MINUTES
PARK CITY BAR ASSOCIATION BOARD MEETING
SEPTEMBER 20, 2001

PRESENT: Frank Normile, Dwayne Vance, Kathy Kinsman, Barbara Sharp, Mark Kozak ABSENT: Doug Johnson, Sam Adams, Lade Heaton, Christina Miller (whose collective whereabouts are unknown, except for Christina, who is diving off the Great Barrier Reef).

Frank moved to approved minutes of August meeting, which was unanimously approved. Extra hard copies were available for anyone who didn’t read/forgot the copy disseminated by email and fax (to Frank)..

Change of venue for board meetings: Can’t get into the library for board meetings because it is not open at 8 am. Frank will attempt to use his considerable political influence to obtain a key for one morning a month. However, the library is available for CLE meetings in several conference/meeting rooms. Barbara is the assistant librarian who should be able to arrange that. Miner’s Hospital is a viable option for our early hour board meetings, assuming we don’t rely on Sam Adams to operate the key box. Dwayne (read: Tassie) will contact Meg Ryan or Allison Buts at Miners Hospital for permission.

Update on restaurant tax. After an testy telephone conversation with Shauna Kerr detailed in a recent email to board members, Dwayne feels that we should put the matter to rest for the time being, despite the blatant discrimination by the restaurant tax grant commission. Next year’s application will be highly focused on that elusive “tourist component” and participation by those outside Summit County. May advertise with Las Vegas Bar to get that highly touted out of state participation, who may even bring their families and visit Historic Main Street.

Summit County Court issues: 1) Case management. Noise coming out of Coalville that they are not getting the court presence they were promised. Shauna Kerr and County Attorney Thomas alluded to a contract that committed a certain amount of court business to Coalville. Dwayne was unaware of such a contract, and produced a letter dated 5/3/01 from Dave Thomas (the county attorney, not the Wendy’s CEO) to Judge Noel with a proposed case management program devised by the County Commission, asking Judge Noel to sign it as agreeing and acknowledging their program. Judge Noel graciously responded 5/24, calling the proposal reasonable, but stated that it was improper and perhaps illegal for him to bind future judges in that way and refused to sign it. Shauna insisted there was some other contract, but has yet to produce it to Dwayne. 2) Rotation of judges. Administrative problems of multiple judges on a single case, Joe Tesch cited Harper v. Summit County, which had five different judges during the course of proceedings. 3) Small claims court: County is having some dissatisfaction with Judge Sadler due to his jettisoning of the small claims court. The County was purportedly concerned about the burden on the bar with no small claims court. Dwayne informed them that there was no real negative feedback from the bar, negative or otherwise. Dwayne will keep up his ever-burgeoning relationship with the County Commissioners and the County Attorney’s office in these matters.

Funds. Dwayne presented Mark with a $1500 check from the USB for dues checkoff funds and a list of members compiled from the bar’s checkoff payees. The ever faithful Tassie cross referenced with our mailing list to eliminate non members, and also annotated USB’s master list for new and established members. Our current balance of funds, including this check, the checking account balance, and a maturing CD, is approximately $14,000.

Carol Tesch/Public Art: Appeared as a guest on behalf of the PC/Summit Co Arts Council. She is part of a focus group for public arts, getting them endowed and into public space, Christina Miller also in same group. The County did not fund the 1% for art as is done by state. The building is very sterile as a result, needs aesthetic softening. Dwayne concerned about having something similar to the USC modern art debacle with the Delicate Arch/Hamburger interpretation. Much to the surprise of the board members present, Carol stated that the group had a verbal commitment from Christina, on behalf of the PC Bar, to fund $3000 for a specific painting the committee feels is most appropriate for the Justice Center. The artist is willing to accept a $3000 stipend for her piece which is reputedly worth $6000. The focus group tried to get local artists to donate or lend art, but not much interest. No financial/tax benefits, don’t feel the denizens of the courts are a viable demographic for selling art, also worried about security of art without bonding. Carol feels this is a great opportunity for PCB to fund the initial piece of art.

Also to the surprise of the board members, Carol informed us thatthe PCB is the co-host, along with the 3rd District Court, of the Oct 12 dedication of the Justice Center at 12:30 p.m., a formal dedication/ribbon cutting for Justice Center. There is a chance that Gov. Leavitt may even do the ribbon cutting honors, assuming the 9/11 attack tragedies have not changed his schedule. The board members present were a) unaware of the scheduled dedication b) unaware that the PCB was the co-host, with our names already on the invitations. Dwayne promised to follow up.

Carol passed out color photos of the subject painting done by Ruby Chacon Hurst, with explanation of symbolic persons in painting, size is 61/2 ft by 5 ½ feet. It was originally commissioned for another project with the theme of diversity but it ended up not fitting into the intended building. It is not an abstract painting but a tableau of people of various ethnic and racial groups, with the theme “And Justice for All.”

Frank raised the problem that there will never be a consensus on a piece of art. The general consensus of the board members was that it was a striking, powerful painting, but perhaps not representative of the people of Summit County or Utah. More California/LA. Frank also brought up the point that part of the restaurant tax grant statute is for funding public art. A slam dunk for a proposal next year should we choose to sponsor this and future public art (no need to prove a tourist component, although there are facilities regularly used for overnight says, albeit involuntary, in the Justice Center complex). The Arts Council’s plan is that the entity which has public art displayed will take care of it, presumably with appropriate maintenance and insurance, but will be owned on a long term lease basis by the arts council (to prevent future plundering of the pieces for cash).

Mark had the following comments: 1) Why did we find out about our co-invitee status for dedication Oct 12 from arts council (ie why are we out of loop on this), 2) What else did Christina commit us to? 3) Feels that there has been a general obsession with equal protection/diversity issues, which are just a small part of the Bill of Rights. There are many more enduring issues from the Constitution that should be recognized for future projects. There are other public buildings coming up, i.e., the County Library at Kimball Junction. Kathy felt this painting is a good piece at this time because of the diversity issues prevalent in the community. Dwayne also felt it would be appropriate to display prints of the Founding Fathers and the Constitution.

Frank moved to authorize the board to spend $3000 for the Hurst painting and agree to the arrangement with the arts council to display it. The motion was passed unanimously.

CLE: December 13, 2001: Lien Law room 209 at library.

Meeting was quickly adjourned at 9:20 p.m., as several members had imminent commitments in Salt Lake City and other venues. The next meeting will be at Miners’ Hospital October 18.

Respectfully submitted,
Barbara W. Sharp