to truly digest the pulse of the town, and to do everything in his power to stand for this town and the people who live here. I know for many it’s difficult to understand Dana’s unwavering love for Park City, but for me, it’s simple: Dana knows the glowing warmth of our community, Dana knows our potential together. Dana understands how to work with people from diverse backgrounds, to collaborate together in a solution oriented way. The obstacles before us today are deeply nuanced, they will require problem solving from every aspect of our society, and Dana is the mayor who can bring this town together. He doesn’t strive for a frictionless local government, but he welcomes challenges and looks for the hard truth, no matter how inconvenient it might be. With so many new programs and spending coming out of City Hall, Dana’s call for a community visioning will be critical in ensuring we are moving in a direction we can all feel good about. He has always, and will always put Park City first. And that’s a leader I can stand with. Heleena Sideris Park City Williams is a true leader Editor: I first met Dana Williams when he was a second term Park City Mayor and I was the brand-new Summit County Manager. Dana went out of his way to work with me and to help me understand Park City and Summit County issues. He was and is balanced in his approach and understanding of regional dynamics. Dana clearly saw the need for close City/ County cooperation and partnership. He worked well with other Mayors and provided respectful leadership for municipal issues. I am particularly impressed with Dana’s ability to work with staff. He understands the difference between policy and implementation. He is clear in his vision, promotes clear lines of communication and does not micromanage. He understands the need for staff to understand the goals but lets them develop possible action steps to get the job done. I proudly endorse Dana Williams for Park City Mayor. Bob Jasper Park City Please see Letters, A-21 I made my weekly Home Depot run the other day. The lawn mowers and barbecues are out front, marked down for quick sale. It’s that time of year. I didn’t see any snow blowers, though we are into that time of year when you can reasonably expect to blow the snow off the driveway and mow the lawn in the same week. Inside, aisles were stacked with shipping cartons with a major restocking underway. I didn’t pay a lot of attention at first. I needed to get my stuff and move on. But as I made my way up to the registers, it hit me. The Christmas decorations are on the shelf at Home Depot already. This was on the 10th of October, technically not even the real Columbus Day, let alone Halloween. The Ace hardware store in Kamas is packed with plastic horse skeletons and other cool Halloween stuff. Because it’s October. But I guess if you wanted to buy something spooky to put on the porch from Home Depot, you needed to act before Labor Day. Anybody who is already setting up a new plastic Christmas tree, or splattering tinsel and inflatable Santas in the yard, needs to get a grip. The internally illuminated holy family, executed in a durable polyethylene, probably don’t need to be plugged in for a couple of months yet. I don’t think there is any real risk that they will be sold out. I’ve got nothing against Christmas. It’s probably my favorite mash-up of pagan, Druid and Christian holidays. I’m not above buying things in July that would be a perfect Christmas gift, and stashing them in the basement for a few months. It’s not like Christmas comes as a surprise—it was right there on the calendar and it happens every year. But apparently now, it is the entire fourth quarter. Anyway, I bought my list of miscellaneous stuff for about a dozen different things, gave it all a heartfelt “Bah! Humbug!” and went home to my project. Plumbing repairs are never fun. Even if you are dealing with something as small as the tubing to the icemaker, plumbing has a way of spiraling out of control. Through the years, I’ve learned that the unpleasantness of plumbing increases exponentially with the diameter of the pipe involved. I think it has something to do with pi. I’ve got nothing against Christmas. It’s probably my favorite mash-up of pagan, Druid and Christian holidays.” I don’t mind the occasional repair in the house. As the operator of the neighborhood water system, I’ve spent a lot of time making repairs on pipes 2 and 3 inches diameter. I made the wise decision years ago to never buy any tools that would be useful for repairing anything bigger than that. A simultaneous and genius decision was that the water system would only replace the 80-year old pipes with new pipe that was at least 4 inches. So my plumbing tools now consist mostly of a list of phone numbers for guys with backhoes. But sometimes you can’t avoid it. I’ve got to replace an irrigation headgate that was smashed by a couple of tree trunks when the river was at flood stage this spring. It’s 2 feet in diameter. Cast iron. When the pieces are so heavy you need a front-end load- er to lift them, you know you’re in for a good time. I got things pre-assembled in the barnyard, and am now waiting for the track hoe to show up to do the actual installation. The assembly went surprisingly smoothly, and as it became clear that it was going to work, I found myself humming a little song: “Rudolph the RedNosed Reindeer.” There’s a time and place for everything, and Christmas’s time and place ought to be confined to December. When I plugged my credit card into the machine at Home Depot, I wondered how much of my life has been compromised by the Equifax data breach. Basically everybody’s credit identity has been made public. I think what it means is that lenders should no longer believe anything they see from a credit bureau. I don’t know how we prove we are who we are anymore. Richard Smith, the weasel who “retired” as CEO of Equifax with something like $90 million in stock options, testified before Congress last week. His explanation of this destructive data breach was, “stuff happens.” That hardly seems adequate, and Congress has no idea how to restore credibility to the credit markets. It’s annoying to have to spend $30 to put a credit freeze in place, and that much again if I need to take it off (like I’ll remember those passwords). There ought to be a more appropriate justice than forcing Smith to retire a wealthy man. I’d feel better if somebody posted his social security number, date of birth, address, and mother’s maiden name somewhere very public. 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. Sunday in the Park By Teri Orr With a measure of … We were in the middle of the southern hemisphere eating outdoors as the sun was setting and something very ordinary happened at the other the end of the table. It was a long table of Americans and Europeans at this point. As the dinner plates were set down, the Americans picked up their forks and immediately started eating. My new German friend, Lynn, looked at me and said: “Why do Americans always do that?” And I asked: “What? Do what?” “Dive directly into their food without giving appreciation for the meal and each other?” I had an instant out-of-body moment where I remembered dinners from long ago when the appreciations around my table lasted so long the food got cold. Sometimes it was a too-long grace. Sometimes it was everyone saying what they were thankful for, or just one word to add on to the sentence that had started with a toast. Every single dinner party I had in my 20’s and 30’s and 40’s had shared gratitude before we ate. It was something I had never grown up with, so I created the family I wanted for my children and myself. I looked back at the long table outdoors in the fading light, and at the other end, they were all eating. When the plates were set down on our end of the table, I watched as Lynn toasted us all in a few words but with great pleasure. I mean, the guy is German – he knows how to be efficient, even with a toast. So for the rest of that trip (we split ways for the next six days and Lynn was no longer in our group) I asked everyone to express an appreciation before we ate dinner. We were mostly Americans with lapsed manners so it didn’t take long for us to get the muscles back. By the end of six days, folks were waiting when the groaning platters arrived for someone to start the toast/appreciation or, dare I say, grace. I started the first night. But by the end, everyone was eager to take a turn. And at the end of two weeks – being so very far away from home – we had created a kind of family by some simple but consistent words of appreciation. Once back to my actual home to my crazy, scattered, never-apredictable-dinner life, I found I missed the moments. My “to-go” orders had no little notes attached to remind me to pause and appreciate the day. We had a staff retreat dinner last week and – you guessed it – rather than saying grace (that might have seemed weird and probably violated some employment laws), I asked everyone to share a moment of appreciation. And you know, everyone, spouses included, did just that. It served to more than break the ice. It allowed little windows into our co-workers and their significant others. No one was at a loss to share some joy. So I have been thinking this week about all kinds of grace. That magical gift from the universe you cannot buy or manufacture or hijack with clever code on the Internet.” Because the daily/hourly/minute-by-minute news has been so filled with sadness and disgust and some new low level of meanness and lack of grace, it is difficult to understand how it ever gets better. Will there be a week again in my lifetime where nothing really happens? No “once in a lifetime” storms or earthquakes or fires? No riots or men with guns? The sad, lonely and always angry men with arsenals of weapons to protect them from what, exactly? Free speech, free love, freedom of expression, freedom? And the Horrible Dinosaur Men (yes, they all appear to be men) behaving like primates from the White House to the Bright House. What we are looking for – what we need – is a lighthouse. Yes, so many outdated social mores need to be leveled but in the process we have lost civility; all the Golden Rule stuff that is the touchstone each of the major religions have at their core, do unto others – not what was done to you – but what you wish could be done for you. Share the very best you have over and over again. Do not say something is “good enough” when you know better. When you can do better, be better. Trying to find common ground should be something to elevate us not, debase us. So I have been thinking this week about all kinds of grace. That magical gift from the universe you cannot buy or manufacture or hijack with clever code on the Internet. That piece of wonder which comes unbidden, unexpected yet always timely. That priceless gift, that costs you nothing, you can give to stranger and beloved equally. Giving grace and saying grace and finding grace allows us to make the tiniest bit of sense in a world filled with graceless acts and people. This week I’m gonna find all the beauty I can. I will start by trying very hard to avoid multiple news cycles. I will look to the fall colors and put the vibrancy of all those leaves somewhere in a mental video file to be replayed when those same trees are leafless and white. I will remember there are decent men who respect women and want to be equals in life. And when I am at any table, one filled with laughing groups of people, or one with environmentally ecothoughtful disposable containers, and maybe where I am only one dining, I will say grace. There are some pieces of the world I have no control over, so many wild factors assaulting us all day after day after day. To have any grace I must offer my own. Any day, any place will do, like this very Sunday 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. |