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Show Council Grants Chamber Arts Fest Funds Business License Business licenses were granted the following businesses and people: Silvertown Lodge, Harold Wilkinson; Wil-kinson; Lon Investment Company, Com-pany, Edward Vetter; Brog's Original Cheese, Tony Brog; Das Gasthaus. Randy Kennard; The Fishery, C'est Bon Venture Limited; Moana Sales Corporation, Corpora-tion, Robert Harmon. A business license for John Newland's Big John's bar was lost at City Hall. Council approval, pending police approval, was granted nevertheless. 'V ' ; F JOAN SEMAN The City Council granted the Chamber of Commerce $1,500 "front money" for the seventh annual Arts Festival at Thursday's Thurs-day's meeting. To ensure repayment repay-ment of this loan, the solons further voted to charge the Chamber a $1,500 fee for city services needed during the . festival, payable by August 31. Councilmen were somewhat apprehensive that the loan might set a dangerous precedent, but determined that benefits accruing to the city as a result of the event made the request valid. Richard Martinez voted against both proposals. He said, "I'm for it (the festival) 100 per cent," but was leery of donating city funds to an event which he said many citizens don't like because "they can't get in town and they can't get out of town." Joan Seman, recently hired by the Chamber to coordinate the event made the presentation and said the money is necessary to cover advertising, layout, printing print-ing and mailing costs for festival invitations. A registration fee will accompany each' application for display, so she said the festival would thus shortly begin generating gen-erating its own money. She anticipates the festival could generate gen-erate almost double in taxes what was collected last year from Utah artists. Ms. Seman explained, "This is the first year we've attempted at-tempted to make it a money-making event for the city. One reason I was hired to help make the arts festival a revenue - realizing event." She added that Friday, August 13 should be the biggest revenue raiser of the weekend; the Utah Symphony is available to perform a pops concert that night in Park City although final arrangements are incomplete. The chamber hopes to raise attendance fees by collecting for parking or transportation. Councilman Jack Green expressed ex-pressed concern that "nobody can really tell where this money is coming from." City Recorder Bruce Decker (who has decided not to leave the post) reported, "There's enough in the cash flow to take care of it." New Laws In other business, Green presented pre-sented cohorts with two ordinances or-dinances discussed at the last council meeting. Both were designed by building inspector, Lyman Lewis. One concerns regulation of excavating holes and street ordinances, and one reduces the contractor's registration reg-istration fee. Both were unanimously un-animously approved. (See related story this issue.) New Highway Steve Dering reported that the city was contemplating applying for Bureau of Outdoor Recreation funds to purchase land along Silver Creek for a green belt. However, this is the proposed route of a new state highway, now in the design phase and possibly several years off. Dering said that if such a road is built from Marsac Avenue, through Prospector Square, the state highway people may buy enough additional siding land to sell back to the city for greenbelt purposes. Jan Wilking said some development dev-elopment proposals will substantially sub-stantially affect traffic flow in the city and Park City badly needs a plan of future roads in order to project future land use and development and avoid clogged passages. has been appointed to chair the planning committee, and Uriarte won Council consent for the city underwriting a fancy fireworks display. The Beehive Bowhunters won Council approval to use the City Park August 6, 7, and 8. Police Chief T. Lund expressed some concern about crowd control for the estimated 2000 . hunters but was assured that the group has been in Park City previously and they spent most time hunting on the mountain and cause few difficulties. Park Meadows subdivision sub-division No. 1 received final approval, after securing the several stages of required Planning Plann-ing Commission approval. Jack Johnson, Vic Ayers, Dick Smith and Enoch Smith are the res-, idential development's principals. Bus Healthier Wilking further reported that the transportation committee met-with met-with Joe Lewis to clear up a discrepancy in billing vs. hours, and said City Manager Wayne 'Matthews is now getting reports on hours worked on a daily basis directly from drivers. The system is running more smoothly, and out of 180 . businesses billed for the service, only 12 have not paid all or part of the assessment. Acting city attorney Nick Coles-sides Coles-sides was asked to investigate certain legal questions regarding the board of adjustments and methods of revenue raising ..for the transit. Eleanor Bennett explained that the county sanitarian hopes to have reports by the next council meeting on two establishments against which formal complaints were lodged following inspection. Old Time Fourth Mayor Leon Uriarte said that since this is a Bicentennial year, he feels the city should participate partic-ipate in an old-fashioned Fourth of July celebration. Nan McPolin |