An eclectic group of Parkites is seeking a midterm appointment to the Park City Council to serve the remainder of the term vacated by Ryan Dickey as he ascended to the mayor’s office.
The elected officials are scheduled to conduct interviews with the candidates on Tuesday, with the appointment expected two days later on Thursday, Jan. 15.
Statements from the application include:
• Doyle Damron describes a background in the oversight of construction and infrastructure. He says he supports “responsible development and believes growth should be managed with fairness and clarity, not arbitrarily and not in a way that shuts the door on others.” He says “moving from planning to execution, especially around housing,” is an issue he would champion. Damron says he “would encourage the City to be clearer about the long-term implications of major decisions so residents understand not just what is being done, but also be provided an explanation of how it will be implemented and sustained over time.”
• John Frontero, who is a member of the Park City Planning Commission, outlines a background in the financial industry, including hiring, budgeting and management. He says he has a “very good relationship” with the mayor and City Council. Frontero states that the role of the City Council is to “create a game plan for success for the City and its residents” and to “strive to make Park City better than it was yesterday.” Issues he would champion include the protection of open space, improving transit and workforce housing for municipal employees. Frontero says the community’s “open space, mountain views, access to trails, etc. is what makes our city such a special place,” and encouraged officials to “strike a balance of protecting our open space while allowing measured growth within the confines of” Park City’s development rules.
• Danny Glasser, who unsuccessfully challenged for a City Council seat in the 2025 election, describes an emphasis on “understanding the varied perspectives of our stakeholders and finding shared goals and objectives to build upon to achieve successful outcomes for all the members of our community.” He says “leadership and accountability, transparency, and constructive collaboration” are central. Glasser adds: “Where Park City has an opportunity to improve is to better reconcile and align long-term planning with economic realities, community affordability, threats to our workforce, and to continue building trust through clear, consistent council collaboration internally and proactive communication and engagement with our citizens externally.” He mentions the possibility of creating a “formal community impact review framework for major policy and development decisions.”
• George Goodman describes his interest in the seat “because I believe the community is at an inflection point, and my perspective reflects a group that is becoming increasingly difficult to retain: long-term, working families with children in our public schools.” He adds: “Rising housing costs, increased taxes, and development pressures are changing who can afford to live here, raise families here, and participate fully in the community. These forces are not theoretical — they affect schools, local businesses, workforce stability, and the character of daily life.” Goodman says his priorities as a city councilor would include “housing that supports working and generational families,” “responsible land use and open space stewardship” and “youth retention and opportunity.” He also says “decisions should ensure that the city remains accessible to people at different life stages and income levels, not just those who can afford it today.”
• Molly Miller, who unsuccessfully challenged for a City Council seat in the 2025 election, highlights that there is just one woman among the elected officials. She says, “Research is clear: communities benefit when women serve. We prioritize collaboration over confrontation, which leads to more frequent consensus.” Miller adds, “It’s not that women are better leaders: it’s that better leadership is accomplished when women are at the table.” She described that she would prioritize respect, action and community. Miller says the city must “hit the gas on housing.” The application also says “residents at all income levels create economic resilience, stronger social fabric, and greater equity. A gaping hole widens as potential neighbors are priced out. We must staunch the flow to restore the vibrancy established by nurturing a whole community.”
• Matt Nagie, who unsuccessfully competed in the City Council campaign in 2023, describes a perspective drawn from his background as a transportation engineer and a member of the Snyderville Basin Planning Commission. He says people who serve on the City Council “should be bold and imaginative in bringing new initiatives to the table.” He notes his platform in 2023 involved affordable housing, child care and transportation. Nagie’s application also addresses bicycle routes. He says the city “must get serious about protected bicycle infrastructure at intersections as the council considers the future of 248 and Bonanza Park” and “ that bicycle infrastructure in Park City should only be considered a success when parents feel comfortable letting their young children ride their bikes to e.g. elementary school with no supervision.”
• Jeffrey Pierce describes a background in small business and says he is semi-retired. He owns Old Town properties. One of the issues he sees as important is “technology infrastructure (as an Old Town resident I find both connectivity and access to even decent quality internet lacking).” He also outlines that housing is an important issue, as is traffic. He says, “Park City is thinking about the right issues with regard to increasing the availability of affordable housing, and I think tackling traffic, particularly around Old Town, could be tackled better.” Pierce outlines a unique idea for Park City centered on technology. The application says he “would truly love to find ways to partner with tech infrastructure providers to increase both mobile and physical tech connectivity to Park City.”
• Jack Rubin, who unsuccessfully competed in the mayoral contest in 2025, addresses what he heard during the campaign. He says that “through months of direct conversations across our community, I learned concerns many feel aren’t consistently reflected in council deliberations.” He adds: “Having just completed a citywide campaign, I’m uniquely positioned to represent voices that participated actively in the civic process and expect continued engagement.” Rubin outlines that Park City, amid growth, “would benefit from a more integrated and long range approach that considers cumulative impacts rather than addressing issues in isolation.” He also says, “With limited transportation capacity, diminishing open space, and increasing housing pressures on working residents, decisions require a holistic framework that balances competing interests while keeping resident quality of life at the center.” Rubin says the municipal government’s role includes “safeguarding open space, historical character, and economic sustainability while thoughtfully managing growth and infrastructure demands.”
• Laura Suesser, who is a former member and chair of the Park City Planning Commission, mentions the background, saying that “historically, the Planning Commission has been a stepping-stone to council and the current council lacks someone with both legal and land use expertise.” She says she would have sought a City Council seat in the election in 2025 “had Tana Toly and Jeremy Rubell not run for reelection,” indicating she “strongly supported” the two. Suesser says issues she would champion as a member of the City Council include “balancing the needs of the tourism economy with the residential quality of life and historic character” and “mitigating traffic with multimodal transit solutions.” Suesser also says she has “long thought that the city should try a pilot program using shorter buses and more expansive bus routes to make transit more convenient to a wider range of people and help incentivize transit use.”
• Jennifer Sutton indicates she is a one-time owner of a juice shop and is a partner in a firm offering marketing and promotions. She describes that she sees Park City at “a critical juncture: the 2034 Olympics are on the horizon, the Deer Valley East expansion is reshaping our borders and tax base, and the departure of the Sundance Film Festival challenges our cultural and economic identity. These are not just administrative hurdles: they are opportunities to define who we will be for the next generation.” She also says “as Park City grows increasingly affluent, we must be intentional about fostering a diverse community that serves all residents.” Sutton would “champion three critical issues: affordable housing, resort and regional cooperation, and long-term economic resilience.” Sutton describes an idea to create what she calls a “Park City resident passport” that “would allow verified full-time residents to access exclusive, off-peak ‘local-only’ incentives, such as tiered pricing at restaurants or parking credits. This is not just about discounts: it is about economic resilience.”