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Park City Municipal Selects Park City Community Foundation to Serve as Social Equity Community Convener
Park City Municipal Selects Park City Community Foundation to Serve as Social Equity Community Convener
Park City Community Foundation to serve as conveners and develop strategic plan to advance the critical community priority of Social Equity
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PARK CITY, UTAH (October 22, 2018) – Park City Municipal Corporation is pleased to announce the selection of Park City Community Foundation to serve as the Social Equity Community Convener to advance work on the critical community priority of social equity. In the role of Social Equity Community Convener, the Park City Community Foundation will facilitate collaboration between local nonprofits, advocates, and partner organizations to identify pressing social equity challenges facing our community and develop a strategic action plan to address these needs.
Park City Community Foundation will mobilize its highly qualified staff and deep convening experience to bring the community together in a coalition that will perform a social equity self-diagnosis, identify existing social equity resources and gaps, prioritize the most significant and addressable social equity challenges, develop a multiyear strategic plan, and support Park City Municipal Corporation in ensuring it serves a wide range of constituents.
“The selection committee chose Park City Community Foundation because of the positive impact they have on the Park City community, and the solid governance and financial sustainability they demonstrate. We trust that their work will include the entire community and have lasting impact for the public good,” says Park City Mayor Andy Beerman.
Social equity was deemed a critical priority by City Council in March of 2018 during their strategic planning retreat. Social equity serves as a driver of all of the City’s critical priorities, which include affordable housing, transportation, and energy. Park City has taken a lead role in collaborating to further the vision of a complete community where everyone is included, has equitable access to resources, and feels welcome, safe, and valued.
“The goal of this work is to make Park City a community where opportunity is accessible to all. We plan to connect people to this effort in a meaningful way so that we can make real and systemic change. We look forward to uniting Parkites with diverse social, economic and cultural backgrounds in the efforts to create a complete community,” says Katie Wright, Executive Director of Park City Community Foundation.
Park City Municipal and the Community Foundation are eager to engage stakeholders in this process and work towards fostering a complete community. The deadline for completion of the Community Strategic Action Plan is October 1, 2019.
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FOR MORE INFORMATION, CONTACT:
Linda Jager, Community Engagement Manager
Park City Municipal Corporation
435.615.5189 | linda.jager@parkcity.org
Deanna Rhodes, Marketing and Communications Manager
Park City Community Foundation
435.731.4252 | deanna@parkcitycf.org
About Park City Municipal Corporation
Park City Municipal Corporation is the government seat for Park City, Utah. A former silver mining town, Park City is now home to two world-class ski resorts and was the mountain host for the 2002 Salt Lake City Olympic Winter Games. The town of 8,000 also hosts many special events, including the Sundance Film Festival and the Kimball Arts Festival. For more information, please visit www.parkcity.org
About Park City Community Foundation
Park City Community Foundation exists to bring donors, volunteers, nonprofits, and all the people of our community together to make Park City a better place. After ten years of strong leadership, serving the needs of Park City, and proven financial stewardship, the Community Foundation has a widespread, significant impact. If you are interested in being a part of this important work, you can stay updated by visiting ParkCityCF.org/SocialEquity and joining the email list.
Regeneration
Park City’s natural setting is the reason why we live here. Our open spaces are at the core of who we are. Park City has 9540 acres of land that has been set aside as open space, protected from development with conservation easements.
Not only do these lands the Park City lifestyle represent the Park City lifestyle, they can help us reach our carbon neutral goals.
Carbon sequestration explained:
Park City’s open spaces, if managed properly, can pull out vast amounts of carbon away from the atmosphere and store it in vegetation and soils. This carbon storage capability can help balance our carbon footprint and help balance those emissions that we cannot eliminate.
Park City is working to quantify how much carbon is stored in the vegetation and soils on its open spaces, and how much additional carbon is pulled away from the atmosphere on a yearly basis. According to a study completed in 2017, our open spaces are soaking up 7,686 metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent (MT CO2e) per year. If you are interested in knowing more about our methodology, get in touch.
Regenerative agriculture:
In the summer of 2018 Park City decided to initiate regenerative agriculture on the iconic piece of land at McPolin Barn. This piece of land had remained relatively undisturbed since it was set aside under easement in 1991. The lack of disturbance on the land led to the grasses that grow and die each year to thatch together, never properly decomposing into the soil. To restore the function of returning nutrients and mixing soil, cattle were reintroduced to the former dairy. Rather than allowing them to spread out and graze on their favorite species, the cattle were herded together which forced them to eat down the grasses and weeds indiscriminately. The disturbance by the cows hooves, as well as what comes out of their tail ends, helped to mix dead matter with the soil and facilitate the decomposition process. This accelerated decomposition is key in releasing nutrients, thus creating a healthy environment for microbiota to trap more carbon away from the atmosphere and build up the health of our soils. The healthy soils are also more able to retain water, and allow for better growth of native species instead of noxious weeds.
Regenerative Agriculture on City Property
Tree planting: