Protection of the Summit County, confident, which is confident in the referendum signature,

Protect Summit County, the referendum guided by volunteers against the real estate development of Dakota Pacific in Kimball Junction, is confident that you have collected enough signatures to put the regulation on the ballot paper.

However, you have less trust that the referendum efforts were not undermined.

Monday evening was the deadline for the seven sponsors – Scott Greenberg, Joe Urankar, Ruby Diaz, Robert Lattanzi, Shawn Stinson, Brendan Weinstein and Jennifer Sexsmith – to be presented to the Summit COFTY CLERK office for review. The group estimated that they submitted 77 packages with over 6,000, about 33% more than the minimum threshold.

“According to the code, we had to achieve 16% threshold values ​​in relation to the overall voters of the Summit County and in three out of four four voters. In the end we had more than 21% of the total voters and over 20%, 26% and 28% in three areas of voter participation, ”said Protect Summit County. “The numbers speak for themselves. The only option, as Ordinance 987 does not end up on November -voting list when the election mix is ​​successful. “

Protect Summit County said it increased its signature. “As soon as the extent of the sabotage became apparent.” Sponsors have expressed concerns in the employee's office after more than a dozen petition packages were rejected due to improper distribution. They also questioned Wasatch Back Future's efforts, a committee for political issues founded by Dakota Pacific executives, and encouraged voters who signed the referendum to remove their signatures and described these efforts as “intimidating”.

Referendum sponsors and many residents also came into question with a partner of a lobbyist company, Foxley & Pignanelli, which was hired by Summit County three years ago to promote the district problems that are separated with Wasatch. During KPCW's “Local News Hour” on February 25, Shayne Scott, Manager of Summit County said, “there is no conflict of interest” because the district had taken a neutral position on the referendum.

Summit County protected himself.

“Our own Summit County lobbyists are working hard to kill the voter appearance than to be advocated for US voters in the legislature,” said the group in a statement on the park.

Sponsors started to receive signatures about 45 days ago, to accept dozens of volunteers and to organize numerous collecting processes to achieve the minimum threshold in order to bring regulation No. 987 on the ballot paper and have the voters decide whether the mixed project near the Park City Tech Center is permitted.

The public criticism of the development was submitted loudly about five years ago, according to the first iteration of the Dakota Pacific application. The trainee sponsors said that the voices of the 4: 1 County Council were “against the people” in December.

Those who signed the referendum petition said that they had the feeling that they were not well represented by the district council are looking for the opportunity to better understand the details of the development contract, or want to repeal the regulation to force the officials to negotiate with the developer.

If the referendum makes it into a ballot, the voters decide in the general elections whether the approved development contract should be.

“The people who were hired by those who worked to kill the referendum began to pursue and disturb our locations. In certain cases, these people have actually contributed to securing more attention and support for our efforts. And as soon as the news about Summit County's own lobbyists were triggered from the Dakota Pacific to kill the voter, it motivated a whole late wave of signatories to stand up for democracy in Summit County, ”said Protect Summ County in an explanation.

Summit County Clerk Eve Furse awaited an update via the Signature packages by Tuesday afternoon. FURSE has retained that the employee's office is neutral in this process and follows state law. She said the packages were rejected because they could not be tied up properly, which means that the signature leaves may have been separated from the pamphlet of the voter information.

Utah code states that the district clerk was submitted 21 days after submitting a package via the petition whether every name is that of a right -wing voter. Publish the name, the identification number and the date of each signature on the website of the governor lieutenant; And deliver the verified package to the local employees.

There is also that the district writer does not count a signature on a package that is not checked or has no date next to it. A package cannot be checked if it has not been signed by someone at least 18 years if the check on the last page of the package has not been completed or whether every signatory has not read or understood the law that tries the referendum to tip over.

The sponsors estimated that 31 packages were introduced on Monday. Protect Summit County claims that all packages are valid for the state code and all signatures. The sponsors plan to pursue an appeal if the employee's office is not sufficient for the petition efforts, they said.

“Winning or losing, the people in Summit County have shown themselves against legislative interference, a district council who stood with a developer about his voters. Repeated attempts to sabotage and a district writer who acted outside of her compulsory area, and the introduction of chaos in the middle of the process,” said Protect Summit County. “This is a clear mandate for the highest level of government in Utah, the interventions in local questions and for the local officials you have chosen not to contain anymore.”

Officials from the Summit County district had not returned a request for a comment on Tuesday.

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