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Show A-20 The Park Record Meetings and agendas Sat/Sun/Mon/Tues, June 16-19, 2018 More dogs on Main By Tom Clyde TO PUBLISH YOUR PUBLIC NOTICES AND AGENDAS, PLEASE EMAIL CLASSIFIEDS@PARKRECORD.COM The expanding (Vail) universe ADMINISTRATIVE CONTROL BOARD MEETING NOTICE Public notice is hereby given that the Administrative Control Board of the Snyderville Basin Special Recreation District will hold its regularly scheduled meeting on Monday, June 18, 2018, at the time and location specified below. All times listed are general in nature and are subject to change by the Board Chair. AGENDA DATE: 3. Request to approve recommendation to Summit County Council for proposed 2018 property tax rates for Operations & Maintenance and Debt Service 4. Request to approve purchase of mini-excavator for the Trails department Monday, June 18, 2018 LOCATION: Trailside Park, 5715 Trailside Drive, Park City, UT 84098 6:00 PM Closed session: Personnel; Property Acquisition 7:10 PM Questions on department updates 6:20 PM Call to order and public input 7:25 PM Updates from District committees 6:30 PM Discussion and possible approval of allocation of budgeted bond funds towards the off- grade trail connection on Kilby Road 7:40 PM Director comments 7:55 PM Board member comments and review of action items 8:10 PM Adjourn 6:45 PM 7:05 PM Discussion with Park City Ice Arena Manager on possible changes to the Interlocal Ice Agreement with Park City Municipal Consent Agenda 1. Request to approve minutes 5/17/18 and 5/29/18 2. Request to approve the prior month’s expenditures One or more members of the Board may attend by electronic means. Such members may fully participate in the proceedings as if physically present. The anchor location for purposes of the electronic meeting is the Snyderville Basin Special Recreation District Administrative Offices, 5715 Trailside Drive, Park City, Utah. SNYDERVILLE BASIN WATER RECLAMATION DISTRICT BOARD OF TRUSTEES MEETING AGENDA June 18, 2018 ** District Office** 5:00 p.m. I. CALL TO ORDER II. CONSENT AGENDA A. Approval of Board Meeting Minutes for May 21, 2018 III. PUBLIC INPUT IV. APPROVAL OF EXPENDITURES – Bills in the Amount of $1,776,667.71 Including SCWRF Project Pay Request #26 for $1,319,388.43 V. VI. SUBDIVISION PROJECTS A. The Ridge @ Canyon Village - 63.36 REs B. Lower Silver Creek Road Sewer Extension 15.5 REs Estimated LEA REs Year to Date: Above Split ter 0; ECWRF 251.66; SCWRF 285.17; Total 536.83 Proposed this Meeting: Above Splitter 0; ECWRF 0; SCWRF 0; Total 78.86 B. Action Items 1. Financial Statement 2. Impact Fee Report VII. FUTURE AGENDA ITEMS A. Projects B. Operations C. Finance D. Governmental Matters VIII. 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. BRADY MCCOMBS Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY — Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch called for unwavering love and support for LGBT youth who experience high suicide rates as victims of bullying, discrimination and family estrangement in a somewhat surprising Senate speech this week from the retiring Republican who has long been an opponent of same-sex marriage. Hatch said Wednesday that the suicide epidemic is especially acute among LGBT teens as he spoke in favor of a proposal that would create a national suicide prevention hotline. “No one should ever feel less because of their gender identity or sexual orientation,” said Hatch, according to a recording of the speech. “LGBT youth deserve our unwavering love and support. They deserve our validation and the assurance that not only is there a place for them in this society, but that it is far better off because of them.” a new report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that suicide rates inched up in nearly every U.S. state from 1999 through 2016. In Utah, the number of yearly suicides for youth ages 10 to 17 has spiked to alarming levels in the last five years — more than double the average from the previous decade. Troy Williams, executive director of the LGBT support group Equality Utah, said it was heartening to hear a senior GOP leader speaking out in support of inclusion for gay, lesbian and transgender youth. He said Hatch has been fair-minded on LGBT issues for some time, but said the speech was unlike anything the senator had previously said. “It’s a tremendous evolution,” Williams said. “I believe his heart has been moved.” Hatch said people should not just “tolerate, but love,” no matter if a person is a religious conservative or secular liberal. LGBT youth deserve acceptance for who they are, which he said wasn’t a choice but how they were born. “If there were ever a time to show our LGBT friends just how much we love them, it is now in a world where millions suffer in silence,” Hatch said. “We owe it to each other to love loudly.” Source of bombs unknown Associated Press CLINTON – Authorities in northern Utah say children discovered two explosive tennis balls in a home’s front yard. The Standard-Examiner reports one of the balls exploded when it rolled off the porch of the children’s home but no one was injured. The Clinton Fire Department said the tennis balls had been filled with hundreds of match heads and a striking device and turned into essentially homemade bombs. The balls had been wrapped in electrical tape. Fire officials said the explosion was small but loud Financially, it is more important to clear a path to the $6 coffee than to get the avalanche control work done in Jupiter Bowl.” aged for the people who are spending that extra $66 on the side stuff. That isn’t us. Financially, it is more important to clear a path to the $6 coffee than to get the avalanche control work done in Jupiter Bowl. The Jupiter skiers tend to be the people who use their Epic Pass so often that their day rate is down in the $10 range, and they aren’t buying $30 cheeseburgers. If the plan is to shake that extra $66 out of each customer, you need to steer them into the lodges. So the outhouse at King Con goes away. If you use the bathroom at Miners Camp, there might be a coffee break involved. It’s not a bad experience, it’s just a different experience, designed around a different customer. A customer who spends a lot more than I do. Business is up. People skiing on the Epic Pass tend to think of the skiing as free, so they spend more on other things off the resort, too. Restaurants and retailers in town are happy. The slack periods in the winter are shorter and general occupancy is up all season. The other side of that prosperity is traffic on the streets, traffic on the mountain, longer lift lines, and fewer long-term rental units available for workers. The business deal on the PCMR and Canyons combination would have only worked if skier numbers increased dramatically. And they have. A snowless winter like last year used to be catastrophic for local businesses. This time around, it seemed pretty painless. The Vail marketing machinery certainly had a lot to do with filling beds in a bad year. Vail has been a very generous corporate member of the community. The key word there is “corporate,” and anyone who has dealt with them knows that things are more bureaucratic than they used to be. But Vail has given a lot to the community as a company, and CEO Rob Katz and his wife, as individuals, have been extremely generous. The PC Tots program is quite literally their baby. So what should our friends in Crested Butte expect? Mostly the very mixed blessing of a level of prosperity that they never quite imagined and may not like. The mountain experience will be designed around the vacationing skier who will drop $66 a day in the lodge. That’s who’s paying the bills. On balance, I liked things they way they were before. But if the industry only works if skiers spend $66 a day on stuff other than lift tickets, it’s clear that they can’t manage the place around me. 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 Suffer little children Hatch calls for acceptance Hatch last week applauded the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in favor of a Colorado baker who refused to make a wedding cake for a same-sex couple. In 1988, he called the Democratic Party the “party of homosexuals” in a derisive comment he later said he regretted. In recent years, however, he’s begun to carve out a more sympathetic position toward gays, lesbians and transgender people that’s similar to the tone now taken by leaders of his religion, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The Utah-based religion of 16 million worldwide members has held firm to its opposition of gay marriage and homosexual activity while trying to foster an empathetic stance toward LGBTQ people. Last year, Hatch defended transgender people after President Donald Trump Tweeted that he would not “accept or allow” transgender people to serve in the U.S. military. “These young people need us — and we desperately need them,” Hatch said Wednesday. “We need their light to illuminate the richness and diversity of God’s creations. We need the grace, beauty and brilliance they bring to the world.” His remarks come a week after or 100 days a year on a cheap Epic pass, there are also a lot of people who only use it once or twice. Ten days would get to about that $67 average, company wide. The other 49 percent of income is from ski school, food and beverage, and ski rentals. If somebody spends $67 for the lift ticket, the expectation (and according to their auditors, the reality) is that they spend another $66 per day on that other stuff. The end result is pretty clear. The resorts are man- By Teri Orr DISTRICT MANAGER A. Discussion Items – Audit Services Lawmaker gives speech on LGBTQ youth suicides The news last week was that Vail Resorts had gobbled up four more ski areas. They bought Crested Butte in Colorado, Stevens Pass in Washington, Okemo in Vermont and Sunapee in New Hampshire. An industry that was once dominated by family-owned resorts has gone completely corporate. Thirty years ago, a slow, fixed grip double chair was the industry standard. Upgrading to a triple was huge, and then detachables. All that big hardware takes big money, and it just became necessary to operate on a bigger scale. Skier numbers have been stubbornly flat. It’s not a growth industry. While skier days may not be increasing much, skier spending is. Sit down in any of the lodges around here and it’s not unusual to see a family of six with two private instructors hired for the week. You don’t see much duct tape patching leaking down jackets these days. Given Crested Butte’s proximity to Vail’s mothership, they should know what to expect. But it is a different place now that its part of the Vail universe. It’s been 4 years since the implosion at Park City Mountain Resort opened the door to Vail. I got thinking about what’s happened here, and what Crested Butte can expect to see. Vail is a different business model. They are ostensibly in the business of providing uphill transportation for skiers, and offering some ancillary services around that. But it’s almost the reverse of that. If I remember their annual report right, lift ticket revenue of all kinds — season passes and people walking up to the window — was only about 51 percent or so of total income. When the average ticket price was about $67 per person, company wide. So while there a whole lot of locals who are skiing 75 and could have been deadly if it had gone off in someone’s hand. A bomb squad was sent to investigate the scene and safely removed the tennis balls. No other similar devices were found in the area. It’s unclear who made the devices and why they were left in a front yard. It feels almost all the time now we are at the intersection of despair and darkness when we want to be at the corner of wonder and appreciation. Never in the history of history has so much information been accessible to us to decipher and dissect. There is so much noise passing for news it makes perfect sense not to want to engage in any of it anymore. And that is what the noisemakers count on. But in the past weeks, what has been leaking out about shelters along the southern borders of this country is what one pundit called “A modern day Trail of Tears.” We, our country, so yes we, are tearing children away from their parents, forcibly putting them in detention centers. That has been confirmed and witnessed and reported upon by credible news sources for a few weeks. We, our country, are doing this in an attempt to stop people, many many many, who are trying to escape some form of persecution in another country, to find safety in ours. They thought coming here would be safe. Because that is what/ who America has always been. We make room for the tired, huddled masses and give them refuge and in turn, they give us their commitment to help create a remarkable country. We are filled with folks who journeyed here from all over the world who came to raise their families and contribute to their individual communities. It was my grandparent’s parent’s story and most likely yours. After World War II and all the atrocities the world learned about — mostly after the war (media coverage was so limited then, as was the ability to quickly share and verify stories) the words “Never Again” became a mantra. I wasn’t part of that — of those generations. My entry came when the men came home from the war and created families in a time of such abundance, in a time of great peace and a certain numbing by a country that was booming. We Baby Boomers appeared. Our war was Vietnam and it was televised. That coverage was part of what ended the war. Because for the first time in history we were seeing the horrors (admittedly through a filtered lens) in our own living rooms every night. And seeing those men — mostly men — on the news dying rallied us to protest in a way not seen since the tea went over the side of the ships in Boston. Young men were dying for a war old men were manipulating. It took more than one president to wrestle a messy conclusion and end the war in a technicolor, helicopters-escaping moment, made for television. After that, wars were fought in skirmishes around the world — the Gulf War and for decades our confusing presence in Afghanistan. And in the inner cities of this country. There were issues of drugs and unbalanced punishments for dealing them or even carrying them that led to our jails and prisons being overburdened and created a private industry boom in the creation of more prisons to house low-level offenders. The War moved inside our borders for years, and has stretched on now for decades. I don’t know exactly when the Information Age started but it certainly blew up around 2000 when the internet became accessible to millions of people and the news became not just nightly or morning, noon and night — but nonstop. And our ability to stay informed in a thoughtful reasoned way became either a full-time job or impossible. Soon after — just a few years ago — Americans of all ages and varied socioeconomic means had the power of former supercomputers in their hands. And we became obsessed by, and slaves to, technology. So now the chatter never ends and news cycles last 24 hours. And the ability to focus and filter news is generally agreed to be — impossible. Which brings me to the images and the issues at hand. The stuff so outrageous we should be moved to outrage certainly — but also to action. Decades ago there was a movie starring Meryl Streep called “Sophie’s Choice.” It had many stories entwined. But the title came from the decision Streep’s character, a young woman entering Auschwitz in Nazi-occupied Poland was forced to make. She had two children and she was forced to give one up — if she wanted to keep one with her. She chose her daughter to be sent to a gas chamber and kept her son. I was a young mother when the film came out with a son and daughter of my own. That impossible choice haunted me long after the film won Streep an Academy Award. It haunts me still. Right now at the border of this country, every day children are being ripped away from their parents and forced to live in camps without them. Traumatized with lifetime scars now and confusion about a country that was supposed to be a refuge. We have to be better than this. There is no other time to stand up if we cannot stand up for the children. This shouldn’t be a party issue or religious issue except in the way all the major religions hold sacred a version of the Golden Rule. Religious leaders, in fact, are crossing differences and uniting in calling upon political leaders to stop the separation and reunite families. This is about human decency and it is about a crossroad of who we are and what we hold sacred. We can either protest and write and call and be mad as hell or we can be numbed by the constant noise of the news and turn away. I don’t know when I felt such clarity that this is the crossroad — the intersection — of human decency and despot. To ignore the cries of the children is simply to lose our souls. The plight of those little children is all I can think about this 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. |