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Show A-6 Wed/Thurs/Fri, July 29-31, 2020 The Park Record Continued from A-1 NOTICE OF PROPOSED TAX INCREASE SOUTH SUMMIT SCHOOL DISCTRICT Teachers prepare The South Summit School District is proposing to increase its property tax revenue. – The SOUTH SUMMIT SCHOOL DISTRICT tax on a $418,000 residence would increase from $1,254.10 to $1,289.28 which is $35.18 per year. – The SOUTH SUMMIT SCHOOL DISTRICT tax on a $418,000 business would increase from $2,280.19 to $2,344.14 which is $63.95 per year – If the proposed budget is approved, SOUTH SUMMIT SCHOOL DISTRICT would increase its property tax budgeted revenue by 3.14% above last year’s property tax budgeted revenue excluding eligible new growth. All concerned citizens are invited to a public hearing on the tax increase. Date/Time: Location: Public Hearing 8/13/2020 6:00PM South Summit School District Board Room 285 E. 400 S. Kamas To obtain more information regarding the tax increase, citizens may contact SOUTH SUMMIT SCHOOL DISTRICT at 435-783-4301. Get 53% Off the newsstand price when you subscribe! For an in-county rate of only $56 a year, you can save 53% from the newsstand and receive: • • • • • Home Delivery Park Record E-edition Real Estate Monthly All Park Record Magazines Free Sunday Salt Lake Tribune Call 435-649-9014 to get your subscription today! Select option 3 when prompted Save even more with a 2 year subscription! they caught it from their child. “That’s how it’s going to spread,” Hooker said, talking about socializing among teens. “And our kids, they’re not going to social distance — they can’t. Their frontal lobes aren’t fully developed.” Some at-risk teachers are hoping to work remotely, she said, as are some who share a home with people who are deemed high-risk. The Park City School District has offered three options for students this year: fully remote, online learning; an in-person schedule that resembles normal schooling; and a hybrid of the two. Parents have a deadline of Aug. 7 to select an option for their student’s first quarter or trimester of learning. Until enrollment numbers come in, it’s hard for teachers to know what their responsibilities will be and challenging for the district to know how many teachers to hire. And there are concerns about how to maintain a safe environment in different rooms. Most classrooms have Continued from A-1 Miners Day at City Park, where miners compete against each other in two of the industry’s key skills. Miners Day has long been seen as being more locally focused than the Independence Day celebrations two months earlier. Candidates in City Hall and County Courthouse campaigns oftentimes see parade entries as the traditional start of the fall politicking. The Running of the Balls, which raises funds for area not-for-profit organizations on Miners Day, will be held virtually. “It’s important for us to put community health over celebration this year,” the president of the Park City Rotary sinks for students to wash their hands, but some do not. Hooker said she teaches in a classroom without windows, leading to questions about ventilation. She said that she has full faith in the administration and district to protect teachers and students, but the situation is without clear answers and fraught with difficulty. “So yes, we’re afraid,” she said. “I’m afraid of getting the virus. I’m afraid that I could spread it. My mother is 86 years old. I’m afraid that I could pass it on to an immunocompromised child.” She said teachers are also concerned with enforcing a mask mandate in their classrooms, but more concerned with student behavior outside of the classroom. “Older kids, they’re going to walk out for lunch, rip their mask off, get in their car and drive to Alberto’s for lunch,” she said. “We can manage what happens in our classroom. It’s impossible to manage what happens outside.” One teacher she knows who had COVID-19 in April still is too short of breath to go on hikes, she said, and there is fear among teachers regarding unknown consequences of the disease. Still, she said, “teachers teach,” and are finding creative solutions. Park City teachers aren’t the only ones adapting. One North Summit kindergarten teacher, Camellia Robbins, said she is excited to get back to school and interact with students. She bought a special soap dispenser this summer that dispenses soap in the shape of Mickey Mouse in the hopes of making hand-washing enticing to her young students. “While things will be different and there will be challenges, I believe we can make this year successful and fun,” Robbins wrote in an email to The Park Record. Hooker said other teachers are considering things like playing a song to mark the time for hand-washing and mask-adjusting. Many teachers entered the profession to connect with kids, Hooker said, and many said this spring that missing their students was the hardest part of adjusting to the pandemic. But the consequences of returning are real and sobering, Hooker said, and teachers are weighing them alongside a desire to return. “As soon as COVID hit, I updated all of my will information,” Hooker said. “I think one of the things that really, really, really scares ... us is knowing that there are go-to docs that they can send out saying a student or a teacher or a staff member died. I mean, I understand that on an intellectual level. On an emotional level, to know that we are prepared for that scenario, that’s tough.” Club, Corrie Forsling, said in a prepared statement. “It’s just a one-year pause of a celebration that began over a century ago. But, most importantly, we still need to use Miners Day as an opportunity to support our local nonprofits.” The Miners Day celebration dates to the late 19th century, with the first event held in June of 1896, according to the Rotary Club. Silver mining drove the economy for decades before collapsing in the middle of the 20th century with a drop in prices. The ski industry rose in ensuing decades to succeed mining as the economic driver. Park City, though, has paid tribute to the mining days throughout the skiing era, preserving silver-mining relics, naming places after mining-era locations and using the mining era as a subject for artworks like the bronze miner on Main Street. The Miners Day celebration stands as one of the most notable ways the era is marked. The cancellation of the Miners Day celebration was announced after a string of other events were scrapped for 2020. They include the weekly Park Silly Sunday Market, the Park City Kimball Arts Festival, the Fourth of July parade and fireworks and the Tour of Utah bicycling race. A series of other cultural and sports events were also canceled. It seemed likely in recent weeks the Miners Day celebration would be greatly altered or outright canceled as the coronavirus continued to spread, but it was not clear when organizers would finalize the decision. The event cancellations and the overall drop in the tourism industry have resulted in a difficult stretch for many Park City-area businesses, including some of the places on Main Street. Park City leaders opted to pedestrianize Main Street on Sundays in the summer and early fall in an effort to attract people, but there have been mixed results across Park City as the final month of the summer-tourism season arrives. INTERMOUNTAIN MORTGAGE COMPANY ONE-TIME CONSTRUCTION LOANS ONLINE & PHONE APPOINTMENTS FOR SOCIAL DISTANCING PURPOSES. 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