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Show Dump check arrives, but city wants more A check for $30,000 came through the mail to the Park City Council last week from the Summit County Commission. The occasion was a reimbursement to the city for keeping its landfill open through June 30. City officials were pleased with the check but said they wanted about $14,000 more. "As soon as the check clears the bank we'll tell the commission it's not enough," said City Councilman Al Horrigan. According to city records, the cost of operating the landfill for the first six months of the year equaled $44,000. The City council asked the 'county commission for the amount because beginning Jan. 1 the county began collecting one mill from Park City property owners for landfill operations. At that time, however, the county commission believed by the first of the year a landfill would be in operation in Brown's Canyon. The creation of that dump has been put on hold because Brown's Canyon property owners have filed suit, contending the landfill would damage land values there. The commission entertained Park City's refunding request July 3. County Commissioner Tom Flinders found fault with some of the itemized expenditures in the request, including long-distance phone calls and health insurance for employees operating the city's dump. "We can say we were not in control of the expenditures and feel some of them were excessive," Flinders told commissioners Stan Leavitt and Cliff Blonquist. The Summit County Planning Commission July 23 tabled a request for a conditional use permit for a landfill at an alternative site in Three Mile Canyon near Rockport Resevoir. |