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Show A-8 The Park Record Meetings and agendas Wed/Thurs/Fri, August 5-7, 2020 Red Card Roberts TO PUBLISH YOUR PUBLIC NOTICES AND AGENDAS, PLEASE EMAIL CLASSIFIEDS@PARKRECORD.COM By Amy Roberts A love letter to my former employer AGENDA SUMMIT COUNTY COUNCIL Wednesday, August 5, 2020 NOTICE is hereby given that the Summit County Council will meet electronically, via Zoom, on Wednesday, August 5, 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 at 3:40 p.m. OR To participate in Council meeting: Join Zoom webinar: https://zoom.us/j/772302472 OR To listen by phone only: Dial 1-301-715-8592, Webinar ID: 772 302 472 1:10 PM Closed Session - Security (20 min); Personnel (30 min); Litigation (90 min) 3:30 PM - Council Members log into Zoom meeting 3:40 PM Work Session 1) Pledge of Allegiance 2) 3:45 PM - Introduction of the Miss Summit County Royalty; Tyler Orgill (20 min) 3) 4:05 PM - Discussion regarding Mobil Crisis Outreach Team; Aaron Newman, Tracy Altman, and Dr. Juergen Korbanka (30 min) 4:35 PM Convene as the Board of Equalization 1) Discussion and possible approval of 2020 stipulations; Stephanie Larsen, Travis Lewis, and LoraLea McKnight (15 min) Dismiss as the Board of Equalization 4:50 PM Convene as Governing Board of Snyderville Basin Special Recreation District 1) Consideration and possible approval of personnel action; Ben Castro (10 min) Dismiss as Governing Board of Snyderville Basin Special Recreation District 5:00 PM Consideration of Approval 1) Discussion and possible adoption of Resolution 2020-15, a Resolution of the Summit County Council Authorizing the Filing of a Cross Appeal in the 2020 Appeal Filed by Pacificorp, a Company Subject to Central Assessment; Helen Strachan (5 min) 2) 5:05 PM - Discussion and possible approval of Ordinance No. 910, An Ordinance Amending the Administrative Code Enforcement Hearing Program Within Summit County, to authorize and include the Special Service Districts; Blaine Thomas and Jami Brackin (30 min) 3) 5:35 PM - Council Comments (15 min) 4) 5:50 PM - Manager Comments (10 min) 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, August 5th. If you wish to interact with Council at 6:00 p.m., for public input or the public hearing, please follow the "Public Comment and Public Hearing Instructions". Continued public hearing, possible action regarding proposed amendments to the Silver Creek Village Center Development Agreement, specifically for Parcel 22.1, located at 1473 Dogwood Court, through the adoption of an Ordinance No. 907, an Ordinance Approving and Adopting the First Substantial Amendment to the Silver Creek Village Center Specially Planned Area Development Agreement; Matt Lowe, applicant, Jennifer Strader, County Planner 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 1980 U.S. Olympic team finds overdue recognition Athletes enshrined 4 decades after Games boycott EDDIE PELLS Associated Press COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — Many of the names are familiar. Others don’t quite ring a bell. There were 474 U.S. athletes primed to take their talents to the Moscow Olympics in 1980. The U.S. government, in the throes of a Cold War struggle with the Soviet Union, put an end to those plans. Of those 474 athletes, 227 would never get another chance at Olympic glory. All the athletes’ names, and their story, are enshrined at the recently opened U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Museum — a small, overdue and fittingly timed tribute to a group of athletes who never got their due. “If you get your shot and you don’t win, then you don’t win,” said swimmer John Moffet, who was 16 at the time the boycott was announced. “One thing that made this so hard was that we didn’t get our shot in 1980, and it was nothing that we did.” Moffet did get his shot four years later at the Los Angeles Olympics. He came into those games as the world record holder in the 100 meter breaststroke. He tore a muscle in his leg during preliminaries, which cost him a realistic chance at a medal that many thought he would win. A painful day, indeed, he said, but nowhere near what some of his U.S. teammates endured. There were dozens upon dozens — among them, wrestler Lee Kemp, high jumper Benn Fields and water polo player Peter Schnugg, whose stories will be told as part of The Associated Press’ series on the boycott — who had had 1980 circled on their calendar for years, only to see it ripped away. They never got another chance. “From 1976 to 1980, it was total focus,’’ Fields explained. ``Between 1981 and ’84, I came back, but the intensity wasn’t there. In the back of my mind, I’d put such intense effort into 1980, and to have it not come to fruition ... it was hard to come back from that.” The Carter administration tried to make it up to the athletes. They were honored at the White House and given Congressional gold medals — the highest honor a civilian can receive from Congress — though even that came with a caveat. Because the medals were not pure gold — they were gold-plated bronze — it took 27 years and a big push from some of the athletes themselves before they were officially recorded in the Congressional Record. Time passed and the athletes moved on with their lives. Some, such as rower Anita DeFrantz, turned the Olympics into a career. DeFrantz, now a Vice President of the International Olympic Committee, dedicated a lot of her time to ensuring more recognition for the 1980 team. “We were viewed as kids who didn’t know any better,” DeFrantz said on a video call earlier this year held to commemorate the 1980 team. “And we asked, ‘Can one life be saved by doing this?’ They said `No’ and that just did it for me.” Edwin Moses won 122 straight races in the 400 meter hurdles between 1977 and 1987. He has two Olympic gold medals and one bronze. And while the fact that he was denied a chance at a medal in 1980 stands as a mere footnote to his career, he has spent the last several months organizing reunions for the 1980 team — a mission made all the more vital because Olympians this year are not competing, also due to issues completely out of their control. “It’s a chance to pay forward our experiences, a chance to use the tragic legacy of 1980 to show the true power of sport,” Moses said. Forty years after the boycott, the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Museum pushed hard to include a permanent 1980 exhibit — the first of its kind. “You can’t blame people for not remembering the 1980 team, because nothing happened, other than that we didn’t go,” said Moffet, who helped with the planning of the exhibit. Like most sports, USA Swimming held an Olympic trials a few months after the U.S. Olympic Committee made the fateful decision, on April 12, 1980, to go along with the government’s plan and boycott the Olympics. American swimmers competed on the same days the swimmers in Moscow were in the water at the Olympics. Times from the Olympics were flashed on the scoreboard to see if America’s best might have really won a medal that day. But Moffet’s most visceral memory from 1980 came on that day in April, hours after the USOC decision to boycott. With no races on his schedule that night, he sat in the stands to watch a meet that had been designed as a tune-up for Olympic trials, which, only hours earlier, had been expected to mean much more. Before the swimming began, the national anthem played. “My dad turned to me and said, ‘Sounds different, doesn’t it?’” Moffet said. “I wasn’t a very cynical kid, but I remember thinking to myself — ‘Yeah, it really does.’” If your mother is anything like mine, chances are you were probably instructed to, “Always wear clean underwear, because you never know when you’ll be in an accident.” While I chose to heed that advice for reasons unrelated to an unexpected trip to the hospital, Monday was the first time I ever realized the value of those words. I woke up feeling great, or at least normal for a woman in her mid-40s. I took the dogs for their morning walk and returned home feeling a soreness on one side of my lower back. I figured it was a strain caused by my ill-behaved canines (we saw many squirrels on that walk). I didn’t give it much thought, but the pain persisted and intensified. Within an hour, it was so severe I was nauseous. I moved from standing to sitting to laying down, trying out every horizontal and vertical position imaginable, hoping to find some relief. Nothing helped. Then a continuous loop of sweats and chills kicked in, along with multiple trips to the bathroom. I haven’t prayed to the porcelain gods like that since I turned 21. Turning to WebMD for help, I started checking off my symptoms. There was not a box for “feels like I’m being continuously punched by someone wearing SPIKED brass knuckles,” but after a few minutes, I concluded an invisible person was either currently harvesting my right kidney, or I was passing a kidney stone. I’ve always been told I have an impressively high pain tolerance. I suspect this is to compensate for my zero stupidity tolerance. I’ve had reconstructive spinal surgery, numerous knee surgeries, dislocated joints and several broken bones, and have rarely needed anything more than an 800mg ibuprofen to control the pain. Since I don’t like the way prescription pain meds make me feel, I don’t bother with them. But for a few hours on Monday morning, I would not have thought twice about swallowing a fistful of narcotics. Given the amount of pain I was in and the symptoms I was experiencing, I realized I needed to go to the hospital, though I was reluctant for a number of reasons. I began working at Park City Hospital before it was open — when it was still I’ve always been told I have an impressively high pain tolerance. I suspect this is to compensate for my zero stupidity tolerance.” a large hole in the ground. I spent nearly a decade of my life as the hospital’s public relations director, and still have many friends who work there. I wasn’t sure I wanted anyone I know to see me in that condition. I also didn’t want to strain health care resources during a pandemic. Plus, I hadn’t showered. And, I questioned if I was just getting less tolerant for pain with age. (It’s certainly true for stupidity.) Maybe I just needed to tough it out. Further, during my tenure I worked on a number of campaigns designed to educate the public about seeking appropriate care. I vaguely recalled messaging about only using an ER if “death was likely.” But then I remembered that “unstop- pable pain or bleeding” were also acceptable reasons for an ER visit. My mental dilemma was settled with what felt like a sucker punch to the kidney. Within minutes of arriving, I received blissful relief, a CT scan, and most importantly, assurance from a physician friend that my visit was appropriate. “Passing a kidney stone is no joke. You’re in the right place,” Dr. Geoff Crockett confirmed. It was comforting to know the person helping me through a medical situation, even if it did feel a little awkward handing him my urine sample. When the ordeal was over and I was back home, I took a moment to reflect on what a tremendous asset that hospital is to our community. When I worked there, I could recite all the key messages and stats by heart: How many lives were saved because of the hospital’s proximity and early treatment in an emergency; how many locals were able to visit their loved ones multiple times a day; how many gallons of gas were saved not driving down the canyon; how many babies were not born on I-80; how many hours of suffering were eliminated. I always understood the value Park City Hospital brings to our community; I had just never actually experienced it personally until a few days ago. It was a privilege to play a small part in building that facility, and a relief to be cared for in my community. And yes, mom, I had on clean underwear. 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. Road trip? U.S. travelers struggle to plan vacations They must grapple with states’ varying virus restrictions DAVID SHARP Associated Press PORTLAND, Maine — Families trying to squeeze in a summer vacation before school starts better do some homework on COVID-19 restrictions before loading up the minivan. The web of state and local quarantines is growing more tangled by the day: New York, New Jersey and Connecticut have ordered visitors from a whopping 34 states to quarantine for 14 days. Chicago and Washington, D.C., have each singled out travelers from about two dozen states. Other states have their own lists. Some have an option for visitors to get tested instead. “Complicated doesn’t begin to describe it. I feel sorry for people. They just want to go to Cape Cod. They want to go to Vermont. I don’t know what to tell them. People are pretty much left on their own to figure out,” said Kathy Kutrubes, owner of a travel agency in Boston. The restrictions — and maybe the confusion, too — are contributing to a sharp drop in travel, dealing a blow to a key industry. Before the outbreak, Americans were expected to take 2.3 billion domestic trips this year, according to the U.S. Travel Association. But that’s expected to drop about 30% to 1.6 billion, the lowest level since 1991. Normally nearly a third of domestic travel happens in the summer. Abroad, a drop-off in tourism from U.S. visitors and restrictions on crossing borders have also led many travel-related businesses to wonder if they will survive. The coronavirus is blamed for more than 150,000 deaths in the U.S. and more than a half-million elsewhere around the world. When it comes to travel restrictions in the U.S., the situation varies widely. Many states have no restrictions whatsoever for domestic travel. But the number of states with quarantines is growing as governors move to protect residents amid flareups in places such as Florida, Texas and Arizona. The results are confusing, to say the least. For example, Maine requires Massachusetts visitors to either quarantine or take a test, but Mainers may travel freely in Massachusetts. Chicago’s quarantine order includes neighboring Wisconsin. But people who cross the state line for work are exempted. In Connecticut, Paula Simchock and her husband are planning to hit the beaches in Delaware with their daughter en route to dropping her off at college in South Carolina. But because both of those states are on Connecticut’s quarantine list, they expect to have to isolate upon returning home. “We’re definitely stir crazy. So we’re really looking forward to getting down to Delaware and enjoying our favorite restaurants and surf shop. We’re really excited about it,” Sim- chock said. “To see that it’s on the Connecticut hot spot list is disappointing.” The U.S. Travel Association believes that with proper precautions — masks, hand-washing, and proper sanitation — people can travel safely. More than a third of jobs lost during the pandemic are in the travel and tourism industry, said Tori Emerson Barnes, spokeswoman for the association. “Really and truly, the only way that we can have a sustained economic rebound is to have people moving again,” she said. Mike Stumpf and his wife, who live outside Philadelphia, were supposed to take a cruise in Alaska in June. Then a trip to Colorado was canceled this week. A fall cruise to Europe was delayed this fall, and they bagged their annual trip to Florida. Between different state regulations and health concerns, there’s just too much uncertainty, he said. “We won’t because it’s not the worth the risk and every state has different regulations,” he said. Others don’t want to risk it, either. In New York, Lyndie Callan had to cancel her 60th birthday celebration in Spain this summer because of the country’s restrictions on U.S. visitors. But even without the restriction, she wouldn’t have felt comfortable traveling. “There’s only one way to get this virus under control and that’s to behave responsibly. It starts with me,” Callan said. “I don’t see that my vacation plans are all that important. I’ll go on vacation next year.” |