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Show State of Park City Presented by Mayor and Council Editor's Note: The following could be called a 4 'State of the City" report. It was compiled this week, by Mayor Jack Green and sets forth the progress Park City' has made in specific areas daring the past few years. The Mayor said he felt compelled to issue this statement In the wake of October's Primary Election in which incumbent Council-men Council-men 'made a relatively poor showing. The Mayor said he personally did not view the recent election results as a vote against City Hall, but added others have interpret-ted interpret-ted it that way. The Mayor said he hopes residents will look at City Hall In a more favorable light after reading the "State of Park City Report." REPORT ON ACTIVITIES AND FINANCES OF CITY GOVERNMENT ' Park City, Utah October 29, 1979 Dear Park City Citizens: In response to a number of questions, in the spirit of the current election process, and admittedly overdue, this report is intended to better inform you, the residents of Park City, on the activities of your City Government. Following Is a summary of results of City operations for the year ended June 30, 1979, broken down into Regular normal operations and Special (capital improvements. crease in the following year. We feel that this practice has been wise and should be continued. Improvement programs have been financed financ-ed by building fees, grants and excess revenues as opposed to being subsidized by regular revenues. In addition to this accomplishment, accomplish-ment, the City Council has reduced the mill levy for property taxes by 22 (from 27 to 29 mills since 1976). Criticism has been leveled at City Government because of improvements and services -not being accomplished as fast as people would desire. In direct answer to this, it should be pointed out that ' Capital Regular Improvements Total Revenues - Property Taxes $ 386,353 $ $ 386.353 Sales & Franchise Taxes 343,865 343,865 Other Taxes Licenses 44,623 44,623 Building & Subdivision Fees 215,361 215,361 Impact Fees 315,691 315,691 Refuse and Land Fill 74,251 74,251 Transportation Revenues 116,544 116,544 Grants & Similar Revenues 170,937 47,432 218,369 Misc Other revenues 149,835 149,835 Carryover from Previous Year 427,738 237,485 665,223 TOTAL AVAILABLE $1,929,507 $600,608 $2,530.115 Expenditures General Government $ 237,014 $ 2,197 $ 239,211 Public Safety 215,012 13,987 228,999 Streets & Public Works 394,999 341,832 736,831 Parks, Recreation & Property 69,685 145,179 214,864 Planning 51,921 51,921 Transportation 110,485 97,413 207,898 TOTAL EXPENDED $1.079,116 $600.608 $1,679.724 "und Balance. June 30, 1979 $ 850,391 - - - $ 850.391 ' " - - the job. We have purchased a tract of ground and a new city shop and yard are under construction to be completed in the near future. Total cost of these new facilities is approximately $375,000 of which $75,000 was expended from last year's budget and $300,000 from the current year. STREETS Essentially all of our streets in the older part of town were in desperate need of resurfacing. Most of the water lines serving the original town had to be replaced and new sewer lines were needed. Water and sewer lines had to be replaced prior to resurfacing. This work took two seasons but is now substantially completed at a cost of approximately $400,000 of which $200,000 came from last year's budget and $200,000 from the current year. At the present time, the City is planning a storm drain system to cover most of the older part of town. In addition to the physical improvements, approximately approximate-ly $1 10,000 of service equipment equip-ment was purchased last year. Completion of installation installa-tion of new water lines, sewer lines and a portion of sidewalk improvements was accomplished this summer on Park Avenue, to the inconvenience and frustration frustra-tion of most residents, but was accomplished in one season. The sidewalk portion of the improvements was partially financed by grant funds which were not available avail-able until mid-summer. SANITATION In the sanitation area, approximately $69,000 was expended last year on trash collection and landfill equipment. equip-ment. The City took over trash collection operations approximately two years ago after a history of unsatisfactory unsatisfact-ory service from private contractors. WATER The municipal water supply, sup-ply, storage and distribution Pteifs Turn fa Hzs ; -hr. 1 GENERAL Revenues of the City have -substantially exceeded operating oper-ating expenses for the past three years. Substantially! all of the "excess funds" have -been generated from three sources... increases in general gen-eral sales taxes, increases in building and impact fees, and securing of grant funds. The Council has been conservative conser-vative and careful to insure that regular operating expenses ex-penses of the City are amply covered by "regular" revenues, that is, that a bad year would? noknecessitate a f the City has had a tremendous tremen-dous amount of "catchup" "catch-up" to do, requiring certain improvements to be accomplished accom-plished before others could be started. SERVICE FACILITIES Our existing shop and maintenance facilities were not 'adequate to properly handle the equipment and maintenance needs of the City. To provide proper service in snow removal, trash removal, street maintenance, main-tenance, etc. requires hous-,i hous-,i ing and maintaining of the more state of the city....... Continued from Page 7 A service requirements . for 15,000. It reached that point in a short period of time. Two years ago, the residents of Park City expressed concern over the future of the Main Street area and the development deve-lopment of areas adjacent to it. The City was asked to do everything possible to encourage en-courage growth in the old town area. The Depot Project and the Deer Valley Project were welcomed because of their potential stimulating effect. Towards these ends? came the Redevelopment Agency, the Park City Housing Authority and a rehabilitation program, all now in motion. Admittedly a lot of our actions have been accomplished through reac- tion. However, all in all, we feel that we have almost "caught up" and that attention can be directed to more visual accomplishments accomplish-ments " Personnel of the City have increased about 60 over the past two years to where the City now employs 68 people. We are further pursuing personnel needs to provide better communication communica-tion and service. We thank the employees of the City for their hard work and apologize apolo-gize to the residents of the City for their inconveniences inconvenien-ces This is what we think is right with Park City. Mayor and City Council October 29, 1979 i system have been improved over the past , eighteen .., months from a flow availability avail-ability of 1200 GPM to 1900 GPM, with: storage capacity increased by 1 ,000,000 gallons. gal-lons. Additional storage (reservoir) (re-servoir) capacity of 1 ,600,000 gallons is planned over the . next two years. The well recently completed on holiday holi-day Ranch Entry Road is a bonanza, tested at a flow of 1500 GPM thereby increasing increas-ing flow to 3400 GPM. Additionally. Park City is contracting with the City of Salt Lake for the availability of 60 of the flow of the Spiro Tunnel water. At the present time this water source will be available on a leased basis, but plans are made for its outright purchase pur-chase by exchange of other water rights owned by Park City. In the year ended June 30. 1979. $1,650,000 was expended on these improvements, improve-ments, at no direct tax cost to Park City residents, with $629,000 funded by developer develop-er contribution, $673,000. by Federal Grant Funds, and the balance by Farmer Home Administration funds. At the present time the Park City Water Svstem is ranked projects. We were successful in obtaining a .community development block grant within the past year of an additional $550,000 of Federal Fed-eral Funds. These funds were just received and will be used for restoration, renovation and other improvements im-provements in the older part of town. PARKS & RECREATION Park and recreation activities activi-ties over the past year include the acquisition of an additional 5 acres of land for future park development, a joint venture project with the Park City School District for the development of the athletic fields adjacent to the High School, and discussions regarding the acquisition of other parcels of land including includ-ing the property presently occupied by the Monroe plant and the property adjoining Swede Alley and Marsac Avenue. In addition to these major items, park and recreation equipment costing approximately $10,000 were purchased last year and plans are in process for development of pur overall master-planned park svstem for Park City. The 1 30, 1979, our system carried in excess of 165,000 paid riders. In addition, we issued 1350 free season passes to residents. Last year we purchased seven used buses and two new buses for use in the system. The seven used buses cost approximately $45,000. We encountered problems in maintenance because of inadequate shop space and facilities and inadequate parts inventory but overall the system was significantly better (in our first year) than the previous private systems. At $6,500 each the used vehicles were a wise first year move. Five of them are available for future operation. The two new buses, at a cost of $35,000, have been dependable depend-able and have been used on the summer routes also. For the 1979-80 season, an additional two new 40-passenger 40-passenger buses are on order at a cost of $40,000. In additional to the regular bus system, the City operates for its .Senior.. Citizens a free-of-charge taxi service, utilizing utiliz-ing two special vehicles acquired with Federal Grant funds. . Vv -v: among the best in the State by Bush and Gucgell . Engineers,; Engi-neers,; Also liear completion is a computerized telemetering telemeter-ing system for the monitoring monitor-ing and operation of our reservoirs. This system will solve this summer's problems pro-blems of certain areas being temporarily out of water by automatically directing water to where it is needed. REDEVELOPMENT & REHABILITATION 1 The Main Street Redevelopment Redev-elopment Project was commenced com-menced in 1978 and contracts con-tracts let for planning earlier this year. Plans are complete for pedestrian way systems between Main Street and Swede Alley and for directional direc-tional signage, as well as for land acquisition on Main Street and adjacent to Swede Alley. Approximately $50,000 has been expended in this area to date. Tax increment funding for the RDA for 1979 is expected to approximate $60,000. 1980 plans include new sidewalks on -Main Street, additional Swede Alley parking and completion of access-way Park City tent, at a cost of $30,000 was used by numerous numer-ous civic and church groups and filled one void in our entertainment system. The City has entered into an option agreement for the purchase of the Park City Golf Course, for $1,000,000. Concurrent with this, an application has been made to the Bureau of Outdoor Recreation for matching funds for the purchase. Processing of this application leaves us very confident of receiving grant funds of $450,000 in 1980 and 1981 to be used for partial payment of the golf course purchase. TRANSPORTATION ' ' Park City also entered into the transportation business last year, tuned to the response of the business community to unsatisfactory operations of private companies com-panies in the past and to the response of a referendum imposing a V4 of 1 sales tax dedicated to transportation. transporta-tion. Our system operates free of charge to residents and for pay to visitors. During the year ended June rutsLii; SArcix In public safety, two additional police vehicles were purchased last year, approximately $12,000. In September, the City agreed to purchase for the Park City Fire District, a new hook and ladder truck at a cost of $215,000. This will be paid over 7 years. This vehicle was the next priority of the Fire District in its Master Plan, and will provide valuable protection for larger buildings, and should eventually even-tually cause an insurance rate reduction. 1980 A substantial amount of capital improvement work originally budgeted for last year was not accomplished before June 30, the accounting account-ing year end of the City. This, together with revenues from sales taxes and building fees being substantially larger lar-ger than projected, resulted in a fund balance carryover carry-over of approximately $850,000 to the year beginning begin-ning July 1, 1979. Capital improvements budgeted for this year include: Certain of these improvements improve-ments will not be finally committed until such time as it can be determined that : projected revenues will ex-I ex-I ceed operating expenses by an - amount sufficient to maintain a fund balance of at least $250,000.- CONCLUSION :;f : The. City Council is proud H&f WfiShietSTIs over the past several years. Park City |