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Show A-8 Wed/Thurs/Fri, April 1-3, 2020 The Park Record Meetings and agendas Ridgelines TO PUBLISH YOUR PUBLIC NOTICES AND AGENDAS, PLEASE EMAIL CLASSIFIEDS@PARKRECORD.COM A half-century of stories AGENDA SUMMIT COUNTY COUNCIL Wednesday, April 1, 2020 NOTICE is hereby given that the Summit County Council will meet electronically, via Zoom, on Wednesday, April 1, 2020, at the anchor location Sheldon Richins Building, 1885 West Ute Blvd, Park City, UT 84098 (All times listed are general in nature, and are subject to change by the Council Chair) To view Council meeting, live, visit the “Summit County, Utah” Facebook page 4:05 p.m. OR To participate in Council meeting: Join Zoom Meeting at https://zoom.us/j/279421350 OR To listen by phone only: Dial 1-301-715-8592, Meeting ID: 279-421-350 We appreciate your patience and understanding, as we are all getting used to this electronic meeting format 1:55 PM Work Session 1) Interview applicants for vacancies on the Eastern Summit County Planning Commission (50 min) 2:45 PM - Council Members log into separate electronic meeting for closed session 2:55 PM Closed Session - Security (30 min); Property acquisition (30 min) 3:55 PM - Council Members log back into Zoom meeting 4:05 PM Work Session, Continued 1) Pledge of Allegiance 2) 4:10 PM - Discussion regarding 2014 to 2019 Countywide Greenhouse Gas Emissions results and methodology; Darcy Glenn (45 min) 3) 4:55 PM - Update regarding the County Fleet Passenger Vehicles Optimization using telemetrics; Lisa Yoder, Darcy Glenn (15 min) 5:10 PM Consideration of Approval 1) Appoint members to serve on the Timberline Special Service District 2) 5:15 PM - Appoint members to serve on the Hoytsville Cemetery Maintenance District 3) 5:20 PM - Discussion and adoption of Proclamation No. 2020-3, a Proclamation Recognizing Kenny Vidrine for Just Under 28 Years of Public Service to the Citizens of Summit County, Utah 4) 5:30 PM - Council Minutes dated March 11, 2020, March 14, 2020, March 15, 2020, March 16, 2020, March 17, 2020, March 18, 2020, March 19, 2020, and March 20, 2020 5) 5:35 PM - Council Comments 6) 5:50 PM - Manager Comments 6:00 PM Public Input If you would like to submit comments to Council, please email publiccomments@summitcounty.org by 12:00 p.m. on Wednesday, April 1st. If you wish to interact with Council at 6:00 p.m., please follow the “Public Comment Instructions”. 6:15 PM Work Session, Continued 1) Discussion regarding labor market modeling: Jeff Jones (30 min) 2) 6:45 PM - History and 2020/2021 revenue impacts: Matt Leavitt (30 min) Members of the County Council, presenters, and members of public, may attend by electronic means, using Zoom (phone or video). Such members may fully participate in the proceedings as if physically present. The anchor location for purposes of the electronic meeting is the Sheldon Richins Building auditorium, 1885 W. Ute Blvd., Park City, 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 Supplies brought to Navajos Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Health officials have been telling people for weeks to wash their hands thoroughly to help prevent the spread of coronavirus. That’s not always an easy task on the Navajo Nation, where 30% of residents on the vast reservation don’t have running water in their homes. The Navajo Department of Health and Navajo Area Indian Health Service says the number of confirmed positive cases of COVID-19 has reached 115 for the Navajo Nation, which covers parts of New Mexico, Arizona and Utah. Navajo Nation President Jonathan Nez was expected to announce Sunday a curfew from 8 p.m. to 5 p.m. that was slated to go into effect Monday. The stay-at-home order that Nez announced last week will remain in effect. “We know some may need food, medicine, or other essential items, but beyond that we shouldn’t have anyone traveling or going out into the public,” Nez said in a statement. In response to the virus, the Navajo Tribal Utility Authority has delayed water and power disconnections. The Navajo Times reported that in the small community of Chilchinbeto, first responders were delivering bottled water and other supplies to residents. But buying water bottles becomes an issue when the few grocery stores have been forced to limit purchases, said Cindy Howe, a project manager for DigDeep, which installs water systems in Navajo homes. Howe lives on the Navajo Nation about 18 miles from Grants. “We are seeing the shelves here have shortages of cough medicine, hand sanitizer, Clorox wipes and, yes, water bottles,” Howe told the Albuquerque Journal. “But Navajo people are very resilient. Our elders are smart and careful about what they buy.” The Journal reports DigDeep is working with St. Bonaventure Indian Mission and School in Thoreau and the Navajo chapter houses to ensure water deliveries continue. “We deliver water to 220 homes and have two water spigots here at the mission that serve about 500 families,” said Chris Halter, executive director of St. Bonaventure. “We know good hygiene and washing hands is important to combat this disease, so these water deliveries quickly become lifesaving.” According to the Journal, the Mission has instructed workers and volunteers to fill water tanks quickly and practice social distancing. In addition to water, the Mission is delivering 120 meals twice a day to schoolchildren in the region. Of the 115 Navajo Nation coronavirus cases, authorities said 94 are on the Arizona portion of the reservation. The federal government has allocated about $8 billion for tribal governments in the new $2 trillion coronavirus spending package. Nez approved $4 million last week for the Navajo Department of Health to combat the coronavirus and provide medical supplies and water. Two disasters and a baby PATRICK CARR Standard Examiner OGDEN (AP) — McKenna and Mitch Tulane aren’t sure what they’re going to tell their daughter years down the road when the subject of what it was like in the year 2020 comes up. Where would one even start with that story? Maybe the blunt, matter-of-fact version of events is the best way to get the story rolling and they can go from there. “She had quite the first 48 hours. She was born in a pandemic, her first morning home she experiences the earthquake and I don’t think she’s truly going to understand how her first 48 hours were,” Mitch Tulane said. The Syracuse couple welcomed their second child into the world last week, a baby girl named Jersey. Any mother will say childbirth is stressful, painful and scary all on its own. Throw in the current COVID-19 pandemic with all the resulting social and health guidelines into the mix, and the equation changes. “It was a little scary. I was definitely a little bit nervous going to the hospital,” McKenna Tulane said. The couple anticipated the pandemic having some effect on childbirth and figured they would have to limit the amount of visitors at the hospital. Once Gov. Gary Herbert declared a state of emergency earlier this month, the reality set in for them. It set in further when they pulled up to the emergency room at McKay-Dee Hospital last Sunday evening. The nurses could immediately see why the family was there, but they stopped Mitch and asked him a series of questions about if he had a fever, a cough, if he had traveled recently and so on. “Every time I left the hospital, I had to do the same thing,” he said. McKenna said she’s had a slight cough the past six months, so once she told that to the nurses, they too asked questions about her travel history. The hospital was taking its health precautions so seriously that at one point in the delivery room, she cleared her throat, prompting a nurse to turn around and ask if she had a cough. But for the most part, the childbirth was as normal as it could be. The hospital staff didn’t make McKenna wear a mask and she was able to hold Jersey immediately after. When the couple’s first daughter, 4-year-old Everlee, was born, McKenna said there was a handful of people in the delivery room. When Jersey was born, the only visitors allowed were McKenna’s mother and husband. Everlee had to wait a couple of days before being able to meet her baby sister. “It was hard not to be able to share our joy with our family,” By Tom Kelly McKenna Tulane said. Jersey was born March 16, and the family was able to take her home the next day. Early Wednesday morning, Mitch felt the house shaking and thought the nearby construction crew was getting an oddly early start to the workday. Nope, it was just the 5.7 magnitude earthquake that struck near Magna and woke up the entire Wasatch Front. The family was already planning to stay home in Syracuse for the foreseeable future, a “nice new house to be quarantined in,” Mitch Tulane said. Now, because of the pandemic, they aren’t letting anyone visit in person, not even family members. “You’re careful when you bring a newborn home anyways, but this was like a whole new level of being careful,” McKenna Tulane said. The family’s self-isolation has been busy, not just with taking care of a 4-year-old and a newborn, but because Mitch is a teacher at Syracuse High and has been monitoring his classes’ remote learning. The Tulanes are making the isolation work, though. Family members have seen the new baby on video calls, and McKenna set up a camera and took new family portraits herself. One thing’s for sure, the story that McKenna and Mitch tell Jersey about the week she was born will be one for the books. Thanksgiving weekend 1970. Freshman in college. I grabbed a winter jacket and gloves, then drove 90 minutes to Alpine Valley in southeastern Wisconsin. I had absolutely no idea what I was doing. I rented skis, boots and poles, took a four-minute chairlift ride up a 388-foot hill and skied down a narrow 100foot wide swath of man made snow. I was hooked. Skiing has shaped my life. A few weeks ago I wrapped up my 50th winter on skis with a run down Solid Muldoon capped off with a beer and blueberry pie in Snow Park Lodge. It wasn’t exactly the ending any of us had in mind. But each of my 50 days on snow this winter brought me a sense of freedom and perspective. And the view was never the same as it was the day before. It began each day meeting new friends on the Red Pine Gondola in the early morning hours, helping tourists navigate the mountain. Or it may have been a bus ride up to Montage Deer Valley to get a few private laps on Empire before the crowds arrived. You know you live in a great ski town when the biggest decision of the morning is to turn left to Deer Valley or turn right to Canyons — 12 minute drives to some of the best skiing in the world. My ski days were filled with adventure, ripping big GS turns down Stein’s or feeling my stomach rise up in compressions under the bridges along Harmony. You get perspective of where we live in the Wasatch from the ridgelines, taking friends on the short hike up to the patrol shack on Bald Mountain to peer down into Bonanza Flat below — land ever protected by our city. Gazing out from Cloud Dine you can literally feel the power of our mountains as your eyes scan from Ninety Nine 90 to Square Top to Murdocks. As a local, you know your powder hits. For me, I love ducking off North Star into Sunset Trees, or dropping into the chutes of Elk Ridge off Saddleback Express. And, if the storm’s right, you can point your tips into Silverado Bowl while everyone else cruises up the mountain on the Orange Bubble. Main Street is quiet now, taking a short rest. But it will be back. Next season we’ll enjoy a beer at Wasatch and sip whiskey at High West. It’s all a part of the culture of sport and the legend that has grown here in You know you live in a great ski town when the biggest decision of the morning is to turn left to Deer Valley or turn right to Canyons — 12 minute drives to some of the best skiing in the world.” our western ski town. From my early-season outing at Park City Mountain to nighttime grooming at Deer Valley Resort, Ridgelines has taken me around our mountains to bring you the story of our little resort town. I’ve sipped hot chocolate on the deck at St. Regis and had a few brews across the mountain for that beer review that didn’t quite make it out this season. My 50 years skiing have taken me around the globe. In each place, I have brought back memories of mountains and culture. Just a month ago I stood atop Mount Karamatsu at Happo One in Japan with the cragged alpine peaks of Ushirotateyama Range in the background, reminiscing back to Picabo Street’s gold medal there 22 years ago. Later I enjoyed a bowl of ramen and a Sapporo beer down in town. My mind is often drawn back to the day a Finnish friend and I circumnavigated Sella Ronde in the Italian Dolomites. The skiing was dramatic, but the memories of stopping for a tea or having a hearty Tiroler Gröstl with an Italian friend at a mountain top restaurant come to mind, as well. Skiing is about friendship. Years ago I led a group of Americans to a cross-country ski race in Murmansk, high above the Arctic Circle. Our Soviet tour leaders told us not to engage with the people. But we did, and we made lasting friendships through skiing that our respective country’s leaders could never forge. I firmly believe that there is no sport like skiing to bring people and cultures together. In the week of skiing we had with coronavirus protective measures, what I most missed was the people — the conversations on chairlifts. I’m proud to be a local and I delight in welcoming others to our century-old mining town that I’ve called home for 32 years. Like a ride up a chairlift, I hope that you’ve enjoyed your conversation with me this season. I’ve been proud to have people walk up to me at Smith’s to tell me they read my column that week or to get private messages. After all, these are your stories, too. Me — I’m just the storyteller. See you next November. Wisconsin native Tom Kelly landed in Park City in 1988 (still working on becoming an official local). A recently inducted member of the U.S. Ski & Snowboard Hall of Fame, he is most known for his role as lead spokesperson for Olympic skiing and snowboarding for over 30 years until his retirement in 2018. This will be his 50th season on skis, typically logging 60 days in recent years. Vail Resorts CEO donates to COVID-19 relief efforts Rob Katz and wife give $2.5 million to communities Submitted by Vail Resorts As individuals and communities contend with the severe impacts of COVID-19, Vail Resorts CEO Rob Katz and his wife, Elana Amsterdam, New York Times bestselling author and founder of Elana’s Pantry, on Monday announced a donation of more than $2.5 million to provide immediate support for both Vail Resorts employees and the mountain towns where the company operates. Katz will donate $1.5 million in immediate emergency relief grants that will benefit more than a dozen local organizations providing critical services in Park City; Eagle, Summit and Gunnison counties in Colorado; Lake Tahoe, California; Whistler, B.C.; Vermont; Stevens Pass, Washington; and Jackson Hole, Wyoming (home of Grand Teton Lodge Company). An additional $1 million is being donated by Katz to create a new fund within Vail Resorts’ EpicPromise Employee Foundation, which helps the company’s employees respond to unpredictable setbacks, including medical events. This fund will help meet the increased need for assistance due to the impacts of COVID-19, ensuring that the foundation has the resources to address this challenge. “I cannot recall another moment in my lifetime that has caused so much disruption to our lives — to our work, to our health and to our communities,” said Katz. “Throughout this incredibly challenging time, two of our absolute priorities have been, and will continue to be, the health and wellbeing of our employees and mountain communities. What makes our resorts so special is where they’re located and the passionate people who live there. As we navi- gate this situation, it’s essential we continue to support our employees and the vitality of our communities, providing partnership when it’s needed most.” The donation will be distributed through the Katz Amsterdam Charitable Trust, which was established to support mountain communities, with an initial focus on eliminating the stigma of mental illness and increasing access to mental and behavioral healthcare. Since 2016, the trust has donated over $10 million total, including nearly $6.5 million in mental and behavioral health grants, to communities where Vail Resorts operates. Recipients of the Katz Amsterdam Charitable Trust COVID-19 Emergency Relief Grants include: Summit County, Utah: Park City Community Foundation: $200,000 to support the Community Response Fund that will deploy resources to health and human services community organizations that serve vulnerable populations disproportionately affected by the COVID-19 outbreak. State of Colorado: Help Colorado Now: $250,000 to support non-profits across Colorado that are providing critical services during this public health crisis. Eagle County, Colorado: Eagle Valley Community Foundation: $200,000 to support basic needs and mobile food bank services that help community members across the county. Summit County, Colorado: Family Intercultural Resource Center: $100,000 to support the organization’s mobile food bank and mental health and social service navigation. The Summit Foundation: $100,000 to the Summit County Cares Fund to support non-profits serving the most vulnerable populations and providing critical resources to community members. Crested Butte, Colorado: Community Foundation of Gunnison Valley: $50,000 to the Foundation’s COVID-19 Response and Recovery Efforts that supports non-profits who provide critical services to those impacted. South Lake Tahoe, California: The El Dorado Community Foundation: $150,000 to the Foundation’s Coronavirus Relief Fund that will support families in need and non-profits that provide critical basic need and other social services to the community. North Lake Tahoe/Truckee, California: Tahoe Truckee Community Foundation: $100,000 to the Foundation’s COVID-19 Emergency Response Fund that supports nonprofits across the region to serve the critical needs of those impacted by the coronavirus. Whistler, British Columbia: Whistler Community Services Society: $100,000 CAD to support the organization’s mobile food bank, mental health services and social service outreach efforts. The Whistler Blackcomb Foundation: $100,000 CAD to the Foundation’s COVID relief fund that will support non-profits across the Sea-to-Sky corridor as they meet the most critical needs of community members. Vermont: Vermont Community Foundation: $150,000 to support several non-profits in three communities that provide food services, basic needs and critical social services to community members. Stevens Pass, Washington: Upper Valley Mend: $50,000 to support the organization’s food bank program and other critical social services to those in need. Jackson, Wyoming (Grand Teton Lodge Company): Community Foundation of Jackson Hole: $50,000 to the Community Emergency Response Fund to support local non-profits helping those directly impacted by COVID-19. All Vail Resorts Communities: Epic Promise Employee Foundation: $1 million to establish a new fund to provide additional assistance to Vail Resorts employees due to the impacts of COVID-19. |