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A-10 The Park Record Meetings and agendas Wed/Thurs/Fri, July 25-27, 2018 Core saMples By Jay Meehan TO PUBLISH YOUR PUBLIC NOTICES AND AGENDAS, PLEASE EMAIL [e-mail] Send me a friend AGENDA SUMMIT COUNTY COUNCIL Wednesday, July 25, 2018 NOTICE is hereby given that the Summit County Council will meet in session Wednesday, July 25, 2018, at the Sheldon Richins Building, 1885 West Ute Blvd, Park City, UT 84098 (All times listed are general in nature, and are subject to change by the Council Chair) 12:50 PM Closed Session – Personnel (30 min); Property acquisition (60 min) 2:20 PM Work Session 1) Walk to Transit Center (10 min) 2) 2:30 PM - Council Members to join the Berkshire Hathaway Energy Regulatory and Legislative executives visit to Kimball Junction Transit Center, located at 6490 N. Landmark Drive, Park City, UT (30 min) 3) 3:10 PM – Walk back to Richins Building (10 min) 4) 3:20 PM - Pledge of Allegiance 5) 3:25 PM - Utah Local Government Trust’s Presentation of the “Trust Accountability Program award” to Summit County; Jason Watterson (10 min) 6) 3:35 PM - Discussion regarding Parental Leave Policy; Brian Bellamy (30 min) 7) 4:05 PM - Council Comments (15 min) 8) 4:20 PM - Manager Comments (10 min) 4:30 PM - Convene as the Governing Board of Mountain Regional Water Special Service District 1) Discussion and possible approval of Certification of Liens for the Past due Fees and Charges for 2018 for Mountain Regional Water Special Service District; Marti Gee (10 min) Dismiss as the Governing Board of Mountain Regional Water Special Service District 4:40 PM Consideration of Approval 1) Discussion and possible approval of request to convert evidence property; Misty Wright 2) 4:50 PM - Advice and consent of County Manager’s recommendation to appoint members to the Summit County Public Arts Program and Advisory Board 5:00 PM - Public hearing and possible approval of Ordinance 868-A, an Ordinance Amending the Eastern Summit County Development Code Appendix B Master Plan Development Deed Restricted Open Space Land Calculation; Ray Milliner, County Planner 5:30 PM – Break 6:00 PM Public Input 6:15 PM – Joint meeting with Snyderville Basin Planning Commission regarding Snyderville Basin Development Code; Pat Putt (2 hours) 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 Sheldon Richins Building auditorium, 1885 W. Ute Blvd., Park City, Utah Individuals with questions, comments, or needing special accommodations pursuant to the Americans with Disabilities Act regarding this meeting may contact Annette Singleton at [phone], [phone] or [phone] ext. 3025 Posted: July 20, 2018 Drought forces emergency measures for wild horses Volunteers say efforts can’t go on forever JULIAN HATTEM Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY — Harsh drought conditions in parts of the American West are pushing wild horses to the brink and spurring extreme measures to protect them. For what they say is the first time, volunteer groups in Arizona and Colorado are hauling thousands of gallons of water and truckloads of food to remote grazing grounds where springs have run dry and vegetation has disappeared. Federal land managers also have begun emergency roundups in desert areas of Utah and Nevada. “We’ve never seen it like this,” said Simone Netherlands, president of the Arizona-based Salt River Wild Horse Management Group. In May, dozens of horses were found dead on the edge of a dried-up watering hole in northeastern Arizona. As spring turned to summer, drought conditions turned from bad to worse, Netherlands said. Parts of Utah, Colorado, Arizona and New Mexico are under the most severe category of drought, though extreme conditions are present from California to Missouri, government analysts say. Parts of the region have witnessed some of the driest conditions on record, amid a cycle of high temperatures and low snowmelt that appears to be getting worse, National Weather Service hydrologist Brian McInerney said. The dry conditions have fed wildfires that have destroyed hundreds of buildings across the West. This month, a firefighter was killed battling a blaze near California’s Yosemite National Park. The federal Bureau of Land Management — which oversees vast expanses of public land, mostly in the West — says the problem facing wild horses stems from overpopulation aggravated by severe drought. The region is home to roughly 67,000 wild horses. “You’re always going to have drought issues. That’s a common thing out on the range,” agency spokesman Jason Lutterman said. “What really exacerbates things is when we’re already over population, because then you already have resource issues.” The agency’s emergency roundup in western Utah began a week ago, aiming to remove roughly 250 wild horses from a population of approximately 670. The operation is expected to take several weeks. Once the horses are rounded up, the government gives them veterinary treatment and offers them for sale or adoption. Those that aren’t sold or adopted are transferred to privately contracted corrals and pastures for the long term. A similar emergency roundup began this month in central Nevada, where officials said some horses in a herd of 2,100 could die from lack of water in coming weeks. The operation was quickly halted, ironically because of extreme rain, but will likely resume. “The ground’s so dry it’s not absorbing that water. It’s running off,” bureau spokeswoman Jenny Lesieutre said. Volunteers are also taking action. Since late spring, Netherlands’s Salt River group has hauled hay to a dozen locations outside Phoenix to feed a herd of starving wild horses. Roughly 200 miles north, a couple near Gray Mountain, on the Navajo Nation, have spearheaded an effort to leave water and food for horses they say would die without human intervention. In western Colorado, volunteers say they’re preparing to bring up to 5,000 gallons of water per day to a herd of 750 thirsty horses. “Springs are drying up that have never dried up,” said Cindy Wright, co-founder of Colorado conservation group Wild Horse Warriors for Sand Wash Basin. Areas of the basin are low on food due to livestock grazing, so the group is hauling the water to others parts with more plentiful grass, said Aletha Dove, another group co-founder. Wild horse advocates have balked at the Bureau of Land Management’s insistence that wild horse populations are too high. Critics say the agency is using dry conditions as a smoke screen to shrink horse populations in response to pressure from ranchers whose livestock compete with the horses for grazing land. “I do have a concern about the larger numbers that they’re pulling off, and then a bigger concern about the BLM under this administration using all kinds of excuses to pull off horses,” said Suzanne Roy, executive director of the American Wild Horse Campaign, an advocacy organization. The agency is prohibited from euthanizing the wild horses it rounds up, though President Donald Trump has proposed allowing the animals to be killed or sold for slaughter. Activists in Nevada held a rally last Tuesday at the bureau’s state headquarters in Reno to protest a planned roundup later this year. Critics want the government to instead use birth control to manage wild horse populations. The bureau says the fertility treatment, which must be administered yearly and fired from a dart gun at close range, is too difficult for use except in certain cases where herds are easy to approach and have markings that make horses distinguishable from one another. Whatever the long-term answer, volunteers say their efforts can’t go on forever. Trucking in water and food could cost several thousand dollars per month and make horses overly dependent on humans, they said. “If we don’t have a very good fall with a lot of rain — and it’s also warm so that our fall vegetation grows — we’re going to lose horses,” Wright said. The air along the rarefied thermals of performance art can be achingly thin. And not just for those with the creative chops of music icon Anders Osborne, but also for roadies and techs and all the rest who take to the road as part of the touring machine. For many, there are voids their muse just can’t fill. This is especially true for those attempting to satisfy an alcohol or drug dependency while at the same time showcasing their talents at a different bar or club every night. When your “jones” is bigger than the bar full of temptation you must negotiate in order to reach the stage, maintaining sobriety on the road is a hard row to hoe. For Osborne, who came of age in Sweden but has spent the past three decades absorbing the eclectic musical insights of New Orleans, his level of artistic brilliance wasn’t that much help when it came to staying clean and sober while working that lonesome highway. His long-cultivated demons never seemed to miss a show. It all came to a head some years back with the realization that the very real possibility of losing his home, family, and career loomed large if he didn’t turn his lifestyle around. He needed a support system. He needed someone at every show who understood the mountain he wished to ascend. He needed a friend that would be there for him every night. As it turned out, it wouldn’t have to be the same friend, just one or more who would understand the trials associated with his recovery and could act as a cushion between him and fans whose main motivation in life was to buy the band a shot. Someone who understood that he was there to work. Hence, the genesis of “Send Me a Friend,” the movement and music industry support system that pairs volunteers with recovering musicians attempting to remain clean. In itself, Send Me a Friend is not a recovery program. It assumes you have already cleaned up your act. Its mission is more about maintaining an environment wherein recovering artists can focus on their work. Osborne broadened the scope of the concept once he felt the power of a couple of friends When you are teetering on the edge of an abyss, it’s comforting to be ‘on belay.’” showing up at one of his New Years Eve shows and just sitting around the stage. Nothing else. They didn’t talk to him much, just watched the show and, serving as a buffer, had his back between sets. Since it worked for him, he had the idea that if there existed a national network of “sober friends” on call to show up at gigs and offer support to newly-sober musicians and industry professionals, additional lives could turn around. When you are teetering on the edge of an abyss, it’s comforting to be “on belay.” While in rehab, Anders had been told continually that if he was serious about recovery, he needed to get into another line of work. He was warned over and over that if he were to maintain his current working environment of bars and such, that long-term sobriety would be a long shot. It’s a gauntlet from which few have emerged. Well, he figured, that’s a workable plan if you, say, had finished high school and went on to college or a trade. But although Anders Osborne had achieved the top shelf in his profession of musician, singer, songwriter, and recording artist, beginning anew in another line of work wasn’t an option that worked. So, with necessity being the mother of invention and all, he created “Send Me a Friend” pretty much from whole cloth. Partnering with longtime buddy Bill Taylor, executive director of the Trombone Shorty Foundation, it wasn’t long before it left the gate. As they say, “Send Me a Friend’s mission is simple – support musicians on the road to recovery from addiction by helping them get back to work sober.” If you’re like me and live music is a lifeline in itself, there’s a couple of ways to give back. The foundation is always looking for volunteers to anchor one end of the belay rope, for one. Or you could attend this awesome benefit show and learn more. “An Evening with Anders Osborne & Luther Dickinson – Send Me a Friend Foundation Benefit” down in the friendly confines of O. P. Rockwell’s, 268 Historic Main Street, here in Park City, Thursday, Aug. 2. Tickets are available at www. eventbrite.com. Support live music and a great cause. 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 Herbivore’s dilemma As a native Nebraskan, I was born tremendously proud of my state’s contributions to the country: Steak and football. We’re fiercely defensive of these assets, and until someone starts bragging about the size of our mosquitoes, this is pretty much it in Nebraska’s “claim to fame” category. At 18, I left the Midwest for college in Texas, another state very much known for its production of beef and football trophies. Given these geographic influences, when I decided to become a vegetarian in my early 20s, it was no surprise my friends and family struggled to understand my new meat-free vocabulary. Conversations like this were all too common: “Let’s go to a steakhouse for dinner.” “I’m not eating meat anymore, can we go somewhere else?” “Don’t worry, you can eat there. They have pork on the menu.” I’ve flirted with meatless meals for the better part of two decades; occasionally eating fish when on a tropical vacation and sometimes failing to skip the turkey on Thanksgiving, but otherwise avoiding meat. In the past few years I’ve become increasingly more committed and now no longer eat anything that once had a mom and a dad. Truthfully, it wasn’t that difficult for me. I don’t crave meat, and I’ve seen one too many Sundance documentaries to assume cows and pigs and chickens live a beautiful free-range life right up until they end up on plate. Animal cruelty really leaves a bad taste in my mouth. But even if I was totally cool with animals being hung upside down while alive, anally electrocuted and having their throats slit, it’s a bit problematic to claim yourself both an environmentalist and carnivore. Studies show more than 60 percent of the world’s biodiversity loss is from meat consumption. Farm animals generate loads of greenhouse gases, toxic manure, and wastewater that pollutes groundwater, rivers, streams, and, ultimately, the ocean. Factor in the pesticides and chemical fertilizers used to grow the crops to feed these animals and fuel to transport them, and it’s not difficult to make the connection — our planet has a beef with meat. So for a long time I mostly ate squirrel food and assumed that was pretty much the equivalent of driving Tesla and I was They were the first vegans I’d ever been around who didn’t make me feel like a murderer for putting cream in my coffee.” doing my part, which surely was enough. But in the past few months, it seems the universe has been trying to force feed me a message. It started last spring in Botswana. A country known for producing approximately the same number of vegetarians each year as Nebraska. But there of all places, I stumbled upon my tribe. People who don’t eat animal products because they are conservationists and because they don’t want to cause pain to any living creature. They weren’t abrasive or judgmental about it, just compassionate and thought-provoking and well- read. They were the first vegans I’d ever been around who didn’t make me feel like a murderer for putting cream in my coffee. I liked their energy, and clearly it didn’t come from cheese. When I got back to Park City, I learned our mayor and a few city council members had embarked on a 10-day vegan challenge and were encouraging others in the community to do the same. A few days later I heard an interview with the authors of the book, “Vodka is Vegan.” They sounded normal, so I downloaded the book and found it hilariously informative. That’s a lot of vegan influence in just a couple weeks. Still though, I wasn’t entirely sure about the whole thing. Would I have to start bathing in patchouli oil? Bring my own kale to dinner parties? And what would I do with the five remaining gallons of ice cream in my freezer? Despite these questions and my hesitancy, I decided I could try it for one week. I googled my food options, and when I learned Oreos and wine are, in fact, vegan, I realized I could commit — that’s practically ¾ of my diet anyway. I’m only a week in, but it hasn’t been as socially awkward or difficult as I assumed it would be. There’s a little more planning involved and some extra time spent checking ingredients for dairy and eggs. But all in all, I’m feeling pretty good about my chances for success. In fact, the hardest part so far has been getting up at 5 a.m. to milk the almonds. Amy Roberts is a freelance writer, longtime Park City resident and the proud owner of two rescued Dalmatians, Stanley and Willis. Follow her on Twitter @amycroberts.