Entries Published On February, 2016
School Board Members’ Comments on Reading Aides in Park City
There has been much discussion on taking Reading Aides out of Park City School District classrooms. There have been some emails from School Board Members floating around social media. Just in case you care and haven’t seen those, I wanted to make sure everyone had access to better understand the issue: Here a citizen provides …
More On the Park City Survey (not the PARK CITY SURVEY) … but the Park City® Survey
As you probably know, I think Park City Sucks… or rather the name Park City sucks (for Vail to use for their resort). A while back I wrote about a survey I received after my wife skied at Park City. I noted that a survey of “how my day was at Park City” just added to …
Snyderville Basin Planning Commission Needs You
Sorry I didn’t notice this sooner but the Snyderville Basin Planning Commission has two vacancies for the next term. Interviews are this Wednesday. While there are no guarantees, I bet you can still get on the interview list. Currently there are 3 people interviewing for 2 positions. The Planning Commission is responsible for probably 80% of …
Know What You’re Doing Before Using Those Supermarket Reward Cards
This post isn’t specifically about Park City, but it applies to us. Many of us use our rewards cards, at places like Smith’s. Other times we key in our phone numbers at places like Fresh Market or Petco to get a discount. Yet what happens to that information behind the scenes? I had always assumed that …
What Good Survey Results Look Like
During the School District’s Bond effort they did a “survey” of residents in order to understand what they’d be willing to pay for a bond. I think the answer was about $60 million. From reports it seemed like many survey calls were to cell phones of prominent people… which runs counter to the randomized nature you’d …
Shower Thought: Medical Marijuana Coming to Utah? Sure.
Everywhere you look on traditional media you see coverage about Utah legalizing medical marijuana. When my friends no longer have to go to Evanston to buy a keg of beer, I’ll believe it. For now, I wonder what the powers that be are trying to distract us from? Is it making public land available for obtaining oil …
The National Citizen Survey Shows Park City is a Great Place to Live
If there is a truism across most of humanity it would be that people like to complain. Yet even given that, in the 2015 survey of “livability” of our city, Park City generally came up all roses. 96% of people felt quality of life was positive 97% felt Park City was great place to live …
Park City School District is Taking a Big Gamble with Removing Reading Aides
This morning, on KPCW, Leslie Thatcher interviewed school board member Tania Knauer. Ms. Thatcher asked Ms. Knauer about removing reading aides from our elementary school classrooms. The exchange was as follows: Leslie Thatcher: There is a petition moving through, lots of churn on social media with regard to reading aides and the fear from parents that …
Park City Needs to Be Wary of Hubris Regarding Sundance
The Park Record’s Jay Hamburger wrote an article entitled, Sundance moves forward, but is it too big? The article cited a conversation between Robert Redford and Park City City Manager Diane Foster. Apparently Redford “wondered [to Foster] if the festival was getting too big.” It also cited comments from an Associated press story where Redford said he heard, “negative comments …
What Will The Measures of Success Be When Considering Transportation?
This morning on KPCW, County Manager Tom Fisher was talking about the various options to pay for transportation solutions in Summit County (bonds, tax increases, etc). He spoke about one of the components or the process being a wish list of projects that could be presented to citizens, so they know what the options are. …
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