Yesterday I wrote an article titled Do You Want to Pay for New Park City Schools for 3 Years, 5 Years, or for 20 Years? It attempted to lay out the case for why citizens may opt to vote down a school bond and pay for rebuilding schools in installments of 3 or 5 years. Reader, Dave, …

You may have heard the school district wants to float a bond for rebuilding our schools. The bond is for $56 million and would be paid over 20 years. This bond is up for vote on November 3rd. One of the reasons touted for doing the bond is an affordable interest rate. When a municipality issues …

Let’s say you were a TV dad from the 1980’s or 1990’s — let’s say you were Bill Cosby that guy from Growing Pains (Alan Thicke). Your college aged daughter wanted to buy a TV for her dorm room and she came to you asking for your advice on how to buy it. What would you …

This weekend’s Park Record had a guest editorial calling out resident Bill Humbert for remarks made to the Park City Council. According to a previous Park Record article, during Public Comment Mr Humbert said he overheard a conversation between a city council person and a school board member regarding the upcoming $56 million bond. Mr Humbert …

Quick quiz. How much bigger is 2% than 1.1%? It’s 81% bigger (thank you HP 12C calculator). Why does 81% matter? Potentially it’s confirmation bias and reflects skewing of numbers by the Park City School Board to support their position. I was reviewing slides from last night’s Park City School District Board meeting related to capital needs …

Part of the requirements of any local bond offering is to provide language, in favor of the bond offering, that will be sent to voters. This year, Park City School District is placing a bond on the ballot for $56 million to renovate and rebuild schools. Therefore they had to submit language for the postcard. …

A friend of the Park Rag emailed in reference to the idea that the Park City School District will move forward with rebuilding schools even if the public votes down the bond. The person described the district as a DICTATORSHIP and asked what I thought. I definitely think the term dictatorship is too strong and in …

Over the weekend, I received a number of emails regarding an interview on KPCW on Friday. KPCW’s Leslie Thatcher was interviewing Park City City Council member Tim Henney. Ms Thatcher asked Mr Henney about public comment received during Thursday’s meeting from citizen Bill Humbert. It appears Mr Humbert was concerned that Park City was participating with the School District in …

I received an email last night criticizing me for yesterday’s article on Superintendent Ember Conley and the School board being held accountable for the educational outcome of their $66 million bond. No, it wasn’t from someone involved in the schools telling me I’m wrong about the bond (although, I’m sure I’ll get that). It was …

School Superintendent Dr. Ember Conley took over the reigns of the Park City School District in 2013. In that time, she has worked hard to continue Park City’s tradition of being one of the best school districts in the state and is working towards Park City being recognized for the offering the best schools in the country. She appears …