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Show Citizens Called Upon to Help Items from City's Catalog could Spruce up Park City Facing revenue shortfalls and budget cutbacks, community com-munity leaders across the country are beginning to ask themselves a similar question: ques-tion: 'If non-profit corporations corpora-tions are successfully com peting in the private sector for tax deductable donations, why shouldn't a non-profit city county or state government? govern-ment? A recent article in "Time Magazine" reports that cit- to every resident and property pro-perty owner. Lewis says she plans to ask members of the City Council to donate a month's pay toward production of the catalog and says she has had offers from individuals and businesses to help fund the project. "Apart from being an entirely new revenue source for the city, the catalog can be an important public relations piece in that it shows people just how much all the luxuries and necessities necessi-ties that people take for granted cost," she said. "Certainly we can't expect the catalog to produce new roads and sewers, but it might be a way to get some of the extras we all want to see around town." The catalog will be departmentalized depart-mentalized with one section dealing with park improve ments another with office equipment, another with programs and another with services. Lewis said there will be a section covering the big "dream" items like a public swimming pool, ice arena or Memorial Building renovations. renova-tions. "The sky's the limit" she said. "People can donate park benches and get a name plaque, or they could donate their services and paint the Memorial Bldg., if they're in the painting business," she says. "They could sponsor activities offered by the recreation department, buy a new police car or donate flowers for the park." Lewis said donors can either give the physical item or cash toward its purchase. She says the city will implement a donor recognition recogni-tion program for all givers. I ''X, ' X- k I I ' W - Sis ' f ' 7 I ''' I '2- Lift t I ). sx;, 1 It"""' ' 1 I V fib V -: V; WSS. 1 " , " " ' r A ; " JtPSi ....Ll,..r.1 .W,..,, Tina Lewis holds city gift catalogs from around the country. ies and counties are calling on private individuals, corporations cor-porations and civic groups to provide office equipment, recreation facilities, manpower man-power and community programs pro-grams that governments can't afford. Communities are producing produc-ing gift catalogs that describe des-cribe needed items that range from trees, park benches, sprinkler systems, bullet proof vests for police officers, swimming pools, nature preserves and public buildings. Listed also are the prices of the items which are tax deductable contributions. The catalogs are producing results. For instance, Lake Forest, 111., has received $104,000 worth of donated trees since the recent publication publi-cation of their glossy catalog and Boston has apparently received more than $300,000 in donations since its gift guide was distributed. Park City Councilwoman Tina Lewis saw the "Time" article and immediately began be-gan planning Park City's gift catalog. She wrote to some of the communities for samples of their catalogs and issued a memo to fellow councilmem-bers, councilmem-bers, city leaders and department depart-ment heads asking for lists of needed and "always wanted" want-ed" items to be listed in the Park City catalog. "This is your chance to be a municipal 'beggar' and ask for things you've always wanted," Lewis wrote in her memo. "Be creative!" she urged. "Think of practical things (street lights, sod, money to build a sand trap), luxuries (10,000 tulip bulbs, beautiful picnic tables), services (a paint job for the Memorial Building), fun things (a Park City performance of the Utah Symphony), outrageous things (heated sidewalks on Main Street, a community swimming pool), and absolute abso-lute necessities (the ice arena, Saabs for the entire police force, a girl for Tom Clyde)." Lewis said she wants to have the catalog out by summer and stresses no public funds will be expended expend-ed to produce the municipal gift guide, nor to distribute it |
