Bryce Jolley
Address: 1530 Ken Rey St.Age: 37
Occupation: Manager of Jolley's Corner and Top Hat Video
Personal: Jolley has lived most of his life in Salt Lake City. He and his wife, Terry, have four children.
Experience: He served on the steering committee for Rep. Enid Waldhotz's 1994 campaign, has volunteered in local homeless shelters and is an avid supporter of the American Heart Association and March of Dimes.
Bonneville Shoreline Trail and open-space issues: Jolley said he supports --development of the trail.
He wants to encourage cooperative efforts such as the one that led to the proposed dual spurs along both Devonshire and Wasatch drives in the Sunnyside area, which reconnect at the canyon.
Jolley said an additional route through the area is worth pursuing. This option would provide a section of trail through Emigration Canyon, including an improved bike trail, and then wind over the mountain to Parleys Canyon.
Jolley likes what the city is doing with planted medians along 600 East and 800 East. He also wants to see more projects like Davis Park, which transformed an asphalt parking lot and section of street into a neighborhood park.
Traffic congestion: Traffic problems caused by commuters traveling to the University of Utah, downtown and to Research Park are the No. 1 concern of District 6 residents, Jolley said.
He's proposing one possible solution to traffic along Foothill Boulevard: Create a "green way" during peak commuter periods. Twice during the morning commute and twice at evening all traffic signals along the boulevard would be set on green for 15 minutes or so to keep traffic flowing quickly through the area, Jolley said.
Jolley said the city needs to encourage increased use of mass transit among employees of downtown businesses, even to the extent of the city perhaps giving out discount bus passes.
He gives "qualified" support to light rail. "If there's not a better mass-transit solution and funding of light rail can be done with substantial federal help, then I'm in favor of looking at it closer."
What the city needs: Jolley wants to see increased communication not only within the city but also with other entities in the community.
"I want to help form neighborhood associations within community councils so that we have greater input and involvement from the neighborhoods," Jolley said.
Irrelevant tidbit: "People wonder where they've seen me before. Sometimes my face seems familiar. It's because I've done local commercials - most prominently, I'm the Blue Cross/Blue Shield stretchy guy."
Patricia G. Tuft
Address: 900 Donner Way, No. 604
Age: 44
Occupation: Education specialist for the Families, Agencies and Communities Together (FACT) program, Utah State Office of Education.
Personal: Tuft has lived in Salt Lake City for the past 12 years. She is the widow of J. Reed Tuft and has three stepchildren, four grandchildren and one great-grandchild.
Experience: Tuft worked with the YWCA Teen Mom Program, Utah Children, Oak Hills Community Council and Bonneville Trail Committee and is past president of the Junior League of Salt Lake City.
Bonneville Shoreline Trail and open-space issues: "I would work hard to protect the neighborhoods' endorsement of the Bonneville loop through District 6 while addressing their concerns about protecting bike and foot traffic through the Bonneville Golf Course," Tuft said.
She is "very interested" in efforts to pursue a bike path up Emigration Canyon and then over the mountain to Parleys.
"I believe that the work of the District 6 council person is to be proactive in looking for opportunities to acquire the land necessary to support the green-belt plan and our continuing needs for recreation space, like soccer fields," Tuft said.
Traffic congestion: Tuft believes it will take a variety of approaches to solve traffic problems.
"We need to provide ways for commuters to not drive through our neighborhoods," Tuft said. "The solution must include a great role for public transportation."
The incentives might include private-sector bus-pass programs similar to the one the University of Utah instituted, Tuft said. She also believes the city needs to carefully plan and develop more park-and-ride lots.
"If given a full-funding grant agreement from the U.S. Department of Transportation the city should definitely proceed to establish the first phase of a comprehensive public transportation system, which includes light rail," Tuft said.
What the city needs: "I think it needs a carefully developed and multifaceted approach to early intervention and prevention of juvenile crime that includes positive interventions as well as swift and just consequences," Tuft said. "Lasting neighborhood security will depend on our personal involvement with our neighbors and projects such as neighborhood watch, mobile watch, adequate funding to support first-class police protection, and attention to those social conditions which foster a climate of crime."
Irrelevant tidbit: "Despite my husband's warning, I once broke my wrist ice skating with my eighth-grade class two days before the Christmas holidays, and had 16 guests arriving for Christmas Eve dinner."