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Phone: 435–649–9014 Fax: 435–649–4942 Email: circulation@parkrecord.com Published every Wednesday and Saturday City Hall official faces misdemeanors Alfred Knotts’ status at Marsac Building not clear as charges filed JAY HAMBURGER The Park Record The Summit County Attorney’s Office on Monday filed formal domestic violence-related charges against a high-level Park City staffer, less than a week after what the authorities described as a physical confrontation between himself and his wife in Summit Park. Prosecutors charged Alfred Knotts, 45, with a count of assault and two counts of commission of domestic violence in the presence of a child. The assault count is classified as one involving domestic violence. Each of the counts is a class B misdemeanor, punishable by up to six months in jail and a $1,000 fine upon conviction. The case was filed in Summit County Justice Court at Silver Summit. A pretrial conference is scheduled March 3. Pretrial conferences can cover a range of issues, and it is unclear what the sides anticipate discussing on March 3. Knotts retained a Park City-based defense attorney, Jessica Peterson. She filed paperwork in Justice Court identifying herself as his attorney on Sunday. Peterson did not immediately comment about the case. City Hall on Tuesday, meanwhile, declined to comment about the status of Knotts. He is the transportation manager for the municipal govern- ment. Officials have not made public statements regarding the legal situation or his status at City Hall. State law allows a government to address many personnel matters privately. As the transportation manager, Knotts has wide-ranging duties as leaders pursue aggressive plans to boost public transit at a time when complaints have appeared to grow about traffic in the Park City area. Knotts and others at City Hall are working broadly on transportation solutions that reduce the need for private vehicles. Knotts would be expected to have a crucial role in any upcoming discussions about road designs, pedestrian-bicyclist upgrades and the prospects of aerial transit systems, such as gondolas, linking key destinations. He is also pivotal in the talks about transit on a regional basis, particularly those between City Hall and Summit County leaders. There has been recent friction between the two sides in the talks as Park City questioned the progress made in Summit County. The sides are expected to return to the talks in March. The formal charges followed shortly after an affidavit of probable cause was filed in Justice Court against Knotts. The affidavit provides a more detailed account of the case, describing an argument with the wife. The wife told Knotts she would call the police, then he grabbed her and threw her onto the floor, the affidavit says. Knotts told the authorities he grabbed her by the arms in an effort to move her, according to the affidavit. The wife told the authorities she did not suffer an injury, but Knotts put her at risk of suffering one, the affidavit says. Continued from A-1 Library on wheels scheduled stops every week,” she said. Bliss, who replaced three-year Bookmobile librarian Shaylee Phelps in September, said the biggest challenge is driving the small, RV-sized vehicle. “This is my seventh day out on my own, and I’ve never driven anything so large before,” Bliss said with a cheerful smile. That challenge is outweighed by her interactions with Bookmobile patrons. “Since we do regular stops, I’ll get to know them all very well,” she said. “And I do like that I get to meet people who are a variety of ages.” The Bookmobile serves students from preschool to fifth grade at the Park City Day School, and Bliss said that, by visiting assisted living facilities, she can theoretically serve people who are 100. The Bookmobile may contain up to 3,000 books during each visit, but it also has an additional 2,000 in its full collection, according to Bliss. “We rotate the books out when we plan each visit,” she said. “And when the seasons change, I will pull out the books that deal with winter and replace them with summer books.” Readers also help Bliss decide what books she will stock. “They’ll come and look around, and if they can’t find a book they want to read, they’ll request it,” she said. McKinsey Darling, another Park City Day School fourth-grade student, recently requested a book. She asked Bliss to order “The Defiant,” the second installment of Lesley Continued from A-1 Protections reinstated The rule could be approved by the Board of Education in March and implemented in May after a public comment period. The committee’s chair, Carol Lear, said that the main improvements in the new rule are cleaning up redundant language, distinguishing between bul- TANZI PROPST/PARK RECORD Gabe Lloyd, left, and Tor Cylvick look at a book about shark attacks during their Bookmobile visit. The Bookmobile usually carries up to 3,000 books during each stop and has access to an additional 2,000 books in storage. Livingston’s “The Valiant” youngadult fantasy series. Although the Bookmobile didn’t have that book on the shelves, Darling is confident she will get to start reading it in a couple of weeks. “It’s cool that the Bookmobile comes to our school every two Mondays where we can check out a book and read it,” she said. “I also like that if we’re not done with the book in the next two weeks, we can tell Ms. Linda that we want to keep reading it until we’re done. Then we can pick out another one.” Darling’s teacher, Jessica Huser, said her 13 students look forward to the Bookmobile pulling into the school’s parking lot. “We’ll bring the students out, and many of them already know what books they want to read,” she said. “So they’ll check those out, and then go back to the class for quiet reading.” Quiet reading, which is part of Huser’s curriculum, is held every Monday, she said. “It’s really special, because the Bookmobile gives them something new,” she said. “They can explore a book they haven’t yet delved into.” The Bookmobile is also a good way to introduce students to the ins and outs of checking out books, said Ian Crossland, Park City Day School’s head of school. “It’s also a great resource for us, a relatively small school, to have that connection with the greater library system,” he said. While Park City Day School is in the midst of building its own library to become an international baccalaureate school, Crossland said he plans to continue the school’s relationship with the Bookmobile, which started seven years ago. “It’s not going to be either, or,” he said. “Why not have both, going forward?” lying and discrimination and providing common definitions so that all school districts would know how to properly gather bullying data. “This whole process started because, frankly, I was concerned that educators who are trying to help us gather data in schools didn’t have common definitions,” Lear said. “Like if there’s a fight that involves six kids, kids are calling each other names and pushing, is it six incidents of bullying or one?” Consistent data will enable districts to know what sort of behavior to target, and inform the kind of training offered to staff, Lear said. The committee members accepted an amendment at Friday’s meeting forwarded by Board Member Jennie Earl that mandates the trainings address “the rights of a school employee, parent, or student to exercise the right of free speech.” Earl explained that her amendment was to ensure the rule hewed to law passed by the state Legislature. “We’ve emphasized all the other elements that are listed in that particular section (of the law) and just including that (language in the rule) continues in that same vein,” Earl told the committee. Park City parent Michelle Deininger, who opposed the previous attempt to remove protections in the rule and testified at the meeting, said the amendment serves to protect the bullies rather than the bullied. In August, an attorney that opposes the Welcoming Schools training pro- gram, which became the center of controversy at Trailside Elementary in the fall, cautioned the state Legislature’s Administrative Rules Review Committee that attempting to censor free speech might open the door for potential lawsuits. That testimony came from Kevin Snider, who is chief counsel of the Pacific Justice Institute, a nonprofit, California-based law firm the Southern Poverty Law Center has labeled an anti-LGBTQ hate group. Snider also signed the cease-and-desist letter sent to the Park City School District in October regarding the Welcoming Schools program. The Park City School District declined to comment on the proposed rule changes. Designs by Knight 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 Roses are red Chocolate is nice But Huggie Earrings say “I LOVE YOU” twice Special Jewelry for special days 3092 So. 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