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Show Sat/Sun/Mon/Tues, June 22-25, 2019 A-5 The Park Record County Seat COUNTY EDITOR: ALEXANDER CRAMER 649–9014 EXT. 15712 | Countynews@parkrecord.com County doles out $3.6 million RAP, restaurant taxes fund grants for arts, tourism ALEXANDER CRAMER The Park Record About 65 organizations will split more than $3.5 million in funding after the Summit County Council approved recommendations about how to dole out the proceeds from two special taxes. The recreation, arts and parks (RAP) tax contributed $943,000 for arts and culture, while the restaurant tax created a pool of $2.7 million, mostly to support tourism. The RAP tax is one-tenth of 1 percent of the sales tax collected county-wide, and was approved in 2000. The restaurant tax, in its 28th year, is collected from 1 percent of prepared food sales. There’s more money to go around this year, with the combined pool jumping about $700,000 over 2018 numbers. More than 70 applicants applied for more than $6 million in grants, nearly double the money available. RAP-tax grant applications are evaluated by a committee on three equal criteria: artistic/cultural vi- brancy, public benefit/outreach, and organizational outreach. Ben Castro, who chairs the committee that evaluates the applications, said he’d like to see increased involvement on the eastern side of the county. “We continued to push for this outreach for eastern Summit County,” Castro said. “It’s being heard, but maybe not accepted or adopted as much as we’d like.” The restaurant tax applications are also evaluated by a committee, which uses five criteria, including boosting tourism, the ability to leverage the money and the potential to increase the restaurant tax revenues. The County Council unanimously adopted the recommendations with no changes. The largest grants the RAP tax committee doled out were for $80,000, which went to KPCW, Mountain Town Music, the Sundance Institute and the Utah Symphony and Opera/Deer Valley Music Festival. The restaurant tax committee granted $400,000 to the Park City Lodging Association for the Delta Fly Free promotion, which aims to increase tourism during slower times in the ski season, mainly in early December, as well as March and April, according to county documents. The tax has contributed $325,000 to the program each of the last two years and $275,000 in 2016. The money will offset the price for people who buy tickets on Delta through this program, and will purchase online advertisements. The committee requested data in next year’s application about how many users are new versus returning. Another $180,000 went to the Park City Lodging Association for its Biking Park City campaign to encourage first time, out-ofstate bikers. The committee granted $345,764 to the Park City Restaurant Association to advertise and promote its culinary program, $325,000 for the Park City Chamber/Bureau’s spring marketing campaign, $225,000 to the Sundance Institute for marketing, $125,000 to market the Egyptian Theatre outside Summit County and $105,000 to U.S. Ski and Snowboard for television production costs for a World Cup stop. Other notable grants include $95,000 for the Utah Symphony and Opera for the Deer Valley Music Festival, $90,000 for a soccer field in Francis and $15,000 for the Oakley Rodeo. For a full list of recipients and the evaluation criteria, head to co.summit.ut.us/374/Grant-Information. Summit County in Brief ALEXANDER CRAMER The Park Record Decision on formerly gated community’s gate postponed After more than two hours of lawyering and testimony, the Summit County Council asked for more information before it will rule on whether or not the formerly gated community called Trails at Jeremy Ranch would be allowed to have its gate back. The county notified the home- owners association the gate was illegal in 2012, both the county’s attorney Dave Thomas and the appellant’s attorney Justin Matkin said, and the county started enforcing that in 2017, Thomas and Matkin said, after which the HOA removed the gate to avoid a $250 per day fine, Matkin said. The homeowners contend the gate had been approved before it was electrified in 2001. Though they have no record of a building permit, Matkin presented a permit for electrical work and some construction plans that include mention of a gate. 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