Mayor Ryan Dickey is proud of the work accomplished at the Marsac Building during his first 100 days in office, a mark he reached earlier in April. In a guest editorial published in The Park Record, the mayor touted the selection of a city manager, progress on transportation planning along the S .R. 248 entryway and moves toward the eventual development of municipal acreage in Bonanza Park. He also cited the fact-finding mission to the Winter Olympics in Italy as part of the preparations for the 2034 Winter Olympics. “During last year’s campaign, I heard the same message from residents again and again: ‘Our city government feels stuck.’ People wanted a mayor and council that would lean in, make decisions, and move Park City forward. One hundred days in, that’s exactly what we’ve done,” he wrote in his commentary. But the guest editorial by the mayor did not mention a topic consequential during the election last year, which Dickey won by seven votes. The relationship between the municipal government and the mountain resorts was one of the closely watched issues during the campaign, drawing the attention of voters with both Park City Mountain and Deer Valley Resort engaged with Park City officials on high-profile matters. It is a broad topic that at various times can include talks related to base-area development, traffic and on-mountain improvements at the two resorts. The candidates, notably, debated a package of proposed lift improvements at Park City Mountain. Dickey and Rubin in September, as the campaign entered the final stretch, described their visions for the first 100 days in office should they win on Election Day and then take office in early January. The responses were to a Park Record inquiry, and Dickey addressed the resort industry in his answer. “I will also bring our resort partners to the table to set a clear path forward, work together, and find compromise to enhance the ski experience for locals and (visitors) alike and prepare for what’s needed both immediately and into the future. It’s time to use common sense and move ski lifts and on-mountain improvements forward. We are a ski town,” Dickey wrote in his answer in September. The mayor did not convene a public discussion or discussions with the two resorts during his first 100 days. And he only made limited comments in January, as Park City Mountain began another effort to secure an approval from the municipal government for the lift improvements via a different process than the earlier, unsuccessful one. Dickey in an interview this week, though, said there was an ongoing dialogue with the two mountain resorts during the first 100 days even if there was not a public meeting involving the municipal government, Park City Mountain and Deer Valley. He said he is “satisfied with the progress I’ve seen” in relation to Park City Mountain as it bids to secure an approval from the Park City Planning Commission for the lift improvements. “The relationship is there, and the results speak for themselves,” he said. Dickey said he was clear during the campaign in his support for upgrades. Park City Mountain wants to build a six-passenger lift as a replacement for two existing ones — Eagle and Eaglet — and also wants to put in an eight-passenger lift as an upgrade to the Silverlode Express, which currently carries six passengers. The mayor said he did not have a role as Park City Mountain filed the paperwork at City Hall for the improvements. The Planning Commission is toward the beginning of its discussions about the proposed lift upgrades at Park City Mountain. A timeline for a decision is unclear. The post Park City mayor quiet about resort relationships in first 100 days appeared first on Park Record. ...read more read less