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Show A-18 The Park Record Meetings and agendas Sat/Sun/Mon/Tues, November 24-27, 2018 More dogs on Main By Tom Clyde TO PUBLISH YOUR PUBLIC NOTICES AND AGENDAS, PLEASE EMAIL CLASSIFIEDS@PARKRECORD.COM Happy Thanksgiving AGENDA SUMMIT COUNTY COUNCIL Wednesday, November 28, 2018 NOTICE is hereby given that the Summit County Council will meet in session Wednesday, November 28, 2018, 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) 12:50 PM Closed Session – Property acquisition (60 min); Personnel (45 min) 2:35 PM – Move to Council Chambers 2:45 PM Work Session 1) Pledge of Allegiance 2) 2:50 PM - General discussions regarding proposed budget; Matt Leavitt (60 min) a. Special projects discussion, including Rail Trail, SR 32 trail, Chalk Creek to Mirror Lake, etc. b. Non-profit grant process c. Youth recreation program 3) 3:50 PM - Discussion regarding Bears Ears and Grand Staircase Escalante; Janna Young (30 min) 4) 4:20 PM - Presentation by Bureau of Land Management regarding proposed actions on BLM-managed lands in Summit County; Matt Preston, Field Manager, and Allison Ginn, Assistant Field Manager (30 min) 4:50 PM Consideration of Approval 1) Discussion and possible approval of Ordinance 885, an Ordinance Amending the Snyderville Basin Development Code Section 10-8 Creating Language for the Regulation of Mobile Food Businesses and Mobile Food Courts, Amending Chapter 10-11-1 Definitions and Amending Chapter 10-2-10 Use Table; Ray Milliner (30 min) 2) 5:20 PM - Council Comments (15 min) 3) 5:35 PM - Manager Comments (10 min) 5:45 PM - Convene as the Governing Board of Mountain Regional Water 1) Discussion and possible approval of Employment Contracts dated November 15, 2018, between Mountain Regional Water Special Service District and Marti Gee, Lisa Hoffman, and Doug Evans; Scott Morrison (15 min) Dismiss as the Governing Board of Mountain Regional Water 6:00 PM Public Input Public hearing and possible action for Trumpeters Place Subdivision, a proposal to subdivide a parcel into five residential lots; Applicant Isabelle Judd Family Trust; Ray Milliner, County Planner 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 Posted: November 20, 2018 BASIN OPEN SPACE ADVISORY COMMITTEE (BOSAC) MEETING NOTICE Public notice is hereby given that the Snyderville Basin Open Space Advisory Committee will meet in a regularly scheduled meeting at the time and location specificed below: DATE: Tuesday, November 27, 2018 TIME: 8:30 AM LOCATION: BASIN RECREATION ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICE 5715 TRAILSIDE DRIVE, PARK CITY, UT 84098 We are now fully into the holiday season, and the mailbox is stuffed with catalogs. I’m always puzzled how I end up on some of the lists. Most of my clothes come from either adding an Allis-Chalmers logo hoodie to a tractor parts order to get above the free shipping threshold, or off the rack at Tractor Supply Co. in Heber. Great flannel shirts. With that fashion sensibility, I’ve landed on the lists of some very high-end clothing stores, and get catalogs filled with $150 shirts, cashmere sweaters, silk underwear, and the all-important leather satchel/man-purse. Everything I need for working around the ranch. I also get catalogs full of ski clothing. Those have a lot more interest, though I always wait for the end-of-season discounts on that stuff, too. It’s always interesting to look at what they have to offer, and what colors the leather satchel crowd will be wearing this year. All the new stuff is made of miracle fabrics that promise to be as water-tight as a wet suit, as breathable as a cotton t-shirt, and warm enough for the north pole. One had a line of $600 ski pants. Compared to the price of an Epic Locals pass, that seems like a lot for a pair of pants. How special could they be? It turns out they are very nice ski pants, with pockets in all the right places, adjustable waistband (for after the Deer Valley lunch), vents, and on and on. I have to admit to being tempted. They are definitely a step up from my cheap, but serviceable, pants. There wasn’t any duct tape on them. But I got hung up on the color selection. The pants were available in “Magnet,” “Eiffel Tower,” “Monu- ment,” and “Tap Shoe.” It was hard to know which would look best with a jacket in “Mountain Shadow,” or “Falcon.” My main jacket is blue, and I have a lighter shell in green. Can you really pair green with Falcon? Would the blue jacket clash with the Eiffel Tower pants? Maybe Monument would be the better choice, except that I have no idea what any of those colors would look like. I guess when you are asking $600 bucks for a pair of pants, it doesn’t seem adequate to call them “black.” Nobody would pay up for black pants. You can buy black pants at Walmart. But if they are “Tap Shoe with Falcon accents,” well, $600 seems like a steal. Somehow, it feels like they are trying a little too hard. Notwithstanding the existential threat posed by romaine lettuce, we celebrated Thanksgiving, and nobody died. Thanksgiving is a great holiday, and not only because somebody else does all the work and all I do is show up and eat. It’s a time for sharing with family and friends. In a world that seems to be completely off-kilter, it’s good to step back to appreciate all that we have. We live in a community so insulated from the harsh realities of the world that our big concerns are e-bikes on the trails and overly complicated parking regulations. We lie awake nights worrying that somebody might be driving a snowmobile on Bonanza Flat, or putting glass in the curbside recycling bins. Still, we soldier on. The wildfires in California have left thousands with nothing but the clothes on their backs. Unlike the hurricanes, where there was enough ad- vance warning that people could make plans and get themselves and a few necessary possessions to safety, the wildfire consumed Paradise without warning. Whether people had the presence of mind to grab a sleeping bag and tent on their way out the door, or were able to buy something once they had escaped, they are now living in Walmart parking lots, trying to find loved ones. The task of re-building life is overwhelming. They will be months getting the insurance settlements worked out. There aren’t enough carpenters in the country to rebuild the town (while they are also rebuilding towns along the Gulf Coast). It will be years putting things back together, and nothing will ever be “normal” again. We ought to pay close attention to their recovery efforts, and also look at what we can do to prevent a similar disaster here. There’s definitely some chainsaw time in my yard next spring to push the forest back a little. Our community isn’t without real problems. There’s a housing shortage in a town where about half the houses are vacant. The broken immigration system weighs heavily on many of our neighbors, and the plague of substance abuse has affected all of us in one way of another. We should be thankful that there are efforts to address the problems. What we can’t solve, we might at least soften. We care about each other. There is much to be thankful for. 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. AGENDA 8:30 AM tion EXECUTIVE SESSION: Property acquisi- 9:00 AM Move to open session 9:05 AM Public comment 9:40 AM Further discussion and possible adoption of the “EVALUATION CRITERIA FOR THE ACQUISITION OF OPEN SPACE” sunday in the Park By Teri Orr 10:00 AM Next steps 10:15 AM Chair’s comments 9:15 AM Approval of minutes 1. Approval of September 27, 2018 meeting minutes 2. Approval of October 2, 2018 special work session minutes 9:20 AM Discussion and takeaway comments from the October 24, 2018 special work session with Summit County Council 10:25 AM Basin Recreation report to BOSAC 10:30 AM Adjourn Pursuant to the Americans with Disabilities Act, individuals needing special accommodations during this meeting should notify Jessica Kirby (435) 649-1564 ext. 26 prior to the meeting. Notice is hereby given that The Summit County Board of Adjustment will meet in regular session Thursday, November 29, 2018 Location: Summit County Courthouse, Council Chambers, 60 North Main Street, Coalville, UT 84017 AGENDA Agenda items may or may not be discussed in the order listed. 6:30 p.m. Regular Session 1. Public input for items not on the agenda or pending applications. Board Items Staff Items Adjourn 2. Public hearing and possible action regarding variance to decrease the front setback from 15 feet to 8 feet for construction of a single family residence; 125 Crestview Ln; Parcel SU-H-54; Jacob Sisco, applicant. – Amir Caus, County Planner To view staff reports available after Friday, November 23, 2018 please visit: http://www.summitcounty.org 3. Approval of minutes: March 22, 2018 Individuals needing special accommodations pursuant to the Americans with Disabilities Act regarding this meeting may contact Melissa Hardy, Summit County Community Development Department, at (435) 3363157 Notice is hereby given that the Snyderville Basin Planning Commission meeting scheduled for Tuesday, November 27, 2018 has been CANCELLED The next Snyderville Basin Planning Commission is scheduled for Tuesday December 11, 2018. Posted: November 21, 2018 Published: November 24, 2018- The Park Record Continued from A-16 Mountain Town costs to hang a line overhead. This added cost can make undergrounding prohibitively expensive. The magazine cited a plan in North Carolina to put lines underground that was dropped. It would have caused electrical rates to rise 125 percent. In Minturn, Holy Cross has indicated willingness to bury 1.7 miles of the 8.65-mile line. That would put it out of sight in most of Minturn, but not all. Minturn wants more undergrounding. “Certainly Minturn wants to support redundancy in the system. We get it. We just love the idea of undergrounding for a variety of reasons,” says Michelle Metteer, the town manager. There’s also the question of equity. Holy Cross has buried distribution lines in Snowmass Village, as was pointed out by Minturn resident Lynn Feiger in an op/ed published in the Vail Daily during September. Why, she seemed to ask, would it treat the Minturn area any differently? As for Aspen, Holy Cross has been talking about distributed generation coupled with battery storage as one option for making the community’s electricity supply less vulnerable to wildland fires. In Idaho, the path for a second transmission line to the Ketchum-Sun Valley area has been identified but not the details. Undergrounding is among the options, but at an additional cost that Idaho Power estimates at $34.5 million. The Idaho Mountain Express reports several financing options, none of them inviting or easy. Check Parkrecord.com for more Mountain Town News. A death in the family The call came late Sunday night. I recognized the New York number. Margret and I have known each other for more than a dozen years. We have shared meals, political right-mindedness and a love of performing arts. She is a wicked smart agent who introduced me to the best acts we ever brought to the Eccles stage. After a dear friend of mine died, Margret arranged for me to come to New York to process that seminal death. She took me to see my first American Ballet Theater performance at the Lincoln Center — “Swan Lake.” When I saw her name come up — I didn’t hesitate to answer the call. “Hi,” she said slowly... “I have some bad news about Jessica.” I knew she meant Jessica Lang — the award-winning choreographer and former dancer with Twyla Tharp and director of her own dance company for the past seven seasons. In fact, on that fabulous trip to New York a few years ago I attended the fifth year anniversary performance of the company. We had presented her company multiple times in Park City. We did workshops with her — like the ones she had done for Reebok. Our participants included the school superintendent, a singer/songwriter, an award-winning photographer, a city council person, a nonprofit director, a hedge fund guy. “When to lead and when to follow,” was about more than dance steps. Jessica’s company presented at Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, BAM’s Next Wave, The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, The Joyce Theater, Tel Aviv Performing Arts Center, Bolshoi’s Inversion Festival, Palacio de Bellas Artes, and dozens more stages. When Jessica first came to Eccles, her company performed student outreach — not just in Park City High School but also at South Summit. Jessica led that class herself — in the gym. She later created a piece on veterans — breathtakingly, achingly, beautiful. The costumes included scraps from uniforms vets had shared with her. She listened to stories for months and tried to capture in dance — their memories — of rage and joy and peace and pieces of hearts broken. Rob Slettom of Identity Properties had put up the entire troupe for a week while the dancers created new work. Jessica and I talked one night about our shared dream of building a place where creative people could create — in Park City — in a facility that had light and open spaces and support. We spoke a shared language. I waited for Margret to speak. “Jessica,” she said slowly... “has decided to close down her company.” It was a death I did not see coming... I confess I was happy — at first — to learn Jessica was still among the living and it was only her company that was dying ... but then it hit me. If someone so smart and talented, who gave joy to thousands of people — each month — had to fold her company, what was the future of dance? She has created works for no less than Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, American Ballet Theatre, Pacific Northwest Ballet, Birmingham Royal Ballet, the National Ballet of Japan, and Joffrey. She is the recipient of the 2014 Bessie and 2017 Arison awards. Margret jumped into my thought process and said she was worried about the future of the performing arts in a way she had never been before — she has spent most her life managing performers and companies. She said all the large venue nonprofit presenters she knows are struggling. Broadway, she said, is doing well — folks are giving tons of money to fund new productions. But they are making back their investments. It isn’t a donation — it is a for-profit investment. And investors want — a return. The nonprofit art world depends upon donors. People who give to see the arts continue to tell stories — through dance, theater and music. Risky stories. Untried music. Edgy dances. Donors want a return also but it is different — they want to see the arts continue to exist in their communities to lift them up. Most Americans live far away from hubs of entertainment — New York — Chi- cago — San Francisco. The arts need to come to them. Producing art in small communities is the way stories are shared. It is where joy is needed most. It is where most young people have a chance to see a live performer — beyond a guy in a bar with a guitar. Margret said every large venue nonprofit presenter should get together and run a national marketing campaign. Didn’t audiences understand how fragile the arts are? That all the high-quality video in the world doesn’t equate with seeing the performer’s sweat fly offstage ... or having that encore when begged by the audience with thunderous applause. The shared experience of live entertainment shapes our understanding of the human condition. For a few hours we are suspended in time and place — transported to wherever that artist takes us — inside a courtroom in rural Mississippi, a camp in Uganda, a snow-covered cabin in the woods. We hear freedom songs, love songs and songs that make us laugh. We feel the lift of the dancer as they are elevated to spin and fly — if only for a moment. And we hear the words of contemporary legends — in politics or redemption — or abuse, giants in science and medicine. Literary arts — visual arts — performing arts — are the way we learn what it means to be fully human. Jessica will still do commissioned works for other companies — she did one for our own Ballet West — she will continue her personal career. But her company — those dancers who performed only her works around the world — those dance shoes are being hung up. For those of us in the middle of a desert — thousands of miles away from the centers of culture — we feel the death like a star we can no longer see in a dark sky. Something beautiful died this week and we are mourning — 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. |