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Show A-2 Wed/Thurs/Fri, November 6-8, 2019 The Park Record 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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The report also notes more analysis is required into the effects on the Park Avenue-Deer Valley Drive intersection, one of the busiest intersections in the city. The report also notes the possibility of a greater police presence at certain intersections like Park Avenue and 9th Street if the stretch of road becomes a one-way route. The other one-way possibilities include: • eastbound only between Park Avenue and Main Street on 4th Street and 5th Street, which is the direction toward Main Street. City Hall says such a change would “further deter traffic from Main Street turning into the residential district.” • westbound only on Hillside Avenue, which is the direction toward Main Street, an alteration that would remove one option for drivers headed out of the Main Street core. Hillside Avenue is a tiny street with just a few residences, but it has received significant attention amid the broad discussions about Old Continued from A-1 House targeted vandalize the driveway project. Colton said people walked through the superintendent’s yard over the weekend and took pictures of the home. The superintendent has also been yelled at on her street, two district officials said. Gildea did not file a report with the Summit County Sheriff’s Office after the rock-throwing incident. Sheriff’s Lt. Andrew Wright said Gildea requested increased patrols last week, however, and added that the superintendent has a reasonable expectation of privacy, just like everybody else. “Of course they couldn’t barge in and take a tour of the home,” he said. Colton said the district requested extra Sheriff’s Office patrols outside the home after a Salt Lake City news outlet published a story Thursday about the improvements that included photos of the home. Park City Board of Education President Andrew Caplan called the situation shameful. He said the comments have gone over the line and become harassment and have included threats. “Throwing rocks through people’s windows when they’ve literally done nothing wrong other than live in the community and be a neighbor is, in my opinion, disgusting,” Caplan said. “Frankly, I’m ashamed of the community and I’m embarrassed that people in Park City felt entitled to act out and lash out to any of our community members, let alone the superintendent of schools who is here to educate our children.” In 2018, the Park City School District purchased the home for $870,000 knowing that it needed improvements, Caplan and the district’s business administrator Todd Hauber said. Caplan said the decision to buy the home was based on community feedback that it was important for the superintendent to live inside the district boundaries. Town traffic since it is heavily used by commercial traffic such as taxis, shuttles and ridesharing firms. Park City officials, meanwhile, are also considering options that would further emphasize the bus system. The buses are packed during much of Sundance, but leaders would like even more people to ride them as an alternative to personal vehicles. The report says City Hall has started talks with the Utah Department of Transportation about creating a bus lane during Sundance, weather permitting. Park City could also restrict parking on one side of Park Avenue and design Swede Alley to act as a transportation hub for bus riders, ridesharing firms and taxis. The report indicates staffers are evaluating options for the flagpole parking lot toward the northern end of Swede Alley and considering altering the pricing structure of China Bridge garage parking during Sundance. “While this report focuses on future operations during the Sundance Film Festival, the need for increased event management is not solely a symptom of the Festival. More common than not, related impacts are actually the result of third party activities, ambush events, and other operations well outside the control of Sundance,” the report, drafted by Jenny Diersen, the special event and economic development program manager at City Hall, said. The City Council meeting on Thursday is scheduled to start at 6 p.m. at the Marsac Building. City Hall is currently gathering input about the ideas. It enables the person to be present at more functions and become part of the community, but also to be on hand if an emergency were to happen, Caplan explained. The district has earmarked $200,000 for repairs to the home, $67,000 of which has been spent to date, Caplan said. Hauber said that money has paid to have significant portions of the property regraded to stop water running directly toward the home, to shore up the driveway retaining walls that were failing in places, to regrade and repave the driveway and to improve the garage access. While the pavement was dug up, Hauber said, crews installed most of the components necessary for a heated driveway, but it is not operational. He said that would be up to the superintendent to decide whether to finish the installation and use the system, which she would pay for. A contract stipulates the superintendent pay for all utilities, routine maintenance like plowing snow and homeowner-association fees. Hauber said the decision to purchase the home was made before Gildea was chosen to become the next superintendent. He said the district owned a house for the same reason in the 1980s but sold it in the 1990s when a superintendent chose not to live there. The district has also owned housing for teachers. He said candidates for open positions have turned down offers from the district because of the cost of living in the area. Another remedy the district considered was a housing stipend, which would cover the cost of living expenses, like a mortgage. He added district employees receive a $1,500 residential housing transportation allowance each year to offset increased costs of housing or commuting. He said it made more financial sense to own an asset that appreciates in value rather than build in an expense like a housing stipend. The school district has also been beset by controversy in recent weeks over a teacher training program at Trailside Elementary School that opponents call LGBTQ indoctrination. The district says is part of a state-mandated effort to stop bullying. Comments made on social media and through anonymous emails have verged into personal territory in that controversy, as well. Continued from A-1 Sundance worried for Park Avenue access. They include residents, people who work at businesses on Park Avenue and people headed to the Park City Library. Wallace notes there are festival venues along Park Avenue as well, including the screening room at the library, and Sundance staffers operate in the Miners Hospital. Service vehicles, delivery trucks and trash trucks would also need access to Park Avenue, she says. The letter from Wallace also outlines the possibility of vehicles that would otherwise be on Park Avenue causing backups elsewhere. “Our concerns also lie with the additional non-permitted cars taken off of Park Avenue and routing them either on to Deer Valley Drive or Empire Avenue, causing increased gridlock along both roads and all the way down to the Park Avenue and Kearns Boulevard intersection and possibly out further along Highway 224,” Wallace writes. Wallace questions whether increased traffic on Deer Valley Drive could hinder buses as they arrive and depart the Old Town transit center, a critical component of the Sundance transportation plans. “There is discussion about adding a center lane for buses heading into Old Town on Deer Valley Drive but that can only happen in good weather and providing easy lane transition for the buses as they approach the Continued from A-1 Giving day slated incentive for people. So we put the spotlight on the number of donors we wanted to get.” Throughout the day, Park City Community Foundation will set up headquarters at High West Distillery, 703 Park Ave. Starting at 8 p.m., the foundation will host its traditional Live PC Give PC celebration that will be open to ages 21 and older, where it will track the number of donors and amount of donations, before announcing the totals and special prize winners, Wilder said. One way prize money is awarded to nonprofits will be through a number of leaderboard categories, Wilder said. “Leaderboard prizes will be awarded based on the total number of unique donors making at least one online gift via the Live PC Give PC platform,” Wilder said. “All 117 nonprofits are eligible for these prizes, and an organization that wins a leaderboard prize won’t be eligible to win another, according to Wilder. The All Nonprofits category will hand out $2,500 to the nonprofit that records the most unique donors. It will then award $1,500 for second prize and $1,250 for third, Wilder said. roundabout. We cannot add more risk of an accident occurring on Deer Valley Drive with possible temporary closures on the only way up to Main Street or Deer Valley Resort,” the letter says. Some other Sundance concerns, described in an attachment to the letter, include • ”We are worried that our filmgoers will not be able to get to the Library theater and will miss their films. We need to make sure that transit runs as smoothly as possible so that people continue to trust and use the free buss/shuttle system to get them to their locations on time.” • “Restricting Park Avenue might create the opposite result and push more cars to residential streets. The number of officers/street management and cost of enforcement at every residential street would be hard to fill and very expensive.” • “How will law enforcement be able to manage all the cars with permits going through Park Avenue without causing complete gridlock at the intersection of Empire Avenue, Deer Valley Drive and Park Avenue? Enforcement will be stopping cars to look for a permit which will cause traffic to back up into that very busy intersection.” Wallace suggests in the letter City Hall contract with a traffic engineer to address issues during Sundance and on a year-round basis. “We are amenable to testing reasonable alternatives during the Festival as we want to improve the overall traffic experience for both residents and visitors, but we need to feel, with a reasonable degree of certainty, that such alternatives will not have severe unintended consequences that will negatively impact Festival operations and the flow of traffic throughout the city,” she says. The other categories will award $1,250 for first place, $750 for second and $500 for third, Wilder said. Those categories are: • Caring for Each Other is focused on health and human services. • Energizing and Enlivening is essentially for art and culture nonprofits. • Keep On Moving is centered around sports nonprofits. • Protecting Where We Play is for environmental nonprofits • Sparking Minds is for education nonprofits. Prize money will also be awarded through the New Donor Challenge and Power Hour Booster Challenge, Wilder said. The New Donor Challenge will add $10 to each of the first 800 donations made by donors who’ve never participated in Live PC Give PC, while the Power Hour Booster Challenge will tack on $20 to the first 200 donations made within the hour. The hour the challenge will take place will be announced via social media. The Park City Community Foundation will pay qualifying nonprofits by Dec. 15, according to Wilder. Offline donations, such as those made by check and cash, can also be accepted during Live PC Give PC, Wilder said. “While these donations can count towards the organizations’ totals if the donor specifically says they are for Live PC Give PC, but they won’t count towards any of the prizes, because there is no way for us to verify them,” Wilder said. Live PC Give PC will run from 12 a.m. Friday to 12 a.m. Saturday. For information or to donate, visit livepcgivepc.org. Correction An article published in the Oct. 30-Nov. 1 edition titled “Taxi parking considered on Main Street” misstated the intent of the proposed parking restrictions. The intent is to reduce congestion on Main Street and increase pedestrian safety. It’s the Place the Locals Choose 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 For the month of November we are serving a selection of 3-course Entrees for $26.50 THANKSGIVING WE START SERVING AT 2:30PM. 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