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Show Sat/Sun/Mon/Tues, August 15-18, 2020 A-11 The Park Record Christian Center wants to start school year right Nonprofit provides clothes, supplies for children in need INTRODUCING RADIO FREQUENCY MICRONEEDLING LUCIA AUERBACH Park Record intern Pete Stoughton, director of programs at the Christian Center of Park City and a father, knows how important it is to make sure children in Park City are equipped to handle this school year no matter what shape it takes. To that end, the Christian Center’s Back 2 School Basics fundraiser returns this month for its ninth consecutive year to help children in need and their families shop for school clothes and supplies. Due to the coronavirus pandemic, the event will be three days long this year, rather than one, taking place Aug. 17-19 at Outlets Park City. Registration is online for both attendees and volunteers at ccofpc.org/. Families whose children are registered in the Park City School District and qualify for free or reduced lunch can register to schedule a time to participate. This year, more than ever, Park City needs the community to pitch in and help, Stoughton said. Because of Park City’s reliance on the tourism sector, which has been hit hard by the pandemic, many families have experienced job losses or are living on reduced paychecks. To sponsor a child, people can donate money online at the Christian Center’s website. Children and their families are then given a $100 gift card to go on a shopping spree for back-to-school clothing and supplies at the outlets. Continued from A-1 Hideout backs off e m w s l e 10,000 residents to the area, while a representative of the developers said they did not , anticipate building that many d homes. Town officials have disput. ed the notion that they had y viewed the start of the Legislan tive special session on Aug. 20 as a deadline to annex the land, but they are now turning to the Legislature for guidance. “The last thing we want to do is come across like we’re doing something nefarious,” said Town Councilor Jerry Dwinell. “We don’t know what the Legislature intended. If they intended this to be what’s passed, we’d like to move forward. If they repeal it, they’ve stated what their intent actually was. ... At some point, we’ll know what they actually meant.” The county contends the developers’ lobbyist purposely misrepresented a substitute bill to legislators as having consensus support and making no meaningful changes to state code. That turned out to not be true. Several legislators have said they would seek to repeal the law. Prior to the legislation’s passage earlier this year, Hideout would have needed Summit County’s consent to annex the land. Officials from Park City, Summit County and Wasatch County applauded Hideout’s decision to back away from the annexation. Park City Mayor Andy Beerman and Wasatch County Councilor Kendall Crittenden indicated those two jurisdictions would be open to work- Continued from A-1 Democrats bullish BOOK YOUR SCARLET RF AT SALTZ SPA VITORIA What is Scarlet RF? PARK RECORD FILE PHOTO Floridalia Osornio, left, and Anayeli Castro shop during the Christian Center of Park City’s Back 2 School Basics event in 2018. The event returns Monday. Stoughton explained that, when students have the opportunity to make their own decisions in what they wear and are given the ability to develop their own style, it can reduce social stigmas and other barriers that can make school more difficult. “What makes (Back 2 School Basics) a little unique in comparison to other programs ... is that, rather than students being given the clothes that we picked or that we have available, the students and the parents are able to pick their own items.” Stoughton said. “The emphasis of that is really giving parents the dignity and the autonomy to guide those decisions.” Due to the coronavirus, the Christian Center is implementing a number of safety precautions, Stoughton said. For one, there will not be more than 10 families shopping at a time. Also, the number of volunteers present at any time will be limited. Masks are required. The success of the event hinges on the community’s participation no matter what the circumstances are. Stoughton said the Christian Center is relying on Parkites to step up and donate money, as well as needed supplies (such as backpacks, books, pencils and pens) to supplement the items the students will purchase at the outlets. “Typically it’s been super successful,” Stoughton said. “We’ve been able to register and provide for as many students that have been identified as low income or free and reduced lunch here in the Park City School District.” The Christian Center is also accepting donations of personal protective equipment to add to students’ school supplies. “It’s critically important that our kids are clothed appropriately and prepared for whatever element of school that is going to come back,” Stoughton said. “It takes a community to make sure that everyone has access to the same resources.” ing with the town to provide the commercial services it says its residents — and residents anticipated to be coming to the area around the Jordanelle Reservoir — need. The annexation process was unusual from the start, and since the ill-fated public hearing Wednesday did not occur, there was virtually no formal public comment on the plan, which could have forever altered more than 1 square mile of land near Richardson Flat. Some local residents have said they like the idea of a grocery store or gas station in the area, while others have decried the concept of growth in the area. Wednesday’s public hearing was required by state law before the town could vote to annex the land, but it never officially began. Town officials apparently inadvertently started two simultaneous Zoom meetings while trying to accommodate in-person commentary at the Town Hall. For more than a half hour, the majority of the Town Council was in one meeting while members of the public who had followed the publicly announced link were waiting in another. Town officials scrambled to rectify the issue for the better part of an hour before deciding that the public’s ability to comment on the issue had been meaningfully hindered. Around 7 p.m., a town official announced there were 133 people in line to participate in the meeting, and Mayor Phil Rubin and town councilors apologized for the technical error. “Holy crap,” Shadle said at one point, swiveling in his office chair and putting his hands behind his head. He later said the town had no choice but to reschedule the hearing and apologized for wasting the public’s time. Wrangling with the technology appeared to fall to Rubin and a town councilor. Rubin has said the town has four full-time employees and there appeared to be no dedicated technology staffer present at the meeting. Officials had planned to extend Wednesday’s hearing to the Town Council’s next meeting on Aug. 18, at which the council was scheduled to vote on the proposal. But after being forced to call off Wednesday’s hearing, Dansie said the Aug. 18 hearing could not occur, as it was an extension of a hearing that never began. “The Aug. 18 hearing was predicated on this hearing going forward,” Dansie said. “... The 18th really was a continuation of the 12th. When the 12th didn’t happen there was nothing (to be done).” There is specific criteria in state code for this type of annexation, which has never been attempted in Utah. It requires municipalities to publicize public hearings within 14 days of passing a resolution indicating an intent to annex the land. Hideout passed such a resolution July 9, and so the town was unable to re-notice the hearing without passing a new resolution. Further, the notices must appear for at least three weeks, which would have placed the rescheduled hearing far past the Aug. 20 special session. Summit County is still locked in litigation with Hideout, alleging that the developers and town officials engaged in an enterprise to hide their intentions from the public by skirting public meeting laws and that a lobbyist, on behalf of the developers, defrauded legislators to misrepresent the bill regarding cross-county annexation, among other allegations. Hideout officials deny the claims. Summit County manager Tom Fisher said that the developers had not officially withdrawn their application with the county, and encouraged them to contact the county to move forward. the convention will highlight issues to a greater degree than some of the recent nominating gatherings. During the convention, Reed said, she wants to hear “a message of unity that we have not had” in the nation. Reed said Biden’s selection of California Sen. 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