{"id":3055,"date":"2015-03-06T12:28:18","date_gmt":"2015-03-06T19:28:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.parkrag.com\/?p=3055"},"modified":"2015-03-06T12:28:18","modified_gmt":"2015-03-06T19:28:18","slug":"summit-county-representative-kraig-powell-touch-mountain-accord","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/index.php\/2015\/03\/06\/summit-county-representative-kraig-powell-touch-mountain-accord\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Summit County Representative Kraig Powell Out of Touch on Mountain Accord?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This morning on KPCW, Utah Representative Kraig Powell was interviewed by Leslie Thatcher on a number of topics. However, what caught\u00a0our attention was a response near the end of the interview about Mountain Accord.<\/p>\n<p>[stag_divider style=&#8221;dotted&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p><strong>Leslie Thatcher<\/strong>: Apparently\u00a0there is a bill or it is part of the appropriations bill that would fund Mountain Accord up to\u00a0$5 million. Is that something you are in support of?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Representative Powell<\/strong>: I&#8217;m sorry that I&#8217;ve been in the legislative session and it&#8217;s take a real turn recently and I&#8217;ve been reading the Park Record and listening to your program. It is very unusual for any group in society that are working on something that would say we don&#8217;t want funding from legislature. That&#8217;s the thing that puzzles me about this. If my constituents on the Wasatch\u00a0Back actually want me to vote against a funding bill that&#8217;s providing funding, it would be the first time in my legislative career. But I need to hear that directly\u00a0from\u00a0the\u00a0\u00a0leaders of the municipalities and counties. They haven&#8217;t\u00a0been calling me directly. Although I have had some citizens write to me saying that.<\/p>\n<p>[stag_divider style=&#8221;dotted&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p>This concerns us on a number of fronts:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>To Park City and Summit County residents, this isn&#8217;t just some funding bill. Mr Powell acts like this is some bill to fund a swimming pool. To us, Mountain Accord\u00a0could fundamentally alter who and how PCMR, Canyons, and Deer Valley are used.<\/li>\n<li>While we understand that the legislature session is important, almost 400 people showed up to a meeting at Park City High School regarding Mountain Accord. So, it&#8217;s a big deal to us. His response above shows a complete lack of understanding of the public&#8217;s view of importance on this issue.<\/li>\n<li>This perhaps confirms County Council person Dave Ure&#8217;s comment that probably not more than a handful of people on the hill know what is being spent on Mountain Accord. It appears Mr Powell is not in that handful.<\/li>\n<li>Mr Powell says he needs to hear directly from &#8220;leaders of municipalities and counties&#8221; in order to know whether he should vote against appropriations for Mountain Accord. We didn&#8217;t realize that the Park City City Council had elected him. That&#8217;s good to know. We guess we won&#8217;t have to waste all that time voting next time.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We do realize this is one interview and one sound byte out of a thousand. We also don&#8217;t follow the legislature much, so we don&#8217;t know if Mr Powell&#8217;s attitude is typical. What we do know is that from a casual citizens point of view his comments\u00a0were very disappointing.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning on KPCW, Utah Representative Kraig Powell was interviewed by Leslie Thatcher on a number of topics. However, what caught\u00a0our attention was a&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[84,20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3055"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3055\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}