The two Park City mayoral candidates appeared together for the first time on Monday evening, delivering brief comments about their platforms during an event when they were overshadowed by the field vying in a City Council primary.
Ryan Dickey is a member of the City Council who is seeking the Marsac Building’s highest office. Jack Rubin has a background that includes finance, investment banking and institutional asset management. There were not enough candidates to force a primary election in the mayoral contest, and much of the attention has been on the candidates for City Council as they prepare for the primary.
Dickey and Rubin attended a candidate event in the community room at the Park City Library that was put on by the Wasatch Back chapter of the League of Women Voters and a Park City organization called the Pro-Active Alliance. The event was not designed as a formal debate and the two instead were given time to address the crowd.
Rubin described that the outcomes of the decision by the Sundance Film Festival to move outside of Utah and by the Kimball Art Center to leave the Park City limits could have been different. He also noted the discussions about a future location for Recycle Utah.
He said his career has involved meetings where facts are presented. Rubin, though, said not all facts are being presented at City Hall.
Rubin described that he wants to be “your mayor.”
“What’s missing, I think, is our voice,” he said.
Dickey described his background owning a homeowners association management business with his wife. He said the decision Parkites will make in November is about where the community is headed.
“This is a leadership election,” Dickey said.
Neither of them spoke in great detail about their key platform issues, but that sort of campaigning is expected to become more prevalent once the City Council primary is over and the top of the ticket moves to the forefront of the election.