All right,
we're good to go. I think we'll go ahead
and get started right on four o'clock.
So, we'll start the work session and uh
the first item to talk about today is a
discussion about the towns of Riley
Farms phase B and update. And I believe
Stephen's got this right with Greg
hopefully.
Or we can just invite Greg up if you're
okay. Go ahead and uh
tell us what you got
my so you can see what I'm talking about
here.
Yep.
So, first I wanted to say thank you. Um,
last week at the the city council
meeting, you approved the first
amendment to the development agreement
and that uh allowed us to count the four
that uh were in lots from or the four
lots that were in plat 2 that we hadn't
anticipated when we made the development
agreement and uh agree to the sequencing
with the parks in plat 4. Um so I I
appreciate that. Um, I used to be on a
planning commission and one of my pet
peeves was when people would come in and
uh we'd give them recommendations or
make suggestions and it seemed like they
would kind of do some token changes but
didn't really listen to us and when they
came back it was like were you not
taking notes? Yeah. So, we tried to take
good notes from last time and uh make
some modifications with uh Element Homes
as architectural partners and we wanted
to come and kind of uh run this by you
and get your your feedback. So, last
time when we were here, the mayor asked
about the possibility of pushing the
town home back and extending the garage
out two feet and uh we actually did it
uh about three feet. And so this new
design um is 24 feet deep um on the
garage. And we had the um our
architectural partners put in some
different uh trucks and minivans and
sedans because I remember you asked
about different um cars and how they
would fit. So this is a a Ford F-150 um
crew cab and um it's parked in the
garage. You can see that they put in
garbage cans to scale. And then they
have some minivans. There's a Honda
Odyssey and a Toyota Sienna and some
different um sedans like a Honda Accord
and a Honda Civic and a Toyota Camry
Camry and a Tesla Y. But um from our
conversation last time, you said you
wanted a garage that was useful and
functional instead of being so tight
that you couldn't have both cars and
garbage cans in it. And I remember one
of the questions was a concern about the
stairs, if the stairs extended too far
into the garage or if there was a
landing that would re re uh reduce the
usable area of the garage. And we double
checked the grades and everything. And
all of the garages will be able to have
a one step maximum. So it's just one
step that's inside the garage and it
doesn't affect the usable space. And um
the the reason why we were doing this uh
if you'll recall, we had in our
development agreement that there would
be 40 uh town homes built that were
three stories that had a minimum of a
600 foot garage. And um we built 20 of
those so far and they just haven't been
as well received by the market. And so
looking forward at the the last lots
that we have to build with the larger
garage design, we felt like if we were
able to do a twotory instead of a three
and with this um updated design that's
uh 24 feet deep, we wanted to get your
input on that to to see what your
thoughts were. But we think this could
um you know still offer a design with a
a bigger garage area that's functional
but also would be helpful to um have
that that interest from the the market.
So
I'm happy to answer any questions or uh
uh hear your thoughts on it.
So would these be in lie of the three
car or the fourc car garages or would
you be these two car this new two-car
garage design also on the other units
that were already planned as two-car
garages.
So, the way the the development
agreement was is that there were to be
40 with the larger garage and all the
rest of them would be the the standard
twocar design and any that we would
change um would need to have a plat
amendment to the plat and we want to
keep going forward with the construction
of the other ones. So the 20 that have
been built are these four in plat 2,
these 16 in plat three, and then the
ones that are left to build are these uh
four forplexes and one fiveplex. And so
what we would propose is uh we would
actually end up with 41 of the larger
garage design instead of 40. But it
would um the 20 that are already done
would count towards the the requirement.
But we would do an propose to do an
amendment to the um development
agreement to allow 21 of these larger
garages uh to replace the 20 um
threetory ones with this minimum 600
foot garage.
So, if I'm not mistaken, you're asking
if this is palatable. So, you could come
back and ask for another amendment,
right? That's how we would memorialize
the agreement would be a a second
amendment to the development agreement.
Does it is there any feedback?
[clears throat] And does this seem to
meet the requirement that we're looking
for?
And I I didn't mention the garage area
with this Extended garage is 496 square
ft. So
So maybe to help the council,
what's that?
What was the prior square footage of the
garage?
The prior square footage was um I
believe 421.
421.
Yeah.
Yeah. [snorts]
And this is 496. So
and it's 24 ft deep.
But but to be clear, I want to make sure
we're understanding the ask correctly.
You're require build 600 foot garages
now on those three stories, right?
Yes, that's correct.
And so you're asking to build a 496
square foot garage in lie of those 600
foot garages because and then keep it a
twotory because it's a little easier to
market. I mean, is that a fair is that a
fair assessment?
It when I say the market, it's not like
the marketing like the advertising like
we've we've taken them to market and the
you're just having a hard time selling
them and you want them to sell and so do
we. the buyers have been um tended to to
gravitate towards the twotory more than
the threetory.
So the changes that would come back are
100 square foot less garage and these
would remain three story or two stories.
So these would be a twostory
two it's just the two changes from three
story to twotory and the garage from 600
to 500
or
well and so I'm I'm going to ask a
question. I mean let me say this. Thank
you for listening
to at least what our concerns were. Um
it's obvious that you that you
understood the intent
of at least what my concerns are and I
think probably what the councils are in
general.
You're welcome and thanks for letting us
know what the current concerns were.
But with that said, um
I guess I guess for me the question
would be would be simply this. Is there
a way to incorporate this into more
units that have that smaller footprint
or that smaller garage? I don't know if
there is or not. I That's why I'm asking
because if we're if if we're willing to
consider this, and perhaps we should.
I'm not saying that that I'm a yes or a
no on it, but perhaps we should. But if
we're going to do it, I'd like to know,
can we incorporate something beneficial
like this into the design of some of the
remaining twotory units? That's what I'm
interested in hearing about.
So, um,
the the intent, um, had been to do the
uh the plat amendment and that was one
one other thing that I guess is kind of
more a procedural thing on these four
units. We did a a lot line adjustment
which the state law allows and is a
little faster and easier for us. But our
feedback from the staff was that it's uh
not as easy for them. And so they asked
if we would have our surveyor do a plat
amendment rather than a lot line
adjustment. and we're happy to do that
to to make it easier and better for the
staff. But to answer your question,
to get up to the the 40, it would
actually be 41. Um, we were intending to
do the larger garage on the the 21 units
that are currently shown with the red
three for the three stories. Um, and
that would kind of get above the 40 with
the larger garage. It was the the intent
of the original development agreement.
I can I restate the question? I think
what what council member Wright's asking
is that these units up here,
what is the size of the garage on those?
And would you increase it in exchange
for decreasing these make those a little
bit more palatable as well? So the other
units would also, you know, in exchange
for making these different. Is that is
that
that that really is the intent of my
question is is is there a way to perhaps
increase the size of those that aren't
required to have the larger size in
exchange for reducing those that are
required to be 600 ft to the 496. That's
really the question. I don't know if
architecturally that's something that
can happen, right?
So, um from an architectural standpoint,
we wanted to get feedback before we had
the structural engineers go through and
redesign the structure. And this uh this
one's already been poured, the footing
and foundation walls. It's getting back
filled right now. And this one is
getting um dug and poured in the next
week or so.
Which ones could you make an adjustment
to if you're able to do so?
So, I would have to get with Element
Homes on their um their schedule. Um but
it in addition to doing the the
re-engineering of the structural
engineering, we also have to do the plat
amendment um before we could do it. So
our thought had been to do these five
last so there would be time for the plat
amendment to happen. But um this one we
were hesitant to because we've already
installed the trail, but if we had to
tear out the trail and redo it, we
could. Um
these two
it would really depend on the timing of
the plat amendment. So, I I don't want
to dodge the question, but I don't have
enough information to answer, but we we
could get with Element Homes and see
what their schedule is. Get with um kind
of the planning department and see how
long they think the and our surveyor and
see how long they think the plat
amendment could take.
So, I've kind of hogged the time and I'm
going to just leave this. I'll give you
the my last little bit and then and then
step back and and let the the other
council members give you some thoughts.
I'd be willing to entertain what you're
asking if there's some additional
benefit in creating better off street
parking for these residents that are
over and above those 40 that you're
already obligated to do that on. Um, if
all you're going to do is change a 600
square foot garage for a 500 square foot
and go from a three story to two story,
I don't care. To me, that's not that's
not a huge upside. I mean, it's actually
a downside from my perspective in that
we're losing we're reducing space in
those garages. But if you were able to
to say, "Look, we want to do these 496
square foot garages and we're willing to
incorporate some better garage design to
to incorporate the feedback that we
heard council give to ensure that the t
the people who either purchase these or
rent them will have access to a useful
garage." That's that's really what we're
talking about. And they'll be able to
store the their their their garbage cans
inside and get two vehicles. I like the
that you used. I think those are very
appropriate. I think that that many of
our residents are going to have two
vehicles in in a similar setup and it
makes sense. It gets them inside. It
gives them some protection and it also
keeps them off the street. So, for me at
least, I'd be I'd be willing to
entertain that [clears throat and cough]
if I'd be willing to entertain going
from the 600 to 496, let you go from
threetory to twotory if there's some
additional benefit in those that aren't
required to have the larger garage. That
That's really what I'm looking for is is
there a chance to do that.
[clears throat]
Um, can you go back to the one that
shows like the overall
layout?
Um, I think it really comes down to
parking and um, I'm grateful that one,
you're listening to the market and two
that you've made an attempt to change
because certainly we've had developers
come in here three, four times and every
single time it's the same stupid thing
and it's like you guys didn't listen to
us last time but you like So, I I
appreciate the effort to make a change.
I guess one of the suggestions that I
would give and I'm gonna kind of look to
my fellow council members to see if this
would be enough. What if they added some
additional overflow parking spots in the
neighborhood where those homes have the
smaller garages? What if um even if it
came down to taking one lot out to add
way more overflow parking because I
think that ultimately would be cheaper
than a full redesign of ones that are
already the twotory ones. So I'm just
wondering if that would make a big
enough difference for my fellow council
members.
I've got some questions for you. What's
the difference in the width of the
garage from your uh three your
threestory model?
So the the width is the same. Um it's
20.08 ft and the reason for that is uh
the lots are already platted and we
can't make and all of the utilities are
stuck to them.
That that leads to my next question. And
so basically we've given up the storage
space behind that was there in the
threetory. We've gone with a longer
garage per se that will enable trucks
garbage cans and even some SUVs to be in
there, but we haven't really gained any
ground on the width of the garage. Um,
that's correct. One thing we have gained
on though is the original when we did
the development agreement, the two
stories did not have a basement and now
the the design with the two stories has
a 520 foot unfinished basement. So, the
21 um uh town homes that we're proposing
to have this twotory design with the
larger garage um it' be 520 times uh 21
about 11,000 square feet of I actually
did the calculation. Let me look. 11,000
square feet of uh unfinished basement
storage space that the three stories
would not have because they're slav.
So, my my concern is width. I think you
should probably remember that from our
last conversation. I they need to be
able to get out of the car once it's in
there, especially when it's snowing,
raining, whatever. Um, and if they pull
in at the same time, it really is going
to be the finagling that we tend to see
where everybody gets out and somebody
backs the car in to get out.
Do you feel like that there's any
flexibility to move that to a 21 and a
half foot width inside
where if it was a paper lot and it was
just a kind of a concept it might be
possible but where the roads are paved
and all the utilities are in and all of
the
you'd end up stuck to the lots it it
would be
I'm less concerned about the parking I
mean it's a townhouse community I mean
there's only so many places you can put
parking I think that you've uh you've
shown at at at least on this uh design
that there's space to be able to park on
the driveway. You can fit inside the
garage. I think that's the intent, at
least from my perspective.
Uh the width is a bit of a concern. I
don't think we gained any ground on
that. And I don't know that I'm one way
or the other
not having the space behind the garage.
I think it they'll likely use that for a
storage space more than they would use
uh the basement for that. basement just
ends up being a catchall and but that's
a decision you guys make. I don't care
about that stuff. That's really not us.
That's that's going to be market driven
and whether people agree with that. I
think for me what we were looking for as
far as the parking, I think you've
accomplished that in my perspective. Um
I I do like that the floor plan is uh a
little more palitable to people who want
to buy it and don't have smaller
floors. So for me, I don't I don't
really have any problems with this.
Thank you.
I'm I'm along the lines of what council
member Wright's asking is that if we're
giving up space and taking a threec car
and going to a twocar, if you can
improve the two cars and the other areas
that were smaller and you can make those
two cars larger, then I I would be open
to looking at for sure. So that is that
something you could bring back, I would
be open to looking at that.
Let's go back to the other page. So you
only mentioned a couple. So, uh,
what what they've both said, you
mentioned that these ones aren't done,
but also these ones. So, we're looking
at this row and this row that still
possibly could be adjusted. That's what
you're asking.
And I again, I don't want to commit to
it. I need to find out.
I was just out there, I think.
Can you state your name for the record?
Oh, sorry.
Ta Taylor Keys with Element Homes on the
sales sales part of it. I was out there.
I believe they've got um this this blue
that blue right there.
This one's getting back filled.
That one's getting back filled. And I
think they've dug here. And I I guess
what I we'll have to look at and see
what's been submitted, right? But if I'm
hearing what you're saying is go back
and say, well, what buildings could be
on the table? So whether that's a
function of we just have to say okay
here's how many have been pulled here's
what's on the schedule and then we come
back and say well we could do this
building or not do this building and
kind of see what that if that fits what
you're looking for ultimately I think
the goal here is to to gain more than
just the the additional 20
this would be 21
yes and 20 right so the so I think I I
think I'm hearing what what you're what
you're saying is you would like it to be
a greater benefit if we're going to do
this
when it might not be the the
exact same as these other units you're
talking about here, but at least bigger
than what's already designed
as a tradeoff.
Sure.
Because I don't know what the design is
on those. I don't remember.
Well, so so we had the so around the
perimeter there, it's it's the typical
twotory with the the the garage that was
originally approved, the smaller garage,
right? And then then we have this
twotory with the bigger garage. And so
the the the question would just be what
units could we
So it would be easier to do the ones
around the outside just because there's
more space
space towards the boundary on these
ones. It would be taking up, you know,
the grass open space or going into the
trail.
It sounds like if you can make that
happen, you'll probably get a
Yes.
I I think we can take that feedback and
get back with the team and then we can
bring it.
Okay.
Yeah, I'm gonna I would agree with Brett
and Craig. If we can get a little more
value there, come back with that. I
think that'd be fine.
Okay. So, I'm going to sum up what I've
heard, and if I missed something, let me
know. These units on this outside
potentially adding a little bit of
garage space.
Uh, these ones weren't on the table
anyway, so it's just these ones out
here. Uh, maybe some additional parking.
These ones are all built on the south
boundary here.
No. Yeah, I was just pointing out the
parking here. So, these ones get
increased a little bit in exchange for
these ones getting decreased. and then a
potential additional parking similar to
this guest parking somewhere.
So, I was zooming in on the tabulations
um when the civil engineer designed it.
The required parking was 378 and the
provided parking was 386. And we had
them add parking basically everywhere
that they could. You know, there's a lot
of places where it's just two parking
spots wide because it's in between the
um
So, I heard council member Wood say that
he was less concerned about that. So
parking is more just a maybe
that's just not a place to put it. Like
if they've already got the footprints
planned, I mean you're going to have to
start giving up units.
I don't think that's a feasible
solution.
So So the parking's we're okay with the
parking then it's just getting some
added benefit in these outside units and
I think then then we'd consider the
Is that good? Anything else? Council
member Clark is that
is that good feedback? Do you have
anything?
Yes, it is. and and there's a handful of
places that don't have the parking
space, but I believe that's where we put
the transformers. So, um yeah, we'll go
back and and get with Element. I know
this one, the building permits are
already submitted and and it's going to
be dug soon, but these ones around the
outside, we'll get with both the
structural engineer and the surveyor and
the planning department and see, you
know, on both the replatting and
re-engineering and see how quick that
that could potentially happen.
And thank you for working with our on
the replat versus the lot line
adjustment. I mean, if they're asking
you to do that, I'm grateful that you're
willing to entertain that.
Yeah. And the reason we did the lot line
adjustment on this one, just as our
surveyor said it's faster, but looking
at how
much work it takes to get it updated
with the county, I can see why the staff
prefers the replay. So, we're happy to
do that.
Okay. Thank you for
You have any other questions? Okay, I
think we're good. Thank you very much.
Appreciate you coming.
Thank you.
Getting through that. All right. So,
next item 1B is a discussion about
healthy Utah communities. This is
something that the council and
initiative we we talk about every year
when we're in St. George and I believe
in Salt Lake. Um, I know the deadlines
coming up. So, Steve is going to lead
this,
tell us what we got to do, get some
direction
potent. I know the community services
board also worked on this, I believe.
And
if there are any other questions, go
ahead.
Thank you, mayor.
[clears throat and cough]
Let's see if it comes up here. It's not
coming up.
I may have to go hang out in Dave's spot
over there.
We've got help coming from the back row.
[laughter]
Should be as easy as plugging in and
going. Um, I'll give an intro then. Um,
yeah, we we always go to these
conferences in the fall and the spring
and then we hear about all these
communities that are doing great things
related to health and and food and
mental health and active living
and then we're always like, why aren't
we doing this? What? Let's get let's get
going. And so, um, Natalie Winterton
actually did some work on this last year
to get us get us going. And the city
council last year approved a resolution
uh to authorize the mayor to sign a
letter and and start the application
process. And then we were lacking on a
couple of um areas that we couldn't uh
fulfill back then. But now that we have
our community services board in place
that can act as our um our health
coalition, we hope that that will work
for it. Um the uh the Get Healthy Utah
organization, the 501c3, Get Healthy
Utah
uh put together this community um
healthy uh healthy Utah community
designation specifically for towns and
cities.
And our size requires that we implement
three that we have already implemented
three um action items within three
strategies within three different
categories. And the first is active
living and then there's um
uh it's related to food services um
access to to healthy food and then the
last is mental health. And so, um, at
the request of the council, started
working with our community services
board with with Jesse and Charlotte and
the board and, um, we talked in a couple
of different meetings. We had other
priorities pop up. So, we've been
talking about it for probably a few
meetings, but this last meeting, we
really dove in and and uh chose some
strategies that we've already
implemented and then also recommended
some three additional strategies that we
need to um propose uh to implement over
the next three years. Yeah, I can just
plug in over there if we need to. Yeah,
it's probably my computer.
[clears throat]
Okay, hang tight for a moment.
Okay, we'll try this one. Let's see if
that and if it's my computer, it won't
pop up. So,
we will
Yeah. All right. Great.
[clears throat]
Okay. So, uh, passed the resolution last
year requires nine implemented
strategies and three strategies within
each of those categories.
And so, this just gives you an idea.
They have a list of, hey, here are some
recommended strategies within the active
living category. There's a bunch of
different things. We can go back to that
if if you want. Same with access to
healthy food and mental health.
And so the strategies that the board
chose to recommend
to have shown that we implemented
already or are currently maintaining
uh first was to organize a free or
lowcost fitness event for your community
and and uh we do the annual turkey trot
every year. That's on Thanksgiving
morning. Brings out thousands of people.
They love it. That's one of our uh event
staff's favorite
events. And then um second was to create
an active transportation plan or update
an existing one. So we do have an
existing bike and pedestrian master plan
that that uh needs some more updating
soon. But you council also approved the
off streetet trails master plan just uh
last meeting. And then third improve
physical activity among the youth by
promoting a physical activity resource
program or best practice in schools. The
example they gave on their website is
for example safe routes to schools. And
so we talked about that and and the
schools all um create a plan and then
the city helps um as much as we can to
implement that. And and it's not just
having um sidewalks and trails to the
school, but it also in includes from the
school side other um trainings and uh
practices, activities to help um
encourage kids to bike and walk to
school.
So that's the that's the active living.
There were other options there as well,
but those are the three that the board
recommended. Second is access to healthy
food. So, the first was a host a
community program to promote healthy
eating. And our library has had a seed
exchange that's for vegetables and other
seeds that they've had for quite a
while. Um, and that's that's pretty
popular in there. And then improve
access to emergency food by establishing
a food pantry or program or improving an
existing one. And I think you're all
aware of the food pantry that we have in
the library, the emergency food pantry
that's that's right there in the
entryway. and um that's been well
utilized by our community. And then
establish a farmers market that accepts
SNAP benefits. I've been told that
that's what our farmers market does,
that we partner with that group and and
they're there every Saturday morning
during the summer at Corey Red Park and
then we've also included the farmers
market in some of our major events
recently as well. And then last is
mental health.
Uh first one was we decided to use the
other category and it's to promote a
program to foster encouragement,
connection and hope across the
community. And so uh the council passed
the the uh pro resolution to become the
first believer city with the show me a
sign organization and and then we have
that event as well, the motivational
mile. Second is host a recurring
community event that promotes social
connection among a vulnerable
demographic. And so one of our
vulnerable demographics is our senior
citizens and uh the council has been
great to support them with funding and
with the location that we expanded
fairly recently. Um and then they have
all of their events that they
participate in. And then third is
implement a strategy to promote safe use
of guns and we do provide free gun locks
at our library and uh also can promote
that on social media and to our
residents. So those are those are the
nine strategies that were recommended
that we include and and then the next
section is to is to show the data and
look at look at the data that's out
there and be able to determine okay what
are our greatest needs as a community so
that we can implement three new
strategies over the next three years. Um
we didn't have time or take the time to
go through this in detail with the
community services board. They did
recommend some strategies which I'll
show you. Um, but I wanted to show you
some of the research from these these
three locations that are recommended.
Public health indicator-based
information system, which is a which is
on the Department of Health and Human
Services website,
the Utah Healthy Places Index, which is
more of a map system, and you go in and
it and it shows some it breaks up uh
basically by tax uh areas
uh breaks up the city and the whole
state. and then uh Utah State University
well-being survey which they just barely
released the results from that.
So I all I did here was include some of
the areas that we're either doing poorly
in our our community or um close to uh
or that that maybe I was concerned
about. And so one is the fair is fair or
poor general health. And it's um a
percentage of adults aged 18 and older
who reported fair or poor general
health. And in our community that was
16.6%. That's higher than the Utah
average, lower than the US average. Um
that was a little concerning. Seven or
more days of poor mental health in the
past 30 days. Uh 21% of our residents
are are adults.
um that's under the state average and
the national average, but still
concerning. And then vegetables consumed
three or more times per day, just
showing, do you have a good healthy mix
of food available? And our uh where
there's a red exclamation point, that
means we're lower or worse than the Utah
average.
Um another was high blood pressure or
high blood cholesterol.
Ours was quite a bit higher than the
Utah average. and hypertension. Doctor
diagnosed hypertension as well was was
higher.
The recommended amount of aerobic
physical activity and so recommended
amount for adults it looks like is 150
minutes per week of moderate intensity
or 75 minutes of vigorous intensity.
And u it says we're about in line with
Utah, but we're about 9% lower than the
Utah average.
Um adult obesity and overweight or obese
adults. Um ours was slightly higher than
Utah um in both of those categories.
And then um how well are our female
adults um looking ahead and and planning
for mammograms and and pap tests and
others and our rates were quite a bit
lower than Utah
and almost done with these but uh the
suicide rate is lower than the Utah
average but obviously it's one of those
like zero fatalities kind of number that
you don't want um to be high at all if
possible. So that's concerning. And then
depression prevalence as well. Um
percentage of adults who have been
diagnosed with a depressive disorder,
major depression, minor depression. Ours
is lower than Utah average, but still
23% of our adult population.
And then on the well-being survey for
Utah State, uh the average rating of
personal and community well-being. So
they rate they rank each of those. And
the last time they did this survey,
they're comparing it to the 2020
results. And so our numbers have gone
down on both of those looks like.
And well-being domain importance in M.
How important are the following
categories to your overall personal
wellbeing? and they have quite a few
categories there on the left. Um, mental
health is and safety and security are
the most important to our residents,
96%. Living standards, family life,
close behind, physical health,
environmental quality, leisure time, and
then it goes down from there. Um, so
just showing those are really important.
Even if we're doing fairly well in some
of those categories, they're very
important. So, we should keep putting uh
efforts towards improving those areas.
How connected do you feel to Eagle
Mountain as a community? Looks like most
of the of the respondents at least felt,
you know, average or below connected uh
to the community
or as a community.
And then inclusion for individuals with
disabilities. How well does Eagle
Mountain include individuals with
disabilities in social, recreational,
and cultural activities? 43% probably
didn't have anyone or know anyone that
was disabled. Um the rest looks like
somewhat quite well somewhere in
between.
There's always more we can do of course
with with that.
So the the board uh re again they didn't
go through all of that data but they
recommended
uh three strategies that we destigmatize
mental illness through a community
campaign or event. And there were
several events talked about. Um the the
high school is involved in a suicide um
walk, suicide prevention walk.
Um and then add wayfinding signage for
trails that provide both time and
distance for routes or maybe conduct a
messaging campaign to provote promote
physical activity in the community.
And third is an other category which is
to implement adaptive sports and
recreation programs
or host a recurring community event that
promotes social connection among a
vulnerable demographic which could be
our um disabled population. So I know
our uh Jason Hall and our recreation
group have been very interested in
implementing some sort of adaptive
program that's that's more robust than
what we do currently. And currently we
just kind of uh combine with the rest of
the cities in the uh in Utah County and
uh participants that are disabled, their
families have to drive them all over the
place to uh participate. So one day
they'll be in Lehi and one day they'll
be in Eagle Mountain and another day
they'll be down in uh Oram or somewhere.
And so it would be nice if they could
stay here and continue to participate.
Steve, there's actually a woman that is
at the farmers market that is promoting
the Special Olympics in Eagle Mountain.
She's trying to bring a chapter here.
So, I just want to put that on the radar
of the community services board. I I
would love to see us find a way to help
them as a vulnerable demographic and see
if we can't incorporate them into some
of our city events. Yeah, it's a great
idea. Yeah, she stopped by our booth at
the at the farmers market. We all talked
to her. That's a great idea. Um, these
were other options that were discussed
or thrown out there as possibilities. to
establish a community garden. Um, we do
have a couple board members looking into
that. Develop a new walking biking trail
or add to an existing one.
Hey Steve, just I want to jump back to
that community garden. Is that possible
to do that in multiple locations?
Absolutely.
With the size that we are, it' be great
to have that in a bunch of location.
Can I just for context? I know he's
wiggling over there about this, but
Brad, we already have some places,
right, that you that we've identified.
There's water run there and it kind of
get run down. Do you want to speak to
what's kind of already available and why
they're not maybe used or at least speak
to that for a minute?
Yeah, there's uh one spot over in the
Pioneer subdivision that has previously
been used for a garden scenario and we
actually had some out outside entities
come in um with with some residents in
that area. Um we ran water to the site.
It still exists. Um after about three
seasons of trying to plant it, the the
garden just never took off and it kind
of failed. And so we haven't seen a
successful campaign with that yet. Um,
if we could get to a successful
campaign, then I think we start with one
or two and find out what works and then
we can expand on it from there.
Yeah. One of our ideas was to do that at
the senior center possibly if we have
enough room where the seniors love the
idea of gardening and helping out with
that. Maybe they take some ownership of
it.
So, is that something that they could
It's all kind of ready to go if the
community service board looks into that
or if they is that something they could
pursue or
Is it the ground location that's no
good?
I'm sure that there would be need to be
some amendment to it to I mean it's been
sitting in a state of not in a garden
state for several years. So there's
probably some prep and whatnot, but
yeah, there is a water connection
already in that location.
Send a pan or a location so that we can
look into that.
It's right next to Pioneer Park on uh
Silver Spart Way.
But yeah, we can we can give them some
info.
I was thinking maybe there's an
opportunity to do some teaching
how to start from where it's because a
lot of people probably are in similar
situations. Perhaps that's a volunteer
thing that we can bring some of our
hobby farmers in to teach and we could
use that as the teaching tool to be able
to to create our very first one that
way.
There's a there's a chance, you know,
Jen Corington that runs the the market,
she's a big gardener in that space.
Maybe she could help do some classes. I
don't know, something like that.
Yeah. Yeah, I think the key is to get
some community members that are
passionate about it and that are willing
to continue and help and help with the
trainings and other things.
Uh we had some other options messaging
campaign to promote healthy eating,
offer suicide prevention trainings for
individuals, organizations, and
beautify, enhance or create a section of
the community that promotes social
gathering and connection. Those are all
kind of options that they list that we
threw out there.
And so really I guess uh really what I'm
asking today is
[clears throat]
do you support the nine strategies that
are shown up there and then the either
these three or tell me which which three
you want to pursue over the next three
years and then we'll include that in the
application and have the mayor sign that
and submit it um tonight. We'll get that
in tonight because the they gave us an
extension to be able to get it in uh
today if we want to be and and we don't
have to. Obviously, we can wait and and
take our time if we want if you're not
ready, but otherwise we'll get it in
tonight and then be recognized at the
September ULCT conference.
I'm a I'm a yes. Yeah, I think we should
move forward.
Yeah, I think the initiatives are great.
I like what you've done to hit each of
the nine things. I'd love for us to I I
think that there's maybe a two birds,
one stone opportunity with some of our
undeveloped open space that has weeds
where perhaps we could identify some of
those for a garden that becomes useful
to the people who live around it.
Yeah. I mean, I I'm supportive of this
and frankly, I want to thank you, for
your leadership and the community
services board for their willingness to
kind of dive in on this. So, thank you.
Yeah, I support this. I would like to
see this application. We've been waiting
for years to get this submitted. So,
like I want to get it done.
Ditto.
Yeah, I remember the very first time I
ever went to the ULCT. I'm like, why
aren't we on the list? And so, we've
been looking at this for a long time,
but uh it just needs a signature on the
application for us to get recognized.
Just wanted to make sure that we're all
on the same page. Then lastly, is there
any other questions from council for
either Steve or I know two of our
community service board members? Any
input, questions? Good. Okay, I think
that's that'll work.
Thank you very much.
All right, we'll move on to item 1 C.
This is a discussion. Uh I know we came
into the office a little while ago and
spoke with Roger. come on up and uh with
concerns about clear lines of sight for
their business.
Turn the turn.
There's a button. There you go. It's on
now. Okay.
We good?
Last time I was able to talk to the city
council was in 2020. I don't know if you
any of you were here. Melissa was. I
know for sure Jared was. And um that's
when we were moving in to this facility
and coming in as the to buy land for our
facility. As you can see, we started
building our facility in 2021, right at
the beginning of 2021. We are a
satellite communications company and we
moved from South Jordan down here and
one of the reasons was to be able to get
enough land to be able to do what we
needed to do. And so, as you can tell
from the facility, we do satellite
communications. We are a hosting
facility um where the ground and the
look angles are very important to us.
And so that's one of the reasons why
we're here is to be able to help you
realize that we help other companies to
be able to provide communications from
voice, video, streaming, whatever the
case may be, internet, data, we provide
that communications for these folks. The
thing that's happening today in the
industry is
to rather than going into a lot of
detail there there's a there's a
satellite coverage of called GEO which
is greater earth orbit that goes way out
there and LEO many of you have heard of
Starlink. Okay, that's LEO that's lower.
And so we are hosting a lot of lower
earth orbit satellite communication
facilities. And so our contracts that we
are developing now because we came in,
we built, we went through this whole
process are now coming to fruition and
they're starting to see the value of our
facility and the look angles that we
have in our particular area. And so that
kind of gives you an idea is one of the
reasons why we came here. We can go to
the next slide or can I do that?
Uh no, you'll have to
Okay, no problem. This is great. Okay.
So, that kind of talks about what we've
done. When we came in, we had our open
house with Melissa came in with the
Chamber of Commerce. We did our open
house in November of 2023. Um, as I
mentioned to you, we were looking for a
location. Now, here again, I'm telling
you what I remember when we came into
this facility is that the area that we
were looking at was zoned as light
industrial. Okay? which for us was very
important to us because of the height
restrictions of those particular areas.
It's important for us with a lower look
angle facility to have a 10 degree look
angle. And so that of of 360 degrees as
the facilities were coming into the
north, LKL, I believe it is, the the um
drywall company that came in to the
north of us, the saltwater fitness uh
Salt Lake fitness company that came in,
they were just they met perfect. That
was fine. Their buildings were great.
Everything was the right height. But now
we're starting to learn a little bit
more. If we go to the next slide,
um, some of those that we're finding and
that we're learning about and what we're
seeing is that some of the zoning has
been changed. And now this could be
true, could be wrong. I'm not positive
or not, but what we're seeing on the
maps is that the facility right to the
east of us, right next to our property
to the east between us and Arrow
Construction, which is Willie Willy's
place, is now industrial, which means if
somebody came in there and wanted to
build a five-story building, that could
be detrimental to me. All right? just
because of the look angle of a 50 foot
type building for my particular
satellites that they're looking to the
side. We've also learned that QTS of
course bought the property to the west
which is zoned agricultural now but
could also go industrial. All right, if
they are too close to us on that side
that could potentially be a problem as
well too. Now, if they built the size of
Meta, a building that you know is only
25 to 50 feet or 25 to 35 feet, that
would be okay. But if and then if
they're offset a far enough off, that
would be okay, too. Does that make sense
everybody? Just that 360 is what we're
looking at. And then of course what
really what really caused our attention
was when all of a sudden we saw
construction you know equipment
happening to our south. We found out
that the city was doing some stuff there
on the water treatment facility which
made us a little bit nervous. Then they
brought in some construction trailers.
We did an analysis where we could look
to see over those construction trailers.
We're fine there. But if somebody wanted
to build some buildings there,
particularly with the BM that that is
there, that could be an issue for us
just to be able to see over top of that
because where our property line is on
that 10 acres that we have is critical
for us to be able to have that 10 degree
looking. So, um, so that kind of gives
you an idea where we're located. Pony
Express is the one that's right there on
the right hand side of the square.
That's where our property is. The new
property to the west of us, the green
area is the agricultural QTS property as
well too. And so our biggest concern
right now is to bring the council as
well as the city just the awareness of
the fact that when we came here, we were
under with the understanding that it was
light industrial and that we couldn't
get those buildings. That's one of the
main reasons why we came. And so we're
here now. All these are starting to come
in. We have numerous contracts now that
are coming in with which are
multi-million dollar contracts. And if I
have if I come across a problem where I
can't they can't go 10 degree, they're
going to go somewhere else to do their
work. And so that's all I'm asking for
at this particular time. We can go to
the next slide is that's really kind of
what we're asking for is that we either
look at changing the zoning of those
areas around us or we look at options to
be able to just help us out a little bit
just to scoot them back or to allow it
so high or whatever the case may be. But
we just needed to bring this to your
attention so that you knew where our
concern was. Any questions?
Uh, one question I have is how far out
into these properties
does that angle go where do you see what
I'm saying?
Yep.
So, there's probably like so many feet.
This is Rusty Lake.
It's like a property rights issue,
right? Like somebody buys land next to
you
and uh what you're asking us is to kind
of restrict their ability or impede
their ability to build on their
property,
right?
Which I I understand what you're saying.
What I what I'm kind of wondering is
nothing has been built and as as that
gets developed and planned out, could
there be a partnership where absolutely
we don't put the building on this side,
we put on the other side? And
I'm not even sure as a council how we
can
restrict or or zone the the airspace
above their their property, right?
Like to I have a different question,
council member. My question is really
this recognizing that this sounds like
it's a consistent problem for you.
Sounds like this is probably not the
first time you've run into this, I'm
guessing.
No.
So, it may be one of the reasons why
you're relocated to Eagle Mountain in
the first place.
Exactly.
And so,
[snorts] trying to understand that, I
guess my question is I'm I'm putting
myself in your shoes and saying if I'm
this business owner, how do I mitigate
these things and can I? And so, I'm
going to ask a really dumb question
because I don't know the answer. And
hopefully, you'll you'll be able to to
make me a little smarter. That's that's
a heavy lift, but some people have
succeeded.
Sure.
Okay. So, it's a challenge I'm going to
give you.
Is it possible to raise your satellites
up and then to have that angle be down
so that that so that if you do find
yourself in close proximity to a 50-ft
building that you can still clear it and
have that low angle
to a degree? Yes. The answer to that
question is yes. But there's you can
only go up so high. Do you have any
other insight on that just on height of
the Reason I asked that question is what
you're asking us to do is to restrict
adjacent property owners from being able
to petition or ask to do what they see
as their highest and best use on their
property. And that's a real wrestle for
us to do that. For me, I'm going to
speak just for myself. Um, but I I want
to be cognizant of the fact that there
may be some impacts that that that are
coming to you that you're not warm and
fuzzy about. But I don't see this as a
lot different than those who come in and
say, "The builder took away my view, and
I thought I was going to have this view
in perpetuity." We don't buy the view.
We buy the the ground that we build on.
And so I I I'm just I'm I'm trying to
kind of wrestle through this and say,
"If I'm you and I'm dealing with these
impacts and I can't that or
restrict it, and I don't know if we can
or can't. My sense is we probably can't
and that we probably shouldn't." And if
that's the case, then I'm saying, How
could we help mitigate it? Do we as a
council need to be willing to say,
"Look, if you're going to lift those
things up 20 feet in the air so that you
can still get that low angle, maybe
that's where we could help you in in
creating a an exception to perhaps other
restrictions that you're dealing with."
So, that's an area that perhaps I could
weigh into and say maybe we can find a
path forward to help you with that.
And I would just add to that. I I agree
with Council Member Wright. Have you had
good faith discussions with some of
those property owners. I'm imagining
they're aware of the issue. They're
moving right into a satellite company. I
think we have somebody from or we had
somebody from Meta here earlier, but
have you started those conversations as
they're contemplating how to structure
their facilities?
Um, yeah, just for the record, Rusty
Leighton with LBIT. Um, no, we have not
had those conversations mainly because
some of the land obviously isn't
developed yet and the land of the east
isn't sold. Um, it's it's vacant uh,
excuse me, vacant. Um, we're looking at
options for the the land of the east
with some investors and and u potential
projects to just purchase that land and
that kind of eliminates all of it. And I
think the core issue is that when we
decided to come out because we looked at
multiple locations up by the airport out
in PAC, things like that. But Eagle
Mountain when we we discussed with the
council back then the zoning was light
industrial and I and I understand the
impeding, you know, like you don't want
your view to change and things like
that, but it was our understanding that
this would remain light industrial, so
we didn't have any issues for our
long-term contracts, you know. But then
we we find out recently that I think it
was 2024 that overlays and other things
were changed in those to industrial and
whether that was because of the business
coming in you know we just felt as kind
of previous tenants under the light
industrial that I don't know if we want
to refer to it as stepped on a little
bit things like that but really it so we
have on this slide 30 foot and 50 foot
buildings and I kind of ran some of the
math on this so you could kind of
determine from the point of an antenna.
Um, I went off a five foot bottom of
reflector angle at a seven degree, not a
10 degree, but a seven degree look
angle. And how far that setback would
have to be around. And a lot of our
antennas, they're not like right on our
property line. They're in 40 50 feet.
Some of these will be a little higher on
focal point in the center. So, that math
changes a little bit. And I also added a
buffer for um RF radiation. Um, not that
there's a significant amount, but it
does have to be taken into
consideration. If in the distance you
you have a five-story building and we do
it so precisely that our our transmit
path goes right to the top of that, you
get somebody walking on top, there's
potential for for radiation to to that
person. It's just something that we have
to work with the FCC and adjoining um
surrounding, you know, companies and
buildings when we're doing this. Um
those those distances are kind of what
we're asking for the areas around us. If
there if it's reszone to light
industrial that kind of goes away, but
if it can't be that we work with the
future builders, whether that's QTS to
the west, um the city to the south or
whoever buys the property to our east,
that those plans, they can still build
the building they want. We just kind of
work with them to say, "Here's the
distance to these satellites where you
would be. We need a a 85 foot setback
from the antennas that are existing,
say, on whatever corner of our
property." Um, it's not so much that it
prevents people from coming in. It's
more just we work with the future
development if we can't reszone that
area um back to light industrial to what
it like. So, it's still light industrial
across the street to the north. It's
more just our little strip, the the two
plots just to the east. Um, and then
kind of south there for the the city
water treatment. Is that any questions
on what I've said?
I would say this. I think there's value
in you raising this and helping us
becoming aware of it because I frankly
wasn't. And so I think at least by
having an awareness as we entertain some
of those other things, we can certainly
have a discussion and see if there's a
willingness on on those who come before
us to to to partner and to work to try
and work through that. We can't
guarantee that, but if we're aware, we
can at least raise it. So I think
there's value in you bringing this to
our attention.
If
I could just My name is Corey Wer. I'm
the president of our company here. I
just have one comment that is as we sat
and listened to the two previous
presentations. The first one was about
the size of a garage
and you are all concerned about the size
of the garage. Seems to me that if you
can be concerned about the size of a
garage, you could be concerned about our
look angles is all I'm simply saying. So
just throwing that out. So we we would
appreciate your appreciation your uh
I think the challenge though is that
you're asking us to tell somebody on
their land to scoot back to accommodate
for your land that you didn't buy
though. I think that's where I'm
struggling with this.
But the view angles I'm curious why why
10 acres? Why not 50 so that you could
centralize your view angles and protect
your investment in the future no matter
what was built around you?
If I needed an 85 foot set back from my
current property line, I'd be in
negotiations with those adjacent
property owners to buy 85 ft so that I
could secure my sight line.
I mean, that's that's the kind of stuff.
The problem is they're going to come
back to us and say, uh, they don't own
the the airspace or the land that we
have purchased and they've spent
millions on that just like you have.
Having a council that comes in after the
fact is not really to your benefit
because we didn't have the
conversations. And if these things
aren't dealt with in a master
development agreement,
what really can we do?
Not change the light industrial.
That's what we came in on. It's light
industrial.
It's RTI. I believe there
isn't that Sweetwater overlays on.
That's what I think.
The one there.
It's the RTI there, right?
Yes, it's RTI. I have some things to
share with you as well to kind of add
some
more information.
Um,
let me uh add let me add a few thoughts
here.
We'll skip to some of this. So, looking
across the street to the to the west,
this is the site plan for the QTS
expansion. And let me see if I can zoom
in.
Try to
zoom in there.
So you can see um the sites just across
the it's right here and the distance
from the property line to the ed the
edge of this retention basin is 320 ft.
Um you've got a whole ride of way. I
don't think they've got a lot of
concerns that that's that's what's going
to be built is the retention basin. Do
you know what the height of the building
is, Brandon?
Um, I was checking on that. I think
they're under 50. I'm not 100% actually.
We were in the process of looking that
up. If I have that before done, I'll
I'll let you know. Um,
but we we've got uh
we've got a a facility that's that's
kind of built in some buffers with its
adjacent neighbors there on the to their
east.
Um,
Brandon, can I ask where Magnolia is at
on that drawing?
Uh, it's it's right here. It's Virtual
Drive.
That's Virtual Drive is what Magnolia
is. Okay.
Magnolia.
Um, you've had uh as far as development
to the south of the property, you you've
had the new tertiary treatment building
that was built over here. It's possible
that our city could build additional
buildings to the south. Um I was Brad
was just checking the elevation the
grades uh to the south on our property
actually are a little bit higher. Um in
fact Brad I think you said that the the
grade where we're on our property may be
close to the height of the satellite
dishes now. So that that is something to
consider that that land to the south and
here here's a zoning map. It's it's uh
in the LMD.
Um
most of this so to the west of the is
the a zone with the RTI except for this
piece right here where we have our
where we have our ponds there. The rest
of it over here is in the the light uh
manufacturing distribution zone or um
the business park light light industry.
That's what our park that's what our
zoning map's telling us along. And and
you can see the the sweet water overlay.
Um
a zone the the height there is pretty
low. Well, the issue is the RTI. RTI
will let you go up to 50 feet. However,
uh it does have the ability to go above
that provided the right approvals are
given. Um business park light industrial
um
there there is an issue with our zoning
map and that the truth is that business
park light industrial zone is actually a
land use designation and not a zone. But
but essentially what I'm getting at is
the the the light industry zoning that
you thought that that was there, it's
essentially still there. Um I don't know
that the zone what's changed is the RTI
zone overlay which allows you to go up
to 50 ft. And virtually everything in
this whole image that I'm showing you is
now in the RTI overlay zone with the
exception of of our ponds right here.
the parcel with our ponds. Um,
are those ponds right at the bottom
there?
Yeah, circled in.
Go to the other ones. Are those ponds
going away?
No,
they retained.
Yep, they'll be retained. Um, the other
thing too is it's it's possible that our
our land here in the public works
property, it very well could be reszoned
to the public facility zone, which would
be a 35 foot height. But, um,
again, you've got that that grade
difference between your your property
and and, uh, and the cities. Um, sweet
water overlay zone is is something else
we haven't talked a ton about, but it it
doesn't actually have its own height
requirement. It has it it basically
relies on the uh the bases the the
zoning or the height of the base zone.
Um, which again is is basically a live
industrial zone as you know.
Um, and here's here's the uh the current
future land use map designations. most
of its business park light industry. So,
um I think that your neighbors to the
west again have been
taking a look at trying to to mitigate
impacts by putting retention basins and
so forth to and creating a separation
from you. So, I don't think you've got a
lot of concern with QTS.
Um
I'm it's possible I guess city could
build a a taller building, but I mean it
I don't think it's super common in a
public works facility to have really
tall buildings. Um the other thing too,
you and I talked about the idea that
these parcels off to the east are are
land that's undeveloped and it is
possible to to to consider acquiring
that property to provide yourself a
buffer.
Um and then across the street you've
seen some of the development that's
occurring. You've got the the LKL
facility and then the Salt uh forgetting
the name of that building, the Salt uh
Salt City Fitness,
Salt Salt City Fitness or whatever. And
so I think you're kind of getting a
taste of the of the the heights that are
to that you should expect across the
street. So, I I'm trying to help you get
an idea of what's what's being proposed,
what's what's possible. And I I think
there are some things to that that I'd
be concerned about and some maybe a
little bit, but I think a lot of things
that probably should give you a little
bit of hope. It's knowing that QTS is
taking care to to set their development
back quite a ways from your from your
property line. Knowing that
that's huge. I didn't know that before
we came in. So, this was That's good
information to know. I think like you
said, if that's true with what they're
putting in there and stuff, that will
give us enough room to be able to make
that happen.
Um,
is there somebody Yeah, sorry.
So, is there somebody with QTS that we
could get information and swap so that
we can actually discuss that in a little
more detail and I could sit down and do
the math with it and just make sure that
I've got a guy named Mitchell Visvara
that you can talk with. I'll get you his
contact information because we're more
than willing to talk with anybody and
everybody that we need to be able to
help us work together on this.
That's what it's about being good
neighbors, right?
Absolutely. Absolutely. Our biggest
thing is that particularly we understood
that you know to the west of us we were
a little concerned. We figured we could
work with all of you all with the south.
We figured we we got hopefully we have
some camaraderie here that you loved us
enough because you let us come in and
you knew what we were doing.
We want to see you succeed. Let us see
that way.
Exly. And so we appreciate that. on the
east side of it. I'm also talking with,
you know, the development group, you
know, the Remax group and I think his
name is Richard Farnsworth who selling
that property to the east. I've already
been in conversation with him and
looking at talking with him to see that
because I do have some potential folks
that might want to pick that up earlier
than later so we can check on that to
see what they're doing and he's keeping
me a breast as to who's interested in
that property as well too. So we are
working on that as well. So
I think it's good for us to be aware of
the issue just as plans come forward
that's in our heads and we just
that was my main purpose was to let you
folks know where we're at, what we're
doing. We appreciate you very much for
this opportunity to be able to bring
this to your attention. We thank Brandon
for coming out and seeing the facility
and looking over things and all that to
be able to help us out with that.
So just one brief question. So, uh, are
you able to raise the elevation of your
satellites
to some well
with some of them? Yes. But but to, you
know, so much I mean, I'm thinking maybe
10 to 15 feet. I mean, but there's some
of them that are smaller. All right.
That have a 17 by7 pad. All right. But
then to be able to build that up a
little bit, that could be tough. That
could be tough. Could it be done?
Possibly. I'd much rather work with the
neighbors and work with folks to be able
to help it so we could just stay at the
elevation we're at. It'd be much less
cost.
We turn we turned off your mic.
Okay.
No, there there is a question over here.
So, just for context on our site, it's
it looks like there's from the top of
our pond to the road that that's the
satellite company's on there's like a 10
foot 15 foot offset in grade
right
so I don't think we have any intent with
our buildings to build anything more
than a twostory
but the 250 foot uh just for context
from the property line that basically
takes in almost our whole buildable
footprint for our treatment plant
facility upgrade and we don't have a big
option to move that. So, it's good for
us to be aware with this and we'll have
to work with you through this process. I
just want that to be clear and on the
record.
Are are they looking at right to the
south right there or I we kind of told
that it might be a little bit more north
and east.
So, the phase that we're on will be
north and east, but as time goes on
there will be more that will be built
and that's where that treatment plan is
going to expand. just so that it's on
your record and on your radar.
Okay.
I just want to speak to that 250 foot
number. So that's I don't want to
necessarily use the term arbitrary, but
there is a buffer in there that I kind
of threw in just um again it's at like a
seven degree um kind of a lower kind of
five foot offset. So that's something
that we can discuss a little more. and
our antenna systems. There's two of them
that are already placed now and the pads
for two more are there so that you'll if
you were to be at that construction
trailer, you would kind of see where
they're at. So, they sit in about 40 ft
already on our property. So, that that
takes it down to 210 and then we figure
in some more like where any potential
building will go. I I anticipate that
number being smaller than 250. That's
just kind of a a safe zone that I I put
in at first just to kind of give an idea
of of where we're at.
But Brad, I appreciate you letting us
know that because we do need to visit on
that if there's any way that I mean
those that burm that's there. I I kind
of thought that burm was there just
because of the water treatment plant.
You know, the ponds were there. I
thought that that possibly could come
down if there's a build that was going
to happen there.
And I'm not saying that it can't come
down. There's probably potential that
some of it can come down, but I just
don't want to set the expectation that
everything's going to be at that ground
grade
because we already have a lot of set
infrastructure
and a lot of it's going to run off
elevations and so we'll just have to
probably coordinate with you offline.
Okay, sounds great. Appreciate it.
I did just want to point out that these
buildings to the north of you, they're
all uh this one looks like it's a little
less than 24 feet. This one uh
typically now looks like it's
on the order of
24 feet on the side
at the highest point. Yeah, I'm not
seeing much more than 24 feet. So, I I
don't expect typic
I think we're development a lot taller
than that over on those parcels, but it
gives give you kind of an idea of what
to expect from
for future development.
Thanks, Brandon. Appreciate that.
All right. Thank you.
Thank you very much.
There's any other questions and glad to
have it on our radar.
Okay. Appreciate you.
Thanks, guys.
Thanks very much.
All right.
We've been working on this for quite a
long time. It's item 1D. Um, I know Brad
started this months ago and uh, Ben's
trying to get a little broader picture,
but just to show both the uh, residents
and the council the workload that we
deal with on a daily basis, I think,
here in city hall. This is a little bit
of a higher level view of some of the
bigger projects. And we'll uh,
mayor, we talked about keeping people's
mental health good. Are you sure this is
a good idea? [laughter]
I don't know.
It's It's never good when you're looking
at me. I don't I don't know. I have that
effect on people. But mayor and council,
thank you so much for the opportunity to
visit with you a little bit. And uh it's
important to know, especially for the
public, that um there's really three
main things that the city uh gets
involved in. it gets involved in
day-to-day operations and that's not
included on this list. So, there's a lot
of things that we do on a day-to-day
basis to make sure that people have high
quality water and that that water is
processed properly afterwards and that
they have parks and and so there's work
that we do day in and day out to make
the high quality of life that we have
for the residents um possible here in
Eagle Mountain City. Then, of course,
there's emergency response and uh that
happens all the time as well. I know you
get texts from me in the middle of the
night. Hey, this this uh lift station
went down or this uh water tank is
having an issue or this well is having a
problem or whatnot. So, that's not part
of this either. Really, what we're
talking about today is [snorts] our
projects that we have. And I want to
give maybe a little bit of definition to
that. We have what we would call capital
projects. And that's something that
would be capitalized at the end that
there would be a technical asset at the
end like a a water tank. You got a tank.
Your is a project starts off with uh
trying to figure out the funding, trying
to come up with the initial design, uh
do land acquisitions, going out to bid.
We have all sorts of processes that we
are required to follow, um set by code,
set by you, the council, so that we can
make sure that we're doing thing prop
doing things properly and we're doing it
in accordance with not only the laws and
ordinances of the city of Eagle
Mountain, but with the state of Utah and
federally as well.
We also have projects that are not
necessarily capital projects, but just
projects that we would kick off and and
take on that would still maybe have an
asset at the end. Um, for example, um,
we're we're looking at the observatory
and and, uh, and so, um, that's one
where we're getting donations coming in
and there's a lot of work in the
background where we're getting grants
and donations and whatnot come together.
There's a lot of work up front, but it's
not something that your funding is a
true full-on capital project. There's
something that I would call an
initiative. So, maybe we have some a
really good idea come forward. Maybe we
want to look into a justice court. Maybe
we want to look into um solid waste and
and large getting rid of solid waste,
large items and whatnot and and new
programs that we can offer to enhance
the quality of life of our residents.
Those often talks take a lot of steps as
well with many departments involved.
And so it's sort of like a project, but
it's really an initiative. There's not
like an asset at the end. It's really a
new program or a new offering that might
come forward. And then sometimes we just
have some simply hard tasks that are
really time inensive. Maybe we're trying
to do a certain land acquisition to
support the school district or something
of that nature. So, um, consequently,
I've been pulling information from
various lists that we have, trying to
give you a a consolidated list of all
the different projects, and even the one
I sent out had some spelling errors,
which means that the the form formats
are not uh that have been fixed since
I've sent it out um aren't sorting
exactly perfectly. Um, but really we're
trying to consolidate a project, a
capital project list, project projects,
initiatives, and even right down to the
listening tour that you have going on,
uh, where you're going to various
neighborhoods and residents are asking
for things. Some of those translate into
a quick quick answer, and some of those
are a major project that we're taking on
or potentially taking on. And every
project out there is has the potential
to make life better for our residents.
And so we want to truly look at all of
those projects and and and we want to
give them the due diligence needed, but
the end sometimes the enemy of of great
is good because we maybe have um
something that we really really want to
accomplish and then we might get
diverted with other things. And so as
staff, we want to make sure that we're
fully aligned with the will of the
people, which you are the their elected
representatives. And so we want to make
sure that we're working at your request
and doing the things that you would have
us do.
So, um, how does that I'm just going to
go really quickly through through these
first few slides and get right into the
projects. Um, but how does the city go
about doing that? Well, you know, we
have in the past, and this is more maybe
for the sake of the public, we in the
past have to try to determine what our
values are as a community and what we
want to provide. And that's, you know, a
healthy and safe community. We want to
have accountability and transparency. We
want to provide great services for our
residents, innovation, and make sure
we're growing in the right way. We want
to be efficient with the dollars that
we're entrusted with. And we want
sustainability. And we want to make sure
our programs can can be sustainable and
not just be one one time one-off. And so
when [snorts] we look at our values, we
try to tie that back to our strategic
goals and what the council would have us
work on. And we know that you guys are
going to you're all going through a
process right now to update these um
where we have a new council. We're going
to be making tweaks to this. And so we
want to rep uh respect the fact that
things do change over time. And so we
need to be uh flexible. But our current
stated goals are really to have a
diversified economic growth. Anything
that we do, we need to be able to have
the golden goose that be able to have it
keep going forward so we don't create an
undue burden on our residents. We want
to have robust infrastructure that that
really can stand the test of time,
unique reputational um evol evolution.
We want to we want to have something
different when you come around the Unity
Pass or coming right into Eagle Mountain
itself right at the beginning uh from
Saratoga. You want to feel the
difference what it's like to come into
Eagle Mountain and feel what Eagle
Mountain's all about. We want to be
proactive and generational in our
planning because we have kids that we
want to be able to retain and keep here
in the future. We look at schools and
universities and all the different
things, job creation to keep our kids
and our grandkids near us at home. We
want to have interactive environmental
stewardship. We don't want to damage uh
our home and and what we call uh our
hometown. And we want to have dynamic
services and enhancements. We want to
make the quality of life better for the
residents that we serve. So, we start
with our mission statement. And this is
Eagle Mountain's mission statement that
may be tweaked in in the near future
with upcoming retreats. And then from
that we've really tried to prioritize
the task that you would have us do. And
that's really done on a basis of first
of all first and foremost there's
nothing more important than having a
strong foundation of public safety. That
that is the foundation. That is the
basis. And so that's when we look at our
our public safety as being the most
important aspect of our community. If we
can't go home and have a safe community,
um have police, fire, and and EMS
response, then then really we have
nothing that really we can offer. But on
that foundation, we build um we should
have a balanced approach to providing
essential services. That's all the uh
infrastructure that we would provide.
Economic prosperity so that people have
the ability to learn and grow and have
jobs here in our community. And
ultimately, we have a great quality of
life that we provide our residents. And
so when we think about all the different
tasks that we could take on or all the
projects, the more that they can cross
over and and achieve more than one
thing, the better off we are. So if we
take on a project that not only enhances
our quality of life, but attracts new
businesses in as well and and our
essential services that maybe this
business brings, the infrastructure can
support our overall community as well.
And that creates stability in property
taxes that can be provided for our
public safety. That's a win across the
board. And so we look at this and we
want to make sure that we're doing it
and doing it in the right way because
sometimes communities get out of balance
fairly easily.
I always have used this slide since the
very beginning of being a city manager.
I am absolutely confident and I have
nothing but faith and trust in the and
the city staff that we can do anything
that you want. We have talented people,
great people on board that can
accomplish whatever you would have us
accomplish, but we can't do everything.
We can do anything but not everything.
And as soon as we try, that's when we
fail because we're spread too thin. And
so we are your engine. You are the
drivers. You tell us where to go, we
will get you there. And that's the whole
ultimate thing. We talked in when our
last retreat about financial best
practices that we need to use budgeting
as a tool to establish our priorities
into tangible dollars so that projects
really do move forward in a manner that
you, the elected leaders, would
establish. Our our enterprise funds
should be um And what are enterprise
funds for the sake of the residents? An
enterprise fund is a fund that we
consider to be like a business. So our
water fund supports water and our water
rates should be uh set and established
such that they cover the costs of
running that enterprise. Sewer for sewer
and um storm drainage for storm
drainage. All those different enterprise
funds are treated as businesses. our
general fund is much larger and and
that's where we take some of our other
things like public safety out of um I
have used this quite a bit that we can't
spend if we can only spend our income.
So real dollars is what we can actually
plan for in Eagle Mountain. I have
learned that there is another term
called when come meaning that if come is
if it translates but let's face it Eagle
Mountain is growing so quickly and we
have things being built on the fly. We
know that they're going to come and so
it is a matter of when some of those
financial benefits will hit our
residents. And I truly believe that it's
going to transform our community. We're
on a tipping point of where we're going
as a community. And so long as we create
a financially stable environment, I
believe very firmly that Eagle Mountain
is going to continue to bloom and
prosper with great jobs, great
opportunities, and quality of life like
life like we've never had before.
um we don't want to spend one-time
dollars for reoccurring purposes. We
want to create stable re uh sustainable
uh revenue streams. So, and we want to
tie those uh most stable revenue streams
to our most essential services like
public safety. We want to maintain what
we have uh rather than replace. Um we
got to take care of what we own. It's
kind of like changing the oil in your
car. You you change the oil in your car
so you don't have to replace that car,
right? So we take care of what we have.
Um we should only dip into reserves for
emergency purposes. It's better for us
to own versus rent. So we have to think
about that when it comes to like city
facilities and that the city is like
building a house. Um when we build a
city, we start with the foundation and
we work our way up. And many
[clears throat] years um I've spent in
another city where um all we wanted to
talk about was what color the house was
going to be or what kind of curtains we
were going to put up or how large the
kitchen was. But there was more
important than starting with the
foundation and make sure it's stable and
strong and it had good compaction and
then we start building the walls and the
roof to make sure it's not getting wet
and we do things in the right order and
everything else will take care of
itself. When it comes to revenue,
there's really three main revenues for a
city. It's our property taxes, our sales
taxes, and the fees that we charge. And
so, we have to have balanced and stable
um revenue streams. And if we rely on on
things that are uh changing from time to
time like sales tax, then we follow the
winds of of the of um the market and not
necessarily the stability uh that comes
from having uh diversification of our
revenues.
With that said, I I use the analogy of a
house. Um what is the foundation of our
house? It really is public safety. And
from that, we have to have our
infrastructure, which is our public
works. And that builds our essential
services. From there, we can have our
economic prosperity. And when it's all
said and done, that enhances the quality
of life with the color of the curtains
or the color of the house.
And so, all of these tasks, we really
need to start looking at them. All these
potential projects that we're taking on,
we need to look at them through the
prism of what is ex what is the most
important? And oftentimes, we have to
deal with the urgent. Sometimes the
urgent is, hey, there's a water leak, a
water man blue, and we got to go take
care of it. But the important is um
maybe we need to be checking every
single one of our uh sewer manholes on a
regular basis on a routine to make sure
that we're not u and we're cleaning out
our sewer main so we don't have a
backup. You know what I mean? That's
regular maintaining maintenance. That's
important. The urgent is when it gets
blocked. And of course then we also have
things that are not important nor urgent
and those are things that can waste or
be time wasters. And so when we start
looking at that and we want to try to
become more effective as an
organization, we also have to recognize
that we have certain bandwidth and we
also have certain growth that we need to
do. And so I'm trying to really uh work
hard to build the future of our city.
We're we're about a third the size of
staff as comparable cities of our size.
And so I recog the staff that I do have
today are the leaders of the future as
we continue to build more and bring more
frontline employees on. And so we're
doing things like um a leadership
training um program right now with where
we have more than 55 uh members of our
staff, either current or future leaders
who want to be future leaders, learning
about management principles and and
leadership principles and how they can
better grow and and lead their
organizations going forward. We can't
all do it if if we become the bottleneck
if we don't rely and trust on others and
let them grow in their roles. So, we're
looking at organizational alignment and
policy maturity so we can go from a
crawl to a walk to a fly. And I and of
course I had to put a fly in there
because if there's anything like it's
aviation.
So, what's what are the major projects?
I sent a spreadsheet out to the council.
Um, and that spreadsheet is actively
being worked on by our fin uh our
functional area directors and their
department heads right now. And so it is
changing on the fly, but I just wanted
to review for you and for the public
some of those major things that we have
going on. And I wanted to talk about how
best and what your direction would be on
how we could prioritize those because
some things it's going to be challenging
to prioritize because they're already
active. We're we're already moving
forward. We So those have been approved
in the past. some have the opportunity
for us to be evaluated on whether we
should take them on or not. So, I just
broke down some of the top ones, not all
of them, but some of the top uh projects
that our current uh city staff is
working on to make enhancements right
now to enhance the quality of life of
our residents. And these are not ranked.
These are just thrown on the board and
we are looking to your elected leaders
and the public in general to help us
rank some of these. But um I've broken
them down into logical areas. Public
works, transportation, that's probably
the hottest item on anyone's radar is
that we want to get in and out of our
community more uh quickly, but we want
to do so in a in a manner that's safe
for our residents. And so we're
currently doing a pedestrian safety
study and looking at speed tables,
pedestrian safety enhancements. the
council has authorized and wants us to
move forward to ensure that we're
putting in it's not necessarily speed
tables, but we're putting in all of
those improvements that are going to
enhance the safety of each elementary
school, each middle school, high school
in our community.
Silver Lake, Wood Haven, free right turn
lanes, that's going to get people out of
those neighborhoods more quickly. Silver
Lake um community traffic improvements.
Um, we're looking at the connection to
the high school and if we're going to
make that connection, what improvements
do we need to make to intersections
going north to make that so that those
um uh so that added traffic doesn't
negatively impact the the the elementary
schools in that area. So, we're looking
at removing roundabouts and putting new
traffic signals in, having better
crosswalks and better pedestrian
crossings. Um, Branches Parkway median
removal. Um, David's working on removing
those medians. Um, there's really two
projects that are going on. The campus
drive and ranches. Um that's going to
make it flow better as you're going
north and you're over by um the turnoff
to the chamber or the city offices to
the north and also to the um the medians
and making that wider so that we can
have six lanes and then a center turn
lane um on that branch's connection
between our two major arteries. Trail
Head. That's the intersection right
outside here and being able to put a
light in at Trail Head and um um and
Pony Express. Um we're working on um
expanding and widening Pony Express
going south of Eagle Mountain Boulevard.
Right now it's two lane. That's going to
be four lane. This is something that's
going to be funded directly by uh QTS
and and so we really appreciate the data
centers and and their contributions to
trying to enhance the quality and flow
of traffic in that area. But that's
really um widening it u to five lanes
all the way south to uh P Canyon Road
intersection and then putting in uh the
new intersection improvements there at P
Canyon Road. And then of course we're
updating our transportation master plan,
impact fee facility plan, and IFA for
anything transportation. That's actually
on the agenda tonight as far as a
transportation master plan is concerned.
These are not all the transport creation
projects. These are just some of the
ones that we wanted to highlight. We
would like your input on how to
prioritize them um as we move forward.
These and the ones that haven't been
listed.
Um public works and water. We know that
water is the next most essential asset
in our community and making sure that we
have water uh resources for our
community to continue to to blossom, to
grow so our kids and grandkids can live
near us. Um and not just in my basement
like I have mine. Um so central Utah
water uh line and a secondary water line
is is being planned right now and the
new booster station uh city center. We
have a new water tank going in on the
side of the uh mountain over here. The
council just uh took a tour of that on
the hillside there. We have um uh
repairs to well two going on,
enhancements to well five. Um well seven
is under design right now. Um that's by
Unity Pass and that's um where uh new
wellhouse will be built. Well eight is
about to come online and well nine is
about to be drilled. So, we have new
water resources that we are putting in.
And each one of these wells takes
several years to develop and several
million dollars per well to have them
come online. We have the new Bell Street
booster station that's over by the the
new middle school. The Butterfield um
PRV valve creating pressure zones. White
Hills Booster Station um oops have White
Hills um spelled two different ways, but
White Hills well upgrade um that that
needs to take place. culinary water
master plan, IFFFB and IFA and
allocation based tiered water rates
analysis. That's something the council's
um had us worked on where we are looking
at how much water have been dedicated
not based on the property but size. And
so we're putting creating undue
restrictions based on arbitrary numbers,
but we are looking at how much water has
been dedicated to each lot. and that
we're charging the appropriate amount um
based on what someone has brought in for
the benefit of their home. And so uh and
creating more realistic so if people are
overusing water, they're charged
appropriately. And if people are within
their water that they've delicated,
great. Um and so we're doing all sorts
of things to try to enhance our overall
water usage.
Um when it comes to things like
wastewater, we're working right now on
the wastewater treatment plant. This is
um a six million gallons per day
enhancement to our sewer treatment
system. Um this is um there's some major
hurdles that we're working to overcome
there. Of course, we're going through
the bonding process right now and
getting rated for this major project,
but we also are working with the state
to get our uh permit in order to put
this project forward. We're trying to
get a reuse permit so we can reuse that
water and and and make precious use of
every drip every time over and over
again. And um affluent planning. We want
to make sure that as we're taking water
out of that sewer treatment plant that
we're doing it in appropriate way and
we're getting proper return flows but
not doing it in a manner that could
create environmental risk or hazards.
Um part of that is we're enhancing our
current treatment plant with a tertiary
treatment phase two. Um, we also
recognize that as we put new sewer
infrastructure in, we have to have newer
sewer trunk line, sewer trunk lines to
bring that sewer influent into the sewer
treatment plant. So, we have a east
sewer trunk line underway. Um, like I
mentioned, the effluent disposal
upgrades, um, wastewater master plan,
IFA, IFFP, um, we're cleaning up our
boundary with TSSD for the north area of
our community right now. And then we
have things like uh that pop up like the
Scenic Mountain neighborhood that wants
us to look at their list station and
should we bring that in as a city asset
or not. And so we're trying to do
evaluations on that and we're trying to
get data from them
and also other projects to support
specific neighborhoods like the lone
tree force main um and etc. There's
there's many more projects that aren't
listed. These are just some of the
wastewater things that we're doing
today.
We also recognize that we have parks and
we want to make those parks um
accessible and usable and raise a
quality of life for our residents. And
so some of the things that the the
community may not be aware of that's
going on. A lot of people have asked
what are those poles going up at Cory
Ride Park when they're in the middle of
nowhere and what's going on those poles.
Those are actually festival field
lighting um to enhance and and light
that area so we can do more events at
night. We're putting new parking lot out
at Cory Ride Park. Um, we're probably
going to be putting on those light poles
um added uh Wi-Fi so we can have better
um uh utilization out the park as well.
Um I mentioned earlier at the very
beginning the observatory that's a
project that started from the data
centers for meta. they made a donation
and that has led to getting a grant from
um from Utah County and from getting
donations from UVU and some of their
major donors and more money coming in
from Meta and we finally have a fully
funded project to put bring in an
observatory into our community because
of the dark skies that we enjoy and and
tying that in with educational
programming with our school district and
with the with our university.
Um, as we've been doing our neighborhood
tours, questions came up like when's the
Sweetwater Community Park going to be
completed? And so, we've been answering
those questions and working with
developers. Uh, Nolan Park improvements
phase one, Nolan Park splash pad that
the difference between Nolan Park splash
pad and splash pad at Corey Ride Park is
one recirculates the water and so it's a
good use of the water, but it it's very
expensive to do that and the other one
just the water goes right down the drain
and so it's a poor use of water. And so,
um, if we're going to make the Nolan
Park um splash pad truly usable. We need
to make it so that it's sustainable as
well. And then of course our parks and
trails master plan and making sure that
all of our parks connect with trails and
and all the enhancements and making sure
our trails are properly managed so that
we're not um um incompatible uses and
having ebikes that are impacting walkers
and things like that. So there's a lot
of code changes and restrictions and
whatnot. Um and of course open space
management. We have a lot of open spaces
that we need to maintain and the
council's and trying to evaluate what
projects makes most sense to enhance our
open spaces and where open space might
be able to go back to ownership by the
um by the neighboring parcels. Um with
facilities, we know that our staff is a
third of the size of other city staffs
and yet we're um we're basically um
extremely tight in the office space that
we have and we're leasing office space
and paying for rental costs right now.
And so we're trying to create a
temporary office space plan on how we
continue to enhance and add more staff
so that we can support the residents
that are coming to our community, but
we're doing it in such a way that that
um makes financial sense that we own an
asset at the end. Uh because ultimately
our long-term goal is to get our staff
consolidated in a new city hall, have a
new downtown, a third space where we can
bring our community together. And so
we're working on new city hall downtown
planning. We also have things like our
public works yard improvements, our
north service area planning. U there's
desire for recreational venues. You
know, all of those are enhancements to
the quality of life and and their
ability to serve the residents of the
Eagle Mountain City. When it comes to
things like public safety, another high
priority for us is to recognize that
public safety not only is our most
essential service, but we have to do it
in an affordable way. And so um as we
are a taxing entity with unified fire
through UFSA and as our city's financial
base is growing, we have to step away
from that and become a contract city
like some of our other part
participating cities so that we can
responsibly do that and not put an over
overarching and or high level attacks on
our residents. And so we are working on
a conversion to step away from UFSA but
maintain the great relationship and the
great services that UFA provides.
There's no doubt they're the top
top-notch high quality and we we love
having the work that UFA does for us.
But let's do it in such a way that as we
add more data centers and more taxable
value that we're not creating an undue
burden on our residents.
We also have to look at our long-term
public safety needs. Does that mean
remodeling this building? Does it mean
including it in the city hall uh in the
future? And what does the future of law
enforcement mean? Um right now all of
our law enforcement is [clears throat]
through a outsourced agreement with Utah
County. And what we don't recognize and
one of the things that they provide is
all of their evidence storage, all of
their um training facilities, all of
their overhead, all of their um um
uh you know, exercise facilities,
anything that they have, their sally
ports, their maintenance, their fleet,
all that type of thing, all takes place
in Spanish work. If we were to do that
in-house, we would have to take on those
costs and those burdens. And so we have
to figure that out. And we also have to
work work with the county on a very on a
wise transition plan and do so in
harmony that it's beneficial for all
parties involved but most importantly
for the residents we all serve. Um our
public safety master plan as part of
that with our IFFFP and IFA there and
then we have new things pop up like the
best friends animal society proposal
that just came in last meeting. You know
it's another idea another great program.
Um, how does that fit into the overall
view?
As far as community development, I'm I'm
not even going to hit all the
departments, but as far as community
development, I know that they're working
very hard on water wise landscaping
codes. They just uh spent time with our
public works department and some of our
council um learning about water wise
landscaping um from Utah State
University and um and how we can make
the best the best use of our water
moving forward. um trying to track our
MDA, our our um uh MDAs to make sure
that we all the requirements of
developers are really being put in by
developers and having uh tools in place
to be able to help us. Our general plan
so we have the guiding document of where
we're going and where you want us to be
as a community. our rodeo grounds
planning, um consideration of new plans
for um plan review software, various
code updates from the senior housing to
the mining overlay to seasonal signs to
artificial turf. I mean, there's all
sorts of things that are on their their
to-do plate, and then new things that
come up like the Sage Valley
neighborhood sign that we want to uh be
able to support not only for Sage
Valley, but all for all of our
communities as they are um trying to
have greater greater community pride.
Um
um as far as community services or a lot
of people call that leisure services
that really gets into the setup of our
community services board, how they're
going to be util utilizing the wrap tax
dollars and how they're going to be
enhancing the quality of life of our
parks and trails and whatnot. U great
things are taking place with Eagle
Mountain 30 and USA 250 events this
year, but we're trying to take in-house
our soccer programs. Um, we're trying to
look at our sit trails and and make sure
that we have legitimate use of of the
trails in our community that people are
enjoying but not don't necessarily have
all the rights to as far as Sitla is
concerned or other private property. Um,
uh, Steve tonight talked about the
healthy Utah initiative. We've talked
about bringing other amenities to our
community like skate rinks and things
like that because there's economic
opportunities and partnerships with Utah
County and priv the private sector that
might be able to benefit our community.
And just some of the things on
administration, everything from justice
court to bulk garbage analysis to
customer advocacy department and setting
that up to try to make sure that we're
we're basically helping the customer
from the moment they call all the way
through until they get resolution of
their issue. U we're trying to educate
the public with citizens academy and and
making sure that they're aware of all
the things that are going on that makes
life better, worth living here in Eagle
Mountain City. Um I've talked about the
leadership development program, um
intergovernmental relations and
advocacy. You know, we get impacted by
the state all the time with league
activities and and legislative changes
and and so there's a lot of work that
goes into that various land acquisitions
and disposal. I didn't even touch water
when it comes to all the water rights
and and all that type of thing, website
upgrades, project enhancements, uh
project management software roll out so
we can track all of this work. So
ultimately that's really the end of the
presentation. Um where I'd like to go
right now is to get the council's
direction on one thing.
Um from this list, it's going to
continue to evolve and continue to flesh
out.
We can have the council prioritize that
list first and then have the staff take
a crack at it. We could have the staff
and the council concurrently rank it.
But what I would recommend is that you
would allow the staff to rank the
project by department. Now, not one to
200 all the projects that we have, but
but you know, one to 15 in the water
department, one to 15 in the sewer
department or whatnot. you allow the
staff to rank those out based on what
they consider the highest priority and
their critical path items and whatnot
and then send that to you so that you
can then review that, make tweaks as you
see fit and then set the final word.
These are our priorities moving forward.
Um because your insights might push
projects up or down on that list, but
having the insight of knowing what
staff's recommending first is probably
the best place to start. And so I'll
leave it to you. You tell us. We work
for you. We work at the pleasure. you
tell us what you'd like us to do and how
you want us to do it.
There was one other thing that I was
going to mention too is that uh Mr.
Magnus is here as well that help with
that prioritization. He's work he works
on our uh
legislative priority list. That's a
whole another list that got moved into
here.
So we could have him join in on on any
of this you guys give direction on. But
uh is that the direction you want is
have staff go ahead and rank this and we
kind of weigh in on some of those. And
one of this, you know, like you've heard
me say it before, it's like what don't
you want us to do? We're gonna add this
because it just gets to be a
Why Why are you looking at me?
I'm just looking [laughter] down at
General D.
Every idea is a good idea. We love them
all.
But it's, you know, I mean, you kind of
get This was literally the top four or
five and and there's hundreds of things.
So, just an idea of the workload that
we're dealing with and uh you know, we
want to make sure that we're
doing things but not also chasing
rabbits is what we talked about too. So,
um direction, insight,
I'm I'm comfortable with the staff
providing their recommendations. They're
the ones that are closest to the source
and I'd love to hear their insights for
sure.
Yeah, I would agree with that. And then
maybe the council could provide some
feedback to, you know, we're probably
going to be close where maybe they rank
it number one, but residents would rank
it number two. So, some that that might
be a good starting point to rank it and
bring it back to the council and then we
can tweak and reorder a little bit.
Great. Top five.
I'm sorry, mayor.
I was just And then there's some things
that might not show up on the list, but
we know are deeper down there that you
might want to move up into that top 15,
right? That's that's kind of the idea as
well that that we can move things
forward. Go ahead. Um, I was just going
to say I think having the information
like if we're at like a critical state,
like we're at capacity for a wastewater
treatment plant or something like that.
I think that needs to be conveyed to us
too as part of that prioritization. So,
it's not just arbitrarily us choosing,
but we're given that additional
information.
You know, that that's a you make a
really good point and I just look at
just today alone. Today, um, we're not
only looking at, you know, the impacts
of a property tax increase on our
finance department, but we're trying to
to do bonding for the new sewer
treatment plant. We're trying to bring
in um the Smiths and the Croker. We're
trying to complete an audit. We're
trying to start another audit and um
answer community questions um all at the
same time. And so I I I think I look at
the stress level um for the F finance
department and it may not be high all
the time but this is probably one of
your higher weights you know and I think
that is probably true for every
department right there's times when the
water system you know MAC is just dying
because all the water systems falling
apart all at the same time and and so
every department goes through their
pain.
First, Ben, thanks for providing this
and it's not even an exhaustive list
what you sent out in the email. I think
that's really helpful. I think there are
some things even that you put on what
you kind of brought here that I think
ought to disappear if I'm being
completely frank.
Sure.
Um and and probably because I and maybe
the council will feel differently. Okay.
Well, some came from a previous council
that may not be relevant anymore.
Well, I'll just give a very specific
example like the ice skating rink. I
think we pursued that to a degree and to
a level and in my opinion there's no
sense chasing that. Um maybe there is
among the rest of the council members
but so I like the idea of the staff
evaluating it saying look these are the
things that we think are most important
the most the top 15. We have the 200 to
look at and to look at it and say look
you guys missed this or you missed this
or you missed this. We think that this
should have a higher priority and then
we can have that that discussion about
those things.
And if there's anything I want to
stress, we're all one team.
Oh, yeah. For sure.
100%. We support you and we feel like
we're in we just want to be aligned.
But I but I also think there's wisdom in
in allowing us to give some input so
we're not chasing those rabbits. An ice
skating rink at least is one in my
opinion. I don't think that we should be
exhausting or using resources to chase
that. I think that there's a fairly
definitive answer that today is not the
right time to pursue that. Now, that's
just my opinion, but at least if we know
that that's something that's still on
your radar that you guys are concerned
about and that you've kind of felt some
direction from the council or the mayor,
we ought to have that discussion and
say, "Let's dismiss that and get it off
your list."
Let me answer that one for just a
second. So, the only reason that came up
is because there was some donations that
paid almost paid for just like the
observatory. Uh, as those donations and
and contributions kind of aren't fleshed
out, we're not And I'm not saying it was
inappropriate to chase it. I think it
was good to pursue it to gain an
understanding, but my understanding is
at this point in time that's kind of a
worthless chase, isn't it?
Only if it's funded by outside sources.
And that's where we're at. So if it's
funded, great. If it's not, then
set it aside and forget about it.
Yeah.
Well, and and you know, it's maybe it's
just the timing is not right. As soon as
we get some of these needs, these
foundational needs like sewer and water
worked out, then we might have time for
things like recreational improvements.
I would say that I think it would be
helpful for us to understand time
man hours would be important to be added
to this. I think it would be good for us
to put um
which uh funding source would be
utilized for this. Um and then I think
understanding time because I'm looking
through this I I have been doing a lot
of exercises with AI lately from these
types of things. So, I love having this
information here to just go and show me
the workload, who's carrying it. It's a
pretty interesting exercise to find out
how many projects have been placed on
one individual person, which is why
they're not getting done. I mean, that's
the reality of it that there's only a
certain amount of time in a day. Uh, and
I think understanding the amount of time
that it's going to be to take take that,
what the cost of it is going to be, how
it's going to be funded should be things
that we should be prioritizing that
information. So if it's, you know, if
it's something that's going to take
three years, it's probably not the
highest priority for them to be spending
every minute of every day on. But I
think we're probably out of the loop as
to what the time frame for each of these
things are. And when we make an ask, it
would be good to say, okay, if you're
okay with that, that's 30 man hours.
We don't have a person to do 30 man
hours. So which project would you like
them to put on pause to accomplish that?
And I think that gives us better idea of
what is important, what's not important.
And maybe to Brett's point, maybe some
of these things that we have people
chasing after are really just dead ends
that we need to get around.
I think that's important to the
conversation we had is maybe if it's a
30 man hours and we can see that we
can't get everything, maybe we need
another guy because we can see the man
hours that we're not covering, right?
Anything else? Any input? I think you so
maybe get the staff to prioritize these.
Give us a little bit of a guess on man
hours
and they will flesh it out. I just took
lists and consolidated them. Some of the
departments aren't fully fleshed out, so
there's going to be other things added
to this. I guarantee it's going to go
from 200 to 300.
Every day new projects come up.
Yep.
Okay. Thank you.
Perfect. Thanks.
I think that's good insight on the
workload and I've been talking about it
a lot privately with each of you that is
man we're busy and we all know during
the budget process we need staff and
there's a lot to do but um while you get
back up here the next items uh any
updates but I think that kind of covered
it. Did you have anything on top of that
outside? I think that covered it pretty
well. Okay. Then uh we'll go ahead and
uh review some of the agenda,
specifically the close session or sorry,
not [clears throat] close session, the
uh consent agenda. Um
there's some appointments for the youth
council. We've got the list Craig's been
working on. I've seen over here. So you
guys have seen the the entire youth
council list, correct?
Any questions? Um the Miss Mountain's
going to do an introduction.
We have some minutes.
July 21st. We're good. Uh site plan with
uh the chapel and recreation building.
We've seen this quite a bit recently. Is
there any other questions on that one?
Um and then an ordinance of Eagle
Mountain City approving the the same
site plan, the uh the Chap Recreation
Building.
Yeah, development agreement. Sorry.
Nothing on that one.
Okay. [clears throat]
Then a couple scheduled items. If we We
do have a couple minutes if we can ask
some questions now. I don't know if
Kiara's here.
Oh, yeah. Yeah, that's just a public
hearing only. And then uh on
[clears throat] the uh CBDG CBBG
action plan. So, we'll take care of
that. And then the reasonzoning of
Scenic Mountain, which is just from a
traditional uh zone to our current
zoning.
Um any questions on that one? Any
comments? need any information provided.
Mayor Evan had his hand up just for a
second.
Oh, okay.
Probably back on the public hearing. I'm
just guessing.
Yes, we um just back on the CDBG public
hearing. Um we discovered there was an
issue with that agenda item. It was not
meant to be just a public hearing.
There's supposed to be action taken. Um,
we're supposed to submit um, our plan to
um, HUD by August 18th. Um, and as far
as we understand, there's not really
14th.
August 14th, sorry. Yes, August 18th is
the next council meeting. August 14th.
So, we're kind of in a little bit of a a
tough spot because as far as I
understand, there's not anything we can
do to change the agenda tonight. Um, so
we're wanted to just ask if there's any
possibility we could do some sort of a
special council meeting next week. If we
can get a quorum together just to to
approve the plan, it'd be a very short
agenda obviously, but that's kind of the
last thing that we're left with.
Remote
remote. That's easy. [clears throat]
Is that uh when are you thinking
whenever it makes whenever we can get a
quorum together? Really, it's
just three people to sign off on it. Um,
so whatever is available for three,
Tuesday, Wednesday,
they could be virtual morning or lunch.
They could appear virtually doesn't have
to be after work hours.
I'll make myself available. I mean, I
Wednesday is I'm hearing a Wednesday.
That would be the 12th.
Monday and Tuesday midday. Is Wednesday
afternoon good as well?
like five, six o'clock Wednesday.
Yeah, I can do Wednesday afternoon.
I can do that on Wednesday as well.
So, sounds like we'd at least have a
quorum on Wednesday at uh 5, six.
I can't do it in that late Wednesday
earlier. So, somebody else wants to do
it. Damon starts football Wednesday.
What's What's the latest you can go?
Four.
I could do earlier. I have like noon.
Noon.
Wednesday.
Yeah, I could do that. especially if
it's virtual.
I think it's important that because it's
it's all of us making a decision about
where we're spending those dollars. So,
is there a time that we can find for
everyone
or Tuesday?
How about everyone's Tuesday? Do we have
Tuesday middle of day or Tuesday late
afternoon? What are we at?
Okay. Anyone else?
Okay. What about Thursday?
I can do Monday.
Perfect.
Okay. Monday after 3. All right. Let's
do it. There you have it.
So, Monday the 10th
at 3:30.
Will you send a invite, please, so I can
get it on my calendar, block it off?
It'll be a virtual 3:30 Monday.
Uh
I suppose Kiara or anybody that needs to
be there could also be there. You get
they'll be present. Yeah. Kiara and
Elizabeth will help with that.
Okay. Let's let's put it on for Monday
the 10th
3:30.
Send an Lacy, would you send an invite
to council for that? And we'll
So does a public hearing still happen
today then?
Yes, it still needs to happen today.
Yeah. I appreciate you making that time
accommodating. Thanks.
Okay. Thank you. All right. We already
talked about the Scenic Mountain, then
uh the TMP, that's the transportation
master plan, IFFFP. Do you guys have
questions specifically on that that we
could go over now before we
I've got questions on that, but I think
it's probably better with the larger
presentation that's happening anyway. I
think it's a I don't know. We want to
dive into that now. It's almost six
o'clock.
Okay. So, we'll wait on that one. I am
going to try to something a little bit
different because it's uh we have just a
second the legislative priority list
item 17. A lot of times we keep uh Mr.
Magnus here till we hours of the night
and if there's anything if we need to
make any motions we'll have to do that
later but at least we could if there's
not uh we could cut him loose a lot
earlier than we normally do. Although I
know he loves staying with us. So, uh,
maybe we can knock out some legislative
priorities. Anything on the list? And
then,
um, so we haven't knocked anything on
the list. It's pretty short these days.
Um, I still owe you the list for the
state legislative. What I've been doing
is going through all the minutes and
agendas for all this u interim
committees. I finished that today. So,
I'll send that out so you know what's
been happening uh with at the state
level plus the the other list that we
talked about and get those out and start
meeting with you guys. Right now, it
looks like water is going to take top
priority just because of the drought and
then followed by housing. So, those are
the two areas that I'm seeing there's a
lot of discussion and movement on. So,
um that's at the state level
internally with the city. We're still
working on things. I'm still trying to
get the people with the poured concrete
fences to return my phone calls. So, um,
as soon as I get that done, I'll get
hold of you, Council Member Woods, and
start working on the design.
So, I have I have one item. I had a
builder approach me wondering if we can
get more ladder signs. And I know,
Council Member Clark, I think there is
something you were pursuing with wanting
more ladder signs. I don't know what
even the process is for that.
This is me wearing a different hat. So,
um I know that the chamber has submitted
something with Mr. Salazar and has CCD
you on it and Abby Ivory and I will let
you guys communicate with the chamber
staff instead of me about the signs if
that helps.
What would the process be? So if a
builder is asking for
talk to you about code, our code right
now limits the number and it requires
that the map has to get brought back to
the city council for approval every
single time something changes. If there
were going to be additional sign
locations added, it would need to be
either the city council approves it
every single time or there's a code
change made to change it so that maybe
city engineer and economic development
make decisions about where locations can
go. So,
okay, because because the issue we're
running into is on the south side of the
Cedar Valley, we're having new
construction happen and newer
subdivisions going in down there
and probably inadequate signage that
didn't contemplate the new well, new
growth is happening down there, but our
current signage is probably
insufficient.
Um, Hannah is ready to talk to you all
about it. So, if you want to reach out
to her tomorrow, she'll be able to fill
you in all the details.
So, I've heard I I don't know that all
council members are in favor of
increasing those ladder signs. However,
when we're talking about the expansion
to the south end, does that change?
For for me, I think that if we're going
to consider that that we ought to have
work session discussion about it and the
presentation about where those areas
were where perhaps there's a perception
that we're deficient.
I would be in favor of that. So I think
rather than what what I'm gathering
rather than a legislative priority on
John's radar, it's more something we got
to talk about as as a discussion item or
something.
Yeah, I think so because I think part of
that discussion has to be if we're
creating this because developers are
asking for it, there probably needs to
be a clock on these signs so that they
aren't there forever more. Uh because
there's a lot that are already in our
city and once the building stops then
what? I think a heat map so that we kind
of look at it and say, "Look, we have
this type of density in this area and so
that there's some at least some
equalization of that citywide." And I
think that may be what you're
referencing, Craig. So, I I just think
it's a broader discussion because if
it's if it's just can we raise the
number to this number, my answer is
going to be a hard no. If there's data
to support it that says, look, in this
area we have a saturation rate of X, but
in this area we don't have any signs at
all. and there's a need to to approve
some in this area. That's that's a
discussion I'm willing to have.
So, I think some of those new areas
would be the south of the city, but also
Firefly. I don't remember if there's any
sides out there.
Look, we're we're we're growing all over
the place. And so, I I think we ought to
be willing to have the conversation, but
I think it needs to be data driven.
I didn't have anything to add to Craig.
I think that's a good idea. The one
thing that I had brought to Evan was
regarding trailers. I'm wondering if we
could bring that back in a work session
regarding multiple parking multiple
trailers.
I'm going to say on like mid-range lots,
halfacre to acre where people are
stacking three, four, five RV trailers.
It's obviously a business. And I'm just
wondering if I I know that's come up to
the council before, but I think we
haven't landed on a solution and we need
to find a solution. Whether that's
better screening, maybe one trailer can
be publicly visible, but the other five
need to be screened away from view.
We've got that going on, I think about
four or five properties in my own
neighborhood, and I would imagine it's
probably happening throughout the city
and other areas.
So what I'm hearing Lacy is if you'll
add for upcoming items to the trailer
parking code that I know we've worked on
in the past.
Is that was it trailer?
Yeah, for discussion items and then uh
in work session and then the uh
potential
locations for ladder signs. We get
Hannah to do a presentation or let us
know where we're deficient on that um
with the help of staff if that's needed.
Is the presentation from the chamber
sufficient on that?
Is that probably is that
I can make sure that the staff knows
that they need to prepare a heat map and
some of the things that you guys have
asked for.
You mean the staff at the chamber? Yes.
Okay. I just want to clarify.
I'll convey that message to them.
Yeah.
just didn't want our staff saying,
"Okay, there's 205 on my list now."
So, is there anything else legislative
priorities that we need to put on John's
radar for today?
Nothing. Okay. Then we do have a couple
close session items that we could take
care of. And I know Craig's ready to
make
I I move the city council adjourn to a
close session pursuant to section
52-4-205
subsection one of the Utah code
annotated.
Second. Okay, we have a motion by
Council Member Whiting and a second by
Council Member Wood. Right. Start the
Council Member Hush.
Yes.
Council member Wood.
Yes.
Council member Whiting.
Yes.
Council member Wright.
Yes.
Council member Clark.
Yes.
Okay. At 606, we'll adjourn to close
session.