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Show A-10 Wed/Thurs/Fri, February 6-8, 2019 The Park Record Meetings and agendas Core saMples By Jay Meehan TO PUBLISH YOUR PUBLIC NOTICES AND AGENDAS, PLEASE EMAIL CLASSIFIEDS@PARKRECORD.COM Sundance lovers and tree huggers AGENDA SUMMIT COUNTY COUNCIL Wednesday, February 6, 2019 NOTICE is hereby given that the Summit County Council will meet in session Wednesday, February 6, 2019, 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) 11:45 AM Work Session 1) Interview applicants for vacancies on the South Summit Cemetery Maintenance District (60 min) 12:45 PM Closed Session – Property acquisition (45 min) 1:30 PM – Move to Council Chambers 1:40 PM Work Session continued 1) Pledge of Allegiance 2) 1:45 PM - Medical Cannabis compromise bill discussion; Rich Bullough, Justin Martinez, and Jami Brackin (30 min) 3) 2:15 PM - Discussion regarding possible amendments to Eastern Summit County Development Code for the adaptive reuse of historic structures; Ray Milliner (30 min) 4) 2:45 PM - Discussion regarding possible amendments to the Eastern Summit County Development Code to create lighting regulations; Ray Milliner (30 min) 5) 3:15 PM - Legislative update; Kim Carson and Janna Young (30 min) 6) 3:45 PM - Discussion with Mountain Regional Water Special Service District regarding water loss, energy impacts, and detection methods; Scott Morrison (30 min) 7) 4:15 PM - Discussion regarding Eastern Summit County Water Conservancy Special Service District; Helen Strachan and Phil Bondurant (45 min) 5:00 PM Convene as the Board of Equalization 1) Discussion and possible approval of Summit Land Conservancy’s request for property tax exemption; Alisa Robinson (10 min) 2) 5:10 PM - Discussion and possible approval of Save Our Stage Foundation’s request for property tax exemption; Alisa Robinson (10 min) Dismiss as the Board of Equalization 5:20 PM Convene as the Governing Board of the Snyderville Basin Special Recreation District 1) Discussion and possible approval of the Real Estate Purchase Agreement (Snyderville Basin Special Recreation District and Newpark Retail, LLC; Dave Thomas (20 min) Dismiss as the Governing Board of the Snyderville Basin Special Recreation District 5:40 PM Consideration of Approval 1) Appointment of member to serve on the Park City Fire Service District Administrative Control Board 2) Council Comments 3) Manager Comments 4) Council Minutes dated January 14, 2019, January 16, 2019, and January 23, 2019 6:00 PM Public Input 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: January 31, 2019 Outdoor Retailer: Industry readies for push on climate Companies differ on how partisan to make the fight DAN ELLIOTT Associated Press DENVER — Two years after jumping into a fight with the Trump administration over public lands, the U.S. outdoor industry is turning up the political pressure — though its impact is difficult to measure. Thousands of manufacturers and retailers gathered in Denver last week for the annual Outdoor Retailer and Snow Show, and some of the biggest names vowed to keep pushing to preserve public lands. “We will always — this is really core to who we are,” said Corley Kenna, a spokeswoman for Patagonia, the brashest political fighter among the industry’s major players. The Outdoor Industry Association and some big retailers, including Patagonia, Columbia Sportswear, REI and The North Face, have campaigned together and on their own to protect public lands. Some of their forays are unobtrusive get-out-the-vote campaigns, lobbying for national parks funding and email blasts to customers about public lands news. But Patagonia took the unusual step of endorsing U.S. Senate candidates in November’s election. The company publicly accused President Donald Trump of stealing public lands and sued his administration. The campaigns made headlines and energized the industry, but it’s hard to measure the effect on voters and policymakers. Now, show organizers have made climate change and sustainable manufacturing a priority and announced the formation of the Outdoor Business Climate Partnership to lobby for state and federal climate policies. Issue campaigns can be effective if they are done well and if voters are receptive to the message, said Josh Kalla, an assistant professor of political science at Yale University. “You do tend to see issue advertising does change public opinion to a much greater extent than candidate advertising,” he said. But neither the Outdoor Industry Association nor the big companies have done the kind of polls and surveys that would show that. The Senate candidates that Patagonia endorsed in tight races — Democrats Jon Tester in Montana and Jacky Rosen in Nevada — both won. “I would like to think that we played a part in that because we were motivating our own community to get out and vote,” Kenna said. Public lands were an issue in the Nevada election last year, said Dave Damore, a political science professor at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. But he stopped short of saying that helped Rosen. Montana State University political scientist Dave Parker said polling in his state showed public lands were not a significant factor in Tester’s victory. At minimum, the big retailers have pushed public lands into the spotlight, said Kayje Booker of the Montana Wilderness Association. “These national brands have a reach that nonprofit advocates could only dream of, and they have been using that megaphone in a really effective way to remind people of this issue,” she said. Organizers of the winter outdoor show, which is drawing about 950 exhibitors and 25,000 attendees over three days, are preparing to fight another potential government shutdown to protect national parks, which were left understaffed and underprotected during the 35-day shutdown that just ended. Columbia weighed in on the previous shutdown with a fullpage ad in the Washington Post that mimicked Trump’s campaign slogan: “Make America’s parks open again.” The outdoor industry, which calculates its annual sales at $184.5 billion, was once reluctant to get involved in high-profile advocacy. “We would like nothing more than to be thinking about a great hike instead of thinking about politicians,” said Peter Bragdon, executive vice president of Columbia Sportswear. Some companies and industry groups say they have always openly advocated for public lands and recreation, but Trump’s election brought new players and energy to the fight. “I would say the thing that’s changed is when President Trump was elected, some of the threats to our public lands became more high profile,” said Amy Roberts, executive director of the Outdoor Industry Association. The industry began to stir in February 2017, when Utah lawmakers asked Trump to repeal the newly designated Bears Ears National Monument. Thirty outdoor companies objected, and the Outdoor Retailer Show announced it would move from its longtime home in Salt Lake City to Denver. Things heated up in December 2017 when Trump reduced the size of Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments. Patagonia sued and declared on its website, “The President Stole Your Land.” Interior Department spokeswoman Faith Vander Voort defended the administration’s record, saying it had expanded access to public lands and revived their use for ranching, mining, logging, drilling and other commercial purposes as well as recreation. Although Trump removed land from national monuments in Utah, it still belongs to the federal government, Vander Voort said in an email Wednesday. “Organizations like Patagonia knew this, but they chose instead to play fast and loose with the facts,” she said. Executives at REI, the giant outdoor-gear cooperative with 17 million members, said it’s important to avoid casting public lands as a partisan fight. That would be a disservice to everyone who has ever fought for public lands, said Alex Thompson, an REI vice president. “We’re trying to balance being really engaged and really clear ... while also not falling into the trap of fueling unhelpful divides,” he said. The long-held axiom in this space – that total immersion is the way to best enter the Sundance Film Festival rabbit hole and walk out of the other end with a jaunt and a smirk – didn’t get much of a test this time around. Although it remains a favorite cultural interval as far as this old mining camp’s annual social calendar, intervening variables reduced personal involvement to that of a stone skimming across the surface of a pond – a dipping of a toe as it were. The blame for that, of course, lay at the foot of the “festivarian” himself. My bad! Not that the films weren’t every bit as enthralling to your humble scribe as they invariably prove to be or the assaults by friends and peers on the spectacle as a whole any less strident than usual. No, it was just a year where the quality of participation was called upon to hold up its end of the affair in the face of a distraction-driven lack of quantity. Film-wise, three exhibits from the second half of the fest – two documentaries and a dramatic narrative – are offered to the court of public opinion. As an addendum, it should be noted that the time spent in a darkened venue for the selections in question turned out to be time quite well invested, indeed. Filmmaker Matt Tyrnauer and his “Where’s My Roy Cohn?” Took us back to a historical period equally as dark as our own – the early red-baiting days of Richard Nixon and Joe McCarthy. As Niccolò Machiavelli once said: “Politics have no relation to morals.” Darkness loomed over America back then just as the absence of any real light rules the land these days. Attorney Roy Cohn entered the collective consciousness of America first as a proponent for the dual executions of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg (a couple executed after espionage convictions in 1951, though the charges are disputed) and stayed there for a quite elongated spell. From the McCarthy-era witch hunts and blacklists, the nefarious agendas of J. Edgar Hoover, and the election of his protégé, Donald J. Trump, master manipulator Roy Cohn provided the connective tissue of demagoguery. As Tyrnauer put it in his director’s statement: “Roy M. Not that it should be mandated as homework, but this cat lived one profound existence.” Cohn would have been but a bold footnote to American history, most remembered for his role in the Rosenberg spy case, his conspiratorial whispering in the ear of Senator Joseph McCarthy during his 1950s witch hunts, and the monumental hypocrisy of his own life as a closeted gay man who helped McCarthy and J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI destroy the lives of other gay men.” The interesting thing about the documentary “Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool” had to have been the manner in which filmmaker Stanley Nelson skirted the five years during the ‘70s when Miles played the recluse and never picked up his horn. That timeframe had already been covered, albeit in a fictional setting, by Sundance veteran Don Cheadle’s brilliant “Miles Ahead,” a 2016 Festival selection. I’ve never been able to get enough of Miles, warts and all. Possibly, no one sits more at the head of the “genius with demons” class than my man Miles Davis. Hopefully Nelson’s documentary gets picked up and distributed widely. Not that it should be mandated as homework, but this cat lived one profound existence. And the music, all Miles and edited most beautifully with the film sequences involved, played a large role in the “soundtrack of my life,” as they say. “This Is Not Berlin” (Esto no es Berlin), a wonderful entry from Mexico in the World Cinema Dramatic Competition, proved to be a most refreshing film especially considering its dark coming of age thematic structure. Again, its use of the rock music canon of the '80’s became a character every bit as much as the club habitués. Identifying with a foreign culture and space-time has never been easier. Every moment of screen time, including the rampant, often ill-advised, consumption of drugs, added to the narrative. Filmmaker Hari Sama and his team should feel proud. Actually, it is not a difficult proposition to recognize why so may of my cohorts and running mates detest the 10-days in January annually occupied by the Sundance Film Festival. There’s the traffic, of course, and the dearth of available barstools. I understand. I would feel the same if, say, an inundation of NRA types took over our town to honor the latest in the art of chemically discharged projectiles. We film geeks are really nothing more than a bunch of peacenik tree huggers with time on our hands, you know. That’s a wrap! 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 The calm between the storms Winters in Park City are not known for their downtime. There are storms and powder days, holiday weekends, galas and parties, fundraisers, concerts, special events, and an endless parade of houseguests hoping to participate in at least one of the above. Never a dull moment during ski season. That’s how we roll. Despite knowing this, despite preparing and bracing for the go-go-go hectic chaos, somehow, just how busy the town gets always seems to catch me off guard. It happens when the grocery store is out of my favorite bread, or there’s a two-hour wait at my normally walk-in ready pedicure shop, or when an app on my phone tells me it’s going to be 37 minutes before a driver can come fetch me. I don’t notice the busyness, or even mind it really, until I’m suddenly inconvenienced by it. And even when that happens, there’s an internal acknowledgment that this is what I signed up for when I decided to live in a resort town. Granted, Park City today is not the Park City I signed onto and moved to so many years ago. But even back then, it was the idea that I would have to put forth some real effort to be bored here that drew me in. I can’t pinpoint the exact date or even the year, but somewhere between my moving here and now, Park City evolved from a relaxed, PBR-drinking ski bum to a Manhattan socialite with a busting-at-the-seams list of invites and a martini in each hand. True evolution is typically a slow process — it took over a million years for whales to evolve from their land-dwelling mammalian ancestors. But every once in a while, nature speeds up the process. In the late 1970s the Galapagos ground finch was under threat due to a severe drought. The birds with smaller beaks died off because the seeds they There will still be traffic and tourists and a general buzz, but it will be a welcome respite compared to what we just grew accustomed to.” could crack open and eat were sparse. The finches with longer beaks had an advantage — they could crush larger seeds which were more plentiful during the drought. Hence, they survived, reproduced, and passed a bigbeak gene along, changing the species in less than one decade. Park City is a bit like this Galapagos ground finch. In order to survive, our beak grew fairly fast. And it seems even a bit longer this winter. First there was Christmas. The Ikon and Epic crowds soon followed. The three-day Martin Luther King Jr. weekend brought more tourists to town, quickly followed by the Sundance surge. Before the final curtain dropped, another one rose on the world’s greatest snow athletes who came to town for the FIS Snowboard, Freestyle and Freeskiing World Championships. They’ll depart just as the President’s Day crowd arrives. We’ll have a week to catch our breath before Spring Break begins. Even then, there will still be traffic and tourists and a general buzz, but it will be a welcome respite compared to what we just grew accustomed to. This small stretch will be our only calm between the storms — our one chance for the beak-growing to have a break. It’s doubtful Charles Darwin had us in mind as he developed his theory of evolution; but his famous quote about survival is certainly applicable: “It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is most adaptable to change.” Park City is changing, and those of us who call it home must adapt. 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. |