Category Archive For "Summit County"
The Community Discussion Should Begin Soon about Summit County Buying the Land Between Jeremy Ranch School and the Burt Brothers
As many people have heard, Summit County purchased an option to buy about 30 acres of land between Jeremy Ranch Elementary School and Burt Brothers. In the county’s press release, they stated they may be looking at putting affordable housing or some sort of transit solution on the land. Over the past few days, this has caused some concern …
Summit County Council Candidate Colin DeFord’s Use of Social Media is Encouraging
For years, information in Summit County has been disseminated through the Park Record and KPCW. Both do a great job but they have their limitations. Both only have a limited staff, both are mainly one way communication mechanisms, the Park Record has only so much space to print upon, and KPCW local news has less than an …
Borrow a GoPro from the Library?
The Sacramento Bee has an interesting story on how Sacramento Public libraries are are starting to loan more than just books. They call their initiative, “The Library of Things” project. Examples of categories of items currently available include sewing machines, video games, musical instruments, board games, crafting, and technology items. Their goal really seems to be providing, not only …
The Best Education Would Be the County Attorney Filing Charges of Warranted
Earlier this week, Summit County Attorney Judge Robert Hilder, issued a press release regarding electioneering allegations against both the school board and bond opposition groups. His press release noted that the County Attorney’s office was investigating both groups for wrongdoing. In today’s Park Record, Judge Hilder is quoted as saying, “I’m not looking to aggressively prosecute …
A Difference Between Summit County Government and Park City School District Government
This morning Derrick Radke and Pat Putt, both from Summit County government, were on KPCW. They were discussing a potential bond (or taxes) to pay for transportation related improvements across Summit County like adding intercept parking (i.e. often park and ride), creating a better Interchange at the Jeremy Ranch exit, and improvements to accommodate traffic for a 5/6 school …
The Extra $4 million That You’ll Be On the Hook For
During Wednesday’s Park City School District Master Planning Committee meeting, the subject of moving the 5/6 school to Ecker Hill was talked about. Specifically, traffic was discussed. The Committee Co-Chairman, Rory Murphy, said he wasn’t sure that Summit County should be solely on the hook for fixing any additional traffic issues caused by adding a …
Summit County Is a Finalist for Social Media Golden Award
Many people rely on traditional media for their understanding of the world. Yet, the past 5 years have brought on a renaissance of the local organizations’ ability to let people know about issues that may impact them. While we are undoubtedly biased, we may even say that social media is more important in many circumstances …
Summit County Council Discussions on Mountain Accord
If you want to know where all your Summit County Council members stand on the Mountain Accord, it doesn’t get better than this 50 minute video. If there was a vote today on the Mountain Accord, we’re pretty sure it would be 3-2… we just don’t which side has the 3.
The Park City School District Should Consider Moving Kearns Campus
As we wrote about in a previous article, Mr Putt goes to School Board, we are surprised and disappointed in how insular our various government agencies are. We have traffic issues. We have environmental issues. We have growth issues. How do we start to fix these things? Park City Municipal can’t solve these issues on …
The New County Manager Needs to Know He Doesn’t Work FOR the County Council
This morning on the radio, KPCW’s Leslie Thatcher interviewed Summit County’s new County Manager Tom Fisher. He seems like a very affable fellow. He made a number of good points like “I just want to step in and learn and listen and understand everything I don’t know because I don’t know a whole lot.” That …
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