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Show A-18 Sat/Sun/Mon/Tues, February 23-26, 2019 The Park Record Meetings and agendas More dogs on Main TO PUBLISH YOUR PUBLIC NOTICES AND AGENDAS, PLEASE EMAIL CLASSIFIEDS@PARKRECORD.COM WEILENMANN SCHOOL OF DISCOVERY Board Meeting Weilenmann School of Discovery will hold a meeting of its Board of Directors on Tuesday, February 26, at 5:30pm. Address is 4199 Kilby Road, Park City. The public is welcome. SNYDERVILLE BASIN WATER RECLAMATION DISTRICT BOARD OF TRUSTEES MEETING AGENDA February 25, 2019 ** District Office** 5:00 p.m. I. CALL TO ORDER II. CONSENT AGENDA A. Approval of Board Meeting Minutes for January 28, 2019 B. Escrow Fund Reduction Approval Lower Silver Creek Road Sewer Extension – Retain 10 percent C. Final Project Approval Lower Silver Creek Road Sewer Extension III. PUBLIC INPUT IV. APPROVAL OF EXPENDITURES – Bills in the Amount of $812,716.34 Including SCWRF Project Pay Request #34 for $134,624.56 V. SUBDIVISION PROJECTS Estimated LEA REs Year to Date: # Above Splitter 0; # ECWRF 0; # SCWRF 0; Total 0 Proposed this Meeting: # Above Splitter 0; # ECWRF 0; # SCWRF 0; Total 0 VI. DISTRICT MANAGER A. Discussion Items – Collection System CIP Projects Update B. Information Item 1. Financial Statement 2. Impact Fee Report 3. 2019 Adopted Budget / 2018 Performance 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. Notice is hereby given that the Snyderville Basin Planning Commission will meet in regular session Tuesday, February 26, 2019 Location: Sheldon Richins Building (Library), 1885 West Ute Boulevard, Park City, UT 84098 By Tom Clyde A whole lot of snow I always think of Presidents Day as the midpoint of winter. It moves around the calendar a bit, and there is no firm beginning or end to winter, so it’s an arbitrary measure. It’s also when I generally can muster some of the extended family to help shovel off the roofs on the old and sagging farm buildings. The steep roofs have slid on their own. The mid-slope roofs have glaciers on them that are gradually moving and calving off at the end. But there are some really shallow pitched roofs that won’t budge on their own. They used to rely on the heat of 125 Holsteins bedded down inside melt the snow off the roofs. The dairy cows are long gone (and not missed) so the snow accumulates. Most years we have to shovel a couple of big sheds at least once; often twice. I always wonder if letting the buildings collapse would be a better idea, but the cost of cleaning up the mess would mount up, and there is some value to having covered storage for a bunch of junk. So we shovel. Last year we never shoveled. Of course last year it didn’t snow. This year is different. I religiously watch the snow stake at Trial Lake up in the Uintas online. That’s where my irrigation water comes from, so there’s more than general curiosity in following it. The long-term measurements show that the maximum “snow water equivalent” is about 23 inches on May 1st. That isn’t snow depth, it’s how much water is in the snow that is accumulated. The long-term peak is 23 inches. This year, there are already 22.5 inches of water stored in the snowpack, with March and April left to go, not to mention another week of February. It’s nearly double what we had last year, total. If it doesn’t snow again, we’re pretty close to the long-term average for the full winter. The long-term averages would suggest that we should expect another 6 inches of water content, which could easily be another five or six feet of snow accumulation at 10,000 feet. Yikes! Of course it could completely stop, or March could bring in 60 degree weather and melt it all off. Or it could snow until June. Long term averages are no indication of what any one win- Winter or summer, while you can crunch data and produce averages, storms or droughts come when they feel like it.” ter season will do. If there’s anything I’ve learned after all these years, it’s that there’s no such thing as normal. Winter or summer, while you can crunch data and produce averages, storms or droughts come when they feel like it. It will do what it wants to do, and all we can do is adjust to it. Sinclair Lewis is credited with observing that “winter isn’t a season, it’s an occupation.” I’ve logged many hours in the tractor moving snow around. It’s been windy enough this year that, even on days when it doesn’t snow, I frequently have to clear some drifts. There have been some annoying little breakdowns. The chute that points the discharge from the six-foot wide blower in one direction or anoth- By Teri Orr Agenda items may or may not be discussed in the order listed. 4:30 p.m. Regular Session 1. Public input for items not on the agenda or pending applications. 2. Discussion and possible recommendation for Viridian Townhomes Final Site Plan and Condominium Plat; 4134 Cooper Lane, Frostwood Development Area, Canyons Village; FRSTW-F4-AM and FRSTW-F8-AM; Tony Tyler, applicant. – Tiffanie Northrup-Robinson, County Planner 3. Discussion and possible recommendation for The Ridge Townhomes Final Site Plan and Condominium Plat; 2222 West Red Pine Road, Resort Core, Canyons Village; RCDA-RC16-16B; Billy Reed, applicant. – Tiffanie Northrup-Robinson, County Planner 4. Public hearing and possible action regarding a Conditional Use Permit for the Preservation of Historically Significant Structure. The applicant is requesting to convert the existing structure (commonly known as the Pace-Archibald Store or General Store) into a coffee shop; 4459 S.R. 224; PP-108-111; Grady Kohler, applicant. – Amir Caus, County Planner 5. Approval of minutes: January 8, 2019 DRC Updates Commission Comments Director Items Adjourn A majority of Snyderville Basin Planning Commission members may meet socially after the meeting. If so, the location will be announced by the Chair or Vice-Chair. County business will not be conducted. To view staff reports available after Friday, February 22, 2019 please visit: www.summitcounty.org 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) 615-3157. Posted: February 22, 2019 Published: February 23, 2019 – The Park Record Notice is hereby given that the Summit County Board of Adjustment will NOT meet on Thursday, February 28, 2019 The next Board of Adjustment meeting is scheduled for Thursday, March 28, 2019 Published: February 23, 2019-The Park Record Church won’t oppose ban LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY — The Mormon church won’t stand in the way of a proposal to ban gay conversion therapy for minors in its home base of Utah, leaders said Wednesday, a position that advocates heralded as a milestone in the conservative state. The announcement is key in part because LGBT members have historically reported that church leaders encouraged them to attend therapy aimed at changing their sexual orientation, said Troy Williams with the group Equality Utah. “We are grateful that The Church of Jesus Christ of Lat- 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 AGENDA ter-day Saints recognizes the harms of conversion therapy and has denounced the practice,” he said. Moreover, most members of the Utah Legislature are members of the church, and its positions can hold outsized sway. Supporters of the proposal have worked with the church to address concerns about religious freedom and make sure that counseling in line with church teachings on marriage and sexuality won’t come under the proposed ban, said Marty Stephens, a lobbyist for the church. The faith opposes same-sex marriage and sexual intimacy, but it has taken a more welcoming stance to LGBT people in er has been freezing, and finally the cable that turns it broke. It’s designed that way, so the $5 cable breaks before the hydraulic ram destroys the machine. The axle on a little wheel I attached to the side to hold the blower up out of the gravel on the roads got bent and the wheel wouldn’t turn. Again, it was a fix that cost under $5 for a new bolt and some washers, but required a lot of time with wrenches that are stored outside and were very cold to hold on to, brittle bolts, chipping a lot of ice out of the mechanism (and finally getting frustrated enough to pour buckets of hot water on it until I could get access to everything to make the repair). Winter is indeed an occupation, and one that is requiring overtime this year. It’s a tough call whether to make repairs in the frozen garage, or move the tractor out into a sunny spot on the driveway. The advantage to the garage is a solid floor so that when gloved hands and frozen fingers fumble and drop small parts, they can be found. The disadvantage is that it was probably not much above zero in the garage. I opted for the driveway, and promptly lost a handful of little pieces in the snow (I could have put a tarp down first, but, you know). It’s a rare job that can be completed without at least two trips to the hardware store. When I was putting it all back together, cold and bloody-fingered, I heard the song of the redwing blackbirds in the brush by the river. Spring is on the way. recent years. In 2016, the faith declared that same-sex attraction is not a sin, a shift that came eight years after a backlash over the church’s role helping lead the 2008 fight for California’s Proposition 8 ban on gay marriage. The legislation set to be formally unveiled on Thursday will help bolster the mental health of LGBT young people amid an alarming spike in youth suicides in the state, Republican sponsor Rep. Craig Hall said in a statement. The American Psychological Association opposes therapy seeking to change sexual orientation, and it has been banned in fifteen states and the District of Columbia. The slant of the light... Shades of gray, Parades of days. ... Those were the first two lines of a very sad song I wrote the winter I was 26. (Think Joni Mitchell meets Leonard Cohen with none of the depth or eloquence and all of the depressing notes.) I had a 6-year-old and 4-year-old and I was leaving my abusive marriage. I was so scared. And even though I would have said sad at the time, in hindsight depressed would have been a more accurate word. It was January when I filed and it would take six full months before the divorce would be final. It was such a long winter that year at Lake Tahoe where I lived. It might have been the snow and the endless days of flat light, the icy walkways and the bitter lake cold. But the sadness sunk in and it seemed, as I remember, inescapable. But escape I did. And two years later I moved to Park City in the winter with my two kids. We moved to town in March and on the Park City Golf Course that very first weekend was a snow sculpture contest with the most incredible vignettes — made in one day — and completely out of nothing but snow. There were Viking ships and fairy tale scenes and dragons and sea creatures and gingerbread-looking houses and charging wild horses in a pack and a giant rabbit with a giant carrot. The contest had been going on, I learned, for a few years and mostly college kids competed for the prize money which was something incredibly impressive like — $500 for the winner! My kids — who were understandably sad at leaving behind the only home they had ever known and their school and friends — were suddenly smitten by the coolest place we had moved to. The sun was out that day so we wandered among the giant sculptures and took pictures in the too bright light of white on white snow works of art. The photos — once developed — turned out to be horrible indistinguishable blobs of whiteness. We still loved them. Because we loved where we were living by now. Our small neighborhood had met us with open arms and baked goods and wine (so those rumors about Utah weren’t all true)! And when they learned I was a single mom they offered to babysit, set me up on dates. They shoveled the driveway and dropped off firewood. I don’t know that winter was any more or less heavy than those at Tahoe but it felt lighter. And the lightness equated to hope. In the few past weeks I have been struck by the large numbers of friends and just working world folks I know — who are all saying something along the lines like — they have the blues. They are all fully employed professionals — both male and female — in positive relationships with mostly grown children. They have all lived in Park City more than a decade. A snowy winter is not new to any of them. But they are — to a person — blaming their sadness on the snow. I just think that is too easy... The list of things to weigh us down has never been greater. And while corrupt institutions imploding will eventually leave us lighter and more hopeful — right now it just leaves us feeling unmoored.” I don’t ski anymore. A softball injury to my ankle from my Tahoe days (a fancy slide into third base where the person tagging me out stepped hard on my ankle instead of the bag — multiple casts over multiple months) eventually became degenerative arthritis in my 40s and skiing made it worse. But in the day I skied that PCMR mountain with my kids all over. We loved it. And since they had every Friday afternoon off school in the winter to ski (ski passes for them were under $100) and they had the free bus to take them there, they had great independence in our safe little town of less than 1,800 people. I just don’t remember being depressed back then. If I was sad it was short lived and situational. Now the sadness in high altitude towns is given as a reason for the high rate of suicides in those towns. And no one can quite unpack all the “whys.” Some speculate the giant gap between the haves and have nots is so visible and so seemingly unattainable that normal sadness just creeps in and becomes something greater. Heavier. And I suspect there is truth to that and the lack of vitamin D and sunlight for days on end. And the cold that can feel inescapable. But this winter I would suggest it is something heavier in the air we share on the planet. The weight of the reveal of centuries of the Catholic Church hiding a litany of lies about crimes against each other and young children. The lies of our president which some poll just released said most Americans — maybe as many as 70 percent — believe our president lies, often. The photos we can see in the news of giant cliffs breaking off the North Pole and crashing into the ocean and scraggy-coated polar bears invading towns foraging for food. The war photos from far corners of the world with sad-faced children in brightly colored clothes separated from their parents. Oh wait — those same photos could also be from our own southern border and we bear the shame of the inhumane treatment and separation taking place there. The list of things to weigh us down has never been greater. And while corrupt institutions imploding will eventually leave us lighter and more hopeful — right now it just leaves us feeling unmoored. Here’s what I know works to beat the blues — you do it together. One shared coffee, loaned book, armload of firewood, plate of cookies, bottle of wine at a time. The world, to steal from William Wordsworth, IS too much with us some days. Some weeks. And we need to find both solitude and the shelter of companions to find our way through the dark days. Even a less than light Sunday in the Park... F W Teri Orr is a former editor of I The Park Record. She is the dii rector of the Park City Institute, b which provides programming t for the George S. and Dolores l Doré Eccles Center for the Performing Arts. |