freedom and uh just the gifts that this
land offers to us as citizens.
We're grateful for one another, grateful
for our staff, for all the hard work
that they have put forward on behalf of
the citizens of Eagle Mountain, for the
tireless hours that they work, for the
sacrifices that they make away from
their families as they strive to deal
with those issues that come up in the
middle of the night, on the long
weekend, or any other time that seems to
be inconvenient when those things
happen. We express gratitude for them.
We express gratitude, Father, for
willing developers who are willing to
come and to invest their money and their
resources in our city in an effort to uh
produce something worthwhile and
something that uh that benefits and
blesses them and
provides opportunity and and uh
allows our citizens to grow and flourish
and for our community to to be viable.
We're grateful for the economic
development opportunities that continue
to come to us and pray that we'll be
blessed with wisdom as we exercise and
make decisions regarding them.
I want to express gratitude this evening
in particular for the council members um
both present and past for mayors both
present and past and for all those
public servants including our sheriff's
department and our
firefighters just for their efforts for
their love of our community and for
their willingness to sacrifice their
time and to provide their services on
our behalf.
Pray father for wisdom and guidance in
the decisions that we'll make today.
Bless us with civility and kindness as
we interact with one another and uh
express gratitude for the opportunity to
make and to be involved in these
discussions and decisions. Humbly do so
in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen.
Amen. Thank you. And we'll call this
meeting to order at 7:03
p.m. Uh first we have a few housekeeping
items. Um, Mayor Gray is not here
tonight, so I'm filling in as mayor prom
and conducting the meeting. Um, will
excuse him. Um, and then the
housekeeping wise, I need to announce
that there's three items that were
noticed for public hearing as follows.
However, these three items only 15A will
be held as a public hearing tonight. So,
if you received a public hearing notice
or something like that, we want you to
really pay attention to this part. Um
16A will not be a public hearing. That's
the ordinance of Eagle Mountain City
amending Eagle Mountain Municipal Code
8.15.0.0
noise levels. And then 17A is also not a
public hearing approval of second
amendment to the Triumph Master
Development Agreement for the Triumph
subdivision. If you would like to
comment on the two noticed items 16A or
17A, you may do so during the public
comment portion of the meeting. Yes, I
know it's next. Thank you. And next, uh,
Council Member Whiting will lead us in
the pledge of allegiance.
I aliance to the flag of the United
States of America and to the republic
for which it stands, one nation under
God, indivisible, with liberty and
justice for all.
All right.
Um, thank you all for being here. Uh, we
are going to go right to information
items and upcoming events with Mr.
Reeves to provide that information to
us.
Okay. Uh, thank you, Mayor Prom. um our
city offices um and public library will
be closed on Friday uh July 24th in
observance of Pioneer Day. Um and
because that Friday is closed, Thursday
uh is kind of like our city's Friday. Um
so it'll be a skeleton staff that will
be here on that Thursday. Um we have
fireworks that we're promoting at Utah
Lake on July 24th at 10 p.m. Um there's
been donations made and there's going to
be a barge on both sides of the lake. Um
for more information about the fireworks
that is um at uh fireworks state or
fireworks at utahal lakeake.com
and uh and also to um we are because of
the dry conditions going to uh be
working with the state of Utah on a ban
of fireworks um at your residential
homes and and within the city limits.
And so we encourage our community to go
support this at Utah Lake. Uh in
addition to the celebration on the 24th,
our city itself will be having a
celebration on the 25th. It's called our
summer bash. It's a laser show and
that'll be from 4 to 10 p.m. at Cory
Bide Park. So great events both on um on
the 24th and the 25th. Our back to
school night is Saturday, August 1st
from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. at Corey Bide
Memorial Park. And then we have a truth
and ation public hearing scheduled for
August the 6th at 6 pm and we invite our
public to attend.
Thank you, Mr. Greavves. All right. Now,
we've reached the public comment chunk
of our agenda. Time has been set aside
for the public to express their ideas,
concerns, and comments. Please limit
your comments to three minutes each. As
a reminder, public comment is an
opportunity for community members to
address the city council, and each
speaker is allowed up to three minutes.
If you wish to speak during public
hearing portion, please commi complete a
comment form located in the back and
return it to the city recorder. So, it's
on the little table back there and our
city recorder up here. Um, council
members will listen but not engage in
discussion during public comment.
Disruptive behavior, personal attacks,
or comments about individual city
employees are not permitted. If you have
issues or questions regarding staff or
personnel, Deputy City Manager Steve
Mumford will meet you in the foyer for
further discussion. Lastly, public
comment period is for items not
associated with a scheduled public
hearing. If your comment relates to a
public hearing item, please wait until
that item is called. And I had already
announced that 16A and 17A do not have
public hearings, but 15A, which is an
ordinance of Eagle Mountain City
amending Eagle Mountain Municipal Code,
uh 16.20 for preliminary plat, 16.25 for
final plats, and 17 site plan review
regarding application requirements and
cost estimates. So, if you'd like to
speak on that one, we ask that you'd
wait until that public hearing takes
place. Now I will open the public
comment period at 7:08 and invite
anyone. Lacy, do you have some
George Reed?
Awesome. Please come up, sir.
Did you say George?
Yep. Come on up. Thank you.
Please state your name in the
microphone.
My name is George Reed. I live on 1148
East Scenic Parkway. We have a very very
serious problem about speeding on that
road. I spoke to the mayor at a friend's
wedding. Uh that was what two months
ago. Nothing is being done. Uh I talked
to Mr. Salazar. I guess he's a assistant
engineer. He said that they're going to
do a city study for speeding. We have
had four studies done on Hajes already.
the wires put across that road four
times. Uh I talked to Sergeant Gilstra.
I he actually invited me to do a ride
along with him and u he had let me know
that uh on the one study that they did
that there was at least six instances of
people going 60 miles an hour on a 25
mph road. I literally had uh two young
men coming off of uh
the street next to us. They were coming
around a corner. Uh we heard a bang. He
skidded clear around the corner, hit my
driveway and skidded halfway up my
driveway, busted a wheel and knocked off
two tires. Uh being the guy that I am, I
fixed his car for him. I told him to
leave it there and I would fix it for
him. So I try to do everything I can to
make things right. We do have petitions
signed here. We have 50 names on this.
Uh they've talked about putting us like
a speed table. We need a speed bump, a
speed dip, something to slow everybody
down. It's just uh it's out of control.
Thank you for bringing it to our
attention. We'll invite you to give the
petition to our city.
Ira was never meant to be a thorough
fair. They put those two residential
areas uh to the west of us.
Okay.
And so everybody has to come down that
road. Uh I would make a uh
recommendation.
It gets extremely bad as soon as school
starts. That's going to be starting here
in August. We would petition that
something be done prior to the start of
school.
Okay.
Thank you.
Yes, please. Thank you. Thank you for
sharing your concern with us. All right,
Lacy, who else do we have?
Shelley Anderson.
Shelley Anderson, 1176 IRA Hajes. Um, we
moved into our neighborhood almost 19
years ago. We've lived in Eagle Mountain
for
29 years. We've been here a long time.
We moved out here with the hopes of
living in a small town, which we did for
a long time. um moved into a bigger home
because that's what we wanted to for our
family. We moved into an equestrian
neighborhood because we own horses and
we love that. Um the equestrian
neighborhood that we moved into was
supposed to have golf course behind it
which was going to be really cool. Fast
forward today, we're getting highdensity
housing I believe behind us and there's
no sidewalks and our neighborhood
doesn't want sidewalks.
Uh planning commission I think kind of
messed up. the road should be a lot
wider, especially for all the traffic
that has to go through there to get to
the elementary, which we fought when
that happened because it wasn't a good
thorough thorough way and we lost that
battle then. Um, I thank you for
everything you do. I don't want you to
think that it goes unnoticed and it goes
unappreciated unappreciated. You guys do
a lot and I appreciate it. Um, I'm going
to ditto everything George said. Um,
I about got hit by a car last night by a
motorcycle as I stood in the middle of
the road and went like this. Slow the
heck down. He continued to come straight
at me and then swerve around me. We've
had cars swerve into the gravel pits off
the road in front of our house. We had
our mailbox plowed over by a minivan.
Uh, a couple years ago, we've had a gun
pulled on a neighbor because he was mad
at the guy speeding and the guy pulled a
gun on him. We've had three kids hit in
our neighborhood. It's enough. The
minute someone gets killed or wounded
greatly, it's going to be a huge
problem. And I want to save that from
happening. Our horse happens to live
across the street from us. I have 10
grandkids. First thing they do when they
come over is want to go feed the horse.
I've had cars swerve at my grandkids.
I've had them speed as we walk to Arctic
Circle to get ice cream cones. I watched
a little kid wreck on his car and cars
pull over and honk at a little
5-year-old to get up and get out of
their way in a crosswalk.
It's enough. We've complained to the
sheriff department multiple times. We
have yelled and screamed at neighbors.
I'm sure half my neighborhood hates me.
I don't care. If I can save one life, if
I can save one limb, it is worth it. It
is time to act. I talked to Jared
Norton. I'm sure you all know who he is.
He's on Unified Fire. He said, "Enough
is enough.
Speed bumps have to happen. Stop signs.
I don't care if you put a stop sign on
every three-way in that neighborhood.
People are fed up." Um, it'd be nice to
say everyone would be nice. If everyone
could just be nice and slow down, it'd
be great. That's not what's happening.
It's getting worse and worse the more
people that live there.
So, we would appreciate if you'd do
something for about it.
Thank you, Sean.
Thank you.
Thank you. All right. Anyone else? Okay.
So, that's it for the forms that we have
filled out. Is there anyone else in the
audience that would like to come up and
share their thoughts?
Go ahead. If you could fill out a form
after you're done and make sure our
recorder gets it, that would be great.
Just start by stating your name in the
microphone, please.
I'm Justin Hopkinson. I live on 872 East
Wadell Street, just over from where they
live. And and so I got the other
entrance to Mountain Trails Elementary.
And yeah, when school starts, it's it's
horrible. And I adopted a little boy
from a cousin's a heroin addict. So,
he's six years old now, has severe ADHD.
Have to keep keep a death grip on him,
otherwise he'll run out in the road and
and he's there's some cars, new people
that moved in that these kids that are
racing up and down the street,
contractors that I've yelled at hundreds
of times and and I walked out in front
of one guy hauling a big load of of of
material and he yelled at me. He says,
"You think I could stop?" I'm like,
"Exactly. Look at this little boy. If he
runs out in front of you, you going to
be able to stop for him?" And it's it's
out of control over there. And and I've
called numerous times the police to help
us out. And it's it's yeah, it's out of
control. And I'm scared for my little
boy and all the other neighbor kids. And
yeah, definitely during the school time
that people are going out of the parents
are out of control. They'll go into
oncoming traffic to to go around the
people the long line to pull in there.
It's that's it's horrific.
Thank you.
All right. Thank you.
Thank you. All right. Anyone else would
like to give public comment?
All right. We'll close public comment at
7:15. And as we do that, I think it's
important just to um set the expectation
for our city manager that I think
council would like a report back at our
next meeting of how we're going to
address Ira Hodgees and just give us
kind of a return and report on that
because we can tell that it's a
significant problem. So, thank you.
Happy to do so.
Sure.
I'm I asked Mayor Prom if I could speak
to this for just a minute. I I want you
to know that this has been a concern of
ours. Um we've we've tried fairly
diligently to find some resolution to
several places in the city and and Hodes
is one of them. In this budget cycle,
this past budget cycle, we actually
funded $200,000 worth of speed tables.
And one of the areas very specifically
that we targeted is Ira Hodgees. Uh I
want you to know that We've set money
aside for that to happen. We are waiting
for our staff to finish up a report,
which we should have in the next week or
two. That's the anticipation to make
sure that that that the traffic tables
that we think are the best solution, but
our engineering team agrees with us. If
there's something different that they
recommend, we'll certainly keep you in
the loop. Um, but we're very aware of
that and you're not alone in that
concern. There are several other areas
that are adjacent to elementary schools
that are really awful in the city and
we're concerned about it citywide. We're
not going to take comments, sir. We're
just gonna I just want to give you an
update. Um, but I want you to know that
we're very aware of it and that we're as
concerned about it as you are. I've been
to your home. I've seen that. I've
watched it. So, um, and I think that
that that our staff is really great at
at listening to us and understanding,
but what they don't often get the chance
to do is to come sit and meet with the
residents and to hear those concerns
that you just shared. So, thank you for
sharing your thoughts, Shelley, and and
and the rest of you. Um anyway, I just
want I wanted you to know that we're
very cognizant of it that we are making
some forward progress for the first time
in the five years I've been here, four
and a half years I've been here, we've
actually allocated resources and we're
making we're making some adjustments.
Thank you, Council Member Wright. All
right, [clears throat] now time has been
set aside for city council and mayor to
make comments. Let's go ahead and start
with council member Huish.
Thank you, Prom Mayor Clark.
Government never moves fast enough.
That's the one thing I've learned uh
sitting here and and being on that side
that there there's clearly a need all
throughout our city and I just echo what
council member Wright has said. Um if I
could show up tomorrow with the speed
table, I'd probably just put it in. Um
but we want to make sure that the
engineering's right, that we're
allocating resources in the highest uh
problem areas and and your concerns are
are valid and are and are heard. Um,
appreciate all that our staff do. I'm
I'm amazed at all the different projects
we have going on. It It's a pretty vast
machine that's being built in Eagle
Mountain. We have a lot of
infrastructure projects going in. We've
got water being built, sewers being
built, lots of infrastructure, and I'm
just grateful. It's amazing that how a
city works and functions. And I
appreciate all that you do. And um look
forward to tonight's comments and agenda
items.
Thank you, Council Member Huish. Council
member Wood,
I'm probably not going to be as warm
fuzzy as Zach was. Hearing you guys say
that just makes me more mad
about our inaction.
Frankly,
I mean, I
when it happens, everybody's going to
go, "Oh my gosh, let's hurry and try to
fix the problem." And I just I I do not
make excuse that government can't go
fast enough. That is a lie. I'm sorry.
It is a lie. We can. We have the
resources to do it. It is our
unwillingness to do things that are out
of character of what everybody thinks we
should do. And I I'm upset. The same
problem exists in three or four other
neighborhoods where elementary schools
are. It's unacceptable. And I am sorry
that we have not acted.
It's inexcusable. And I can promise you
that those who are dragging their feet,
if it was in front of their house, it
would already be built.
All right, Council Member Whiting.
So, I heard multiple times we worked
with the sheriff's office on this, that,
and the other. You're all just giving
the uh reasons for a tax increase. We
need more public safety officers. And
and it's pretty evident. I think the
ones we have are doing a great job. We
just need more of them because we've
we've grown a lot as a city and they
cost money for them to come in. And so,
uh, you know, the tax increase is going
to be discussed here soon and and voted
on. And and one thing that I I'm looking
forward to with these additional, uh,
you know, public safety officers is we
may be able to get more patrol happening
in neighborhoods, especially to help
with speeding and things like that. And
and I I can't speak to prior, you know,
prior studies that were done. All I can
speak is the study is happening now and
I can speak to the resolve of the
council that sits up before you to to to
solve these problems and it's going to
happen. So you you can feel the energy
that's coming right here. It's it's
going to happen. We'll bring solutions
and as fast as we can. So um anyway,
we're grateful for the public comes out
and gives us insights and comments
because we need your eyes and uh need
you need you with us. Um give us help us
help us make better decisions. Uh, one
last thing I'll mention. Uh, be on the
lookout for a new half marathon that
will be here in Cedar Valley. We are in
the works to make this happen on October
3rd. More information is going to be
coming out. It will be the I believe in
you run Cedar Valley and it's going to
be in partnership with Ben Line and
we'll be carrying signs and we're going
to have a run here that it's going to be
epic. It's going to be a combined effort
between Cedar Fort and uh Eagle Mountain
City who will be co- both co-sponsoring.
It's going to be pretty epic to bring
our community together. And money from
that is going to be going toward uh the
the volunteer fire department that Cedar
Fort has as well as our volunteer police
services here as well. These are some of
the things where people say, "Well, you
know, we want you to to manage
differently so you don't have to raise
taxes as much." Well, this is one of
those efforts to bring in money from
businesses and other people are willing
to the running community to where we can
then have that money flow into some of
our public safety as well. We are
looking at other ways to do that and in
this case it's going to help with those
items I just mentioned and then also
help with unity and uh mindset and
mentality in this in this valley and I'm
really excited about that. So more more
details will be coming out about that.
Thank you council member White and
council member Wright. Well, I took a
minute, but I'll I'll just add one thing
that I'd like you to be aware of. Um,
the seniors are putting on kind of a
food drive for the pantry, and I just
want to read a list of items. So, if you
have these or willing to uh donate them
to the to the food pantry that's in our
Eagle Mountain library here just behind
us, flour, granulated sugar, vegetable
oil, iodized salt, black pepper, onion
powder, garlic powder, baking powder,
and soda, white vinegar, and also
helpful uh in the pantry would be peanut
butter, canned tuna or meat, canned
milk, canned vegetables, canned soups,
packaged pasta, oatmeal, hot cereal,
white or brown rice. I just think it's
important to remember that there are
those in our community that have food
insecurities and anything we can do,
those of us that perhaps have a little
bit that we can donate. Those are the
types of items that they're looking for
this month. I wanted to make that
announcement. Thank you.
Thank you. And I just want to say thank
you all for being here. I really
appreciate your neighborhood coming out
and sharing some of those very personal
concerns and experiences. Um we do need
to do better and I think we're working
toward that. Um And I'm grateful that no
one's been hurt in the way that we've
talked about. I appreciate you talking
about life and limb and sometimes
neighbors get mad because you have to
stand up for what's important. So, thank
you for coming out for that. I thank all
of my fellow council members for the
things that they've shared. Um, we have
some cool things going on in our
community right now and um, we have a
really cool communications department
that's trying really hard to make sure
our residents are informed of what's
going on. One thing that um, our
community services board has been
working on is a bingo card. And it's a
bingo card that goes from like Pony
Express Days all the way to basically
the end of the year. And there's prizes
and different things that different
people are going to be donating for
people who complete their bingo card.
But if you missed one of the items on
the bingo card, there's a QR code on
there with some like makeup items. And
we encourage you, it's a really fun way
to celebrate our 30th anniversary as a
city um and to participate in that. Um
and that's all I have to say. Um, I will
entertain a motion for the consent
agenda making the minor adjustments to
the minutes as noted during work
session.
Yeah, Mayor Pro Tim, I I move to uh
approve the consent agenda with the uh
spelling corrections to the minutes as
noted in the work session.
Second.
All right, we have a motion from council
member Whiting and a second from council
member Wright. Um, will begin the vote
with me. Yes. Yes.
Yes. Yes.
Yes.
Thank you. Uh that passes. All right. So
now we get to go on to the scheduled
items. So the first item is a motion to
reconsider and that is going to be uh
presented by Lacy Meserly, our city
recorder.
Uh, council, this was the
um land disposal that came to you last
August. Um, it was approved with a
criteria on option one where all of the
residents were to participate in the
Platin amendment and we have had a hard
time getting a hold of one of them. So,
we're bringing it back for a motion to
reconsider. Um, we've talked about this
at length. So, the applicant is here to
answer any questions. If you want to
start with the questions, we can go from
there.
Awesome. I know that there are questions
because I've had a chance to talk to
some of our different council members.
Uh, council member Wright, do you are
you ready with your questions?
Yeah, I have a couple of questions. I
when we talked about this most recently,
it seemed that there was one hold out.
In looking at the amended plat, it looks
like there may be two. Is that accurate?
Yes, there is one who is getting a
divorce, I believe. Sorry, I turned you
off. Um, can you explain that one a
little bit more about the applicant who
is going through a divorce right now?
Yeah, so she Sorry. Whoa. She is still
planning on buying. She's still buying
now. She just cannot like she can't
incorporate it until October next year.
And so she still would pay and
everything and own it. She just can't
incorporate it yet. So there's only one
hold out that we haven't been able to.
Well, so I guess my question then,
Jesse, is that lot 63 is shown in the
amended plat with that portion behind
their lot as not part of their property
and lot 66 is that Am I reading that
correctly?
Yes. So 63 the one that's closer to the
end?
No, 66 is the third lot in and 63 is in
five lots, six lots it looks like.
Okay. So 66 is the one where she it's
not showing as a part of her lot because
it can't be a part of her lot yet. she
has to own it separately and then the
other one is the person we can't get.
So, so it's she's going to purchase it
then. So, okay, that makes sense. It's
just separated
so that it has a different parcel
number. That makes more sense to me. And
then can you can you tell me what the
portion is that's identified as poss.
It's a piece of property that's adjacent
or right behind lots 267 and 266.
And I believe that's the Moody's home. I
Yeah. So that's just the the part that
was designated there was 20 feet we had
to leave open for a path.
Okay. So that is for the path and the
city is maintaining ownership of that.
Okay.
Those were my questions. Other than
that, I think it's fine.
Awesome. Any other questions from
council?
All right. Uh this is not a public
hearing, so I'll entertain a motion on
this.
I'm a little confused as to what we need
to do on this. Do we need to do we need
a motion to reconsider it and then No.
Um the item is already on for
reconsideration.
Um that happened when three council
members sent a written statement to the
mayor asking that it be reconsidered. Um
so at this point procedurally what we
need to do is uh make a motion to if
you're inclined to approve it, make a
motion to approve it and changing the
conditions from what they originally
were.
Okay. Do we want to have a discussion
about what that looks like?
Sure.
Does anybody Does anybody have
consternation about removing the one lot
which is it seems that 63 then is the
one that is going to be removed? Um
Jesse and 66 is still part of that
because they're going to purchase it,
right?
Yes, they're still going to purchase.
So, it's just that one.
And is what about the time frame?
Because I know the time frame has kind
of been adjusted. How much time do we
need to get this done?
um to get it uh as far as an agreement
done and all that.
Yes.
How much time should we should we
because we're talking about changing the
time frame because it's expired.
Yeah. So, I mean at this point we have
an amended plat that would have to go
through the process. Um
do we need six months? How long?
Six months is more than enough time.
Okay. Um
um I have a question.
Go ahead. Will that include like because
with the last one it was moving the
fence within a certain amount of time
but we're going to hit winter now. So I
don't know if we need to adjust that
because we had six months from the date
of the motion from the last time to move
our fences.
Yeah. I mean okay. I mean council member
was saying why don't we give them nine
months. I does anybody disagree with
that?
So we're having
uh Rich can you turn your mic on when
you're talking?
I'm just saying that that I mean they're
going to be dealing with frozen ground,
so give them a year. What difference
does it make?
It sounds like council's good with
giving them a year. Are there any other
questions about what the motion needs to
entail?
I'll take a stab at it.
Thank you.
I know I'm probably going to mess it up,
but um Marcus will correct me or or
somebody on the to my right will maybe
somebody to my left will fix it. Um, I
move that we approve the disposal of
1.56 acres of designated significant
real property in Utah County parks
number 49
semicolon 601 semicolon 0080
pursuant to eMMC 33060
and 3.3.070
with the following uh changes to the
original agreement. That we extend the
timeline to um for this to be done
within a year and uh
that we that we remove the requirement
of lot 63 to participate in the
agreement and allow the other remaining
15 property owners to do so.
Second.
All right, we have a motion from council
member Wright and a second from council
member Yuish. Are there any questions
from staff or discussion? City council,
does it need anything else? Marcus,
I think we're okay.
Okay.
Okay. Seeing none else, we'll go ahead
and begin the vote. Council member
Whiteid,
yes.
Council member Wood,
yes.
Council member Huish,
yes.
Council member Wright,
yes.
And I am a yes as well. So, that motion
passes.
Thank you.
All right, moving on to the next one,
you guys. There's like a legit three
ring binder up here, so [laughter]
there's a lot to get. Okay. All right.
So, we're moving on to the next item,
and this one is the public hearing. Um,
it's an ordinance of Eagle Mountain
City, Utah, amending the Eagle Mountain
Municipal Code section 16.20
preliminary plats, 16.25 25 final plats
and 1700
site plan review regarding application
requirements and cost estimates and
Brandon Larson has the presentation for
this.
Thank you.
Um this is as I noted in the earlier
meeting this is uh part of our effort to
clean up our application process
particularly the front end of front end
of our application process and as you
noted it's for preliminary plats final
plats and site plans. Uh we've found
that
we we've typically required a cost
estimate towards the latter end of of
the approval process
and
actually after the approval process and
it ends up creating a situation where
when when we're going to generate bond
estimates, we've we've found occasion
where uh the information we needed
wasn't readily available. So, we think
it's uh we we believe and based on my
own experience. Um, and I I've worked in
another subdivision process where we
required the cost estimate at the front
of the process and it it uh really was
helpful in planning for uh planning for
uh improvements and just understanding
the the the improvements that were
required. and also for preparing bond
the bonds. So, uh we feel like this is a
a good improvement. We feel like this
information is already being uh we don't
think it's going to be a big ask for an
engineer and the developers because they
already have this information. We're
just asking for them to give it to us
earlier
so we can
really facilitate a little bit smoother
development process for them. So, if you
have any questions, I'm here to answer.
Thank you, Brandon. Does council have
any questions? All right. This is a
public hearing, so I'm going to open the
public hearing at 7:34
and invite anyone who has a burning
desire to speak about this item to come
up to the front.
No one would like to speak. Seeing none,
I'm going to close the public hearing
also at 7:34
and um call for a motion. Mayor Proen I
Mayor Prom I move uh that the city
council approve agenda item item 15A.
Is that enough in the motion?
Yes. Second.
All right. We've got a motion from
Council Member Whiting and a second from
Council Member Wood. We'll start the
vote with Council Member Wood.
Yes.
Council member Huish.
Yes.
Council member Wright.
Yes.
Council member Clark is a yes. Council
member Whiting.
Yes.
That passes. All right. Thank you.
Moving on to 17A. This is a
Oh, sorry. Skipped it. Thank you. U this
it's the only thing we took out was the
public hearing part of it. So, thank
you. Um 16A is an ordinance of Eagle
Mountain City amending the Eagle
Mountain Municipal Code 8.15.070.
And Mickey will be presenting to us. So,
we'll just invite her to get set up and
share her presentation.
It's going to be a very short
presentation. I'm just going to show you
the actual code language. And Council
Member Wright, you are right with a W. I
did I I did mix it up. So, when we if
you if we do approve, I will need to
we'll need to switch the 10 p.m. to
5:30. Um, and I'm glad that you caught
that because the double negative went
right over my head. Um, so this is just
a code amendment moving um the Eagle
Mountain code to be aligned with the
state code changes. Um, and it's really
just limited to we can't regulate the
golf public or private golf courses from
doing maintenance activities as it
relates to noise between the hours of
5:30 a.m. and 10 p.m. Uh, so the
exception would be 10 p.m. to 5:30 a.m.
Awesome. Thank you. Does council have
any questions besides that one update to
it? All right, I'll entertain a motion.
Mayor Prom, I move to approve agenda
item 16A.
Well, as presented. Yes.
All right. We have a motion from council
member Whiting.
Second.
And a second from council member Huish.
We'll begin the vote with council. Can I
can I just ask that we clarify that in
the red line that below item number two,
golf courses, that it be switched from
1000 p.m. to 5:30 a.m.? We just switch
those two time frames.
I was just going to raise that issue.
Let's make sure we do that.
Okay.
Do you need the motion specifically?
I'll withdraw my motion with
Okay. Then if you're going to withdraw
your motion, then I will make a new
motion and let me get to where I need to
be to do that.
Sorry, Council Member Clark. Where is
it? I I move that the Eagle Mountain
City Council adopt or approve an
ordinance amending the Eagle Mountain
Municipal Code 8.15.070
with the following change to the red
line. The last item under n number two
for the golf course that the times be
reversed so that it's 1000 p.m. to 5:30
a.m.
All right, we have a motion from council
member Wright. Do we have a second?
Second.
Uh second from council member Hwish. Is
there any discussion?
Seeing none disc. No discussion. We'll
start the vote with council member Hugh.
Yes.
Council member Wright.
Yes.
Council member Clark is a yes. Council
member Whiting.
Yes.
Council member Wood.
Yes.
And that passes. All right. Now we're
moving on to 17A. And this is Rob Hobs
that will be coming up to uh present on
this item. This is a discussion
slashpossible action. It's a would be an
approval of the second amendment to the
Triumph master development agreement for
the Triumph subdivision. And Mr. Hobs,
thank you. Mayor Pro Tim, Mayor Pro Tim,
and council as discussed in work
session, we have a request by developer
to amend a master development plan and
agreement that was created with the
Triumph project in [clears throat] 2022.
developers seeking to create four pods,
if you will, ranging from about three
and a half to four acres, three to four
and a half acres right in that range
with some flexibility to be afforded to
the project
to facilitate
Oops. burden. The use of smaller than
normal lots in the Foothill residential
zone to uh basically uh grant get an
exception to the buffering standards
that we have in the code for sizing of
properties to also associate with that
have reduced setback allowances and
finally to have private streets that
would be built to a certain form of city
standard in terms of the subroaded etc.
not in terms of rideway width. Uh open
air parking is proposed and staff has
has also the council seen in the past
representations of at least three
prototype houses that could be put into
the development. If the project is
successful in providing attainable
housing, I expect the applicant will be
able to move on and and develop his
other pods that he has in concept form.
We discussed the water issue earlier
where the applicant uh is not going to
be asking the city for water and also
that uh they will be helping to
orchestrate with deed restrictions the
uh ability of folks to apply to purchase
properties in this development. Staff
recommends this uh project for your
consideration and approval
and stands for questions.
Thank you. And just as a reminder, this
was originally noticed as a public
hearing but it does not need a public
hearing. So, just as a reminder in case
somebody's wondering with that, um, what
kind of questions does council have?
So, uh, okay, one question. So, the the,
so looking at the whole concept as
opposed to just the affordable housing
lots, the lots outside of that,
I think they are supposed to supposed to
average a half acre. Is that correct?
The remainder. and and is that still the
case with the lots that are still
outside of the affordable housing, but
they still average a half acre.
Triumph phase A plat one has just come
in and it takes into account the loss
the northeast basically of the pod that
you see on the screen right now. And so
with that, we'll start reviewing it. But
as the other final plats come in, then
we will look for uh conformance to that
standard. And if there's a need to
exercise some bit of change, uh, then
the developer, I'm sure, will propose
something that the city can review.
Okay. Any other questions from council?
There were a lot of things that we
discussed about this in our work
session. Is it at a point where we could
make a motion and direct some things? I
I' I've got some commentary on the
language that would so maybe some
comments and some I don't know if you
want me to bring that up now or not.
Yeah, we'd love to hear.
Okay. Section. So, looking at the deed
restriction 2.05,
it uses the word conjunctive and I
believe that it was intended to be
injunctive.
So, I think we need to change that word.
3.06 has two 3.06 06 and so the
numbering is incorrect after that. So
that would need to get changed as well.
Uh if you look at 4.04
it references article five but I believe
that it was intended to reference
article 4
and actually see did I say that on 5.01
so that's 4.04 there's that error in
5.01 01 I believe also it references
article five when I believe it's meant
to reference article 4
and then let's see here
that one uh so articles 4.04 and 5.01
both reference article five in the
verbiage when they I think they intended
to reference article four
You're not hearing the stuff on the
microphone, but we're just helping the
person who's making the motion get all
the details. So,
um, and then there, uh, shoot, I got to
find this in all my notes here. 7.02.
The word foreclosure is misspelled in
the last sentence of 7.02.
Okay, those are the corrections. Then
I've just got some
there's one some questions.
Sorry, there's one more correction and
then we'll head to your questions. In
the amendment um section 2.2.5,
it talks about it spells out the wordif
the words 53 but then puts the numerals
for 56 and it should just be 53 and 53
because when this was approved that's
what our standards were um or at least
set so that they match each other. It's
not a big one but I wanted to make sure
we brought that one up. Okay, council
member Whiting, what are your other
thoughts?
And this is just maybe for clarification
in the contract. So I think it's section
uh 6.02 02 if I remember right that it
says the city can delegate numerous
aspects of the administration of this
the deed restriction to other entities
and does say accepting a few different
things and I just wanted to make sure
that that article 4 cannot be delegated
by the city and article 4 does and I
think the verbiage is probably in that
section but art article 4 is what
specifies that the city from time to
time could modify various aspects of it
including the multiplier that's used and
and pretty much many other things in
there. Um I just want to make sure that
article 4 is not something that that
could be considered as to that could be
delegated elsewhere.
Um and then on section
see 3.04
it mentions some aspects you know some
circumstances in which a a transfer
could occur without qualifying income.
And
I I know it's stated above in a prior
section. If if someone receives
ownership
on a transferred basis where qualified
income was not used, I still want that
person to know there is a primary
occupancy required. So let's say a
father passes away and wills the
property to the son. The son doesn't
live there. At that point, it's a
breach. that the son's got. In other
words, the son's going to have to sell.
So, are you state saying that there
should be a do on sale clause in here?
Well, um just a reminder that trans that
if you received this through if you
received the property through one of
these ways stated in uh where it's not a
qualified where you don't need a check
income, you still have to if you
received ownership, you still got to
live there as a primary occupant.
So, we got to put that into verbiage
here. So, what's the best way to do
that? You're going to you're going to
say the requirement so it's transferred
by death heirs whatever that might be
there's a requirement to be a primary uh
you still yeah through the review of the
city
and if not then it should trigger what a
do on sale
or a requirement to sell it
sell sorry
it would yes
so how we probably need to put some
language in there
you know I mean
I I understand and I agree
and and I and I and it may it may you
know it's probably if you look at other
areas of the whole deed. It says in all
cases this has to be primary ownership
occupied. But I think in this specific
section it would be useful to reference
because I could see this happening where
someone dies it now passes like let's
say let's say will it I'm living there
will it to one of my kids who's not
living there I die the kid's going to
now own it not living there. I think
it's nice in this section to state
you're gonna have to sell it because
you're not living there
or move to that
or or move to or move into it.
Just just that there is a requirement
that it be the that it be owner
occupied.
Yeah. Do we need to
add in a lot more language or just
clarify the very specific requirement of
owner occupancy?
Yeah, I I just so I think 3.04 just
stating that if someone receives title
under section 3.04 4 that
um how does this language work?
Notwithstanding the foregoing, this
section, this is the very last sentence
would be added. This section does not
alter, change, or otherwise affect the
owner occupancy requirement.
That sounds awesome.
Awesome.
Leave it to the attorney to make it
simple.
Thank you, Marcus.
All right. So, do you have any other
items on your list?
And council member Wood, I hope that
you're getting ready to make this
motion. [laughter]
Okay. Does anyone else have thoughts
that they'd like to share before while
council member Whiting's finding the
rest of his thoughts?
You ready?
So, okay. So, here's the other question
I want to ask the council is the LMI
home buyer definition
80% of AMI or less at the time of
contract.
In my mind, it should be at the time of
closing
because what if they go under contract?
whether what with whatever income and
during the contract period you get a
promotion
are we still going to let that person
close
they they're now above the 80% AMI so
and maybe maybe maybe this is maybe this
is an underwriting thing maybe
underwriters are just maybe we just go
back to what the underwriters are doing
on this
I think I think we go with contract
so at the time of contract so you don't
really care what happens during the
contract
I mean in the life of these properties
over time it's gonna
always revert back to the AMI.
Look, I think assuming they sell.
I mean, I'm I'm gonna speak not from the
real estate side of things, and I'm
grateful that you two are digging into
the details of the the deed restriction,
and I asked you to do that, Greg, and
I'm grateful you did. Um, I knew you
would. Um, from my perspective,
at the time of a contract is okay for
this reason, because if something
changes in that time frame, and
certainly it could, does it really
matter? Because I think what we want to
do is give assurance to the developer
that he has a qualified applicant that
there's funding in place to make this
happen. And my anticipation is is that
these are going to all happen boom boom
boom boom boom boom boom.
Un unless that is a requirement of
underwriting and now they don't qualify
because because so do they pull do they
pull income verification like at
contract and then at closing? Yeah,
you're not going to lock into anything
until you're close to your the end of
the especially with this being a build
in the very beginning for sure. It's not
going to be till the end, right? In the
resell, that's not the case. But you
have two problems, right?
Well, that's that's a good question.
Um Abby Ivory is giving us an indication
that she has some information to share.
She's also a mortgage broker. Is that
what you are? So,
we're just loaded down.
Okay, we've got a little bit of input
here.
Um, so I do I have experience as a I'm a
current mortgage broker. I own my own
company, so I do have a little bit of
knowledge about this. I've been doing
loans since 2001. So, um, they will only
get qualified for income one time. So,
by the time closing comes around, they
just try and see if they're still
employed. So, they're not going to check
income again. But you could say at the
time of contract just like you would at
anything else. You know, their ability
to qualify for something would be at
contract, but you wouldn't really have
to do anything more than that.
Okay.
So, you're not doing income verification
at the end.
They do it as part of the process, part
of the loan process. But when you get
ready to close, all they're doing is
just making sure that they're actually
still employed. So, they're just doing a
verbal verification of employment.
They don't check income again, even if
they're in some kind of affordable
housing program.
They just can't keep doing that over and
over. So, they just do it once.
Any other questions for our expert
mortgage broker?
The layman had it right. [laughter]
All right. Thank you for sharing your
insights.
I just I have a question just timing
wise, this would be for the applicant.
Are you are these being are you building
and selling them as like in other words
typically is this going to be a 30-day
close or are you going under contract
before the before the lot come like the
home comes out of the ground
is uh the intention is we may release
these right towards the end when some
colors or textures could be chosen
but this is not like a pre-sold build
job. These are spec homes. we don't
really want to deal with the buyer
through the construction process.
Uh we're going to choose everything. Our
our designer will pick most everything.
So, some might have a choice on maybe
carpet or flooring or paint color. Um,
but there shouldn't be any kind of I I
don't know how I would verify any kind
of subsequent disqualification, Craig.
If if you know, if they qualified at the
beginning and then 30 days later when
they're ready to close, I don't even
know how I would check it again because
the process to vet them in the beginning
is pretty significant. And I don't know
that we would do that again three or
four or five weeks later. So, it's a
pretty short time frame from when we vet
them and approve them to when they're
closing on the home.
Yeah.
All right. Any other questions or
comments from council?
Yes. So more more for your motion here.
So I I believe that we
well council member right there I think
there was a discussion with the
applicant regarding
uh well regarding uh what was going to
be included with the home. So landscape
full landscaping full fencing fencing
was that also or just landscaping
the list.
Sure. Just so we can
so purchase price inclusions that could
could be included in the development
agreement. Uh full landscaping front and
back fencing.
Um
can we state can we state water wise
landscaping?
It is water wise landscaping. Yes,
water-wise landscaping. Um all
appliances including refrigerator,
washer and dryer and all window
coverings.
That includes a microwave.
Okay. Just one I mean all appliances.
Well, back in the day I remember selling
homes in in Eagle Mountain where there
was no air air condenser. Air
conditioning condenser unit. I remember
that. Some of those just Oh, you want
the air conditioner that's sold.
They'll all have AC and condenser units.
Thank you.
And furnaces.
AC or excuse me, uh electric ranges.
Uh most likely. Yes.
Okay. Okay. And then and then another on
the on the uh on your uh motion that the
approval would pertain to pod one, but I
I don't know if pod one's defined as
which of those four pods it is.
Yeah, it's the northernmost pod. So that
that's the first cluster. It's the only
one that we've actually designed.
Okay.
The other ones we'll show you as we go
because our product mix might change up
a little bit. Each lot is specific for
the footprint of the home. uh just for
maximum efficiency. So they'll they'll
kind of evolve a little bit as we go
into the others. And we've we've only
fully designed three plans. We will
design and engineer more when you know
if this is a go. So
in 14 that was phase one.
Yes. Well, it it won't be in our first
plat. It'll be in our it'll be in plat
two.
Plat two. Thank you.
Yeah.
All right. Before I entertain a motion,
I'm gonna invite John Magnus to start
making his way up because we're going to
get you in a second. We've got we've got
a record to break. Okay. Uh I will be
texting Mayor Gray to let him know.
Anyway, Council Member Huish, did you
have another item? Sorry.
We got it.
You got it covered. Okay.
Is there anything we need to say about
the water?
Was there any other additional
So, let me read these to you, then
everybody can make their
whether we agreed or not.
What was in 2.25? I didn't that one you
went too fast on. junctive injunctive.
No, that is under 2.05.
What was
that was changing 53 ft to 53 ft within
the brackets.
Um, which yeah, I've already done
Okay. So, 2.25 25 change 50 to the words
53 feet and the number in parentheses 53
ft to match 3.1 to specify as long as
RDA funds are available
for the purchase of water
uh in the deed restriction and
affordability covenant articles 2 2.05
5 conjunctive change to injunctive
article 3.02.
What was the I got that down but I don't
remember what that was.
Was that the fixed numbering one
3.02
I have
Oh, this was the uh the question that we
talked about in the previous uh meeting
about who is going to uh be the person
to administer
the deed restriction.
Do we want to leave it as it is? Do we
want to have that changed to something
else?
I'm comfortable with it as is. I think
it gives us the chance of
choosing, right?
questions.
You guys good with the language in that
one?
I didn't have any questions,
especially since we'll get to see it
again after when they go to
take that one out.
Okay. Article 3 3.04 4 as changes stated
by our Eagle Mountain City Attorney,
including owner occupancy requirement,
article 4, 4.04, and 5.01
to reference article 4 instead of
article 5
uh in the amendment to the MDA
uh to include amenities fencing water
wise landscaping all appliances that
include washerd dryer microwave range
and refrigerator
and then approvals applicable to the
northernmost pod in plat.
Okay. And then the numbering um from
3.06 onward the numbers are incorrect.
So fix the numbering from 3.06 forward.
And then
is that in the amend
that's in the deed restriction
in the deed restriction. Hang on just a
sec.
Fix numbering
from 3 what?
3.06.
3.06 onward.
Onward. Okay.
And then I think 6.02 is probably what
you were looking for. So 6.02 that it'll
specifically specify that article 4
cannot be uh that the city cannot art
that the city cannot delegate
the uh the terms of article 4.
All right. Would a motion
Hang on just a second. I want to make
sure I got it.
So article 6 6.02 city cannot delegate.
It was in article 4 6.02.
It's 6.02. Article 4 can't be delegated,
right?
It doesn't make sense.
It have to be article six because
they're numbered that way.
All right.
Okay. Article 6 6.02 city cannot
delegate authority. Is that correct?
they cannot delegate um
let's see uh the its responsibilities
under article 4
because article 4 article 4 gives an
ability to to do a whole bunch of
changes.
It gives a city unilateral ability to do
that and we don't want to delegate that
right to anybody else under the uh
delegation of authority mentioned in
6.02.
Okay. So, article 6 6.02, city cannot
delegate its responsibilities under
article 4.
Correct.
Okay. Does the motion need to state all
the things that he just stated or can
the motion say as stated?
No, I'm going to say them all. I want it
to be clear.
All right, go for it.
Let me just do quick organization here.
This is what you're talking about.
Okay. Yeah, I did one motion six times
in a row last time. Just so we're clear.
Mayor Protemp, we entertain a motion.
Yes.
I move that the city council approve
an approval of second amendment to the
Triumph Master Development Agreement for
the Triumph subdivision with the
following changes.
in the Triumph MDA second amendment
adding the language for included
amenities to be fencing, water- wise
landscaping, all in all all appliances
including washer, dryer, microwave,
range, refrigerator.
This is specific to
the northernmost pod in plat 2 only for
approvals.
In 2.25 of the amendment, change the
spelling from 53 feet
and parentheses 53 feet to match. in 3.1
specifying the RDA funds or excuse me
the purchase of water as long as RDA
funds are available.
Moving to the deed restriction and
affordability covenant fixed numbering
from 3.06 onward article 2 2.05 change
conjunctive to injunctive
article 3.04 4
making changes as stated by the city
attorney, including an owner occupancy
requirement at the end. Article 4, 4.04,
and 5.01 to reference article 4 instead
of article 5. And article 6, 6.02, city
cannot delegate its responsibilities
under article 4.
And and one more item real quick, if
you'll take an amendment, article 7.02,
2 that foreclosure is misspelled in the
last sentence to correct the spelling.
All right. So, we have a motion
second
with an from council member Wood with
some assistance and then a second from
council member Wright. Are there any
questions or disc?
I didn't finish my motion. You jumped.
Oh, okay.
Article seven, foreclosure is
misspelled.
Second.
Thank you for that clarity, Council
Member Wood. All right. So we have a
motion from council member Wood, a very
fidious motion and a second from council
member Wright. Are there any discussions
left that we need to have about this
particular motion? I
I think just a statement for me in that
this is a test. This is not setting
precedence anywhere else in the city
that there's not an expectation I think
for anyone else in this like or just
circumstances where we'll we'll turn a
bunch of halfacre communities into into
affordable housing. This is just a we're
going to try this out and see what's
happening in this specific circumstance.
It's a unique circumstance and that this
action today is not intended to set some
kind of a precedence.
Thank you for that addition. Any other
questions or comments? All right, we'll
begin the vote with
council member Wright.
Yes.
Council member clerk is a yes.
[clears throat]
Yes.
Whiting was a yes. Go ahead. Council
member,
yes.
Member,
yes.
All right, that's five yeses and that
passes. Thank you. All right, so now
we're going to invite our management and
policy analyst, John Magnus, up to
provide us with an update. important
one.
Good evening, Mayor Pro Tim, council
members. Uh we're going to make this
short quick. One of the legislative
priority items that we had on there was
council member Woods. Wood, sorry. Um
was about when we get the development
agreements and they come back at the
last minute and want changes. I talked
to the state attorney. Um basically a
parties to contract and try to
renegotiate at any point in time. I'm
trying to make a blank statement saying
we're going to deny it. Uh would not be
a good policy because it's a
one-sizefits-all and maybe there is a
reason they need to come back and we
need to work with them. So, I'm looking
for direction. Do we take it off the
list?
I mean,
I'm going to be honest you. I can't even
remember talking about this. I'm trying
to remember why this was a big deal.
This has to do with I think it's Eagle
Quest Beast was kind of the instigator
for them coming back and others that
have come back
waiting till the very last minute before
it expires or whatever. I mean, we can
create a policy, but we're just not, you
know, the council's not under any
obligation to actually follow that
policy because if they under the
circumstances say, you know, in this
case, it actually makes sense to
renegotiate the development agreement at
the last minute, then they would do
that. Um, because parties can always
amend a contract. Uh,
you know, as long as they're both
parties are willing. And it's just hard
to enforce such a policy
um because And if if
under the circumstances the city council
at the time wants to do it, they'll do
it. And if they don't, they won't. And
if somebody comes in last minute and and
that's the reason they deny it, then
that's the reason they deny it. If
somebody comes, you know, somebody comes
early on and they still want to deny it,
they'll still deny it. It's just really
hard to uh to bind future council action
in that way, especially when you don't
know the given circumstances for why
it's being asked for in the first place.
I'm trying to remember what I wanted.
that and honestly that didn't provide
any clarity to me. I don't even
remember. So probably take it off
because I can't recall why
you were very frustrated at the fact
that they were coming at the last minute
and you wanted
because it wasn't the first time this
has ever happened to the city wasn't the
last time and probably will keep going
for
they keep coming back for more
extensions or something. I can't
remember
creating blanket policy is problematic
because maybe there is a little reason.
John, I could have been wrong. It's
possible. So maybe just take it off.
Okay. for the [laughter]
I said maybe.
Now we're gonna jump over to the
council's legislative priority for state
legislation. Evan's going to give a
quick presentation, then I'll follow
that up with someone else.
Cool.
Lightning round. Evan Barrett.
Yeah, we're gonna just tag team real
quick. I'm just kind of inserting myself
here just to kind of uh this could have
came as we did our agenda prep meeting.
Um, Council Member Clark kind of brought
up the fact that John and I kind of have
this understanding of what the process
should look like or could look like uh
for trying to prepare the city council
for the next upcoming state um
legislation round. Um, we want to make
sure that we're proactively preparing
for that. We have your priorities um in
order and and prioritized and everything
like that and that we're working well as
a team. Um, but like I said, John and I
have an idea of what that looked like,
but we didn't actually convey that to
you to make sure that you're on board
with that. So, um, I just have some
printed versions of what that looks
like.
Um, so just to run through this really
quick because we you've been through
some of this already and and feel free
to modify this or or provide any
feedback, but um, we've broken this down
into basically three phases here. Again,
this is we're looking at this as like a
year round process because this keeps
coming around and around and around,
right? And so John had already reached
out to you a while ago, worked and met
with you individually to get some of
your individual feedback as far as
certain um issues that you wanted to
bring up, any sort of concerns, any sort
of things that you want to tackle at the
state level. And so that was meant to
really give an opportunity not just to
hear what you had to say but also uh
work with us to say you know hey this is
something that's of concern but I need
to know more. So let's do some research
together. Let's work out some things.
Let's let's collaborate on that. And so
that all that information came back to
John and and I and then we work with our
lobbying team to also vet with them any
information they know or any advice that
they have. We're at this point now with
the prioritization phase where we're
coming to you and John will get back up
and present with what has been collected
from each of you individually. But we
want to start prioritizing those things.
What do we really want to focus on? We
also want to do this with you on a
regular basis. this kind of phase, this
prioritization phase multiple times over
the next few months, as we get closer to
January, so that as new issues come up,
as new things change or whatnot, that
we're reooking at that prioritization
and constantly preparing for that. Um
once we have that everything solidified
and and finalized and we have all our
preparations in in prep in in in place,
then we divide and conquer but still
coordinate where John and I work on
putting together a lot of the the codew
writing, the legislative uh one pagers,
all the different materials that go into
supporting our lobbyist team. The
lobbyist team then becomes, I like to
put our strike team. They're the ones
that go out and get a lot of the work
done um along with John and I, but also
the mayor and the council as well. Um,
and then in that last part of it, uh, at
the full council at the bottom, we
obviously want to make sure that we're
reporting back on outcomes as they
happen. Um, and at the final part of
that, this whole thing is meant to be
not necessarily linear. We can cycle
back through. If there's other things
you want to talk about individually, you
want to get research on, whatever, we
can do that. But in my mind, this is how
it's all meant to be laid out. We want
to take individual interests and things
like that, but then we also want to make
sure that we're all working together
towards agreed upon and cohesive goals
so that we're not all over the place.
Um, and this is also not to say that if
the council uh, you know, sets a
priority for things and something that
you individually really feel passionate
about is is not listed on that priority
at the end of the day, doesn't mean you
can't go out and still push for that.
We'll still support you and whatever you
need to do that. they just may may not
be the full city's resources pushed
towards for that. So
just how my mind works, I like to
categorize things. When you guys are
going and looking at what bills are
coming out, how is that presented to
you? Are are you pulling that
information from committees? Where are
you getting is that is that where it's
coming from as committees
as far as where the bills come from?
Yeah. So, we're I I think we're in a
really much better position than we've
ever been now just because we've been at
the capital. We've been participating
with the committees. We've been very
work working very close with the league
um cities and towns and whatnot. And so,
um John and I have been at the committee
meetings making sure we're hearing it
there. We're having opportunities to
talk with the committee members and
things like that. And so,
so that kind of lends to the next part
of my question. And so, I
sometimes it's hard when you come to us
and say, "Well, what matters to you?"
Yeah.
And having that question posed to you
and you're trying to go, okay, you know,
of all the different categories, what
things matter for me at least, it would
be helpful as you're going through this
process, you guys are probably
separating things out. Say, okay, these
are in education, these are in, you
know, whatever they might be. If you
could share uh with us in that format, I
think it would probably help us
facilitate the conversation better to
you to say, oh, education, yeah, I
remember this is something that mattered
to me. I want to talk about this or this
is transportation
uh you know BNC roads or or whatever. I
think that helps us to give you better
input
rather than on the spot we kind of
freeze and go you know I don't know you
just tell us what you think is important
because I think you need help too to say
okay what should we focus on because you
can't focus on everything
but I would maybe that's just one of the
suggestions I would make and we we have
the ability I mean AI is a powerful
thing to help us
to be able to go through and summarize
some of those things so you're not
spending all your time chasing some of
those things. We can do some of those
things. But if we at least understood,
you know, here we're going to go look at
the committees. So the transportation
committee, the government affairs
committee, you know, whatever those
might be, here are the bills that
they're looking at doing. That gives us
the ability to come back to you and say,
"This one's important. This one's
important."
I appreciate that feedback. And and you
mentioned AI briefly. John can talk
about a lot more, but we we do have
access to a great tool that is dedicated
specifically for this purpose. uh which
actually allows um freeing up a lot of
John's time so that we can be a little
bit more um again proactive. But but
there's there's the one side of this
where there are bills being created
right now. There's bill files open.
There's legislation being written. And
so on that side, we're somewhat
reactionary to those things. We're
trying to see what can we do to
influence to to mitigate some of the
impacts to that and how can we insert
things. But the other side of my mind is
what is it that we're now trying to
influence at the outset? You know, what
can we start to instigate to create our
own bill files? How can we work with um
Stephanie Grecious and Heidi Baldry and
all these others to to do things of our
own? Um and that's something that we
haven't been able to do or haven't
really done much of previously. And so
there's there's both angles of it, but
we can be a lot better for sure at
providing more information of what's
coming down the pipeline and and how can
we influence that and things like that.
So there's a lot more information we can
provide you.
Do do we need to have something in this
flowchart where we are including
representative gracious and busy?
How how does that communication happen
that our needs are getting to them or is
it just more informal us reaching out to
them?
Yeah, I I kind of for for sake of space
I kind of group them as part of the
lobbyist team. even though they're not
lobbyists, they're still kind of part of
that same group as far as their overall
function in my mind. But,
okay, any other questions for these
guys? I know that it was discussed that
possibly we'd revisit 1A to see if there
was an action, not an action, a
direction given from council as a body
and that was the overview of the Best
Friends Animal Society program. Is there
any desire to
formalize direction to staff as a body
or
My personal opinion is I think we need
to study that more. I think there's some
holes in that with some of the
recommendations once you know a cat has
been taken into custody of how they're
going to release them. I think there's I
would like to have a conversation about
what are the consequences of just
following exactly what that said because
One of the things I was telling uh
Council Member Whiting, they've been
picked up for a reason. They've they're
a nuisance. They're tearing up people's
garbage. They're fighting with their
cats. They're somebody else's
responsibility that's now become a
homeowner's problem. So, I think we need
to make sure before we just go straight
forward and say, you know, all cases
we're always going to do this, we need
to put some brackets in there that there
are things more than just there a
danger. There probably ought to be some
other things in that as well. Okay.
Thank you, Council Member Wood. Oh,
sorry. Council member,
I was going to say they they are willing
I mean, just in their commentary, they
said they're willing to customize a
community cap program. So, I think the
So, I think maybe the the motion would
be for us to to engage in discussions
with them and and to have them begin
implementing
or at least having discussions with us
to see how they can be how they can
improve um things with us, especially
where the cost us right now is is zero,
which is nice. Um, this is just a
discussion.
This is just a discussion item. So,
you'd be making a motion to have our
legislative team spend time on it.
Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah. And I and I'm supportive of like
because I know they've got their code
that they proposed and we didn't really
debate or discuss or digest that
entirety of that quote. So, I agree that
we need to look at that. But I but I I
but I feel comfortable enough to to make
a motion that the that's added to the
legislative priorities list that the
city begin working with uh Best Friends
Animal Society.
And I I'm not exactly I don't want to
like define the parameters necessarily.
Let's start let's start discussions with
them on the various uh resources they
presented to us and then let's I think
we start let's start moving that ball
forward.
All right. So, we have a motion,
a second
from Council Member Whiting and a second
from Council Member Huish. Are there any
questions about the motion or
discussion?
I'm wondering if it should be that
specific that it's just this entity.
I mean, I recognize that they're
offering to do something for free, but I
just wonder if we should just
cast a wider net.
What I'm thinking,
Council Member, right? I was thinking
that as the motion [clears throat] was
made because I feel equipped to know
what our other options are. And perhaps
our next big thing that we ask uh staff
to do is to bring back some of that code
for us to discuss as a body as a
discussion item and try to find out what
our other options are. Would you be
willing to amend your motion to remove
some of that e extra stuff? Well, I'm
I'm looking at, for instance, they've
got a a fully funded trapneuter,
vaccinate, return program.
That's better than what we have now. We
don't have that now. And that and they
will work with animal control to handle
some of their duties, which may take off
some pressure from the animal control
people that we've got.
I I just So, we have a motion that's on
the table. I think the main idea of this
is are we willing to let them go do the
research, not get into details of the
set. Is that correct?
That's what I see the motion as adding
it to the legislative priorities list.
Is there is council member right you but
you don't what
No look I'm I'm going to support it
council member whiting but I I mean I'll
just state this I it's not something
that is high on my list of priorities
but if if it's important to you and
council memberish I certainly think that
let's work on it and if you can bring
something back that makes sense then
we'll we'll decide as a council that's
not something I spend a lot of time and
energy on. Well, no. No. Yeah. I mean,
it's it's a it's an element, right? It's
an element and a big big grouping of
elements that we work on, but I I I
would love for them to begin talking to
our animal control and and see if
there's something we can do to help with
them.
All right. So, we have a motion and a
second. Is there any other discussion?
All right. I think that it starts with
me. Council member Clark is a yes.
Yes.
Council member Wood,
no. Council member Huish.
Yes.
Council member Wright.
Yes.
Uh that passes 4 to one.
Can I just make a comment on my no? Yes.
I just think that there are far more
time consuming things we should have our
staff chasing after.
Uh maybe this is with it being a pet
project like this, it might be good for
the
the individual. Yeah, I didn't mean it
that way, but that just to have the
council members that feel strongly about
that to kind of do the leg work because
the staff is got a lot on their plate. I
mean, I I'm okay moving forward. This is
no cost to the city. I see it as a value
ad. I don't think we need to do a huge
calorie burn. It's a pilot program. I I
just don't see a net negative to adding
this. It's reversible, amendable.
Okay.
Well, I think the thing that would be
nice to know is what kind of time could
it save our staff? I mean, that to me is
the most interesting part of it is what
type of cost savings could it bring to
our staff? What time would it free up
from our code enforcement and others?
So, I mean, that's the that's the carrot
part of it for me.
All right. So, it sounds like we're
clear on what needs to happen with that
for legislative items. We'll move on to
Go ahead.
We skipped one one portion. Um, this is
a list of I met with you guys in May to
discuss things went forward. The
highlighted we we grouped them. They're
not in any particular order. Uh, so the
highlighted the bolded ones, county
government, city government, public
safety, recreation, those are kind of
the areas. ones underneath it are
specific things that we I discussed with
different members. Um it goes down to
scroll down. So it's education,
financial, transportation.
So I'm going to send this out tomorrow.
Um what I like
Hey, you can cross off 34. That's been
done.
34. Oh,
line 34.
Oh, rename crime. Oh, yes. So, um,
what I'd like you to do is score it one
through five, one being most important,
five being the least important. Score
the highlighted ones, the general areas,
so we know which general areas to work
in. And then also score the ones that
are need to see how important those are
to you. And then we'll take an aggregate
of it. And I'll also be reaching out to
make appointments to discuss these
things with you one more time and go
over what has transpired so far in the
interim session and what we're seeing
coming forward. um one of the statemen
have already opened up 25 bill folders.
So he's the one that writes a lot on
housing. So it's going to be a busy year
for us. And then he talked about the AI.
We've got contract with Civic Relay.
It's a AI that will read the bills,
tracks them, tracks where they are on
the and you all get access to it so you
can read it. It will summarize for you.
Um you can make notes on it and it'll
come back to us. Um so what we're hoping
this year instead of write all these
white papers is that when we get a bill
that we don't like, we can actually
start writing legislation that we want
in it to change it and see if we can get
someone to carry it as amendment. So,
all right. Thank you. All right. So, now
we're ready to move on to city council
and mayor's business and liaison
reports. Thank you, Mr. Magnus, and
thank you, Mr. Barrett. Um, this time is
set aside for city council and mayor's
comments um on city business and for
council members to report on their
liaison assignments. Council member
Wright, can we start with you?
Yeah, I'll keep it short. I I told you
that the seniors are working on the
pantry trying to facilitate a monthly
donation from the seniors to them, those
that can help. Um, and they've got a lot
of activities coming up. They're doing
very very well. DRC, I'm amazed by DRC.
I think you all know that. It's it's
really an honor to sit there and listen
to and watch our staff interact with
those applicants that come before them
week by week. Um, and then ULTC, there's
a lot that that we're getting ready for
with the with the interrum and all
that's going on there.
All right. So, I will quickly report on
community services board and the
American Legion. Um, the community
services board continues to amaze me
with all that they're doing and moving
forward. So, um, we have a meeting
coming up tomorrow which I'm looking
forward to. And then for the American
Legion, they had presented a proposed
for us and there was some discussion
within council of whether or not the
$5,000
was like something that they were asking
for a donation of or what, but
I thought it was $1,500. It wasn't 5,00
yet.
Yeah, it's 1500. Sorry. Um,
in talking to them, it's less about the
dollar amount and more about some of
their needs, flags for when soldiers
come home or for special holidays and um
funding to help with the veterans
breakfast, but they added an additional
one of funding to help with the veterans
Christmas dinner, which hasn't
previously been on the list. So, my
recommendation is to have um a
representative from the Legion sit down
with our event staff to kind of figure
those things out and to have someone
from the admin team be a part of that
conversation and then once they've
discussed that, bring it back to us for
approval.
All right, Council Member Whiting.
Youth council has a big water fight to
start right right before the school year
starts. So August 5th, put in your
calendars in the afternoon. I don't
remember if we have a specific time, two
o'clock, two to four o'clock at Corey
Ride Memorial Park. And there are some
of us up here who are going to be in a
dunk getting dunked by the youth and any
angry developers or angry citizens there
are also very welcome to come dunk us.
Um so excited for that and uh there's a
lot of energy happening with the youth
council right now and uh they're growing
uh chambers doing an awesome job and it
seems like there is a grand opening it
seems like every single week somewhere
which is very impressive. So
we have four tomorrow I mean four next
week.
Four next week. It's crazy. It's
awesome.
All right, Council Member Wood.
Mine's going to be short and sweet. Uh
rodeo stuff's done so we're looking
forward to next year. uh Lake Mountain
School District uh identified a new
location and renamed a tech. Uh I'm
trying to remember it starts with a B,
but somehow I can't remember the name
right now, but that has been identified
and a location. So that's exciting that
we'll have that in the new school
district. Uh they continue to expand the
administration uh to prepare for the
takeover next year in 2027.
Uh and then I'm behind on Alpine School
District. been watching that one on
video. So,
thank you, Council Member Wood. Council
member Huish,
just echoing what you said on the
community services board tomorrow night,
six o'clock. I'll be here.
Yeah, you got to put on your racing
shoes when you go to the community
services board.
Is there a dress code on the dunk tank?
By the way, I'll be coming back from a
business meeting.
Whatever you
I'll I will be in a swimsuit, but um if
you want to wear a suit, I may be in
full suit.
All right. Is there anything else?
Communication items. We're good. All
right. So then I entertain a motion to
adjurnn.
So moved.
Second.
All right. We have a motion by Council
Member Wood and a second by Council
Member Wright. All in favor?
I I All right, that passes. We're
journed and it is 8:26.