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Show A-8 Wed/Thurs/Fri, June 26-28, 2019 The Park Record Meetings and agendas Core saMples TO PUBLISH YOUR PUBLIC NOTICES AND AGENDAS, PLEASE EMAIL CLASSIFIEDS@PARKRECORD.COM By Jay Meehan Shapeshifting with Mitt AGENDA SUMMIT COUNTY COUNCIL Wednesday, June 26, 2019 NOTICE is hereby given that the Summit County Council will meet in session Wednesday, June 26, 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) 1:25 PM Closed Session – Personnel (60 min); Property Acquisition (15 min) 2:40 PM – Move to Council Chambers 2:50 PM Work Session 1) Pledge of Allegiance 2) 2:55 PM - Community benefit update from Intermountain Park City Hospital; Amy Tuddenham, Lori Westonand Bentley Peay (20 min) 3) 3:15 PM - Presentation by Central Utah Water Conservancy District regarding decision to go through Truth in Taxation; Gene Shawcroft (20 min) 4) 3:35 PM - Update from Summit County Weed Control Advisory Board, Dave Bingham and Sara Jo Dickens (30 min) 5) 4:05 PM - Update regarding electric vehicle charging stations; Lisa Yoder (15 min) 6) 4:20 PM - Visit direct current (DC) fast charging station on the east side of the courthouse parking lot for photo opportunity during media tour (30 min) 4:50 PM Convene as the Governing Body of Mountain Regional Water Special Service District 1) Discussion and possible approval of Resolution 2019-16MRW, a Resolution Annexing Certain Real Property to the Mountain Regional Water Special Service District, PP-102-C-3; Marti Gee (10 min) Dismiss as the Governing Body of Mountain Regional Water Special Service District 5:00 PM Consideration of Approval 1) Discussion and possible approval of updates to the Summit County operational policy to comply with HB 163 regarding personal use of public property, Jami Brackin and Brian Bellamy 2) Discussion and possible Resolution 2019-17, a Resolution of Summit County Approving the Acquisition of the Wright Ranch (Echo Canyon) Conservation Easement; Kate Sattelmeier 3) Discussion and possible Resolution 2019-18, a Resolution of Summit County Approving the Acquisition of the Sargent Conservation Easement; Kate Sattelmeier 4) Discussion and possible Resolution 2019-19, a Resolution of Summit County Approving the Acquisition of the Judd Lane Conservation Easement; Kate Sattelmeier 5) Advice and consent of County Manager’s recommendation to appoint member to the Eastern Summit County Agricultural Preservation Committee (ESAP) 6) Council Comments 7) Manager Comments 6:00 PM Public Input Public hearing and possible regarding the proposed Promontory Development Agreement Amendment to increase the home size from 8,000 sq. ft. to 22,000 sq. ft. and to allow for accessory dwelling units on Lots 1-36 of the Pinnacle Subdivision; Promontory, Summit County, UT; Shawn Potter, Applicant and Amir Caus, AICP 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 WWII vet takes to the air again to honor late wife Associated Press MOUNTAIN GREEN — A World War II veteran mourning his wife of 73 years has honored her memory with a flight in a plane like he once flew over France and Germany. Bill Willis’s wife, Julia, had always encouraged her husband to reflect on his war stories and fly again, but he tended to downplay his service, KSL-TV reported. But after Julia Willis died in April at age 95, he accepted an offer of a ride from a pilot at a rural Utah airport in Morgan County, not far from his granddaughter’s home in Kaysville. Bill Willis hadn’t flown a Boeing PT-17 Stearman since 1948 and needed a little help putting on his parachute and getting into the front seat, but the craft was familiar. “I have flown that same kind of airplane with her up front and I was in the back,” said the 97-year-old, remembering his wife. “I’d like to think she was sitting there with me.” Granddaughter Steffoni Garner said she knows her grandmother watched the ride in spirit and would have been proud. “It was just meant to be,” Garner said. The couple met in New York in 1938, when they lived across the street from each other. Bill Willis flew for the 55th Fighter Group during World War II, escorting bombers and destroying transportation infrastructure in Europe. They later moved to Costa Mesa, California. “It’s going to be hard for me to go back to the house,” a teary-eyed Willis, 97, said. “All I can say is she’s a wonderful lady and I miss her.” Utahn charged in murders of LA deputy, snowboarder Police haven’t found a motive for ambush killings Associated Press LOS ANGELES — A Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputy shot in an off-duty attack was remembered Monday as an inspiration to his family and colleagues for his positive attitude and devotion to public service. Mourners including hundreds of law enforcement members packed the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels for the funeral of Deputy Joseph Solano. A Utah man, Rhett Nelson, has been charged with two counts of murder in the ambush deaths just an hour apart of Solano and Dmitry Koltsov, a renowned Russian snowboarder. Nelson, who is being held without bail, has yet to enter a plea and is due back in court on July 22. His attorney, Jenn Bartick, has declined to comment. Police haven’t identified a motive for the seemingly random attacks June 10. “Joseph was a one of a kind man who took care of others before himself,” Solano’s longtime girlfriend Julianna Loza said during her eulogy. The couple had just purchased their dream house and Solano spent his free time compiling notes for his next home improvement project, she said. Despite his dangerous job, Solano inspired Loza by remaining upbeat and focusing on the positive things in his life, like his mother, son and stepdaughter, she said. “He always had a way of comforting me and reassuring me that everything was going to be all right,” Loza said. Sheriff’s Captain Tania Plunkett said Solano kept his fellow deputies smiling with his one-liners and confident demeanor, earning him the nickname J.C. — or Joe Cool. “He was full of life, he loved his family and everyone around him,” Plunkett said. Kolstov, 31, competed for years at Russian snowboarding championship meets and international competitions, the Los Angeles Times reported Monday. He was skateboarding with friends in downtown Los Angeles when a man drove up and shot him in the head without provocation, police said. After shooting Kolstov, Nelson drove several miles east to suburban Alhambra and shot Solano while the off-duty deputy waited in line at a Jack in the Box restaurant, investigators said. Authorities also suspect Nelson of committing two armed robberies in Long Beach. Separately, police in San Diego County say they suspect him in five armed convenience store robberies. Nelson’s family has said he suffers from mental illness and an opiate addiction. His family reported him missing last month when he left their Utah home with a firearm and said he wanted to “make it on his own or die,” according to St. George, Utah, police. His family told police they did not believe he was suicidal or a danger to others at the time. Solano, 50, died at a hospital two days after being shot. Friends of Koltsov have been raising money to send his remains to his family in Moscow, the Times said. Koltsov first rode a skateboard at the age of 14 and quickly became integral to Moscow’s fledgling skate scene, according to a statement provided to the Times from his sister, Marfa Koltsova. He worked with some friends to create Limited Skate Division, a do-it-yourself skate park in Moscow modeled after a similar venue in Portland, Oregon, she said. Koltsov began competing in international snowboarding in 2006, according to the International Ski Federation. He placed third in the big air snowboarding competition at the 2010 Russian national championships. Two years later, he earned a silver medal during a halfpipe competition in Switzerland, according to the federation. He moved to Southern California in 2015 hoping to stay involved in the skate and snowboarding scenes without the pressures of trying to compete on a world stage, friends said. Since arriving, Koltsov had become something of an ambassador to other well-known Russian skaters and snowboarders visiting the area, said Kalil Hammouri, who lived with Koltsov for several years. “He was almost like an unofficial coach to all the Russian competitive skateboarders. They would come here for competitions and he would house them, feed them and make sure they got where they needed to go,” said Hammouri, 28. These days, Mitt Romney, the Junior Senator from Utah, must get high-centered in front of his closet wondering which of his many skins would best suit his latest fluctuation. When one is in the business of “perfect positioning,” adornments matter. Of course, when compared to the likes of Orrin Hatch or Mike Lee or, Lord help us, Donald Trump, there remains a bit of gloss on the ol’ veneer. When he first began slouching toward the weatherbeaten Hatch’s Senate seat a while back, there really wasn’t much doubt that it was Trump’s expansive recliner that was actually in his crosshairs. 2018 wasn’t his first rodeo and recognizing a proper platform from which to attempt yet another run at the White House came easily. Not that there isn’t entertainment value in watching him tread water in Trump and Utah’s always in flux Sea of Morality. As long as his chiding of The Donald’s questionable ethics and spirituality are only brush-back-pitches and not of the knockdown variety, they’ll continue to love him in these parts. There he is, Mitt Romney the lily pad, perfectly still in the water, just biding – or is that Biden – his time. Not taking on any issues that might offend his Citizens United PAC money-flow constituency should the sheer mountain of Trump political gaffs tip the scales his direction. No dummy, he! Why take a chance when you’ve got all the bases covered? Just keep adding enough Obama, Hillary and Pelosi fuel to the fire to keep an ember or two aglow and, as long as you stay clear of those annoying “What-would-Jesus-do?” inquiries and just wait for Trump to stumble further, who knows what 2020 might bring. Lest we forget, Mitt is as “Teflon” as any Reagan you may find lying about. He is the same chameleon who referenced Trump as a “phony” and a “fraud” before the great notion of running for office again came calling. One wonders if it slipped his mind that, historically, the confluence of perception and honesty have proven to be rough waters when negotiating Republican primaries. Don’t you just love it when it’s well within the range of imagination for, among the party base, our Mitt to be considered too far left? Don’t you just love it when it’s well within the range of imagination for, among the party base, our Mitt to be considered too far left?” But not to worry. Scuttlebutt has it that there may yet be another Salt Lake City Olympic Winter Games on the horizon. And with our collusion-rich, back-slapping, pocket-stuffing, corporate camaraderie already in place, hard telling not knowing if our hero might yet be called upon to once again don his white hat. Oh, to be a fly on the wall at one of Mitt’s positioning summits. In many ways, it’s probably safer to mock Agent Orange from within the snug harbor of the sect-formerlyknown-as-Mormon than from elsewhere on the ever evolving political landscape of the Right. Not that the Party of Trump has a monopoly on skullduggery within the ranks of due process but they certainly haven’t had much trouble keeping up with and expanding upon the historical shenanigans of the left. In fact, they have taken it into realms heretofore in- conceivable to all but the most unenlightened among us. Lest we forget the quite-lessthan-subtle backtracking Senator Romney has performed since the 2016 presidential campaign, his was one of the leading voices calling for Trump to release his tax returns due to the obvious political bombshells that were contained therein. Of late, he’s been rather silent on the subject. And although the good Junior Senator has yet to endorse Trump for reelection, the equilibrium that exists between the two reeks of back-door politics. Where shortly prior to being sworn-in to office, Romney unleashed an op-ed consisting of an anti-Trump tirade that had primary challenger tongues all awag, he seems to have modified his stance. I know, why pick on Romney when there are so many other juicy morsels to be had from the current buffet table? Well, the closer we get to an actual party convention with the usual suspects all aligned, the more he shapeshifts into the conniving politician we recognize from the past. If all he’s going to offer the anti-Trump wing of the Republican Party, as vocally-mute as it has become, is nothing more than a sporadic rollingback-of-the-eyes, he might as well fully commit to Trump’s misogynistic, white supremacy, neo-Nazi stance now. It’s common knowledge that he’s already staked-out his own turf within the “all power to the rich” branch. You have to wonder which still-closeted skin he will slip into this time around. Mitt Romney! He treads water, therefore he is! 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 Liquid assets The list is daunting: The Canyons Village, the base of Deer Valley’s Snow Park Lodge, Park City Mountain’s current parking area, a housing project near the Home Depot that will leave a few thousand people using one roundabout, and some 13,000 units near the Jordanelle Reservoir. This isn’t a complete list of planned development slated to begin soon; it’s just what immediately comes to mind. All of this development is on tap. But what happens when the tap runs dry? Unfortunately, many of these developments were granted some form of never-expiring approval decades ago. There’s not much that can be done to stop them. But mitigation by way of irrigation is an idea that might hold water. When more buildings and bodies are mentioned, the concerns about traffic and general overcrowding quickly follow. The solutions offered tend to be more public transit, expanding roadways, and otherwise figuring out how to adapt to all the additional people. But the impact of all that planned development is far greater than a traffic jam, and it’s rarely spoken about — our water supply can’t sustain all this development. Water is a finite resource, one we cannot manufacture or live without. Our filled-the-brim reservoirs are a proverbial drop in the bucket compared to the amount of water it will take to build all those new structures and supply all the people residing and working in them. Every single one of those homes and businesses will have toilets, sinks, showers, lawns, laundry, and thirsty people. What is the plan to ensure there’s enough water to meet the demand? As far as I can tell, there isn’t one. For a long time, we’ve operated under the assumption, “If we build it, they will come.” Maybe someone should start asking, “But what will they drink?” Climate change matters because more and more of our water will likely fall in the form of rain instead of snow.” Last week Utah State University’s Research Landscape hosted an event focused on Utah’s waterscapes. Much of the emphasis was on Utah’s growing population and dwindling water supply. Michelle Baker, an associate dean and professor of biology at USU, said, “Our water supply and the demand for that water have a mismatch. Second to Nevada, Utah is the driest state in the nation and climate change is not something that we can deny.” Climate change matters because more and more of our water will likely fall in the form of rain instead of snow. Most of Utah’s water storage capabilities rely on snowpack to be effective, meaning our current ability to store water only works if it’s cold enough. According to Baker, water consumption in Utah is among the highest in the country. On average, every person in the state uses 160 to 170 gallons of water per day. It’s not just the fact that in much of Utah people are bathing six or more kids. A lot of our water is also used in agriculture. And given that Utah has the second-lowest water per gallon rate in the nation, there really isn’t a monetary incentive to ration the supply. There should be. No matter how much money someone has to burn, no one can drink cash. The city and county (and state of Utah for that matter) need to consider implementing and enforcing new codes for all development. Land owners might have the right to build, but surely we have the right to mandate xeriscaping, synthetic laws, low-water usage appliances, and other water-saving measures be part of every new structure built. We made the mistake decades ago of granting development rights to infinity and beyond. Developers may be able to cash in on the lack of past planning and formality, but it seems logical to now consider proactive measures that will help prevent future residents from being in hot water 40 years from now. 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. |