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Show A-2 Wed/Thurs/Fri, June 26-28, 2019 The Park Record Street artist livens up underpass at the farm Continued from A-1 The Park Record. Serving Summit County since 1880 The Park Record, Park City’s No. 1 source for local news, opinion and advertising, is available for home delivery in Summit, Wasatch, Salt Lake, Davis and Utah counties. Single copies are also available at 116 locations throughout Park City, Heber City, Summit County and Salt Lake City. SUBSCRIPTION RATES In Summit County (home delivery): $56 per year (includes Sunday editions of The Salt Lake Tribune) Outside Summit County (home delivery available in Wasatch, Salt Lake, Davis, Weber and Utah counties; all other addresses will be mailed via the U.S. Postal Service): $80 per year To subscribe please call 435–649– 9014 or visit www.parkrecord.com and click the Subscribe link in the Reader Tools section of the toolbar at the bottom of the page. To report a missing paper, please call 801–204–6100. 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Phone: 435–649–9014 Staffer promoted “I realized the reason we don’t have a problem (here) is that there are people behind the scenes that are doing work to keep it in control,” Bondurant said. “It didn’t take long to realize this is what I wanted to do.” So he made it his career, earning master’s and doctorate degrees over the years, and working for health departments for 15 years. For the last five, he’s been with Summit County, most recently as its environmental health director. Starting June 18, he was promoted to the role of the department’s deputy director, replacing Brent Ovard, who retired after 27 years with the county. The salary range for the position is $84,268.31 to $118,112.89, plus benefits, according to the job posting. As Bondurant has risen through the ranks, his responsibilities have become increasingly administrative and less about jumping in a pickup truck and heading to the mountains to hunt out disease. While he looks back fondly on those days, he finds his new role rewarding when he can help the department’s staff find successes in their own right. Bondurant describes the deputy director position as largely a logistical one that handles the majority of dayto-day operations, while occasionally representing the department’s interests on important issues that come before the county. One of the biggest projects he predicts will take up a lot of his attention is the upcoming switch in providers for the county’s mental health services, with the changeover to University of Utah Health Plans scheduled for Sept. 1. Another large project is developing a program to protect drinking water sources, something that Bondurant said is a priority of the County Council and County Manager Tom Fisher. He thinks the project will be “much more difficult” than it might appear, because he’ll have to start the program from scratch. In his previous role as the environmental health director, Bondurant was in charge of what he called the regulatory arm of public health, making sure permit-holders like restaurants or water parks complied with regulations. He oversaw everything from tattoo parlors to individual wastewater systems to ensure “the environment Continued from A-1 Area had ‘good shot’ sons” not to pursue the Winter Olympics in 2026 since it is focused on the 2028 Summer Olympics, which will be held in Los Angeles, as well as structural changes within the USOPC. There has been little discussion at City Hall about the Olympics since the selection of Salt Lake City as the bid city in December. Beerman predicts the IOC, the USOPC and the Fax: 435–649–4942 Email: circulation@parkrecord.com Published every Wednesday and Saturday Direct Importer of the World’s Finest Rugs A t t h e H i s t o r i c Vi l l a T h e a t r e 3092 So. Highland Dr., Salt Lake City (801)484-6364 888.445.RUGS (7847) Mon.-Sat. 10 am to 6 pm COURTESY OF THE SUMMIT COUNTY HEALTH DEPARTMENT Phil Bondurant is the new deputy director of the Health Department. He previously served as the county’s environmental health director and has been with the county for five years. Bondurant pointed to mental health services and protecting drinking water sources as two of the bigger projects facing the department, and said he will focus on building resiliency. is safe and not increasing the chance of injury or illness through (human) interaction with it.” He said he’s most proud of the way trust increased between the department and those it was tasked with regulating. “When you come in twice a year and do a food inspection and they tolerate your presence, it’s one thing,” Bondurant said. “It’s another thing when they’re calling ahead because of something, (saying) ‘We need your help, we’re doing this, what do you need from us?’” In his new role, Bondurant says his goal is to increase the “resiliency” of the department. “With anything, change is imminent,” he said, citing the possibility of another Olympics bid and the ever-increasing workload being placed on the department. To deal with that change, Bondurant said it’s important the department’s staff feels empowered to make decisions and know leadership will have their back. “If a mistake is made, we learn from our mistakes and move forward instead of feeling like you can’t make a mistake and can’t make a decision,” he said. That dovetails with what Bondurant said is the best part of his job, identifying the strengths of staff members and putting them in a position to succeed. “When the light comes on for them and they’ve done something that benefits others, that’s very rewarding,” he said. Salt Lake committee will “reignite conversations” late in the summer since the 2026 host has been named. The mayor said it is too early for City Hall to launch a broad community discussion about the Olympic bid since details about the process and timeline are not set. The Park City area has a prominent role in the Olympic bid, as it had during the Winter Olympics of 2002. Park City Mountain Resort and Deer Valley Resort are identified as mountain venues while the Utah Olympic Park would host the ski jumping and sliding sports. Soldier Hollow in Wasatch County is identified as the venue for cross-country skiing events. The venue map is similar to the one of the Olympics in 2002, when the Park City area hosted upward of 50 percent of the competitions. TANZI PROPST/PARK RECORD The McPolin Barn is framed by the colorful abstracts painted by mural artist Bill Louis. Park City officials selected Louis for the work, involving the inside walls of a pedestrian-bicyclist tunnel, as part of the municipal government’s public art program. Painter who created work for tunnel counts Banksy as an influence SCOTT IWASAKI The Park Record The pedestrian and bicycle tunnel that runs under S.R. 224 at McPolin Farm looks a lot prettier thanks to urban mural artist Bill Louis. Louis, who has exhibited at the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Studio Elevn and Impact Hub, was selected to paint the concrete tunnel after he answered a call for artists issued by Park City Municipal and the Park City Public Art Advisory Board late last summer. Louis finished the mural Monday. His proposal was an abstract rendition of an abstract, urban-inspired landscape highlighted by rural staples such as a barn, cows and a creek. Louis spray painted the top part of the mural, then finished the lower section with regular exterior paints. “The mural also has some geometric shapes that represent the sky, and rolling hills and mountains,” Louis said during a break from painting last week. The Eagle Mountain resident, who has also painted a mural at SouthTowne Mall in Sandy, said he likes how the tunnel art looks. “There are a lot of different colors and shapes,” he said. “And most of the shapes are triangular, which is kind of what I’m known for.” As a graffiti artist, Louis’ influences include Banksy, Revok and Shepard Fairey. “I also love the classic artists like Vincent van Gogh, Dali and Picasso,” he said. “So I fused a little bit of all their styles in this mural.” Louis began painting the tunnel at the beginning of June. “I came in and primed the concrete with white and added some yellow,” he said. “It’s funny because after I primed it, people who came through started to tell me it already looked better.” The size of the tunnel surprised Louis Continued from A-1 City Hall help sought and principal “outperformed financial estimates.” City Hall borrowed $44 million for the acquisition of Treasure, rather than the projected $45 million, against the $48 million approved by voters, the when he first arrived. “It was longer than I expected,” he said with a laugh. “If it was on a flat surface, I estimate it would be about 600 square feet total.” The size of the tunnel made it a time-consuming project for Louis, who estimated he worked on the mural for an average of 10 hours each day. “One day I came in at 10 a.m and left at midnight,” he said. Still, he enjoyed the project. “The only thing that has been a little tedious is the shapes that I put on the ceiling,” he said. Throughout the project, Louis spoke with many hikers and runners and had to dodge speeding bikers. He even had to deal with a family of swallows that decided to nest in the tunnel. “If I got too close to the nest, the bird would come and hang out for a bit,” Louis said with a laugh. “When I moved away from the nest, it would go away, and so forth.” Louis got into art while growing up in Reno, Nevada. “I did a lot of sports — track, football and rugby — but at the end of the day, I would find myself drawing, doodling or painting,” he said. “I felt that art was always something I could go back to.” Part of Louis’ attraction to art was how therapeutic it was. “I could get into a zone where I was in my own world, time and space, and do whatever I wanted,” he said. Louis’ interest in urban and graffiti art was also influenced by his upbringing. “It always fascinated me to see these ugly buildings painted with bright colors,” he said. “And when I was younger, my buddies went out and did our own painting.” After Louis began to hone his skills, he also started to feel he could do something more constructive with his art. “That’s when I began to notice a lot of mural artists who would beautify spaces with what they do,” he said. “So I started doing mural work. And that has led me here.” report says. The report indicates “property taxpayers are paying less than estimated when they voted to protect Treasure Hill” and Snow Ranch Pasture, saying “an additional $1 million in bond authorization remains available to draw upon.” Utah Open Lands and Park City officials want to set aside the land from development for its scenic value and wildlife habitat. Utah Open Lands has said up to 48 houses are possible if the acreage is not protected. The City Council is scheduled to consider the additional contribution at a meeting on Thursday starting at 6 p.m. at the Marsac Building. A hearing and vote are scheduled. |