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- Approving an agreement with Webster Construction for $144.099 to replace the Rossi Hill Drive water line
- Authorizing a contract with Southwest Lift & Equipment for$145,719 to install a new heavy duty vehicle hoist
- Authorizing the issuance and sale of up to $6 million of City water revenue bonds
- Adopting a new compensation plan for the Mayor and City Council
- Adopting a Comprehensive Emergency Management Plan
- Approving a contract with Lyndon Jones Construction for $861,303 to restore the Royal Street retaining wall
- Appointing John Fry, Margie Scholesser, Chris Cherniak, Abby McNulty and Suzette Robarge to the Library Board
- Approving a resolution celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the Park City Golf Course
- Approving the fiscal year 2014-15 budget
- Approving an ordinance prohibiting open fires and regulating the use of fireworks within Park City
- Adopting the Summit County process for recovery of costs for responding to emergencies caused by an aggravated fire emergency
- Water conservation can be a family goal. Teaching your kids about the values of water is a
simple lesson, one they can easily get on board with. Here are some great tips for your family to discuss and practice.
- Wash hands and brush teeth with less water. Wet the hands or the brush, then turn off the faucet. Especially with the abundance of liquid soaps, you don’t need the water running until you need to rinse the soap off. You could save hundreds of gallons a month on both of these.
- Shorter showers. Sometimes we turn the water on, take our time getting in, or even hang out to wake ourselves up. A little bit of motivation can get us through the shower process much more efficiently.
- Don’t waste bath water. It’s common for people to turn on the bath water, wait until it gets to the desired temperature, then close the drain. But, if you close the drain immediately and adjust the temperature as it fills, you’re accomplishing the same goal – a favorable temperature.
- Wash clothes and dishes only when the machines are full. Buying newer water efficient machines is a great step (especially those with load-size adjustments), but some families are fine running these machines when they’re not completely full. This accounts for additional runs that aren’t needed which uses hundreds of gallons of water.
- Soak dirty pots and pans. Hot water is a miracle for removing hard food on our cookware, but soaking the pots and pans with a little grease cutting soap works a lot better than running the low pressure hot water on it. And saves plenty of water, too.
- Use mulch around your house. Mulch is a fantastic (and cheap) way to hold moisture into your trees and bushes, and actually lessens the need to water them. This is especially useful for areas with a hotter climate.
- Watch for leaking toilets. Toilets are notorious for wasted water. In time the flapper deteriorates inside the toilet. If you hear your toilet automatically flushing itself, or see a stream inside the bowl, you probably need a replacement flapper. This is a $10 replacement that you can actually do yourself.
- Wash the car as efficiently as possible. Fill a soapy bucket and you don’t need to hose the car. You’ll need the hose to rinse off the soap, but being as short with the hose as possible will help the cause.
- Aerate your lawn. Let your grass enjoy the rain more easily and often. You’ll see a healthier lawn that needs less sprinklers and manual watering.
- Share these tips with everyone you know. Knowledge is power – have your kids share this with their friends, their grandparents, and pass the encouragement to the rest of the community. Teach them that sharing a pro-planet message is a great thing to do.
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Biochar
Although wildfires are a healthy part of many ecosystems in the Intermountain West, the risk from catastrophic wildfires continues to increase in communities like Park City. Years of fire suppression, coupled with a hotter and drier climate and the continued development of subdivisions close to forestlands, presents the difficult challenge of trying to protect communities while also managing fire in a way that does not exacerbate climate change.
In 2019, Park City was among eight communities to recently receive a Leader in Community Resilience Program award from the National League of Cities (NLC). The award will support the city’s work in developing a biochar program to reduce excess forest fire fuels such as brush and wood debris, and return that carbon to Park City's soils.
Biochar is a charcoal-like material that can be used in carbon sequestration efforts. It is made by burning the excess forest fuels in an oxygen-free environment. Biochar is rich in carbon and in this case, will be collected from defensible spaces, that is the natural or landscaped area around a structure that is maintained and designed to reduce fire danger. Park City held a public demonstration in May 2019 to teach the public about how biochar is made, where it can be used on the landscape, and how it can reduce fire danger locally.
The forests surrounding most structures in the community contain a lot of poor-quality lumber that has the potential to be turned into biochar. This biochar, in turn, can be applied to farm fields and open spaces.