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0000017b-652b-d50a-a3ff-f7efb02e0000KPCW's COVID-19 news coverage for Summit County and Wasatch County, Utah. 0000017b-652b-d50a-a3ff-f7efb02f0000You can also visit the Utah Department of Health, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and World Health Organization websites for additional information.

Main Street Visitors Will Find Hand Sanitizing To Be Easy

Mike Lennon-PCMC

The building maintenance team with Park City Municipal has installed hand sanitizers up and down Main Street. They’ve done other measures to deal with COVID-19 spread while still allowing the soft opening of businesses in town.

Park City Building Maintenance Supervisor Mike Lennon says he wanted to install hand sanitizers on Main Street but the dispensers are harder to get than the sanitizer. He was originally told the city wouldn’t be able to get them for at least five to six weeks. After exploring relationships with supply contractors now there are dispensers filled with sanitizer every five poles on both sides of Main Street.

“So, we looked hard everywhere and actually thought about it. And I went through my contractors at supply partitions for restroom partitions. They had soap dispensers that would work and that's how we found these, and we retrofitted them for Main Street light poles. So, we have 21 hand sanitizer dispensers.”

They’re trying to make all the city facilities as hands free as possible. They’ve installed waterless urinals in the restrooms on Main Street along with other measures to encourage safe COVD-19 practices. They’ve put in foot pulls that allow users to open with the foot and installed push pull handles so no one will touch the doors on a variety of city facilities.

“We did Marsac.  We did the transit center, Old Town Transit Center and we've done Main Street restrooms and museum bathrooms an Old Town transit center [bathrooms] now and we're just waiting for more supplies to come in on those, because there's a run on them. We just can't get those in right now.”

Lennon says they take care of 41 buildings in the city and they are deep cleaned, some as often as twice a week. They’re using medical grade cleaning supplies.  He says they’ve also installed sanitizing stations outside high traffic city buildings and at busy pedestrian cross walks. If people see city facilities or sanitizing dispensers that need service, call the emergency maintenance hotline at 435-615-5655.

 

KPCW reporter Carolyn Murray covers Summit and Wasatch County School Districts. She also reports on wildlife and environmental stories, along with breaking news. Carolyn has been in town since the mid ‘80s and raised two daughters in Park City.
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