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Show City asks county residents to pay their share of services ' Parkites get stuck footing the bill while county residents resi-dents use Park City facilities without paying their fair share, according to library and recreation officials. : Approximately one-third of the participants in Park City's recreational programs pro-grams live outside the municipality, mu-nicipality, said Recreation Director Steve Haugen. If the $150,000 recreation budget bud-get were to be broken down according to participation, Jiaugen said county residents resi-dents would account for $52,000 in city expenditures, despite additional fees nonresidents non-residents must pay. ; While county residents don't use the library in the same numbers they use recreational facilities and programs, they still account for eight percent of the library's listed borrowers, according to Librarian Pat Montgomery. And although the county residents are charged a $10 annual fee at the library, it is only a token charge compared to the $50 that each city taxpayer contributes every year, she said. Montgomery and Haugen brought their concerns before be-fore the Summit County Commission on Dec. 13, the day before the final hearing for the county's 1984 budget. Montgomery and Haugen said they requested funding from the commission in an amount equivalent to $50 for each county resident using the library in addition to approximately $52,000 for the Recreation Department. But County Commissioner Cliff Blonquist said the county hasn't had enough time to study the impact of county residents on Park City programs and facilities. He added that a study is underway to determine if the municipality's recreation department should be subsidized. Although the library is not included in the study, Blonquist Blon-quist said he wouldn't rule out supplemental funding for it. However, library funding is less likely to be granted than recreation funding, he said. The county has set aside $10,000 in the 1984 budget for recreation, Blonquist said, a substantial increase over last year's figure of $3,000. And while the county has never had a formal recreation recrea-tion program, it has had an ongoing library program. He said that the county has budgeted $20,000 again this year for the continued bookmobile book-mobile services. Blonquist said that the county's quarterly reports indicate that the bookmobile receives heavy use throughout through-out the county. Diverting funds away from the bookmobile book-mobile would be detrimental to the county as a whole, he said. However, Montgomery said Summit County should fund the Park City Library as well as continue with bookmobile services. The bookmobile is a "partial" service, according to Montgomery. Mont-gomery. Borrowers come from all over the county to use the Park City Library, a very complete facility, she argued. Summit County has the second lowest library allocation alloca-tion in the state, Montgomery Montgom-ery maintains. The Utah state average, by county, is $9.55 per capita, while Summit Sum-mit County spends only $2.38 per capita, she said. Depending on the results of the county's study, Park City could receive supplemental supple-mental funding for recreation recrea-tion from funds already set aside in the 1984 budget, according to Blonquist. However How-ever the earliest any county monies would be available for the library would be 1985. |
